That's hilarious! I watched Another World for a while back in those days but not DS. Silly me.

I remember a few early episodes in which Alexandra Moltke, who had beautiful thick, dark hair of her own, wore one or even two falls!

Love love love Dameon's proto-leisure suit--a pale gray sort of collarless jacket that belts in front (via a button) and matching bell-bottom trousers, with a sort of mustard-colored shirt and mustard-print scarf. Bruno almost outdoes him in a maroon turtleneck with powder-blue matching weskit and bell-bottom trousers.This is quite a comedown from the good old days of 1795, which featured Naomi's gorgeous gowns. Ah well...

Trask, the Collins butler, has returned to Collinwood after, he tells Quentin, dealing with a “crisis” in his brother’s family. (Although Trask is the butler in parallel time, a crisis in any Trask family seems understandable.) He had wired Hoffman to say he was returning, but apparently Quentin has sent Hoffman to stay with friends [Grayson Hall was also working on House of Dark Shadows], so no one knew. Trask (in a sober, dark butler-type suit) tut-tuts about how disorderly the house has gotten in her absence. Hoffman would never have allowed the furniture to be placed differently from how Miss Angelique [he should call her Mrs. Collins] wanted it, he frets. (The fireplace is clean again--maybe Trask has been cleaning it!) While he's tidying up the fold-up liquor cabinet (a prominent feature of the drawing room), Quentin mentions seeing Dameon Edwards. Luckily Trask's back is turned so Quentin doesn't see that he almost drops a glass on hearing this news. Apparently Dameon was once an almost daily visitor at Collinwood--but about a year ago he abruptly stopped coming. I know no more than anyone else, Trask says--which is nothing. Why do you want to know, sir? Quentin says it’s sheer curiosity. He also tells Trask that Angelique’s twin, Alexis, is staying at Collinwood.

Poor Amy--up past her bedtime, surely!--sees Dameon. Quentin tells Trask about it, and it makes Trask very nervous.

Blood on the floor, bloodstained music! Was Dameon murdered at Collinwood? Quentin wonders, and well he might.

Quentin goes to the cottage to tell Bruno that Dameon is is dead--and he saw a ghost. Bruno lights a cigarette, but the gesture fails to cover his nervousness. I’m enjoying seeing you scared, Quentin comments. I think you knew Dameon was dead, and that Dameon is trying to tell us something important. Bruno says, Now if you will excuse me, I was entertaining someone very important--namely myself. You’ll never be able to take away the look on your face the first time I mentioned Dameon, Quentin says, then leaves. After he leaves, Bruno keeps playing, but is definitely upset.

Trask leaves Amy alone, and Dameon appears to her again. This time he smiles at her, then turns sad as he silently beckons her to follow him. She keeps trying to get him to talk, but he leads her through the servants’ door.  Quentin returns from baiting Bruno and finds Amy’s suitcase in the hall, but not herself. Trask comes down with the car keys. Quentin is angry that he left the little girl alone under the circumstances. They decide to search. Trask rushes back upstairs, and Quentin goes through the servants’ door.

The parallel-time Collinwood basement looks very much like its counterpart in our time, filled with dusty odds and ends. Dameon leads the way downstairs, still beckoning Amy to follow. He crosses a wide space and moves toward the back wall.

Upstairs, neither Trask nor Quentin have found Amy. Quentin yells some more, and Trask goes back upstairs. Quentin looks toward the servants’ door, wondering what is happening.

As Dameon waits for Amy near the back wall, she gets nervous. I don’t want to go any farther, she says. He beckons again--then walks directly through a niche with shelves and disappears. As she finally realizes what Dameon is, Amy screams with all her might....

Apparently "Ode to Angelique" is the ONLY music in Parallel Time.

Here is a link to the IMDB data on Paula Laurence. She seems to have been just as interesting in real life!

That Eagle bartender--wow! Did not know that, MT.

