811

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Timeline	1897
Narrator	Jerry Lacy
Writer	Violet Welles
Director	Dan Curtis
Broadcast	August 4 1969
Recorded	July 21, 1969
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Synopsis

To save David Collins and Chris Jennings in the present, Barnabas Collins has gone back in time, to Collinwood at the turn of the century. But today, his mission looks bleak, for the little girl who must link the past with the present lies near death, and the moment in 1897 that she crosses beyond the dark door, Chris Jennings will cease to exist in 1969.

Jenny protects the child. Trask trys to get Edward to sign agreement which gives Trask legal guardianship of Jamison (but Edward does not remember Jamison).Trask says he will commit Edward soon. Quentin informs Trask that he wants to move Lenore into Collinwood. Trask refuses his request then he goes to see Edward. Edward thinks Quentin is attempting to drive him crazy. Trask convinces Edward (who thinks he is a servant) to kill Quentin because he will never let him out of the tower room. Quentin dreams of seeing Jenny, and she tells him that Lenore can not stay at Collinwood - if he truly loves his daughter he has to give her up. Edwardappears in Quentin's dream when he wakes up Edward is strangling him.

Dramatis personae

• Grayson Hall as Magda Rakosi
• David Selby as Quentin Collins
• Louis Edmonds as Edward Collins
• Jerry Lacy as Gregory Trask
• Marie Wallace as Jenny Collins

Background Information & Notes

• Lenore's cradle will later be used for baby Joseph (Jeb Hawkes) in the Leviathan storyline.

• Jenny's song: American Folk Traditional: According to Living Documents in American History from Earliest Colonial Times to the Civil War, edited by John A Scott, (Trident Press 1963), the song was collected by Alan Lomax, who learned it from his mother, who took it from North Carolina to Texas after the Civil War:

Hush-a-bye, don't you cry,
Go to sleepy little baby.
When you wake, you'll have cake,
And all the pretty little horses.Black and bay, dapple and grey,
Coach and six little horses,
Hush-a-bye, don't you cry,
Go to sleepy little baby.
Hush-a-bye, don't you cry,
Go to sleepy little baby,
When you wake, you'll have cake,
And all the pretty little horses.
Way down yonder, down in the meadow,
There's a poor wee little lamby.
The bees and the butterflies pickin' at its eyes,
The poor wee thing cried for her mammy.
Hush-a-bye, don't you cry,
Go to sleepy little baby.
When you wake, you'll have cake,
And all the pretty little horses.

Apparently there were darker lyrics as well. It seems to be an African American song…

Bloopers and continuity errors

The cradle was covered by the Collinsport Afghan in the previous episode, but here, it is replaced by another blanket.