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Barnabas performs a ritual to return Quentin's spirit to his body.
Synopsis
- The great house at Collinwood stands deserted. A ghost walks the silent rooms, waiting for a possessed child to die. But Barnabas Collins, determined to thwart the spirit, finds himself back in the year 1897, and Barnabas discovers that his presence there changes the history he knows happened, for Quentin, killed and buried, has risen from his grave, a robot following the orders of a vengeful Angelique.
Quentin puts Rachel in his coffin. Sandor finds Rachel and saves her; however, he is attacked by Quentin. When Barnabas rises at dusk, he finds Quentin sitting in a chair near his coffin. Barnabas performs a ritual to return Quentin’s spirit to his body; however, it fails.
Memorable quotes
- Barnabas (to Magda): Don't tell me you read his [Sandor's] palm, too! I thought it was a trick for strangers, something you did to frighten little girls.
- Magda (when Sandor comes in the door): Oh, the hero!
- Sandor: I'm all right.
- Magda: Oh, my big, bad, bold hero.
- Sandor: Oh, shut up. I cannot hit you. My arm is too sore.
- Magda: Oh, what a brave man you are.
- Rachel: Yes.
- Magda: What a brave man to fight a zombie, a brave, foolish man.
- Magda: You could have been killed.
- Sandor: Yeah, that at least would have made you cry.
- Magda: Now I have to nurse you. Better that he should have finished you.
- Rachel: Thank you, Sandor.
- Sandor: I don't like to see a beautiful lady getting buried before her time.
- Rachel: How can a man be dead and yet walk? Should I begin believing in everything else, too? Ghosts, witches, werewolves?
- Sandor: There has to be truth to make a story.
Dramatis personae
- Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins
- Grayson Hall as Magda
- Thayer David as Sandor
- Kathryn Leigh Scott as Rachel Drummond
- David Selby as Quentin Collins
Background information and notes
Production
- When Quentin knocks Sandor unconscious in the graveyard, he falls in front of a tombstone that says “Laura Murdoch Radcliffe, born 1840.” This of course is from the 1967 Phoenix story line (including the prop itself). The date of the rise of the Phoenix (in years ending in '67) will change when Laura returns to the story in 1897.
Story
- Barnabas witnessed the ceremony to restore life to a zombie performed over 100 years ago back in Martinique. He wrote about it to Jeremiah.
- INTERNAL MONOLOGUE: Quentin: She will not let me.
- TIMELINE: It was thirty minutes ago when Rachel last saw Barnabas.
Bloopers and continuity errors
- Smoke from the graveyard drifts into the foyer of the Old House.
- As Sandor sits down to eat his soup, a shadow can be seen moving on the wall, likely Jonathan Frid taking his place for his entrance into the scene.
- After Sandor eats some soup, some drops remain on his mustache and his lip. Even when he returns after leaving the room, the food remains on his face.
- A boom microphone appears several times during the first scene with Barnabas, Magda, and Sandor.
- Barnabas is afraid Rachel will become the victim of a spell. What happened to the amulet that he gave her to wear that protects the wearer from witchcraft?
- Grayson Hall flubs to Thayer David/Sandor, "He is under your control, not mine," when the line probably should have been "You are under his control, not me".
- Even aside from the question of how Quentin was able to emerge from the cemented-over grave, the open grave has regular cement blocks around it, which certainly isn't reflective of how Quentin would have been able to get through the cement.
- When Quentin puts Rachel down, her head causes one of the big cement blocks to move about, in reality a Styrofoam block.
- When Magda waits outside the Old House for Barnabas, you can see the edges of the pink flat that’s supposed to represent the dawn’s light.
- When Rachel touches the banister of the Old House, it shakes about.
- A cough can be heard as Rachel sits down when she is about to ask Sandor how he knew to come there.
- When Sandor and Magda are looking out the window of the Old House, a boom mic shadow can be seen on the wall to the left.
- In the close-up of the lock on the Old House door as Quentin is trying to get in, it can been that the lock has already been detached from the wood of the door before Quentin breaks the door open.
- As the camera zooms in to Quentin sitting by Barnabas's coffin, you can see David Selby open his eyes wide for the zombie look.
- As Barnabas closes his coffin and sees Quentin, Thayer David 's shadow can be seen moving at the top of the Old House's basement stairs long before Sandor enters the scene.
External Links
Dark Shadows - Episode 724 on the IMDb
Dark Shadows Every Day - Episode 724 - Exquisite Corpse
The Dark Shadows Daybook - Episode 724
Dark Shadows Commentary- Episode 724: There has to be truth to make a story