Originally posted by JoeyTrom on the Dark Shadows: General Discussion Forum on January 20, 2002 at 06:56:28:

I am not referring to these episodes, but later on, say 1969 or 1970. Would they have tried to destroy Barnabas or try to help him? Given that they would have known him for a few years, I doubt they would have tried to destroy him as he so feared. Perhaps they would have tried to live with it. In the DS Marilyn Ross novels, there are a couple of books toward the end where Liz and Roger (as well as the rest of the family) know full well that Barnabas is a vampire and they have sympathy for him. I think this may have played out in the series as well.

Joey