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  • Boys playing with their sabers. LOL

  • Shame jwags and thayerdavid's stuff has been pulled from youtube. I was nearing the end of the dream curse storyline.

  • @jennyflan They join a list of great DS devotees including LauraCollins--I guess I will have to go out and buy the DVD's.

  • Good old-fashioned homoerotic fun. "thrust" and "swords" "superb swordsmen". I think the writers were having a bit of fun here. Love the cheesy music too :-)

  • Johnathin Frid/Barnabas is smooth, cool and lethal..'Devlin was a idiot gettin' on his bad list. Burke Devlin got his just desserts on DARK SHADOWS - Barnabas show to that. Love it!! Total Classic episode scene.

  • I see the have taken the series of complete episodes off of you tube. I thought youtube was the bomb....I guess not.

  • Although I don't think Anthony George was completely awful as Burke Devlin, I would have preferred to see the character played by Mitch Ryan, who was so much better in the role. Jonathan Frid comes off as a bit too prim for my taste. I wish he'd played the scene with a tad more menace. The writing is good here, but the performances are weak.

  • @CelticRebel100 I just started watching the series from the beginning a few weeks ago and now with the episodes being pulled I'll have to find them elsewhere but I agree. Mitch Ryan had a more rugged and youthful bearing while the other guy (Anthony George) seems like a high school principal.

  • Barnabas was as slick as oil. I love it!!!

  • what a load of shit

  • still not gay as twilight

  • I hope Mr. Depp can play the role 1/2 as well as Mr. Fridd

  • No, I will not retire, so there. Why don't you go thrust and parry your sword with Barabas and Burk. And, when you are done with that, go compare you similes with each other.

  • 'Barnabas I wonder about something... I wonder whether we really like each other.'

    "Why do you wonder that?"

    "By the way we talking to each other...as if we were playing a card game, for very high stakes'

    !!!For christ sake! Stop flirting and get to the point!!!! The bartender must be feeling really awkward with all that latent sexual tension. Anyway what kinda bar has tableclothes?

  • "I won't intrude by inquiring" Slick. I'll have to remember that one.

  • "But you make me sound so evil" 3:36 lol!

  • Awesome scene, love the dialog!

  • does anyone recall a johnny todd aka lance collins in which this show was based on his family bloodline???? if you research him you will know what this show and others like it are really about. and what a surprise, its being made into a movie by wiccans in hollywood. nothing surprises me anymore lol

  • Gay Vampire Cruising !

  • I can't help but notice the homoerotic undertones in the conversation. Barnabas wants some man ass.

  • lol every conversation Barnabas turn it into a duel conversation. the other guy could say "the sky is blue" and Barnabas would say "do you mean blue because my sword is blue?". "no no, I just talking about the weather" "weather or not you wish to fight me?"

  • check out the animation I did as a school project as a tribute to the new upcoming movie and Tim Burton. Find it on my channel.

  • Way to screw up your line, Burke.

  • I love this show

  • Can Barnabas drive a car? I've never seen him drive in these episodes. I know he's a 200 year old vampire from a different century, right?

  • Burke goes and a plane and the plane crashes, but he was never found, this was when Barnabas didn`t like Burke Because he was going to marry Victoria Winters, i think Barnabas had something to do with the crash because he wanted Burke out of the picture

  • What was Barnabas' purpose for appearing at the bar? He didn't seem to have a particular reason.

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  • Tim Burton this Piano Piece I've written would be perfect for your movie.

    It's called Nocturnal.

    Check it out on my page.

  • Notice that Barnabas does not drink his brandy?!

  • How come Barnabas didn't order a Bloody Mary?

  • the best scary soap ever!!

  • "Thank YOU...for playing the game." LOL

  • Thats a lie blubeard... go to hell

  • TIM BURTON HAS BEGUN SHOOTING THIS MOVIE ADAPTATION AND JOHNNY DEPP WILL BE BARNABAS!!!!!!!!!

  • @blubeardgo Thanks tips, heard bout that years ago.

  • @LIVEMeltdown4ROCK Well it wasn't, so no. Such a snob.

  • Barnabas is a negative vibe merchant.

  • Too bad I wasn't on the show when Anthony George was on! But I'm proud of the time I was on!

  • @DonnaWandrey If you are the real Donna W, I wonder if my boss cast you like she did for so many of the other actors - Marion Dougherty.

  • I don't know if its sexual tension...but one of these guys is going to suck the other ones di*k before the night is done.

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  • @mikeeG77 LMFAO!!!!!!!! Great Comment!!!!!!!

    Cool channel, by the way.

  • @mikeeG77 The homoeroticism is unmistakable. That's what makes it worth watching. Great scene. Tremendous tension. Barnabas is always worth watching, and Burke was my LEAST favorite character. So crude and brash and uncooth, everything Barnabas wasn't. Barnabas could do no wrong. He spoke and moved like a gentle brook, belieing the power just below the surface.

