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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: MPI
EAN: 0030306780597
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: MPI HOME VIDEO
Manufacturer: MPI HOME VIDEO
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: MPI HOME VIDEO
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Running Time: 690 minutes
Sales Rank: 13185
Studio: MPI HOME VIDEO
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With its alluring tales of Gothic mystery and supernatural intrigue, DARK SHADOWS (1966-71, ABC-TV) became one of the most popular daytime series of all time. The character of Barnabas Collins, a guilt-ridden, 175-year-old vampire, brought the show tremendous success. Now, for the first time on DVD, MPI presents the spooky series rare, early episodes before Barnabas.
Victoria Winters and Frank Garner anxiously search for clues to Laura Collins strange origins and are led to a series of bizarre discoveries. Elizabeth Collins Stoddard orders Laura to leave Collinwood, but Laura secretly visits Elizabeth while she sleeps and places her in a trance. Laura warns Victoria that she will take control of her son, David Collins, but becomes frightened when the ghost of Josette Collins appears to her. Against Roger Collins wishes, a psychic investigator, Dr. Peter Guthrie, is called in to examine the strange occurrences at Collinwood and a seance is held. Victoria and Guthrie learn that the body of a dead woman identified as Laura has disappeared from the morgue in Phoenix, Arizona.
New interviews with actress Diana Millay, author/horror expert Leonard Wolf and writers Ron Sproat and Malcolm Marmorstein.
Dark Shadows: The Beginning episodes showcase the start of a legend!
Named one of TV s top 25 cult shows by TV Guide
13 ½ hours of Dark Shadows on four discs
Includes never-before-seen bonus features
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Rating: - Neglected but worth having.
I don't know why MPI didn't release Dark Shadows from the beginning of the series; the first year is definitely worth watching. The early warring with Burke Devlin seemed a bit dragged out until the murder of Bill Malloy. The Beginning Volume 5 is very suspenceful as we watch the 2nd supernatural plot line of the series play out. Not only is it good in it's own right, but it is an important background story for when Laura reappears in the Barnabus years. I've enjoyed these early episodes very much, they are a must for any Dark Shadows fan. Dark Shadows has a cinematic quality to it that has not been rivaled by any other soap opera in television history. The special effects were very advanced for the 1960s. I guarantee that fans of the suspence/horror genre won't be dissapointed either.
Rating: - A TV Classic Takes Form
In this volume of the cult classic, Dark Shadows started to find success by making its new supernatural elements more intricate. A missing corpse, a psychic investigator, seances, ghosts, and a touch of the absurd all help to create the best volume of the series to date. Diana Millay's Laura character takes center stage as the charming and single-minded supernatural creature with a wide array of powers that she takes great pleasure in using to get her own way. Surprisingly dark and creepy for daytime TV--no wonder it stood out amidst the other soaps.
Rating: - Dark Shadows, "The Beginning" Collection
Although this is part of the series nearly led to its early demise, any Dark Shadows fan especially those of us in our 50's who have been collecting the after Barnabas CD's will enjoy these episodes. It is an excellent introduction to the charactors, a great example of early TV production and a perfect preface for the episodes that follow.
Rating: - Better than I thought it would be!
This was way better than I expected! Really got me hooked. Can't wait for the next collection to come out! The phoenix lady rocks!
Rating: - At Last!!
This boxed set from the iconic Classic TV soap opera Dark Shadows represents the next to the last set of episodes before the fabled appearance of 175-year-old vampire Barnabas Collins.
MPI Home Video should be congratulated for continuing to release these less familiar and seldom seen episodes onto DVD.
In this boxed set, containing 35 episodes that first aired in 1967, the first-ever seance in soap opera history is held! Seances and other supernatural events became a staple of this unique soap opera throughout the remainder of the fantastic series.
The Collins family is continuing to cope with the unexpected return of Roger Collins' wife, Laura Murdock Radcliff Collins, whose presence becomes even more mysterious, supernatural and - very dangerous.
Roger (Louis Edmonds) had told his young son David (David Henesy) that his mother was dead, but she had actually suffered a mental breakdown and was confined in sanitarium. Since being released, she apparently had been living in Phoenix, Ariz., unbeknownst to the Collins family.
Without warning, Laura (Diana Millay) returned to Collinwood and demanded full custody of her son. Roger's sister, Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Joan Bennett) steadfastly refused, and was inexplicably stricken by what appears to be a trance. The family also learns that a woman, identified AS Laura Collins, was found burned to death in Laura's apartment in Phoenix three days prior to Laura's arrival at Collinwood.
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