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Dark Shadows was an American Soap Opera created by Dan Curtis, which ran on American Broadcasting Company from 1966 to 1971. While the series had Gothic themes from the very beginning, it was not until six months into the first season when it gained notoriety by introducing overtly supernatural elements.Though many soaps have since flirted with plots involving ghosts and psychic energy, Dark Shadows used almost every classic horror element (vampires, witches, werewolves, zombies, magic users) as well as sci-fi tropes like Time Travel and alternate dimensions.The show was also notable for having storylines taking place in different time periods and parallel worlds, allowing the same actors to play identical relatives or lookalikes.Dark Shadows has been an inspiration for numerous other supernatural series, including Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Twin Peaks, The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. One plotline even involved a vampire who gives an extended interview about the supernatural to a hack writer.The show's music score, composed by Robert Cobert, was also notable, receiving a Grammy Award nomination and spawning a top 20 Billboard hit in addition to several soundtrack albums.Dark Shadows is one of the only soaps of the era to boast a nearly complete archive. All but one episode survives intact, most as the original color videotapes, with a handful as black-and-white kinescopes. (An audio track exists for the "missing" episode, which was mated with publicity stills for later commercial release and syndication.)There was a short-lived television remake in The '90s, as well as a Tim Burton movie version in 2012, with Johnny Depp portraying Barnabas Collins. Since 2004 Big Finish has had the license to produce audios based on the series, having both new characters and many returning actors from the original series. The audios also exist in a Shared Universe that includes Big Finish's Sherlock Holmes audio series and The Confessions of Dorian Gray. | |
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Time-Travel Romance | |
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Time-Travel Romance: Vicki meets jailer Peter Bradford when she's on trial for witchcraft during her accidental trip to 1795. He somehow follows her back to the 20th century, residing there under the name of Jeff Clark. The two marry, and he's suddenly yanked back into the past. Vicki ultimately finds her way to him, and they both ultimately remain in the past. | |
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Resist the Beast | |
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Resist the Beast: After his Heel–Face Turn, Barnabas attempts to resist his vampiric urges, seeking a cure for his condition. Cursed to be a werewolf, Quentin tries to keep from harming others before his portrait effectively cures his condition. Chris, also a werewolf, tries to keep from harming others, with sleeping pills and later by having Barnabas lock him in a secret room. | |
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The Call Knows Where You Live | |
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The Call Knows Where You Live: By 1970, Angelique wants nothing to do with the Collins family, and is living miles away, happily married. When Julia shows up, looking for Quentin's portrait, Angelique is none too happy, and gives her the portrait in exchange for a promise to be left alone. Too bad her husband is part of the Leviathan cult, and tries to kill her when he realizes her connection to Barnabas. | |
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Jekyll & Hyde | |
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Jekyll & Hyde: Literally, in one of the Mad Scientist plotlines... mild-mannered lab rat Cyrus Longworth took a potion that turned him into aggressive psycho John Yaeger. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: The storyline with the ghost of Quentin, secretly interacting with and eventually possessing young David and Amy, as summarized by ''Dark Shadows Every Day:'' | |
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Heel–Face Door-Slam | |
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Heel–Face Door-Slam: Angelique finally renounces witchcraft, and is promptly shot to death by witch hunter Lamar Trask. | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: After Barnabas feeds on Willie for the first time, a doctor examines Willie and declares his arm to have been "completely drained of blood." Of course, individual body parts don't get drained of blood in this way because blood flows throughout the circulatory system. | |
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Title Drop: Near the beginning of Collection 3. An exact title drop is given during the 1840 storyline. | |
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Scarpia Ultimatum | |
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Scarpia Ultimatum: Levelled against Barnabas by (who else) Angelique. She actually uses this twice: once she makes him marry her if she saves his sister (whose pains Angelique caused for exactly this purpose), and once they are married, she threatens Josette's life to keep Barnabas acting as a "faithful husband." When he tries to remove Josette from danger, the threat is simply expanded to his family. During the 1897 arc, she uses this against Quentin as well. She persuades him to marry her in exchange for healing Jamison from Petofi's spells. Later, when Quentin reneges and tries to pursue Amanda Harris, Angelique threatens Amanda to keep him in Collinsport. | |
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The Movie | |
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The Movie: House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows, neither of which took place in the main continuity despite featuring the same actors. House was a more grisly retelling of the introduction of Barnabas, whereas Night was barely connected at all, essentially retconning all characters and lore for a new story involving Angelique's spirit trying for a Reincarnation Romance with Quentin. | |
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Doppelgänger Replacement Love Interest: Barnabas tried to turn Maggie into this and failed. He also attempted it with other love interests, even though they didn't resemble Josette. | |
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Adaptational Villainy | |
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Adaptational Villainy: In House of Dark Shadows, Barnabas does not undergo a Heel–Face Turn as he did in the series, and is killed at the end of the movie. In Night of Dark Shadows, Charles Collins, the equivalent of the series' historical Quentin Collins, is a villain who is Angelique's lover and successfully possesses his modern-day lookalike descendant Quentin in the movie's Downer Ending. | |
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Cult Soundtrack | |
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Cult Soundtrack: Rare for a Soap Opera, an album of Bob Cobert's score was released in 1969, and, alongside it, bandleader Charles Randolph Grean issued a version of "Quentin's Theme" as an Instrumental single. Both the album and the song reached the Billboard Top 20. | |
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Aborted Arc | |
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Aborted Arc: Victoria's parentage, once the Driving Question, was left unresolved once Alexandra Moltke left the show. Word of God says: Elizabeth Collins Stoddard is her mother.invoked | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: Oddly enough for a show not only set, but created, in The '60s, the series, with few exceptions, seems to be almost completely oblivious to technological and social changes, particularly after the first season or two. The aversion of this trope by The Movie makes this glaringly obvious. | |
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The Film of the Series | |
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The Film of the Series: The original series was accompanied by two films using the same story and actors, House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows. The latter was supposedly a sequel to the former, but had little continuity with it aside from a reference to the last Collins family member inhabiting Collinwood before her recent passing being Mrs Stoddard, who'd survived the first movie. Many years later, the 2012 Tim Burton film Dark Shadows would serve as an Affectionate Parody of the series, in a very different continuity. | |
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Crusty Caretaker | |
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Crusty Caretaker: At Eagle Hill Cemetary. The man looks about as old as the graves themselves. He also rambles on about evil, ghosts, and the restless dead, which would make him seem Genre Savvy if he was actually able to tell when he was talking to one of them. | |
