Episode
Dark Shadows: DS-1117
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Dark Shadows
- Season
- Season 11
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 1970-10-06
- Runtime
- 23 min
Episode context
DS-1117 is Episode 8 in Season 11 of Dark Shadows. It aired on 1970-10-06. The runtime is 23 min.
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Episode 7: DS-1116
Ben shows Julia a note from Barnabas explain what he plans to do. Samantha finds Roxanne nearly dead; however when Samantha returns with Gerard for help she is gone. Julia is able to give Roxanne a transfusion. Barnabas finds that Julia is interfering with his plans and tries to attack her, but something stops him and he fall to the floor.
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.
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Episode 6: DS-1115
Gerard tries to romance Samantha, knowing that she is the heir to the Collins fortune (now that Quentin is dead). Gabriel tells Gerard that he knows his real name is Ivan Miller a known swindler; he blackmails him. Gabriel has Gerard get arsenic and plans to have him use it to kill Samantha. Barnabas plans to make Roxanne a vampire and take her away with him; Barnabas bites Roxanne again and leaves her to die.
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 5: DS-1114
Barnabas is unable to go back to 1840, Barnabas and Stokes find Julia’s grave in the graveyard. In 1840 Julia meets Roxanne. Lamar Trask expects to marry Roxanne, but she detests him. Lamar Trask tells Julia that he expects to get revenge for the disappearance of his father in 1797. Barnabas meets Roxanne and falls in love with her, later he bites her.
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 4: DS-1113
Ben tries to convince Barnabas that he must be chain in his coffin, he refuses. Gerard and Leticia make plans to “get money” that is at Collinwood. In 1970 Barnabas decides he must go back to in time. Carolyn is mentally unstable, and Quentin tries to hang himself. Barnabas uses the I Ching wands to attempt to get back to 1840. In the trance Barnabas sees Julia’s grave in 1840.
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 3: DS-1112
Julia opens Barnabas’ coffin, he does not recognize her and tries to kill her. Ben stops Barnabas from killing her. Julia introduces herself as “Julia Collins,” a cousin from England. Julia and Ben decide that they must chain Barnabas back in his coffin, but at dawn they find his coffin gone. Gerard finds the matching earring in Julia’s room and starts to suspect her.
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 2: DS-1111
Ben stops Daniel from harming Julia; Daniel mistakes her for his wife who he killed ten years earlier. During the struggle one of Julia’s earrings falls off and Gabriel later finds it. Gerard is a clairvoyant. Julia and Stokes devise a story that she is Julia Collins, brother to Barnabas, both of whom are cousins from England. Julia goes to Barnabas’ coffin and plans to release him.
Episode 14: DS-1123
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.