DARK SHADOWS (TV SERIES) Barnabas Is Freed From His Coffin In 1967

This is when Barnabas Collins played by Jonathan Frid was introduced to the series. In 1967 Willie Loomis finds a chained up coffin in the Collins Family Mausoleum at the Eagle Hill Cemetery where he believes that their family jewels are hidden. He is unaware however, that the coffin is that of vampire Barnabas Collins who has been chained up and imprisoned there since 1795. Willie unwittingly releases him from his coffin, and subsequently Barnabas proceeds to return to the Collins family mansion posing as a distant cousin from England and a direct descendant from the original Barnabas Collins from the eighteenth century; whom in truth of course is he himself. A far contrast from the Johnny Depp version of this character.

[@thomaspiccirillo6820]

MY FATHER WAS THE VIDEO OP RUDY PICCIRILLO THANK YOU FOR UR SUPPORT I GREW UP ON THE SET IT WAS MAGICAL

[@RCmack]

Barnabas Collins being added to Dark Shadows was the best decision Dan Curtis ever made. It saved this series, which went on to have a legendary five year run.

[@nassauguy48]

Agreed. Even though Josette and Laura had already been introduced as supernatural characters, Josette was a speechless ghost, and Laura, being a phoenix, was a temporary character in that she would have to burn herself up in order to come back in 100 years.

[@hollyb6885]

This show made me a better student. I turned into a good student so I didn’t have to stay after school and miss Dark Shadows.

[@thejupiter2574]

LOL I culd not do my homework because I was watching Dark Shadows and then reading the comicbooks and paperbacks after the show and totally neglected my homework

[@debradonato7363]

No one Could Play Barnabus Collins But Johnathan Frid ♥️🌟🎩🌟💙🇺🇸🇬🇧

[@debbiepinkerton2787]

True

[@paints_his_shirt_red]

He was always thinking outside-the-box.

[@lostlakpaul]

Willies whole performance sells this scene. He is so excited to be opening the coffin, thinking it contains treasure & yet he has unleashed a monster. His facial expression goes from excitement to terrified in one second. Well done!

[@lorettatayor5840]

I liked how his eyes got real big & his shaking. Great acting, so melodramatic!

[@1stGeorgiaGirl]

I used to rush home from school to watch this show every afternoon.

[@thejupiter2574]

and now Amazon Prime has all five years of the show Hulu and the Decades channel has some too

[@fawnebrown4619]

I'd have to go over to the neighbors house since we couldn't that channel. Ah the days when you only had aerial antennas. It took us forever just to get cable out our way.

[@kellihall7297]

SAME! It both enthralled and scared the hell out of me at the same time without being graphic or gory. Oh for the innocence of the good old days!

[@christinalavancher2707]

No one could play Barnabas Collins like Johnathan Frid! May he forever RIP

[@cijae3333]

This was the best daytime series ever made. And, yes, there will never be a remake that could compare!

[@kurtralske4026]

Wow TV back then wasn't afraid to move SLOW ! Amazing stuff

[@cindymalone4006]

Dark Shadows was my favorite show.Got to see Barnabus when I was 12,he came to Texas as a guest of one of our local t.v. stations.

[@dondorward5678]

watched this as a kid after school--scared the shit out of me then--and it still does......

[@markrushing8511]

No other remake could ever top the original Dark Shadows!!

[@ivanizell4574]

Agreed!

[@underzog]

SEcond to agree!

[@georgee.williams1449]

Considering that viewers spent an entire year getting to know the characters before the vampire appeared makes it impossible to duplicate the show in a movie. In horror movies, the nonsupernatural characters are nothing but fodder for the monster.

[@tombovitale2597]

Mark Rushing so true that is fuck the remake the original was the Best

[@zyxmyk]

absolutely.

[@ivanizell4574]

This is one of the greatest tv shows of all time!!!

[@billedwards4686]

Jonathan Frid had that Shakespeare feel to him, making him perfect for the part...

