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Number

40

Timeline

1967

Narrator

Alexandra Moltke
(as Victoria Winters)

Writer

Art Wallace

Director

John Sedwick

Broadcast

August 19, 1966
(Friday)

Recorded

August 5, 1966
(Friday)

Video

Complete: Disc 5
Beginning 2: Disc 1

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Carolyn decides to follow Burke to Bangor; Sam makes a damaging admission to Bill.

Synopsis[]

My name is Victoria Winters. Here in Collinwood, I sit in a quiet room teaching the son of a frightened man, a man who seems to be impelled by constantly growing fear.

Roger Collins claims to be at Sam Evans' to have his portrait done. Bill Malloy starts to joke and ask for coffee from Sam. Roger had left his car in town, and asks Bill to take him, but Bill wants to stay and talk to Sam. Roger leaves; Bill compliments Sam's late wife.

Carolyn gets a call from Burke about her ring and arranges to meet him in the Collinsport Inn restaurant at 12:30.

Bill switches from coffee to booze (he's a man after Sam's own heart). Bill plies Sam with liquor, asking questions about Burke.

Roger and Burke encounter one another at the restaurant, where Roger notices Burke admiring Carolyn's ring. It was a gift from her Uncle Roger on her 16th birthday. Roger takes the ring and forbids Burke from seeing Carolyn. Roger shows up at Collinwood and cancels Carolyn's date.

Carolyn meets with Burke at 12:30 anyway and they banter back an forth. Carolyn calls home; she tells Victoria she won't be home for dinner - she has a date. Carolyn leaves the restaurant and drives off - she will follow Burke to Bangor.

Before passing out, Sam admits to Bill he's the "only thing" between Roger living in Collinwood and prison stripes.

Memorable quotes[]

Burke: Good morning, Roger!
Bill Malloy: Well, hello Roger, Sam. Hope I'm not interruptin' anything.
Sam: Don't you knock before you come into a man's house?
Bill: I did. But you two were makin' so much noise in here, you couldn't hear me. You want privacy, should keep your door locked.

Sam: I'm a sad, frightened man, who's losing his sad, frightened soul. Can't paint without a soul.
Bill: What are you scared of?
Sam: Everything...everybody...even afraid of myself.
Bill: Who's gonna hurt you, Sam? Who?
Sam: They come down from the hill. They torment me. They tear me apart with their shrieks and their moanings. I...I don't know where to turn.

Dramatis personae[]

Background information and notes[]

Production[]

  • Final appearance of Colleen Kelly as Collinsport Inn waitress Susie. Carol Crist took over the role from 71.
  • Stock footage is used for exterior location shots of Carolyn driving to the hotel, getting out of it, and later, leaving the same way.

Story[]

  • Bill and Sam have been friends for thirty years.
  • According to Bill, Sam makes a strong cup of coffee.
  • Sam hasn't been to Collinwood in eighteen years.
  • Burke's father used to repair lobster pots for a living.
  • Roger gave Carolyn the ring she wears for her sixteenth birthday.
  • Roger once more refers to Carolyn as "Kitten."
  • TIMELINE: Burke is leaving for Bangor at 1:00pm. Carolyn arranges to meet Burke at 12:30pm.

Bloopers and continuity errors[]

  • Despite looking remarkably fake during the previous episode, Roger's scar now looks remarkably real.
  • In yesterday's episode, the sketch Sam draws of Burke in on a page of a bound sketchbook. In today's episode, the sketch is on a sheet of paper not bound in any book.
  • The phone booth moves back inside the coffee shop.
  • While we never see the dial of the payphone, it is obvious that the four numbers Burke dials to get Collinwood are different than the four numbers Carolyn later dials to get Collinwood.
  • When Sam and Bill Malloy are talking, Sam calls Roger "Roger Collin."
  • Carolyn's Plymouth Fury has a New York license plate (5Z 2961).
  • In the diner, as Susie walks by Roger and Burke, she either walked too fast or Roger was too slow to stop her to ask for a cup of coffee, and she has to slow down so as to not walk past them. Susie never brings Roger the coffee.
  • In the closing credits, Ohrbach's is misspelled as "Orhbach's"

End credits announcements[]

External Links []

Dark Shadows - Episode 40 on the IMDb

The Collinsport Historical Society - Dark Shadows Diary - Episode 40

Dark Shadows Commentary: Episode 40: Their shrieks and their moaning

Dark Shadows Before I Die- Episode 40: 8/19/66

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