87
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| Episode number | 87 |
| Timeline | 1967 |
| First aired | October 25, 1966 |
| Tape date | October 16, 1966 |
| Narrated by | Victoria Winters |
| Written by | Francis Swann |
| Directed by | Lela Swift |
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[edit] Synopsis
- My name is Victoria Winters. Collinwood is a mansion with over 80 rooms but most of them have been closed-off for years. And their only visitors have been ghosts and specters that locked doors cannot keep out or in. As I have been kept a prisoner by the treachery of a small boy who has told no one where I am. Time has seemed endless and all I can do is sit and wonder if anyone will ever come to my rescue.
Carolyn returns home, late, and learns that Vicki's still missing. Roger thinks Vicki might be with Sam, and Carolyn becomes practically violent stating that Maggie and Joe are together.
Maggie and Joe are still enjoying their post-dinner coffee. They talk about boats and Joe's failed partnership (33). They spike their coffee with Sam's finest brandy to get back at him for selling a lot of paintings for $15,000 ten years ago. Maggie believes he blew the money.
Carolyn tells Roger she was with Burke, into whom she ran while he was with Sam. Roger is upset at this news. She tells him about their song for Malloy (85) and that Burke hasn't seen Vicki. Roger wonders what may have happened to her. Roger recalls the disappearance of Malloy. Carolyn gets worried, but Roger says Vicki's probably not that far away. Carolyn wants him to look.
Joe and Maggie's date ends after 2AM, and they agree to a second date.
Alone, Roger touches the button on the fireplace to open a secret panel in the Drawing room. Carolyn looks, but can't find her uncle in the Drawing Room. Roger prowls through the dusty corridors, down steps, then up a spiral staircase and comes out on the other side of the room Vicki is locked in. Vicki hears something and calls to David. Roger hears her and makes noises to torment her. He speaks in a ghostly voice, telling her to leave Collinwood because she's in danger. Then he rescues her. She tearfully tells him David locked her here and agrees with Roger's belief that David is a monster. She hysterically recounts how she saw the ghost of Bill Malloy.
[edit] Memorable quotes
- Victoria Winters: "There are ghosts in Collinwood! I never believed in them before, but I do now!"
[edit] Dramatis personae
- ← Louis Edmonds as Roger Collins →
- ← Nancy Barrett as Carolyn Stoddard →
- ← Joel Crothers as Joe Haskell →
- ← Kathryn Leigh Scott as Maggie Evans →
- ← and Alexandra Moltke as Victoria Winters →
[edit] Background information and notes
- This was the first episode to use the secret panel in the Drawing room.
- Roger shows a particularly vicious side of his character when he deliberately torments the trapped Victoria in order to scare her away from Collinwood.