[@georgee.williams1449]

I honestly believe Frid was a homosexual. At that time, before Stonewall, being a homosexual had risks to it similar to being a vampire. One needed to be an adroit liar to cover one's tracks. Frid characterized Barnabas, saying, "He was a liar," because Barnabas was always lying about where he had been, and what he had been doing, and who he was -- just to preserve his own existence. Funny thing is, since Frid had trouble remembering his lines, his character would turn his eyes away while telling a lie, so Frid could look at the teleprompter. Sometimes, Barnabas would turn his back on another character while in a heted discussion. And that itself is a characteristic of a liar. We had a president who used to make that mistake with the teleprompter, and it did not make him look truthful at all.

[@VigilantRebel87]

I believe Jonathan Frid indeed come from a theatre background of training which usually involves Shakespeare studies. No doubt the man is incredible and even to this day highly underrated imo

[@greenbrown7776]

@@VigilantRebel87 / In general, there were a lot of theater people on the show. I think that is one component that has made it memorable all this time later. Frid was the grand marshal of an impressive parade.

[@rootedsorrow]

@@georgee.williams1449 Bingo

[@dennisnarine6647]

This had a whole country so frightened so afraid to come out after dark what a show what a performance Jonathan Barnabas frid u had us scared in Trinidad

[@ja553]

Here here my fellow trini Greetings from morvant

[@yadayada9581]

One of the best character introductions in TV history. It climaxes with the hand reaching out of the coffin but even the build up is great. From the first time we see the portrait of Barnabas till we actually meet him at Collinwood is the perfect intro to the character, this all the way till they discover the bite marks on Maggie's throat is probably my favorite part of the series. It's some of the most atmospheric and certainly the scariest the show ever got.

[@cherylbreeger-braun7931]

I ran home from school to watch this everyday. I was 10, I loved Collinwood... Oh those bedrooms!!! lol I have a big 4 poster cherry canopy bed to this day..My husband just laughs.. (but he knows why I wanted it).. Dark Shadows forever!!!!

[@those_eyes]

Yes, 4 poster mahogany for me...and secretary desk like in the old house!!! Lol!!!

[@deborahlaidley7111]

I don't know how many of you remember this show. I use to watch it with my mother everyday. And now I am watching it on hulu plus.

[@raymondbarreras8153]

I love the fact that Jonathan Frid was over 40 when he was discovered on this show, like Bela Lugosi was over 50 in Dracula

[@retire14pattaya9]

Bela about 47

[@nassauguy48]

Like many of the DS cast members, he was already an accomplished stage actor. He did try the Hollywood thing after DS, but landed only one role in an awful made for TV movie called "The Devil's Daughter" in which he played a deaf and mute butler with no speaking lines! He quickly returned to the stage that he loved, and fared much better in that venue.

[@auntbecky]

an historic moment in tv history

[@oracleoracle2655]

I was a kid when Dark Shadows came out in the 60's. We ran home to watch it every day, and loved it. Watching it now you see things like smoke going across the set when no one is smoking (was allowed in shows back then!), the boom mike coming into the picture, all that fun stuff. Yeah, it was campy but was a product of it's time. I loved Barnabas like every other tween. They even came out with books that had new stories, and a record of all the music we'd play at Halloween while handing out candy.

[@sammyvh11]

Same here.

[@jamesdavis6284]

Ditto...I was born in 57... Loved Dark Shadows

[@desertdogo]

@@jamesdavis6284 me too [1957] 😉

[@ryancontino9752]

Nothing beats the storyline when Trask comes back from the dead to defeat Angelique: in the scene where he has her tied to a tree and they are screaming at each other, a fly flies in front of the actor's mouth and he has to blow it away to prevent himself from inhaling it on camera. Gotta love live TV!

[@laura2372]

That's what added to the charm of the show was all the bloopers and blunders! It wasn't perfect and that's what made it so unique!

[@milwaukeem5019]

It's the chilling background music that added to this classic series.

[@robjohnson8861]

its always the music. Turn down the volume and nothing is scary.

