Episode
Dark Shadows: DS-503
Overview
Julia enters the Old House and finds Willie, seemingly in a trance-like state. She goes to him, and he says he was afraid it would be Carolyn. Julia finds that Willie has had the dream. Julia tells Willie that if the dream curse isn't stopped, someone will die--Barnabas. Willie tells Julia the dream, and he acts as if he's crazy. Julia offers to erase his memory of the dream, which he gladly accepts. While hypnotizing him, Willie says he sees a vision of Carolyn--underground! Julia is starteled by this, but continues to erase the memory of the dream. In the root cellar, Carolyn tells Adam to take her away. He does not understand. While his back is turned, she picks up a rock and is about to hit him with it, but he prevents her from doing so. Meanwhile, Julia finds that the memory of the dream will not go away. The dream is to ingrained into Willie's subconscious. Julia asks him about what he said about Carolyn, but he does not remember. He fears that Carolyn may be dead. Meanwhile, Car
Details
- Series
- Dark Shadows
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 43
- Air date
- 1968-05-29
- Runtime
- 23 min
Episode context
DS-503 is Episode 43 in Season 6 of Dark Shadows. It aired on 1968-05-29. The runtime is 23 min.
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Episode 42: DS-502
Tony and Elizabeth mount a search for the missing Carolyn. Adam hides Carolyn in a cellar while he attempts to reason with her. Willie goes through the dream ordeal, seeing a vision of a wolf.
Episode 44: DS-504
In the root cellar, Carolyn wakes up. She tries to get out but can not due to the rock. At Collinwood, Elizabeth and Vickie sit in the drawing room. Elizabeth says she thinks Carolyn is dead--or soon will be. The phone rings, and Elizabeth hurries to answer it. Elizabeth tells Vickie that the person on the phone was the sheriff--Adam has been caught. Elizabeth decides to go to town to question Adam, and Vickie volunteers to go with her. Carolyn muses over things, and decides Adam must've left to get food since that was the only word she said that he fully understood. Meanwhile, at the jail, Adam sits in his cell, frustrated. Vickie and Elizabeth enter with the sheriff's deputy. The deputy makes fun of Adam, and Elizabeth tells him to stay out of Adam's sight. Elizabeth tries to question Adam, but he can not speak. Elizabeth decides they can not get anything from him, and starts to live. Adam moans, and Vickie notes that it seems like he wants to help them. Carolyn starts going crazy in
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Episode 41: DS-501
After Adam attacks him, Barnabas decides that he will never be tamed and makes plans to kill him. The escaped Adam finds shelter at Collinwood, where he chances upon Carolyn, whom he abducts.
Episode 45: DS-505
Adam runs through the woods, trying to escape from the sheriff's men. Sheriff Patterson goes to the Old House to ask Barnabas questions. He asks why he isn't looking for Carolyn. Barnabas says that he thought he would get the information from the Adam. Sheriff Patterson says he didn't. He tells Barnabas that Adam has escaped. Barnabas is surprised by this. Adam comes to the root cellar where he had locked Carolyn and opens it. Carolyn tries to escape, but Adam pulls on her hair. She tells him that he's hurting her, but Adam just mimics the word 'hurting'. She says that she wants to go 'home', and Adam mimics her again. She starts screaming at him. Adam covers her mouth and takes her back into the root cellar. Carolyn cries, and Adam cries with her while playing with her hair. Adam takes Carolyn out of the cellar and carries her off. Meanwhile, at the Old House, Sheriff Patterson continues to question Barnabas. He says that Adam had been shot by Roger earlier, but when he was seen aga
Episode 40: DS-500
Julia examines Sam and thinks it unlikely that he will ever see again. Willie takes pleasure in tormenting Adam, despite Barnabas' warnings. Adam retaliates and escapes from his cell, consumed with rage.
Episode 46: DS-506
Barnabas and Willie search the bottem of Widow's Hill. Barnabas thinks Adam may still be alive, and if so he has to find him. Willie tells him that Adam has to be dead, and that his body must've been cast out to sea by the waves. Barnabas tells him to continue to search anyway. Willie says he wants to go to Collinwood to see Carolyn and tell her the dream. Barnabas tells him he can not go to Collinwood so the Dream Curse will not come to him. He then orders Willie to go, and Willie gives Barnabas a look of pure hatred. At Collinwood, Carolyn brushes her hair while some food lays by her. Elizabeth enters. Carolyn assures her that she is not afraid. Elizabeth tells her that the police say Adam is dead. She then asks if Adam hurt her. Carolyn tells her that he tried to be nice towards her in clumsy way...like a child. Carolyn says she'll sleep, and Elizabeth exits. Willie enters through the window. Carolyn is sleeping, and is awakened by him. She starts screaming, but he covers her mouth.
Episode 39: DS-499
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Episode 47: DS-507
Carolyn starts the dream. She hears a knock on the door but doesn't answer it. She wakes up, and says she will not have the dream. At the Old House, Julia meets with Professor Stokes. Professor takes out a picture of a portrait of Josette duPres, and asks who it is. After finding out, he said it looks like Maggie Evans, and that is why Angelique would start with her. Stokes sends for Carolyn. When Carolyn arrives, they have Willie tell her the dream, even though she does not want to. Stokes puts her into a trance, which makes Carolyn have Stokes be the beckoner in her dream. She falls to sleep, and dreams the dream. At the end of the dream, she sees her own gravestone, screams, and wakes up. Carolyn then tells Stokes the dream. Stokes lays down to sleep on the couch and falls asleep...
Episode 38: DS-498
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Episode 48: DS-508
Professor Stokes has the dream. In the dream, he refuses to open the door for the beckoner unless he speaks. The beckoner (Sam Evans) speaks. Professor Stokes tells him he will go by himself, but Sam says he'll die if he does. Professor Stokes goes to the door himself, and Sam Evans follows him. Professor Stokes recites the 'pitiful riddle' and then refuses to open the doors. Angelique appears. Angelique thinks it's Ben Stokes, but he tells her he is Timothy Stokes and not as ignorant as Ben. She threatens to make him as ignorant as Ben. She says he will die, and he says he knows he will---in a bed, of natural causes. Timothy calls her Cassandra, figuring that the witch really is Cassandra. Angelique then disappears and Timothy wakes up. Timothy tells Julia that the dream has been stopped for now. There is a knock at the door. Julia and Timothy answer the door. Joe Haskell & Sam Evans are at the door. Joe tells them that Sam felt he had to come here. Professor Stokes tells Sam that he
Episode 37: DS-497
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Episode 49: DS-509
Adam drops the knife. Sam asks him what his name is, and Adam responds saying his name is 'Adam'. Sam gets some water from the kitchen to help Adam and clean his wounds, which had gotten from his fall off Widow's Hill. Professor Timothy Stokes enters, and Adam runs off into the night. Sam asks Stokes to stop him from leaving, but Stokes doesn't. Stokes says he seems like the man who jumped off Widow's Hill. Sam says no one could've survived that fall. Stokes tells Sam that if he has a dream in which he answers the door and sees Barnabas Collins, he should call Stokes immediatly. At Tony Peterson's office, Cassandra and Tony talk. Tony tells Cassandra that he does not like her and wishs she would stay at home with her husband Roger. Tony takes out a lighter, which Cassandra uses to hypnotize him. Cassandra sends Tony to Professor Stokes' house to poision him. At Stokes' house, Vickie visits him. She says the portrait of Angelique has been missing for over a week. Stokes talks with Vicki