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Number	524
Timeline	1968
Narrator	Lara Parker
Writer	Ron Sproat
Director	Jack Sullivan
Broadcast	July 8, 1968 (Monday)
Recorded	June 24, 1968 (Monday)
Video	Complete: Disc 56 Collection 8: Disc 4

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Cassandra raises Sam's ghost and tells him he will not rest until he tells Victoria the dream.

Synopsis[]

Nightfall is beginning to obscure the walls of Collinwood. On this night, four people are in grave danger. In the forest of the great estate, Joe Haskell is searching for the man named Adam, not knowing he may be courting his own destruction. And in the old Collins house, Barnabas Collins and Victoria Winters are about to face their own separate terrors.

Adam attacks Joe in the woods. Victoria tells Barnabas that she is concerned for him, but cannot leave Collinsport because of Jeff. Cassandra raises Sam's ghost and tells him he will not rest until he tells Victoria the dream. Sam tells Victoria the dream, when Barnabas returns Victoria runs away. Barnabas finds Joe's body, which Adam has placed at the Old House.

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Production[]

This episode was recorded out of broadcast sequence. The previous episode to be recorded was 531.
Final appearance of actor David Ford and the character Sam Evans.

Story[]

Sam's gravestone reads he was born in 1915 and died in 1968.
GHOSTWATCH: Sam's ghost appears to Cassandra. Later, Sam's ghost appears to Victoria.
INTERNAL MONOLOGUE: Adam: Barnabas hurt Adam; Cassandra: Hatred for Barnabas.
TIMELINE: Barnabas hasn't seen Victoria in several days (they were last seen on-screen together in 490). It was "last night" when Maggie saw the "ghost" of Angelique at the Evans cottage (i.e the early hours of this day).

Bloopers and continuity errors[]

In 522, Barnabas and Julia left on a trip to see Professor Stokes in order to tell him "everything" so they could enlist his help against Nicholas. Apparently they never got there or turned around because there is no mention of it again. This is first time Barnabas is seen since then.
In the teaser, Victoria tells Barnabas that she has been away from Collinwood for "several days" and has been staying at the Evans cottage, but the on-screen passage of time indicates that it was only the previous night when she went to stay with Maggie.
David Ford stumbles over a line. After telling the dream to Vicki, Sam says, “Her powers are so great, I could not disa...obey.”
Of course Sam's blindness as a ghost is an open question, but he is still wearing his sunglasses, indicating blindness. When he is telling Victoria that he must tell her the dream, he looks down at the arm chair before he puts his hand on it, indicating he is looking for the spot to rest his hand.
As Victoria is leaving the Old House, she tells Barnabas, "I'm tempted to tell you the dream right now, very tempted. Barnabas, I have to get away from you, now." Except she hasn't had the dream yet. Sam's ghost has only told her his dream. If the dream curse worked like that, Sam could have gone directly to Barnabas and completely bypassed Victoria. [Addendum: Regardless, Victoria is the one who must tell Barnabas the dream, not Sam, so he could not have bypassed Victoria under any circumstances. Even so, despite Victoria saying she's tempted to tell Barnabas the dream, that doesn't mean it would work. She is just panicking.]
When Barnabas and Victoria hear the gunshot, Barnabas says, "I don't know." Victoria did not ask a question. Perhaps Victoria was supposed to say, "What was that?" but didn't. [Actually Victoria does say, "What was that?" but she says it very fast and quietly, and it is partially covered by the sound of the gunshot.]
A boom microphone shadow bounces and flits around Barnabas' face as Victoria tells him about Angelique.
Cassandra is stated to have returned a "few days ago". However, the on-screen passage of time would indicate it was yesterday.
In Act IV, when Cassandra first starts summoning Sam to see if he's completed his task of telling Victoria the dream, David Ford can be heard quietly saying "Yes" too early before Sam's apparition appears.
After Sam's ghost appears to Cassandra, Lara Parker looks down to the ground for her mark to make sure she is looking in the right direction at Sam's chromakey apparition. Also, right before Sam's ghost disappears, his chromakey image shifts upward.
Joe's body falls out of a closet in the Old House. There has never been any closet established in that location before. Also, it was rare for 18th-century houses to have closets. [Addendum: It could be easily said that adding a closet was part of Barnabas's 20th-century renovation.] [That would make no sense, since Barnabas was specifically focused on being authentic to how the house looked in the past. Adding closets would be antithetical to that goal.]