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January 7, 1969 |
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December 30, 1968 |
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Synopsis
- The night holds many terrors for those who live at Collinwood. On this night, Barnabas Collins will experience a kind of terror he has never known before. For he has successfully transcended the barriers of time and space and returned to the 18th century, to relive and attempt to change one twenty-four hour period in history.
Barnabas finds himself returned to the past. Ben Stokes arrives and Barnabas questions him to make sure that he has returned on the night he intended. His questions worry Ben, but Barnabas assures him that he is quite well. He asks Ben to tell his father that he has gone to Bangor in pursuit of Forbes. Ben tells him his father will go after him, and Barnabas says this is exactly what he wishes. He then leaves Ben and searches for Nathan Forbes.
Forbes is drinking at the Eagle, and is startled when Barnabas appears to him. Barnabas again delivers the news of his mother's suicide and places the blame on him. Forbes fires his pistol at Barnabas, but again it has no effect. Barnabas changes what he says to Forbes - he says that he will meet him at 9 o'clock, and if he will do as he instructs, he may let him live.
Victoria is alone in her cell when Barnabas arrives. She is quiet and accepting of her fate. Barnabas tells her that he came back to help her. She tells him that she is in love with someone else. Barnabas surprises her by stating that he already knows all about Peter Bradford. He wants to help her anyway.
Victoria tells him that she returned to her time in the future for awhile, but came back because she couldn't live without Peter. Barnabas promises her that before the sun rises, she and Peter will both be free.
Nathan arrives at Collinwood, frantic with fear. As Joshua has left the house in pursuit of Barnabas, it is Ben who tells Nathan of Barnabas's curse. Nathan believes him and wonders how he can save himself. Ben tells him that he can be of no help. Nathan accuses him of helping a murderer, and Ben recounts the time he tried to stop Barnabas. He tells Nathan of the one way a vampire can be destroyed.
Nathan again takes the crossbow and waits for Barnabas to enter. However, when the clock chimes nine the door opens, but Barnabas does not come in. Instead he hides himself from Forbes, and attacks him from behind.
Memorable quotes
- Barnabas: I'm going to change the course of history.
- Ben: I don't understand a word you're saying.
- Barnabas: I don't suppose you'd understand, even if I explained it to you.
- Barnabas: I have returned.
- Vicky: No, it's impossible. You're dead!
- Barnabas: I was put under a spell by Angelique.
- Ben: He's a vampire.
- Victoria: I came back here to be with the man I love, in death.
- Barnabas: Wouldn't you rather be with him in life?
- Ben (to Nathan): What have you got up your sleeve?
Dramatis personae
- Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins
- Joel Crothers as Nathan Forbes
- Thayer David as Ben Stokes
- Carolyn Groves as Victoria Winters
Background information and notes
- First appearance of Carolyn Groves as Victoria Winters (although she previously appeared in a photograph).
- The scene between Nathan Forbes and Ben Stokes was originally played between Nathan Forbes and Joshua Collins.
Bloopers and continuity errors
- As Barnabas gives instructions to Ben, we hear a loud bark from a dog, not one of the usual sound effect ones either.
- When Nathan comes to Collinwood to find Joshua, he finds Ben...and the door to Collinwood opens significantly. As Ben and Nathan talk, someone else closes the door. It just seems to shut by itself and fast.
- Barnabas and Vicky find themselves on two sides of the same coin: She thinks he's been killed and returned but has no idea of events of the future/present of 1968 to 1969 but he does; HE thinks perhaps she's not returned yet to Collinwood but she's returned to before she was hanged so she should know?
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