Quentin insists that he doesn't believe in séances, etc. But as so many others have found out before him, [spoiler]it doesn't pay to be a freethinker in the Collins universe[/spoiler]. Alexis tries to find out why Angelique died at the séance. Quentin, looking attractively sad, refuses to discuss his relationship with her.

Sabrina knows all about Cyrus's relationship with Angelique, who taught the doctor all about séances and maybe other things too. Poor Sabrina actually asks point blank if Cyrus killed Angelique. No! he exclaims, horrified. I was afraid for a moment, Sabrina says, relieved. Cyrus reminds her, Yesterday you said you loved me because I was a gentle man. I still believe it, Sabrina insists, but sometimes you’re so fascinated with evil. I loathe evil! Cyrus shouts. You know that. I would do anything in the world to get rid of it. Quietly Sabrina says, You are attracted to it and fascinated by it. That’s why you loathe it so much. That’s nonsense, Cyrus insists, his voice scaling up a little. I didn’t kill Angelique. I believe you, Sabrina replies, but someone else did--someone who was in that room.

Quentin apologizes to Alexis. Daniel is disappointed at the prospect that Maggie will return--sometime. But the moment he sees Alexis, he rushes to her, thinking she's his mother. Later, Alexis has to burst that bubble.

Meanwhile, Sabrina tells Cyrus more about the intruder. With great concern, Cyrus asks her how she felt when the stranger broke into her room. I was terrified! she says. He brought a sense of evil so overwhelming that it paralyzed me. Cyrus tells her, The police followed the stranger and saw him enter my house. It’s someone who has a grudge against you, she hypothesizes, even though Cyrus says nothing was taken from the lab. But why did he take my engagement ring? Sabrina asks. We’re still engaged, Sabrina insists. Cyrus promises to find her ring. Sabrina is worried that what happened tonight might make a difference to him, but he says it was the evil that sent her into shock. I’ll make sure you’re never frightened like that again, he assures her--though of course without explaining (and most likely not knowing) how he's going to make this happen. We leave the lovers for the moment in a chaste embrace.

Up in his room, Daniel tells Alexis he loved his mother, “but it wasn’t all mushy.” Alexis says she knows so little about him. He protests, but she says he must accept the fact that she is a different person. Daniel wants her to go away and let him think. Eventually she does.

Sabrina and Cyrus prepare to leave Collinwood. Sabrina wants to apologize to Quentin and wonders what she has started with the séance. Cyrus replies that it probably would have happened anyway, in fact it started with the first séance. Suddenly she wants to leave, utterly convinced that some great evil is in the house. Neither of them sees Alexis at the top of the stairs as they go.

Cyrus phones Horace Gladstone to report, Your contribution to the chemical compound worked, but I want you to adjust it so that it doesn't bring on a loss of memory. He refuses to say what he tested the formula on and wants Gladstone to start work tonight. He takes out the matchbook from the Eagle, still wondering how he got it.

Quentin tells Daniel that Alexis isn’t his mother--she is dead. Daniel refuses to believe it. Quentin tries again, but Daniel pulls the covers up and refuses even to look at his father. Eventually Quentin says goodnight and leaves. Daniel starts to cry.

