If someone were to ask you to name a scene from Dark Shadows, what would immediately come to mind? For me, three scenes are most memorable:

1) Reverend Trask being walled up alive by Barnabas.

2) After the Adam creation, Julia pulls back the curtains, so Barnabas sees he's alive...in the daytime!

3) Angelique setting the house of cards on fire.

I'm currently watching the show, but so far the most memorable scenes for me have been (in no particular order):

1) Vicki getting hanged in 1795

2) During the dream curse storyline, Vicki finally breaking down and telling Barnabas the dream, even though she knows doing so will lead to his death

3) Willie going to Maggie's house to warn her about Barnabas and getting shot in the back several times

4) Quentin kneeling by a dying Jamison (who had been possessed by Count Petofi), begging him to live

5) Quentin being tortured and nearly killed by Aristede via a pendulum

6) Barnabas telling his father, Joshua, to kill him by shooting six silver bullets into his heart (that look they share before they part ways puts a lump in my throat just thinking about it)

7) Barnabas walling up Reverend Trask alive

Willie opening after breaking the chains of Barnabas's coffin. He's looking for Collins family heirlooms but barnabas's hands come out and go around Willie's neck instead.

When Barnabas went through a portal into a parallel universe.

A certain scene involving a certain character named Julia Hoffman appearing to prepare some cards for a certain game (the scene appeared to have had audio of her suggesting the game she was preparing her self to play was called "solitaire").

Willie opening after breaking the chains of Barnabas's coffin. He's looking for Collins family heirlooms but barnabas's hands come out and go around Willie's neck instead.

That's mine too.

Lara burning up in the boathouse (I think David was outside or somewhere nearby) runs second.

Third would be Barnabas using the E Ching wands to transport back to 1797 (1795? whatever...).

I've enjoyed the 1795 storyline more than I thought I would. I've only seen one of the 1897 episodes and I'm looking forward to that.

A few of my favorite scenes: From 1795 --

Barnabas choking as Angelique practices voodoo on a doll.
Angelique turning Barnabas' father Joshua Collins into a cat...!
Joshua interviewing Victoria Winters to see if she will be a suitable governess. (Louis Edmonds is very good with the character.)
Verdict passed proclaiming Victoria a witch & will be hung. (A semi-key episode, currently not known to have a color print in existence.)

Please correct any of the above if needed.

Waitress Maggie Evans meets Barnabas at the Collinsport Inn.

I've enjoyed the 1795 storyline more than I thought I would. I've only seen one of the 1897 episodes and I'm looking forward to that.

A few of my favorite scenes: From 1795 --

Barnabas choking as Angelique practices voodoo on a doll.
Angelique turning Barnabas' father Joshua Collins into a cat...!
Joshua interviewing Victoria Winters to see if she will be a suitable governess. (Louis Edmonds is very good with the character.)
Verdict passed proclaiming Victoria a witch & will be hung. (A semi-key episode, currently not known to have a color print in existence.)

Please correct any of the above if needed.

Any storyline involving Angelique, I'm in!

Re the videotapes, yes, there are a fair number of them missing (only kinescopes remain), plus that later whole episode.

It's fortunate that all the tapes weren't wiped, which was a common practice back in the day.

Episode 716 when Rachel goes to the tower. There's a bolt of lightning from the window and we see crazy Jenny's shadow with an evil laugh. When I first saw that on Sci-Fi, I jumped.

Another favorite scene is when Barnabas describes the fight with his father to Victoria and laughs. It's one of his first episodes. You could see a twisted side to the Barnabas character in that moment.

I also love Laura's facial expression in the first Phoenix story when she's setting fire to Sam's house. Elizabeth walks in on her and Laura just has this sadistic crazy grin expression on her face. It was eerie and great television.

When Buzz Hackett, hardly the boy next door, started to date Carolyn Stoddard. For someone who only appeared in a couple of episodes, ol’ Buzz left a lasting impression on DS fans.

I liked it when Buzz said to someone on the show at The Blue Whale, “If you feel it, sit it,” whatever the heck that means?

It’s too bad that Barnabas and Buzz never met on the show. That would have been like Sir Laurence Olivier meeting Iggy Pop!

I wonder what Buzz would be up to today in Collinsport? Maybe Buzz is now a retired mailman, hanging out all the time at The Blue Whale like Cliff Claven in Cheers Tavern in Boston?

Angelique gaslighting Josette with a horrific vision of her nightmarish future, as a vampire, if she goes with Barnabas.

Carolyn Stoddard dropping her loaded revolver at her Mother's would be wedding , when Elizabeth proclaims "I murdered Paul Stoddard, and that man (pointing at Jason McGuire) was my accomplice!" ��

Angelique gaslighting Josette with a horrific vision of her nightmarish future, as a vampire, if she goes with Barnabas.


"gaslighting"?

I remember watching as a kid the scene where the zombies took over Collinwood. That scared me. Also, a hand coming out of one of the graves gave me nightmares, but I loved it anyway.

Good times!:cheers:

Elizabeth Stoddard, informed by Sheriff Patterson that the trunk buried under the locked basement room is empty... Realizes she's been afraid to leave Collinwood for eighteen years for nothing.

Angelique gaslighting Josette with a horrific vision of her nightmarish future, as a vampire, if she goes with Barnabas.

Carolyn Stoddard dropping her loaded revolver at her Mother's would be wedding , when Elizabeth proclaims "I murdered Paul Stoddard, and that man (pointing at Jason McGuire) was my accomplice!" ��

"gaslighting"?

Gaslighting is the manipulation of someone by psychological means into questioning their own sanity. A movie was made in the 40's called "Gaslight". It starred Ingrid Bergman. Very good movie.

Jonathan Frid's encounter with Marsha Mason (uncredited) during the Leviathan storyline. There's something so memorably eerie about their interaction; that entire scene is like a Technicolor nightmare come to life.

For me it was Willie Loomis freeing Barnabas by breaking the chains on his coffin.