The WORST episodes of Dark Shadows
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
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-190
Season 2 - Episode 63 - Aired 3/17/1967
Laura meets David at an abandoned fishing shack and tells him that they will leave soon. As a fire starts to engulf the building, Laura begins to beckon David into the flames.
#2 - DS-416
Season 5 - Episode 49 - Aired 1/29/1968
A grieving Joshua vows that Victoria will pay for her part in Sarah's death. As his guilt over his condition grows, Barnabas begs Ben to kill him at dawn with a wooden stake, so that the trail of death will end.
#3 - DS-493
Season 6 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/15/1968
Barnabas, Julia, and Willie are in the cellar of the Old House, gathered around a sleeping Adam. Barnabas and Julia tell Willie that he must not frighten Adam because he would react the same way that everyone reacts when frightened-by striking out. Julia tells Willie that teaching Adam things calms him. Barnabas and Julia then leave the cellar, and Willie is now stuck with Adam. Willie lights a cigarette, which Adam grabs. The cigarette burns Adam's hand, and Adam lashes out by knocking Willie out. At Collinwood, Julia looks over Dr. Lang's old things. Mrs. Johnson enters. She is trying to avoid David, Julia asks why. It turns out Mrs. Johnson had the dream. Julia advises Mrs. Johnson to leave Collinwood for both the sakes of herself and David. As Mrs. Johnson is about to leave, Willie enters. He tells Julia that Adam has left. Julia has Willie go look for him. Adam finds his way to the terrace. Mrs. Johnson sees him and screams. She demands information from him as to who he is; but he
#4 - DS-494
Season 6 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/16/1968
Willie brings Adam some food to eat. Julia tells Willie to expect this behavior from Adam, after all he feels dejected. Willie tells Julia that he would rather return to Wyndcliffe then continue to live like this, but Julia tells him if he returns to Wyndcliffe he won't ever get out. Willie reluctantly agrees to continue working with Adam. Willie goes back into the cellar to work with Adam. Willie finds out that he likes shiny things, so he opens a secret door and takes out some jewelry, formally owned by Josette Collins, out of the compartment. Willie tells Adam about the time Maggie was in the Old House and thought she was Josette Collins. He puts the jewlery back, and decides to leave to give Maggie a pair of earrings. Meanwhile, at the Evans Cottage, Maggie and Joe are getting ready to leave. Maggie and Joe leave the room to do other things in the cottage, and Willie sneaks in and puts the earrings in Maggie's purse. He the flees the cottage. Meanwhile, in the Old House cellar, Ju
#5 - DS-495
Season 6 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/17/1968
Elizabeth is terrified after stumbling upon an escaped Adam. David makes contact with Adam in the woods. Barnabas rushes to the boy's aid, but Roger shoots Adam, attempting to defend his son.
#6 - DS-721
Season 7 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/31/1969
Barnabas finds out from Dirk that Jenny is Quentin’s wife and that she has been locked in the tower room. Jenny tells Beth that she killed Quentin. Barnabas asks Angelique to save Quentin as he was not supposed to die this way. Angelique plans to raise Quentin, but will use him to make Barnabas suffer.
#7 - DS-741
Season 7 - Episode 41 - Aired 4/28/1969
Laura confesses that she has returned to Collinwood to take custody of her children Jamison and Nora.
#8 - DS-742
Season 7 - Episode 42 - Aired 4/29/1969
Barnabas uses an incantation from the Egyptian Book of the Dead to conjure up the spirit of Laura.
#9 - DS-743
Season 7 - Episode 43 - Aired 4/30/1969
Quentin and Barnabas decide to try to destroy Laura. Jenny is ordered by Laura to kill Quentin.
#10 - DS-744
Season 7 - Episode 44 - Aired 5/1/1969
Jenny meets Barnabas at the Old House and Quentin takes a pistol to search for her.