Cyrus then goes to the Eagle, looking very ill at ease, and orders a sherry. Like the Blue Whale, the Eagle hasn’t changed its jukebox records since 1966. [We hear the Blue Whale theme, and the window looks like the Blue Whale window through which the werewolf jumped.] The bartender smiles at his choice of drink and has to open a bottle. Did you see me here last night? Cyrus asks. The man doesn’t remember, but chalks it up to the excitement. He tells Cyrus, A big bruiser came in, his pockets all loaded with money. He was tough and big, not the kind of guy you would want to met on an empty street--or anywhere else. He slapped a hundred-dollar bill on the bar and ordered an unopened bottle of Scotch. He must have drunk half of it and got meaner with every slug. Then he started a fight with Jake Crowley, nearly breaking his arm, even though Jake never fought with anyone. Great strength? Cyrus asks, keeping his head averted. Yeah, the bartender agrees. I came around the bar to break it up and whammo! [touches his chin] I never got hit like that before in my life! Then three guys jumped him, but he shook them off like they were kids. He grabbed Lefty Blaine and threw him right through that window! [points at the window] I just got it fixed today. Did they know what caused it? Cyrus asks. The bartender answers, Oh, we know what caused it, all right. This guy was ... he was nuts. The bartender looks frightened at the thought, then finishes the story: After he threw Lefty he just stood there and dared anyone to tackle him. No one did. Then he straightened his coat out and laughed. It was this crazy laugh, and then he walked out. Left all of that money on the bar too. Brother! I don’t want to be here when he comes back for it. Cyrus is dismayed at the story but says he doesn’t expect the man will be back. The bartender thinks he will. Cyrus angrily insists he won’t. The bartender looks at him strangely, and Cyrus recollects himself, thanks the bartender and departs, leaving his sherry untouched.

Daniel has a dream about his mother. He hears her calling his name. But when he sees her and tries to go to her, he's paralyzed. She simply laughs and disappears. Daniel begs her not to go away. We can hear Angelique laughing as Daniel begs her not to laugh at him. Passing by in the hallway, Alexis hears him calling his mother and wakes him. Please don’t lie to me, he begs her. Are you really my mother? Just as she's about to answer, we see Quentin standing in the doorway, looking on with great interest....

Thanks, MT!

I agree that it's too bad Lisa Richards didn't get more to do. She screams about MURDER!!!!! very nicely.

Elizabeth and Roger find Sabrina in the drawing room, still thinking she's back in the past on the night of the séance. No matter how hard they try to bring Sabrina out of it, she's stuck back in that event. As the clock chimes 11:00, Roger remembers that at that exact hour, the séance began. Elizabeth tells him not to think about it. There hasn’t been an hour since that I haven’t, he replies. He phones Cyrus. The fireplace surround is clean after being dirty for many months!

Sabrina is in a guest room at Collinwood, plaintively asking Cyrus why he won't start the séance. She insists she's not crazy. Cyrus tells Elizabeth and Roger about the stranger's attack and the trauma it brought on. But why, Roger asks quite sensibly, is Sabrina so fixated on the séance after being attacked by the horrible stranger? Cyrus replies, Because it was evil: Something evil happened at the séance, and something evil just happened to Sabrina, so she's trapped in the past. Everyone is too preoccupied to notice the strange promptness of his reply. No one wants to go through the séance again. Sabrina tells Elizabeth, Cyrus and Mrs. Collins (she means Angelique) are fascinated with the unknown. They don’t think that what is going on tonight is at all strange.

Cyrus is at the cottage to ask Bruno to come to the Great House and to tell him about the stranger's attack, the trauma, etc. He says, Dr. Long, the psychiatrist, has suggested that if she went through the séance again, it might make her all right. [Dr. Long joins the list of those who survive PT by remaining off screen.] Cyrus doesn’t want to do it, but Bruno says it couldn’t be done anyway, because Angelique isn’t there. He sits at the piano and starts playing the Ode to Angelique as he maunders, The séance was the last time I saw Angelique alive. She was the happiest I'd ever seen her. It was the last time our hands touched, he winds up, now almost in tears. Angelique died at the table that night, he says--or did she? Cyrus finally has had enough. Are you coming or not? he asks impatiently. We should ask Alexis to sit in for her late sister, Bruno suggests. What if she is Angelique come back from the dead? If she is, not even Angelique could keep her identity a secret. We are doing this because Sabrina is sick, Cyrus shouts, and not for your curiosity! Bruno is struck by Cyrus's attitude, which seems to imply that he feels somehow guilty about what happened to Sabrina, and that gets Bruno very interested.

