Episode
Dark Shadows: DS-1123
Overview
Desmond starts to act erratically. Daniel is happy to find that Quentin is alive. Daniel tells Desmond about several strange murders that centered around a disembodied head in 1803. Desmond finds Daphne working at the local newspaper, where he has gone to do some research about the head. Desmond finds out from Daniel that the head once possessed Otis Greene. Daphne secret writes that she plans to kill Quentin.
Details
- Series
- Dark Shadows
- Season
- Season 11
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 1970-10-14
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
DS-1123 is Episode 14 in Season 11 of Dark Shadows. It aired on 1970-10-14. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 13: DS-1122
Barnabas questions Daphne about Gerard, she does not know he is. It is revealed that Quentin was responsible for Gabriel ending up in the wheelchair when they were children. Quentin is disturbed by a note that he finds. Desmond has a dream in which the Head says “you must help me.”
Episode 15: DS-1124
Leticia walks in on Desmond and senses evil, later she finds the Head of Judah Zachary. Lamar suspects that Barnabas is linked with the evil that is happening in Collinsport, and that Roxanne knows more than she is telling. Leticia uses her powers to tell Lamar where his father’s body is at, Barnabas interrupts before she can reveal any more. Desmond forces Otis Greene to tell him where the body of Judah Zachary is at; he dies shortly after seeing the head.
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Episode 12: DS-1121
Quentin explains that he and survived. Quentin finds that Samantha has married Gerard. Quentin tells Samantha that she will have to choose between him and Gerard; she decides to go to Boston to be with Tad (avoiding making a choice). Barnabas goes to the chapel to view Ben’s body. Barnabas finds that Quentin has returned to Collinwood. Barnabas sees Daphne in the woods.
Episode 16: DS-1125
Desmond tries to find the body of Judah from the clues that Otis Greene gave him before he died. Gabriel believes that Samantha is going to choose Gerard to stay with. Desmond asks Gabriel to help him decipher Otis Greene’s dying words. Desmond finds a secret under cave in a graveyard, and mask encrusted with jewels.
Episode 11: DS-1120
Gabriel tells Daniel that Ben is dead and that Samantha has married Gerard; Daniel tells Gabriel that he approved of the marriage. Desmond finds a note left behind by Ben telling him that the head must be destroyed. Gabriel and Desmond make plans against Gerard. Samantha and Gerard are shocked when Quentin shows up at Collinwood.
Episode 17: DS-1126
Desmond hires a local man, Tim Braithwaite to help him move the coffin with the body of Judah. Lamar, Flora and Gerard have a seance to contact the Reverend Trask; during the seance Trask says that an evil will walk again soon. Tim removes the mask from Judah’s coffin, the body then kills him. The body emerges from the underground cave.
Episode 10: DS-1119
Gabriel tells Gerard he wants him to kill Samantha soon, he agrees. Ben is found dead; it appears as if he tried to cut his own head off. Gabriel is surprised to find that Gerard and Samantha have been married.
Episode 18: DS-1127
Desmond returns to find Tim dead and the body gone; he decides he must destroy the head, he later finds it missing. Desmond tells Quentin about the head, they make plans to destroy Judah. Samantha has made the decision who she plans to stay married to.
Episode 9: DS-1118
Ben is upset by the presence of the head. Barnabas meets Daniel, who remembers him from when he was a child in 1797, Barnabas tells him that he is the son of the Barnabas he knew. Gerard explains how he saw Quentin and Tad were lost at sea during a sever storm. Ben remembers a time many years earlier when a disembodied head was associated with several murders. Ben decides the head must be destroyed; Ben is tormented in the woods by the head.
Episode 19: DS-1128
Samantha chooses Gerard. Quentin tries to stop Samantha from taking Tad, she tells Quentin that Tad is not his son. Samantha makes plans to secretly leave Collinwood with Tad; Gabriel overhears this and reports it to Quentin. Hortense, the Collins governess, is attacked by Judah’s body in the woods.
Episode 8: DS-1117
Barnabas tells Julia that he has used the I Ching and was able to travel back in time from 1970. Desmond Collins (Flora’s son) returns to Collinsport with a disembodied head to give to Quentin; Flora tells him that Quentin is dead. Barnabas introduces himself as Julia’s brother. Julia tries to hypnotize Roxanne, later she finds Roxanne missing. Roxanne wanders into Collinwood and claims she knows Barnabas. Desmond becomes suspicious of Barnabas and Julia. Flora is frightened by the head.
Episode 20: DS-1129
Quentin reminds Samantha not to get any ideas about leaving with Tad. Quentin tells Barnabas about Judah and his headless body. Julia warns Daphne to leave town and not to accept a job as governess at Collinwood as it will lead to her death. Quentin offers Daphne the position of governess, she accepts. Angelique goes to secret room in the Collins mausoleum and finds Barnabas’ coffin gone.