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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 20
Elizabeth is disturbed by Willie's disappearence. While she did want him to leave, he did not take any of his belongings or the money Elizabeth offered him with him. Jason, looking for Willie, finds out from the caretaker that Willie had broken into the Collins Mausoleum the night before. At Collinwood, Mrs. Johnson opens the door and finds a man who asks for Elizabeth. Mrs. Johnson goes to tell Elizabeth, but first asks the man's name. He tells her his name is Barnabas Collins - the name of the man in the portrait that is hanging in the foyer at that moment.
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Dark Shadows - Season 2 - Episode 16
Sam is alarmed to learn of the influence his painting has had on David, but finds himself unable to stop working on a second, identical painting. Lieutenant Riley investigates the fire at Laura's apartment.
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Dark Shadows - Season 2 - Episode 26
Lieutenant Riley continues to investigate Laura. Meanwhile, Victoria is compelled to take her and Frank to a mysterious building located on the edge of a cemetery.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 21
Barnabas tells Elizabeth that he is from England, and is the only surviving member of the English branch. When asked, he tells her that he is thinking of possibly settling down in Collinsport. Barnabas visits the Old Hous and finds David Collins playing there. After David leaves the Old House, Barnabas begins to talk to the portrait of Josette Collins.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 41
A violent storm rages and the power goes out. Later Barnabas shows up and tells Victoria and Carolyn the story of Josette Collins and how she jumped from Widow's hill. Victoria tells Barnabas how someone called with a tip that Maggie could be found in the cemetery. Jason tells Barnabas that Willie is up to something. Barnabas returns to the Old House screaming for Willie.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 69
Maggie manages to escape to the beach and is discovered by Sam. Dr. Woodard remains concerned for Maggie's safety and decides to announce her death, while she is sent away for treatment.
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Dark Shadows - Season 2 - Episode 17
Victoria looks through the Collins family album and is intrigued when she realises that its illustration of Josette features an identical locket to the one Laura wears. Riley's continues to search for answers.
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Dark Shadows - Season 2 - Episode 47
The police are forced to close the case of the corpse found in Phoenix, but are shocked to discover that the remains have vanished from their casket in the mortuary.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 23
Barnabs meets Victoria at the Old House. He tells Victoria about the history of the Old House. Roger and Carolyn meet Barnabas at the Collinwood. They are both astonished by how much he looks like the original Barnabas Collins.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 40
Maggie appears to be feeling better, but then her mood changes and demands that Joe leave. Joe gets Victoria to watch over Maggie. Jason questions Willie about Maggie's disappearance. Willie warns Jason to stop asking questions for his own good. Victoria watches over Maggie, then the lighting flashes and in the doorway there is a figure of a man.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 43
Maggie is found unconscious and the wounds on her neck have been re-opened. Dr. Woodard moves Maggie to the hospital. The nurse watches over Maggie as she sleeps, Maggie appears to get worse, the nurse examines her then goes to get the doctor. When they both return Maggie is gone and the window is wide open. The nurse tells Dr. Woodard that there was every indication that Maggie was dead.
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Dark Shadows - Season 1 - Episode 61
Burke makes a dramatic entrance at the Evans cottage, inviting himself to join the meal for Victoria. There, he tells her his version of the events that led to his manslaughter charge.
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Dark Shadows - Season 1 - Episode 95
By chance, Victoria sees Burke's distinctive fountain pen and recognises it as identical to the one she found on the beach. Now believing that Burke murdered Malloy, she is terrified and telephones Roger.
