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September 8, 1969 |
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August 29, 1969 |
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Julia finds Beth, who explains how Quentin died in 1897.
Synopsis[]
- Collinwood, 1969. The spirit of an angry and lonely man rules over the great house at Collinwood. The ghost of Quentin Collins walks the vast empty rooms. For many months, no living soul has dared venture inside this house. But on this night, a woman has gone there hoping she will be able to communicate with the spirit and save the lives of two people, one in the past and one in the present.
Julia seeks the help of Quentin's ghost to save Barnabas, but she finds Beth's ghost instead. Beth explains that Quentin's spirit cannot be reasoned with because Jamison Collins, the only person whom Quentin ever truly loved, rejected Quentin soon before his death, and now Quentin is doomed forever to seek Jamison's forgiveness, and that he sees David Collins as the reincarnation of Jamison.
In 1897, Angelique informs Beth that Quentin and she will marry. Beth, distraught, runs from the room and attempts to take her own life by poison. Jamison stops her, and confronts Quentin about his engagement to Angelique and breaking his word to Jamison, but Quentin rebuffs him. Jamison, wounded, tells Quentin that he never wants to see him again, which fulfills the third key event that, it has been foretold, shall herald Quentin's death, the loss of his one true love.
In a jealous rage, Beth shoots Quentin first in the Drawing Room, and again after following him as he staggers to the Tower Room, where he then dies.
Angelique returns and finds Quentin dead. Beth takes her own life the following morning.
In 1969, Julia and Professor Stokes attempt to take David away from Quentin, but David dies.
Memorable quotes[]
- Jamison: All I understand is that you’ve hurt someone — someone that you love very much! I can’t understand why you’d do that, Quentin. Well, I don’t want to see you anymore! I don’t want to talk to you or have anything to do with you! I HATE YOU, Quentin! I HATE YOU!
- Beth: I thought killing him [Quentin] would help me release from loving him. But it didn’t.
Dramatis personae[]
- David Selby as Quentin Collins
- Grayson Hall as Dr. Julia Hoffman
- Lara Parker as Angelique
- Thayer David as Prof. Stokes
- Terry Crawford as Beth
- David Henesy as Jamison Collins / David Collins (incorrectly listed)
Background information and notes[]
Production[]
Story[]
- FLASHBACK: Beth's ghost recalls Quentin's death on September 10, 1897.
- GHOSTWATCH: Beth's ghost appears to Julia. Later, Quentin's ghost appears to Julia.
- First episode when Professor Stokes calls Dr. Hoffman "Julia". [This is not true. Stokes called her Julia in the previous episode as well, and perhaps before.]
Bloopers and continuity and errors[]
- In the reprise of the final scene from the previous episode, Grayson Hall seems to have a gypsy accent when she plays Julia Hoffman, i.e. the same voice as that of the character Magda Rakosi, a part that she also plays. [Julia often sounded like that when excited.] [Additional addendum: This isn't what Julia sounds like when excited. It's Magda's accent.]
- At the beginning of Act I, when the door to the tower room opens by itself and later the door slams shut, the sound effect is for a metallic squeaky door rather than a wooden door. Also, someone coughs off-stage.
- When the scene shifts to 1897 as the ghost of Beth tells Julia the story of Quentin's death, Beth meets Quentin in the foyer, and they have a conversation about Beth looking for him and Quentin being busy. One of the actors seems to have forgotten their lines. Terry Crawford stammers "But...but...why" and looks at the teleprompter, and David Selby jumps in with "I've really been busy!"
- Collinwood in 1969 has been abandoned by the family, but a fire is burning in the fireplace. [Not a blooper. A supernatural presence has taken over the house and created the fire.] [Additional addendum: Yes, a blooper. Why would a ghost start a fire in the fireplace?]
- David Henesy slightly flubs a line. Jamison tells Beth, “I’ll come and...I’ll come back and talk to you later on.”
- After Angelique tells Beth she and Quentin are to be married and Beth runs out of the drawing room, someone coughs off-stage.
- As Jamison is standing in the drawing room doorway demanding to speak to Quentin, a figure can be seen moving in the mirror behind him. Then, when the shot returns to Angelique and Quentin, Lara Parker is holding her hand to her ear, and she continues to do so as she exits the room. It seems she was having trouble with her earring.
- Beth looks at the teleprompter after she shoots Quentin before she says her lines.
- After Quentin is shot and climbs the staircase trying to escape from Beth, the camera zooms in on a bloody hand print he supposedly leaves on the banister; however, it can be seen before Quentin touches that area.
- When Angelique returns to Collinwood and follows the trail of blood from the drawing room, the bloodstains appear to be solid cutouts of some dry material used as a prop rather than actual liquid. Then, after Angelique runs upstairs and enters the upstairs hallway from the landing, we see Lara Parker's shadow stop and move (whereas Angelique would have continued running down the hallway).
- After the scene with Angelique running up the stairs to find Quentin and as the scene with Julia and the ghost of Beth begins, a loud squeak from off-stage is heard. Then, when Julia is leaving the room at the end of the scene, there are two loud chirps.
- In the final scene in the drawing room, Thayer David steps on Grayson Hall's line: Julia: "Yes, it's more important than ever that I go back now...." Professor Stokes: "Jul..." Julia: "I must go." Stokes: "Julia, is David alright?"
- The lamp in the drawing room is the 1969 lamp, not the one usually seen during 1897. Also, the hay baler statue is on the foyer table as in 1969; in 1897, it is usually on the credenza in the drawing room.
- David Henesy appears as both David Collins and Jamison Collins but is credited for Daniel Collins by mistake.
External Links []
Dark Shadows - Episode 836 on the IMDb
Dark Shadows Every Day - Episode 836 - Murder, She Wrought
The Dark Shadows Daybook - Episode 836
The Dark Shadows Daybook - Episode 836