#11 - DS-783
Season 7 - Episode 83 - Aired 6/25/1969
The hand of Count Petofi is used to perform the procedure on charity. Evan Hanley confronts Barnabas.
#12 - DS-791
Season 7 - Episode 91 - Aired 7/7/1969
Evan and Trask try to convince Judith to sign a paper committing her to a sanitarium.
#13 - DS-793
Season 7 - Episode 93 - Aired 7/9/1969
Victor Fenn-Gibbon observes as Angelique conducts a ceremony using the hand to help Quentin.
#14 - DS-794
Season 7 - Episode 94 - Aired 7/10/1969
The gypsy named Julianka tells Barnabas she has come to end the curse in return for the hand.
#15 - DS-795
Season 7 - Episode 95 - Aired 7/11/1969
Aristede sets in motion a curved blade which will kill Quentin unless Aristede can get Petofi's hand.
#16 - DS-796
Season 7 - Episode 96 - Aired 7/14/1969
In the woods, Julianka the gypsy is found dead with a strange mark on her forehead.
#17 - DS-801/802
Season 7 - Episode 101 - Aired 7/22/1969
After Petofi leaves Collinwood, it is discovered that Jamison Collins has been possessed by him.
#18 - DS-926
Season 8 - Episode 38 - Aired 1/12/1970
Barnabas stops Megan from killing Philip. Barnabas and Philip plan to keep Michael locked up until he is ready to “emerge again.” Michael torments Maggie who is locked in a remote part of Collinwood. Philip searches for Maggie.
#19 - DS-962
Season 8 - Episode 74 - Aired 3/3/1970
Jeb is able to subdue the werewolf with some silver. Bruno talks his way out of Jeb killing him, by casting suspicion on Megan whom is now under Barnabas’ control. Jeb raises four dead men to help him with his plans.
#20 - 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.
#21 - DS-1026
Season 9 - Episode 46 - Aired 6/1/1970
Elizabeth stops Maggie from jumping. Barnabas becomes suspicious of Angelique (posing as Alexis). Barnabas stares at the portrait of Angelique; Angelique realizes that someone is watching her and feels a burning stare, she runs in to Angelique’s room then Barnabas realizes that she really is Angelique.
#22 - DS-1049
Season 9 - Episode 69 - Aired 7/2/1970
Trask is listening while Carolyn tries to convince Roger that Alexis is really Angelique. Amy tells Trask that someone is living in the tower room. Carolyn goes to the tower and someone approaches, she claims that they killed Angelique; Carolyn is then stabbed by whoever it was.
#23 - DS-1055
Season 9 - Episode 75 - Aired 7/10/1970
Angelique interrupts Roger; Maggie tells her that Roger killed Angelique. Angelique starts to feel cold and kills Roger for his warmth. Claude North attempts to make Roxanne speak which would kill Angelique, Barnabas tries to stop him because if Angelique dies now he will not be able to clear Quentin of the murder charges. Angelique brings Maggie under her power and sends her to shoot Quentin. Barnabas tries to get Angelique to sign a confession and tell him where Julia is at; she refuses.
#24 - DS-1079
Season 10 - Episode 19 - Aired 8/13/1970
Quentin’s concern for her appears to cause Daphne to change her mind about killing him. Daphne appears to David and Hallie. Quentin performs an exorcism but he is interrupted by Daphne’s spirit. Hallie falls and hurts her arm while Quentin performed the exorcism. David and Hallie hold a seance in the playroom and hear a voice stating “let us live.”
#25 - DS-1095
Season 10 - Episode 35 - Aired 9/4/1970
Julia tells Barnabas that Carolyn sang a song. Barnabas questions Carolyn about the song and she is unable to tell him anything. David and Hallie put a doll of Barnabas in the dollhouse, hoping that it will allow him to help them. Later they find the Barnabas doll destroyed. Julia and Barnabas decide that they must take the children out of the house. David is summoned from the house.