[@tonimoon6346]

MilwaukeeM 50 Eeeeeeeeeeee! 🙈

[@tenhirankei]

"It stopped! The noise stopped. Now ole Willie Loomis is gonna get his rewa..."

[@robertbrittenham5475]

The Brittenham siblings all *_loved_* this show. We ran home from school every day to watch this. Cheesy as it seems now, in 1967 to us it was the coolest thing on TV! Even better than Saturday morning cartoons!

[@georgee.williams1449]

You hve to remember that TV reception was so poor without cable that most of the visual bloopers went unseen by many viewers.

[@dondorward5678]

we used to watch it too--came on at 4pm,i think---only show that scared me that much was the old outer limits--that came on saturday afternoons, and i couldnt watch it by myself,it scared me that much--spooky shows, they dont make em like that anymore.......

[@dewanmdurnto3592]

Wow yall old 😂

[@sheilaguice3559]

@@dondorward5678 I did the same thing,run home from school to watch this show. It scared me so bad at times I would scream and I can hear my momma saying if you can't watch it without screaming turn it to something else. Those was the good old days.

[@JESUSISLORDforever888]

Robert Brittenham awwwwwww, not quite.

[@TheMultimediaWoman]

I never thought I could get in to a show like this when told about it but just minutes in to watching it... I am addicted!

[@carolbell4811]

I loved the show as a teenager; I still do.

[@howardmoore1332]

THIS episode propelled the series into a huge success!!

[@nassauguy48]

Very true. Even though we both saw Josette (the ghost) and Laura (the phoenix) before we saw Barnabas, Laura was only a temporary story line character, and Josette was a non-talking spirit that the writers could not do all that much with.

[@mamamarie41977]

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[@underzog]

The "Dark Shadows" series would've ended early if not for Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins. And Jonathan Frid is every bit as worthy a vampire as Lugosi or Lee, as another commentator mentioned.

[@rebeccasabet2802]

It was because of DS that i even learned that there were such things as vampires and werewolves

[@DennisMorrison1955]

Along with the Laura Collins story earlier on. That gave Curtis the clue that I supernatural was a draw and went on to bigger things with Barnabas!

[@tombovitale2597]

This was the best scene ever done when Willy opened the coffin of Barnabas. Best Done

[@kevinpyne5808]

Direction of the series totally changed when that hand rose out of that coffin.

[@ElectroTherapyFTSoul]

Honestly, I think the show truly changed when Laura the Phoenix appeared. Even though Dark Shadows already had ghosts by this point, Laura was the show's first mythological monster, the first instance of magic powers, and even had the first séance and grave digging. Barnabas may have drawn in the viewers like never before, but Laura was the one who actually steered the show into the crazier horror territory.

[@kevinpyne5808]

@@ElectroTherapyFTSoul That is true, but the Laura character was only a minor theme throughout the entire series. Everything center around Barnabas Collins until the ending of the series and parallel time.

[@those_eyes]

Willie Loomis wanted to steal jewels from the coffins! He let Barnabas loose!

[@greenbrown7776]

@@ElectroTherapyFTSoul / I agree with you up to a point. There were several game-changing episodes before Barnabas. Josette coming out of the portrait. The ghosts that scared Matthew to death. And Laura herself. But I suspect without Barnabas, all of that would be forgotten today by all but a few. But she did pave the way.

[@ButThatsShacksTrain]

@@those_eyes, Willie may have let him out of his chained up coffin, but it was the housekeeper that invited him in to Collingwood. "Oh, from England, why, please come in"

[@georgee.williams1449]

Note that Willie has to use a flashlight to make his way around the mausoleum. Ever after, there were fresh candles mysteriously burning inside the mausoleum whenever anyone went inside. David Collins was trapped in the Mausoleum from Labor Day, 1967 until the following Wednesday, and the candles never went out. Forget the vampire. There is a lot more supernatural power going on here than is often considered.

