The BEST episodes of Dark Shadows season 9
Every episode of Dark Shadows season 9, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Dark Shadows season 9!
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.
#1 - DS-991
Season 9 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/13/1970
Sabrina and Alexis are sure that Angelique’s death was murder, however Quentin believes that her death was due to stroke. Daniel sees Alexis and believes she is really his mother. Cyrus learns that a John Yaeger started a fight at the Eagle. Daniel has a dream about his mother, when he awakes he asks Alexis if she really is his mother.
#2 - DS-1028
Season 9 - Episode 48 - Aired 6/3/1970
Yaeger is interrupted and leaves Maggie. Sabrina confronts Yaeger, she is sure he can change back to Cyrus; Yaeger warns her to keep her mouth shut or he will kill her. Yaeger rents a room at a remote farm then kills the owner. Yaeger lures Maggie to Widow’s Hill.
#3 - DS-1032
Season 9 - Episode 52 - Aired 6/9/1970
After talking with Julia in the standard timeline Barnabas plans to go back to parallel to help save Maggie; Barnabas wait and is transported back to parallel time. Angelique is determined that she must destroy Barnabas. Maggie pretends to agree to go away with Yaeger. Julia sees Barnabas enter the secret room in the Old House, where his coffin is.
#4 - DS-983
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/1/1970
Daniel plans to drive Maggie out of Collinwood. Quentin tells Chris to make sure Bruno Hess, another loyal friend of Angelique, is kicked off the estate. Daniel frightens Maggie by having Amy hum a tune, making it sound like it was coming from Angelique’s portrait; Amy later tells Daniel that she did not make the humming sound.
#5 - DS-1000
Season 9 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/24/1970
Cyrus, Quentin and Alexis find that Angelique’s body is in the coffin and perfectly preserved. Quentin decides to have Angelique’s body cremated so they will have no further doubts. Cyrus tells Alexis that he believes that Angelique has somehow survived death. Amy gives Quentin some paper which describe that William Loomis is working on a new book about Barnabas Collins. Alexis goes to Angelique’s coffin again, when she touches the body Angelique awakes and tells her that she is going to die.
#6 - DS-1019
Season 9 - Episode 39 - Aired 5/21/1970
Quentin confronts Maggie about the doll; they wonder if Julia put it in the suitcase. Julia and Angelique plan their next moves against Maggie. Angelique (posing as Alexis) tells Maggie that Angelique was murdered, casting suspicion on everyone (including Quentin). Angelique starts to feel cold and tells Julia to !nd someone or she will be the next victim. Angelique decides the next person to walk through the door will be her victim.
#7 - DS-1058
Season 9 - Episode 78 - Aired 7/15/1970
Maggie plans to leave Collinwood, giving up hope of getting Quentin out of jail or finding Julia. Roxanne tells Barnabas that she loves him; fearing he will harm her Barnabas tells her that they can never see each other again. Roxanne returns and Barnabas bites her. Barnabas asks Roxanne to use her psychic powers to find Julia; Roxanne uses a scarf belonging to Julia (PT) claims that she is dead. Stokes finds the bite marks on Roxanne’s neck and realizes what Barnabas is. Barnabas and Maggie lock up and leave Collinwood; Julia is still alive trapped in the basement.
#8 - DS-1022
Season 9 - Episode 42 - Aired 5/26/1970
Maggie visits Cyrus to ask him about the recent strange things happening; Cyrus starts to become attracted to her. Cyrus becomes Yaeger, and asks Maggie to meet him to find more information. Yaeger tells Maggie that Quentin was seen strangling Angelique at the seance, then he grabs her.
#9 - DS-1023
Season 9 - Episode 43 - Aired 5/27/1970
Buffie stops Yaeger from harassing Maggie. Maggie goes to Cyrus and asks him to get rid of his friend John Yaeger; Cyrus promises her that she will never see Yaeger again. Cyrus destroys his lab equipment and burns his notes. Maggie is upset that Quentin is not around, she finds out from Roger that it is the anniversary of his marriage to Angelique. Angelique causes Maggie to have a dream in which a secret compartment in a table is revealed; Maggie awakes and finds it.
#10 - DS-1024
Season 9 - Episode 44 - Aired 5/28/1970
In the secret compartment Maggie finds love letters written by Quentin to Angelique. Quentin is furious when he finds Maggie reading the letters. Angelique helps Maggie pick out a dress to wear to a costume party. Quentin is angry again when he sees that Maggie is wearing Angelique’s dress.
#11 - DS-1029
Season 9 - Episode 49 - Aired 6/4/1970
Angelique accuses Barnabas of coming from parallel time; Barnabas avoids her questions. Barnabas warns Quentin to take Maggie away from Collinwood. Barnabas warns Maggie that Alexis (Angelique) is her enemy. Angelique agrees to help Yaeger get Maggie. Yaeger kidnaps Maggie and locks her in the room he has rented.
#12 - DS-1031
Season 9 - Episode 51 - Aired 6/8/1970
Stokes reveals that he has a woman who’s life force is being used to keep Angelique alive. Quentin believes Maggie’s letter that she left him, Barnabas tries to convince him otherwise. Julia sees Angelique and Julia in parallel time planning to destroy Barnabas. Stokes reminds Angelique that she is still alive thanks to him and expects to get some of the benefits of living at Collinwood. Barnabas is transported back to the standard timeline, however he is worried about Maggie.
