The BEST episodes written by Sam Hall
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Dark Shadows - Season 5 - Episode 65
Barnabas tells Abigail that she has been wrong about evil all along. He tells her that Angelique was the witch but she won't believe it. Abigail thinks Barnabas is just an apperition sent by Victoria. Barnabas tells Abigail about all the things she has been wrong about. He shows her his fangs and she dies of a heart attack from the site of them. Meanwhile, at Collinwood, Daniel and Naomi are talking about Daniel and Millicent possibly staying with Naomi and Joshua at Collinwood. Daniel says he doesn't like Collinwood especially after Sarah died. Trask enters. Trask inquires about what Victoria told Daniel. Daniel runs out of Collinwood from fright. Naomi runs after him and tells Trask that HE will be the one who will have to face the lord over these things. Trask joins Naomi in going after Daniel. Daniel finds the dead body of Abigail, and calls Naomi and Trask to him. Trask and Naomi are shocked.
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Dark Shadows - Season 6 - Episode 48
Professor Stokes has the dream. In the dream, he refuses to open the door for the beckoner unless he speaks. The beckoner (Sam Evans) speaks. Professor Stokes tells him he will go by himself, but Sam says he'll die if he does. Professor Stokes goes to the door himself, and Sam Evans follows him. Professor Stokes recites the 'pitiful riddle' and then refuses to open the doors. Angelique appears. Angelique thinks it's Ben Stokes, but he tells her he is Timothy Stokes and not as ignorant as Ben. She threatens to make him as ignorant as Ben. She says he will die, and he says he knows he will---in a bed, of natural causes. Timothy calls her Cassandra, figuring that the witch really is Cassandra. Angelique then disappears and Timothy wakes up. Timothy tells Julia that the dream has been stopped for now. There is a knock at the door. Julia and Timothy answer the door. Joe Haskell & Sam Evans are at the door. Joe tells them that Sam felt he had to come here. Professor Stokes tells Sam that he
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Dark Shadows - Season 6 - Episode 49
Adam drops the knife. Sam asks him what his name is, and Adam responds saying his name is 'Adam'. Sam gets some water from the kitchen to help Adam and clean his wounds, which had gotten from his fall off Widow's Hill. Professor Timothy Stokes enters, and Adam runs off into the night. Sam asks Stokes to stop him from leaving, but Stokes doesn't. Stokes says he seems like the man who jumped off Widow's Hill. Sam says no one could've survived that fall. Stokes tells Sam that if he has a dream in which he answers the door and sees Barnabas Collins, he should call Stokes immediatly. At Tony Peterson's office, Cassandra and Tony talk. Tony tells Cassandra that he does not like her and wishs she would stay at home with her husband Roger. Tony takes out a lighter, which Cassandra uses to hypnotize him. Cassandra sends Tony to Professor Stokes' house to poision him. At Stokes' house, Vickie visits him. She says the portrait of Angelique has been missing for over a week. Stokes talks with Vicki
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Dark Shadows - Season 6 - Episode 51
The bricks move completely out, exposing the top half of the skeleton of Reverand Trask. Julia is shocked that the first Barnabas would have done this to anyone. Timothy Stokes calls to the ghost of Trask, but is not successful. Julia and Timothy wonder if Reverand Trask is inside Tony's body, and Tony refuses to acknowledge the possiblity. They hear music coming from upstairs, and Julia exclaims ""Adam!"". Timothy and Julia go upstairs and find that David is playing with a tape recorder. They ask him to leave and not tell his mother that he saw Professor Stokes. David leaves. Professor Stokes asks Julia why she said 'Adam!' At that moment, Tony screams for help. Julia and Timothy go back downstairs, and find that the skeleton of Reverand Trask has disappeared. Tony tells them he closed his eyes for a moment and when he opened them the skeleton was gone. Tony & Julia leave the house. Professor Stokes sighs in dismay because Trask would not appear to him, and Trask also sighs. At Collinwo
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Dark Shadows - Season 7 - Episode 16
Rachel is knocked unconscious by Jenny then locks her in the tower room. Dirk finds Nora outside Collinwood, who later claims she is waiting for her mother to return. Jenny starts wandering around the house. Dirk rescues Rachel from the tower room. Rachel tells Judith what has happened, denying that anyone was in the tower room. Judith finds Jenny who now has a sharp pair of scissors.