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Non-Indicative Name: When Barnabas and Julia are warned about the destruction of Rose Cottage in the 1995 storyline, they are puzzled, not knowing of any building by that name. Later they discover that the house named "Rose Cottage" is actually a mansion. Ironically, it would transpire that the two Alternate Continuity movies, House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows, would be better suited to each other's names, since the latter was much more about the significance of the house itself (of course, House had already been made by then) and the former had a greater number of scenes set at night. | |
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Vampires Are Rich | |
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Vampires Are Rich: Barnabas. How he pays for things like modern clothes and house restoration is anyone's guess. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshade Hanging: Unintentional. Louis Edmonds once flubbed a line, referring to his character's ancestors as "incestors." As noted in My Own Grampa below, Roger unwittingly married his own grandmother, Laura, who is an immortal Phoenix. | |
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Outside-Genre Foe | |
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Outside-Genre Foe: Barnabas. Before he shows up, the only other paranormal thing in town is Josette, whom every other character believes is a figment of David's imagination. Throughout all the investigation of the mysterious puncture wounds that show up on the necks of Loomis, Maggie, and assorted cattle, no one so much as utters the word vampire, even in jest, as though they don't know what one is. | |
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He Who Fights Monsters | |
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He Who Fights Monsters: Reverend Trask, a witch hunter in a series where witches are real and oftentimes evil. However, the woman he persecutes is the innocent Victoria Winters. Trask is eventually talked into a Heel–Face Turn as a ghost. | |
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Magical Romani | |
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Magical Romani: All over the 1897 arc, with multiple curses from various Romani characters periodically appearing throughout. | |
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Sadly Mythtaken | |
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Sadly Mythtaken: Tad and Carrie are referred to as the astral twins of David and Hallie. However, in astrology, astral twins refers to people who are born at the same time, latitude, and longitude. Being born 130 years before David and Hallie, Tad and Carrie could not possibly be their astral twins. Curious, because reincarnation is a thing in this series and would fit the circumstances much better. | |
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Angsty Surviving Twin | |
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Tom Jennings, turned into a vampire, is killed by bursting into flames when forced by Barnabas to stay up past dawn. His actor Don Briscoe, however, remains on the show as Tom's Angsty Surviving Twin Chris. | |
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Adapted Out | |
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Adapted Out: Angelique does not appear in the first Alternate Continuity movie, House of Dark Shadows, and Barnabas attributes his curse to an unidentified plural "they". She later appears in the second film, Night of Dark Shadows, but connected to Quentin rather than Barnabas. | |
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Mad Scientist | |
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Mad Scientist: Three examples: Dr. Julia Hoffman, upon discovering the identity of the vampire who has been murdering women, terrorizing Collinsport, and who kidnapped Maggie, sought to cure him through unethical experimentation. Dr. Eric Lang, who successfully cured Barnabas of his vampirism by reenacting Frankenstein's experiment. Dr. Cyrus Longworth, who reenacted the experiment of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, turning himself into the sociopathic John Yaeger. | |
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Burn the Witch! | |
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Burn the Witch!: Averted. Those sentenced to death for witchcraft are either hanged or beheaded. Laura tries to burn Angelique, but Angelique gets better. | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse: In the 1795 storyline, witch Angelique was obsessed with Barnabas, who in turn pursued Josette. Josette's death is the end result of Angelique's schemes. | |
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Art Initiates Life | |
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Art Initiates Life: Quentin's true love, the eternal actress Amanda Harris, began as a painting that was brought to life. | |
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Foregone Conclusion | |
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Foregone Conclusion: The 1795 arc was full of these (Barnabas becoming a vampire and his subsequent imprisonment in his coffin, the early death of Cute Ghost Girl Sarah Collins, etc.). Here's a promo shot specifically for it, promising to "discover the origins of this man and the secret of the chained coffin." | |
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Dated History | |
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Dated History: A minor example, but when listing possible candidates for an "evil woman" to give Eve her life force, Nicholas Blair lists both Lucretia Borgia and Elizabeth Bathory. Viewers today are likely at least somewhat more aware of how questionable some of the accusations against the two really are, Lucretia especially. | |
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The Renfield | |
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The Renfield: Barnabas's instinct seems to be to locate someone who fits this trope whenever he finds himself in a new situation. Most notably, the reluctant Willie Loomis after he unwittingly releases Barnabus from his coffin. | |
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Targeted Human Sacrifice | |
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Laura Collins, who, being a Phoenix, continually comes back in different centuries to sacrifice her children to Ra via burning them to death. | |
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Recycled Soundtrack | |
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Recycled Soundtrack: Not only did the series re-use its music, House of Dark Shadows was also almost entirely reliant upon the show's recordings. Night of Dark Shadows, though also featuring a Recycled Soundtrack, had more original music written for it. | |
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Woman Scorned | |
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Woman Scorned: It's heavily implied that Barnabas and Angelique had sex before he became engaged to Josette, but Angelique still got the short end of the stick. These events were the catalyst for Angelique's hatred for the Collins family. | |
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Story Arc | |
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Several Story Arcs were taken whole hog from classic horror fiction; The Turn of the Screw, The Lottery, H. P. Lovecraft, etc. | |
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Downplayed Trope | |
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Magda not only curses her brother-in-law Quentin with lycanthropy for his treatment of her sister Jenny, but any firstborn son he and his descendants would potentially have as well. This comes back to bite her when she learns she has a nephew... Downplayed, as the curse does not manifest until adulthood (as seen with Chris). | |
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Alternate Continuity | |
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Ironically, it would transpire that the two Alternate Continuity movies, House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows, would be better suited to each other's names, since the latter was much more about the significance of the house itself (of course, House had already been made by then) and the former had a greater number of scenes set at night. | |
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My Own Grampa | |
