Five years used to be the normal, but it doesn't really protect the actor as they can be fired at  every three months. 

I agree,Uncle Roger, how many scenes do we need of this since this same thing happened a couple years ago with the children, although they seem like teens to me.
Julia's hair is really dark today and piled high. Q mentions the eclipse which is obviously the night of the sun and the moon, but it takes a while until the not always swift Barnabas figures it out making the others appear quite unaware.  The eclipse happens and the show ends with the door to the playroom opening again for the audience and full of little kids toys for teenagers. I can't  imagine if Denise Nickerson was still around that she would havie any interest in this stuff.

Maggie enters Hallie's room and for some reason Hallie hides the dress. Who cares if she has an old dress. Maggie says to Elizabeth she hasn't seen Barnabas and makes it seem as if they were involved in a romance and I guess they were and Angelique tried steering her towards Q. Little does she know that her resemblance to Jos the is small potatoes compared to the great love Barnabas feels for his Roxanne.
Elizabeth makes an appointment over phonewith a Mr. shaw who we see is Jeb's image. Jeb is wearing a smocky looking tied dyed garment and the resemblance to the late son-in law is noted. Apparently they like Chris Pennock and he is certainly an upgrade over Roger Davis. He's an astrologer and it doesn't take much to connect to one of Crazt Carolyn's clues, but naturally Elizabeth doesn't. David dreams of the girl in the orange dress and later sees her at the Gazebo. I get the feeling that they want Kathy to play younger, but she has a bigger bust than many of the women on the show.

It's 1970 back in the present time or the past however you look at it. The girl who looks like Carrie is Hallie Stokes. Eliot is her uncle and Roeger is in Europe. The stairs has taken them back to the time they were fleeing PT. Q just saw the PT fire and Elizabeth is skeptical of 1995 even though there have been time travels to the past and PT.
they discover that Daphne Harrage was the governess in 1840. I feel another time travel and I prefer they stay in the present. Barnabas and Julia go to the graveyard and find Daphne dead 1841 and next to her dead Gerard Stilles also 1841. His tombstone says something about living in darkness.
Hallie says she gets strange feelings. I get the feeling that if Denise Nickerson hadn't just left there would be no Hallie.  The playroom is a closet now but it appears to the viewer.

The body of Carolyn is gone. She did leave some clues to the disaster. The night of the sun and the moon, the night Rose Cottage burned, the unfinished horoscope, the night I sang my song, the murder and the picnic.
Which are apparently events that lead up to the disaster.
Barnabas wants to call the sheriff for a change. I would worry that they would think I killed her. Julia is reluctant but goes. Barnabas sees Gerard and then he and the sheriff find Carolyn in the playroom. Julia decides to stay at Collinwood alone. It is revealed Carolyn died of heart failure. Julia betrays Barnabas and the Sheriff is ready with the cross when he awakens. Now, why he didn't stake him remains a mystery.

Eliot is in the Old House when Barnabas arises and apparently he lied about being in Europe and not knowing anything  as he tried to exorcise the house so he knows there was a ghost. Julia see's a woman at Colinwood. The woman dissapears. Julia wants to go,back to own time, but how are they going back? Barnbas smells lilacs and sees a woman who says leave or she will die. The credits say Daphne. The name of Quentin friend.

The playroom inside which looks nothing like the rest of the house has escaped any damage. There is a stained glass transom over the door which looks very 1960's in style. Carolyn calls to someone named Tad. Perhaps She thinks she is Mary Todd Linclon.
We learn from Stokes that Q is still alive, insane, unaged and escaped.
The Hall is changed outside the playroom. The wall that had a door now sports another stained glass window that looks more age appropriate than the doors. A clock sits near it.
There is a noise upstairs in the Old House and we see Q's portrait. It is a grotesque mess, but we know it is he, because it is painted on below on the canvas Quentin Collins 1897.  A wants to slash it, but is stopped and takes Barnabas and Julia to the playroom where David is seen as he was in 1970.