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Dark Shadows Commentary @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social · 1h

In which Gregory Trask can enjoy several good fits of righteous indignation: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/10/23/e...

Episode 869: The man who walks in the day

In October 1897, the hypocritical Rev’d Mr Gregory Trask is married to the vastly wealthy Judith Collins, owner of the estate of Collinwood and of the Collins family businesses. For more than…

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Dark Shadows Commentary @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social · 1d

In which Barnabas tells a story so ridiculous even characters on Dark Shadows have trouble believing it: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/10/22/e...

Episode 868: The man we thought he was

In October 1897, sorcerer Count Petofi has used his powers to steal the body of handsome young Quentin Collins and to trap Quentin in his own aging form. I refer to the villainous Petofi who looks …

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Dark Shadows Commentary @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social · 2d

In which Barnabas is back: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/10/21/e...

Episode 867: The name of your beloved

The dramatic date is October 1897. Sorcerer Count Petofi is using the body of Quentin Collins as a disguise. While he is doing this, I call him Q-Petofi. Q-Petofi has stripped witch Angelique of he…

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Dark Shadows Commentary @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social · 3d

In which Angelique is trapped with Barnabas' coffin, and Kitty/ Josette is in her room at the Old House: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/10/20/e...

Episode 866: Some various phases of change

It is 20 October 1897. Angelique, immortal witch and time-traveler, has discovered that her sometime fiancé, Quentin Collins, is not himself. He is 150 year old sorcerer Count Petofi, and Petofi is…

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Dark Shadows Commentary @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social · 6d

In which Angelique finds out about the body swap: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/10/17/e...

Episode 865: The mind and the body

In October of 1897, the estate of Collinwood is the property of Judith Collins Trask. If Judith were to list the people resident in the great house on the estate, she would include two who are only…

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Dark Shadows Commentary @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social · 7d

In which Evan has a new boss, Pansy has a new project, and Angelique has a new problem: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/10/16/e...

Episode 864: Shipwreck Point

Sorcerer Count Petofi is currently occupying the body of rakish Quentin Collins. When he is in this form, I refer to him as Q-Petofi. Q-Petofi. Screenshot by Dark Shadows Before I Die. Lawyer/ Sata…

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Dark Shadows Commentary @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social · 8d

In which Quentin goes back to his friend, Evan goes back to his religion, Judith goes back to her husband, Edward goes back to his sister, and nothing is the same as it was before: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/10/15/e...

Episode 863: Homecomings

In episodes #853-#856, Sorcerer Count Petofi (Thayer David) used his powers to force the devastatingly handsome Quentin Collins (David Selby) to trade bodies with him. Ever since, Quentin (Thayer D…

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Dark Shadows Commentary @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social · 8d

Remembering when Vicki was allowed to make a joke. www.tumblr.com/widowshill/7... @widowshill.bsky.social

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Dark Shadows Commentary @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social · 8d

In which the show invites its viewers to get all scholarly, and I take it up on that: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/10/14/e...

Episode 862: Reexamine your loyalties

Know Yourself In yesterday’s episode, Kitty Soames, the dowager countess of Hampshire, found a note on the dresser in the room where she has been staying in the great house of Collinwood. It …

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Dark Shadows Commentary @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social · 10d

In which Judith finds herself a stranger in a sea of familiar faces: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/10/13/e...

Episode 861: Complete control of my faculties

Judith Collins Trask, owner of the estate of Collinwood and all the Collins family businesses, has returned home after more than thirteen weeks confined to a sanitarium. Her return is supposed to b…

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ToughPigs @toughpigs.com · 11d

Remembering the great Diane Keaton with the Muppets' homage from the 1982 Miss Piggy Calendar.

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Dark Shadows Commentary @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social · 13d

In which Kitty turns to Pansy for help: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/10/10/e...

Episode 860: I just say things

Edward Collins isn’t what he seems. His stuffy manner is real enough, as are his kind impulses when he sees people in distress. But he allows those who meet him to believe that he is the heir…

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Dark Shadows Commentary @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social · 14d

In which Nora does not share her father's fondness for crazy ladies: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/10/09/e...

