I had the privilege of meeting Jonathan Frid through a mutual friend, and spent an entire afternoon with him in Ancaster, Ontario. What a wonderful gentleman.
As a 61 year old man who watched this show faithfully as a young boy I was transported back to my boyhood home sitting in front of the old black and white TV being mesmerized by by the whole storyline. Thank you for loading this.
Seeing it again at 61 on Amazon Prime, along with Outer Limits I am able to fill in some of the blanks. Never saw any of the Beginning before Barnabas. (I started playing sandlot baseball after school 1969-70 and kinda drifted away.). Aeeing it again, I laughed my as* off and yelled "Aaaaaah! It's Langley!" at Roger Collins"🤣🤣
I remember being very depressed. The timing of it's cancellation had came at a depressing time in my childhood, as long-time town relatives in my town began to die off.
Casey Matos As much as I admire her the show was dying until they hired Jonathan Frid. His character Barnabas and his interpretation of a vampire saved the show and he was the one who got 5 or 6 k fan letters a week.
@@marilynwillett804 It was only supposed to be a two-week appearance. But the fans reacted so strongly to Barnabas, that Jonathan Frid stayed for the rest of the series and like you said, basically saved D Dark Shadows.
My favorite show at that time s a young boy and then it was gone forever......my dad died two months later. Seems like a million years ago now that he was here and the show was on. I seem to think of the time with him whenever I think of Dark Shadows. Miss you dad.
I loved the parts that were in the past the best, but it was all good. There's a DVD set of the entire series, but if I could get past the price, I'd probably of starvation binge watching the entire thing, lol.
carl reed---You're right! I remember wanting to see the last episode. My cousin was a paperboy and Friday was his collection day and I went with him to collect. It was 3:00 and I thought I would have enough of time to get home to watch it but I lost track of the time and never seen it on tv. Thanks someone putting here on youtube I finally did!
Dark Shadows was pulled from.the ABC network channel 13 but in San Francisco on kgo channel 7 it continued on and collinwood was destroyed and a stake was driven through barnabus heart so this was not the final scene folks
carl reed You're right!! I started watching at age 11..ran home from school every day..to watch Dark Shadows..and came inside every day during the summer..to watch Dark Shadows!! Nothing could keep me away; Dark Shadows was an addiction that I LOVED & NEVER wanted to quit!! I was heartbroken when Dark Shadows ended!!
@@valerieehrlich428 Why did I think the final scene was Barnabas professing that he realized that he loved Angelique the whole time..and she winks into the camera??
I recall rushing home from school to catch the broadcast of Dark Shadows at 4 P.M. I loved the show, the characters, and fantasized that I lived in a vast, many-storied, turreted mansion with whole wings that had been sealed off for decades. What a cultural icon that show was!
i've actually been to collinwood although we couldn't go inside we were able to walk all around outside of the house we even saw widows hill which is nothing more then a great big rock in the back yard a friend of mine joked that josette jumped off widows hill and got a nasty bruise. lol. i've gone to 4 ds festivals.
Watching this brings back all the heartbreak I felt at age 10 when I looked in the TV paper and saw that instead of my beloved Dark Shadows, Password was on instead.
I loved this mysterious world called Collinwood with it’s eerie twists and ghostly turns. I remember being in total shock that the series ended so abruptly. How l still love to step back into that ethereal world that never changes every now and again as l have while watching this video. Thank you for the memories.
I loved this show,but my grandma told my mom that I shouldn’t be watching this.However when I went to my grandmas after school she started watching it and she was hooked
I’m 62 and loved this show. I was allowed to watch when home from school- sick. Made it all the better. No computers or nudity, only acting and writing. The theme song……. Erie still.
They killed her! Poor Vicky...These bastards must be kill only one person, who is really deserve it - Angelique! She was a bitch? which can not leave alone Barnabas Collins and his family! I began to hate this show... And the episode 1198 was very bad....
Funny how Burke Devlin was a main character in the first year of the series then was killed off in a South American plane crash and was never mentioned ever again as if he never existed on the show.
I was 14 months when the last episode aired. Started watching Dark Shadows during the beginning of the pandemic and watched the last episode a few days ago. I miss it. CollinWood was my escape during the Corona virus update. 😭
Once upon a time in America we could watch a daytime soap like Dark Shadows, Nighttime soaps like Dynasty and Dallas, tv shows like Gilligan's Island, All in the Family, Good times and Married with Children. Now to me it seems we live in a Stepford Wives world where many of our women and some of our men will sit in front of the tv to watch boring housewives(or divorcees) from across the country eat, drink, be merry and argue about the most stupid things. There is a reason that at any given time you can check your channel listings and find many tv shows from the 1950s and 1960s on tv. Those old shows are better then most of the programing we have today.
Very rarely does a program's theme music suit a show so much. It was beautiful, yet eerie. Sad, with a touch of hopelessness. The Collins seldom saw happiness, no matter which generation lived. The music conveyed this perfectly.
Watch Dan Curtis's better creation, "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hide" with Jack Palance. This show was kiddy stuff compared to it. Palance's best work in my opinion. You'll hear some of the same eerie music.
My dad passed away two months after the final episode and we had to move. I was 7 and loved to watch the show just for the scary Barnabas parts....I had no ideas or concept of any of the plots as a 7 year old. And now I always associate the show from that time period of my life when my father was still alive. Thank you Dark Shows for the memories. RIP Dad.
1:44 - "There was no vampire loose on the great estate. For the first time at Collinwood, the marks on the neck were indeed those of an animal. Melanie soon recovered and went to live in Boston with her beloved Kendrick, there they prospered and had three children. Bramwell and Catherine were soon married and at Flora's insistance, stayed on at Collinwood where Bramwell assumed control of the Collins business interests. Their love became a living legend and for as long as they lived, the dark shadows at Collinwood were but a memory of a distant past."
With my mom and my friend Cindy we would sit and watch Dark Shadows after school. It is part of my life as a kid. Like an old friiend I will always remember.
Veronica Daniels I still watch the reruns of this epic series. Me and my brother always loved watching this as kids. When I need an escape from the sadness of this world I turn to this show where at least the characters of this show deal with life much better than a lot of people nowadays. It is a part of history👍🏻
As of today January 23, 2020, everyone in these scenes with the exception of Nancy Barrett (Melanie) has died. John Karlen (Kendrick) died yesterday. May all of our beloved DS stars rest in peace.
