Dark Shadows - Cassandra loses a hand

Nicholas Blair punishes Cassandra's failures as a witch by causing her left hand to age. Her dream curse did not provide the results expected.

[@nahmaninisithole2734]

I've got to "hand" it to Lara Parker, that's some great acting.

[@marksmith4128]

I can't believe I'm seeing this. I was 7 years old 50 years ago this summer. This episode, with the skeleton hand, was the exact thing that hooked me on Dark Shadows. CHEERS!!!!

[@markm1784]

That opening scene with the hand was my first exposure to the show. I remember a baby sitter at our house was watching this in our kitchen and I heard the screaming. I came running in to see what was going on and I saw that skeletal hand, followed by the creepy opening theme. "What IS this?" I asked. "Dark Shadows" she said ominously. I was hooked right then.

[@joycetyner7643]

Completely enthralled !!

[@mr.chipwhitley8770]

Nicholas Blair -- the only person who can take your hand away in style. The sexy devil lol

[@179cpv]

That Nicholas Blair was one sadistic bastard. Lara Parker is still gorgeous, even with a skeletal hand.

[@zoppie]

Work your fingers to the bone, and what do you get? Boney fingers!

[@joycetyner7643]

I dont remember the episode ... it creeped me well !!! Hair standing up on my arms !!

[@TheSWolfe]

Good one. Upon hearing phrase, I think of, "work my fingers to my bones I scream with pain - I still make no impression," Queen: "Flick of the Wrist."

[@nassauguy48]

Diabolos (the master of Angelique and Nicholas) would become angry at both of them for letting love (Angelique for Barnabas, Nicholas for Maggie) weaken them and to take them away from their prescribed missions.

[@LordZontar]

For Nicholas, evil wasn't part of his job, it was the side-benefit that made it all worthwhile.

[@shermanlee4037]

Nicholas was one of the few things about this series that could, at times, be genuinely unnerving and frightening. Often it was so campy and overacted that it failed to be scary, but Nicholas, in scenes like this, came across as dangerous.

[@joycetyner7643]

Dangerous as CHINATOWN

[@kensellers4082]

Yet, I don’t think that Nicholas ever actually killed anyone on DS.

[@MrMaxismybaby]

One of the few times I felt sorry for Angelique. Other than, no way!

[@karltrafton7547]

I.never felt sorry for. That.bumma..colt..a devil.against a devil. It was time for her to suffer

[@lynnebraun4845]

This scared the crap out of me when I was a kid!!! Had bad dreams about skeleton hands too.

[@joycetyner7643]

I will be checking my hands all day long !!! THANKS SO MUCH !!! LOVE IT ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡■■■■♡♡♡♡♡☆☆☆☆¿

[@Crashbanksbuysilver]

I wish we were all less desensitized.

[@adolphlopez7735]

boy, that little boy, David, is a smart kid in knowing everything of what is going on of what's before close doors.

[@njpubadjuster3710]

His nosiness always got him in trouble.

[@66collinwood]

I love this scene from the series!

[@genedaniels7637]

Nicolas is the devil himself

[@marilynwillett804]

True, Barnabas even as a vampire had redeeming qualities but Nicolas never did.

[@cherylbreeger-braun7931]

This bothered me for years!! I was 10 and it was awful..

[@michaelhughes432]

Lynne Braun, this scared me too when iI was a kid! When I saw it in reruns, it didn't. But as a child, I made sure I said my prayers before going to bed! I didn't have nightmares, thank God!

[@njpubadjuster3710]

Let's give the lady a hand.

[@fantasyfan2010]

thank-you . good episode.

[@MareShoop]

He looks like the Anonymous mask

[@JourneyThroughTime]

I just love how I can see the actual hand holding the skeleton hand

[@TheSWolfe]

Are those her fingers poking out from beneath sleeve? LoL! I adore Dan Curtis Productions, DS, the actors, awa cast/crew bloopers/blunders, but must admit there are def times they could've tried just a wee bit harder.

[@JourneyThroughTime]

@@TheSWolfe Yeah haha! Honestly I think little mistakes like that make it all the more golden!

[@adolphlopez7735]

nowwwwwww, now that's of whom I'll call, el Nicholas "Moustachio" Blair. of course, he looks more like a Frenchman than an Italiano. especially with that moustache.

[@nassauguy48]

In real life, the actor was Spanish. (Humbert Allen Astredo).

[@nohaylamujer]

@@nassauguy48 He was American, born in California.

[@elizabethroy1079]

@@nassauguy48 His father's family was Italian.

[@conithomson4409]

She had a nice big bandage. Don’t think it helped. That hand was like chicken bones. Crunch. I was about 11 and thought Karma made have been dropping by for Cassandra.

[@dvlaries]

It was strange; as mad as Angelique had made us in 1795 -cursing Barnabas, directly responsible for the deaths of Jeremiah, Sara and Josette, and Vicki's near-hanging- when things returned to 1968, and she was soon at the mercy of this warlock -who had little to no mercy- audience sympathy for Angelique was greatly amplified and stayed attached to the end of the show. Bad behavior and all, Angelique courted our love, patience and understanding, and won it; Nicolas never did, and never could.