Episode 859: Not this grownup

Nine year old Nora Collins enters the drawing room of the great house of Collinwood. She walks in on her, the stuffy but lovable Edward, embracing Kitty Soames, the dowager countess of Hampshire. S…

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Dark Shadows Commentary @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social · 16d

In which Wanda Paisley, a young lady of professionally agreeable disposition, encounters a series of surprises, some more to her liking than others. darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/10/07/e...

Episode 857: Champagne for Wanda

Sorcerer Count Petofi is wearing the body of rakish libertine Quentin Collins as a disguise, while Quentin is trapped in Petofi’s own aging and pudgy form. I will call the villainous Petofi p…

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Dark Shadows Commentary @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social · 17d

In which Petofi and Quentin trade bodies: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/10/06/e...

Episode 856: Like a new man

Evil sorcerer Count Petofi has cast a spell causing his mind to take over the body of rakish Quentin Collins, while Quentin is confined to Petofi’s own body. So David Selby begins playing a y…

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Dark Shadows Commentary @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social · 20d

In which Petofi is about to swap bodies with Quentin, and the show has to figure out what comes after 1897: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/10/03/e...

Episode 855: The winds of change

The Point of Return Barnabas Collins went into a trance at the end of February 1969 and came to in March 1897, a time when he was a vampire. Barnabas took the audience with him, so that Dark Shadow…

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Dark Shadows Commentary @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social · 20d

In which the writers trust Kathryn Leigh Scott with a simpler line than they can usually bring themselves to give anyone: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/10/02/e...

Episode 854: Substitute for will

Ever since she came to the estate of Collinwood in #844, Kitty Soames, the dowager Countess of Hampshire, has been having psychotic breaks. Regular viewers know that these are supernatural in origi…

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Dark Shadows Commentary @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social · 22d

In which they take a moment out from time travel and black magic and raising the dead to show us something truly amazing: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/10/01/e...

Episode 853: Strange and horrifying spirits

Kitty Soames, a young American woman who is the dowager Countess of Hampshire, is gradually turning into Josette DuPrés, who has been dead for 101 years. Kitty is staying at the great house on the …

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Dark Shadows Commentary @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social · 22d

In which Josette's ghost knows what the living Josette never did, and she is hopping mad about it: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/09/30/e...

Episode 852: All kinds of spells on people

From November 1967 to March 1968, Dark Shadows was set in the 1790s. The cast included Kathryn Leigh Scott as the gracious Josette, Louis Edmonds as haughty overlord Joshua Collins, and Lara Parker…

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Dark Shadows Commentary @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social · 24d

In which we add David Ford to the list of actors who would have made a better Charles Delaware Tate than did Roger Davis: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/09/29/e...

Episode 851: Common cause

Rakish libertine Quentin Collins races to the train station to meet his fiancée, the lovely and mysterious Amanda Harris. He thinks he sees her, but it is actually another young woman wearing a rem…

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Dark Shadows Commentary @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social · 24d

What is a "Gothic romance"? culturedump.substack.com/p/defining-g...

Defining 'Gothic'

A brief introduction to Gothic art and literature

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Dark Shadows Commentary @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social · 24d

I have seen his name many times, and am glad to report that I still have no idea who he is or why he is famous.

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Dark Shadows Commentary @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social · 27d

In which the train that brought Vicki and Burke to Collinsport from New York in 1966 takes Amanda back there in 1897: #darkshadows darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/09/26/e...

Episode 850: That’s your train, lady

In June 1966, Dark Shadows opened with a train carrying well-meaning governess Victoria Winters and dashing action hero Burke Devlin from New York City to Collinsport, Maine. Vicki and Burke first …

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Dark Shadows Commentary @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social · 27d

Considering that Mrs Isles worked for the Museum of Television and Radio, it's ironic that her only non-DS screen acting credit is a lost film.

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