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Dark Shadows - Season 10 - Episode 2
Julia and Barnabas find Carolyn, half insane and refusing to answer any of their questions. Julia goes to the records office who suspiciously claims that all records about the Collins family have been destroyed. Julia meets Stokes and he warns Julia to leave. Barnabas and Julia talk to a Victor Flagler, who’s wife was mysteriously killed at Collinwood. Julia and Barnabas return to the Collins mausoleum to find that someone is there.
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Dark Shadows - Season 10 - Episode 3
Barnabas and Julia find Carolyn in the mausoleum, she warns them to leave (again). Carolyn speaks to the Sheriff; later the Sheriff warns Julia and Barnabas to leave town. Julia is almost killed by a falling statue, and strange ghostly man can be seen staring out the window of Collinwood.
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Dark Shadows - Season 10 - Episode 9
After going to get Julia, Carolyn’s body disappears. Barnabas finds a note Carolyn was writing before she died, that contains some incoherent clues to what happened. Later they find Carolyn’s body in the playroom. Under Gerard's control, Julia agrees to help the sheriff. The sheriff opens Barnabas’ coffin.
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Dark Shadows - Season 10 - Episode 10
Carrie Stokes’ ghost distracts the sheriff, Barnabas is able to overpower and kill him. Barnabas realizes that Julia is under Gerard’s power. Barnabas, Julia and Stokes hold a seance to contact Carolyn; the seance is interrupted and stokes dies. Gerard tries to force Julia to kill herself. The ghost of Carrie leads Julia and Barnabas to a staircase which leads them out of the playroom. They find a girl who does not know who they are.
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Dark Shadows - Season 10 - Episode 47
Gerard stops Sebastian before destroying Roxanne. Barnabas finds that there was a Roxanne Drew who lived in 1840. Gerard poisons Daphne and Quentin. Gerard makes Quentin dig up Quentin Collins’(1840) grave. Daphne is dying and Carolyn make her prepare to rejoin Gerard. Gerard buries Quentin alive.
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Dark Shadows - Season 11 - Episode 2
Ben stops Daniel from harming Julia; Daniel mistakes her for his wife who he killed ten years earlier. During the struggle one of Julia’s earrings falls off and Gabriel later finds it. Gerard is a clairvoyant. Julia and Stokes devise a story that she is Julia Collins, brother to Barnabas, both of whom are cousins from England. Julia goes to Barnabas’ coffin and plans to release him.
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Dark Shadows - Season 6 - Episode 1
As Victoria is hanged on the gallows, she swaps places with Phyllis Wick in the present and escapes death. As Victoria lays disorientated, Barnabas fears the knowledge she has gained from her journey.
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Dark Shadows - Season 6 - Episode 50
Stokes calls Collinwood and is relieved that Julia answers. Julia comes to Stokes house and is able to treat Tony. She says it is strange of Tony to have done that. Stokes figures out that Tony is being used by Cassandra. He says they might need the help of the witch hunter who had sentenced Vickie--Reverand Trask! He takes out Ben Stokes' journal and tries to figure out where Trask is buried. Ben Stokes' leads Timothy's hands to fill in the blanks, and Timothy finds that Trask was bricked up in the Old House basement. Tony wakes up and enters. Timothy tells Tony to tell Cassandra that he is dead. At Collinwood in the foyer, Roger and Cassandra are playing chess. They get in an argument and Roger goes upstairs.Tony arrives and tells Cassandra that Timothy is dead. Roger sees them, and Tony pretends like he has come to Collinwood to see if Carolyn is awake. In the basement of the Old House, Professor Stokes, Tony, and Julia try ot contact the ghost of Reverand Trask. Trask talks through
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Dark Shadows - Season 7 - Episode 15
Rachel is unable to get into the tower room, she visits Magda who tells her about a key that can open the door. Someone escapes from the tower room and sets Edward’s room on fire. Edward and Beth take the person back to the tower. Rachel confronts Beth about the person in the tower room, she denies that anyone is there. After encouragement from Magda and with key in hand, Rachel unlocks the door to the tower room.
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Dark Shadows - Season 4 - Episode 84
Carolyn gains Tony's affections as part of Barnabas' plan. Julia is terrified to be confronted by Woodard's ghost, while Barnabas contrives to convince her that it is a result of her conscience.
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Dark Shadows - Season 4 - Episode 86
Julia finds herself tormented by a nightmarish sequence of events conjured up by Barnabas, culminating in a telephone call from the ghost of Woodard. Terrified, she suddenly sees the door begin to open
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Dark Shadows - Season 5 - Episode 9
Disgusted with Josette's behavior, Jeremiah tries to tell Barnabas the truth about her lack of character, but then changes his mind because he does not want to make his beloved nephew unhappy. So, Jeremiah confronts Josette about her behavior and she admits that she cannot offer a satisfactory explanation. Frustrated with Jeremiah's refusal to take advantage of Josette, Angelique casts a love spell over him so that he will now reciprocate Josette's amorous advances.
