October Guide to DS

[Sean Snow]

In October, Sci Fi starts showing 1897 (storyline starts with #701), the storyline that the plot referred to by some as 'devil tots' leads to. Below is the October Schedule.

Note: Sci Fi will be pre-empting "DARK SHADOWS" four times. Twice for a "Tales from the Crypt" Chain Reaction and once for a William Shatner's Fright Night Movie Marathon. And another one for who knows what.

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Oct 1: #670 & #671
Oct 2: #672 & #673
Oct 3: #674 & #675
Oct 4: #676 & #677

CAST THIS WEEK:
Don Briscoe as Chris Jennings (7)
Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins (6)
Denise Nickerson as Amy Jennings (6)
Nancy Barrett as Carolyn Stoddard (5)
Grayson Hall as Dr. Julia Hoffman (5)
David Henesy as David Collins (4)
Alex Stevens as the Werewolf (3)
Joan Bennett as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (2)
Terry Crawford as the ghost of Beth Chavez (2)
Kathryn Leigh Scott as Maggie Evans (2)
Clarice Blackburn as Mrs. Sarah Johnson (1)
Beverly Hayes as Donna Friedlander (1)
Vince O'Brien as Sheriff George Patterson (1)
David Selby as the ghost of Quentin Collins (1)
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Oct 7: #678 & #679
Oct 8: #680 & #681
Oct 9: #682 & #683
Oct 10: #684 & #685
Oct 11: #686 & #687

CAST THIS WEEK:
Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins (7)
David Henesy as David Collins (7)
David Selby as the ghost of Quentin Collins (6)
Joan Bennett as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (5)
Don Briscoe as Chris Jennings (5)
Grayson Hall as Dr. Julia Hoffman (4)
Denise Nickerson as Amy Jennings (4)
Kathryn Leigh Scott as Maggie Evans (4)
Nancy Barrett as Carolyn Stoddard (3)
Terry Crawford as the ghost of Beth Chavez (3)
Clarice Blackburn as Mrs. Sarah Johnson (2)
Abe Vigoda as Ezra Braithwaite (2)
Thayer David as Professor Timothy Eliot Stokes (1)
Roger Davis as Ned Stuart (1)
Louis Edmonds as Roger Collins (1)
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Oct 14: "TALES FROM THE CRYPT" Chain Reaction
Oct 15: #688 & #689
Oct 16: #690 & #691
Oct 17: #692 & #693 (#692 - First Lisa Richards Episode)
Oct 18: #694 & #695

CAST THIS WEEK:
David Henesy as David Collins (7)
Don Briscoe as Chris Jennings (5)
Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins (5)
David Selby as the ghost of Quentin Collins (5)
Kathryn Leigh Scott as Maggie Evans (5)
Joan Bennett as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (4)
Thayer David as Professor Timothy Eliot Stokes (3)
Roger Davis as Ned Stuart (3)
Grayson Hall as Dr. Julia Hoffman (3)
Denise Nickerson as Amy Jennings (3)
Nancy Barrett as Carolyn Stoddard (2)
Clarice Blackburn as Mrs. Sarah Johnson (1)
Louis Edmonds as Roger Collins (1)
Lisa Richards as Sabrina Stuart (1)
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Oct 21: #696 & #697
Oct 22: #698 & #699
Oct 23: #700 & #701 (#701 - 1897 Storyline Begins)
Oct 24: #702 & #703
Oct 25: #704 & #705

CAST THIS WEEK:
Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins (10)
David Selby as the ghost of Quentin Collins/Quentin Collins (7)
Grayson Hall as Dr. Julia Hoffman/Madga Rakosi (6)
Kathryn Leigh Scott as Maggie Evans/Rachel Drummond (5)
Joan Bennett as Judith Collins (4)
Terry Crawford as Beth Chavez (3)
Thayer David as Professor Timothy Eliot Stokes/Sandor Rakosi (3)
Isabella Hoopes as Edith Collins (3)
Denise Nickerson as Amy Jennings (3)
Don Briscoe as Chris Jennings (2)
Roger Davis as Ned Stuart (2)
Louis Edmonds as Roger Collins/Edward Collins (2)
David Henesy as David Collins/Jamison Collins (2)
Lisa Richards as Sabrina Stuart (2)
Alex Stevens as the Werewolf (2)
John Karlen as Willie Loomis (1)
K.C. Townsend as Sophie Baker (1)
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Oct 28: #706 & #707
Oct 29: #708 & #709
Oct 30: "TALES FROM THE CRYPT" Chain Reaction
Oct 31: "WILLIAM SHATNER'S FULL MOON FRIGHT NIGHT" Chain Reaction

CAST THIS WEEK:
Louis Edmonds as Edward Collins (3)
Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins (3)
David Selby as Quentin Collins (3)
Joan Bennett as Judith Collins (2)
Grayson Hall as Madga Rakosi (2)
John Karlen as Carl Collins (2)
Kathryn Leigh Scott as Rachel Drummond (2)
Humbert Allen Astredo as Evan Hanley (1)
Terry Crawford as Beth Chavez (1)
Roger Davis as Dirk Wilkins (1)
Thayer David as Sandor Rakosi (1)
David Henesy as Jamison Collins (1)
Isabella Hoopes as Edith Collins (1)

[Christopher]

Is it true that the last episode isn't about the main characters? Like the cast is there but they switch time to the 1800's so they are different characters. Also what happens in the 1897 storyline? They sure do like to go back in the past a lot.

[Sean Snow]

Originally posted by Silver Daze
Is it true that the last episode isn't about the main characters? Like the cast is there but they switch time to the 1800's so they are different characters. Also what happens in the 1897 storyline? They sure do like to go back in the past a lot.