As Roger addresses another monologue to Angelique's portrait, Alexis quietly comes up behind him. When he realizes he isn't alone, he nearly jumps out of his skin on seeing Angelique apparently back from the dead.

While Sabrina continues to rest, Quentin and Elizabeth discuss the séance. Quentin of course forbids the whole affair, and you'd think his word would carry some weight, since he is the Master of Collinwood. But it's totally useless for anyone to forbid anything at Collinwood because people always just go ahead and do it anyway. Elizabeth insists they have to do it for Sabrina--Maggie need not know about it. We have to talk about Maggie, Quentin grumbles.

Roger is having a hard time accepting that Alexis is Angelique’s twin. Everything about you is exactly the same, he insists. You will soon find out we are different, Alexis replies. She holds out her hand for him to touch, proving that she isn’t a ghost. He touches it and gazes at her in wonder. I am quite real, she assures him.

Quentin and Elizabeth have adjourned to the drawing room to discuss Maggie. I can’t believe what happened, Elizabeth says by way of a mild rebuke, adding, You should have asked Alexis to leave. Nothing goes well in this house, Quentin grouses. Elizabeth says, It’s we ourselves that make things happen. The pop-up brandy table makes its debut on the show as Quentin pulls up the top to reveal the glasses and decanters, and pours himself a drink. Think of poor Sabrina upstairs, Elizabeth urges him. It isn’t our responsibility, Quentin says. Maybe that’s why life is so difficult, Elizabeth opines. We don’t know what our responsibilities are. Quentin turns to make some cutting retort, but Roger and Alexis enter at that moment. Roger presents Alexis to his sister (the right way around), then Alexis leaves the room. As she steps into the foyer, Sabrina accosts her. It’s nearly midnight, she says. Isn’t that the time you set for the séance, Angelique? Alexis is stunned, and Quentin is about to explain when Bruno and Cyrus burst in. Quentin starts to yell at Bruno, but Bruno says it’s an emergency. Work your black magic somewhere else, Quentin says brusquely. At least let us take part even if you don’t want to, Cyrus pleads. Bruno invites Alexis to sit in: I thought Alexis would be fascinated to see the exact circumstances under which her sister died. Quentin grabs his lapels and starts to shake him. Please tell me what’s going on! Alexis exclaims.

Sometime later, in the drawing room, Sabrina has taken on the role of séance director and tells Elizabeth and Roger where to seat themselves around the table. Elizabeth still feels they must do it. Roger doesn’t want to, then relents.

Out in the foyer, Quentin, Bruno and Alexis are still discussing the first séance. I was told Angelique died of a stroke, Alexis comments. Yes--at the séance, Bruno answers. Alexis is shocked at this answer and finally says she is willing to take her sister’s place. Quentin is about ready to beat Bruno’s head in but relents. I won’t forbid it, he tells Bruno, as long as you leave the moment it’s over. Quentin stalks upstairs in a huff. [Later, when everyone is in the drawing room, we get a quick glimpse of David Selby going back downstairs.]

So we have a typical séance at Collinwood. (After all, there's at least one in each story line.) The participants (Sabrina, Elizabeth, Cyrus, Roger, Alexis, Bruno, empty chair for Quentin) sit around a table with their hands flat on the top and their pinkies touching. (As all DS fans know, this joining of hands must not be broken in order to for the séance to be effective.) [As Roger sits, an overhead mike comes briefly into view.] We hear the rumble of thunder. There was a storm that night as well, Bruno recalls. All the lights are out save for a solitary candle. Apparently as before, Cyrus does the honors, intoning, I call on the same spirit that came to us six months ago to visit us again. Whether the same one or no, a spirit takes over Sabrina, who points straight to Alexis and cries out, She has died! She is dying! Can't you see that she is dying? Murder! MURDER!! Pandemonium ensues. Alexis collapses onto the table in a faint as Sabrina continues screaming, Murder! MURDER!!!!.....