Barnabas Collins, Outstanding Citizen

He wasn't even Barney Fife!

WHOA!!!  Now THAT'S where I draw the line.  I will not have the competence of my favorite lawman besmirched!

Deputy Fife says:


     
"Don't worry folks.  Ole Barney's on the job."

CAR 54 WHERE ARE YOU?

Unfortunately, that is the last appearance of our multi faced Sheriff George Patterson.  His timing was really well done to get out of office considering what happens to his successor...Sheriff Davenport.

If only Sheriff Patterson knew who was really responsible for all those pesky attacks a year earlier as well as Maggie's kidnapping.....I have a feeling my dear Barnabas' credibility and respectability would go plundging down a cliff! 

Who knows?  If Barnabas had told Patterson, "Yes, I kidnapped and terrorized Maggie, and killed a few people as well, but I was roaring drunk the whole time," perhaps the sheriff would have let him off with, "Boys will be boys.  Next time, invite me!"  The cows would have been a different matter, of course.  "No, sir, you'll have to stand trial for killing Eb Haskell's favorite heifer.  He was counting on it to win first prize at the Hancock County Fair."

Maybe if Patterson had've actually caught Barnabas, he could've used that in his reelection campaign!

"Who caught the Collinsport Murder?! Me! And now that man has been locked away for eternity! Or....at least until Loomis' no-good child gets in that back room and unlocks him again, but I promise by the time that happens I'll be dead!"

Lord knows that Roger probably would've offed him Bill Malloy style for trashing the Collins name. Then we could've had the "Who stole THE PEN, part two."