This show was the first of its kind...it had creativity, imagination, and real acting... unlike a lot of what we see nowadays! These people on this show knew their craft and were great at it!!
As a kid I would come home from school and watch this show with no one else at home. I heard every creak and groan of the house and would scare myself to death. Love it! Thanks for posting!!!
In 1968, I saw my mom watching it and from then on I hurried home after school every day to watch it. Looking back to then after rediscovering it. I'm so glad it was after school instead of before bedtime. I love this show!
I remember in 1976 when I was 6 years old, and l saw it for the first time in reruns. I was instantly hooked from that moment 44 years ago, and I've been a fan of Dark Shadows since.
Dark Shadows was and is awesome!! I wasn't born at the time it aired, but my brother and I caught the reruns in the late 80's on tv! Loved it then, and still love it now! I own the whole collection on DVD!!
Back in 1969 or so, as a latchkey kid I would come home from elementary school while my mother was still at work and first thing I'd do is put the TV on. Soon Dark Shadows would come on and I'd sit there on the couch with a blanket over my head while watching this scary show. It was only @ in the Afternoon, and still daylight outside, but no matter.... lol. I think I actually enjoyed getting scared by that show...the acting was that good! It was the only soap I use to really watch...and I loved it! Then soon... I would run outside and start to play with my friends until my Mom came home from work. Those days I often had to make my own TV dinners too, but our house was filled with love. It's not easy on a mother, having to raise up her son alone, but she did it! Somehow too.... I survived the terrors of Dark Shadows on TV.... and the Munster's, and the Adam's family....why? Well...compared to today's TV....they were tame by comparison. They all had father figures in the home...and somehow I think they helped to fill the hole that was in our family. You don't get even that much....out of television today. I'm glad I was a 60's kid and not a kid raised on today's wacko TV, with it's so-called family series that have no real father in the home. By the way... I too, love music. Here's a "Lockdown Music Video" we produced not long ago. Cheers ya all.... ua-cam.com/video/MIRxnjOcLw0/v-deo.html
Sometime in the 80s, I attended a Dark Shadows convention. It was held at a large hotel complex, north of Disneyland (?!) In an intimate upstairs meeting room with rich, DARK paneling, Jonathan Frid read to us from his book of poetry. Beautiful chills! R.I.P. Barnabas.
Richard Ilves This show scared the hell out of me back then, but I never missed an episode except during school days. I made up for it watching summer reruns. Didn't run nearly long enough. RIP Collins family.
Richard,that must have been the DARK SHADOWS FESTIVAL held on June 28th-30th @ the Anaheim Marriott Hotel(I Might have met you in passing-I have been going on & off since the 1st one held @ the Gateway Hilton in Newark New Jersey September 30th-October 2nd,1983! WOW-34 years!!!!!!
Too bad that the original writers sort of f***ed up some of the plots and ending, making the suspension of disbelief almost impossible. but still a lot of the series was really entertaining.. even now, it still is.
No Kidding I would Run home from the school Bus Stop Throw my books On the floor go to The Head forget about washing my hands . Turn on the idiot Box . And lay on the floor and fall asleep after the beginning of the show .
My father turned me on to this series when I was 13 in the summer of '97 when it aired on Sci-fi. The episode that got me hooked was when Julia Hoffman was trapped in a room with ghosts wailing 👻 I was hooked ever since. Dad said he ran home every day after school to catch it. Love Barnabas and Julia and Quentin and Angelique. Tales of intrigue, romance and terror. What more can you ask for?
The late 90's is when I first saw Dark Shadows too....I became instantly addicted to it...the episodes I first saw were a few episodes before Barnabas arrived.....I can only just imagine what sort of impact this awesome show would have had on me had I been fortunate to watch it as a child.
Not sure about that, I just rediscovered it on the Roku channel. Last id heard of it was when I was in the fifth grade id hurry home from school and watch it...when I was in the fifth grade in 1968!
My father purchased our first color TV around 1969, my brother and I arrived home from school and were so surprised! We marveled at Dark Shadows in color.
