Vampire Barnabas Collins has been part of Dark Shadows at least since we first saw his portrait on the wall of the great house of Collinwood in #204, more properly since they went to great lengths to make it look like there was a portrait on that spot in #195. He is now the main force driving the action of the show, and pretty much the only reason people are tuning in to watch it. The ghost of…
I wasn’t expecting corporate-takeover intrigue on the vampire-werewolf soap opera, but here we are; Burke Devlin is trying to pull a Lucas Mattsson on the Collins fishing fleet.
When new writers start working on Dark Shadows, they do some inventorying of ongoing and disused storylines. When Ron Sproat came aboard in November of 1966, he contrived a lot of scenes that served to mark storylines as “To be developed” or “To be discarded.” Now Gordon Russell has begun to be credited with scripts. He addresses continuity questions with brief lines of dialogue.
For example,…
Last know photograph taken of Collinsport citizen Burke Devlin. Devlin was waiting for his private jet to be fueled to take him for Brazil on business. Devlin had been engaged to local girl Victoria Winters at the time of his death in a fiery plane crash over the Brazilian jungle.