Hopefully they can do a better revival and have a few of the originals be in it..... But not like the Burton film. That was a disaster. Surprised that Frid even wanted anything to with it in the first place.
ABSOLUTELY, I wish they'd quit trying to redo every classic. There is only one Barnabas, and one Willie. Willie had an appealing southern boy look and for once and for all there can only be one Angelique.
Although I am from Colombia, I love this show. It was and is unique, different from all other soap operas,. Thank God we now have technology that has allowed us to keep home and watch it whenever we want to. .
I was a little kid in the 60s and my sister and mom would watch this and to this day I get goosebumps when I watch the beginning of this show and that creepy music!!
Less we forget. If it wasn't for Dark Shadows, there might have never been, The first airing of the, Night Stalker, with Darren McCavin, produced by Dan Curtis, who also both produced and directed Dark Shadows. As The Night Stalker was soley the creation of Dan Curtis, so also was Dark Shadows, both originated from his mind. Neither of which are from any books. Dan Curtis literally scared the hell out of us as kids. I can clearly remember the marketing previews for the up coming airing for the Night Stalker, both me and my brother looked at each other and said, there's no way we're missing that. And can I tell you, it blow our young minds. There was simply nothing like The Night Stalker ever on TV nor at any movies that I know of. Dan Curtis has stated that The Night Stalker was originally created for the big screen, but when he ran it through the studios, they immediately asked if it could be be made as a TV series.
PS: HOW SAD THAT ALL THE ACTORS IN THIS SCENE ARE NOW GONE! GOOD LORD! (RIP) JONATHAN FRID, GRAYSON HALL, JOAN BENNETT & OUR BELOVED WILLIE LOOMIS, (THE LATE) JOHN KARLEN. THIS WAS THE LAST SCENE IN THE SERIES AS OF 1971 WHEN IT WAS CANCELLED BY ABC-TV. A TRULY SAD DAY, BUT STILL PRESERVED ON DVD THANK GOODNESS.
The time travel was the reason I couldn't keep up and couldn't get interested when I was a teen. I tried to watch it but usually had other things to do. I watched a few times but if I missed an episode, which I always did, and and tried to watch it they would be in a different time and I didn't know what was going on. So I didn't watch it. Now I enjoy watching it whenever I get a chance.
You have to remember that Barnabas Collins didn't want to be a vampire being human again became his main goal when Dr. Julia Hoffman encourage him that it can be done, but it was Angelique that had a change of heart and decided to lift the curse.
My goodness... Alas, I too was a schoolboy running home from the bus stop to see the next episode of Dark Shadows. I was lucky that my school bus stop was just across the street. I still ran home like the Road Runner! All of us wholesome kids were absolutely taken in by the twisting plots and intrigues. And then we had the time of our lives when we play-acted out the series. What fun we had! And I daresay we were accomplished actors! 😌
Funny how the new plot thread was hastily tied up in the closing narration: "There was no vampire loose..." I guarantee you the story was intended to continue with the girl as a vampire victim, but then ABC canceled the show, and the brief narration was added to finish the series as best as possible.
I took it as the family learning the need not to let, uh, things come between them, and from then on things were "normal" for them, like it drove off the supernatural spell.
The show was abruptly cancelled despite its continued very high ratings, so it is sad to see that there was no prearranged concluding episode that would have provided a good summation for the series.
atlantic1119 Actually, the ratings had begun to drop off a bit. Some of the actors were also gone for weeks at a time while filming House. I think once the parents saw the film, they thought that's what was being shown on daily tv, and they didn't allow their children to watch anymore. :(
@@nicholasrue7397 Exactly. DS ratings for the first time began to drop and the decision was made (rather quickly) to drop the soap. I had been watching Dark Shadows Since I was 10 and when it was gone it felt like I was losing my best friend.
The Bramwell story line ended the soap. Hard to imagine anything like this on daytime tv now. The movies and the nightime tv show were terrible. And the Depp movie was insulting . RIP Dark Shadows it was the best on tv at one time.
I didn't get to watch it, but they say the soap "Passions" came about as close to matching DS's popularity with its witches and living doll as anything has.
Too bad that it can never actually be remade. The slow, plodding pace of the first year allowed time to do what is done in all soap operas -- focus on the characters. By the time that Barnabas appeared, all the characters were very familiar. All the other versions, "Night of Dark Shadows," "Dark Shadows, The Revival," the Dark Shadows pilot of 2004,; and Johnny Depp's debacle, race through the opening story at breakneck pace. And so, like characters in the typical horror movie, most of the characters in the new attempts are just cardboard props to parade the vampire around. Sad, but some things can't be remade. They are no more important than the random security man who frequently gets snuffed on "Star Trek TOS." Even the low budget, blooper ridden version of DS is superior to later ones made using much more money. Cheez, the ridiculous coincidence of the governess and the vampire arriving on the same day is just too much to buy into -- even with suspense of disbelief sufficient enough to buy the vampire story, the rest of it doesn't fly. The condesation of the time frame plays havoc with the way the story plays out.
I just finished the complete series after watching for 2 years at work during lunch time on my phone(Amazon Prime). today was a sad day. I never ran home from school to watch it but do remember it on the TV black-and-white and the theme song.
i wasnt born till 1972 so i never had the pleasure of seein this classic show.but thanks to youtube im catchin up .its an awesome show thanks youtube for allowin this classic to be aired
Yep. I was tuned in and I remember seeing this in April 1971. I was almost 15. I remember thinking no more running home from school to watch dark shadows. I was sad.
this tv show is so friggin epic, i like it, very classic, not old, its got solid substance, it's spooky, creepy, spiritually creepy, mind bending, funny, enjoyable acting. fresh and new.
@@louistenore2185 Decades is an antenna TV( over the air) station that some cable channels carry. Spectrum carries it on 1266. Tuesday at 12:00am (midnight)....to Saturday at 12:00am. every week. One episode a night. Retro TV. Nostalgia channel.
Watching it now on Amazon Prime Video. I’ve seen the show sporadically in the past. A few times in the 80’s when a local station was reruning it. And a few episodes, about 10 years ago, when I rented from a video store.
