Anthony George, Grayson Hall, & Nancy Barrett were all on One Life to Live at the same time and they shared a scene where they ran into each other and they thought they recognized each other from somewhere.

I thought that Burke's demise was temporary at first as they didn't seem to know what to do with him anymore and took a break from the character.  When 1795 started and AG appeared as Jeremiah, it seemed that Burke was to return after 1795 ended, but AG leaving changed that. 

When Jeremiah told Vicky he thought she seemed familiar to him (after she told him he looked familiar to her) I had an odd idea that Burke was also sent to 1795 and took over Jeremiah but looking back now, that was too far fetched.

Burke grounded DS into being more realistic like I thought.  He was the kind of hero the show needed to have and once he was gone, we viewers had no hero to look to anymore and the show seemed to just meander for a month.  Barnabas was still the bad guy and he got even more evil and there was no balance on the show.

You could tell they were stretching the story as much as they could until 1795 began.

Given all the recasting they had recently done (Dr. Woodard, the caretaker, Sheriff Patterson), I am surprised they didn't recast Jeremiah and go along with the original Jeremiah/Josette storyline. 

Burke in the Adam/Cassandra/Nicholas storyline would have been interesting.

Benjamin & Theodore could have been Edith's sons.

Edith's babbling brings up a lot of interesting theories:

Even at this point it's stated Daniel wasn't exactly "father of the year".   He really held people by the strings didn't he, perhaps his knowledge of the secret made him that way.

When Edith mentioned about them dancing downstairs while her husband was dying, was she referring to Judith & Edward or her son & his wife?   

Edith's mentioning of "mother" was about her mother or mother-in-law? Could she have been remembering when Gabriel told her the "secret" that his mother warned him (when she informed him of the "secret"), not to do so as she couldn't keep secrets?

I like the way the writers connected 1796 to 1897 with the information about the generation in between.

So, the secret went from Joshua-Daniel-Harriet-Gabriel-Edith.  Edith's reaction to Barnabas makes me wonder if she really did get to tell Edward originally, perhaps her nerves got to her in a similar way originally.

This reinforces my own idea that 1840 was an alternate timeline.

In the present time, Joshua's portrait is in the Drawing Room. 

Jeremiah's is still over the fireplace in 1897 right?  Interesting that though he went from the former Collins family direct ancestor and builder of Collinwood to a second cousin of new direct ancestor Daniel Collins (and died childless), his portrait still hangs in the same place in the present time.

This episode, I believe, originally aired 1/2/68, so everything that happens from this point on is 1796.  They should have done this when the episodes originally aired, but apparently they didnt realize the mistake of everything happening in 1795 until after the flashback ended.

We had a date for the marriage?   And at least the "first time around", didn't it happen in 1795?   A lot of things shifted to 1796 later on in DS, I know...

Patterson just barely escaped then, he was one lucky character on DS, thats for sure!

I wonder how he felt when he learned about his successor's fate.

We don't see him, but Sheriff Patterson still has the job almost through to the very end of 1969 because in #913 Roger is seen trying to get him on the phone.  But when [spoiler]Paul asks to be taken to the police station[/spoiler] in #917, the brand new guy is there waiting for him.  /quote]

At the time, I never saw an interest Peter had in Vicky, but this is old memories here.  I know when he said he loved her I was surprised as there didnt seem to be any hint of it before.

I heard Adrian Paul was to play Quentin. 

At least on the original, there was a year between 1795 & 1897.  I think it was way too quick for yet another time travel storyline.  New viewers to DS would be confused with actors playing third characters so soon.

That second season probably would have had the werewolf/Quentin's ghost/1897 all happening eventually at the same time.