Yes, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt appears as the Lincolns' oldest son, Robert.

Now restored, Barnabas looks handsomer than ever and seems even more sure of his powers.

As dom says, lots of wonderful performances in this episode. The scenes with JF and NB and those with JF and GH are terrific. JB and LE also seem to be in top form.

I think the final scene with NB in the foyer is one of the best in the show and is all the more powerful for being so understated.

This comment does seem like alphabet soup, doesn't it, with all those abbreviations!   --DL   

Barnabas's "aged" makeup is fantastic! Of course he blames his predicament on Julia and insists that reverting is the only way to restore himself. When Vicki arrives a few minutes later, of course she isn't surprised to find "Miss" Hoffman at the Old House, but she doesn't seem to react to seeing Julia in a doctor's white coat. After Vicki leaves, Julia's sense of malice gets the better of her, and she suggests that Barnabas bite Vicki.

Carolyn is beginning to believe that all of David's stories are true, but she can't persuade Joe to help her investigate because he still thinks that Willie was the cause of all the bad stuff that happened. And of course Vicki is indignant that Barnabas could be anything but a helpful, supportive friend.

Barnabas visits Vicki while she sleeps, but he can't bring himself to bite her.

Barnabas tells Julia how time seems like a rushing, roaring wind to him as JF gives a near-perfect delivery. He orders her to prepare the next treatment. He smiles at her reaction when he finishes, Come, take my hand to show we are in agreement. Unhappily she complies, and his two aged hands swallow up her smaller one.

Carolyn sees Sarah, and they talk about David. Having been carefully brought up, Sarah makes sure that Carolyn isn't afraid of her. Carolyn explains, We may have to send David away because he believes all kinds of things that couldn’t possibly be true. How do you know they’re not? Sarah asks. He was right about me, wasn’t he? I think David is acting the way he is because no one will believe him. If I’m possible, Sarah wonders, why can’t the rest be possible? Carolyn protests, Maybe you don’t know the stories David’s been telling. They’re all fantastic, and they’ve all be proven false. How do you know they’ve been proven false? Sarah persists. (This is the the closest she ever comes to telling on Barnabas.) Carolyn answers, Are you trying to tell me that Barnabas actually sl-- Just then there’s a knock on the door, sparing Sarah the necessity of a reply. In the moment it takes Carolyn to let her mother in, Sarah has disappeared.

But poor David is terrified when Carolyn reveals that she's seen Sarah--because Dr. Woodard saw her too, and look what happened to him!

Later, Barnabas arrives for his treatment. For the first time, we see Julia strap him into the chair--I'll bet she enjoys that part at least. But maybe dry ice isn't the best treatment for what ails him.

I've always assumed that Mrs. Johnson had a little radio in the kitchen, and that she heard a news bulletin that interrupted her favorite listening (probably from the 1940s?). Plane crashes were big news then as now--maybe even bigger than now, because the Brazilian jungle was even more remote in those days.

In Vicki's dream, Barnabas orders Julia to leave "because of the child." Huh?

Later, Julia's jealousy gets the better of her and she is very mean to Vicki.

I've never been able to understand why Barnabas seems shocked that the flowers are dead--didn't his undead touch kill them? If not, then what would?

Barnabas calls Julia out on her treatment of Vicki. He punishes Julia by reminding her (again) about her part in Dave Woodard's death.Barnabas's last words to Julia are positively frightening: I do not forgive.

Even though I don't think much of Burke Lite, this point in the story is always so sad. Poor Vicki.

The other big event is that Barnabas tells Julia the story of how he lost Josette. Barnabas orders Julia to get her coat. Still treating her like a servant, he doesn't help her into it. But when they get to Widows Hill, he seems to be hoping that Josette's ghost will reach out to him.

It is interesting that Barnabas adheres to the original story line, with Josette married to the much older Jeremiah when her eye wanders toward Barnabas. Very, very soon all this will be ditched in favor of the story that is familiar to us all today, but it might have been interesting to see how the original would have played out.

When Vicki arrives at the cliff and Barnabas dismisses (the only word for it) Julia, Vicki thanks him for being such a good friend. Well, I try to be to those who mean a great deal to me, he answers, lowering his eyes with (for now, anyway) uncharacteristic modesty.

MB, you are a gold mine of fascinating stuff! I don't have any idea either of why JF thought 340 was "pretty dull." But it's interesting to read what he thought about the next story line and the aging makeup.