My friends and I would play Dark Shadows when we weren’t watching it on TV. We ate, slept and drank all things DS. I always had to be Barnabas Collins because my teeth looked like fangs. I hated this and longed to play Vicky Winters, Josette Collins or even Angelique the evil witch, but nobody else had fangs like I did. The day that my braces came off my orthodontist asked me if I would like my fangs filed down. (He’d heard my sister and I discuss this matter while we were both getting our braces tightened.). Of course I said yes. Imagine my joy the next time my friends and I got together to play Dark Shadows and I was able to show them that I no longer had braces OR vampire fangs! For the first time I got to be Josette Collins Barnabas’s great love. I bless that kind orthodontist to this day for making my Dark Shadows dream come true!
Was there a maid in this show? I remember watching a show like this a few years back that took place in the late 60s early 70s and there was a eerie maid like character
That was Angelique the evil witch that I mentioned. She came to Collinwood in 1795 as Josette DuPre Collins’ maid. Angelique and the original Barnabas Collins had had a quickie affair when his father had sent him to the Caribbean island of Martinique to do business with Josette’s father. It was love at first sight for Barnabas and Josette which really upset Angelique. She vowed to herself that she would punish B and J for slighting her. When Josette, her father and aunt came to the Collins’ Old House for the wedding Angelique set into play a bunch of curses so that B and J wouldn’t marry each other, then turned B into a vampire after he still refused to marry her and then caused Josette to throw herself off the cliff at Widows’ Hill after he revealed that he was a vampire and wanted to make her one too so that they could spend eternity together. Barnabas tried to wreak revenge on Angelique but she traveled to the present, took another name and married Roger Collins so that she could continue to woo and alternately torment B into saying that he still loved her and wanted to marry her. If you’re wondering why my memory is so good I just finished watching all of these particular episodes of DS on Amazon Prime. I still could’ve given you most of the facts because when my friends, sister and I played DS for 5 years it tended to really imprint the story in our collective memories. If you’re a hardcore DS fan from the old days rewatching the episodes 55 years later is hoot.
@@monicacall7532 oh okay... thanks you! I had only seen the show once and when I recently seen it again. It was bugging me that I couldn't remember if it was the same show lol
My favorite show of all time, to this day. I don't like the way they ended it, but that is the TV business. Actually, I always thought they could have actually ended it funny...by not cutting to Bramwell at all until Stokes said "...vampire at collinwood." I thought it would be funny if all present looked up at Bramwell, and then Bramwell could give the "what are you looking at me for?" look. Just a thought....
Dark Shadows was my favorite show when I was in junior high.i had to hoof it to get home by 4 o'clock when it came on.Was sad to see it end,but when I was 12 I did get to see Barnabas in person on a KVII summer caravan in my home town once while the show was still on the air.That was cool
I was born the year before Dark Shadows went off the air. I only got to see it in reruns on PBS, and I fell in love with the show. I really wish they had never done this alternate reality storyline that finally drove viewers away, and that they had stayed in the present day and given the series a more resolute ending.
I remember bicycling home from school with my little brother as fast as we could to watch Dark Shadows at 4pm. The day I ran in and turned on the TV to Channel 7. What! No Dark Shadows! it was Password! I was devastated. Life's first big disappointment.
63. My best friend was an addict and got me watching after Barnabas was on. John Karlin was my favorite on the show. I sure smile remembering how Ann and I would RACE to the phone at 4:30 and rehash the entire episode!
I grew up in the Bronx and recall watching this with my mother in the afternoons. I don’t think either of us understood too much as English was not my parents’ first language…but the 3-year-old me enjoyed sitting there with my mom. I am now watching DS, 8 years after losing her, feeling absolutely riveted by the show while recalling those precious moments with my mom.
I know by the end of the series Jonathon Fried was tied of playing a Vampire and wanted a new character to play. that is understnadable after all any would get tired of the same role over time. they want something new to challenge them as an actor / actress. I remember hearing the actress who played Victoria Winters left the series to have a baby. later the producers wanted her to return but she told them only if she could play a brand new character even a EVil one. but they turned her down they wanted her to return as Vicki.... so she told them no. she felt the character Vicki was so boring with her always saying " she didn't understand what was going on" with all the events going on around her. events like ghosts, Vampires, the Pheonix.... I have to agree her character wasn't the smartest around and not very interesting granted she grew up in an orpahange. but that shouldn't cut you off from the rest of the world. didn't they have children's books for kids or newspapers to read as you grew older to learn about the world. or books on many topics like a lilbrary would...... her character was very dumb.
When the show went the supernatural route, that marked the decline of both Burke and Vicky, as those two characters were tailor made for when Dark Shadows was still in its regular soap opera stage. Unfortunately for Jonathan Frid, the only thing I ever saw him in afterward was a cheesy made for TV movie about witches starring Shelley Winters. He played a butler who was mostly speechless. I know that he did a lot of stage work, but as far as I know, it was never anything major, such as Broadway.
Of course she would have had books but not actually expect ghosts or vampires to be around. They should have showed Vickie as more than a nanny, and David with a friend or doing anything normal.
Also, Lara Parker wanted to play a "good girl" for a change. Personally, I liked the Bramwell storyline; I loved seeing the passionate kissing between Jonathan and Lara (I will always be jealous of Lara and Katherine in the romantic scenes)! I
I am watching Dark Shadows The Beginnings at age 66 and I remember running home to watch it with my mom when I was 10. I enjoy watching the errors by the cameraman and grips. Close ups which the cameraman gets too close and hits the actor or a cart moving around squeaking in the background. Plus many times that they stumble on the script and as true professionals go right past it and keep filming. Today Director would have take after take because actors would laugh it up at their constant mistake on the same line. I am a Dark Shadows fan forever.
Watching this I got the feeling the final spoken coda was tacked on when they learned this would be the final episode... Because otherwise it looks like they were getting ready to start with the vampires a whole nother cycle. Is there any truth to that? The final spoken coda was hastily added to try to give some closure to the series?
