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Dark Shadows Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
12 Episodes 1991 - 1991
Episode 1
Episode #1.1
Sun, Jan 13, 199185 mins
Victoria Winters arrives at Collinwood, a Gothic mansion on a cliff overlooking the ocean near the small seaport Maine town of Collinsport, as the recently hired governess to the 10-year-old troubled David Collins. David's gruff father, Roger, distrusts Victoria from the start while his mysterious widow sister Elizabeth is more hospitable. When the simpleton and trouble making ground keeper Willie Loomis, the nephew of Collinwood housekeeper Mrs. Johnson, decides to break into the family crypt to look for and steal a stash of family jewels, he inadvertently opens a coffin and releases vampire Barnabas Collins who has been imprisoned inside the crypt for 200 years. Barnabas then drains part of Willie's blood and makes him his unwilling human slave and daytime protector. Barnabas then introduces himself as a "distant cousin from England" to the rest of the Collins family while plotting to prey on the population of the town. Daphne Collins, the cousin of Carolyn Collins, is Barnabas' first victim. As the body count climbs, local sheriff George Patterson and professor Michael Woodward call upon Dr. Julia Hoffman to help them investigate the mysterious vampire attacks. Barnabas then sets about to restore the Old House for him to live in and when he meets Victoria for the first time, he sees her as a reincarnation of his lost love Josette. Both Barnabas and David separately catch a glimpse of the ghost of Sarah Collins, Barbabas' long-dead nine-year-old sister.
Episode 2
Episode #1.2
Mon, Jan 14, 199146 mins
After being bitten a second time by Barnabas, Daphne Collins dies and rises a vampire. She attacks first David, and then her boyfriend Joe Haskell who gets bitten and falls under her spell. Professor Woodard enlists Sheriff Patterson and the police to help him stop Daphne before the claims another victim. Meanwhile, Dr. Julia Hoffman discovers Barnabas's secret that he is a vampire when she discovers that he casts no reflection in a mirror, and offers to cure him of his immortality curse. Also, Roger is revealed to be having an affair with local artist Maggie Evans, with whom he has an ulterior motive for.
Episode 3
Episode #1.3
Mon, Jan 14, 199150 mins
Dr. Julia Hoffman begins her experiments to cure Barnabas of his vampirism. Meanwhile, Professor Woodard attempts to uncover the identity of the vampire and begins to suspect Barnabas, but Julia will do anything to keep him from finding out. Victoria begins to fall for Barnabas who becomes haunted by his guilt and of his lost love Josette. Also, David begins having nightmares about Daphne, Carolyn and Victoria turning into vampires and attacking him. Sarah later tells David that a newer evil exists.
Episode 4
Episode #1.4
Fri, Jan 18, 199144 mins
Julia and Sheriff Patterson respond to a call by Professor Woodward only to discover that he is now a vampire turned by Barnabas and they are forced to kill him. Plus, the photo evidence Woodward claimed to have is gone. As Julia continues her treatments with Barnabas, he begins to cast reflections in mirrors and walks for limited time in the daylight while he continues his charismatic charm over Victoria. However, the ghost of Sarah Collins appears before Victoria and leads to her diary. Meanwhile, an evil apparition of Angelique (a nemesis from the past) begins to haunt Barnabas and Willie. Elsewhere, David uses voodoo magic to hurt his father Roger, while the clairvoyant Maggie confides in Victoria that David's mother and Roger's ex-wife, Laura, is a witch who may be possessing David.
Episode 5
Episode #1.5
Fri, Jan 25, 199146 mins
After learning of Barnabas' affection for Victoria, a jealous Dr. Hoffman decides to sabotage the progress of the cure for Barnabas which results in his blood-cravings returning as well as aging to his true 200 year-old-age. Meanwhile, Carolyn resumes her romantic pursuit of Joe despite his reluctance to move forward. Also, Maggie has another vision of something terrible happening to Carolyn.
Episode 6
Episode #1.6
Fri, Feb 1, 199144 mins
Having reverted back to his evil vampire self, Barnabas bites Carolyn and puts her under his spell and persuades her to murder Julia for the failed experiments. Elizabeth throws a costume party at Collingwood where Barbabas now avoids Victoria and is bent on seeking revenge against Julia who soon realizes that Carolyn is now targeting her. When confronted, Barnabas tries to kill Julia until an intervention from the ghost of Sarah prevents him from doing so. At Maggie's suggestion, séance is held to contact the spirit of Sarah for answers, but during the event, Victoria mysterious vanishes and a strange woman appears in her place.