[@marilynwillett804]

yes and young lawyer Peterson trying to light his cigarette using his lighter it wouldnt work so he gives up when Barnabas has like 30 candles burning.

[@davidgradwell8830]

Ah, well, the Dark Shadows way of rationalizing this is that....Hmm...Laura Collins was never really destroyed; she's simply biding her time to wait out the current generation so that, eventually, she could mate with David or his son in the future. She haunts the mausoleum in the meantime because she knows her 18th Century kinsman, Barnabas, dwells there. Her presence manifests itself in the continuously burning candles! So we get the phoenix and the vampire as roommates, patiently waiting for their special moments, in the secret room! You see! These weren't mistakes; there's always a way to explain these apparent Dark Shadows oddities! :)

[@1blessedbrotha]

I,m a black man from North Carolina and I love all things Gothic, that world is my life, I also hate the remake with Johnny Depp by Tim Burton, deeply embarrassing how they totally screwed up such a classic show!!!

[@richardlahan7068]

Agreed on the silliness of the movie but it did introduce a new generation to the original series.

[@ednakrebs3870]

before mr. frid passed away he was very upset about the making of tim burtons version. he made his comments a few weeks before his death. mr. frid really loved live theater. when I was 15 I got to watch him on stage and that man could act. I too ran home as fast as I could to watch dark shadows too. we would have discuss what we watched the night before at recess.

[@tenhirankei]

To be fair Burton's movie was a parody in the same "vein" as the Abbott & Costello Meet ___ films.

[@karltrafton7547]

Brother i live in north Carolina. I am.a dark shadows fan and.think us dark shadows fan should.ask for a movie re.make. and trash dip.bull shit and i am from winston salem but i live in Elizabeth. City nc.

[@marywise7418]

maybe it was bad to you but to alot of us it was ok

[@KneelB4Bacon]

A more sensible person might have second thoughts about opening a coffin wrapped in chains.

[@timothywerner8870]

If your thoughts were you would find a pot of valuable jewelry, maybe it wasn't so unthinkable

[@DrummerGrrrl]

Yeah, who ever heard of a COFFIN filled with valuable jewels? Had no one ever heard of secure bank vaults? Why, I regularly keep priceless family heirlooms locked up in a casket. A casket I found for a great price at Walmart! LOL.

[@mH8675309]

He probably never saw Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein

[@pumbar]

mH8675309 After watching the acting maybe he did?

[@LibraGamesUnlimited]

Timothy Werner It was supposed to be the dead family member's jewels buried with them.

[@jeffclark1129]

The frightened expression on Willie Loomis's face was priceless when he opened the coffin and peered inside, and the hand reaching out to seize Willie's throat! Exceptional acting. Notice how neat and trim Barnabas's hair is in this scene, compared to future shots of Barnabas. His hair seemed longer and somewhat shaggier.

[@KCGeno]

Great scene! Loved this series when I was 11, 12, 13 years old.

[@ChuckAng123]

I was a freshman in Junior High (Middle school) when Dark Shadows first aired. I had never watched a "Soap" series....but this show had me HOOKED! I had to rush to the first of two bus stops in order to get home at 3:55 pm., the show started at 4:00 pm. I watched every show, but a family illness made me miss the entire last week. I hope to finally see how it all ended. I hated when Alexandra Moltke left the show, it was not the same without her. I loved Bananas, Maggie, Willie and the great, Jerry Lacey.

[@susandudak59]

I watched the entire series years ago. Tells you how old I must be. I had a crush on Barnabas, I know, sick, but there was just something about him lol

[@henryjekyll7566]

No, a fine crush! Good taste! You were not alone. I had one on "Isis". And a few others. Including Mrs Addams (Carolyn Jones).

[@zimjun7]

You DID?

[@patriciaborgatta1157]

I was a teenager and Icouldnt help but i was in love with Barnabas... in fact he was a very attractif man

[@susandudak59]

@@patriciaborgatta1157 I know. He was not that great looking at all but there was something about him - was so drawn to him. When I dated in highschool, I was more drawn to a guy's personality than I was their looks. Personality means a lot. I watched that show every single night it was on. Loved it!!!!