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My Own Grampa: Almost. Laura Collins, a phoenix who was reincarnated every few decades, ended up married to her own biological grandson Roger, whose father was her son Jamison. Never pointed out in the show, either due to censorship or the writers not having the best grasp on the continuity (thanks to Barnabas's time travel adventures, her appearance in the past as the wife of Edward Collins and mother of Nora and Jamison was part of a later arc than her appearance in the present as the wife of Roger Collins and mother of David, so by then the writers could have forgotten some relevant details). | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: Laura Collins, who, being a Phoenix, continually comes back in different centuries to sacrifice her children to Ra via burning them to death. Barnabas plans to kill David when he thinks the boy knows his secret. Angelique uses Sarah Collins's doll as a Voodoo Doll against the girl, first to make her extremely ill, and then threatening to plunge the pin into her heart, killing her. Lieutenant Nathan Forbes attempts to kill Daniel Collins, the young brother of his new wife, Millicent, when he learns the boy is now in possession of all Millicent's money. The ghost of Quentin possesses David and Amy, and is later said to be outright killing David through this process. Gregory Trask (along with his wife Minerva and daughter Charity) and his Boarding School of Horrors Worthington Hall. Magda not only curses her brother-in-law Quentin with lycanthropy for his treatment of her sister Jenny, but any firstborn son he and his descendants would potentially have as well. This comes back to bite her when she learns she has a nephew... Downplayed, as the curse does not manifest until adulthood (as seen with Chris). | |
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Characterization Marches On | |
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Characterization Marches On: As noted above, Barnabas, Quentin II, and Angelique each started out as the Big Bad of their respective story arcs, but eventually became heroic characters. The relationship between Tad and Carrie. In the 1995 arc, as ghosts, Carrie writes a love note to Tad and they kiss onscreen. However, when we see them alive in 1840, they are Like Brother and Sister, with Carrie being pursued by Jeremy Grimes and Tad not showing any jealousy. | |
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Local Hangout | |
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Local Hangout: The Blue Whale is a local bar in Collinsport where people go to unwind. In the early seasons, it has a jukebox. | |
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Big Fancy House | |
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Big Fancy House: Three such houses feature in the series: The Great House of Collinwood, where the Collins family lives, a mansion with two wings and forty rooms. The Old House, the Collins family home before the Great House was built. Barnabas describes it as follows: The deceptively-named Rose Cottage, known to Quentin II as the old McGruger Mansion. | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can: Before he is released by an unwitting Willie Loomis in 1967, vampire Barnabas Collins had been chained in his coffin for over 170 years. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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In Night of Dark Shadows, Charles Collins, the equivalent of the series' historical Quentin Collins, is a villain who is Angelique's lover and successfully possesses his modern-day lookalike descendant Quentin in the movie's Downer Ending. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: As noted above, there were no supernatural themes when the show premiered. In the pre-Barnabas episodes from 1966-67, instead of fading out into the opening titles, it cuts to the opening titles. | |
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If I Can Only Move | |
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If I Can Only Move: Elizabeth, thought to be dead, is interred in a coffin. When Carolyn comes to visit her mother's "grave", Liz's voiceover says this. | |
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Not Using the "Z" Word | |
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Not Using the "Z" Word: The word "vampire" is used pretty rarely, not showing up at all until the 1795 storyline when Angelique explains her curse to Ben. This makes the scene where Barnabas reveals himself to his father by shouting "I am a vampire!" quite shocking and moving. | |
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"Everybody Dies" Ending | |
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"Everybody Dies" Ending: The 1795 storyline comes damn close, given that the writers were essentially just playing around with a whole new cast of characters they wouldn't have to worry about after the storyline ended. Pretty much the only thing stopping them from truly killing everyone was that someone needed to live to provide future generations of the Collins family. | |
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Hiding Your Heritage | |
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Hiding Your Heritage: Jenny Collins is revealed to be Romani, which the Collins family only learns after her death. She passed for white while alive, refusing to acknowledge her sister Magda, saying at one point how angry she was when Magda and Sandor showed up in their caravan and started living in the Old House. | |
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Ominous Music Box Tune | |
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Ominous Music Box Tune: Josette's music box, used to brainwash Maggie during her time as Barnabas's captive vampire-bride-to-be. The tune itself shows up periodically where Josette is involved, with the music box itself usually not far behind. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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After his Heel–Face Turn, Barnabas attempts to resist his vampiric urges, seeking a cure for his condition. | |
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I Have Your Wife | |
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I Have Your Beloved: Subverted in the Leviathan arc, when the Leviathans claim to be holding Josette hostage to pressure Barnabas to carry out their schemes. When a seance is held to contact Josette, she assures them that she knows of no Leviathans. | |
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Never Sleep Again | |
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Never Sleep Again: Inverted in an arc where a character turns into a werewolf and kills people in his sleep. He is able to trap his curse in a portrait, but needs to stay awake until it is finished. | |
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Only One Name | |
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Only One Name: Aristede, Petofi's servant in 1897. Joseph, the initial form of the Leviathan creature. Bruno, one of the Leviathan cultists, in the main timeline. Averted in Parallel time, where his counterpart is given the surname Hess. Roxanne in Parallel Time. Averted by her main-timeline counterpart, who is named Roxanne Drew. Lazlo, Angelique's servant in 1840. | |
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Facial Horror | |
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Facial Horror: Zombie Josette◊, as seen in a dream, looks like her face is melting off. Zombie Jeremiah◊ doesn't fare much better, and he's real. The Hand of Count Petofi causes Quentin Collins and Evan Hanley to suffer this when touched by it. Both times, the victim's face is reminicent of crumpled-up paper, with random wrinkles and creases. Evan also has one of his eyes bulging out of its socket and hanging lower down than it should on his face, while Quentin looks as though he only has empty hollows where both eyes should be. | |
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Canon Welding | |
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Canon Welding: Two of Big Finish's Dark Shadows audios establish a connection to their The Confessions of Dorian Gray series, which in turn has connections to their Doctor Who audios, making it possible that Dark Shadows actually takes place in the Whoniverse, or at least the same Multiverse... | |
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Lovecraft Country | |
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Lovecraft Country: Collinsport, a fishing village in Maine, with its seemingly endless fog and storms and hauntings. It even includes an Expy of Cthulhu in the form of the Leviathans. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Josette is Driven to Suicide by Angelique. Later, when her original suicide is prevented, she kills herself shortly afterward, believing that Barnabas has abandoned her. | |
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Visions of Another Self | |
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Visions of Another Self: For nearly a whole season, the characters, chiefly Barnabas and Julia, travel to a parallel universe and interact with alternate versions of the present-day Collins family. In the last arc of the series, after the 1840 storyline is resolved, the series then shifts to the 1840 Collins family's Parallel Time counterparts. | |
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And the Adventure Continues | |
