[.ca] Dark Shadows - DVD Collection 1

DARK SHADOWS RULES!..........A Supernatural Cult Phenomenom:
The greatest show ever made for TV, is exactly how I would Rate Dark Shadows. The Characters are Amazing and the effects (though Cheesy) are great. Its Not perfect by anymeans but it is so exiting to watch over and over again. This is the Beginning of Barnabas Collins storyline, Unfortunately they Haven't released the first 209 episodes but Dark Shadows really does begin here at episode 210 when the 200 year old Vampire Barnabas Collins is released from his Coffin and begins to sink his teeth in the always Dramatic lives of the Collins Family. Definitly a must for everyone Dark Shadows allures you into the world of Supernatural and Fantasy with every episode as it Haunts you with every scene and still embraces you to love every character either good or bad.

Missing episodes:
My mom was/is a huge fan of the show. As much as she loves Collection 1, she is bewildered as to what ever happend to the first 209 episodes. She was so looking forward to a complete series.

Less Episodes per DVD would have been better:
A big thanks to MPI Home Video for releasing Dark Shadows on the DVD format. But I think the picture quality would have been even better if MPI would have put less episodes per DVD. The picture quality is good since these episodes were video taped 35 years ago. I highly recommned these DVD Box Sets to any fan of Dark Shadows.

It Rocks!:
I just bought the DVD collection from here, the episodes are great. In this set, Barnabas is free from the coffin thanks to Willie. He kidnaps Maggie Evans and tries to make her be his Josette. Elizabeth has a secret in the basement. Carolyn and Roger want to know what it is because Jason McGuire is blackmailing her into marrying him. This is a must have for Dark Shadows fans. The show gets even better from here.

"My name is Victoria Winters . . .":
Go on, you know you'd still run home from school to watch it if you could. Now you can rediscover the rush of ghoulish kitsch with the daytime Gothic soap that, decades after its cancellation, remains a cult phenom. Here it comes again -- that night train carrying governess Victoria Winters to mythical Collinsport and the start of an enthralling TV saga. There's that handsome stranger (who will eventually time-travel to the alternate dimension of "Dharma & Greg" as Greg's well-oiled father) who ladles on ironic foreshadowing by way of introduction: "Welcome to the end of the world." Miss Vicki tosses off a response that would prove more ironic than even the show's production team realized at the time: "I'm afraid I'm not going that far. Only to a house called Collinwood." Oh, my dear, you're going much farther than the end of the world as you know it. Creepy ol' Collinsport has never looked more inviting, thanks to the savvy folks at MPI Home Video who know how to serve up irresistible fan-fare in stylish boxed sets sprinkled with nifty extras. Collection 1 includes interviews with series stars Jonathan Frid, Kathryn Leigh Scott, and John Karlen, all of whom recall their DS experiences with fondness and appreciation for the unique opportunities the show provided. Not to mention the unexpected fanaticism it sparked. The fan loyalty endures, despite the fact that, as Frid points out, "Dark Shadows" was one of the shortest-lived daytime soaps (airing on ABC from 1966-71). "We ran out of gas," is how he sums up the limitations of the show's specific material. "There are only a handful of classic horror stories, and we did them once and twice over." Why stop at once or twice? Now you can enjoy eternally crisp rewatchability in doses of 40 episodes per box.