These episodes of Dark Shadows originally aired January 8-12, 1968.

In this installment of The Drawing Room:

• A Dark Shadows Love Story: Love means never having to say, “My wife the witch is going to kill you.”
• The Collins that Couldn’t Shoot Straight
• The “Old Flame” OVER the fireplace
• Being from the future is no defense against a charge of witchcraft
• Pre-teen Chrissy remembers Peter Bradford. Pre-teen Russ remembers Kate Jackson
• Opening narration: Déjà vu…or déjà snooze?
• Is Nathan in love with Millicent…or her money?
• The Devil in the Details: It all turns on a chip in a glass

Also…

• The Great Mini Skirt Scourge
• Like us on Facebook!

This week’s acting award goes to Jonathan Frid

Bitten!!

Same bat-time, same bat-channel!

Romance in the Garden

Why, I OUGHTA…

These episodes of Dark Shadows originally aired January 1 – 5, 1968.

In this installment of The Drawing Room:

• Fire! Fire! Faked by the liar!
• The reluctant bridegroom and the insecure bride: is this marriage doomed?
• Haunting melody…or haunted music box?
• The Great Collinsport Women’s Prayer Meeting
• The Great But Extremely Temporary Graveside Conversion
• Witchcraft? Not a chance! Time travel? No problem!
• How is Dark Shadows like Plan 9 From Outer Space?
• How is Dark Shadows like Snow White?
• The Joss Effect

Also:

• TV’s Super Babes
• We have a great new Facebook page!

Ben, the Knight in Shining Armor

The reluctant bridegroom…

“I have the witch!”

“Are you SURE you’re from the future?”

In this installment of The Drawing Room:

• Push comes to shove: a tale of motherly love
• St. Josette, the tragic widow martyr
• Is Abigail a better detective than Rev. Trask?
• Beware…the uninteresting child
• Russ exercises his stock options
• The Commotionless Motion of the Collins Moving Day
• Haunted houses…or haunted people?
• The Serendipitously Bandaged Ghost

Also…

• Good, Bad, Ugly, Ice Bowl & Tribbles
• We say goodbye to 1967

What the well-dressed armchair is wearing this season

Proofreader needed, apply at Dan Curtis Productions

Kathryn Leigh Scott’s new novel, Down and Out in Beverly Heels, is now available on Amazon.

From her website: The novel is a fun, light-hearted romance, taking us into the Hollywood social swirl, but also delves into the gritty truth of what it is to be “homeless and hiding it” in one of the most glittering, fashionable cities in the world.

We recently joined Wallace McBride and Patrick McCray on the Collinsport Historical Society’s podcast for a lively discussion about the pre-Barnabas episodes of Dark Shadows. Click the banner above to go to the podcast, but before you do, you might enjoy this short recap of the first 209 episodes, when Dark Shadows was a lot less supernatural, a lot more soap opera-ish, and fabulously gothic!

Here’s another nice look at the early episodes, shorter and more dramatic, with cool music:

In this installment of The Drawing Room:

• Do the ends justify the means?
• I love her! I hate her! I love her!
• Fabulous Liars
• A secret engagement! Oh, what fun! (Or…NOT…)
• Barnabas rewrites his romantic history
• Stupid Suspense
• The dreaded “Let’s Be Friends” makes another appearance

Also…

• How talking to the animals made George Lucas a very wealthy man
• Introducing: The Drawing Room Forum

Witchcraft!

Witchcraft!

These episodes of Dark Shadows originally aired December 11-15, 1967.

In this installment of The Drawing Room:

• Dueling Fools
• Nathan Forbes, Victorian superhero! (At least he’s trying to be…)
• How to hide out in a small town
• The kooky spinster meets the Zodiac
• Does Barnabas have free will…or will Angelique set him free?
• Dark Shadows 1st Super-Villain: Acerbic to the extreme!
• The devil is in EVERYTHING…
• The tree, the bear, and frostbite: so, who’s a witch now?

And…

• Guess who’s coming to dinner?
• Forum, anyone?

NOTE: This week, Chrissy’s synopsis is accompanied by Intermission, by Panic! at the Disco.

If she doesn’t survive, good news! She wasn’t a witch!

Fake Jeremiah

These episodes of Dark Shadows originally aired December 4-8, 1967.

In this installment of The Drawing Room:

• Look! A cat!
• And… Look! A cat wrangler!
• Is Nathan lying when he says he isn’t a liar?
• Dysfunction, fixation and dismemberment
• Upstairs, Downstairs…and everything in between
• The weekly Stock Market report
• Natalie’s in charge, and Naomi’s locked out
• The mole, the boots and the amulet: fashion fun and foibles

ALSO:

• George Hamilton update
• Lots o’ laughs

Let’s give Naomi a big hand for Outstanding Performance in a Dream Sequence

Will Angelique’s plan be foiled? Stay tuned…

Tarot cards don’t lie

A study in fashion moles

These episodes of Dark Shadows originally aired November 27 – December 1, 1967.

In this installment of The Drawing Room:

• If Barnabas marries Josette, will America be ruled by the Martians?
• Ben is uite sure he will never say a word with a “Q” in it.
• Angelique knows how to push buttons…but can she keep them pushed?
• In death, Barnabas waxes eloquent about life…in life, he waxes eloquent about death.
• The Floating Soap Opera Bed
• Oh, that troublesome toddy!
• “Time is held in suspension…” and the opening narration is stuck in a rut
• Death threats! (And they’re not from Barnabas!)
• Major Peter Murphy sighting!

ALSO…

• Daydreams, Millionaires, and Julie Newmar’s legs
• What the heck is a Dark Shadows plastic car model?

Josette receives a really creepy wig as a wedding gift

An uneasy alliance

These episodes of Dark Shadows originally aired November 20-24, 1967.

In this installment of the Drawing Room:

• Our Time Machine makes a side trip to 1795
• Exercising the acting chops on some meatier roles?
• Slap!
• Jeremiah is bewitched, Abigail’s picking up evil vibrations, and Vicki does her best impersonation of the Energizer Bunny
• Sibling sniping and manipulations
• Whoever said “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” must have dated Angelique
• Vicki’s new reality: doppelgangers, dreams, and embracing the past
• Has Barnabas gone from villain to victim?
• Ready! Get SET! Yes, nicely done…

AND

• Hulk Smash!
• and…we have a Winner!

Welcome Crazy Angelique with the crazy eyes

A new family dynamic

This week’s award is for Set Design

In this installment of the Drawing Room:

• Hoffman is NOT afraid
• Fun Use of the Phone
• Alpha Male Part II: the Honorable Guy
• Sarah’s Swan Song
• If there’s no body….are they dead?
• David’s right about EVERYTHING….oh…really?
• Does time keep on slipping into the future…or into the past?
• Tony Peterson doesn’t know what he’s stepped in
• Toy Boats and Seasick-o-Vision (No, not at the same time)
• Brutal Chronology: Clocks amok!

AND

• Our first contest! Enter and win a fabulous prize! (Note: Russ misspoke, when he said the contest ends Wednesday, December 7. Well, it turns out December 7 is a Friday, so the contest actually ends Friday, December 7!)

Really small…in a really big room

Alpha Male 2.0 vs. Damsel in Distress