I play this theme song all the time at home.I grew up with Dark Shadows.Love Barnabas Collins. I know the whole story behind this program. Barnabas Collins had an affair with a woman while he was engaged to another.Low and behold she was a strong bonified witch.She fell in love with Barnabas.Barnabas did not love her.He loved Josette his fiance.
I remember this in the 60's afternoon soap program in Southern California. Saw it in the threater in early 70's and watched the Johnny Dep role. I enjoyed this series over all.
- As a kid, my grandmother would watch Dark Shadows which came on after her soaps and this theme scared the crap out of me! The theme from Perry Mason also scared me!
So cheesy yet memorizing ..my wife has to go to bed to this series everynight ...I think I've watched every episode no I'm addicted ..season 24 is the best and season 5
I used to always come home from grade school and watch it too. Is this funny: my pic to the left here I was a vampire with the fangs last year and I'm doing it again this year. We might play this theme song and others from Dark Shadows.
Why am I listening to the Dark Shadows music at this late hour of the night. 2:28 am local time? Now, I must figure out how to get the images out of my head, and try to get some sleep. LOL.
i still remember the first time this show started on tv in my country, and i remember the first episode 1970...and i tell you , i slept with my pillow on my neck for years after that....beside jaws 1 ...i cannot think of another show that actually changes your outlook on your surroundings like dark shadows.. with Barnabus Colins..i laugh so hard now , but as a 7 year old kid is sparked a fear then and a taste for horror movies in my teen years....it was a phase changer.
I had the "Dark Shadows" Milton Bradley board game. The skeletons glowed in the dark. My birthday is also Halloween(October 31). Johnathan Frid as Barnabas Collins is/was one of the best vampires ever.
Was. Jonathan Frid died almost exactly 45 years to the date that he first appeared as Barnabas: April 16, 2012 {His first appearance as Barnabas aired on April 18, 1967.} It was because of having seen Mr Frid as Barnabas, that I got interested in vampires. Even I was only when he debuted, I think, [but I cannot honestly recall, exactly when I got really "into" vampires, but I do credit Mr Frid for that happening. Like you, I also had that same coffin game, as well as one the jigsaw puzzles.
@@stephaniestavropoulos1639 But is a vampire ever truly dead? ;p So sad that he's gone. But to me, Jonathan Frid, as Barnabas, STILL IS one of the GREAT actors of our age! So iconic, and it was simply amazing to see how he could seemingly change the entire shape of his face with just simply tilting his head up or down--I started watching this show when I was 6 or 7 and it was totally mesmerizing and magical to see him do that! And Dark Shadows was such an awesome concept, drawing from and incorporating so many inspirations of horror and mythology--it's the ONLY soap opera that I could ever stand to watch. Plus, when we see the reruns, we have to remember that for many years, they were doing ALL of those episodes 5-days a week, EVERY week, TOTALLY LIVE!! The entire cast were such phenomenal actors that they so managed to stay completely in character no matter how much someone fucked up their lines or a production crewman had an accident off camera where everyone on set could hear it and not react! XD
Hi Lila! You know i like creepy/spooky things, but I was 8 years old when Dark Shadows first aired. I remember it on our TV set when I was 9 or 10. The haunting music lured me in, but i quickly became bored. I was more into the Munsters, Adams Family, Gilligan’s Island. LOL! But I may go ahead and give it another try and see if the storyline pulls me in now. I’ll let you know. Thanks for sharing! 👻
Man, I have dreams and my late parents are alive in them. Weird. Maybe that is why I am suffering from insomnia and why I am drinking the big bottle of wine to make me go to sleep tonight.
The "Opening Theme" that you've used is actually the "Closing Theme" (which runs 1:06 minutes) "Collinwood"(The Second Part) is actually the "Sub-Theme"(which is listed as such on the beautifully remastered"The Complete DARK SHADOWS Soundtrack Mu sic Collection CD Box Set" which MPI Home Video released(Catalogue # CD7834) This has ALL the music cues from the show( Including the "BLUE WHALE Jukebox songs in FULL LENGTH without overdubs & Narration & IN TRUE STEREO( Unlike the Original album/CD which was rechanneled or had added instrumentation) You might want to check it out-Your video was done very well!
