Season 1 • Episode 12
LatestIn 1790, Barnabas' vampirism is discovered. Joshua A. Collins and lawyer Peter Bradford desperately try to save Victoria Winters from being hung as a witch. In 1991, Victoria’s return from the past is jeopardized as Angelique’s spirit now possessing Maggie Evans plots a murder.
Dark Shadows is a primetime television series which aired on NBC from January to March 1991. A re-imagining of the 1966–1971 ABC daytime gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, the revival was developed by Dan Curtis, creator of the original series.
Production
Lavish mansion sets dripping with gothic atmosphere on a TV budget
Acting
Ben Cross's Barnabas — brooding, tragic, impossibly theatrical
Costume
Waistcoats, corsets, and 1790s flashback finery worth every penny
Creator
Dan Curtis
Ben Cross
Barnabas Collins
Jean Simmons
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard / Naomi Collins
Jim Fyfe
Willie Loomis / Ben Loomis
Joanna Going
Victoria Winters / Josette du Pres
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
David Collins / Daniel Collins
Veronica Lauren
Sarah Collins
Ely Pouget
Maggie Evans
Barbara Steele
Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres
Roy Thinnes
Roger Collins / Rev. Trask
Michael T. Weiss
Joe Haskell / Peter Bradford
Michael Cavanaugh
Sheriff George Patterson / Andre du Pres
Stefan Gierasch
Joshua Collins / Prof. Michael Woodard
Eddie Jones
Bailiff Henry Evans / Sam Evans
Julianna McCarthy
Abigail Collins / Mrs. Johnson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Joseph Gordon-Levitt's first major TV role at age 10, playing both modern David and 18th-century Daniel.
The original 1966-1971 series still holds the record for most episodes of a daily supernatural show ever produced.
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