Joshua has Ben Chain Up Barnabas's Coffin~ 1795 

Iam a.man and that.all most had me crying. But i often wonder what type of film. It would have been some blacks in the story i just wonder but good horrow soapopra. Any way. Love it

He always had that "What the hell is going to happen to me next?" look on his face, and Fate kept answering him. . . .

my all time favorite show with out a doubt

As a child, I was considered "odd" because my two favorite characters (for a very long time) were Barnabas Collins and Capt. Daniel Gregg (the Ghost and Mrs. Muir).

@@christinewells-leddon9287 I recently found a dvd of the ghost and Mrs Muir at the library

Love this soap since 1966 and still watching it today in my late 60's!

Willie. Was looking. For.julary. it was told that the collins. Family..was. Burry in their julary..so.he went grave.robing..and he got more.than what he was.looking for .it was so horrible. That it chage his life

That is a great observation.

yes isnt that odd? i wonder why.

Yes. He was wonderful!

Louis Edmonds is his name.

Yes, his performance as Joshua was my favorite. Especially when he was with Barnabas and Barnabas told him he was a vampire.

E-D-M-O-N-D-S-

louis edmonds was a great actor I used to love how he was able to cover his mistakes on air with his quick thinking may he rip.

Willie was.a.greedy thief. He thought he was going get .a Prize.persesion..but instead. He got .more than what he bargain. For. Something that change his life forever

​@@karltrafton7547 Willie Loomis got more than a prize when he opened this box of Crackerjacks😂😂😂

007jimmymac Yeah, Joshua didn't look away until Barnabas closed the door. Barnabas and Joshua looked like they were trying to memorize each other's facial features to keep in their hearts

They looked like so many fathers and sons, who couldn't relate in life so now it was very sad to say good bye.

But, of course, not right away.

Correct. If Joshua had destroyed Barnabas, the Collins family would have ended with David's death by Gerard Stiles.

@@njpubadjuster3710 actually it would have ended before that because he was on the brink of death when he was posseted by the ghost of Quentin before they went to the 1895 story line.

@@williambarnard1763 well, at that point, they were repeating themselves by rehashing the same storyline.

@@njpubadjuster3710 yes and no

too true. I wondered why Edmunds said that Joshua was his favorite to play. This scene makes it obvious. I was honestly going to quit this show when I found out that Burke and Sam were going to die, but I don't think I can now

Many of the actors preferred their roles that took place back in time. Grayson Hall preferred the role of Magda (the Gypsy woman), Katherine Leigh Scott preferred the role of Josette, and Diana Millay refused to play any part other than Laura (the Phoenix).

Inspector Spinda Well, look at Daniel(1840) and Edward. Daniel was senile and Edward cared more about money than his own family. Roger was paranoid and blamed everyone for the bad things that happened to him. Joshua was the only character Louis Edmonds played that actually had decent character and had character growth. Joshua was perfect compared to Edmonds main three roles.

William Barnard I agree. Louis and Jonathan during this time period were fantastic together

If you watch this video Edmunds made not long after oral surgery for cancer, you’ll see just exactly why Joshua was and remained till Edmund’s death his favorite character to portray: m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vLdZ1gnn8pg.html

LordZontar Agreed. The pain and heartache is obvious in Joshua's eyes. I mean, that just that afternoon, Joshua lost the person that was consistent in his life. Losing what he had shared with Naomi, his wife, was too much for him to brood to himself about.

I saw sorrow in Joshua, major pain. Regret for what could have been. It was heart breaking to see how he treated Naomi. She turned to drink because of him.

@@marilynwillett804 True, but his sister Abigail treated her mean too!

True.

Absolutely!! 👏👏👏

atlantic 11561 Can you imagine killing the person that you helped bring into the world and the one you raised?

Was Joshua still being himself as he was more concerned with how he felt, rather than Barnabas' request and the danger posed (which came true) if he were to be released?

atlantic 11561 I mean, surely he knows that mausoleum won’t last literally forever? It’s not indestructible. Even if no one ever stumbles into the room, some day the place would be taken down or something.

Often wondered, wouldn't a vampire die just from lack of blood for 172 years?

there was no way on eorth a parent could kill their own child no matter if he became a monster or not.it was bad enough tryin to forget he was chained in a coffin.just imagine how awful he would have felt destroying his own son

In my own personal head Canon I'd like to believe Joshua had one more secret. Daniel was adopted by Millicent's parents and was in reality the son of Jeremiah and Laura Stockridge. Jeremiah was so upset by his wife's death Joshua gave the boy to cousins to raise and thus the original storyline of the Collins branch in the 60's being Jeremiah's descendents is still true.