[@johnathonhaney8291]

To me, Barnabas Collins was the distillation of all memorable versions of Dracula: the Old World charm of Bela Lugosi, the charisma and force of personality of Christopher Lee and the odd physical tics of Max Schreck (whose "Count Orlock" in Nosferatu was Dracula in all but name). Small wonder why he inspired your crush.

[@bekkamouri-hibiki2352]

Loved to watch this show on Sci-Fi but never got to finish it. The remake in the 90's was good but not as great as the original. No one else could ever be Johnathan Frid.

[@hollyb6885]

Willie in the remake with Ben Cross, was no where near as cute as John Karlen.

[@pacmanindy]

I wish that an HD channel could air "Dark Shadows" especially Me TV as part of Saturday night schedule.

[@lovannmcdade3617]

I have always loved Dark Shadows and always will. I grew up watching this show. I remember when we listened to it on the radio station. I wish they would bring it back like they did some of the other old TV shows.

[@gmccord1970]

yup. but to be honest Dark Shadows started getting a a bit weird in the mid-to-late series run it started to shift away from a spooky soap opera about Gothic vampires and ghosts and whatnot to more of a weird Science Fiction type thing.

[@georgee.williams1449]

I lost interest in the show when the characters began going back in time and changing the timeline. Barnabas and Julia totally aborted the "ghost of Quentin Collins" storyline by going back in time and meddling in a way which ended up making Trask the bullet victim found in the secret room in 1969, instead of Quentin. And Quentin ended up never having died. Yet in the Leviathan story line, when the now immortal Quentin appears, Julia suggest that the children are afraid of Quentin because they remember the ghost of Quentin driving the whole family out of Collinwood -- even though in the new reality they created, Quentin never died to become a ghost. The Quentin storyline had real promise, but as in the case of Frid, the audience liked the character (but why?) and the actor's popularity kept him around -- even if the story was bastardized to keep him in it. That's when Dark Shadows began to implode, slowly, slowly.... The modern tory of Barnaba was actually faltering when the cast went back in time to reveal how Barnabas became a vampire, and by so doing, they changed most of the peripheral facts about Barnabas, but they at least manatged to get him into the coffin, so as not to void the explanation of how he ended up in the future. The Quentin storyline was a total fail on this.

[@dkupke]

RIP John Frid, fly forth on the wings of the nigth

[@billcosgrave6232]

This series was awesome. I used to remember watching as a little kid in the 60's

[@richarddavid8519]

I love the heartbeat...that is a great effect.

[@sweetgypsy100]

Nothing compares to the original--nothing....

[@debbiepinkerton2787]

Agree

[@lynn1464]

Awesome clip I have the coffin set it is so cool

[@Barronius]

Amazing acting by John Karlen (Willie Loomis) making his face quiver in fear when he opens the coffin.

[@hollyb6885]

That reaction was brilliant . I wonder if John came up with that himself or if the director told him to react like that. I think most actors would scream at the sight of a vampire in the coffin.

[@MareShoop]

He was one of the best actors on the show. They were all good but there was something special about John Karlen.

[@kcrow430]

@@MareShoop yes definitely

[@muhrvis]

I have some advice: If you find a coffin that is chained shut, you might not want to open it.

[@stevenlong32708]

Sound advice indeed

[@henryjekyll7566]

I think so too, but unfortunately it is part of my job. Forensics.

[@rogerradue2352]

@@henryjekyll7566 dont also forget about the sound of a beating heart coming from that coffin too

[@sparklesthecat6507]

@@rogerradue2352 also if you hear someone talking inside the coffin.

[@rogerradue2352]

@@sparklesthecat6507 something like.....I farted and I cant get out????????

[@aftacomics5865]

Whew! This gave me nightmares when I watched it years ago!!!

[@cindymalone4006]

Dark shadows was my favorite show. barnabas came to borger when I was 11. I got to see him in person. that was fun.