I remember that day like it WAS yesterday!!!!!!!!! That WAS ONE of MY saddest day to watch the very last episode of MY first ever favorite 📺 shows!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then the Sci-Fi channel rerunned IT a few years back and i always watched IT and the childhood memories that it made for ME flooded back and i cried after this last episode!!!!!! I STILL have dreams and nightmares about this show to this day!!!!!!!!!!! That old familiar music and that old grandfather clock STILL haunt ME to this day!!!!!!!!!!! I WISH they hadn't cancelled IT when they did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With all the vampire and zombie shows being so popular, I imagine this would do well if rebooted. If he were younger, Jeremy Irons would make a great Barnabas.
I was a kid when this was on TV. It scared the crap out of me. I used to run out of the room when it got too scary. The music still gets to me every time! In a good way! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😮😮😮😮😮
After 40 years I still love Dark Shadows. Remember running home from school to watch "dark Shadows" Monday thru Friday
Me too run home from school and my mother and I would watch Dark Shadows. Good simple times, not like today’s chaos in 2021
My brother and I started watching in 1968. I missed the first two years. Never missed an episode after that.
Me too, would run from school to catch
It's 50 years.
I did the same thing ran home from school to watch
I had the privilege of meeting Jonathan Frid through a mutual friend, and spent an entire afternoon with him in Ancaster, Ontario. What a wonderful gentleman.
Oh, what a thrill of a lifetime!! What year was it?
Which street did he live on?
I believe Jonathan Frid was from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
He was indeed,@@randilevson9547
As a 61 year old man who watched this show faithfully as a young boy I was transported back to my boyhood home sitting in front of the old black and white TV being mesmerized by by the whole storyline. Thank you for loading this.
Seeing it again at 61 on Amazon Prime, along with Outer Limits I am able to fill in some of the blanks. Never saw any of the Beginning before Barnabas. (I started playing sandlot baseball after school 1969-70 and kinda drifted away.). Aeeing it again, I laughed my as* off and yelled "Aaaaaah! It's Langley!" at Roger Collins"🤣🤣
Me too!!!! Such wonderful memories....
same here, yes, it was a wonderful time, 4pm, after homework.....
Barnabas scared the shit out of me I was only 6 he would go to the window and stare. Gosh he was good! right up there with Boris Karloff.
Me too I’m 64 and never missed an episode, good times back then, simple times unlike 2021
And then... it was over. And afternoons were not quite the same anymore...
And no one knew at the time that this was the last episode.
I remember being very depressed. The timing of it's cancellation had came at a depressing time in my childhood, as long-time town relatives in my town began to die off.
Never the same, it was a special time indeed...... right on Hendo
lennomenno Yep they had kind of sprung on us but I think as far as endings go this is just perfect and underrated !
41 years later and 12 days later Jonathan Frid would pass away. ...April 14 2012.....
So interesting how legendary actress Joan Bennett was in it from the very first to the very last episode. Such a classy lady.
Everyone thinks barnabus but the show has always been about Elizabeth Stoddard she was always my favorite
Casey Matos As much as I admire her the show was dying until they hired Jonathan Frid. His character Barnabas and his interpretation of a vampire saved the show and he was the one who got 5 or 6 k fan letters a week.
@@marilynwillett804 It was only supposed to be a two-week appearance. But the fans reacted so strongly to Barnabas, that Jonathan Frid stayed for the rest of the series and like you said, basically saved D
Dark Shadows.
Una mujer de trabajo, ejerciendo un oficio no una tonta celebrity de hoy
atlantic1119 She got to do the first Suspiria . Talk about being at the right place at the right time ,
God I loved this series as a kid. I remember racing home from school to watch it. I never missed an episode.
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Me too. When the series ended I felt lost (LOL) like I had lost a friend.
@Sage Advice I went to school a mile from my house and literally RAN home from school every single day; I hated to miss even 5 mins. of Dark Shadows!!
@George Rusch Hers!! I won the girls 100 yard dash..and that IS true!! LOL!!
@George Rusch That's right!! LOL!! :-) :-)
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I am 67& watched it as an 11 yr old after school by myself
I loved the Original B&W Shows
My favorite show at that time s a young boy and then it was gone forever......my dad died two months later. Seems like a million years ago now that he was here and the show was on. I seem to think of the time with him whenever I think of Dark Shadows. Miss you dad.
I remember this like it was yesterday. Saying goodbye to the series was like saying goodbye to part of my youth.
Right ? I felt the same way !
We were all majorly bummed when it went off the air.
I loved the parts that were in the past the best, but it was all good. There's a DVD set of the entire series, but if I could get past the price, I'd probably of starvation binge watching the entire thing, lol.
robin ORear I so agree with you. I hope the entire series will be a DVD boxed set one day.
There is a boxed set, in a coffin shaped box, no less, but the price was around $300. A little out of my budget. But it's every episode.
robin ORear ya the series box set is like 300-350 anywhere you look. I own them all anyways in individual DVD box sets but I want the series box ser
When Dark Shadows was on you could not find any kids playing outside we all flocked to the nearest tv. That addiction lasted until the series ended
carl reed---You're right! I remember wanting to see the last episode. My cousin was a paperboy and Friday was his collection day and I went with him to collect. It was 3:00 and I thought I would have enough of time to get home to watch it but I lost track of the time and never seen it on tv. Thanks someone putting here on youtube I finally did!
I remember it well, rushing home from school to watch.
Dark Shadows was pulled from.the ABC network channel 13 but in San Francisco on kgo channel 7 it continued on and collinwood was destroyed and a stake was driven through barnabus heart so this was not the final scene folks
carl reed You're right!! I started watching at age 11..ran home from school every day..to watch Dark Shadows..and came inside every day during the summer..to watch Dark Shadows!! Nothing could keep me away; Dark Shadows was an addiction that I LOVED & NEVER wanted to quit!! I was heartbroken when Dark Shadows ended!!
@@valerieehrlich428 Why did I think the final scene was Barnabas professing that he realized that he loved Angelique the whole time..and she winks into the camera??
The theme from Dark Shadows is haunting and one of the most memorable of all time. It truly fit the show.
I was one of those kids who ran home from school to watch Dark Shadows!
Me too! Had to do my homework first, then at 4:00 Dark Shadows came on.
I recall rushing home from school to catch the broadcast of Dark Shadows at 4 P.M. I loved the show, the characters, and fantasized that I lived in a vast, many-storied, turreted mansion with whole wings that had been sealed off for decades. What a cultural icon that show was!
i've actually been to collinwood although we couldn't go inside we were able to walk all around outside of the house we even saw widows hill which is nothing more then a great big rock in the back yard a friend of mine joked that josette jumped off widows hill and got a nasty bruise. lol. i've gone to 4 ds festivals.