When Ezra Braithewaite came to Collinwood during the lead-up to the 1897 storyline, David answered the door and Ezra asked to see David's "Uncle Barnabas." David corrected him, saying Barnabas was his cousin. But actually Barnabas was pretty much everybody's uncle. Joshua said he would adopt Daniel. If he did, that made Barnabas and Daniel brothers, and thus Barnabas was the uncle of the first Quentin and Gabriel; the great-uncle of Gabriel's son who was the father of Judith, Edward, the second Quentin, and Carl; the great-great-uncle of Jamison, Nora, Lenore, and Lenore's brother; the great-great-great uncle of Elizabeth and Roger; and the great-great-great-great uncle of Carolyn, David, Tom, Chris, and Amy. Another interesting fact is that clearly I have too much free time.

Oops, I neglected to include Judith, Edward, the second Quentin, and Carl themselves.

after the 80's, the heads of studios sold out to corporations,

Jonathan Frid and Louis Edmonds never dated each other. Louis Edmonds had a boyfriend /partner at the time , for twelve years. Jonathan and Louis were both gay, true, but they were just close friends until Louis' passing. Jonathan did not have a long term relationship with anyone.

Oh I agree! I have a feeling that old Shakespeare himself would've relished something like this series! Charles Dickens, too!

Seems like they never slept at all.

They stay awake so they don't have to endure the dream curse.

Me, too. I just retired from teaching and have started watching the episodes again. Mistakes and all, they are even better than I remembered!

Me too!

I started watching DS in 1968; my whole 6th grade class rushed home to watch it. Barnabas scared us in fact, all of the vampires in the show were so terrifying that I slept with my rosary around my neck at night. One boy I remember, who wasn't Catholic nor did he have even a plain cross, told our class that he simply slept at night with his fingers shaped in the shape of a cross every night. Our favorite episodes were the costumed ones from the past. Years ago, the Sci FYI channel showed the whole series. Now on streaming and DVD, looking back, I now am grateful for having viewed some of the finest in television programming in my lifetime during the 1960s through 1970s with nighttime soaps taking over later on.

Apparently, there was another time in their lives when they quarreled with each other, I gathered! There was a brief conversation in the scene where Barnabas was sick and close to death. Barnabas says something about when Joshua was wounded (in a Rev. War battle, I'm guessing) in the war. He says that they promised each other that they would never quarrel again! It was where Joshua expresses some regret about their more recent quarrel. I picked up on that, and guessed that at some time in the past, there had been some static between them! Barnabas must've been a older child or mid-late teen then, and being at war time only about 15 or 20 years before. Anyway, that was something I surmised on my own, by listening to what the characters were saying in that scene! I don't know if anyone else picked up on that or not?

@@2oldfashgrl Stoddard? Long lost Collins heir?

@@njpubadjuster3710 It's intriguing, since they are fictional, I don't think so. But there is a "Collins" branch grafted on our "Stoddard" tree, way back! Who, or whatever inspired the writers to name the family that, may have known about some people on our family tree! I found out about seven or so years ago, that on my mom's side, there are 3 individuals named Barnabas! And even more of a coincidence, one of them's dad was named Jeremiah! But the problem with that was- their last name was Aldrich, not Collins or Stoddard. Still, it's intriguing!

FDzerzhinsky I always thought that Naomi Collins killing herself had more to do with Joshua than with Barnabas's vampirism. Look how he treated her. He insulted her, locked her in her room, outright called her stupid and left to be picked on by the mercy of other's.

I remember reading that after the loss of his family, Joshua took to the bottle.

Anyone notice the mauseleum door popped open by itself as Ben finished chaining the coffin?

@@njpubadjuster3710 Where did you read this? I'm curious.

I was more bothered by the plot. I tone I could help dealt with. But if you really think, it is impossible to keep the general original plot, and have barnabas come in, in a first film and have it be good. there is simply too much backstory to be given with vicky and the house and family, and the focus will be all off, which is what happened for the movie.

Depp lost his audience to be sure!

William Barnard - The Johnny Depp movie disrespected The Dark Shadows franchise. Tim Burton buried Dan Curtis' masterpiece. Johnathon Frid died the same week it came out. The movie was so bad...it killed Barnabas Collins...literally.

You write we should. Demand a remake of the movie

The hell.with jhonny deep he fucked up..our soap opra horro..mystery and supence episode s the hell with him

jockboy69 Joshua was one of the most influential people in Collinsport, he gets things done!

Astraldragon1 Yes, he even tried to say that he loved Barnabas, but was stopped because of Barnabas's own love and fear of his father's life. Joshua died inside as his son rejected his love, you could see it. If I were Joshua, I would have forced Barnabas into an embrace and held him as long as I could.

House of Dark Shadows is a classic. The Johnny Depp version? Not so much...

