The BEST episodes of Dark Shadows season 6
Every episode of Dark Shadows season 6, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Dark Shadows season 6!
With vampires, witches, warlocks, werewolves, and other supernatural creatures, it became a surprising phenomenon. The show revolves around Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid), a guilt-ridden 175-year-old vampire who longs to be human again and returns to his estate after being chained inside a coffin for nearly 200 years.
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Season 6 - Episode 176 - Aired 12/4/1968
Chris and Julia find themselves at odds over Amy's care, as she begins life at Collinwood. While walking in the woods at night, Elizabeth finds herself at the mercy of a wild animal.
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Season 6 - Episode 114 - Aired 9/6/1968
Angélique plans on being the life force for the experiment, despite Nicholas' misgivings. Stokes intervenes when Adam and Jeff come to blows. Jeff is bitten by Angélique, as part of her latest scheme.
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Season 6 - Episode 203 - Aired 1/13/1969
Ben kills Nathan and Natalie before they can harm Barnabas. In the present Willie and Julia wait for Barnabas to return, however he never does. Willie checks the mausoleum but Barnabas is not in the coffin; shortly after Willie leaves the chains re-appear around the coffin and Barnabas is trapped inside. Josette appears to Willie, crying; he is convinced that Barnabas is in the coffin now.
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Season 6 - Episode 177 - Aired 12/5/1968
Amy saves Elizabeth from the creature, which she claims walked like a man. Amy and David explore the closed section of Collinwood, where she talks on an old telephone to the ghost of Quentin Collins.
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Season 6 - Episode 219 - Aired 2/4/1969
Maggie dreams that Quentin chokes her to death. Maggie tells everything that has happened to Barnabas who agrees to help her. Stokes suggests holding a seance to contact Janet Findley who died investigating the house. During the seance Mrs. Findley speaks through Mrs. Johnson who says “he killed me.”
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Season 6 - Episode 179 - Aired 12/9/1968
Amy has a worrying dream about Chris being in danger. Victoria visits Stokes, who tells her that there is no hope of reunion with Peter short of death. Feeling suicidal, Victoria goes the edge of Widows' Hill.
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Season 6 - Episode 180 - Aired 12/10/1968
Elizabeth and Stokes save Victoria. The residents hold a seance to contact Peter, but instead a gyspy called Madga delivers a warning via Carolyn. Chris suddenly interrupts the seance, for reasons of his own.
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Season 6 - Episode 184 - Aired 12/16/1968
The spirits of Quentin Collins and a woman named Beth appear to the children. At Quentin's orders, the children bury the skeleton from the room and David places a tripwire on the stairs, which injures Roger.
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Season 6 - Episode 185 - Aired 12/17/1968
Roger recovers from his accident, but Elizabeth decides that outside help is required. Calling upon Professor Stokes, he enlists the services of psychic medium Janet Findley to investigate Collinwood.
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Season 6 - Episode 197 - Aired 1/3/1969
Barnabas decides he has to find a way to travel back to 1796 to save Victoria from the gallows; Julia tries to talk him out of it. Barnabas asks Stokes for help in traveling back in time. David and Amy find the fresh grave of Peter Bradford. Later Barnabas and Julia find the grave of Victoria Winters.
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Season 6 - Episode 198 - Aired 1/6/1969
Barnabas tells Julia everything that happened the night Victoria was hanged in 1796: Naomi’s death, Joshua’s decision to destroy Barnabas, the murder of Nathan Forbes, Joshua’s decision to chain up Barnabas instead of destroying him. Barnabas calls out to the spirits of Peter Bradford and Victoria and then returns to the 1796, once again a vampire.
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Season 6 - Episode 221 - Aired 2/6/1969
In the coffin Barnabas and Chris find a pentagram on the child’s body. Later Quentin tells David to steal the pentagram from Barnabas. Barnabas visits Ezra Braithwaite, a silversmith, to find out more about the pentagram. Mr. Braithwaite finds information and plans to meet Barnabas at Collinwood.
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Season 6 - Episode 223 - Aired 2/10/1969
Barnabas and Julia contemplate what Ezra was going to tell them. David takes the ledger which Ezra brought with him to Collinwood; Quentin makes David rip out a page which contains crucial information. Roger returns to Collinwood and is upset that his son has been accused of some of the strange things occurring recently. The ledge is later found in the drawing room. Julia finds a picture of Beth in an old family album.
