Dark Shadows Commentary

Episode 950: Barnabas, Quentin, and the Small Wooden Box The Leviathan People, a race of Elder Gods, are planning to retake the Earth from humankind. Step one in their plan was to bring old world gentleman Barnabas Collins under their sway and make him t…

In which Barnabas is revamped: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/02/13/e...

Episode 949: Not that Quentin Collins Ten year old Amy Jennings is at home in the great house on the estate of Collinwood. Evidently she’s in a literal mood- she’s in the drawing room, so she’s drawing. Heiress Caroly…

In which Amy knows her Quentins: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/02/12/e...

Episode 948: A sign of your freedom, and of mine The first ghost we saw on Dark Shadows was that of the gracious Josette Collins, who came down from her portrait and danced around the outside of the Old House on the grounds of the estate of Colli…

In which Josette bids farewell: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/02/11/e...

Episode 947: More! MORE! MO-O-O-RE!!! Old world gentleman Barnabas Collins comes home shortly after dawn and finds that the window of his front parlor has been smashed in. Entering the house, he finds two young men passed out. He knows…

In which Angelique comes down with a fit of the Stupids, and Jabe catches a bat in a cage: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/02/10/e...

Cornered by a vampire in a dark alley, he’s about to drain you, but then he sniffs your blood, frowns, tells you to take better care of yourself, and leaves you alone.

Episode 946: To come to me willingly In May and June of 1967, vampire Barnabas Collins held Maggie Evans, The Nicest Girl in Town, prisoner. He drank her blood, tortured her, and drove her insane. When Maggie escaped, he turned his at…

In which all too many characters look disposable: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/02/09/e...

YouTube video by To Tell the Truth (CBS) To Tell the Truth - Girl Scouts executive director; Dr. I.Q.; PANEL: Patrice Munsel (Mar 11, 1958)

One of the impostors on this 1958 episode of TO TELL THE TRUTH is Conard Fowkes, later to be cast as Frank Garner on DARK SHADOWS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR0_...

Episode 945: Carolyn’s rough night in Episode 361 was virtually a one-woman show, featuring Grayson Hall as Julia Hoffman, MD. Julia was being tormented by haunted house-style effects resulting from her involvement with a supernatural …

In which they take a script that has already flopped three times and decide to see if the fourth time is the charm: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/02/06/e...

Episode 944: The girl who wasn’t afraid of him A werewolf is prowling through the woods on the great estate of Collinwood, and Sabrina Stuart, a young woman with white hair, sees him. She knows that when the moon is not full, the werewolf is he…

In which Sabrina first shows Bruno that she is friendly with the werewolf, then tells him who she is: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/02/05/e...

YouTube video by Katherine Gonzales The Back Room at The Blue Whale: A Dark Shadows Podcast- Episode 1 Welcome Cousins! (Guy and Sharon)

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Episode 943: Moon Poppy Maggie Evans, governess in the great house on the estate of Collinwood, is being held prisoner in a big mausoleum somewhere. Her captor appears to be a young man, but is actually a monster from bey…

In which Sabrina has a plan: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/02/04/e...

If I listened to podcasts, I'm sure I would listen to yours. It will probably be fine!

Episode 941: Barnabas, Quentin, and the Stopped Clock Yesterday and today, a clock stopped at 8:00 featured prominently in shots when it was pivotal to the story that it was not 8:00. The clock is part of the merchandise in an antique shop, so it is u…

In which Maggie is definitely not Vicki: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/02/02/e...

Episode 940: You had dark hair A shape-shifting monster from beyond time and space has assumed the form of a young man and decided to marry heiress Carolyn Collins Stoddard. Carolyn’s distant cousin, old world gentleman Ba…

In which Barnabas enlists Angelique in the fight against the Leviathans, and Quentin tells Carolyn his right name: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/30/e...

Episode 939: You find me repulsive Heiress Carolyn Collins Stoddard is mourning her father, who was recently murdered. She tells Maggie Evans, governess to the children in the great house of Collinwood, that she will not rest until …

In which Maggie and Barnabas are getting weirdly cozy: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/29/e...

Episode 938: Memory lane For the last eleven weeks, the A story on Dark Shadows has been about the Leviathan People, a mysterious race of Elder Gods who are trying to retake the Earth from humanity by enlisting a few peopl…

In which we see Sheriff Davenport's gravestone, which reveals that his first name was "Sheriff": darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/28/e...

