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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780788604522
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 078860452X
Label: Mpi Home Video
Manufacturer: Mpi Home Video
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Mpi Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 25, 2003
Running Time: 900 minutes
Sales Rank: 21923
Studio: Mpi Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 27, 1966
Editorial Review:
Description:
With its alluring tales of Gothic mystery and supernatural intrigue, Dark Shadows became one of the most popular daytime series of all time. Since first airing on ABC-TV from 1966-71, Dark Shadows has earned the reputation as being one of the most unusual and enduring programs in television history. The character of Barnabas Collins, a guilt-ridden 175 year-old vampire, brought the show tremendous success.
Barnabas' secret is threatened by David Collins' curiosity. Anxious to become human again, Barnabas orders Dr. Julia Hoffman to accelerate her treatments to cure him, but the experiment backfires, causing Barnabas to age rapidly and assume the appearance of a 200-year-old man. During a seance at Collinwood to contact the spirit of Barnabas' young sister Sarah, Victoria Winters mysteriously disappears and finds that she has traveled back in time to the year 1795.
Bonuses: Exclusive interviews with series producer Robert Costello, writer Sam Hall, special make-up artist Dick Smith and actress Lara Parker.
Starring: Joan Bennett, Jonathan Frid, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Louis Edmonds, Nancy Barrett, David Henesy, Clarice Blackburn, Anthony George, Grayson Hall, Joel Crothers, David Ford, Robert Gerringer, Jerry Lacy, Lara Parker, Sharon Smyth, Peter Turgeon, Vince O' Brien, Angus Cairns, Peter Murphy, William Shust, Dorrie Kavanaugh and Alexandra Moltke
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Best Vampire Series Ever!!
For anyone hoping to recapture a glimpse of the 60's-70's daytime hit drama, Dark Shadows, look no further than this magnificent DVD Collection. Each Disc takes you back in time and one is transported into television history. With each new episode, one is reacquainted with characters whose individual "oddities" will draw you in as they seem more alive than when the series first aired. If anything, the show is better than one might remember complete with outlandish plots that are littered with ... Read More
Rating:  - TRAVEL BACK TO 1795. . .
Collection 4 offers more twists and turns to the viewer. Barnabas' secret is threatened by David Collins'suspicion. Dr. Julia Hoffman gets more tangled up as she tries to help Barnabas. The best part of this collection is when Victoria Winters accidentally goes back in time to the year 1795 during a seance to contact Sarah. The viewer is also transported back in time along with Ms. Winters. It's so interesting to see the characters in 1795 come alive after hearing about them from their descendants ... Read More
Rating: - Another solid set of episodes, this time spanning the centuries
Dark Shadows Collection 4 delivers forty more episodes of involving, effective gothic melodrama, made more potent by the inclusion of a couple of especially dramatic developments: Barnabas moving beyond his frequent empty threats of violence and actually killing someone to keep the truth of his existence a secret, and, later in the set, a sudden and unexpected trip to the past to show us the origin of the undead Barnabas. All great stuff.
But first, a playful, minor quibble. It's actually ... Read More
Rating: - The "Origin of Barnabas" story begins -- after several other significant developments
DARK SHADOWS is the only daytime soap opera in TV GUIDE's "25 Top Cult Shows Ever." (1) DS made it into that list because of the 175-year-old vampire Barnabas Collins, played by Shakespearean actor Jonathan Frid, introduced a year into DS to save it from cancellation.
The first fifteen episodes in this set eliminate all traces of DS's original plan -- abandoned partly to satisfy the viewers -- to destroy Barnabas. For me, the most effective part of this segment is the murder of Dr. Woodard, ... Read More
Rating:  - Great show, poor quality DVD
And I am not referring to the quality of the video picture-they were dealing with videotape and black and white kinescope to do the transfer. But I have had a devil of a time getting these discs to play. None of the four discs will play on my computer DVD drive. After about a dozen tries, I managed to get disc one to play on another DVD player, but it froze in the middle of the scene in the sixth episode and after that I could not get it to play again. I had to resort to my son's Playstation II to finally ... Read More
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