The GREAT HOUSE 🏰 at COLLINWOOD! 🏆 And Joan Bennett as ELIZABETH COLLINS STODDARD ❤. Great show. So many reVamps! 😉. But the original was the best 👌👑 shades 😎
And if you want to see the place they used for the two movies, "House of Dark Shadows" (1970) and "Night of Dark Shadows" (1971), it's Lyndhurst, AKA the Jay Gould estate, in Tarrytown, New York.
As a child, DS was a total bore to me, but at least the people didn't act as irrationally as what the common soaps displayed. Recently, the Decades network ran some DS episodes, and quite a few of the episodes would have the theme heard here, followed by the Collinwood theme as heard here. I must say, though I didn't like this show back then, at least the music was scary. It's almost too much to have these two themes back-to-back, but that's what they did, and Collinwood would play while the narrator would make some mention of the prior episode. I contend that the Collinwood theme may be the spookier of the two, but I think they got the themes in the right order, because the Collinwood theme is more of an incidental music, maybe something more appropriate to the body of the show and not as an opening theme,
This show was the first of its kind...it had creativity, imagination, and real acting... unlike a lot of what we see nowadays! These people on this show knew their craft and were great at it!!
Dark Shadows was and remains the greatest soap opera of all time.
And Peyton Place and Bewitched and ...❤
Dark Shadows is fab!! I just got the entire series on DVD!! It is so wonderful!
As a kid I would come home from school and watch this show with no one else at home. I heard every creak and groan of the house and would scare myself to death. Love it! Thanks for posting!!!
Only difference is that I'd RUN home from school in order to catch this in time!
In 1968, I saw my mom watching it and from then on I hurried home after school every day to watch it. Looking back to then after rediscovering it. I'm so glad it was after school instead of before bedtime. I love this show!
Me too Carol.
This is the kind of show, my mother said, kids would run home from school to watch!!
I remember in 1976 when I was 6 years old, and l saw it for the first time in reruns. I was instantly hooked from that moment 44 years ago, and I've been a fan of Dark Shadows since.
Dark Shadows was and is awesome!! I wasn't born at the time it aired, but my brother and I caught the reruns in the late 80's on tv! Loved it then, and still love it now! I own the whole collection on DVD!!
Great music great TV show which I watched from 1966 till 1971 and then I watched watch it now in reruns !Used to have some VHS tapes from the show !
Back in 1969 or so, as a latchkey kid I would come home from elementary school while my mother was still at work and first thing I'd do is put the TV on. Soon Dark Shadows would come on and I'd sit there on the couch with a blanket over my head while watching this scary show. It was only @ in the Afternoon, and still daylight outside, but no matter.... lol. I think I actually enjoyed getting scared by that show...the acting was that good! It was the only soap I use to really watch...and I loved it! Then soon... I would run outside and start to play with my friends until my Mom came home from work. Those days I often had to make my own TV dinners too, but our house was filled with love. It's not easy on a mother, having to raise up her son alone, but she did it! Somehow too.... I survived the terrors of Dark Shadows on TV.... and the Munster's, and the Adam's family....why? Well...compared to today's TV....they were tame by comparison. They all had father figures in the home...and somehow I think they helped to fill the hole that was in our family. You don't get even that much....out of television today. I'm glad I was a 60's kid and not a kid raised on today's wacko TV, with it's so-called family series that have no real father in the home. By the way... I too, love music. Here's a "Lockdown Music Video" we produced not long ago. Cheers ya all.... ua-cam.com/video/MIRxnjOcLw0/v-deo.html
Dark Shadows was and is so awesome!! I have the entire series on DVD and I watch it religiously!!
The best show ever. I want the collinwood theme song to play non-stop in my house.
Sometime in the 80s, I attended a Dark Shadows convention. It was held at a large hotel complex, north of Disneyland (?!) In an intimate upstairs meeting room with rich, DARK paneling, Jonathan Frid read to us from his book of poetry. Beautiful chills! R.I.P. Barnabas.