Episode 937: The list of the expendables A monster from beyond space and time has taken the form of a vicious man-child and asked people to call it “Jabe.” A cult devoted to the Leviathan People, mysterious Elder Gods who brou…

In which David is using a wheelchair and Julia takes Quentin to dig up a grave: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/27/e...

Episode 936: Behind that closed door The Leviathan People, a mysterious race of Elder Gods, are planning to retake the Earth from humankind. They’ve started small, putting together a secret cult of devotees in and around the vil…

In which the Leviathans story keeps addressing an adult audience, even though most of the people watching are age twelve and under: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/26/e...

Episode 935: Call me Jabe Sheriff Davenport and his new sidekick, mad scientist Julia Hoffman, have come to the top of the stairs above Philip and Megan Todd’s antique shop in the village of Collinsport. The sheriff h…

In which there are no tall parts, only tall actors, some of whom are saddled with lousy scripts no performer could salvage: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/23/e...

Episode 934: Some plans we could spoil Last Experience We open with a reprise of the end of yesterday’s episode. Quentin Collins and Amanda Harris are reenacting the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. As in the ancient Greek story, the…

In which Christopher Bernau makes an acting choice that saves the episode: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/22/e...

Episode 933: Easy street In the middle of The Odyssey, Odysseus and his companions enter a certain cave and follow a path that leads to the realm of the dead. There, Odysseus talks with several people whom he knew when the…

In which we don't know what Quentin will do next, but we can be pretty sure he won't do what the guy in the source material did (invented homosexuality and personally made it a big hit throughout his homeland): darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/21/e...

Episode 932: Just ourselves, and immortality For most of 1969, Dark Shadows was a costume drama set in the year 1897. Among the characters we got to know were Quentin Collins, Charles Delaware Tate, Count Petofi, and Amanda Harris. Quentin wa…

In which the show dramatizes two stories from Book 10 of Ovid's Metamorphoses: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/20/e...

Episode 931: Into strange rooms Some invisible Elder Gods known as the Leviathans have taken control of a group of individuals in and around the area of Collinsport, Maine and formed them into a cult serving their plan to reclaim…

In which Julia serves as an usher for characters in both the A story and the B story: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/19/e...

Episode 930: Indoctrinated by his thinking The current A-story is about a group of people under the control of the Leviathans, unseen supernatural beings. The Leviathans’ plan involves a mysterious force that has incarnated itself in …

In which we hear too much about Barnabas' motives and see too much of the antique shop: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/16/e...

Episode 929: The convergence For the first 55 weeks of Dark Shadows, matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard was under the impression that she had killed her husband Paul and that Paul’s associate Jason McGuire had buried h…

In which two characters whose deaths have been faked meet: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/15/e...

Episode 928: Strange, disposable little boys Antique dealers Megan and Philip Todd have called Julia Hoffman, MD, to the apartment above their shop in the village of Collinsport. They have been looking after a boy named Michael, and Michael h…

n which Julia goes to Coleyville, where she meets a fine actress and admires her work: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/14/e...

Episode 927: Reasons don’t matter Permanent houseguest Julia Hoffman, MD, is in the drawing room of the great house of Collinwood when a secret panel opens and a boy known as Michael comes strolling out. She asks him how he knew ab…

In which the differences between Maggie's captivity in a room in the west wing in January 1970 and Vicki's captivity in such a room in October 1966 show us how the show has changed in the interim, for better and for worse: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/13/e...

Episode 926: I don’t want to know who you are This episode has the same story as Friday’s. The current A-story is about the coming of the Leviathans, mysterious beings who act through a cult that has absorbed several people in the villag…

In which Michael locks Maggie up as Barnabas once did, and he has four characters serving the function Willie did in those days. But it doesn't work out the same way at all: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/12/e...

Episode 925: Not like other boys In #891, old world gentleman Barnabas Collins gave a present to antique shop owners Megan and Philip Todd. It was a wooden box. When the Todds opened the box, it made a whistling sound. By #893, th…

In which the show harks back to the story of Adam the patchwork man, and has some fun with Adam's interest in Freud: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/09/e...

Episode 924: Afraid of the dark Mad scientist Julia Hoffman finds that wicked witch Angelique has married a businessman who has a house on an island off the coast of central Maine. Angelique tells Julia that her husband’s l…

In which Angelique has come back, and brought with her some music we haven't heard since 1966: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/08/e...