![]() Maggie the Vampire Slayer takes action, recruiting Willie into helping her knock some sense into Barnabas. Liz and Jason finally let Carolyn and Roger into that room in the basement, and everybody walks around on Paul’s grave. What are people doing in Collinsport that they’re too busy to notice that? Maggie walked from Collinwood all the way down the hill to her father’s house, wearing a bright white wedding gown and holding a pipe, and attracted no attention at all. Also: two minutes spent opening and closing doors.īurke touches Sam again, Maggie invents thinks, and the director tries to figure out how to shoot a scene where a grown man has a conversation while lying on his back in a coffin, without looking silly. We see the very last lawyer to appear on the show who doesn’t end up possessed by a witch. This episode is basically a series of escalating dares between Liz and Jason, like a very slow and dramatic game of chicken.Īnother great example of how Barnabas takes over the show, by being way more interesting than anyone else has ever been. Woodard shows up at the Old House and asks Willie for another blood sample, which is a totally normal thing that doctors do. Burke is concerned, but not enough to remember his lines past sentence four. Woodard thinks he’s going to find out who kidnapped Maggie by looking at her blood tests. We review the appropriate security protocol for vampires who have a hypnotized girl on the premises.Īnother etiquette lesson for the criminally insane: How to react when you find uninvited guests hanging out in your house with your brainwashed girlfriend.ĭr. This is technically suspenseful but you have to be pretty generous about it.Įpisode 239: Local Girl Mysteriously DisappearsĪn undead ghoul from the 18th century kidnaps a waitress from the local coffee shop, puts her in his dead girlfriend’s wedding dress and takes her on a make-believe date. Vicki and Carolyn just walk right into the Old House and look around. Now he’s sitting on the couch and talking about how discouraged he is. Sheriff Patterson was up all night searching for Maggie. Maggie’s disappeared from the hospital, but the most pressing questions are: Why is there a camera in the hallway, and why does everybody keep touching Sam? Woodard tells Sam that Maggie’s going to be hit by a car. ![]() It’s raining, so Vicki and Carolyn sit around in the drawing room and talk about how scared they are.ĭr. Also: I have a question for women.Ī bunch of recap conversations, plus a thunderstorm. The Doctor regenerates, and we break new ground in the field of recaps. Maggie’s in a cemetery with a vampire and a fog machine and a brand new hairstyle. She’ll probably find it in the last place she looks. ![]() What things? You know, those things in that room in the basement. We go through the Dracula checklist, plus: triple backacting. Also: Barnabas, Sam and Burke play dialogue chicken. The end of today’s episode is a huge exciting milestone, which they screw up completely. The AFTRA strike of April 1967 takes its toll on the Dark Shadows cast, as Liz putters around, Burke sets his wristwatch, and David complains about the air.ĭavid hears dogs, Jason makes insinuations, and Maggie has some pretty sweet dreams. Also, Sam Evans has 22 words to say let’s see how many he can remember before the end of the scene. Maggie meets a tall, dark stranger, and Barnabas gets cane-blocked.īarnabas makes a social call, and we learn why castles don’t get stormed very often. Willie demonstrates a common soap opera malady called EPCP, or Excessive Pre-Commercial Pausing. The episode stops when he runs out of people to be sarcastic to. Roger talks to Willie, Jason, Sheriff Patterson and Dr. Roger opens and closes doors, Jason plays Where’s Willie, and Barnabas hangs out under the boom mic for a while. Jason gives his expert opinion re: arm blood, we consider the consequences of dude-on-dude vampire action, and Stanley Kubrick gets a great idea. We get examples of various acting techniques, including backacting and pretending to be afraid of portraits.Įpisode 217: Not Enough Vampire in Your Vampire Show Somebody’s going around perforating cows, and Jason’s going to get to the bottom of it. Then he loses track of what he’s talking about and never really recovers. But in a good way.īarnabas talks about pyramids and plaster for a while. I explain why Dark Shadows is just like Melrose Place, Happy Days and Family Matters. We learn several reasons why you shouldn’t play in a haunted house. Jason visits the cemetery and makes a new friend. We break into the mausoleum, find the secret room and open the mystery box.Įpisode 211: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner For the blog’s greatest hits, check out the “ Satan’s Favorite TV Show” tag.īarnabas Collins appears at the White House to frighten underprivileged children. Here’s an episode guide for all of the Dark Shadows Every Day posts.
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