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And the Adventure Continues: Subverted, in one of the show's few moments of self-aware humor. In the final scene of the series Melanie is found with a wound on her neck that Ben Stokes declares looks like a vampire bite...only for the closing narration to inform us that, no, for the first time ever it was just a random animal attack, Melanie recovered, and everyone lived happily ever after. | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Put on a Bus: Both Joe Haskell in 1969 and Maggie Evans in 1970 were sent to Windcliff Sanitarium. Joe was sent there when, after being repeatedly Mind Raped by Angelique and discovering that his cousin Tom had become a vampire and his cousin Chris was a werewolf, he went insane and tried to abduct young Amy. Maggie was sent there to protect her from the vampire Roxanne Drew. Neither they nor their respective actors appeared on the show again. | |
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Multiple Demographic Appeal | |
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Multiple Demographic Appeal: Originally aimed at women like most soap operas, but its supernatural plotlines soon attracted a lot of young monster-movie fans as well. | |
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You Have to Believe Me! | |
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You Have to Believe Me!: David lapses into this when he tries to warn the family about Barnabas. Justified, as he is ten years old. Paul certainly doesn't help himself when he sounds like a paranoid maniac when warning the family about the Leviathans. To be fair, the Leviathans are actually setting out to drive him crazy, with disembodied voices and phone calls that warn him that they are watching his every move. | |
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Remember the New Guy? | |
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Remember the New Guy?: Tom Jennings was presented as always having been close to Maggie and Joe, despite no mention for hundreds of episodes. | |
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Like Brother and Sister | |
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The relationship between Tad and Carrie. In the 1995 arc, as ghosts, Carrie writes a love note to Tad and they kiss onscreen. However, when we see them alive in 1840, they are Like Brother and Sister, with Carrie being pursued by Jeremy Grimes and Tad not showing any jealousy. | |
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Frankenstein's Monster | |
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Frankenstein's Monster: In curing Barnabas of his vampirism, Dr. Lang reenacts Frankenstein's experiment, creating an artificial man out of parts assembled from dead bodies. The creation is even named 'Adam', like the original. | |
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Comic-Book Adaptation | |
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Comic-Book Adaptation: Gold Key Comics kept the exploits of Barnabas going for several years after the series ended. The 1991 remake also got a short-lived comic version. | |
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Love Transcends Spacetime | |
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Love Transcends Spacetime: Peter Bradford follows time-traveling governess Victoria Winters from 1795 to 1968, based entirely on the strength of his love forever. Immediately following their wedding, Vicki and Peter disappear, returning to the 1790s for an off-screen life together. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: To deflect suspicion off of himself, Barnabas turns Dirk into a vampire. This sets in motion a chain of events that leads to Rachel being killed on Dirk's orders, and Pansy — whom Dirk killed — exposing Barnabas' secret from beyond the grave. | |
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Where the Hell Is Springfield? | |
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Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Totally averted. It's established repeatedly throughout the series that the closest city to Collinsport is the real-world Bangor, Maine. | |
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Humanoid Abomination | |
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The Leviathans gain control over much of the Collins family, ruthlessly dealing with opposition such as Paul Stoddard (and framing Jeb's guardian, Philip Todd, for the murders they commit), calling forth zombies, and Jeb attempting to marry Carolyn so she can have a Half-Human Hybrid. | |
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Back from the Dead | |
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Back from the Dead: It's a soap, so pretty much everyone. Angelique deserves special mention, though, due to sheer persistence, even travelling forwards and backwards through time to do so. | |
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Go Mad from the Revelation | |
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Go Mad from the Revelation: Poor, poor Joe Haskell, last seen carted away to Windcliff, screaming in terror after finding out his cousin Chris was a werewolf. | |
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Ghost Story | |
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Ghost Story: Barnabas telling Vicky and Carolyn how Josette died. That he did it during a thunderstorm with the power out was a nice touch. | |
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Did Not Get the Girl | |
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Did Not Get the Girl: Barnabas. His first love, Josette, is Driven to Suicide due to the machinations of witch Angelique. He spends most of the series trying to bring her back to life. Only late in the series does he get over her, first with Roxane Drew, whom he meets in a parallel universe. Too bad the room that is the gateway between universes changes with Barnabas in it, returning him to his home time but trapping Roxanne in a burning Collinwood. Next, after Angelique renounces witchcraft for good, Barnabas comes to realize he loves her, only for her to be immediately shot to death by witch hunter Lamar Trask. Quentin II as well. His pursuit of Beth Chavez is thwarted, first by a Scarpia Ultimatum from Angelique, then by the machinations of the evil Count Petofi. Specifically, Petofi switches bodies with Quentin, which Beth discovers shortly before Quentin switches them back. Unfortunately, this happens as Count Petofi, in Quentin's body, is pursuing Beth; when Quentin returns to his body, Beth, unaware that the switch has been undone, flees in terror and jumps from Widow's Hill. Next, Quentin falls for the eternally youthful Amanda Harris, but is again thwarted by Angelique's Scarpia Ultimatum, and then, having lost the portrait that controls his werewolf curse (and prevents him from aging), remains away from Amanda for the next seventy years. Returning to Collinsport, he is reunited with Amanda but doesn't recognize her due to the Leviathan-controlled Barnabas wiping his memory. When he recovers his portrait and his memory, it's too late, as Mr. Best, Amanda's Grim Reaper, has come to claim her. Quentin makes a deal with the Reaper, that requires Quentin to lead Amanda from the other side without the two of them touching. Unfortunately, as with the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, they fail the test and Amanda is Killed Off for Real. | |
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Stalker with a Crush | |
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Stalker with a Crush: Angelique — and how! Spurned by Barnabas, she coerces him into marriage using a Scarpia Ultimatum. Out of continued jealousy over Barnabas' love for Josette, Angelique curses Barnabas with vampirism and engineers the deaths of Josette and most of the Collins family. | |
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Timey-Wimey Ball | |
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Timey-Wimey Ball: To save the present family from the ghost of Quentin Collins, Barnabas travels back to 1897 to save the living Quentin. Once he returns, the family, especially Amy and David, still has memories of Quentin's ghost, despite the fact that, with history changed, Quentin is now still alive and has lived away from Collinsport for decades. | |
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Identical Grandson | |
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Identical Grandson: Unsurprising, since actors often played different characters within the same time period. Louis Edmonds plays Roger, his grandfather, Edward, Edward's great-grandfather Daniel, and Daniel's cousin Joshua. David Henesy plays David Collins, his grandfather Jamison, Jamison's cousin twice removed Tad, and Tad's grandfather as a boy, Daniel. Joan Bennett plays Elizabeth Stoddard, her grandaunt Judith, Judith's distant cousin by marriage in an earlier generation Flora, and Flora's cousin by marriage in an earlier generation Naomi. Nancy Barrett plays Carolyn and her great-great-great-great-grandaunt Millicent. Denise Nickerson plays Amy and her cousin, twice removed, Nora. David Selby plays Quentin II and his granduncle, Quentin I. Kathy Cody plays Hallie Stokes and a distant collateral ancestor, Carrie. Jerry Lacy plays three generations of Trasks: the Reverend from 1795, his son Lamar in 1840, and Lamar's grandson in 1897. Thayer David plays Prof. Elliot Stokes as well as his ancestor, Ben. | |
