DS 201

(1967) Burke and Sam confront Roger. Roger is forced to confess. Elizabeth is distraught to learn the truth and Roger is left devastated.
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[@castanets1]

I used to watch this as a kid. thanks for posting!

[@doriecameron4397]

Now, you just KNOW that everyone in the house had their ears all pressed against the door while the confessions were going on.

[@bwashing33]

"Who'd envy you!? You're nothing but a bunch of hippo-crippic, hippocritcal COWARDS!!!....another bribe?" Great scene.

[@buddy51]

Wow, eight actors appearing in a single episode! That must be a Dark Shadows record.

[@petercalafiura7574]

+buddy51 There were more in the first episode

[@joesmith6865]

+buddy51 i think everyone except Maggie was in this one. lol

[@thomasleary2814]

+buddy51 You took the words out of my mouth!

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

Over-budget. ABC must have had a COW!

[@tribbletroubles212]

What a cluster fuck for Roger. Very satisfying episode to see Roger squirm at the thought of Liz calling the sheriff

[@atlantic-yq2wr]

***** Roger must be regretting that he did not recognize the powers of Laura earlier, and then asked her to get rid of Burke and Sam! :D

[@countmeworthy]

I "love" the way Burke and Laura and others just make themselves right at home in a home that is not theirs!

[@atlantic-yq2wr]

countmeworthy Poor Mrs. Johnson. Just after they got rid of Laura, about whom Mrs. J was complaining about cleaning up after, now she has to take care of Jason!

[@hollyb6885]

+atlantic 11561. Then Willie soon shows up. Mrs Johnson needs to ask for a raise.

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

I love seeing Roger squirm. And Sam looking so smug as they walked into the drawing room.

[@davidlyons6235]

This episode is all about hypocrisy. Tsk, tsk, tsk, Liz...smh.

[@CyanBlackflower]

You know, Wonders Never cease. I have gained a MASSIVE blast of respect for Bourke. In his position, I would have done the EXACT same thing. It would be infinitely more satisfying, and appropriate than ANY other course of action he could have taken. The BEST thing Roger could have done to salvage ANY face at all Would have been to turn around and face them all and offer up the most convincing, if not sincere Apology he possibly could, to each one of them, with a vow to do his best to improve his character in the hopes that maybe one day just maybe they might be able to forgive him. THAT would have been the more noble and "Manly" thing for Roger to do. But no Roger seems to feel defending his Ego at ANY cost, holding up his phoney transparent mask of noble virtue, is a better option. Like a dumb little kid who thinks that covering his / her eyes will make "IT" go away. ...SO.....I mugged Roger & took a shit ton of respect off of him and Handed it over to Devlin. So There. How do you like Me NOW !!??

[@thomasleary2814]

+Cyan Blackflower I don't know. It seems like Roger gets off easy to me. I mean, all this time and effort by Burke and he settles for a drawing room confession! I suppose he could still make them suffer economically, but I have a feelling that the writers and producer were clearing the deck a little in preparation for Barnabas.

[@CyanBlackflower]

Thomas Leary Perhaps you are right,- [I do know this is just a fictional TV show, but - it is because of that, I sometimes get frustrated with the writing] - However, here I see Roger clinging to denial, as his response to his increasingly tense situation. I merely meant that in my opinion based on personal exp. it is better in the long run to man up or own up to ones past transgressions rather than continue the cowardly stance of lying and denying, there by adding insult to injury. And yes he does seem to get off "easy" here - but wait till you meet Willie Lumis!! He makes Roger look like Saint Francis of Assisi - Old Barnie is another matter altogether.

[@thomasleary2814]

+Cyan Blackflower I agree. Definitley better to man up, but we're talking about Roger here. I love Willie (especially as portrayed by Karlen). I saw the Barnabas episodes before 1-210. There's a lot of good stuff in the early episodes, but I found myself wishing that Barnabas would hurry and wake up! The episodes that I remember from when I was a kid were great - around '68-'69, especially when old Barny goes back in time to 1897.

[@CyanBlackflower]

Thomas Leary If you have trouble viewing post 210 eps. Go to Burntpinz channel on you tube he has good playlists of them - no commercials built in.

[@inspectorspinda]

I sort of wished he did apologize of his own accord. This ending is ok too, but the probably is Roger and Burke don't have another interaction after this (according to wiki) until the Burke actor changes. Then they sort of become friends, but it's totally not the same thing, and I can't help feeling bad for Roger and a bit empty about it all, because this conflicted seems like it is finished and forgotten too easily.

