Dark Shadows DVD Collection 1
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Actor: Alexandra Moltke, Joan Bennett, Jonathan Frid, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Louis EdmondsBrand: MPI
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Unknown; English (Original Language), Unknown; Spanish (Published)
Format: Black & White, Box set, Full Screen, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 900 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-05-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Mpi Home Video
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- With its alluring tales of Gothic mystery and supernatural intrigue, Dark Shadows became one of the most popular daytime series of all time. Since first airing on ABC-TV from 1966-71, Dark Shadows has earned the reputation of being one of the most unusual and enduring programs in television history. The character of Barnabas Collins, a guilt-ridden, 175 year-old vampire, brought the show tremendou
Movie Reviews of Dark Shadows DVD Collection 1
Movie Review: The Resurrection of Barnabas Collins V=V
Summary: 5 Stars
The moment you pop in Disc One, you are treated to an option menu with the Dark Shadows soundtrack playing and the Collinwood Estate with midnight blue and the eerie faces of Barnabas Collins.
The option menu will display a bonus, Dark Shadows: The Introduction. This is a 3 hour, 50 min. condensed version of the beginning of "Dark Shadows". You do not have to watch this to get involved in the new storyline you are about to see.
Below on your screen is a timeline. You may begin with the first episode, #210, of this collection.
You may choose any uncut & unedited episode you want to see by clicking on to the date, however all episodes in this collection will play straight through to the next episode.
You can easily watch one disc of episodes in 3 hours and a half.
Although "Dark Shadows" began June 27, 1966 as a daily soap opera before or after "General Hospital" in your area, the story of Barnabas Collins (beginning with episode #210) returning to Collinsport to stake his claim and sink his fangs into who belongs to him, was the real turn around for "Dark Shadows" and its success.
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There is another DVD collection available as "Dark Shadows: The Beginning" (episodes 1 - 209) which is the very beginning of the "live" soap opera before the Barnabas Collins storyline began.
This Dark Shadows DVD Collection Volume 1 begins with episode #210 to #250 (April 17, 1967 to June 9 1967), each black & white "live" episode is approx. 20 minutes.
It will only take you 15 hours to watch every episode in this 4-disc collection.
Every episode is unedited and in the correct order.
Teaser storyline: Since Victoria Winters has arrived in Collinsport and is now a resident in the Collinwood estate, she has been the governess for 10-year old David Collins.
The lavish estate was built in 1795 for the Collins family. David likes to go to the former place now known as "The Old House". It is a very eerie house now with many rooms, full of dust,cobwebs and creaking floorboards. The basement holds many secrets of its own. The Collins family and ancestors use to live there. David likes to play there, however he is quite taken with a portrait of Josette that hangs over the mantle of the living room fireplace. David has also seen the ghost of Josette there.
The new estate, known as "Collinwood", now belongs to Elizabeth Collins Stoddard and her brother Roger Collins. David is Roger's son. Carolyn Stoddard also lives there. Elizabeth is the matriarch of the Collins family and is very well educated on her family history. She no longer has a husband as he disappeared 18 years ago. Elizabeth is a tough cookie, but she withholds secrets of her own.
Jason McGuire and Willie Loomis have been living in the estate as guests. Things have gotten so bad that Elizabeth Stoddard has demanded that both Mr. McGuire and Willie leave her property immediately. In fact, with the help of Mr. McGuire she wants Willie out of Collinsport for good.
Willie has not been well and the sly McGuire can not find him. McGuire always thinking of himself tries to talk to Elizabeth about him staying on.
Willie has his own interest in the Collins and has researched 200 years of the family.
We see Willie enter the Mausoleum in the old Eagle Hill Cemetery. He tries to open a particular coffin, but just then he ties a connection to a decorative lion's head with a ring handle in its mouth. Upon gently pulling the ring handle, a secret door opens.
There inside the secret stone chamber lies another coffin. As Willie attempts to open it, the heartbeat sounds again and then suddenly the eerie quietness of the dark. As Willie opens the coffin and sees inside, he is frightened by a ringed hand that comes out and grabs his neck. Later Barnabas Collins, alive and resurrected, visits the Collinwood estate.
That is just the beginning of Dark Shadows in this set, so I have not spoiled anything for you of what is to come.
The theatrical talent and dramatic flaire with the spooky elements in "Dark Shadows" really keeps the television viewer glued for episode to episode making you yearn for more. You are even treated to a cliff-hanger quite often.
You will notice that the actors speak perfect English.
Because the show was done "Live", the actors literally had to run from set to set and be in position to say their lines before the previous scene ended. The cameraman could help a little bit. Heavens forbid a costume change, but a commercial was welcomed.
There are no commercials in this DVD set.
In these "live" episodes, you are bound to see sets moving, flubbed or forgotten lines, a stutter, camera in the way, a person in the way, anything can happen on live tv...maybe you will see a ghost.
Disc One: April 17 -- Apr. 28, 1967 (Episodes 210-219)
These episodes include: John Karlen, Dennis Patrick, Joan Bennett, Alexandra Moltke, Clarice Blackburn, Jonathan Frid, Daniel Keyes, David Henesy, Nancy Barrett, Michael Ryan, Joel Crothers, Louis Edmonds, Dana Elcar, Richard Woods, Rob O'Connell.
Disc Two: May 1 -- May 12, 1967 (Episodes 220-230)
Includes Kathryn Leigh Scott as "Maggie Evans" and David Ford as "Sam Evans".
In episode 225/226 we finally get a look at Barnabas Collins fangs.
At the end of this disc is an intervierw with Jonathan Frid.
Note: Nancy Barrett met David Ford on the show (She was 24, he was 41) and they married. It lasted for 2 years.
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Disc Three: May 15--May 26, 1967 (Episodes 231-240)
Robert Gerringer begins as "Dr. Woodward". Frances Helm as a nurse.
Dorrie Kavanaugh as "figure in white dress".
At the end of this disc is an interview with Kathyrn Leigh Scott.
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Disc Four: May 29--June 9, 1967 (Episodes 241-250)
#247 is a very pivotal episode.
Hugh Franklin as "Richard Garner".
End of disc includes an interview with John Karlen, but beware, he spoils the ending of Dark Shadows about his character "Willie".
The color episodes will not begin until Collection #3. Their are 26 DVD Collections to the very end. Keep checking Amazon.com for the best price to buy.
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Dark Shadows (1966-71) ABC
House of Dark Shadows (1970)
Night of Dark Shadows (1971)
Dark Shadows (1990,91) NBC
Dark Shadows (unaired pilot 2004)
"This has been a Dan Curtis Production"
***Update: November 5, 2010. DARK SHADOWS will begin production in April 2011 at Pinewood Studios, with Tim Burton directing and Johnny Depp as "Barnabas Collins". Novelist Seth Grahame-Smith has "revamped" the screenplay replacing John August.
Dark Shadows will be based on the original "Dark Shadows" tv series (1966-71) from the ABC Network.
DARK SHADOWS will be released in 2012.
The next set to buy is: Dark Shadows DVD Collection 2.
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