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Summary: Counting down to 1795
Review: Dark Shadows continues with DVD Collection 4 (VHS Volumes 21-28)! The storylines really pick up the pace in these episodes as young David Collins continues to have nightmares about vampire Barnabas Collins. As Barnabas wants to become human again he orders Dr. Julia Hoffman to accelerate her experiments to cure him. However, the treatments backfire, causing Barnabas to age rapidly to look like a 200-year-old man. Barnabas attacks and takes control of Carolyn Stoddard in order to become "young" again. Later on in this Collection, the Collins family begin to believe that David's claims may be true, and they hold a seance to contact the spirit of Barnabas' younger sister Sarah. During the seance, Victora Winters mysteriously disappears and discovers that she has travelled back in time to the year 1795.Bonuses for this disc include interviews with producer Robert Costello, writer Sam Hall, make-up artist Dick Smith (probably the best interview I've seen on a DS set) and actress Lara Parker, who plays the role of the evil witch Angelique when the series shifts to 1795. Another great collection of the Dark Shadows series.
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Summary: Counting down to 1795
Review: Dark Shadows continues with DVD Collection 4 (VHS Volumes 21-28)! The storylines really pick up the pace in these episodes as young David Collins continues to have nightmares about vampire Barnabas Collins. As Barnabas wants to become human again he orders Dr. Julia Hoffman to accelerate her experiments to cure him. However, the treatments backfire, causing Barnabas to age rapidly to look like a 200-year-old man. Barnabas attacks and takes control of Carolyn Stoddard in order to become "young" again. Later on in this Collection, the Collins family begin to believe that David's claims may be true, and they hold a seance to contact the spirit of Barnabas' younger sister Sarah. During the seance, Victora Winters mysteriously disappears and discovers that she has travelled back in time to the year 1795. Bonuses for this disc include interviews with producer Robert Costello, writer Sam Hall, make-up artist Dick Smith (probably the best interview I've seen on a DS set) and actress Lara Parker, who plays the role of the evil witch Angelique when the series shifts to 1795. Another great collection of the Dark Shadows series.
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Summary: Dark Shadows continues
Review: Each box set continues to get better and better. There is no reason why any dark shadow fans will not be satisfied with these dvd collections. The dvds provide great picture and sound, including the classic episodes that continue to entertain fans. The storylines and characters continually improve in each box set, and will continue to do so with each release.
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Summary: Passport to Collinwood
Review: For pure Dark Shadows at its classic best, this box set presents 40 episodes that portend the core brilliance of what has made this supernatural daytime series endure these past 37 years: Love, death, fear, longing, revenge, obsession, lies, secrets, loyalty and betrayal all played out against a compelling backdrop of Gothic sensibilities that include a 175-year-old guilt-ridden and love-lorn vampire, seances, time travel, ghosts, mystery, murder, intrigue and a constant dose of the unexpected. This "soap opera" managed to transcend its genre by bringing a taste of Gothic horror and science-fiction fantasy to the hum-drum world of the afternoon drama, and DVD Collection 4 underscores that more than any of the previous Dark Shadows DVD releases. In fact, almost every important recurring Dark Shadows theme that was to take the series through its entire five-year run and into TV immortality is represented somewhere within the episodes of this amazing box set. The production quality of this box set is stunning considering the original source material did not make it through the decades as unscathed as did the reputation of this incredible series. In two words: Buy It!
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Summary: A must own collection !
Review: I can probably count on one hand tv series that I would buy on DVD...and Dark Shadows is one of them ! Yes...they borrowed storylines from classics including "Frankenstein"..."Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde"...and "The Wolfman"....they left in flubbed lines...had on camera miscues...many of the individual scenes dragged out way too long...and the cast probably earned plenty of frequent flyer miles with all of their trips back and forth into the past and future...but these things give Dark Shadows it's charm ! The sets were absolutely awesome...professionally designed and built by architects and craftsmen...the music soundtrack is very beautiful... the quality is great on DVD...and the interviews with cast members and others involved at the end of each disc are excellent additions! It was also the start for sucessful actors like David Selby (Quentin Collins)...Kate Jackson(Daphne Harridge)...John Karlen(Willie Loomis)...and Roger Davis(Peter Bradford)...it featured familiar faces like Joan Bennett(Elizabeth Collins Stoddard) and Dennis Patrick(Jason Mc Guire)...and actors who came out of nowhere to steal the show...like Lara Parker(Angelique the witch) Louis Edmonds(Roger Collins)....Thayer David (Ben Stokes)Jerry Lacy (Reverend Trask)...and Nancy Barrett(Carolyn Stoddard) ! Buy all of the sets...but I'm reviewing here because Victoria Winters' accidental trip to 1795 via seance' is the most well written and best acted segment of the entire series...as good as most of them were ! Enjoy...Dark Shadows truly is a classic...and my order is up to date through Collection 9 ! Start right now with Collection 1...the first appearance of last but not least...Barnabas Collins...played with all of his heart and soul by Johnathan Frid....a must own DVD collection that won't take too big of a bite out of your budget !