  • @TheUserLady , Burke all so had a uncanny knack of butting into other people's bussiness. Barnabas could have easily killed him but didn't all though he wanted to, the same goes for Julia when they first meet. Even if Julia could tell people who and what Barnabas really was a "Vampire" no one would have believed her they would have locked her up in a Straight Jacket.

  • this was painful to watch... the idea's fine... the acting was eh. like watching a bad high school production...

  • like Barnabas collins? try sebastian vasilis: "Last Rites: The Return of Sebastian Vasilis

  • You can cut the sexual tension with a swordfight in this one. Barnabas has a secret - what could it be? Confirmed bachelor on the prowl....

  • This is one of my favorite scenes too.

  • I was hoping Barnabas killed his ass.

  • So what does everyone think about the Tim Burton "Dark Shadows" to come out in 2012 with Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins?

  • @directorman0471 If it is true!!!!

  • @DanteCryTV it's true. Having never seen this beofre i watched (some of) this clip, wasn't overly impressed so hope Tim n Johnny do something else with it

  • @directorman0471 im keeping an open mind..i watched every episode from 1966-1971..im looking to buy the entire original series but cant seem to find a complete original series..

  • Barnabas had class, but Burke is crass, and ugly, too. The original actor was better looking, more suave; I couldn't wait for Devlin to get killed by Barnabas. He and Vicki didn't make a good match. (For one thing, he was much too old for her and often talked at her as if she was his daughter rather than love interest.)

  • @starbugster Mitchell Ryan was the original Burke-he was great-rough and tough but handsome and resourceful and courageous-too bad he got fired-DS lost a major character in the human "good guys" when Ryan got fired and the character got killed off.

  • Please could somebody tell me how to find the chapters or the episodes with their parts, thank you

  • @LIVEMeltdown4ROCK

    I may be one of the few DS fans (DS from 1967) who thinks the show lost an important element when Vicky Winters, Burke Devlin, Sam Evans, Roger, and Joe Haskell got pushed to the side or killed off.

  • wow I used to have to endure this soap when I was being baby sat and I had to sit and watch this and it scared the crap out of me I was only 3!

  • The average human has an unsolved problem concerning vampires, how it could have been if ever, a curiosity that's unsolved, right? I think so! You need to know what I've found about beings, all beings' formations - PSEM (Psycho-electromagnetism), the energy that makes you, your words be you, your character forever even afterdead, else, not true? Then tell any Judge in a Legal Courtroom to stick the Bible in the trash! Passions are things, love-power in a deep trance could and can make vamps.

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  • @4:40 Burke, put on your eyeglasses so you can see the teleprompter a bit better. Obviously, you didn't do you your homework last night! Amazing how you can spot an actor who doesn't know his/her lines. It's part of the humor of watching this stuff, over and over. You start to get the nuance!

  • @0:49 Barnabas: "What is it that makes you feel so good?"

    Burke: "I'm having this premonition that a woman named Donna Summer will sing

    and record a fabulous song called "If it Makes you Feel Good", sometime around 1989. And so I'm feeling really GOOD!" LOL!

  • @jockboy69-As I mentioned, I was a teenager

    when Dark Shadows began in 1967. By the mid-

    1960's heroin addiction was strongly on the rise.

    Social workers try to reduce the harmful effects of

    addiction, for the benefit of addicts & society. As

    such, they ask addicts about their daily activities.

    After Dark Shadows began social workers learned

    that many were avid viewers & their numbers grew.

    The addict in that LIFE Magazine article summed it

    up well- "All junkies dig Dark Shadows."

  • @LoneTinaja Absolutely hilarious!! Thank you for this. I have to pass this knowledge around to other people who know about DS!

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  • @2:31 Barnabas: "What an interesting observation. Perhaps we're both two-faced!"

  • @0:03 Burke: "But I'm calling you from Paris."

    Burke, you're a phony! In what bar in a burg like Collinsport would you ever hear a conversation about Paris? Never! The inbred, small-town people of Collinsport are too concerned with who is going to get bitten next, or who is jumping into bed with whom, to worry about the outside world!! LOL!

  • Frid said in an interview this was one of his favorite scenes from the show.

  • A follow-up to my comment. I was a teenager when

    Dark Shadows began in 1967. The February 20, 1970

    LIFE Magazine has an article titled "Life On Two Grams

    A Day" about the spreading heroin epidemic then. In the

    article a teenage heroin junkie is quoted as saying

    "You ever watch Dark Shadows, man? All junkies dig

    Dark Shadows". It was my understanding they were

    really pissed when it was cancelled, & many made

    complaints to ABC, to no avail.

  • After Dark Shadows began in 1967, when social

    workers would talk with unemployed heroin

    addicts about their daytime activities, the social

    worker community found that a substantial percent

    of the addicts were avid watchers of the series.