Episode 7
Episode #1.7
Fri, Feb 8, 199145 mins
Having been transported to the year 1790, Victoria meets the residents of Collinwood each of whom strongly resemble the present day characters of Collinwood. Victoria becomes the tutor for Daniel and Sarah Collins. Victoria meets and makes an ally of Peter Bradford, the Collins foreman, as well as the young Barnabas who is is eagerly awaiting the arrival of his fiancée Josette. But Josette's her handmaid, Angelique, is determined to keep Barnabas for herself, who refuses her advances. Angelique is revealed to be a powerful witch who puts the simpleton carriage man Ben Loomis under her spell to assist her. Of the Collins family, Jerehmia's older pious sister, Abigail Collins, takes an instant dislike to Victoria, and suspects her of sorcery, unaware that Angelique is the witch hiding in plain sight. Back in the present day, Julia tries to make sense of Victoria's disappearances and tends to the delirious Phyllis Wick, who escapes from the house.
Episode 8
Episode #1.8
Fri, Feb 15, 199147 mins
A jealous Angelique uses witchcraft to prevent the marriage of Barnabas and Josette Du Pres by casting a spell to make Josette fall in love with Jeremiah. Meanwhile, Victoria and Josette are both stunned by the similar appearances with each other. When Barnabas finds out about Josette and Jeremiah running off to elope, he purses them where a deadly duel ensues. Due to the strange happenings, the paranoid Abigail only grows more suspicious of Victoria. In the present day, Elizabeth, Julia and the rest of the family deal with the presence of the ailing Phyllis while trying to find a way to bring Victoria back to the present.
Episode 9
Episode #1.9
Fri, Mar 1, 199144 mins
During Jeremiah's funeral, Josette accuses Barnabas of killing her true love. Abigail enlists the aid of Reverend Trask to have Victoria Winters jailed for witchcraft. Barnabas hires Peter as Victoria's lawyer to defend her. Meanwhile, Angelique uses black magic to resurrect Jeremiah as a zombie under her control to kill Josette. When Barnabas finally discovers that Angelique is the witch responsible for everything going on, he kills her, but not before she places a curse of eternity upon him in which he later gets bitten by a vampire bat. In the present, the Collins family continues looking after the ailing Phyllis, while Carolyn continues to be under Barnabas' control. Maggie holds another séance to try to find Victoria only to have Angelique's spirit arrive and posses Julia.
Episode 10
Episode #1.10
Fri, Mar 8, 199146 mins
The Collins Family mourns the apparent death of Barnabas as they move into the new Collinwood mansion. Meanwhile, Peter enlists Natalie's help to help Victoria prove her innocence. That same night, Barnabas rises as vampire and first makes Millicent his first victim. The vampire attacks in Collinsport only increase the evil and fanatical Trask's belief that the incarcerated Victoria is responsible. Victoria tries to persuade Josette to leave Collinsport before something happens to her. In the present, Joe discovers that Carolyn is under Barnabas' control. When Sheriff Patterson refuses to do anything, Joe plots to take matters into his own hands.
Episode 11
Episode #1.11
Fri, Mar 15, 199145 mins
Victoria's witchcraft trial begins where the Trask tries to play on the jury and the communities fears to act in his favor as well as testimony from the equally fanatical Abigail. Despite Peter's best efforts at a defense, including testimony from Ben that Angelique was the real witch, Angelique's spirit appears and points out Victoria, the stranger in the community, of being the witch. In the meantime, Josette continues to fall under Barnabas' control as he seeks to make her his vampire bride. But Angelique's evil spirit seeks to prevent Josette from becoming a vampire by giving her visions of her life as a "creature of the night". In the present, Joe tries to stake Barnabas in his coffin, but is prevented by the possessed Julie who kills him before she is subdued by Willie.
Episode 12
Episode #1.12
Fri, Mar 22, 199145 mins
Barnabas' vampirism is discovered when he lures his mother, Naomi, to the old house to reveal himself. Unfortunately, Abigail also arrives at the old house where Barnabas kills her. Daniel and Sarah witness the events and while attempting to flee, get lost in the woods during a storm where Sarah falls ill and soon dies. Meanwhile, Peter attempts to save Victoria from being hanged as a witch by filing every appeal possible. Victoria comes to realize that Barnabas is indeed a vampire and that Angelique is responsible for her arriving in the year 1790 in order to kill every member of the Collins family. When Barnabas learns about Victoria's plight, he gets revenge against Reverend Trask by walling him up alive in a wall of the old house. Things come full circle as Joshua learns that Barnabas is a vampire in which he has Ben seal him alive in his coffin, and has Naomi, driven insane from the truth, imprisoned in the tower at Collinwood, and sees Daniel recover. In the present, Maggie attempts to perform an exorcism on Julia to expel the spirit of Angelique, who instead possesses Maggie who tries to kill the comatose Phyllis. Just when all seems lost, Victoria is transported on the scaffold back to the present, and Phyllis is transported back to 1790 and hung in Victoria's place.