#13 - DS-1033
Season 9 - Episode 53 - Aired 6/10/1970
Elizabeth has a dream in which she and Sabrina find Maggie’s body in Cyrus’ lab. Maggie tries to escape and Yaeger catches her; he know that she was lying and ties her up. Sabrina finds out that Yaeger is holding Maggie captive. Elizabeth tells Barnabas her dream, he later suspects there is some connection between Yaeger and Cyrus. Yaeger finds out that Sabrina followed him, then follows her back to Collinwood where he strangles her; Elizabeth catches Yaeger strangling Sabrina.
#14 - DS-1037
Season 9 - Episode 57 - Aired 6/16/1970
Bruno demands $5000 from Angelique (posing as Alexis) for Cyrus’ journal. The journal claims that Quentin killed Angelique and Cyrus admits protecting him by declaring Angelique’s death due to stroke. Angelique casts a spell on Maggie making her a appear to be practicing witchcraft; Angelique pretends to choke. Quentin believes that Maggie is responsible for choking Angelique and all the bad things that have happened at Collinwood.
#15 - DS-1039
Season 9 - Episode 59 - Aired 6/18/1970
Barnabas is unable to kill the woman after seeing her. Barnabas attempts to revive the woman, as he does Angelique becomes weak; Barnabas and Julia are interrupted when Stokes returns. Bruno wants Angelique to go to the police with Cyrus’ journal, Angelique tells him that she needs more proof. Bruno harasses Maggie during an attempt to find out more information. Bruno prepares to call the police.
#16 - DS-1040
Season 9 - Episode 60 - Aired 6/19/1970
Inspector Hamilton starts asking questions about Angelique’s death. Quentin starts making threats against Bruno and plans to go see him. Angelique uses voodoo to strangle Bruno. Later the inspector catches Quentin standing over Bruno’s dead body.
#17 - DS-1041
Season 9 - Episode 61 - Aired 6/22/1970
Quentin is arrested for the death of Bruno. Angelique plants a voodoo doll in Maggie’s clothing, causing Quentin to believe that Maggie caused Bruno’s death. Quentin tells Barnabas that he suspects Maggie caused Bruno’s death by witchcraft. Bruno’s autopsy points to Quentin’s guilt; the Inspector tells Quentin that they suspect him in Angelique’s death and that her body will be exhumed (this troubles Quentin as he and Cyrus destroyed her body). Angelique helps Quentin escape from jail.
#18 - DS-1042
Season 9 - Episode 62 - Aired 6/23/1970
Maggie finds the voodoo doll and starts to suspect that Quentin killed Angelique. Julia questions Carolyn about the seance that Angelique died at. Carolyn has a dream in which she sees Angelique’s locket, when she awakes she claims to know who killed Angelique.
#19 - DS-1046
Season 9 - Episode 66 - Aired 6/29/1970
Roxanne is unable to speak, although she appears to recognize a picture drawn of her by a man named Claude North. Barnabas takes her to the Collins mausoleum. Stokes tells Angelique she will die as soon as Roxanne is able to speak. Stokes starts to perform a ceremony and Roxanne starts to become weaker, Angelique starts to get stronger. Barnabas tells Carolyn that Will is dead, he later stops her from telling Maggie his secret. Barnabas returns to the Old House to find Roxanne missing.
#20 - DS-1051
Season 9 - Episode 71 - Aired 7/6/1970
Claude North is angry that Roxanne is unable to speak, and for whatever Stokes has done to her. Claude catches Maggie at the Old House and tells her to tell Barnabas that he will be back. Maggie has a dream in which Quentin strangles her. When she awakes Quentin is standing over her with his hands around her throat.
#21 - DS-1052
Season 9 - Episode 72 - Aired 7/7/1970
Maggie thinks Quentin is trying to kill her and she runs. Angelique starts to suspect something is odd about Julia. Quentin is convinced that Maggie is a witch. Angelique mentions to Julia that she never sees Barnabas in the day. Angelique sees Quentin and Maggie in the standard timeline and finds out that Julia is from that time. Angelique confronts Julia.
#22 - DS-1053
Season 9 - Episode 73 - Aired 7/8/1970
Julia tries to convince Angelique that she is the Julia that she knows; Angelique appears to believe her. Elizabeth finds out that Roger killed Angelique and Carolyn; Roger then kills Elizabeth. Angelique locks Julia in a room in the basement planning to let her die there.
#23 - DS-1054
Season 9 - Episode 74 - Aired 7/9/1970
Angelique offers to let Julia go if she reveals Barnabas’ secret; Julia refuses. Quentin threatens to kill Maggie to stop her from killing anyone else. Roger, becoming increasingly unstable, reveals that he killed Angelique, Carolyn, and Elizabeth. Roger attempts to strangle Maggie.
#24 - DS-1008
Season 9 - Episode 28 - Aired 5/6/1970
Quentin tells Angelique about the strange things he has seen. Later Angelique sees Julia in the standard timeline. Daniel becomes possessed and tries to break into the basement of the Old House to release Barnabas; Quentin stops him. Quentin, Angelique, and Julia hold a seance to contact the spirit of Barnabas.
#25 - DS-1009
Season 9 - Episode 29 - Aired 5/7/1970
At the seance Joshua Collins appears and tells Quentin to restore honor to the family. Horace demands $10,000 for more chemicals and his continued silence, Cyrus refuses to be blackmail. Angelique asks Roger to help her find Angelique’s murderer. Cyrus finds that Horace is going to speak with Larry Chase; Cyrus becomes Yaeger and kills Horace.