[@heidismith9287]

Dark Shadows is one of my all-time favorite tv shows. Thank you so much for sharing this with me. I greatly appreciate it. God bless.

[@willmyers9575]

And the rest is history....

[@flyinspirals]

Thank you, thank you, and especially thank you for resisting any temptation to clutter up the perfection with a bunch of inane personal annotations. That's called 'respect'!

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

Loved this show. Still the best.

[@dhog41]

I haven't seen this since I was still in school...Back in the early 1980s...Used to rush home to watch this show every day...Never missed an episode...I think it was on channel 20...R.I.P, Jonathan Frid. There will never be another Barnabas Collins. Never.

[@michaelanderson9792]

Willy great actor you can tell he loved his parts in dark shadows

[@kevinpyne5808]

Checking EBay, the complete Dark Shadows Series all 1,225 episodes DVD's selling many times at $350. I doubt many Complete Series any current TV show even comes close. Tells you how popular this show remains even after 54 years.

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

At 3:30 - grab him, Barney, GRAB HIM! In the 1960s, we always called Barnabas / Barney throughout the series, and I remember in the early years Joan Bennett kept messing up her lines (no retakes)?

[@barneyfifesbullet]

That old Sci-Fi Channel logo in the corner makes me sad. It used to be such an awesome channel.

[@maskedmarvyl4774]

No-one can accuse the actor who played Willie of underacting. The only thing missing was a joint. "Oh, dude; this is so mind-blowing!!"

[@LadyKataNova]

This scene is very tense, very dark. I wish the film would´ve been a bit more like this.

[@thomasbaron5367]

Just saw the original House of Dark Shadows the other night. I have to say I am a fan of Tim Burton, but I prefer the original over Johnny Depp's film.

[@iacheson]

I just Binge Watched Dark Shadows...aired on Decades, 58.4...Halloween Weekend...I used to watch this as a kid..8 or 9...This is so mysterious & mesmerizing. The newer Dark Shadows Movie cannot compare. . It lost its magic..

[@darrylgonzalez5251]

RIP Jonathan Frid! The original Barnabas Collins, and still the best!

[@videoinformer]

It's amazing the name of the show, the sets, the atmosphere, the music, and the opening were all created as they were without any plan to make "Dark Shadows" a show about vampires, witches, ghosts, and werewolves. It seems so obvious even watching the earliest episodes, even the first episode, listening to Victoria Winters' spooky narration as she describes her arrival at Collinwood. Yet, the introduction of Barnabas was a desperate "Hail Mary" thrown only when the show was on the brink of cancellation. Even after the prior dabbling in ghosts (Josette) and the Phoenix story, they still saw introduction of a vampire as a short term twist, not a permanent change -- until audience response and ratings validated the change.

[@erichendrickson8871]

The vampire from england

[@BlueshirtFan4Ever]

My heart was pounding so hard during this entire scene. 🧛🏻‍♂️🦇⚰️

[@melissacline196]

I had a crush on Barnabas lol. Original one of course.

[@jec1ny]

I think a lot of women did. Amusing since Jonathan Frid was homosexual.

[@patrickperalta59]

I heared the Sad news that John Karlen, star of Dark Shadows and Cagney & Lacey passed away Jan 22nd 2020.

[@danaeduecet]

Oh, so scary!! I watched this stuff a long time ago, too! This and "The Birds", scared me to death!!

[@adolphlopez4343]

That Willie Loomis has always gets into a mess, especially the first mess. Now through his sufferings, he's going to have to stand between the good and the evil, (The bad).

[@mariaramos-ri8me]

I remember Dark Shadows, yes. I was one of the children running home to watch it.

[@JB-bo6yf]

I would have to say no other remake besides the 90s Revival which they should have continued on with can do a Justice I think Dark Shadows is the best TV show ever🌞🌞🌞💕💕💕💖

[@wildwest1]

Episode was filmed on my 8th birthday.

