 |
|
| ← 1171 → | |
|---|---|
| Timeline | |
| Narrator | |
| Writer | |
| Director | |
| Broadcast | |
| Recorded |
December 14, 1970 |
 |
|
| We have 12 images of Dark Shadows 1171 | |
Lamar traps Barnabas and prepares to wall him up like it was done to his father.
Synopsis
- Collinwood in the year 1840. An evil hangs over the great house, for Gerard Stiles, possessed by the spirit of the warlock Judah Zachary, threatens to destroy the Collins family. Evil pursues Quentin Collins, jailed and awaiting trial for witchcraft. And Daphne Harridge continues to receive strange notes from someone long dead. Now the notes to Daphne threaten her with death. Gerard knows of the notes but doubts their supernatural origin. On this night he hides in Daphne's room, confident that before the night is over he will solve the mystery.
Gerard finds that it was Samantha who has been trying to kill Daphne; Samantha claims she was just trying to scare Daphne. Samantha tells Gerard about Joanna and that Daphne is her sister; Samantha agrees to help destroy Quentin. Trask plans to avenge his father's death. Trask traps Barnabas and prepares to wall him up like it was done to his father.
Memorable quotes
Dramatis personae
- Joan Bennett as Flora Collins
- Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins
- Jerry Lacy as Lamar Trask
- James Storm as Gerard Stiles / Judah Zachary
- Virginia Vestoff as Samantha Drew Collins
Background information and notes
Production
- This episode was recorded out of broadcast sequence. The previous episode to be recorded was 1172.
Story
- The story of how and why Samantha has been sending the notes to Quentin, and then Daphne, pretending to be Joanna Mills is revealed: Samantha met Joanna briefly; Joanna was seeing Samantha's brother Randall Drew at the time. Quentin met and fell in love with Joanna and took her away from Randall, and asked Samantha for a divorce, which she refused to grant. Quentin then went away to sea to forget about Joanna. Quentin's leaving made Joanna live in a complete fantasy world, she was trying to recreate the life she had with Quentin, and eventually she was sent to an asylum. The authorities got so alarmed by Joanna's mental deterioration that they attempted to get in touch with Quentin at Collinwood. With Quentin still away, Samantha decided to go see her. Joanna had the freedom of the grounds, nobody saw them, they talked at great length. When Samantha learned of the passion Joanna and Quentin had experienced, it made Samantha hate her husband even more. He had shown Joanna the kind of love, he had never showed her. Sometime after that she heard Joanna had escaped the asylum and a week after that, her body washed ashore on a beach. Since Quentin was the only one Joanna ever mentioned, all her belongings and effects were sent to Collinwood. Samantha has had them locked in a closet upstairs ever since. Included in the possessions were the notes Joanna had been writing to Quentin from the asylum, convinced somehow her letters would bring him back. At first Samantha used her notes to send to Quentin, but then she began to copy Joanna's handwriting, so she could say anything she wanted. At first, Samantha merely wanted to torture him a little, then when Daphne arrived Samantha realized Daphne was Joanna's sister, and so she went further in an attempt to drive her from Collinwood.
- Reverend Trask died in the year 1797.