I am 62 years old, and this makes me want to cry. One of the best, if not THE best Daytime Dramas, ever.
Watching this brings back all the heartbreak I felt at age 10 when I looked in the TV paper and saw that instead of my beloved Dark Shadows, Password was on instead.
Sorry, but as a boy, Betty White trumped Barnabas. I was like, I'm a kid and she is cute. Check her out. ua-cam.com/video/ek6Oo4kHoao/v-deo.html
@belle mcellis I'm assuming you are a woman telling a man that one woman trumps another. Until you grow one of these, understand your limitations.
@@robjohnson8861 But..we all idolize Lorena Bobbit..so I advise that you understand YOUR limitations..and be careful what you say. ****snip****
@@budderkupp1282 hey Butch, that has to be top 5 weirdest responses ever.
@@robjohnson8861 My husband knows his place.
I loved this mysterious world called Collinwood with it’s eerie twists and ghostly turns. I remember being in total shock that the series ended so abruptly. How l still love to step back into that ethereal world that never changes every now and again as l have while watching this video. Thank you for the memories.
Bring it back, bring it back! Please. 🤗
I loved this show,but my grandma told my mom that I shouldn’t be watching this.However when I went to my grandmas after school she started watching it and she was hooked
I’m 62 and loved this show. I was allowed to watch when home from school- sick. Made it all the better. No computers or nudity, only acting and writing. The theme song……. Erie still.
First words: my name is Victoria Winters.
Last words: memory of a distant past.
My names is D.T. ...
They killed her! Poor Vicky...These bastards must be kill only one person, who is really deserve it - Angelique! She was a bitch? which can not leave alone Barnabas Collins and his family! I began to hate this show... And the episode 1198 was very bad....
Funny how Burke Devlin was a main character in the first year of the series then was killed off in a South American plane crash and was never mentioned ever again as if he never existed on the show.
I was 14 months when the last episode aired. Started watching Dark Shadows during the beginning of the pandemic and watched the last episode a few days ago. I miss it. CollinWood was my escape during the Corona virus update. 😭
Just start over, on DVD Barnabas Collins and the rest of the cast are always waiting to entertain you.....
You mean the bat virus?😂😂😂
I well remember this last episode...took me days to get over that it was concluded and no longer in syndication.
Once upon a time in America we could watch a daytime soap like Dark Shadows, Nighttime soaps like Dynasty and Dallas, tv shows like Gilligan's Island, All in the Family, Good times and Married with Children. Now to me it seems we live in a Stepford Wives world where many of our women and some of our men will sit in front of the tv to watch boring housewives(or divorcees) from across the country eat, drink, be merry and argue about the most stupid things. There is a reason that at any given time you can check your channel listings and find many tv shows from the 1950s and 1960s on tv. Those old shows are better then most of the programing we have today.
Very rarely does a program's theme music suit a show so much. It was beautiful, yet eerie. Sad, with a touch of hopelessness. The Collins seldom saw happiness, no matter which generation lived. The music conveyed this perfectly.
And the show's composer, Robert Cobert, is still alive at 94, (at time of posting)
Watch Dan Curtis's better creation, "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hide" with Jack Palance. This show was kiddy stuff compared to it. Palance's best work in my opinion. You'll hear some of the same eerie music.
@@robjohnson8861 He played Dan's Dracula, as well...animal-like. Not a romantic Count.
@@jimmywoo3885 I think I watched it and was nothing like Mr Hyde. Have you seen him in J&H?
@@robjohnson8861 Sure..... 40 years ago.
My dad passed away two months after the final episode and we had to move. I was 7 and loved to watch the show just for the scary Barnabas parts....I had no ideas or concept of any of the plots as a 7 year old. And now I always associate the show from that time period of my life when my father was still alive. Thank you Dark Shows for the memories. RIP Dad.
1:44 - "There was no vampire loose on the great estate. For the first time at Collinwood, the marks on the neck were indeed those of an animal. Melanie soon recovered and went to live in Boston with her beloved Kendrick, there they prospered and had three children. Bramwell and Catherine were soon married and at Flora's insistance, stayed on at Collinwood where Bramwell assumed control of the Collins business interests. Their love became a living legend and for as long as they lived, the dark shadows at Collinwood were but a memory of a distant past."
Still heartbroken and miss it after all these years.
I think it was Silly for Johnny Depp to become barnabus ....stay a pirate please not s vampire
you can find the whole series on tubi and peacock tv!
You can watch it on amazon, it's great to see it again ......
@@valerieehrlich428 He was a ridiculous Willie Wonka too.
With my mom and my friend Cindy we would sit and watch Dark Shadows after school. It is part of my life as a kid. Like an old friiend I will always remember.
Veronica Daniels I still watch the reruns of this epic series. Me and my brother always loved watching this as kids. When I need an escape from the sadness of this world I turn to this show where at least the characters of this show deal with life much better than a lot of people nowadays. It is a part of history👍🏻
To me this is a sad ending...I watch the DVD's but they are all leaving us after so many years. God Bless them all. Here or passed.
So cool that Joan Bennett and Louis Edmonds were on the very first episode and the very last episode.
They were great....RIP.
My favorite show as a child I would run home from school to watch it
My Dad was the same way
Loved Dark Shadows! Especially the gorgeous Angelique! Lara Parker, wonderful actress who's beautiful eyes hold one spellbound!
Absolutely
@@ulphil08 She turns up, from time to time, in small parts on other tv shows. It's odd she never got another major role.
I’m sorry to say that as of today (Oct. 16, 2023), Lara Parker (Angelique) passed away. She was 84 , RIP.
It was the best thing on TV at that time u couldn't wait till the next episode!
As of today January 23, 2020, everyone in these scenes with the exception of Nancy Barrett (Melanie) has died. John Karlen (Kendrick) died yesterday. May all of our beloved DS stars rest in peace.
Hopefully they can do a better revival and have a few of the originals be in it..... But not like the Burton film. That was a disaster. Surprised that Frid even wanted anything to with it in the first place.