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Dark Shadows - Season 1 - Episode 82
Burke realises that Roger must have lost the fountain pen at Lookout Point, implicating his involvement in the death of Malloy. Roger goes to David's bedroom and removes the pen.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 22
Jason tries to get more money out of Elizabeth, which upsets her because she still does not know whether Willie Loomis has left town. At the Blue Whale, Burke tells Carolyn that he is sorry for using her to hurt her family. Carolyn thinks that Jason is holding something against her mother. Jason warns Carolyn that if she doesn't stop asking questions her mother will get into trouble.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 24
Joe tells Burke and Maggie that a calf was found drained of blood. Willie, visibly shaken/shaking, shows up at the Blue Whale, Burke plans to kick him out, but Willie apologizes for his behavior the other evening. Jason questions Willie tries to give him the money to leave town, but evades the questions and tells Jason he will be staying. Jason notices blood on Willie's sleeve.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 31
Victoria goes to the Old House and finds Willie is now working for Barnabas, Willie is eager for Victoria to leave. Barnabas commissions Sam Evans to paint his portrait; Barnabas is insistent that he work only at night. Sam paints all night as sunrise approaches Barnabas disappears.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 51
Dr. Woodard wants to get a sample of Willie's blood as his symptoms resembled those of Maggie. Jason starts to become suspicious of Barnabas Collins. Jason tells Elizabeth that she should marry him.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 32
Victoria tells Elizabeth that Willie is now working for Barnabas. Elizabeth goes to the Old House to speak to Barnabas and David follows her (against her wishes). David is disturbed by all the changes that have been made to the Old House. Burke asks Elizabeth has sold some land to raise cash, he suspects that Jason McGuire has something to do with it. David goes back to the Old House and is locked in, with the sound of howling dogs outside.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 30
Barnabas visits the coffee shop and talks with Maggie. Barnabas leaves his cane behind. Joe arrives to pickup Maggie and she notices the cane, they decide to return it to Barnabas. Willie asks Barnabas what his plans are for Maggie, he knows that Barnabas has "plans" for her. Later Maggie feels as if someone is watching her.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 33
David asks Barnabas if he can have the portrait of Josette, Barnabas tells him it belongs to the Old House, but he can still visit it. Elizabeth asks Barnabas to fire Willie, but he convinces her that Willie will cause no problems. Jason believes Willie is up to something now that he is working for Barnabas. Maggie, disturbed by the recent attacks of women in town, dreams that she is dead in a coffin.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 42
Barnabas beats Willie and accuses him of tipping off Victoria that Maggie could be found at Eagle Hill Cemetery. Barnabas also warns Willie to get Jason McGuire to stop asking questions. Dr. Woodard examines Maggie again and is still puzzled by her illness. Victoria watches over Maggie. Sam works on Barnabas' portrait and Barnabas steps out for some night air. Maggie becomes agitated and wants Victoria to leave. Victoria goes to call for help, the door slams behind her and the sound of vicious dogs can be heard.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 50
Dr. Woodard is puzzled by what he finds in samples of Maggie's blood. Roger suspects Elizabeth is paying money to Jason because he has something on her. Elizabeth tells Jason she cannot give him any more money as it is starting to attract attention; Jason agrees. Someone breaks into Dr. Woodard's office and steals the samples of Maggie's blood.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 53
Dr. Woodard takes a sample of Willie's blood, however Barnabas switches slides while distracting him. Dr. Woodard is unable to find anything unusual in the blood sample.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 2
Sam receives an offer of professional exhibition of his paintings, but needs to regain some of his earlier works which are now owned by Roger. A stranger makes an appearance at the Blue Whale.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 49
David speaks with Maggie, thinking she is Josette. Roger, Victoria and Barnabas find David and lecture him again about trespassing. Barnabas reminds Maggie that she is Josette. Barnabas provides an alibi for Willie to the sheriff. Maggie calls out for David.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 52
Jason tries to blackmail Elizabeth into marrying him, Elizabeth refuses and rather go to jail for Paul Stoddard's murder. Elizabeth tries to tell Carolyn, however she refused to listen. Elizabeth agrees to marry Jason.
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Dark Shadows - Season 4 - Episode 87
The visitor turns out to be Barnabas, feigning concern at Julia's welfare. Carolyn makes moves to obtain Tony's keys. Later at his office, Carolyn gains access to the safe, but is discovered by Tony.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 39
Dr. Woodard examines Maggie and orders a blood transfusion. Maggie struggles as they give her the transfusion. Sam watches over Maggie as she sleeps, but he dozes off. Sam awakes as Maggie gets out of bed and leaves the house.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 60
Carolyn and Elizabeth continue to argue about plans for the impending wedding. Seemingly to spite her mother, Carolyn begins a relationship with Buzz Hackett, an uncouth hippy motorcyclist.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 79
Before a shocked audience, a shell-shocked Elizabeth remembers the fateful night 18 years ago that lead to the death of Paul Stoddard, and of the deal she struck with Jason to conceal the murder.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 29
Willie starts to feel a better and decides to leave. Willie tries to tell Elizabeth something but she doesn't want to hear it. Elizabeth agrees to let Barnabas live in the Old House. Barnabas goes to the Old House and Willie joins him.
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Dark Shadows - Season 4 - Episode 1
Jason's body lays dead in the floor in the Old House's basement. Willie comes down and sees the body. As he grieves for Jason, Barnabas asks him why. Willie tells him that even though Jason threatened to kill him, the two of them were always friends. Barnabas and Willie carry Jason out of the house and take him to the secret room in the mausoleum. Though Barnabas hates to dishonor his family with McGuire's presence, he and Willie bury him under the concrete floor. Meanwhile, Maggie is able to remember Sarah from a sketch that he father made. Later, Sarah appears at the mausoleum.