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Season 6 - Episode 225 - Aired 2/12/1969
David writes a story about a man who turned into an animal and was hidden in a room, later someone lets the animal out of the room and a hunter kills it. David runs out of the house and Maggie searches for him. Julia and Barnabas find David’s story and speculate if David knows about Chris (who is locked in the mausoleum. David goes to the mausoleum and starts to open the secret panel.
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Season 6 - Episode 226 - Aired 2/13/1969
Barnabas stops David from opening the secret panel in the mausoleum and brings him back to Collinwood. In the morning Barnabas lets Chris out of the mausoleum and tells him that Ned Stuart is looking for him. Chris explains that he was engaged to Ned’s sister and she was the first person to see his transformation into the werewolf. David tells Quentin that he does not want to “play the game” anymore, Quentin touches is arm and makes it feel like it is on fire. Maggie hears David screaming and the sound of a man’s laughter.
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Season 6 - Episode 227 - Aired 2/14/1969
Maggie finds David half unconscious with a burn on his arm asking Quentin not to hurt him; when David revives he denies everything and runs out of the house. Ned confronts Chris, telling him his sister is still alive and he wants Chris to see her. Quentin catches David and Amy in the woods, he wants them to drive everyone out of Collinwood. Maggie searches the house for David and Amy and hears the sound their laughter along with Quentin’s.
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Season 6 - Episode 229 - Aired 2/18/1969
Julia and Elizabeth are convinced that the children must be possessed; Professor Stokes agrees to help. Ned threatens Chris that he better see his sister (Sabrina). A disembodied hand tries to stab Elizabeth with a letter opener; Stokes plans to perform an exorcism on Collinwood. Chris and Julia visit Sabrina Stuart and find that she has been in a state of shock for the last two years (the last time she saw Chris). When Sabrina sees Chris, she climbs out of her wheel chair and falls to the floor, reaching out to him.
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Season 6 - Episode 230 - Aired 2/19/1969
Chris plans to leave Collinsport, Julia tries to convince him to stay. During the exorcism David passes out, and the exorcism fails. Stokes sees Quentin in a mirror and the room starts to burn.
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Season 6 - Episode 232 - Aired 2/21/1969
Chris and Maggie manage to point out the man they have both seen, Quentin, in a family history book to Barnabas. David and Amy sneak back into Collinwood to get the old telephone, however they cannot find it. Maggie catches them and tells them to never go back to the house. Later David and Amy find the telephone in his room. Maggie finds the children missing.
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Season 6 - Episode 234 - Aired 2/25/1969
Maggie comes around and can only remember seeing Quentin then she was dressed in 19th century clothing. Roger is determined to find David, Quentin leaves a note saying “David is mine.” Ned calls Chris and finds that Sabrina can say his name. Barnabas takes Chris to the mausoleum as he starts to feel the transformation starting. Barnabas visits Sabrina and when she sees his wolf’s head cane she becomes very upset.
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Season 6 - Episode 236 - Aired 2/27/1969
Julia thinks there must be some connection between Quentin and Chris. Maggie has a nightmare about Quentin which she later tells Julia and remembers a room at Collinwood that they had not searched. Amy warns Quentin that Maggie knows about the hidden room and they are coming to find David. Maggie and Barnabas find the hidden room.
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Season 6 - Episode 237 - Aired 2/28/1969
While searching the hidden room Stokes finds I Ching wands and is convinced they may be the key understanding Quentin. Amy tells Maggie that if they don’t find David soon he will die. Maggie goes to Collinwood and finds David, when she does he falls unconscious; later Julia tells everyone that David is in a coma and will die soon. Against Stokes’ advice Barnabas decides to use the I Ching wands contact Quentin and save David. Barnabas enters a trance and makes a mental journey through a door where he sees a chained coffin.
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Season 6 - Episode 159 - Aired 11/8/1968
Adam gives Julia clues about Barnabas' plight. Angelique uses Adam to rob Barnabas of his protective crucifix, summoning him to the woods for a final feed. She leaves him dying, soon to rise as a vampire.
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Season 6 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/13/1968
The experiment does not transfer Barnabas' life force, but instead brings Adam to life. Adam acts like a child, unable to control his strength. When night comes, Barnabas' cure seems to be complete.
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Season 6 - Episode 87 - Aired 7/31/1968
Having admitted her true identity to Barnabas, Angélique visits him to make a final plea for forgiveness. After he gloatingly refuses, Angélique dies, leaving Barnabas and Julia to celebrate their freedom from her.
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