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Femme Fatale | |
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Femme Fatale: Angelique is a seductive woman, who is actually a witch (and temporarily during one arc, a vampire) who uses magic and murder to get what she wants. Laura is also an attractive woman. Too bad she's a phoenix, whose goals include immolating not only herself but any children her husband might have with her. | |
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Sinister Minister | |
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Sinister Minister: Reverend Trask in 1795, a fanatic witch-hunter from Salem. His descendant in 1897, Reverend Gregory Trask, is quite possibly even worse - while his ancestor was willing to kill innocent people on the charge of witchcraft, he was much more singularly targeted in his crusade, focusing almost solely on Vicki.note He also wasn't actually far off - there was a witch a Collinwood, but he had the wrong person. Gregory Trask runs a Boarding School of Horrors that has been abusing countless children for years, some of them into adulthood, such as Rachel Drummond and Tim Shaw. | |
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Betty and Veronica | |
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Betty and Veronica: Barnabas Collins is torn between the memory of his fiancée, Josette du Pres, a Betty type, and the Veronica type (to the max) his ex-wife Angelique, the witch who gave him the vampire curse. At the end he gets over his torch for Josette, and avows to Angelique that he loves her. She is then killed, and Barnabas ends up with neither. Sam Hall in an article in TV Guide claimed that, had the show continued, Barnabas would have married Julia and found his cure to turn him human. Both would have ended up living in the Far East. There's a casual reference to their journey together away from the family danger in Return to Collinwood. | |
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Discretion Shot | |
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Discretion Shot: During the destruction of Collinwood in 1970, we see Gerard ominously advancing on Daphne and the children, and their bodies are discovered a couple scenes later, but we don't actually see them — or anyone else that day — get killed. | |
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Maiden Aunt | |
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Maiden Aunt: Abigail Collins, Barnabas's aunt in 1795. She's an unmarried religious zealot who is quick to accuse anything unfamiliar as being a sign of witchcraft. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
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Faux Affably Evil: When we first meet Barnabas, he gives the impression of a perfect gentleman with Old World manners. In reality, he is a vampire who, even aside from attacking women to drain them of blood, is a Bad Boss, regularly beating Willie, and who kidnaps and terrorizes Maggie in an attempt to brainwash her into becoming Josette. | |
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Outliving One's Offspring | |
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Outliving One's Offspring: Joshua Collins outlives both his children (Barnabas and Sarah), as does his wife Naomi - though she commits suicide soon after they're gone. Quentin Collins's infant son dies. He was unaware of his children's existence before his son's death, though he becomes concerned for his daughter afterward. Due to the nature of the curse, he also outlives said daughter, though she was an adult by the time of her death. Roger Collins, albeit very briefly, when David dies in the present concurrent with the 1897 arc. | |
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Boarding School of Horrors | |
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Gregory Trask (along with his wife Minerva and daughter Charity) and his Boarding School of Horrors Worthington Hall. | |
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Big Bad | |
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As noted above, Barnabas, Quentin II, and Angelique each started out as the Big Bad of their respective story arcs, but eventually became heroic characters. | |
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Headless Horseman | |
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Headless Horseman: Judah Zachery's disembodied head and his headless body terrorize Collinsport briefly in 1840. | |
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Never My Fault | |
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Never My Fault: Matthew Morgan claims that he doesn't want to kill Vicki, but she forced him into it. Naturally, she calls him on this. | |
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Heel–Face Revolving Door | |
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Heel–Face Revolving Door: Reverend Trask is some mixture of this and a Wild Card. He's obsessed with rooting out evil, but tends to become focused on a singular target regardless of guilt. Of his three major targets, one was totally innocent Vickie, one he had a legitimate grievance against Barnabas had killed him in 1795, and one was an actual villian Angelique. He also does battle with the Obviously Evil Nicholas Blair, but in that case it was Blair who picked the fight, not Trask. | |
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Vampire Hickey | |
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Vampire Hickey: The usual bite on this show is two puncture wounds in the neck (though occasionally the wrist is bitten instead, as with Willie). | |
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Friendly Neighborhood Vampire | |
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Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Barnabas, after significant character development. In one of the better done sequences, we see Barnabas Collins the man regain the upper hand over Barnabas the Monster, when he refuses to be party to murdering a man to gain freedom from his curse. | |
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Ironic Nursery Tune | |
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Ironic Nursery Tune: Sarah's "London Bridge." David also sings a creepy tune about "Mr. Juggins" (a clothing dummy with a face drawn on it) to the tune of "Yankee Doodle" in one episode during the Ghost of Quentin storyline. Amy sings "Rock-A-Bye Baby" to a doll during the same arc. | |
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Greater-Scope Villain | |
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Although the big guy himself, credited as Diabolos, appears in only two episodes in the series, during the Nicholas Blair arc, he serves as a Greater-Scope Villain, being behind such figures as Angelique, Nicholas Blair, Judah Zachery, and, according to Word of God, the Leviathans.invoked | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: In 1795, time-traveler Vicki brought a Collins family history book from the present day, which foreshadows the tragedies about to befall the Collins family, including Josette's and Sarah's deaths. In 1897, Jamison dreams about 1969, in which Quentin's ghost relates three events that led to Quentin's death. Also, Carolyn's dying message in 1995, which foreshadows what happens once Barnabas and Julia return to 1970, that lead Collinwood to become a ruin. | |
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I Let Gwen Stacy Die | |
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I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Josette DuPres, whose suicide resulted from Angelique's machinations. One of Barnabas' primary motivations through much of the series is to prevent her death or to bring her back to life. An unusual example, as Josette's death serves as the motivation for Barnabas' more selfish actions, including kidnappping and attempting to brainwash Maggie, and, even after his Heel–Face Turn, attempting to brainwash other women into becoming Josette. A better example is Roxanne from Parallel Time, with whom Barnabas falls in love, finally able to get over Josette. Unfortunately, as Barnabas, Julia, and Roxanne are escaping into the main universe, the room that serves as the gateway between universes changes, with only Barnabas and Julia inside and Roxanne trapped in a burning Collinwood. Barnabas subsequently finds that Roxanne has a counterpart in the main universe. Too bad she's a vampire, and not the friendly neighborhood variety either. In 1840, Barnabas' attempts to prevent Roxanne from becoming a vampire fail, and she is ultimately killed via exposure to sunlight. | |
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Time Travel | |