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Dark Shadows - Season 4 - Episode 19
Victoria, Barnabas and Burke share an uneasy evening in each other's company. Sarah appears to Maggie in her room at Windcliff and engineers her escape, leading her back to Collinsport.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 73
Maggie undergoes therapy with the aloof Dr Julia Hoffman, who continues to try and restore her personality from the childlike state of her trauma. Joe and Sam are sceptical of this approach.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 62
Jason's plans to marry Elizabeth continue to develop apace as he announces a date in two week's time. Carolyn smugly informs her mother that she will marry Buzz on the same day.
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Dark Shadows - Season 1 - Episode 42
Burke makes moves to take over the Collins empire. Meanwhile, Sam's visit to Collinwood proves fruitless, as he finds himself unable to reveal the truth to Elizabeth.
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Dark Shadows - Season 1 - Episode 91
Burke agrees to take Victoria to Bangor with him to give her a break from her recent ordeal, but continues to warn her to get away from Collinwood for her own safety.
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Dark Shadows - Season 1 - Episode 81
Matthew Morgan continues to make threats towards Burke. Meanwhile, Mrs Johnson visits Collinwood, where Elizabeth offers her the job of housekeeper.
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Dark Shadows - Season 3 - Episode 70
Victoria and Carolyn are devastated to learn the news of Maggie's death. Elizabeth is troubled by Carolyn's developing relationship with Buzz Hackett and asks Victoria to be witness at her wedding.
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Dark Shadows - Season 5 - Episode 29
The ghost of Jeremiah continues to torment Angelique. As Reverend Trask and Abigail Collins continue to hunt for Miss Winters, Barnabas and Ben Stokes hide her at the Old House. Just before her wedding to Barnabas, Angelique is abducted by Jeremiah's ghost and is then buried alive in his own grave.
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Dark Shadows - Season 6 - Episode 2
Jeremiah appears in a dream with a warning for Victoria about Barnabas. Julia struggles to protect Victoria as Barnabas' paranoia grows. Visiting Victoria, he attacks her to protect his secret.
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Dark Shadows - Season 4 - Episode 66
Julia and Woodard are in his office. Barnabas enters, transforming from a bat to a vampire. Barnabas and Julia inject him with a poision that will make his death look like a heartattack so they can get his notebook on Barnabas and prevent him from telling people that Barnabas is a vampire. Meanwhile, at the Blue Whale, the sheriff comes to Sam Evans. He asks Sam if he's seen Woodard. They have a discussion over where he could be. A woman shrieks outside due to the sight of a bat. Sam & the sheriff decide to go to Dr. Woodard's office. They break down the door and find the body of Dr. Woodard. Julia hears the ghost of Dr. Woodard tell her that 'you no longer have any friends'
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Dark Shadows - Season 1 - Episode 22
Sam Evans reluctantly accepts a commission from Burke to paint a portrait of him, apparently destined for the Collinwood drawing room. Roger is annoyed that Carolyn does not believe Burke's guilt.
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Dark Shadows - Season 4 - Episode 90
Disturbed by her nephew's insistence that he is haunted by a ghost, Elizabeth Collins-Stoddard reluctantly agrees to hold a seance in her home. During the seance, the ghost, aka Sarah Collins, chooses to speak through the governess, Victoria Winters. However, the seance doesn't last long when Miss Winters suddenly disappears and a strange woman is found sitting in her place.
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Dark Shadows - Season 5 - Episode 17
Feeling guilty over their sudden elopement, Josette persuades Jeremiah to return to The Old House and face their respective families. Shocked and feeling bitterly betrayed, Barnabas challenges his once-beloved uncle to a duel.
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Dark Shadows - Season 4 - Episode 8
Burke is unimpressed by the music box and Victoria's growing interest in the life of Josette. Later, they almost encounter Julia and Maggie, as they visit the cemetery in an attempt to restore her memory.
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Dark Shadows - Season 1 - Episode 71
Roger takes Victoria on a tour of the Collins cannery, before taking her to see the sheriff. In spite of her concerns about Roger's innocence, Victoria repeats her account, providing Roger with an alibi.
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Dark Shadows - Season 4 - Episode 67
Sam comes home to Maggie. Maggie is shocked to find out that Dr. Woodard is dead. She feels responsible and feels his death is linked to her kidnapping earlier. Sam tells her that no one knows if it is murder or not. Burke, Sam, and the sheriff talk about what they think happened to Dr. Woodard in his office. At Collinwood, Burke tells Victoria that he has some bad news. At first she thinks he is referring to his trip to Brazil. He tells her that Dr. Woodard is dead. She is shocked. Julia enters. Burke tells her the news and Julia acts shocked by it. The coroner calls Sam and tells him that Dr. Woodard died from a heart attack.