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Dark Shadows - Season 5 - Episode 42
Josette is upset about what the book says about how she dies. Natalie tells her it is all lies. Josette wants to see the fate of Barnabas. According to the book, it was Jeremiah who met Josette in Martinique, which is false and never mentions her engagement to Barnabas. It says that her marriage with Jeremiah was an unhappy one, and also mentions Barnabas was in love with Josette, which is of course true. It says that Barnabas left for England. Josette becomes upset because she does not know if she should believe it. Meanwhile, at the Old House, Naomi sits by Barnabas, who, in his delrium, is ranting about the bat. Joshua comes into the room, and tells Barnabas how stupid he has been by excommunicating him from his family. Barnabas tells his father how he remembered that during the American Revolution, when his father was wounded, he had cried. He stopped because he thought his father would be ashamed of himself. Barnabas had then promised himself he and his father would from then on
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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 83
Barnabas issues Carolyn with instructions to retrieve Julia's notebook. Meanwhile, he uses an ancient incantation to vengefully make the ghost of Woodard appear to a guilt-stricken Julia.
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Dark Shadows - Season 5 - Episode 3
Barnabas Collins eagerly awaits the arrival of Josette duPres, his fiance from the island of Martinique. Meanwhile, Josette's aunt, Countess Natalie duPres, and the duPres' maid servant, Angelique Bouchard, arrive at The Old House. Resisting Angelique's amorous advances, Barnabas tells her that their previous love affair was a mistake and that he plans to marry Josette. Thus, the seed of ""Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"" is born and the long-standing feud between Angelique and Barnabas begins.
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Dark Shadows - Season 5 - Episode 25
Anxious to leave The Old House and its recent bad karma, Joshua Collins makes plans to move the family into the new house, Collinwood. He becomes furious, however, when his son, Barnabas, tells him of his plans to marry Angelique, whom Joshua feels is beneath their social class. Meanwhile, Angelique raises Jeremiah from the dead to torment Josette.
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Dark Shadows - Season 5 - Episode 13
Everyone is talking about Joshua's mysterious disappearence. Natalie & Victoria re-enact what happened between Joshua & Jeremiah. As they re-enact it, the cat appears, like it had when Jeremiah discovered Joshua was missing! Barnabas enters the drawing room where they are, and is weary of searching..he hadn't found a trace of his father. Natalie asks Victoria to leave the room, but Barnabas asks her to check on his mother Naomi in a kinder fashion. Natalie tells Barnabas that she believes witchcraft is involved with the disappearence of Joshua. Nathan enters the room and tells them footprints have been found on Widow's Hill. Barnabas tells him where some of Joshua's shoes can be found so they can see if the footprints match the shoes. Nathan leaves them eavesdrops as Natalie tells Jeremiah that a witch didn't want him to leave, and then hears her ask if Barnabas trusts Victoria. Nathan then leaves to the study to get the boots, and while he is looking Victoria enters. Nathan makes a pa
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Dark Shadows - Season 5 - Episode 18
Despite their pleas, Angelique, Andre, and Josette are unable to stop Barnabas and Jeremiah from dueling. To protect Barnabas, Angelique gives him a ""special"" good-luck charm to wear at the duel. Still blinded by his jealousy and pride, Barnabas goes through with the duel and shoots Jeremiah, seriously wounding him.
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Dark Shadows - Season 5 - Episode 35
Barnabas now knows for sure that Angelique is the witch that has been causing all the terrible things to happen. Barnabas tells Ben how he figured it out when he heard Angelique say the incanation and how Victoria told him that she felt a 'cold fire'...the same cold fire that Angelique had talked about in her incanation. Barnabas now plans on killing Angelique. Barnabas tries to kill Angelique at first by putting poision in her sherry. Naomi enters, and Angelique gives her the sherry. Barnabas quickly knocks over the glass so Namoi will not drink it. Angelique suspects something isn't right. Naomi came to tell Barnabas that a package. The package turns out to be a portrait of Josette duPres that had been sent to him before the events had occured. At the end of the episode, when it is nightime, Barnabas is seen creeping into Angelique's room with a knife and swoops down with the knife.
