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With its alluring tales of Gothic mystery and supernatural intrigue DARK SHADOWS (1966-71 ABC-TV) became one of the most popular daytime series of all time. The character of Barnabas Collins a guilt-ridden 175-year-old vampire brought the show tremendous success. Now for the first time on DVD MPI presents the spooky series rare early episodes before Barnabas.When Victoria Winters searches the Old House for David Collins she is abducted and held captive by Matthew Morgan the Collinses fugitive caretaker who is hiding following the death of family friend Bill Malloy. A massive search is held to find Victoria. An angry and jealous Joe Haskell fights with Burke Devlin after he catches Carolyn Stoddard his girlfriend with Burke in his room at the Collinsport Inn. A mysterious woman visits the diner and asks waitress Maggie Evans about the Collins family.The ghost of Josette Collins appears to Matthew and attempts to protect Victoria. Sam Evans reveals to a stunned Roger Collins that Roger s estranged wife Laura has returned. Sam begins to paint a bizarre portrait of a woman surrounded by flames which he cannot explain. Burke hopes to get Laura to clear him of the manslaugter charge that sent him to prison. Laura tells her son David the story of the immortal creature known as a Phoenix and he has a terrifying nightmare about his mother.

With its alluring tales of Gothic mystery and supernatural intrigue DARK SHADOWS (1966-71 ABC-TV) became one of the most popular daytime series of all time. The character of Barnabas Collins a guilt-ridden 175-year-old vampire brought the show tremendous success. Now for the first time on DVD MPI presents the spooky series rare early episodes before Barnabas.Victoria Winters and Frank Garner anxiously search for clues to Laura Collins strange origins and are led to a series of bizarre discoveries. Elizabeth Collins Stoddard orders Laura to leave Collinwood but Laura secretly visits Elizabeth while she sleeps and places her in a trance. Laura warns Victoria that she will take control of her son David Collins but becomes frightened when the ghost of Josette Collins appears to her. Against Roger Collins wishes a psychic investigator Dr. Peter Guthrie is called in to examine the strange occurrences at Collinwood and a seance is held. Victoria and Guthrie learn that the body of a dead woman identified as Laura has disappeared from the morgue in Phoenix Arizona.INCLUDES:Episodes 144-178January 12 1967 - March 1 1967BONUSES:New interviews with actress Diana Millay author/horror expert Leonard Wolf and writers Ron Sproat and Malcolm Marmorstein.

(1970-1971) Joan Bennett is the family matriarch and Jonathan Frid is guilt-ridden vampire Barnabas in episodes 1143-1185 of the ultimate gothic soap opera. This eight week run spans from September-November, 1970. 4 disc set with hinged 2-sided trays in a double-wide case. Mastered from original videotape recordings (and in some instances kinescope copies), the audio and video may vary from episode to episode.

Companion disc to the cult soap opera, a daytime serial with a gothic tone featuring guilt-ridden, 175-year-old vampire Barnabas Collins as its tragic hero. Features bloopers and outtakes, selections from the score, the featurette "Dark Shadows In Salem," plus long-lost footage of Dark Shadows actors appearing on game shows and promotional spots with Jonathan Frid (Barnabas the vampire).

(1971) Joan Bennett is the family matriarch and Jonathan Frid is guilt-ridden vampire Barnabas in episodes 1186-1126 of the ultimate gothic soap opera. This eight week run spans from January-March, 1971. 4 disc set in a double-wide case. Mastered from original videotape recordings (and in some instances kinescope copies), the audio and video may vary from episode to episode.

(1971) Jonathan Frid is guilt-ridden vampire Barnabas, battling his affliction while presiding over the family estate of Collinwood, in the final 19 episodes of the ultimate gothic soap opera, bringing the cult serial to a close. Mastered from original videotape recordings (and in some instances kinescope copies), the audio and video may vary from episode to episode.

(1970) Joan Bennett is the family matriarch and Jonathan Frid is guilt-ridden vampire Barnabas in episodes 1102-1142 of the ultimate gothic soap opera. This eight week run spans from September-November, 1970. 4 disc set with hinged 2-sided trays in a double-wide case. Mastered from original videotape recordings (and in some instances kinescope copies), the audio and video may vary from episode to episode.

(1970) Joan Bennett is the family matriarch and Jonathan Frid is guilt-ridden vampire Barnabas in episodes 1062-1101 of the ultimate gothic soap opera. This eight week run spans from July-September, 1970, which opens in the “future” of 1995, where the Collinwood estate lies is ruins , and then returns to the present where the ghosts of the past haunt Collinwood. 4 disc set with hinged 2-sided trays in a double-wide case. Mastered from original videotape recordings (and in some instances kinescope copies), the audio and video may vary from episode to episode.