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Number	673
Timeline	1969
Narrator	Thayer David
Writer	Ron Sproat
Director	Dan Curtis
Broadcast	February 4, 1969 (Tuesday)
Recorded	January 28, 1969 (Tuesday)
Video	Complete: Disc 71 Collection 12: Disc 3

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Maggie dreams that Quentin chokes her to death.

Synopsis[]

A nocturnal storm rages over Collinwood, but most of the residents of the great house are asleep, for the hour is late. In one bedroom, a child sleeps peacefully, lost in a deep, dreamless sleep, a child who has terrorized those who suspect he is not as innocent as he seems. Another bedroom of the great house is empty, the bedroom belonging to Maggie Evans, for she has experienced terror in this night. She has roamed the darkened halls of Collinwood, sleepless, for she is beginning to realize that strange forces exist in this house, forces bent on destruction, forces beyond her control, and that knowledge will place her in ever-mounting danger.

Maggie dreams that Quentin chokes her to death. Maggie tells everything that has happened to Barnabas, who agrees to help her. Stokes suggests holding a seance to contact Janet Findley who died investigating the house. During the seance Mrs. Findley speaks through Mrs. Johnson who says, “He killed me.”

Memorable quotes[]

Maggie: I'm so glad Mrs. Johnson and I aren't alone in this.

Mrs. Johnson: That proves that something is not quite right. David always complains about my meals.

Mrs. Johnson: There's nothing ordinary about those two children.

Dramatis personae[]

Background information and notes[]

Production[]

Thayer David returns to the cast as Timothy Eliot Stokes after an absence of 22 episodes. He last appeared as Ben Stokes in 666, 16 episodes prior.
Final episode directed by series creator Dan Curtis until 735.
The videotape jumps briefly the second time Maggie and Mrs. Johnson are in the drawing room.
At the opening of the teaser, this episode features what may have been an attempt to simulate lightning flashes superimposed over the static establishing shots of Collinwood and the tower. Not overly successful, the flashes appear less as lightning and more like a camera defect, but the flaw doesn’t appear again through any cameras for the duration of the episode.
In Maggie’s nightmare, Kathryn Leigh Scott collapses and “dies” on the same piece of replica foyer flooring that was painted for the closeup of Janet Findley’s death scene.

Story[]

GHOSTWATCH: Quentin's ghost appears in the west wing of Collinwood alone. Later, Barnabas, Professor Stokes, Maggie, and Mrs. Johnson hold a seance to contact Janet Findley, who speaks through Mrs. Johnson.
DREAM SEQUENCE: Maggie dreams she is strangled by Quentin.
TIMELINE: It was earlier tonight when Maggie saw Quentin. Day 269 takes place. 2:20am: Maggie goes to bed. 4:10am: Maggie sleeps and dreams of being strangled by Quentin. 7pm: Barnabas and Professor Stokes in the Collinwood drawing room. Elizabeth and Carolyn have taken David and Amy to Bangor for dinner.

Bloopers and continuity errors[]

Instead of slippers, Maggie is wearing heels while she is in her nightgown in the drawing room.
Even though Mrs. Johnson tells Maggie to turn out the lights when she is done, they both talk about David and Amy, and then Maggie goes upstairs. Mrs. Johnson goes into the foyer, turns off the lights there, leaving the drawing room lights on, and goes to her quarters. [Addendum: This is more of a set issue than an action issue, since Maggie DOES turn off the lights while she and Mrs. Johnson are still in the room. Shortly before they leave, Maggie walks over to the credenza and turns off the lights. The lights dim (the studio lights, to indicate the lights have gone out) before she warns Mrs. Johnson to lock her door. When Maggie and Mrs. Johnson walk to the foyer, the camera then turns onto Mrs. Johnson's face. From there, you can see the drawing room behind her, and the mantel lights and one lamp are still on, even though Maggie had supposedly turned off the lights.]
In Act I, as Maggie is leaving the drawing room and saying good night to Mrs. Johnson, a camera can be briefly seen at the right.
Even though it is a dream sequence, it seems odd that after Maggie gets out of bed, rather than exiting her room and going through the hallway door to the west wing, she is seen exiting the west wing door and going down the hallway away from her bedroom; then she is seen walking through the west wing to the storage room, where she sees Quentin.
Quentin can be seen from the waist down as the door opens before the camera initially pans to Mr. Juggins and then back to reveal Quentin.