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Summary: A must own collection !
Review: I can probably count on one hand tv series that I would buy on DVD...and Dark Shadows is one of them ! Yes...they borrowed storylines from classics including "Frankenstein"..."Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde"...and "The Wolfman"....they left in flubbed lines...had on camera miscues...many of the individual scenes dragged out way too long...and the cast probably earned plenty of frequent flyer miles with all of their trips back and forth into the past and future...but these things give Dark Shadows it's charm ! The sets were absolutely awesome...professionally designed and built by architects and craftsmen...the music soundtrack is very beautiful... the quality is great on DVD...and the interviews with cast members and others involved at the end of each disc are excellent additions! It was also the start for sucessful actors like David Selby (Quentin Collins)...Kate Jackson(Daphne Harridge)...John Karlen(Willie Loomis)...and Roger Davis(Peter Bradford)...it featured familiar faces like Joan Bennett(Elizabeth Collins Stoddard) and Dennis Patrick(Jason Mc Guire)...and actors who came out of nowhere to steal the show...like Lara Parker(Angelique the witch) Louis Edmonds(Roger Collins)....Thayer David (Ben Stokes)Jerry Lacy (Reverend Trask)...and Nancy Barrett(Carolyn Stoddard) ! Buy all of the sets...but I'm reviewing here because Victoria Winters' accidental trip to 1795 via seance' is the most well written and best acted segment of the entire series...as good as most of them were ! Enjoy...Dark Shadows truly is a classic...and my order is up to date through Collection 9 ! Start right now with Collection 1...the first appearance of last but not least...Barnabas Collins...played with all of his heart and soul by Johnathan Frid....a must own DVD collection that won't take too big of a bite out of your budget !
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Summary: Dark Shadows, just as I remembered it.
Review: If you're a Dark Shadows fan, get used to the idea that sooner or later, you'll own every release in the Dark Shadows collection. The best way to get them is probably to preorder each set. If you miss a few, it will get more expensive to keep up. I must have been eight years old when I watched Dark Shadows, and it's great to see it again after all these years. Things really start rolling in collection 4 of the set as more and more supernatural elements are involved: vampires, ghosts, witches, voodoo, seances, transference through time. I already have collections 1 through 3 and am viewing them on a European DVD player switched code free. There have been no problems viewing any of the discs.
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Summary: Dark Shadows Lives On
Review: The only part of this portion of the series (I have 1-4 and preordred 5 and 6) that i have issues with, is that some of the episodes are poor in quality. Also, you can watch one episode in color and the next one is Black and White.(Mostly on Series 3) Otheriwse I highly recommend this for anyone that is a Dark Shadows fan. I've also just realized that the word Vampire isn't used (or I missed the rare occassion), but they say "The Un-dead". Strange
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Summary: Dark Shadows Lives On
Review: The only part of this portion of the series (I have 1-4 and preordred 5 and 6) that i have issues with, is that some of the episodes are poor in quality. Also, you can watch one episode in color and the next one is Black and White.(Mostly on Series 3) Otheriwse I highly recommend this for anyone that is a Dark Shadows fan. I've also just realized that the word Vampire isn't used (or I missed the rare occassion), but they say "The Un-dead". Strange
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Summary: Can't Wait Til Volume 5 Comes Out
Review: The story really picks up in this collection. There are some of the best Dark Shadows storylines here. From Dr. Woodard's and Burke Devlin's deaths, to the aging of Barnabas, to the beginning of the 1795 flashback, it is all here and very exciting. If you have the first three, you have to get this one.
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