Yea the last storylien which lasted for around 40 something episodes took place in the parellel time 1800s. Jonathan Frid got tired of Barnabas and in 1970 when he renewed his contract he told them he would leave the show if he didn't get a new character. So in the January-April 1971 storyline he plays Bramwell. The 1897 storyline I really don't know that much about.

[Christopher]

I started watching this show more often now because soon Barnabas is going back in time again and wanted to know Scifi doesn't skip episodes anymore do they?

[Sean Snow]

Originally posted by Silver Daze
I started watching this show more often now because soon Barnabas is going back in time again and wanted to know Scifi doesn't skip episodes anymore do they?

Nope. The last time they skipped episodes was summer 2001 I think. They had just gotten back to the beginning of the series and I guess were trying to get to the supernatural episodes faster.

[Christopher]

Originally posted by Sean Snow


Nope. The last time they skipped episodes was summer 2001 I think. They had just gotten back to the beginning of the series and I guess were trying to get to the supernatural episodes faster.

Wait, aren't all of them supernatural episodes? I thought thats why they called it Dark Shadows!

[Sean Snow]

Originally posted by Silver Daze



Wait, aren't all of them supernatural episodes? I thought thats why they called it Dark Shadows!

They all rae in a way, but in the first 100 or so episodes whenever someone saw a ghost they were told thety wre seeing things. The first 100 really centered on the Burke Devlin manslaughter case and Vicki trying to find out aobut her past.

[Christopher]

Originally posted by Sean Snow

Oct 9: #683

Why was this episode black & white? Are there any other upcoming episodes in Black and White?

[Sean Snow]

Originally posted by Silver Daze


Why was this episode black & white? Are there any other upcoming episodes in Black and White?

For some of the episodes, the original color masters are missing and have been replaced by B&W kinescopes. In the '60s, some stations would air a newshow in the place of DS and other soap operas. So instead of having the show not being shown in the market, the station would make B&W kinescopes of the episode and air them later in the day. They stopped doing this for all the soap operas (at least on ABC) in 1970. Unfortunately, one of the episodes (#1219) from 1971 is completely lost. A audio tape was discovered though (a fan of the show had their mom tape the show on cassettes while she was at school) and they reconstructed that episode. Bits of audio would play along with a narration by Lara Parker as still pictures of the characters in custume were shown.

I know there are a few in the 1897 storyline, but I do not know if there are any others. Most of the missing episodes are from the early color episodes. Also, a few B&W episodes are kinescoped but it's not as noticeable (It is noticeable though, the kinescopes look different from the regular B&W episodes.) The first episode with Jonathan Frid is a kinescope.

Here is a little thing from the MPI Home Video site (they are the people who release DS on tape/DVD):

Kinescopes are simply copies of a program which are filmed off of a television monitor. The method was conceived in the early days of television, before videotape was invented, as a method to preserve shows that were broadcast live. Although videotape became available in the late 1950s, the television networks continued to simultaneously make kinescopes of shows that were presented live or originated on videotape. Although vastly inferior in quality to video, kinescopes were still made in the mid-1960s because various stations across the country did not always telecast certain shows at the exact time that the network would transmit them. Since some stations did not yet have the expensive videotape equipment needed to record a program for a later playback, the network would provide filmed kinescope copies within days of the original broadcast.

By the fall of 1970, the kinescope process had become outdated, and ABC ceased making them for Dark Shadows.

Fortunately, the kinescope negatives for Dark Shadows were preserved along with the videotape masters. In the years since the episodes first aired on ABC, some of the videotape masters have been lost or damaged. Therefore, when the series is shown in reruns and on home video, filmed kinescope prints are used for several of the episodes. These episodes are now seen only in black and white, even after the series went to color.

Episodes 509, 683, 797, 801/802, 805 and 813 were skipped in the 1975-1990 syndication package. This was because the syndicator, Worldvision Enterprises, did not realize that kinescopes for these shows were available. One of the shows, Episode 805, had not been rerun because the master tape was ripped.

Black and white kinescope negatives were found for Episodes 509, 683, 797 and 813. In addition, the color videotape master for Episode 801/802 was located, and the damaged color tape for Episode 805 was salvaged by inserting sepia-tinted kinescope footage for the brief segment that was damaged on the tape master.

During this extensive search, the copies of two other syndicated episodes were upgraded for home video. A Spanish videotape copy was found of Episode 289, which had been rerun only in kinescope form. The English kinescope audio was merged with the Spanish video for a greatly enhanced picture.

Also, a color videotape master was found for Episode 367, which had previously been rerun in kinescope form.

Episode 805 is now aired in color btw, but one part (the part that was ripped on the master) was colorized to fit in with the rest of the episodes. In the B&W kinescopes, sometimes theya rej ust damaged. In this case, it will actually be a mix of a normal episode and a kinescope. I recently watched an episode. Scene one was normal. Scene two was a kinescope. Scene three was normal. Scene Four was a kinescope. This is because Scenes Two & Four were damaged while scenes One & Three were not.

A list of some of the kinescoped episodes:

#120
#127
#145
#211
#260
#296
#300
#318
#320
#323
#325
#335
#341
#344
#351
#352
#368/9
#438
#509
#683
#797
#813

There are some more, but those are the ones I could think of at this moment.

[Christopher]

You know DS is getting really good. When does the Devil Tot Storyline end? Does it end when Barnabas goes back in time?

[Sean Snow]

Originally posted by Silver Daze
You know DS is getting really good. When does the Devil Tot Storyline end? Does it end when Barnabas goes back in time?

The Haunting of Quentin and Beth (aka Devil Tots) ends when Barnabas travels back in time to the year 1897.