[@karltrafton7547]

The hell. With angieleak..and Nichols to. A devil against a devil she getting what she deserve

[@elizabethroy1079]

I totally disagree. I love Nicholas and don't care for Angelique. She didn't get enough punishment for what she deserved. And Nicholas has a lot of fans on his side. Humbert Allen Astredo was an amazing actor who did a fantastic job in the three roles he played on this show.

[@elizabethroy1079]

@Jon Hinson I wish he were in every storyline!!

[@jonhinson5701]

@@elizabethroy1079 I agree and I am assuming that his diminished role in the last year was due to his involvement with theater. They could have included him in the first part of the parallel time storyline instead of filling it with new and lesser talents ( I did like Elizabeth Eis). There could have been a parallel Nicholas with less powers and he and they could pulled Marie Wallace back on the show and made her his confidante and they could have had their own adventure. It would have been more fun than the worn out "Is Alexis really Angelique?"

[@kensellers4082]

@@elizabethroy1079 If DS had not been cancelled in April of 1971, I bet that Nicholas would have returned for a third time on the show. PS Did Nicholas ever wear any other suit other than that gray suit of his? In fact, Nicholas must have started to have gotten a little “ripe” what with wearing that same suit everyday.

[@jonhinson5701]

Humbert Allen Astredo was the best villain on the show in all 3 of his roles.

[@williamanthony9090]

Oh my goodness... This show makes me laugh!

[@greg5658]

When I was about 7 years old, the baby sitter from across the street was watching us kids. I was napping and she came to wake me up, and she said, "Come on down and see Dark Shadows...the rotted hand....the rotted hand!!" I leaped up out of bed, saw this segment of this episode, and was terrified. Was hooked on Dark Shadows going forward. Would run home from elementary school everyday to watch it at 4 pm.

[@ellereed7143]

thank you

[@richardgonzales4685]

This was a wonderfully creepy show watch as a kid we would stop what we were doing to watch the show loved it.

[@SagesseNoir]

I'd feel sorry for Angelique if she wasn't such a cruel person herself. To be sure Nicholas Blair, her torturer, is very evil as well.

[@KingNazaru]

Her hand didn't get petrified. It got decayed (Rolls eyes). To petrify means to turn to stone.

[@jockboy69]

How many hair curlers and driers were broken pouffing up Nicolas's hairdo?

[@kensellers4082]

Only Bill Shatner knows for sure.

[@patriciacurcio9455]

I remember this also I missed some episodes but a couple of weeks ago I was watching a channel at night showing some episodes from the beginning

[@terrygreen2243]

ANY ONE REMEMBER ? THE BIG DEE IN DETRIOT ! COUNTRY MUSIC RADIO ? IF SO HOW ABOUT THIS TUNE ?....WORK YOUR FINGERS TO THE BONE ! AND WHAT DO YOU GET ? BONEY FINGERS ! BONEY FINGERS !

[@MrMaxismybaby]

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[@cherylbowker7664]

Cassandra got what she deserved!!!

[@tenhirankei]

So it had nothing to do with a card game.

[@robjohnson8861]

3 knocks. What would we do with out the number 3?

[@TheSWolfe]

Symbolic, indeed. Seems nearly everyone in Collinwood knocks three times. I've rarely heard any other number knocked, regardless of door.

[@robjohnson8861]

@@TheSWolfe What a dorf.

[@ellereed7143]

what hapend to Angelique?

[@MrMaxismybaby]

Lol!

[@carolgarza2023]

Lara Parker looks beautiful as a blond (her natural hair color) and as a brunette. Why she did not become an A or even B lister is very curious. I suspect she refused to sell her soul to the Hollywood devil

[@howardyoungblood9133]

A dark shadows in the night a dark shadows will fight. A dark shadows in the light. A dark shadows you will see 👀 like a television 📺 show a dark shadows fan I am. A dark shadows like a ghost 👻 a dark shadows will say boo 👎 a dark shadows from the Twilight zone a dark shadows has no cellphone two 2 call home 🏡 oh my goodness Howard Youngblood from Augusta Georgia it happen two 2 me in my life a dark shadows was over me oh my goodness it was like a nightmare in the day lights of the darkness 🐂 of my best nightmare in my life oh my goodness dark shadows becomes a family tree 🌳 oh my goodness

[@delavalmilker]

Lara Parker has naturally light hair. And that's how she appeared as Angelique in the 1795 storyline. However as Cassandra she had very dark hair. Did they put a wig on her? Or did she dye it for the series?

[@michaelbarlow6610]

In some respects Lara Parker on "Dark Shadows" looked even sexier wearing a black wig than wearing her hair as its' natural blond color!

[@TheSWolfe]

Dark-haired, she brings to mind Elizabeth Montgomery's Cousin Serena from Bewitched, sans swinging 'tude, that is.

[@JB-bo6yf]

🌞🌞🌞🌞🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💖💖💕💕💕🍀🍀🍀

[@horsepegasus]

Real witch don't need the persons item to put curse spell on the person... I don't need someone item to do curse spell on someone....