The Storyline of Dark Shadows
The beginning of the show introduces Victoria Winters (Alexandra Moltke) and the members of the Collins family, who reside on top of Widows' Hill in a house called Collinwood in Collinsport, Maine. Victoria was orphaned, and she came to Collinwood in order to find out more about her eerie past. David Collins (David Henesy) would constantly tell Victoria of the ghosts he saw. Victoria also encountered the ghost of Josette Collins (Kathryn Leigh Scott) when she was looking through the closed-off west wing of Collinwood.
Laura Collins (Diana Millay) returned to Collinwood and proceeded to wreak havoc on her family members, resorting to the use of magic. Laura ended up facing an early demise herself. Jason McGuire (Dennis Patrick) comes back to Collinsport to blackmail Elizabeth Collins Stoddard. When Willie Loomis (John Karlen) goes into the Collinwood mausoleum to search for the supposed family jewels, he unknowingly releases a vampire, Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid). Julia Hoffman (Grayson Hall) then came to Collinsport with the intent of destroying the vampire once and for all. But in an unexpected twist, she falls in love with him instead.
Barnabas first mistakes Maggie Evans (Kathryn Leigh Scott) for Josette and kidnaps her. After Maggie escapes, she is sent to Windcliff because she had lost her memory. When Julia arrives in Collinsport she reports that Maggie is dead so as to protect her. Maggie eventually escapes Windcliff with the help of Sarah Collins (Sharon Smyth) and returns to the Blue Whale. After seeing her old friends, she collapses, remembering fragments of her past.
During a seance at Collinwood, Victoria is transported back into 1795 and meets not only Barnabas before he turned into a vampire, but also the people whom she knows in their past lives. Victoria also meets Angelique Bouchard (Lara Parker), Barnabas' former lover, Josette, his fiancee, and his sister Sarah.
Angelique, tormented by Barnabas' betrayal and love for Josette, curses Barnabas into becoming a vampire, and tortures Josette until she unwittingly throws herself off Widows' Hill so she will not become the horrifying vision that Angelique has created. Victoria falls in love with a man named Peter Bradford (Roger Davis) after being imprisoned for practicing witchcraft. Eventually, Victoria is condemned and hanged. But before she dies, she is sent back to 1968 and Angelique follows.
Back in the 1968 timeline, Barnabas fears that Victoria has discovered his secret vampirism and he tricks her into agreeing to marriage. After they left Collinwood, a car accident brought a man with a resemblance to Peter to Victoria. The man claims his name is Jeff and has no recollection of Victoria. Her persistence leads him to regaining his memory, but he is mysteriously driven back to the past. Victoria manages to find him and they spend their lives in the past.
In 1969, Quentin Collins (David Selby) haunts Collinwood, so Barnabas travels back into 1897. Barnabas first finds himself chained to his coffin but is able to escape due to the help of Sandor (Thayer David) and Magda Rakosi (Grayson Hall). Andreas Petofi (Thayer David) paints a portrait of Quentin in this time, making him immortal so that his ghost does not haunt Collinwood in the present. Barnabas encounters Kitty Soames (Kathryn Leigh Scott) who is the reincarnation of Josette. But when Kitty puts on Josette's wedding dress, she steps into Josette's portrait and is transported back to 1795.
In 1970, Collinwood is destroyed. Julia travels back in time to 1840 using the Stairway into Time created by Quentin. She released Barnabas from his coffin, and eventually the Barnabas from 1970 was able to regain control of the counterpart's body. Barnabas has Judah Zachary (Michael McGuire) to remove Angelique's power. Angelique then creates an alliance with Barnabas and they destroy Judah.
During the 1841 parallel time, Catherine Harridge (Lara Parker) is to marry Morgan Collins (Keith Prentice). Daphne Harridge (Kate Jackson) suspects that Catherine is still in love with Bramwell Collins (Jonathan Frid). When Bramwell returns to Collinwood, he is upset of the marriage and demands that he and Catherine be together.
Bramwell kidnaps Catherine and she professes her love to him, but still wants to marry Morgan. Morgan tells Catherine of the Collins family secret. During the wedding, Bramwell interrupts and he and Morgan duel. Bramwell ends up wounded, but Daphne cares for him, and the two end up getting married themselves. Melanie Collins (Nancy Barrett) was found in the woods with strange bite marks on her neck, which turn out to be from an animal rather than a vampire.
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