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Time Travel: In 1967, a séance transports Vicki back to 1795, bringing a woman of that era to the present. The two switch back just as Vicki is being hanged. To stop the ghost of Quentin II from haunting Collinwood in 1969, Barnabas uses I Ching to travel back to 1897. Later, Julia joins him using the same method, but is prematurely pulled back into the present. Josette's portrait transports Barnabas and a possessed Kitty back to 1797, where he tries, and fails, to save Josette. He returns to 1969 via the Leviathan stone table. Emerging from the parallel universe of 1970, Barnabas and Julia somehow find themselves in the then-future of 1995. They return to 1970 via what turns out to be the Stairway into Time. Upon failing to stop Gerard from destroying Collinwood, Julia escapes to 1840 using the Stairway into Time. Later, Barnabas joins her using the I Ching, and Prof. Stokes joins them both using the Stairway. Upon succeeding in their mission, they all use the Stairway to return to the present. | |
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Leitmotif | |
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Leitmotif: "London Bridge" for Sarah. Both music box tunes for Josette. "Ode to Angelique" in both the 1970 parallel time plot and the film Night of Dark Shadows. The theme referred to as "Joanna" on most soundtracks was also (over) used in Night of Dark Shadows in scenes featuring Kate Jackson's character Tracy. Quentin's gramophone song. Not only is it a plot point at times, but in the Big Finish drama The House of Despair he and Angelique discuss why it fits him. "I'm Gonna Dance For You" for Pansy Faye, including when Charity Trask becomes possessed by her ghost. | |
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The Show Must Go On | |
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The Show Must Go On: Numerous times: Barnabas's heart-wrenching dramatic pauses were reportedly just Jonathan Frid forgetting his lines. Frid accidentally walked in on the end credits while carrying everyone's coats... The camera once caught Frid quite visibly picking his nose when he thought the camera was pointed on Robert Rodan and Betsy Durkin. Given that the show was "live" because at the time editing costs were off the chart there are really too many to list from bugs flying around actor's heads to people tripping. In a rare instance Frid managed to get them to edit an particularly bad gaffe on his part by agreeing to waive a bonus owed for working extra late on an episode. Plus, the very first thing the show ever aired: The ABC announcer saying in an irritated tone, "Okay, I'm here. What do you want me to do?" (pause) "I can't see the slate!" He then proceeds to read the episode number as usual. In one of the better-done dramatic moments of the series, when the witch Angelique is face-to-face with the newly risen vampire Barnabas, alone and cornered by the monster she has created, simultaneously grief-stricken, terrified, and even remorseful, as Barnabas realizes the true horror of his new status, we see a stage hand realize that he is in the camera view-zone... Maggie mysteriously receives a pair of expensive earrings. She and Joe start fighting about her wearing them... And one falls out, causing the two to continue to have the argument while one of them is missing. Kathryn Leigh Scott attempts to hide it with her hand but it's obvious. | |
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Died in Your Arms Tonight | |
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Died in Your Arms Tonight: In 1795, Sarah Collins dies in the arms of her older brother, Barnabas. | |
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Recycled Premise | |
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Recycled Premise: In 1970, David and Hallie have to deal with two ghosts — a malevolent man and the benevolent woman he loves — just like David and Amy did in 1968-9. In 1840, (1970 in Real Life) Quentin is on trial for witchcraft. He is innocent of the charge and being framed by a real warlock. Similarly, in 1795-6 (1967-8 in Real Life) Vicki was on trial for witchcraft, being a similarly innocent victim of a frameup by an actual witch. | |
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RealLife | |
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In 1840, (1970 in Real Life) Quentin is on trial for witchcraft. He is innocent of the charge and being framed by a real warlock. Similarly, in 1795-6 (1967-8 in Real Life) Vicki was on trial for witchcraft, being a similarly innocent victim of a frameup by an actual witch. | |
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Baby-Doll Baby | |
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Baby-Doll Baby: Crazy Jenny in 1897 has a couple of these. She keeps them under the belief they're her twin children, who have been taken from her as infants. | |
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Working-Class Werewolves | |
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Working-Class Werewolves: Initially played straight with Chris, then inverted with Quentin. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
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Fate Worse than Death: Immortal vampire Barnabas is chained up in his coffin for over 170 years. | |
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Time-Shifted Actor | |
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Time-Shifted Actor: Daniel Collins is played by David Henesy as a child and Louis Edmonds as an adult. Edith is first seen as an elderly woman in 1897 played by Isabella Hoopes, and later as a young woman in 1840 played by Terry Crawford. An odd case: Parallel Time Josette, as an older woman in 1840, is played by Mary Cooper. Regular Time Josette, who died as a young woman, is played by Kathryn Leigh Scott. Presumably, her younger self in Parallel Time would have looked identical to her Regular Time counterpart. | |
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Fauxlosophic Narration | |
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Fauxlosophic Narration: At the beginning of every episode in order to attempt to set a gothic mood. Originally done by Victoria, but others started joining in especially after she left the show. | |
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Character Check | |
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Character Check: Angelique starts out as a villain and becomes more heroic as the show progresses. However, whenever Barnabas travels back in time, it undoes this development, with Angelique once again reverting to her original villainous nature, and Barnabas and Julia back to square one with her. When Julia travels back to 1840 before Barnabas, she frees him there, expecting to encounter her friend from 1970. Instead, she encounters Barnabas as the ruthless, selfish vampire he had started out as in 1967, and it very nearly costs her her life. | |
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UnluckyChildhoodFriend | |
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Unlucky Childhood Friend: Tim and Rachel, for each other. Very unlucky indeed, as, having met as children at Gregory Trask's Boarding School of Horrors, they are separated due to Trask's machinations, with Rachel finally being fatally shot on the orders of vampire Dirk Wilkins. | |
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Satan | |
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Satan: Although the big guy himself, credited as Diabolos, appears in only two episodes in the series, during the Nicholas Blair arc, he serves as a Greater-Scope Villain, being behind such figures as Angelique, Nicholas Blair, Judah Zachery, and, according to Word of God, the Leviathans.invoked Evan and Quentin attempt to summon him in 1897. | |
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Ape Shall Never Kill Ape | |
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Ape Shall Never Kill Ape: An inversion, as the Leviathans aren't allowed to use lethal force on humans. | |
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Creepy Cemetery | |
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Creepy Cemetery: Eagle Hill, which is filled with ancient graves and has an almost-as-ancient caretaker who rambles on about how "the dead are restless" and things of that nature. He's got a point - the Collins family mausoleum, where Barnabas's coffin was kept for over 150 years, is also in the cemetery. | |
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Voodoo Doll | |
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Angelique uses Sarah Collins's doll as a Voodoo Doll against the girl, first to make her extremely ill, and then threatening to plunge the pin into her heart, killing her. | |
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Undead Child | |
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Undead Child: Sarah is the ghost of Barnabas' ten-year-old sister, who died in 1796 and haunts the grounds of Collinwood in 1967. | |
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Madwoman in the Attic | |
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Madwoman in the Attic: Poor Jenny Collins, wife of Quentin II, who lost her mind when Quentin ran off with Edward's wife Laura. As a result, Jenny was locked in the Tower Room at Collinwood. | |
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Series Continuity Error | |