    Over time the show became even more popular

    among heroin addicts & the word was that they

    were very upset when it was cancelled & they could

    no longer get their Dark Shadows fix.

  • @LoneTinaja I think that information is hilarious. What was your source for this interesting tidbit of DS gossip!? I suppose they were sitting at home in the afternoon, shooting up and watching DS, like the little kids in the next-door apartment! I find this very amusing.

  • Music playing at the Blue Whale (or the Eagle, whatever it is) is similar to some stuff composed by Nino Rota, who did the scores for almost all of Fellini's films, and The Godfather, etc.

  • For some strange reason, this always reminded me of the tavern meeting between Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton in "A Tale of Two Cities". Not so much sparring there, but the mood was rather intense, with a clear disdain on the part of Carton for the other fellow. Barnabas and Devlin, by contrast, have an equal animosity for one another. Brilliant dialog in a memorable scene with two great actors, Frid and George, to carry it off.

  • this scene is an absolute pleasure to watch. love the conversation

  • @denny672 But the REAL Burke Devlin was Mitch Ryan--too bad he got fired.

    Let's face it; most of the original case can never be equaled let alone surpassed; I have never quite made up my mind if I like Ben Cross as Barnabas Collins-Dracula yes--very like Christopher Lee but not sure about DS.

  • @RPenta I definitely agree! I liked the way Mitch Ryan interacted with the other characters. He was quite forceful. This one seems more milque-toast to me.

    I thought Ryan did quite well with the role, even though he says he never drew a sober breath during the time he was on the show. He acted as well as the rest of them, I thought, or maybe better!

  • @jockboy69 I think if you watch DS from the very beginning to the 1795 storyline you come to a conclusion that the show fundamentally changed at about that point--it ceased to be really at all about Vicky Winters and the human beings of Collinwood and became what I call the monster of the month. Sometimes the monsters were great--Angelique and Count Petofi for example and sometimes they were horrible--Tom Jennings and Adam for example.

  • @RPenta

    I've been watching this series again, after about 4 decades, and memory is such a strange thing, some story lines I really got mixed up.

    I think at one time there was a zombie, mummy, werewolf, maybe Adam, probably a witch or warlock or 2, and of course, Barnabas on the show at same time. That was wild.

  • @jockboy69 Thx; good points; see my comments about the change in the direction of DS-by the way, Vicky Winters and Dr. Guthrie by themselves with some help from the ghost of Josette Collins were able to defeat the Phoenix, Laura Collins--that was inspiring--especially since 3 years later it took Quentin, Magda, Barnabas, and Angelique to defeat Laura in 1897.

  • imnot pegudiced but......thry act like gazes? kindof at lest! n youin can tel burkesgAZES! Oooooooiiiiiiint!

  • Frid's voice in his Barnabas character sounds remarkably like Ken Nordine.

  • i think Jonathan Frid directly referenced this scene in an interview he gave some years ago, said it was a personal favorite of his... that interview, BTW is here on YT, if you guys wanna see it...

  • I used to watch this when I was a very little girl. I can barely remember it. I loved it.

  • The funny thing is that Burke basically takes what was such a fantastic subtext of the show from the beginning -- intimation, allusion, metaphor, saying something without saying it -- and makes it the text of their conversation.

  • I guess Baranabas didn't drink because he was of the living dead

  • Jonathon Frid looks a little like Mr. Bean

  • Jonathon Frid looks a little like Mr. Bean

  • I just finished a book by Clive Barker named The Damnation Game. This scene is similar to the banter between Mr. Whitehead and Mamoulian and the card game that is played for ones soul.

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  • jonathan frid was never married. i read he has been single all his life

  • ... Of course, as I said, i haven't seen that SL in its entirety. Anyone please feel free to fill me in if you know more about their relationship. But it just seemed right there that he harbored such hostility towards Burke. Could that anger have been transposed from Jeremiah to Burke because of what had happened in the past?

  • "I think of our relationship more as a duel." 0_0 Way ta show the love for your uncle, Barnabas. I haven't seen all of the 1790s SL, but I'm actually wondering how their relationship was prior to Jeremiah's spell-induced fixation with Josette. Barnabas sorely hated him after what happened. It was like there was no redemption for him. (TBC)

  • I really just take Anthony George as just another incarnate of the same Burke Devlin Character, why not!

  • Barnabas always wanted to kill Burke...he would have loved to have an all out duel with him like back how they did in 1795

  • love this soap

  • Anyone know the name of the first song playing?

  • @ChadEnjoysSailing it's called "#1 At The Blue Whale" & it's on the official Dark Shadows soundtracks

  • @blozier2006 Thanks!

  • This show frightened actor Richard Thomas (Johnboy) to almost death! When DS actor David Selby guest starred on The Waltons Thomas quit the show out of terrified fear!

  • This brings back alot of memories of when i was in 2nd, 3rd grade.