Dark Shadows (TV Series) Episode #1.365 (1967) User Reviews

Old-fashioned feel

[Leofwine_draca · 7/10 · 22 August 2019]

Episode 365 is a real highlight as it gathers together all of the old and new cast members into a family gathering for a seance. It's almost like we've gone back to the earlier episodes in the series before they got bogged down in the too-drawn-out Barnabas sub-plot. The seance itself is a highlight, and what a wonderful sci-fi tinged twist at the climax! I'm excited to see what happens next.

Bring out your dead!

[mark.waltz · 10/10 · 24 January 2022]

You've got dueling Sarah's between Carolyn who's faking it and Victoria whom the spirit of Sarah appears through during a seance at Collinwood. Barnabas doesn't want the Seance to go through, and even threatens Julia with the fact that Dave might be the one to appear. But the Sarah who appears through Victoria seems to be talking about an event from centuries before, and when the lights go out and come back on, there was another woman in her place. What is your name the woman appears to be from another century, and it turns out to be Phyllis Wick, who was apparently on her way to Collinwood. And so begins our time travel as Victoria ends up in front of a glamorous version of the old house, and I'm sure many yours were chilled to the bone with this twist.

That is Dorrie Kavanaugh playing the role of Phyllis, a veteran of three other soap operas ("Guiding Light", 'Ryan's Hope" and most memorably "One Life to Live") in one of several characters that she has portrayed on "Dark Shadows". She had been a ghostly figure in an earlier episode, but this is the first time where we get to see her up close and as a physical being rather than a spirit. It's a real teaser for the episodes yet to come of what will be revealed from the past, and I'm sure I grabbed many new viewers thanks to word of mouth.