D.J. Cook Yeah. Why not try another witch to lift the curse?

joshua did what he had to do.barnabas was his son monster or not.there was no way he could kill his son

I always wondered that myself! I figured that it was a family crest, that he was proud to wear. Of course, I don't know for sure!

Barnabas was in the Navy and it was a service medal he received for his naval service

I.hated the jhonny dip or.whoever.it was a currmy dark Shadows..movie remake and.a.lot of fans hated and thats including.me

I like morbit ghostly vampire..soapopra..romance and horror .and .morbid...no comedy in.that

m so My mom watched this show when she was little. She was born in 1965 and Barnabas was added when she was 2. She loved Vampires even as a baby and both Dracula and Barnabas were her favorites. She refused to watch the 2012 Dark Shadows movie at all, said it ruined Barnabas and everything else

I wasn't either I was born in 1969 and the show ended when i was 2. I was fortunate enough though that my local ABC station showed it in the late 70's to early 80's ( i was 9 - 12) as filler between The Edge of Night and The Mike Douglas Show in the 4:30 - 5:00pm time slot. Granted they only showed from Barnabas coming on the show to the end of the 1840 time line but it was still most of the series. Now I have the DVD set and have watched It a few times.

I was born I'n the 60s 1965 I. Saw the ariganal I. 1983 on. Wbff TV 45.thanks to my. Mon. And I. Saw 1795.and Barnabas cure of the vampire. Curse.i am. Fortunate to see and know about thank. You Mon. In. The world of spirt thank. You for introducing me to dark shadows

there is only one barnabas collins,

Astraldragon1 He showed it plenty. He kept throwing caution to the wind to hide Barnabas in the Tower Room. He tried to embrace him twice in the cellar in the Old House, an attempt to comfort Barnabas when he talked about the horrors that he endured every night. He tried to tell Barnabas that he loved him. Joshua Collins was my favorite character, he was gruff, but also very vulnerable at the end.

Astraldragon1 Amen. Hear Hear! Preach It!

Burton should be kick in his ass..for that. One we should. Ask.Hollywood. or somebody. For a remake because. Burton fucked it up

depp was a fan of the original series.you cant hold him responsible for the mess that movie was.that is squarely on the shoulders of tim burton

Frid used to tell them it was too small, too short.

Frid had to remain in the coffin after Edmunds closed the lid for the entire scene between Edmonds, and David,. Unlike his character Frid needed air. Of course in those days the audience wouldn’t notice, since they also had no means to “review” such things as is now possible, thus enabling details of that sort to be taken notice of.

In real life and today you can get whatever.you want done and the collins. Had prestige. And clot and power. So with that little.bs matter...no.problem. He will get that done

They could also annul if the marriage was fraudulent (had "no right basis") -- for example, if one partner was a purported Christian at the time of nuptials, but turned out not to be one, or was a witch, a Gypsy, or even "a man who took woman's dress" and deceived a male partner.

moe moe He still was Joshua's son, no matter what he was. Joshua still loved him, no matter what. It has nothing to do with having the balls to do something

He din't love his son, don't you remember the curse? the others loved him and then they died. Barnabas also told Joshua that he did not love his wife.

he was still his son maybe he was a monster but joshua couldnt live knowin he killed his son could you?

could you do one of barnabas and josette when they try to marry

Any scene with Willie Loomis!

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@Sue Taft stake to the heart, not steak

Um.. ok.. Barnabas wasn't really "alive" at this point, he was a vampire, and they're walking dead beings... so, to say he "walled him up alive" is not correct.

Morgan Scorpion I didn't understand it for while, but Barnabas was a safe guard for the family. If Joshua had shot him, the family would been destroyed forever in the 1995 storyline

He did bury him alive, recall Barnabas saying in '67 ''what he did was no act of mercy''.

I think there was a scene when dusk came where Barnabas awoke in the coffin, but unable to move because of the silver cross facing him. He knew that Joshua had betrayed him and left him entombed possibly forever.

@@tenhirankei you’re thinking of the 1897 storyline when he awoke after Barnabas of 1969 sent his spirit back to inhabit his 1897 self

They made a mockery of.the original. In my opinion

it wasnt his fault it turned out to be a comedy that is on the shoulders of tim buton .you cant blame the actor for the way the director and writer make a movie

I.love the morbit dark Shadows way

Are you still willing to stick to that statement from 5 years ago?

ErwickFig I thought it was an insult to TOS(The Original Series) and to the Revival Series of Dark Shadows. Both were true blue Gothic Romance and Supernatural Horror

They tried benefitting off the coat tails of an old tv soap.

@@marilynwillett804 Yes. I refused to watch it. I heard it was terrible.

It was simply awful!