They are not dead, they exist in a parallel universe where Barnabas is still cursed yet Angelique’s obsession for him is unrequited.
Surely, many of the women are still with us. Kathryn Leigh Scott and the others, they were young.
@@nonenoneonenonenone Kathryn Leigh Scott and the other women weren’t in the scenes shown in this video.
@@skipeastport5529 Thankfully it din't end with one of her screams.
I will always Remember this show with Vickie saying my name is Victoria Winters, My favorite season was season 2 Barnabas arrives!!
The Johnny Depp film was an insult and it just plainly stunk!
Gary Mazzeo agreed 100% The show was absolute gold. I own ever episode and watch it all the way through at least once a year.
i love dark shadows wish they would put it. back on the telly
ABSOLUTELY, I wish they'd quit trying to redo every classic. There is only one Barnabas, and one Willie. Willie had an appealing southern boy look and for once and for all there can only be one Angelique.
Terry Jensen Hulu has it.
Gary Mazzeo I agree that the movie was terrible. They were going for camp and comedy instead of being true to the original. What a shame.
I was in boot camp when this ended and never saw the ending.. Thanks.
Entire series on Tubi - 1245 epis. Confusing to me with time jumps and had to rewatch most of it, lol.
Glad you made it back safely.
I was so depressed as a kid when this ended!
This was one of the few programs that I remember watching as a child growing up. How I miss those "good, old days".
this year should have been 53 years thanks for the memories
Who remembers Quinton,s theme? Hauntingly beautiful.
Although I am from Colombia, I love this show. It was and is unique, different from all other soap operas,. Thank God we now have technology that has allowed us to keep home and watch it whenever we want to. .
Thank you for posting this!❤️
I was a little kid in the 60s and my sister and mom would watch this and to this day I get goosebumps when I watch the beginning of this show and that creepy music!!
I love this show then now and forever
Less we forget. If it wasn't for Dark Shadows, there might have never been, The first airing of the, Night Stalker, with Darren McCavin, produced by Dan Curtis, who also both produced and directed Dark Shadows. As The Night Stalker was soley the creation of Dan Curtis, so also was Dark Shadows, both originated from his mind. Neither of which are from any books. Dan Curtis literally scared the hell out of us as kids. I can clearly remember the marketing previews for the up coming airing for the Night Stalker, both me and my brother looked at each other and said, there's no way we're missing that. And can I tell you, it blow our young minds. There was simply nothing like The Night Stalker ever on TV nor at any movies that I know of. Dan Curtis has stated that The Night Stalker was originally created for the big screen, but when he ran it through the studios, they immediately asked if it could be be made as a TV series.
The Night Stalker was Chris Carter's inspiration for The X-Files, and even guest starred Darren McGavin.
Okay, you're tight. However he did direct it. After which point, they both continued working together.
PS: HOW SAD THAT ALL THE ACTORS IN THIS SCENE ARE NOW GONE! GOOD LORD! (RIP) JONATHAN FRID, GRAYSON HALL, JOAN BENNETT & OUR BELOVED WILLIE LOOMIS, (THE LATE) JOHN KARLEN. THIS WAS THE LAST SCENE IN THE SERIES AS OF 1971 WHEN IT WAS CANCELLED BY ABC-TV. A TRULY SAD DAY, BUT STILL PRESERVED ON DVD THANK GOODNESS.
Nancy Barret (Melanie) is still alive.
i loved all the time travel in this show,
The time travel was the reason I couldn't keep up and couldn't get interested when I was a teen. I tried to watch it but usually had other things to do. I watched a few times but if I missed an episode, which I always did, and and tried to watch it they would be in a different time and I didn't know what was going on. So I didn't watch it. Now I enjoy watching it whenever I get a chance.
Yes, you had to watch it everyday to keep up with the plot.
I loved all of it, especially the 1795 era.....
Such a great show. !!!!
You have to remember that Barnabas Collins didn't want to be a vampire being human again became his main goal when Dr. Julia Hoffman encourage him that it can be done, but it was Angelique that had a change of heart and decided to lift the curse.
I must have missed some of this when I was a child. Someone tell me how Barnabas became Bramwell.
Donna Manning This is parallel time. This an alternate history. Bramwell Collins is the son of Barnabas and Josette.
Wow is that weird.
@@nicholasrue7397 But why is it Josette? Couldn't they have come up with another name?
Well told story's never grow old.
They will live on in time.
My goodness... Alas, I too was a schoolboy running home from the bus stop to see the next episode of Dark Shadows. I was lucky that my school bus stop was just across the street. I still ran home like the Road Runner!
All of us wholesome kids were absolutely taken in by the twisting plots and intrigues. And then we had the time of our lives when we play-acted out the series. What fun we had! And I daresay we were accomplished actors! 😌
Funny how the new plot thread was hastily tied up in the closing narration: "There was no vampire loose..." I guarantee you the story was intended to continue with the girl as a vampire victim, but then ABC canceled the show, and the brief narration was added to finish the series as best as possible.
I took it as the family learning the need not to let, uh, things come between them, and from then on things were "normal" for them, like it drove off the supernatural spell.
The writers, as I understood it, ran out of having ideas to write so, therefore, they cancelled the series.
WRONG !!!!
@@danbasta3677 wrong
It wasn’t a self cancel at all Google it.
The ending was a little lame. Too bad ABC was so short sighted.
The show was abruptly cancelled despite its continued very high ratings, so it is sad to see that there was no prearranged concluding episode that would have provided a good summation for the series.
That's a soap opera's function -- to go on and on forever, like a never-ending movie serial.
Very true. The cast members in this scene must have felt so many emotions in knowing this was their last day.
atlantic1119 Actually, the ratings had begun to drop off a bit. Some of the actors were also gone for weeks at a time while filming House.
I think once the parents saw the film, they thought that's what was being shown on daily tv, and they didn't allow their children to watch anymore. :(
I agree and Frid said in an interview people weren't as interested as time went on. He said it had been an addiction.
@@nicholasrue7397 Exactly. DS ratings for the first time began to drop and the decision was made (rather quickly) to drop the soap. I had been watching Dark Shadows
Since I was 10 and when it was gone it felt like I was losing my best friend.
