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July 30, 1969 |
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Fearing that Jamison will die if Count Petofi dies, Barnabas decides to give the hand to Aristede and Petofi.
Synopsis
- The year is 1897 at the great estate of Collinwood, and this night, a storm has blown up quickly over the dark sea. And in the main house, another storm rages, for this is a night of treachery and deceit. A possessed child has been sent to find the missing magical hand which will restore a dying man to life. And now that he has taken the hand from its hiding place, he must fight the weakness he is beginning to feel and save not only the dying man but himself.
Jamison collapses in the forest, and is found by Quentin. Quentin takes the box away from Jamison and opens it to discover the hand. Jamison falls down in a faint. Aristede waits with Count Petofi for Jamison to arrive and wonders what has happened. Quentin takes both the hand and the unconscious Jamison to Barnabas.
Barnabas and Quentin reluctantly decide to give the hand to Aristede and Petofi, to save Jamison and Quentin. Quentin tells Jamison that he is the only one he has ever loved. Barnabas gives the hand to Aristede. Barnabas talks to Aristede about his mission there failing if Jamison dies. After over an hour of waiting, Petofi emerges with his hand again attached to his body.
Memorable quotes
- Aristede: The hand knows what it must do.
Dramatis personae
- Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins
- David Selby as Quentin Collins
- Thayer David as Count Petofi
- Michael Stroka as Aristede
- David Henesy as Jamison Collins / Andreas Petofi
Background information and notes
Production
Story
- Count Petofi's curse began in the forest of Oshdan.
- INTERNAL MONOLOGUE: Jamison: I must get to him; Aristede: We have no time; Quentin: He's dying.
- TIMELINE: It's been over an hour since Count Petofi was reunited with the hand.
Bloopers and continuity errors
- In the teaser, as Aristede is talking to the comatose Petofi, there is a lot of shuffling noise from off-stage.
- As Quentin leaps to help Jamison up, the "ground" slides underfoot.
- After Quentin finds Jamison with the box containing the right hand of Count Petofi, there is a scene at the abandoned old mill where Aristede is pondering his future. When he enters the room where Count Petofi is lying in suspended animation, not only does Count Petofi's gloved left hand move down to the side of his body and then up to his chest, but his bare right hand is also momentarily visible. In a subsequent scene, Petofi also moves his left hand from his side to his chest.
- When Barnabas is kneeling down to Jamison/Petofi lying on the couch in the cottage, the camera at one point moves wildly up and down.
- At the beginning of the second scene with Aristede and Petofi, as Aristede is pacing, there is a loud clicking noise from off-stage.
- In the old mill, the camera shows a wider area than it should, and we can see that the staircase only has about 8 steps and is around 5 feet high, and it leads nowhere. We see this top of the short staircase twice more during the episode.
- When Barnabas starts to leave the cottage to give the hand to Aristede, he forgets to pick up the box for a second, then swings back to pick it up.
- In the old mill, when Aristede walks out of the back room with Petofi in it, the microphone doesn’t pick up his first few words to Barnabas. We only see his lips move.
- Michael Stroka flubs a line when Aristede is talking to Barnabas after giving the hand back to Petofi: "Well, it's safe to say that he hoped it would turn out at his ha...as it has."
- Michael Stroka steps on Jonathan Frid's lines: Barnabas: "How can you sit there sipping tea when within that room..." Aristede: "Well, what can..." Barnabas: "...there's a mad..." Aristede: "...what can I do about what's happening in that room?"
- In Act III, as Quentin moves from looking out the window at the cottage to the couch when Jamison/Petofi revives, a boom mic shadow moves across the floor on the left.
- Jonathan Frid flubs a line (to Aristede): "If I can...can't go through that door, why can't you?"
- When the final scene with Quentin at Jamison's side starts, David Henesy's eyes are open despite the fact that Jamison is meant to be unconscious. Realizing the scene has begun, Henesy immediately closes his eyes.
External Links
Dark Shadows - Episode 814 on the IMDb
Dark Shadows Everyday - Episode 814 - Another Thing Coming
Dark Shadows Commentary- Episode 814: The hand knows what it must do