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Dark Shadows - Season 5 - Episode 67
Nathan is working in his room when Peter enters. Peter asks him many times why he decieved them and Nathan tells him that he changed his mind about Victoria. Before long, the two are fighting. Peter ends up winning. 'You have won the round, but lost the fight' says Nathan. Meanwhile, at Collinwood, Naomi notices that Joshua hasn't left for work yet. Naomi believes this was caused by his sister's death. They talk about her and Joshua leaves. Trask and Nathan talk about their deal, in which Trask would talk to Joshua about not sending a letter to the army. Trask goes to Joshua and asks him and Naomi to testify. He then has Nathan come in and Joshua and Nathan talk. Trask leaves. Joshua promises Nathan he won't send the letter if Nathan asks the navy for relocation. Peter talks to Naomi and tells her that she needs to testify for them because Nathan lied. Naomi goes to Joshua and tells him she's going to testify. She's lost her children and she doesn't care about her dignity! is what she
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Dark Shadows - Season 5 - Episode 7
Cousin Millicent Collins arrives from New York City. Although she is young and simple-minded, her rich inheritance inspires Joshua to try and convince his younger brother, Jeremiah, to court her and marry her, thereby combining her wealth with the Collins family's wealth. Jeremiah is not interested. Meanwhile, Angelique casts a love spell causing Josette to fall in love with Jeremiah. Shocked at her behavior, Jeremiah resists her advances.
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Dark Shadows - Season 5 - Episode 8
When Ben Stokes tries to warn Barnabas about Angelique's powers of witchcraft, he suddenly loses his voice and becomes mute. Under Angelique's spell, Josette is impelled to go to Jeremiah's bedroom and once again, profess her love for him.
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Dark Shadows - Season 5 - Episode 12
Ben is in the woods, sharping his ax, when he is summoned to come to the Old House by Angelique. He tries to resist at first, but Angelique's face appears in the woods and tells him he can't resist her. Ben goes to the Old House. Meanwhile, Jeremiah tells Barnabas that he is going to be leaving. Barnabas is upset by this because he will miss the wedding. Jeremiah orders Ben to get his bags and call a carriage for him to leave Collinwood. Ben tells Angelique this, which makes Angelique unhappy because it will ruin her plans. Ben gives her idea to have Josette plead for Jeremiah to stay and uses voodoo to make this happen. Josette goes from the room she is to Barnabas and tells him in a trancelikestate that Jeremiah must not leave. The spell suddenly seems to leave her, and Josette hugs Barnabas and tells him it's alright, his departure is for the best. Ben tells Angelique this trimupetly, and Angelique gets mad at her. Joshua overhears them, and tells him that Ben has been rude to her.
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Dark Shadows - Season 5 - Episode 26
Grieving widow Josette is terrified when she sees Jeremiah's hand reach out to her from his grave. Angelique happily tells Josette that she is going to marry Barnabas and Josette receives the news with mixed emotions. In the meantime, everyone starts moving into the new house, Collinwood.
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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 11
A gold-digging friend of the Collins family, Lt. Nathanial Forbes, is suddenly smitten by Millicent Collins AFTER he learns that she is a very wealthy orphan. Meanwhile, Jeremiah decides to leave town so that he and Josette will not get together and end up breaking Barnabas' heart.
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Dark Shadows - Season 5 - Episode 16
Although they make an unlikely pair, Countess Natalie duPres and Abigail Collins do agree that a witch must be behind their families' misfortune. Suspecting Miss Winters to be that witch, Abigail snoops through her room and discovers some damning evidence: a charm bracelet and the transformation of the mysterious cat into her missing brother, Joshua Collins. Abigail decides to send for Reverend Trask, a religious fanatic and witch hunter.
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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 5 - Episode 43
Angelique is furious when Joshua tells her about the lie he will tell concerning the death of his son. What upsets her even more is that his body will be buried in secret. She wants the coffin with Barnabs to remain in the room until morning- time enough to stake him. But Joshua tells her that she has no power anymore. Angelique then summons Ben to come to her. Josette finds Natalie looking through the Collins Family History book. Natalie plans to take Josette with her as soon as possible back to Martinique. Josette says she will not go because she will wait for Barnabas to return to her. Josettes see's the body of her loved one being carried away. Joshua appologizes for her having to see that. Josette sees Ben looking in through the window, and tells Joshua. Ben is able to escape. Later, Ben returns. Joshua sees him and asks what he's doing here. He believes that Ben is going to rob the house. Angelique comes down the stairs, and says that Ben has the right to grieve for Barnabas. Ang