After 50 yrs I stillLOVE to watch DarkShadows
Love that theme music
The Bramwell story line ended the soap. Hard to imagine anything like this on daytime tv now. The movies and the nightime tv show were terrible. And the Depp movie was insulting . RIP Dark Shadows it was the best on tv at one time.
sammyvh11---I bought a used Blu-Ray of the movie for like $5. After seeing the movie now I know why they sold it so cheap!
I didn't get to watch it, but they say the soap "Passions" came about as close to matching DS's popularity with its witches and living doll as anything has.
I hadn't seen this scene since 1971, thanks for that.
Great show and great cast. Thanks to all who made and stared in it.
I loved this spooky soap opera when I was a kid.
Too bad that it can never actually be remade. The slow, plodding pace of the first year allowed time to do what is done in all soap operas -- focus on the characters. By the time that Barnabas appeared, all the characters were very familiar. All the other versions, "Night of Dark Shadows," "Dark Shadows, The Revival," the Dark Shadows pilot of 2004,; and Johnny Depp's debacle, race through the opening story at breakneck pace. And so, like characters in the typical horror movie, most of the characters in the new attempts are just cardboard props to parade the vampire around. Sad, but some things can't be remade. They are no more important than the random security man who frequently gets snuffed on "Star Trek TOS." Even the low budget, blooper ridden version of DS is superior to later ones made using much more money.
Cheez, the ridiculous coincidence of the governess and the vampire arriving on the same day is just too much to buy into -- even with suspense of disbelief sufficient enough to buy the vampire story, the rest of it doesn't fly. The condesation of the time frame plays havoc with the way the story plays out.
+George E. Williams they remade it in the 90s
They attempted to remake it in the 1990"s. The French also attempted to dig a canal in Panama.
Thanks to my dad for getting me hooked on this show
The next day at school, “DID YOU WATCH DARK SHADOWS?!?!”
Hulu left me frustrated! They skipped seasons... I literally screamed
Agreed
same.
They what? No way.
I just finished the complete series after watching for 2 years at work during lunch time on my phone(Amazon Prime). today was a sad day. I never ran home from school to watch it but do remember it on the TV black-and-white and the theme song.
This was great. What a shame it wasn't picked up . I loved it and hated the farce done by Johnny
Depp
The Movie was a disgrace ...
Wasn’t Johnny depps fault
That was Tim Burton's fault, not Johnny Depp's. Johnny just did what the script told him to.
It's amazing how the kids caught on to this! I was one of them!!!
i wasnt born till 1972 so i never had the pleasure of seein this classic show.but thanks to youtube im catchin up .its an awesome show thanks youtube for allowin this classic to be aired
Curtis missed the mark on Bramwell. The Barnabas era was epic. Rip
Yep. I was tuned in and I remember seeing this in April 1971. I was almost 15. I remember thinking no more running home from school to watch dark shadows. I was sad.
this tv show is so friggin epic, i like it, very classic, not old, its got solid substance, it's spooky, creepy, spiritually creepy, mind bending, funny, enjoyable acting. fresh and new.
Thankfully The Decades channel shows this now...m-f at midnight. In Florida.
what station
@@louistenore2185 Decades is an antenna TV( over the air) station that some cable channels carry. Spectrum carries it on 1266. Tuesday at 12:00am (midnight)....to Saturday at 12:00am. every week. One episode a night. Retro TV. Nostalgia channel.
@@jimmywoo3885 It airs at 4 to 5 am m-f here in Minneapolis.
This show went off the air four months before I was born. When I was 16 my mom show this show to me and been I fan since! Love the original DS!
Nothing like it, before or since😢
The series ended in parallel time in 1840. What a great show
I always thought it was interesting that it ended there and not in the present day
50 years ago today, March 24th, 1971 Dark Shadows taped this final episode (airdate April 2nd, 1971).
Goodbye Dark Shadows, Hello Password.
Watching it now on Amazon Prime Video. I’ve seen the show sporadically in the past. A few times in the 80’s when a local station was reruning it. And a few episodes, about 10 years ago, when I rented from a video store.
Everyone at school used to talk about this show what a great program.
My friends and I would play Dark Shadows when we weren’t watching it on TV. We ate, slept and drank all things DS. I always had to be Barnabas Collins because my teeth looked like fangs. I hated this and longed to play Vicky Winters, Josette Collins or even Angelique the evil witch, but nobody else had fangs like I did. The day that my braces came off my orthodontist asked me if I would like my fangs filed down. (He’d heard my sister and I discuss this matter while we were both getting our braces tightened.). Of course I said yes. Imagine my joy the next time my friends and I got together to play Dark Shadows and I was able to show them that I no longer had braces OR vampire fangs! For the first time I got to be Josette Collins Barnabas’s great love. I bless that kind orthodontist to this day for making my Dark Shadows dream come true!
Was there a maid in this show? I remember watching a show like this a few years back that took place in the late 60s early 70s and there was a eerie maid like character
That was Angelique the evil witch that I mentioned. She came to Collinwood in 1795 as Josette DuPre Collins’ maid. Angelique and the original Barnabas Collins had had a quickie affair when his father had sent him to the Caribbean island of Martinique to do business with Josette’s father. It was love at first sight for Barnabas and Josette which really upset Angelique. She vowed to herself that she would punish B and J for slighting her. When Josette, her father and aunt came to the Collins’ Old House for the wedding Angelique set into play a bunch of curses so that B and J wouldn’t marry each other, then turned B into a vampire after he still refused to marry her and then caused Josette to throw herself off the cliff at Widows’ Hill after he revealed that he was a vampire and wanted to make her one too so that they could spend eternity together. Barnabas tried to wreak revenge on Angelique but she traveled to the present, took another name and married Roger Collins so that she could continue to woo and alternately torment B into saying that he still loved her and wanted to marry her. If you’re wondering why my memory is so good I just finished watching all of these particular episodes of DS on Amazon Prime. I still could’ve given you most of the facts because when my friends, sister and I played DS for 5 years it tended to really imprint the story in our collective memories. If you’re a hardcore DS fan from the old days rewatching the episodes 55 years later is hoot.
