536

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Number	529
Timeline	1968
Narrator	Nancy Barrett
Writer	Sam Hall
Director	John Weaver
Broadcast	July 15, 1968 (Monday)
Recorded	July 1, 1968 (Monday)
Video	Complete: Disc 57 Collection 9: Disc 1

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Carolyn asks Professor Stokes to help Adam, unaware that Barnabas has died. Julia fails to use the stake to prevent Barnabas from rising as a vampire, so she enlists the help of Willie to secretly bury him.

Synopsis[]

A dreaded night on the great estate at Collinwood, a night which brought a curse to fruition, and the man against whom the curse was designed had a dream and lived.

Carolyn goes to see Adam, who is experiencing neck pains where Barnabas was bitten. Carolyn has told Stokes about Adam's location; he's on the way. Julia finds Barnabas, who says, "Angelique has won, I'll be as before, you know what to do!" Willie frets about what will happen now, but vows to protect Barnabas. Adam still worries about Barnabas, and wants to go to him. Stokes comes in.

Willie cries when Barnabas dies. Willie and Julia discuss their options now; Julia is afraid, but thinks Barnabas' plan is the only way, Willie won’t even hear of it. Julia holds the stake and hammer at Barnabas' heart, but can’t bring herself to use them. Willie laments his releasing Barnabas (210).

Stokes tells Carolyn that Adam’s heart has stopped. She is beside herself; Stokes feels something more is going on than what’s happening in the root cellar. Julia and Willie mourn Barnabas, whom they've buried.

Carolyn can't leave Adam; she tells Stokes to go for the Police. Stokes expects a miracle, a phenomenon in which he did not previously believe. Willie wants to pray, and tells Julia to cry. She says she can’t imagine a life without Barnabas.

Memorable quotes[]

Willie: Aw, now we're gonna hear the dogs howling again!

Willie: Are you gonna do it, Julia? Are you gonna end it?

Professor Stokes: I expect a miracle. Strange. I've never believed in miracles before.

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Background information and notes[]

Production[]

This episode was recorded out of broadcast sequence. The previous episode to be recorded was 534.
Dark Shadows moves back to its original time slot, 4:00pm Eastern/3:00pm Central. The long-running serial One Life to Live occupies the show's former time of 3:30pm Eastern/2:30pm Central.

Story[]

Bloopers and continuity errors[]

In Act I, when Julia calls for Willie, Willie walks into the Old House parlor from the direction of the hallway and looks around confused, then calls for Julia as if he doesn't know where she is. However, Julia is right outside the front door with Barnabas lying on the ground, and the door is open. Willie would have certainly seen them outside before he walked into the parlor.
When Julia and Willie are kneeling over Barnabas outside the front door of the Old House, Grayson Hall coughs.
It's unclear why Julia and Willie decide to bury Barnabas. If somehow they believe that will prevent him from turning into a vampire, there is nothing in vampire lore or anything that has happened or been established on the show to suggest that. If they somehow merely want to entrap Barnabas in the coffin, knowing he will turn back into a vampire (Willie does make a brief mention of a cross, suggesting that perhaps he's thinking of putting one on the inside lid of the coffin as happened with Barnabas being chained up in the coffin in the mausoleum secret room), then that is a cruelty that neither Julia nor Willie would seem to want to inflict on Barnabas.
When Prof. Stokes and Carolyn are talking about Adam's apparent death and Stokes says they must wait, an off-stage noise occurs, sounding like someone dropped something.
When Adam is lying supposedly dead, you can see him breathing.