Richard Ilves This show scared the hell out of me back then, but I never missed an episode except during school days. I made up for it watching summer reruns. Didn't run nearly long enough. RIP Collins family.
Richard,that must have been the DARK SHADOWS FESTIVAL held on June 28th-30th @ the Anaheim Marriott Hotel(I Might have met you in passing-I have been going on & off since the 1st one held @ the Gateway Hilton in Newark New Jersey September 30th-October 2nd,1983! WOW-34 years!!!!!!
Too bad that the original writers sort of f***ed up some of the plots and ending, making the suspension of disbelief almost impossible. but still a lot of the series was really entertaining.. even now, it still is.
how lucky you were.
Wow, that must have been a really cool experience.
Cool how they they made the basses thump around softly in the background. Excellent touch.
best show ever when I was a child!
+Earle Shivers yep
No Kidding I would Run home from the school Bus Stop Throw my books On the floor go to The Head forget about washing my hands . Turn on the idiot Box . And lay on the floor and fall asleep after the beginning of the show .
Me Too!! I was 8yrs old now I'm 69...I put this on my LIKE playlist. d((~___~))b
Great actors fantastic show with it’s own aura that never changes it is as if you;could step right into collinwood at any moment
yes....I often wish I could do just that lol...I love this show so much and the haunting music adds to the unique atmosphere that this show has
1967.used to watch this everyday when i got home from school. Barnabas was so cool.
Best American TV series ever. Love this one! It had the best and most appropriate soundtrack music.
My father turned me on to this series when I was 13 in the summer of '97 when it aired on Sci-fi. The episode that got me hooked was when Julia Hoffman was trapped in a room with ghosts wailing 👻 I was hooked ever since. Dad said he ran home every day after school to catch it. Love Barnabas and Julia and Quentin and Angelique. Tales of intrigue, romance and terror. What more can you ask for?
The late 90's is when I first saw Dark Shadows too....I became instantly addicted to it...the episodes I first saw were a few episodes before Barnabas arrived.....I can only just imagine what sort of impact this awesome show would have had on me had I been fortunate to watch it as a child.
A few hot gypsies wouldn't go a miss.
I watched in the 70s with my mother. Good memories
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So beautiful, you;;d never know it was a TV setting, and that clock is probably worth some big bucks !
For a low budget show this was the best soap opera ever and it is being forgotten. The cast and the fans are dying out, boiby.
Not sure about that, I just rediscovered it on the Roku channel. Last id heard of it was when I was in the fifth grade id hurry home from school and watch it...when I was in the fifth grade in 1968!
😅scares me now as an adult as much as when I was a kid
I was 5 years old when it came on in 1966
Good ole Collinwood! well worn with age and neglect, yet still has that warm and comfy feeling. :)
Somehow it does.
I loved it to me I still watch it twice a year I think it was the best movie ever as far as the series
Love the shots of the interior of Collinwood.
My fave childhood show.
One of my favorite shows ever! Had to run home from school every day to catch it!!!
This song I will never forget as a child.I was born in that time.
EVERY Damm thing was BETTER then! Cars! Clothes! Music! Hell, Even the darn Food was BETTER!! BEAM ME UP SCOTTY! Theres NOTHING Down Here!!
Super excellent music they wrote for this show.
Loved this show as a kid.
This certainly brings back that scary feeling we used to get!
Rick Kinney resident evil, anyone?
My father purchased our first color TV around 1969, my brother and I arrived home from school and were so surprised! We marveled at Dark Shadows in color.
I love watching TV series dark shadows alot my favorite..😃
Yo veia esta serie en el año 75 en compañi'a de mi mama' y mi abuelita , en Guayaquil /Ecuador , teni'a 8 años y aunque me daba miedo me encantaba .
I have loved it, since i was thirteen. I remember running home from the bus stop, great memories!
I play this theme song all the time at home.I grew up with Dark Shadows.Love Barnabas Collins. I know the whole story behind this program. Barnabas Collins had an affair with a woman while he was engaged to another.Low and behold she was a strong bonified witch.She fell in love with Barnabas.Barnabas did not love her.He loved Josette his fiance.