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Series Continuity Error: A few, including: During his earliest episodes, it's clear that Barnabas was supposed to be from the 1830s, rather than the 1790s. Originally, Dr. Hoffman was supposed to be male, and was referred to as such shortly before her first appearance. Similarly, Amy's original name was Molly. After Vicki's return, Elizabeth referred to Daniel as her great-great-grandfather. Later episodes would reveal that he is, in fact, her great-great-great-grandfather. | |
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What Year Is This? | |
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What Year Is This?: During the time travel storylines, particularly in 1795 and 1995, Vicki, and later Barnabas and Julia, want to know what year it is. | |
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Pendulum of Death | |
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Pendulum of Death: In episodes 795 and 796 ("The Pits" and "Death and Taxes") Aristede straps Quentin to a table beneath a slowly descending swinging axe blade as he attempts to extort the Legendary Hand of Count Petofi from Angelique. | |
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Killed Off for Real: Numerous people throughout the series. Please note that, although the following list contains only a few superhuman or supernatural characters, with the remainder being ordinary humans, in this show, even mundane people can be brought back to life via sorcery or Body Surfing, or have their deaths negated via Time Travel. Bill Malloy is killed by Matthew Morgan to stop him from airing Collins family dirty laundry Matthew Morgan, who kidnapped and was going to kill Vicki to cover up the first murder, was frightened to death by the ghosts of the widows and Bill Malloy Dr. Guthrie, a parapsychologist who was working against Laura, is murdered by Laura, who stages a car accident. Jason McGuire was killed when he discovered vampire Barnabas in his coffin. Dr. Woodard is poisoned by Julia when he discovers Barnabas' secret. Burke Devlin dies in a plane crash in South America. Jeremiah, whom Angelique has enchanted to fall in love with Josette, is killed in a duel by Barnabas. Abigail Collins dies of fright when she sees her apparently dead nephew, Barnabas, risen as a vampire. Naomi is driven to suicide upon learning of Barnabas' vampirism. Suki Forbes is drained by vampire Barnabas. Josette is Driven to Suicide by Angelique. Later, when her original suicide is prevented, she kills herself shortly afterward, believing that Barnabas has abandoned her. Sarah, seeing Barnabas as a vampire, hides in the cemetery during a storm and dies of pneumonia. Noah Gifford, Nathan's accomplice in his attempt to steal money from the Collins family, is shot by Vicki while trying to kidnap Daniel. Reverend Trask is bricked by Barnabas. Phyllis Wick takes Vicki's place at the gallows and hangs. Dr. Lang, who cured Barnabas of vampirism, is killed by Angelique using a Voodoo Doll Sam Evans dies from injuries sustained defending Maggie from Adam. Tom Jennings, turned into a vampire, is killed by bursting into flames when forced by Barnabas to stay up past dawn. His actor Don Briscoe, however, remains on the show as Tom's Angsty Surviving Twin Chris. Eve, Adam's mate, is strangled by a jealous Adam when she pursues Peter Bradford. Janet Findley is killed by Quentin's ghost while investigating the hauntings in the West Wing. Ezra Braithwaite, called to Collinwood to examine a medallion he made, dies of a heart attack when he sees Quentin's ghost. Donna, a friend of Carolyn, is killed when Chris transforms into a werewolf in front of her. Edith Collins dies of shock after encountering and recognizing vampire Barnabas. Jenny, Quentin's wife, who tried to kill him, is strangled by Quentin. Dorcas Trilling, a teacher at Worthington Hall, is killed by Quentin in werewolf form. Julianka, granddaughter of King Johnny, is killed by Count Petofi. Pansy Faye is killed by newly-turned vampire Dirk Wilkins. Minerva Trask is poisoned by Tim Shaw, who was brainwashed to do the deed by Minerva's husband Gregory and Evan Hanley. Rachel Drummond, who is held hostage in a pointless attempt to make Barnabas bring back Laura, is shot by Judith on the orders of vampire Dirk. Dirk, a vampire, is killed with a stake through the heart. Beth jumps from Widows' Hill fleeing from Quentin, who she thinks is possessed by Petofi. Wanda Paisley is killed in one of Count Petofi's experiments with the I Ching. Sandor, whose wife Magda stole Count Petofi's hand, is killed by other Gypsies. King Johnny is killed by Aristede. Aristede and Evan Hanley are strangled by Garth Blackwood. Gregory Trask is sealed with bricks in Quentin's room by Judith and Tim Shaw, after she discovers his plots against her. Petofi is burned alive by Garth Blackwood. Charles Tate is killed while painting Chris' portrait, when Chris transforms into a werewolf. Amanda Harris dies when she and Quentin fail the challenge her Grim Reaper has set out for them. Paul Stoddard, Sheriff Davenport, and Lawrence Guthrie are killed by Jeb. Philip falls from Widows' Hill after a struggle atop the cliff with Jeb. Megan Todd, having been turned into a vampire, is staked through the heart by Willie. It is revealed that the Leviathans were responsible for the deaths of Vicki and Peter Bradford. Nicholas Blair is killed when Jeb transfers Angelique's shadow curse onto him. Bruno is killed by Chris in werewolf form, while trying to kill Carolyn. Jeb, who has renounced the Leviathans and become mortal, is thrown from Widows' Hill by Sky Rumson. In revenge for the above, Sky is shot by Barnabas. In Parallel Time, Angelique rises from the dead by killing her twin sister, Alexis. Also in Parallel Time, Bruno is killed by Angelique with a Voodoo Doll, framing Quentin for his murder. In Parallel Time, Horace Gladstone, having attempted to blackmail Cyrus, is killed by John Yaeger Again in Parallel Time, John Yaeger/Cyrus Longworth, having abducted Maggie, is killed by Barnabas during her rescue. In Parallel Time, Will dies rather than betray Barnabas to Angelique. Also in Parallel Time, Hoffman is killed by her counterpart, Dr. Julia Hoffman, to stop her from staking Barnabas. In Parallel Time, Carolyn and Elizabeth are killed by Roger, to cover up his murder of Angelique. Again in Parallel Time, Fred Block's, Larry Chase's, and Roger's life force are drained by Angelique. Also in Parallel Time, Claude North is stabbed by Timothy Stokes, who refuses to return Roxanne to Claude. In Parallel Time, Angelique dies when Roxanne, whose life force has been keeping her alive, speaks. Also in Parallel Time, Timothy Stokes dies while burning down Collinwood. Ben Stokes is forced to kill himself by the head of Judah Zachery. Roxanne Drew, turned into a vampire, is killed by being forced by her brother Randall to remain in the sunlight. Randall Drew, Daniel Collins, and Edith Collins are killed by Gabriel. Mordecai Grimes and Lorna Bell are killed by a possessed Gerard to frame Quentin for witchcraft. Gabriel dies falling from the roof of Collinwood. Samantha is forced by Joanna to jump off Widows Hill. Possessed by Judah Zachery, Gerard is shot by Desmond, ending the possession but killing Gerard as well. Having renounced witchcraft, Angelique is shot by Lamar Trask, who in turn, is killed by an enraged Barnabas. In Parallel Time, Justin, dying of old age, dies in the cursed room. Also in Parallel Time, Daphne dies of illness. In Parallel Time, Stella Young, a secretary to the Collins family, is stabbed to death by Melanie, who is prone to bouts of schizophrenia as a result of time spent in the cursed room. Again in Parallel Time, a homicidally insane Gabriel is killed by Morgan in self-defense. Also in Parallel Time, Morgan is killed by Bramwell and Kendrick in self-defense. In the flashback episode to 1680, Amanda Collins, Brutus' wife, and James Forsythe, with whom she is having an affair, are both killed by Brutus. | |
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Monochrome Casting: With just one minor exception. The entire series, which lasted nearly five years and contained over 1200 episodes, included one person of color, Sho Onodera, who played Mr. Nakamura for a single episode. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: David discovers that Barnabas is a vampire. Too bad no one believes him, and those that discover the truth are either brainwashed or killed. During Vicki's trial, Ben testifies that Angelique is the real witch. Unfortunately, when Angelique — whom Ben had seen killed — shows up, Ben goes to pieces on the stand, losing all credibility. Especially since no time has passed during the months Vicki spent in the 1790s, no one believes her about her time travel experience. Paul's warnings about the Leviathan conspiracy are dismissed, particularly by Carolyn. In Parallel Time, Maggie Collins initially dismisses Barnabas' claims that Alexis is out to kill her. After returning from 1995, Barnabas and Julia try to warn Elizabeth of the destruction of Collinwood, only for her to disbelieve them until it is too late. | |
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Gypsy Curse | |