[@atlantic-yq2wr]

Poor Liz must be regretting coming out of that trance!

[@CyanBlackflower]

atlantic 11561 Coming out of that trance, OR seriously considering going back into one.

[@atlantic-yq2wr]

Cyan Blackflower Clearly!

[@scdevon]

+atlantic 11561 Not every woman can visit her dead husband's grave in the basement. Think of all the walking she saves by not having to go to the family cemetery across the property to visit him.

[@MrMaxismybaby]

+scdevon And, the money she's saving on flowers!LOL

[@julienielsen3746]

And other funeral expenses. She would be thinking anyway.

[@ErnaMcburna]

I'm so glad that the big secrete is FINALLY out

[@chrsn]

Okay, this is one of the "breakthrough" episodes. Poor Liz has to deal with all these horrible things from the past right after she recovers.

[@teceyS3]

WOW. THAT was SATISFYING ! :)

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

This could be the last time DS concludes a story line satisfactorily.

[@janetg2058]

How could Liz yell out that Roger killed someone with the doors wide open... especially with Maguire slinking around.

[@thomasleary2814]

O the tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive!

[@bwashing33]

Oh, boy. Jason needs to go to the Roger Collins school of bada$$ excuses and alibis. He sucks at it big time. "I was going to get a book...I made a wrong left turn down into the basement..." sheesh, dude.

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

He could learn something from David too.

[@gothsmoker2158]

Sam's smirk 😂

[@mcqueenfanman]

Let him go in & then lock the door.

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

That's coming in the not too distant future in 1795 where Barnabas walls up.... well, I won't give it away but Barnabas's gleeful face in that scene is priceless.

[@Janadu]

When did Carolyn start mistrusting Jason? I thought she was so charmed by him.

[@Pootie23]

+Janadu I thought the same thing, when swept off her feet by him when the first met a few ep ago

[@somebody9]

Maybe since she notice her mother lying and seeming fearful?

[@inspectorspinda]

This is sort of anticlimactic. I was expecting either Roger to go to jail or some sort of twist involving Laura. Still to hear Roger confess finally was satisfying. I guess he was drunk as well then? Was Laura also drunk? If all three were drunk why was Burke the only one who was an unreliable witness? And why did Roger offer to take the wheel in the first place? Still very strange, and I was expecting something so simple especially since the first two arcs had twist suspects. Either way, for something they juggled for so long, it seems very brushed aside. Maybe they'll add to it?

[@inspectorspinda]

I just thought up something strange. If Roger is so snobbish as to dislike Sam because of his class, why was he friends with Burke back when he was poor? I'd love to know that story.

[@inspectorspinda]

In addition, if Liz was really serious about calling the sheriff, she would have done so anyways even after Burke said she didn't have to. Because she didn't, it only proves that she only did it because Burke was there, and if she found out herself it wouldn't have matter.

[@hellokitty777able]

why doesn't Roger say it was Laura driving, she's dead now anyway.

[@hollyb6885]

I thought the same thing

[@crystalgrose]

Because it's two against one.

[@SubPablum]

+hellokitty777able I thought when Laura first showed up they heavily implied she was driving then kinda dropped the whole thing. I really do think they make it up as they go, no more ahead than a couple scripts idea where they are going.

[@inspectorspinda]

yes, I thought the same. even if roger was driving, laura could have made him crash with her magic.

[@hollyaz39]

Robert Huffman You are not far off from the truth in that the writers of this unique soap opera actually did make up some of the episodes as they went along. I speculate (and this is my own opinion) that the writers must have had to come up with some creative hiring methods when it came to hiring other writers when you think about it. This program started in the mid 60's and, during those days, most people, as well as, news channels and radio stations were wrapped with the current events of those times; for example; the Civil Rights Movement, political assassinations of men like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, Jr., and coverage of the Vietnam War, etc. A program whose plots and episodes are based off of the paranormal and the metaphysical would have probably been forced to shun away from hiring potentially talented writers because they happen to be skeptics and studios were concerned it might have affected the way an episode turned out. No doubt it must have been a paradise for talented writers who believed in the paranormal to really show their stuff through their writing. Hey! Just my opinion. Thoughts, anyone?

[@Pootie23]

So both Liz & Roger are killers?

[@marlenadiva7981]

+7thACT perhaps

[@kimc1701]

Why isn't Burke accusing Roger of killing Mr. ( dude that fell off the cliff supposedly?)

[@crystalgrose]

Matthew Morgan confessed to killing Bill Malloy.

[@sharonlatour6230]

Malloy. Matthew had a hand in that one.