Another thing, where was everyone?  I didn't see one nurse or even a doctor the whole time Sam was in the hospital.  At least when Barnabas was in the hospital, he only had to let out a yell before Dr.Lang would come running in to his bedside. Here, poor Sam drops dead and Vicky's outside yelling & screaming for help and you don't see a soul around.

If Colllinsport Hospital was anything like General Hospital in the same period, they were all either at the nurses station or in the cafeteria.

Why can't these people see that when Cassandra tells them to look into her eyes she is about to do something awful to them?..That annoys me the most!

I guess because nobody ever compared notes about Cassandra . Anyway, about Adam, I think that it would be kind of scary if somebody you didn't know just barged into your house and started berating and abusing one of your geeky acquaintances. I do think Joe was entitled to some better explanation of why Maggie went  over to the old house.  Joe asked her how she knew Willie was trying to warn her and she just says somehow she knew  . It would sound a little strange to me too, considering that she could have asked Willie any one of those times she went over there and thus justified her visit there without making Joe jealous.

Does it strick anyone else as a little odd that the headstone Carolyn sees in the dream with her name on it looks like one from the 19th century?   You'd think that a more modern stone would be more believable, even as a prop in a dream. Or were they trying to convey a "classic" graveyard look that looks more like a Halloween prop?

I remember when I was a child my mother didn't want me to watch Dark Shadows because she thought it was the source of my nightmares. I can honestly say that my nightmares were probably more the result of a dysfunctional family environment than watching a gothic soap opera. While there were episodes that were very scary to me, I knew the difference between a tv show and reality. The only show that really scared me in a way that might lead to some kind of psychological trauma was General Hospital.  It was in black and white long after Dark Shadows had changed to color and the characters seemed far more tragic to me than the characters in DS.  They seemed to live at the  hospital (we never saw their homes) and the nurses were always having a crisis about some doctor who was having an affair with another nurse. They never had the kind of dignity and grace that our beloved DS characters displayed in the face of evil and calamity. I really would have believed that was what it was like to be an adult were it not for Dark Shadows giving me an alternate perspective.

For a long time, I've worried about my state of mind because it seems that I always relate everything that I do to DS.  I'll quote lines in conversation, compare people that I know to characters, or certain events to various story lines.  My seemingly one-track mind even leads me to create terminology based on DS.

We could share a room at Wyndcliffe...I often find myself answering in a way that the real Barnabas would.  And why not? Barnabas had the kind of self-possession in his speech that one rarely sees today.  In modern lingo, he didn't take any crap from anybody. I think the same could be said about Grayson Hall who was unusual in that respect for women even today. You might have noticed that I am also known as Grayson Hall, a name given to me by my good friend Gerard. I wear it proudly, which is why I'm one of the people this thread was started for.

P.S. When I was in high school I wanted to buy all my clothes at Orbach's, but by the late '70's they were a cut rate department store with very little that resembled what our doubles at Collinwood wore.

OMG that had me laughing soo hard! Is that really what the music was like in the 60s? Didn't they have like.....the Beatles and stuff? Or is everyone in Collinsport just addicted 2 classical music?  ?!?

I think Elizabeth was strictly classical and easy listening, but Carolyn probably listened to the Rolling Stones on the local rock and roll station in her car.

POSSIBLE SPOILER....

It's a toss-up between Quentin's ghost in 1969 and the 1995 ghost of Gerard...the sheer malice in their facial expressions still gives me chills.

Those two get my vote as well.