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Gypsy Curse: Quentin II married Jenny, a Gypsy, then abandoned and later killed her. In revenge, Jenny's sister, Magda, cursed Quentin to become a werewolf. | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Sarah gives one of these to Barnabas and Julia, after they kill Dr. Woodard. She says that Barnabas has lost his way and that he will never see her until he is reformed. During the Adam and Eve storyline, Julia delivers one to Barnabas when he announces his plan to use Maggie Evans as the lifeforce for Eve. | |
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Breakout Character | |
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Breakout Character: Barnabas. Initially meant to be a Monster of the Week, whose character was expected to last six weeks before being written out, he became so popular that he became the major protagonist for much of the remaining series. | |
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Security Cling | |
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Security Cling: Done wordlessly by Daphne and the possessed David and Hallie, when Gerard who is really Judah Zachery, kills them. | |
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The Scapegoat | |
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The Scapegoat: In 1795-6, Angelique frames Vicki for her witchcraft. In 1897, to throw suspicion off himself, Barnabas turns Dirk into a vampire. The Leviathans frame Philip for Jeb's murders. In 1840, the possessed Gerard frames Quentin for his witchcraft. | |
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Leave Behind a Pistol | |
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Leave Behind a Pistol: Upon learning Barnabas' secret, Joshua leaves him alone in a room with a loaded gun, expecting him to do the honorable thing. Unfortunately, the gun is loaded with regular musket balls, to which Barnabas is immune. | |
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Start of Darkness | |
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Start of Darkness: The entire 1795 storyline, for Barnabas, as it shows how he became a vampire as well as the family tragedies that embittered him. | |
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Whole-Plot Reference | |
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Whole-Plot Reference: Several Story Arcs were taken whole hog from classic horror fiction; The Turn of the Screw, The Lottery, H. P. Lovecraft, etc. The first Parallel Time story arc, with PT Angelique as PT Quentin's recently deceased wife casting a shadow on his marriage to PT Maggie, and PT Julia as the housekeeper devoted to the late wife's memory, is clearly based on Rebecca. | |
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Cigarette of Anxiety | |
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Cigarette of Anxiety: Infamously, this happens when Willie Loomis breaks into the Collins Mausoleum to steal the priceless jewels rumored to have been buried with Naomi Collins. He finds the coffin sealed shut, and has a smoke while he considers what to do. Loomis decides to rig-up a pulley . . . . | |
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Normally, I Would Be Dead Now | |
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Normally, I Would Be Dead Now: Hardly surprising, given the number of supernatural characters, but a special shout out has to go to the human Julia, who survives being attacked and drained by two separate vampires, shot in the chest with a pistol, poisoned, barricaded in a remote location and left to starve and possessed by a malevolent spirit who drains her life force when Barnabas attempts to sever the connection. Inverted in the case of Angelique, the immortal witch, who rescinds her powers in the 1840 storyline and is felled by a bullet to the chest two days later. | |
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Expy Coexistence | |
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Expy Coexistence: The Big Finish audio story The Darkest Shadow features a crossover appearance by Alexander Vlahos as Dorian Gray from The Confessions of Dorian Gray. It also features Quentin Collins, who is himself an expy of Dorian Gray. | |
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New Era Speech | |
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New Era Speech: Although not a speech, in the 1840 storyline, Gabriel warns Barnabas that, with Daniel dead and Quentin in jail, there will be a "new régime" at Collinwood. Gabriel's right as far as it goes — only he will have no part in it; according to Daniel's will, Gerard is to hold Collinwood in trust for Tad until he comes of age, and Gabriel will be killed a few episodes later. | |
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Laser-Guided Amnesia | |
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Laser-Guided Amnesia: Julia uses hypnosis to erase Maggie's memories of her abduction by Barnabas. | |
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Disposable Sex Worker | |
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Disposable Sex Worker: The main portion of Barnabas's diet for a good while after he first turns into a vampire. The disposability is discussed here: | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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One-Steve Limit: Averted, most obviously with Quentin and his namesake granduncle. However, even if we ignore Parallel Time counterparts, other examples are present, usually concealed by nicknames, titles, or middle names: Bill Malloy and Willie Loomis. Tim Shaw and Timothy Elliot Stokes, the latter referred to either as Elliot (by Julia) or Professor Stokes. David Collins and Dr. Dave Woodard, the latter referred to as Dave or Dr. Woodard. Dr. Peter Guthrie and Peter Bradford, the former referred to as Dr. Guthrie. Elizabeth Stoddard, known as Elizabeth, Liz, or Mrs. Stoddard; and Elizabeth "Beth" Chavez. King Johnny Romano and John Yaeger | |
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The Lost Lenore | |
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The Lost Lenore: Josette, Barnabas' lost love, who killed herself as a result of Angelique's machinations. Barnabas spends most of the series trying and failing to return her to life. Only later in the series is he able to move on, only to have both of his subsequent love interests — Roxanne and Angelique — also die tragically. | |
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Evil Hand | |
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Evil Hand: That of Count Petofi in the 1897 arc. Petofi himself is just as evil, and once he's reunited with that hand, look out... | |
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Creepy Child | |
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Creepy Child: When we first meet nine-year-old David, he is obsessed with ghosts and death. Both David and Amy Jennings are later possessed by the ghost of Quentin Collins, which makes them behave in very unsettling ways while they carry out his plans, which include luring people into danger so Quentin can kill them. Jeb, the Leviathan, who rapidly ages from infancy to adulthood in a matter of weeks. As a child, he terrorizes Maggie Evans in addition to ordering the deaths of Julia and his own guardian, Philip Todd. Sarah is the ghost of Barnabas' ten-year-old sister, making her an Undead Child as well. | |
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Together in Death | |
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Together in Death: David, Hallie, and Daphne, the first two being possessed by Tad and Carrie, are killed simultaneously by Gerard, and their bodies are found together in their dying Security Cling in 1970, before Barnabas and Julia change history. | |
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Buried Alive | |
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Buried Alive: A few examples: Barnabas was kept chained inside his coffin for over a century. In 1795, Reverend Trask is bricked into a wall, The Cask of Amontillado-style. | |
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Haunted House | |
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Haunted House: Collinwood, which is haunted, at various times, by the ghosts of Quentin Collins II and Beth Chavez, Jenny Collins, Jeremiah Collins, Peter Bradford, Gerard Stiles, Daphne Harridge, Tad Collins, and Carrie Stokes. In Parallel Time, the ghosts include Damien Edwards and Brutus Collins. The Old House, which, early in the series, is haunted by Josette and Sarah Collins. | |
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Love Makes You Crazy | |
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Love Makes You Crazy: Angelique. Her obsession with Barnabas, who was about to marry Josette, led to Barnabas' becoming a vampire, as well as the deaths of Josette and Barnabas' family (except for Joshua, Millicent, and Daniel). | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Reverend Trask and his grandson, Gregory, both get bricked in the manner of The Cask of Amontillado. | |
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