@@monicacall7532 oh okay... thanks you! I had only seen the show once and when I recently seen it again. It was bugging me that I couldn't remember if it was the same show lol
I meant the housekeeper Sarah Johnson
My favorite show of all time, to this day. I don't like the way they ended it, but that is the TV business. Actually, I always thought they could have actually ended it funny...by not cutting to Bramwell at all until Stokes said "...vampire at collinwood." I thought it would be funny if all present looked up at Bramwell, and then Bramwell could give the "what are you looking at me for?" look. Just a thought....
Dark Shadows was my favorite show when I was in junior high.i had to hoof it to get home by 4 o'clock when it came on.Was sad to see it end,but when I was 12 I did get to see Barnabas in person on a KVII summer caravan in my home town once while the show was still on the air.That was cool
Good ended thank you dark shadow favorite show as a kid.
Thanks for the memories
I was born the year before Dark Shadows went off the air. I only got to see it in reruns on PBS, and I fell in love with the show. I really wish they had never done this alternate reality storyline that finally drove viewers away, and that they had stayed in the present day and given the series a more resolute ending.
I remember bicycling home from school with my little brother as fast as we could to watch Dark Shadows at 4pm. The day I ran in and turned on the TV to Channel 7. What! No Dark Shadows! it was Password! I was devastated. Life's first big disappointment.
Thayer David gets the last word !
Ten DoubleMike AKA T. E. Stokes, AKA Professor Elliot Stokes, etc etc etc. ;)
Yep and 5 years later he offered Rocky Balboa the chance to fight Apollo Creed for the heavyweight championship!
only because David Selby got sick in real life.
I had not heard that
Never forget him as Count Petofi! 😀
I remember this episode, I was very depressed this was the end!
This brings back memories!!! Loved the music too!!!
Aired 50 years ago today. It’s a shame all good things must come to an end! 😢
63. My best friend was an addict and got me watching after Barnabas was on. John Karlin was my favorite on the show.
I sure smile remembering how Ann and I would RACE to the phone at 4:30 and rehash the entire episode!
I remember an episode about a headless man? scared the crap out of me as a kid. I was 7 when this show ended
I watched this series as a kid but I didn't remember how it ended. I was surprised that it didn't end in present time.
I actually cried when the show ended...I was just a little girl...my mother made fun of me.
I bet she wouldn’t be laughing at you if your head spun around like Linda Blair.
I grew up in the Bronx and recall watching this with my mother in the afternoons. I don’t think either of us understood too much as English was not my parents’ first language…but the 3-year-old me enjoyed sitting there with my mom. I am now watching DS, 8 years after losing her, feeling absolutely riveted by the show while recalling those precious moments with my mom.
@@fc9624 I admit I din't watch it then, I watched The Monkies,
I know by the end of the series Jonathon Fried was tied of playing a Vampire and wanted a new character to play. that is understnadable after all any would get tired of the same role over time. they want something new to challenge them as an actor / actress.
I remember hearing the actress who played Victoria Winters left the series to have a baby. later the producers wanted her to return but she told them only if she could play a brand new character even a EVil one. but they turned her down they wanted her to return as Vicki.... so she told them no.
she felt the character Vicki was so boring with her always saying " she didn't understand what was going on" with all the events going on around her. events like ghosts, Vampires, the Pheonix....
I have to agree her character wasn't the smartest around and not very interesting granted she grew up in an orpahange. but that shouldn't cut you off from the rest of the world. didn't they have children's books for kids or newspapers to read as you grew older to learn about the world. or books on many topics like a lilbrary would...... her character was very dumb.
When the show went the supernatural route, that marked the decline of both Burke and Vicky, as those two characters were tailor made for when Dark Shadows was still in its regular soap opera stage. Unfortunately for Jonathan Frid, the only thing I ever saw him in afterward was a cheesy made for TV movie about witches starring Shelley Winters. He played a butler who was mostly speechless. I know that he did a lot of stage work, but as far as I know, it was never anything major, such as Broadway.
Of course she would have had books but not actually expect ghosts or vampires to be around. They should have showed Vickie as more than a nanny, and David with a friend or doing anything normal.
Also, Lara Parker wanted to play a "good girl" for a change. Personally, I liked the Bramwell storyline; I loved seeing the passionate kissing between Jonathan and Lara (I will always be jealous of Lara and Katherine in the romantic scenes)! I
The actress who played Victoria was in a relationship with Claus von Bulow, was she not?
I suppose...I really liked her though. She ( the actress) later dated the man who murdered his wife Sunny, Claus Von Bulow.
I am watching Dark Shadows The Beginnings at age 66 and I remember running home to watch it with my mom when I was 10. I enjoy watching the errors by the cameraman and grips. Close ups which the cameraman gets too close and hits the actor or a cart moving around squeaking in the background. Plus many times that they stumble on the script and as true professionals go right past it and keep filming. Today Director would have take after take because actors would laugh it up at their constant mistake on the same line. I am a Dark Shadows fan forever.
Watching this I got the feeling the final spoken coda was tacked on when they learned this would be the final episode... Because otherwise it looks like they were getting ready to start with the vampires a whole nother cycle. Is there any truth to that? The final spoken coda was hastily added to try to give some closure to the series?
I think you're correct. I mean, what kind of "wild animal" makes bite marks on a person's neck like that? 🙂
Aired 50 years ago today
I remember that day like it WAS yesterday!!!!!!!!! That WAS ONE of MY saddest day to watch the very last episode of MY first ever favorite 📺 shows!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then the Sci-Fi channel rerunned IT a few years back and i always watched IT and the childhood memories that it made for ME flooded back and i cried after this last episode!!!!!! I STILL have dreams and nightmares about this show to this day!!!!!!!!!!! That old familiar music and that old grandfather clock STILL haunt ME to this day!!!!!!!!!!! I WISH they hadn't cancelled IT when they did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone else wish Jonathan Frid said the final lines?
yes.
With all the vampire and zombie shows being so popular, I imagine this would do well if rebooted. If he were younger, Jeremy Irons would make a great Barnabas.
They did reboot it with Johnny Depp. It was a disaster because they made it a comedy
@@ulphil08 We're trying to do a reverse Mandella effect. If we collectively pretend it doesn't exist, maybe that film will be wiped from existence.
I was a kid when this was on TV. It scared the crap out of me. I used to run out of the room when it got too scary. The music still gets to me every time! In a good way! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😮😮😮😮😮
Yes I watch this I was about 9 years old at the time and I love the show even though I watched it from under my bed true story.