Her name was Angelique.
so incredible that music.
Collinwood Theme at 01:09 always loved that.
I remember this in the 60's afternoon soap program in Southern California. Saw it in the threater in early 70's and watched the Johnny Dep role. I enjoyed this series over all.
- As a kid, my grandmother would watch Dark Shadows which came on after her soaps and this theme scared the crap out of me! The theme from Perry Mason also scared me!
So cheesy yet memorizing ..my wife has to go to bed to this series everynight ...I think I've watched every episode no I'm addicted ..season 24 is the best and season 5
After school ♥
I used to always come home from grade school and watch it too. Is this funny: my pic to the left here I was a vampire with the fangs last year and I'm doing it again this year.
We might play this theme song and others from Dark Shadows.
The Collinwood foyer is as iconic as the Enterprise bridge or the Ponderosa living room.
R.I.P. Denise Nickerson. :'(
Why am I listening to the Dark Shadows music at this late hour of the night. 2:28 am local time? Now, I must figure out how to get the images out of my head, and try to get some sleep. LOL.
i still remember the first time this show started on tv in my country, and i remember the first episode 1970...and i tell you , i slept with my pillow on my neck for years after that....beside jaws 1 ...i cannot think of another show that actually changes your outlook on your surroundings like dark shadows.. with Barnabus Colins..i laugh so hard now , but as a 7 year old kid is sparked a fear then and a taste for horror movies in my teen years....it was a phase changer.
I had the "Dark Shadows" Milton Bradley board game. The skeletons glowed in the dark. My birthday is also Halloween(October 31). Johnathan Frid as Barnabas Collins is/was one of the best vampires ever.
Otto Greenleaf. Mine (DOB). Listening to this on Friday the 13th, too!
Was. Jonathan Frid died almost exactly 45 years to the date that he first appeared as Barnabas: April 16, 2012 {His first appearance as Barnabas aired on April 18, 1967.} It was because of having seen Mr Frid as Barnabas, that I got interested in vampires. Even I was only when he debuted, I think, [but I cannot honestly recall, exactly when I got really "into" vampires, but I do credit Mr Frid for that happening.
Like you, I also had that same coffin game, as well as one the jigsaw puzzles.
@@stephaniestavropoulos1639 But is a vampire ever truly dead? ;p
So sad that he's gone. But to me, Jonathan Frid, as Barnabas, STILL IS one of the GREAT actors of our age! So iconic, and it was simply amazing to see how he could seemingly change the entire shape of his face with just simply tilting his head up or down--I started watching this show when I was 6 or 7 and it was totally mesmerizing and magical to see him do that! And Dark Shadows was such an awesome concept, drawing from and incorporating so many inspirations of horror and mythology--it's the ONLY soap opera that I could ever stand to watch.
Plus, when we see the reruns, we have to remember that for many years, they were doing ALL of those episodes 5-days a week, EVERY week, TOTALLY LIVE!! The entire cast were such phenomenal actors that they so managed to stay completely in character no matter how much someone fucked up their lines or a production crewman had an accident off camera where everyone on set could hear it and not react! XD
Yes! Love It!!
Like a soothing lullaby❤
they never changed it ... it was ALWAYS the theme to Dark Shadows...
Dark shadows was the creator of horror. If it wasn't for dark shadows you would not have horror movies today. 👩💻
R.I.P. Sam Hall (1921-2014) :'(
The themesongis quite iconic, but for music, I prefer "Collinwood." It was a great back score during those opening narrations!
Such cool music, it sure fits!
i remember this well.......................
The nusic for this show helped set the atmosphere for it.
Its a Dead Mans Party,Who could ask for more?Everybody's comin' leave your body at the door! (Danny Elfman and Oingo Boingo 1985)
Still here in 24..😊
Hi Lila! You know i like creepy/spooky things, but I was 8 years old when Dark Shadows first aired. I remember it on our TV set when I was 9 or 10. The haunting music lured me in, but i quickly became bored. I was more into the Munsters, Adams Family, Gilligan’s Island. LOL! But I may go ahead and give it another try and see if the storyline pulls me in now. I’ll let you know. Thanks for sharing! 👻
I'm part of a new upcoming POC (Proof Of Concept) project production of a new reimaging of Dark Shadows. We're so excited
I need the music on my phone as ring tones.
