NEW DS Early Episodes - Episode 1 - "My name is Victoria Winters . . ."
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- This is the famous first Episode. We see Victoria Winters on the train going to Collinwood. She has never been to Collinsport before and she has never met anyone from the Collins family. The mysterious Burke Devlin gives her a ride to the Inn to catch a cab to Collinwood where Elizabeth and Roger are discussing her arrival.
Don't get tired of watching episodes all over again. Dark Shadows is classic. Love it ! ❤
Thank you Jeff. Happy viewing.
"My name is Victoria Winters...." It is with those words that one of the most enduring television shows ever, began its epic run.
The black and white shows were the best.
❤❤I love all of Dark Shadows but these older ones ARE the very best. And I love how Roger is in these early shows.
Yes, both Louis Edmonds (as Roger) and Joan Bennett (as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard) had much more prominent roles during these first few months of DS than they did after their”cousin from England” arrived on the scene.
And, Roger was an especially snooty and nasty individual during these first DS episodes.
It’s also fun to see Elizabeth, Roger, Vicky, Maggie, etc., leading relatively “normal lives” before all of the supernatural goings-on started to literally erupt at Collinwood and in Collinsport.
PS If Vicky happened to run into that older woman she had met on the train ride to Collinsport several years later, I wonder if Vicky would have said to her, “You were right; I should have NEVER gotten off that train and stayed in Collinsport. The place was an absolute nightmare!”?
@@kensellers4082 Yes, I could imagine a conversation between Vicki and the woman on the train!
Mrs Hopewell (Elizabeth Wilson) was the mother of Dustin Hoffman in "The Graduate", a villain in the 1st Addams Family movie (Raul Julia and Angelica Huston) and as Dabney Coleman's lackey in "9 To 5".
😮 wow!
She was also Edith Bunker's rich cousin Amelia in "All In The Family". She also played the diner waitress in "The Birds". One of her last roles was in "Law and Order" when she played a corrupt rich woman illegally acquiring rare Chinese artifacts.
I love that beginning :
" MY NAME IS VICTORIA WINTERS"
I agree. I never get tired of hearing it!
@@darkshadowsfansunite8140 I love it.
Poor Vicky : she never knew who was her mother .
But she got an amazing life in Collinsport.
It was reprehensible for Elizabeth to keep her as a servant, knowing she was her illegitimate daughter.@@isabelfrattoni9680
"Welcome to the beginning and the end of the world, Miss Winters." ~Burke Devlin, June 27, 1966
58 years ago today, truer words were never spoken!
Dark Shadows is a beautiful, magical dream. ✨
While the original scenario had Vicky as the out of wedlock daughter of Elizabeth Stoddard, this scenario was deemed to racy when the show targeted after school kids as its main audience. Thus, Vicky became a girl who had been teleported from the late 18th century. Maybe this explained why she took on villains like Angelique, Laura and Nicholas, but was never harmed. After all, she was already dead. When she went back to her own time, she fulfilled the prophecy of being one of three women who would fall to their deaths from Widows' Hill. It was only years later in the audio reboot "Return To Collinwood" that the original scenario of Vicky being Liz's daughter was finally revealed.
"Welcome to the beginning and the end of the world, Miss Winters!"
Great line!
These were the two original protagonists, a shame neither of their characters were kept on.
Barnabas, Julia, and professor Stokes returned to 1971 Collinwood in Episode 1198. They used the stairway built by Quentin to do this.
Precious
I have to give a shout out to the music!!!
All the different themes etc. I probably know them by heart 😂
They played the music too often otherwise I liked most of it except for Maggie's hysterical screaming.
And so it begins.....
Dark Shadows is the best soap that was ever created!
I appreciate the beginning episode, but what happened to The 1971 episode To its final end in our reality After parallel time episodes????
Steve, I'm sorry to say that the last episode of Dark Shadows was in parallel time in 1841.
There was just a brief part of an episode when Barnabas and Julia returned to Collinwood in 1971. Everything looked normal but they were concerned that they had been back for a few hours and no one was home. Elizabeth rushed in and asked them where they had been because the family was at an event that they were to attend.
Barnabas and Julia confirmed with Elizabeth that David and Hallie were alive and that Quentin and Carolyn were fine. Elizabeth ended by saying that it was nice to have a quiet winter. That was the last that we saw 1971.
Yes they were.🎉
I WISH THIS COLLECTION WAS IN ITS RIGHT ORDER
DS originally was meant to be a regular soap opera, perhaps a bit more macabre than most, but never of a supernatural genre.
Dan Curtis, the Producers & the writers in 1966 did not see any improvement in the ratings. It started out with the Ghost of Josette coming out of the portrait at the old house. The ghost of Bill Malloy appearing to Victoria Winters in the locked room in the west wing only upped the ratings a little. What really boosted the ratings was when they had Diana Millay play Laura Collins the Phoenix. By April of 1967 it was Jonathan Frid as Vampire Barnabas Collins that shot the ratings through the roof according to Dan, who said if not for that the show would not have lasted a year.
@@bruce8808 Thank you, Bruce. This is some great content for us all as we starting watching the series from the beginning. Lela Swift, who was a director during the entire series, said that when she read about the first ghost appearance, she thought, "here we go!" How true.
@@bruce8808 Funny how Laura just missed meeting up with Barnabas and Angelique in the 1960s after she had known both of them in previous centuries.
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