[@thomaspiccirillo6820]

wildwest1 AWESOME I was on set that DAY MY DAD WAS A VIDEO ENGINEER

[@lynn1464]

@@thomaspiccirillo6820 to cool

[@67nairb]

This used to be on the SCI-FI channel in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

[@Herne48]

Great soap on TV

[@paulkelly6691]

Netflix should start a new version of this show

[@jmaine46]

Who would play Barnabas Collins?

[@ladytube64]

I loved this show....and this is about as scary as I can take...

[@markfinney7387]

A powerful scene, mysterious, magical, and supernatural, Barnabas Collins is the best!

[@JonnyTheLeprechaun]

Willie did such a wonderful job on this,

[@robbhahn8897]

Tubiis currently showing the entire series from Barnabas's first appearance until the last episode.

[@kateemcgrey2152]

Thank you for posting this and please post more

[@sue1562]

the music was to die for....

[@thejupiter2574]

ohhh yeahhhh great music and FIVE soundtrack albums by DS music composer Robert Cobert

[@andrewwikins4999]

Being younger originally watching the original series it seemed to be glaringly cheesy even though I still enjoy it. But now having watch KZbin videos of its contemporaries...the other soaps on around the same time...Dark Shadows was way ahead of them quality wise. I don’t think this show gets enough credit.

[@thomascarpenter7415]

I used to watch this after school when I was in the 1st Grade . Then wake up at night terrified Barnabas was in the house !

[@podsmpsg1]

My mom watched this show when she was a kid.

[@lady469wv2]

THE GREATEST GOTHIC SOAP EVER! IT IS MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE TRULY ONE OF A KIND AND NOTHING CAN COMPARE! TO "DARK SHADOWS"

[@jamiecee4960]

I so wish they would bring it back on. ❤️😊

[@jilligain3409]

Amazon prime has all the shows

[@erickonasis31]

I just stumbled across this showon Tubi. I'm hooked

[@DH-xh3pg]

Back when the SCI-FI Channel was one of the best networks on tv.

[@lynnebraun4845]

Oh my...When I was 8 watching this,Mrs. Johnson seemed so old,but now she's looking kind of young!!!Lol😨

[@Xenu]

This is how Barnabas Collins should be introduced for the first time. Not by having him jump 300 feet in the air and killing everyone in sight! What nonsense! THIS is how you introduce a character!

[@MephProduction]

Love the old show and movies, loved the rebooted 90s short lived series, loved the Tim Burton Black comedy.. not read the comics or novels, not listened to the audio dramas, never watched the stage plays.

[@ThymeBottle]

It always creeped me out, too. The music was fantastic: Team Robert Cobert!

[@kenray3205]

Absolutely brilliant!!!

[@uainediabhal9689]

I saw the Tim Burton movie before ever having seen one of these episodes, and I don't think you can really compare the two. I love the remake & NOTHING outshines old school, classic work like this; I think you're better off not comparing them to begin with

[@bixby9797]

Anyone else run home from grade school to watch this? Boy was this show something for a kid growing up in the late 60"s. Dark Shadows and Star Trek. Star Trek was where I saw for a kid in the far, far NE the first black person in Uhura. I said to my dad who had been in the navy "She looks funny" or something like that and he said something like "just another person".

[@Phantanos]

I saw the movie., It wasn't a bad treatment. It gave the Barnabas Collins character a chance to reunite with his lost love. Plus Johnathan Frid was in the movie. We all get a chance to see a brief cameo of Johnathan Frid and The Dark Shadows cast as The first guest at the Collinwood party. You'll have to see it on DVD or Netflicks

[@kathiedevall5560]

Thank you!

[@kellymendez]

love this show i still watch it now in 2024 and still love it

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Willie was looking for the missing jewels mentioned in the family history books and really got a big surprise! Nothing beats the original DS Love Barnabas and Quentin.

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but instead of listening to that old cementary care taker, that ol' Willy has to listened to that damn heartbeat of Barnabas Collins.

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Remember Willie was looking for the Collins family jewels