Man, I have dreams and my late parents are alive in them. Weird. Maybe that is why I am suffering from insomnia and why I am drinking the big bottle of wine to make me go to sleep tonight.
This music used to scare the living day lights out of me. I would cover my ears when it would come on. 3/31/2019.
Good old Jamie's ringtone lmao 🤣 😂
Boy did this show scare the hell out of me as a kid!
Nice creepy music!
Excellent theramin work
The "Opening Theme" that you've used is actually the "Closing Theme" (which runs 1:06 minutes) "Collinwood"(The Second Part) is actually the "Sub-Theme"(which is listed as such on the beautifully remastered"The Complete DARK SHADOWS Soundtrack Mu sic Collection CD Box Set" which MPI Home Video released(Catalogue # CD7834) This has ALL the music cues from the show( Including the "BLUE WHALE Jukebox songs in FULL LENGTH without overdubs & Narration & IN TRUE STEREO( Unlike the Original album/CD which was rechanneled or had added instrumentation) You might want to check it out-Your video was done very well!
Great, now I'm not gonna sleep a wink.
This.show..and.saved.by.th.e..are.best.show.as.last.a.long.time.in.repats
The GREAT HOUSE 🏰 at COLLINWOOD! 🏆 And Joan Bennett as ELIZABETH COLLINS STODDARD ❤. Great show. So many reVamps! 😉. But the original was the best 👌👑 shades 😎
This is gorgeous. Who edited this? Elegance.
I remember watching this when i was five (in '68); very scary, lol
Awesome !!!..this is the base for the many songs that made now like crepy songs !!!
Love Grayson Hall... So he was the best!!
About 1:10 Onwards,That Sounds Like A Haunting Version Of "On A Clear Day,You Can See Long Island!"
Tribute past 2024.
❤
Where is the castle is it in United States? I would love to see it beautiful haunting Beautiful
Seaview Terrace, Newport Rhode Island
And if you want to see the place they used for the two movies, "House of Dark Shadows" (1970) and "Night of Dark Shadows" (1971), it's Lyndhurst, AKA the Jay Gould estate, in Tarrytown, New York.
A strange television show.
Where is that house ? Even in an effort to make it look spooky, it's so beautiful !
Seaview Terrace, in Newport, RI.
My family in the comment section..we are home:)
🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
🗣️ I Love this show back in the 70’s
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HAPPY NATIONAL FRANKENSTEIN FRIDAY!
Spooky😊
Easy to get skulled in those hallways and behind those doors.
Halloween time
As a child, DS was a total bore to me, but at least the people didn't act as irrationally as what the common soaps displayed. Recently, the Decades network ran some DS episodes, and quite a few of the episodes would have the theme heard here, followed by the Collinwood theme as heard here. I must say, though I didn't like this show back then, at least the music was scary. It's almost too much to have these two themes back-to-back, but that's what they did, and Collinwood would play while the narrator would make some mention of the prior episode.
I contend that the Collinwood theme may be the spookier of the two, but I think they got the themes in the right order, because the Collinwood theme is more of an incidental music, maybe something more appropriate to the body of the show and not as an opening theme,
eerry as can be great show blllllllllllllllllllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa bite yum blood Barnabas as my last 2 dogs were named
I Love Barnabas Collins.He cheated on his Fioncee.With Angelique.
Those cardboard sets were ok until Angelique bumped into one
Vampire soap opera.
I shit my pants
Cool but strange show.....
Men Should be Very Careful.
Leslie didn't josette Barnabas Collins fiancee leap to her death from the top of widow's hill?.
@@jamess.merritt5353 Angelique's Evil spirit made her do it.
Leslie is the Collinwood estate mansion near widow's Hill and in what state is the Collinwood estate located in?.
Oh Leslie didn't Barnabas Collins kill angelique by strangling her at the Collinwood estate?.
This could be the new theme for the White House. With the puppet “president” inching down the stairs.