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TV Series

Series Name:    Dark Shadows (Sombras Tenebrosas) Format: TV Series IMDB: IMDB Page Years: 1966 - 1971 Country:   USA Language: English Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama Rating: Rate Collection:   Seen It     Wishlist  Community:  6 Have Seen, 1 Wishlist » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

Selected Cast	Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins
	Grayson Hall as Dr. Julia Hoffman
	Alexandra Isles as Victoria Winters
	Nancy Barrett as Carolyn Stoddard
	Joan Bennett as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
	Louis Edmonds as Roger Collins
	Kathryn Leigh Scott as Maggie Evans
	David Selby as Quentin Collins
	David Henesy as David Collins
	Lara Parker as Angelique

Notes

Horror soap opera that has had several remakes.

Production: Dan Curtis Productions.
Original Broadcaster: ABC

This is the only series in the daytime soap opera genre for which every episode (save a single lost episode) has been released to DVD. With more than 1,200 episodes, the Dark Shadows box set stands as the biggest DVD release in history.

On DVD & Blu-ray World

DVD

Dark Shadows [TV] - MPI Home Video - USA (2016)

DVD Box Set

Dark Shadows [TV] - MPI Home Video - USA (2002)

DVD

Dark Shadows [The Vampire Curse] - MPI Home Video - USA (2009)

Comments and Reviews

DexterMiller 11th Jun 2020		The first 294 episodes are black and white.
nhumbard 22nd Jul 2015		At least post Barnabas era, it aired at 4pm Eastern on ABC.
RadoxTheGreen 10th Jun 2015		Sorry, that was my fault. I'd seen the late night re-run on Sci-Fi and assumed the original run went out at a similar time. I'll correct it.
23skidoo 10th Jun 2015		There is an error in the Notes: This was not a late-night soap opera. It aired during the day alongside all the other soap operas of the era. A fascinating fact about the original Dark Shadows: a total of 1,225 episodes were produced as it was a daily soap opera. All but one episode survives, which is unique among older soap operas many of which have lost years, never mind just lost episodes. It is also the only daytime soap to enjoy success in syndicated reruns because of its supernatural format, and is the only soap opera to have its complete run (yes, all 1,225 episodes - the missing one being recreated with still images and audio) issued on DVD. Now you want to talk about binge-watching something! (Incidentally some online sources say 1245 episodes were produced. This is an error because the network played around with the episode numbering (which served as the "titles" for each episode), sometimes skipping numbers. So there were only 1,225 actual episodes made.) The 1,225 episodes I believe makes Dark Shadows the all-time record holder in terms of number of episodes for a series in the SF-Fantasy super-genre (by comparison, in 51 years Doctor Who has aired just over 800 episodes, while the entire Star Trek TV franchise between 1966 and 2005 produced just over 720 episodes.) Binge viewers take note, however: the key character of Barnabas Collins is not introduced until the series' 210th episode (Star Trek: TNG's entire seven-season run amounted to 176 episodes).

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