Dark Shadows - Season 2 / Year 1967

Laura continues to play with and against Roger and Burke while she gains an ally in Victoria, who agrees to help her win over David.

David begins to warm to Laura.

Laura and David bond while Maggie shows Victoria the portrait.

Victoria takes the unfinished painting to Collinwood, where David hangs it prominently to the disgust of his mother.

David has mixed emotions about the painting, while a duplicate locket is identified by Elizabeth from the Phoenix fire.

Victoria recounts the odd events surrounding Laura to Frank.

Sam's uncontrollable painting of Laura is stopped by the subject herself.

Sam is sure Laura started the fire which destroyed the second painting, despite its not having been near the flames.

Burke receives information from both Victoria and Laura.

Burke and Carolyn are over; the police in Phoenix think murder is afoot.

Josette finishes the painting for the injured Sam; when done, it is destroyed by Roger.

Elizabeth and Laura head for a fiery confrontation over young David.

Elizabeth is alarmed when David reveals he was visited during the night by his mother, Laura.

The burned body is definitely Laura's.

Victoria and Frank end up at a graveyard's caretaker's home.

Vicky and Frank locate the remains of a Laura Collins.

Elizabeth demands that Laura be told to leave Collinwood.

Elizabeth sees a ghostly figure.

Vicky and Frank try to work out why there are so many Lauras that appear to be the same person that died 100 years apart.

Elizabeth becomes worse when Laura visits.

Vicky tells Frank about Victoria's demand that David be kept away from Laura.

Dr. Guthrie believes Elizabeth's condition is not caused by disease but by trauma.

Dr. Guthrie continues to try to determine the cause of Elizabeth's condition.

Dr. Guthrie learns from David about Josette while at the old house.

Dr. Guthrie tries to question Laura but she evades all the questions.

Dr. Guthrie tries to question Sam about his burned hands and the burned picture of Laura.

Dr. Guthrie proposes a seance after David is allowed a sleep-over with Laura at the guest cottage.

Burke catches up on the current situation at Collinwood and proposes a truce with Joe. Burke calls Sam to find out what Guthrie is investigating.

Roger refuses to go along with Guthrie's plan for a seance.

Burke discusses with Laura all the questions that Guthrie is investigating. Guthrie tries to convince Laura to join the seance.

Guthrie discusses who should be at the seance.

Guthrie begins the seance. A ghostly appearance interrupts. 

Roger tries to make Guthrie leave and not come back, but Carolyn intervenes. Vicky has a 2:00 am visitation by Laura who then vanishes.

Laura finds out about the recording and suddenly the recording has changed to the sounds of a crackling fire.

Burke appears to get David on a boat so that Laura can take him away, but Vicky interrupts and stops the plan. Burke asks Laura many questions which she says only a supernatural being could do all that.

The police investigation is closing, the detective goes to the morgue drawer and the body is missing.

Guthrie informs Laura about the missing body. Laura retaliates to Guthrie's inquiries by beginning to stare into the fire. At Collinwood, Guthrie collapses by the fireplace.

David distracts Laura allowing Guthrie to recover. David tells of how his mother was daydreaming while staring into the fire.

Guthrie and Caroline decide to ask Joe to help in removing Laura as a danger. Joe agrees to help.

Carolyn and Joe try to open the grave of Laura Collins' 1867 grave.

The opening of the coffin of 1867 Laura Collins is interrupted. A smell of Jasmine is noted and suddenly the coffin opens and they find....

both coffins are opened with nothing inside. Laura visits the caretaker at the cemetery and his book record of Laura is wiped out as is his memory of Laura's visit.

David sees himself in the fire burning up. they look at the news story of how Laura died, with a boy named David in her arms.

Roger is alarmed when he learns that the little boy wanted to burn up in his mother's arms and died.

Dr. Guthrie confronts Laura Collins about getting her power from fire.

Dr. Guthrie plans a second seance but Laura attacks him by staring at the fire.

Laura focuses on Dr. Guthrie and stopping his seance.

Vicky hosts the seance after Dr. Guthrie dies in a car accident.

Roger, Burke, and Vicky make plans to take David far away for a few days from Laura.

Worried, Vicky stays in David's room overnight watching over him.

Laura makes a plan with David to run away with her.

David hides at the seaside cottage and Laura joins him.

David recites to Laura the story of the Phoenix and the fire begins building, getting hotter and larger around them.

End of Phoenix story arc, beginning of Jason Mcguire story arc; The fishing shack finishes burning, David forgets what happened, Elizabeth gets better.

Sam finds himself in a position so that he blackmails Roger with telling Burke of how Roger framed Burke.

Elizabeth returns home, but seems very anxious about something.

Jason McGuire arranges to surprise Elizabeth on his return.

In the 'new' set room, the "Study", Carolyn and Vicky discuss Carolyn's father. Carolyn wonders who the strange man is that is visiting Elizabeth.

Roger is in the basement searching for Sam's paintings. Jason comes down and examines the padlock to the storage room, where Roger catches him snooping around. 

Maggie learns more about her father and Roger's history.

Willie Loomis is introduced as a new character. Sam confesses to Burke that he knew Roger was driving the car that hit and killed the person walking on the road.

Elizabeth holds Roger at bay about the basement and McGuire; Burke and Sam head for a confrontation with Roger at Collinwood.

After 10 years, Roger confesses that he killed the man in the manslaughter case and sent Burke to prison for it.

First mention of Barnabas coming - a stranger; McGuire, whose connection to Paul intrigues Carolyn, and Willie, who gets too fresh with Maggie, make an odd pair.

Despite her best judgment, Elizabeth invites Willie to stay at Collinwood under pressure from McGuire.

The family attempts to get to the bottom of why Elizabeth invited Willie and Jason to live at Collinwood.

Carolyn tells Elizabeth about her fright with Willie, who meanwhile is intrigued by Collins family legends and the odd portrait of Barnabas Collins hanging in the foyer.

Barnabas visits the Collinsport Inn and meets Maggie.

Willie continues to investigate the Collins family legends and runs afoul of new Collins family defender Burke.

NOTE: This episode was pushed a day forward, due to the AFTRA strike. It was originally slated for broadcast on April 10.

Willie creeps around town, finally getting into a confrontation with Burke, while awaiting his revenges and fortunes.

Willie continues to scheme as Jason and Elizabeth work out a deal to get rid of the goon.

Willie makes plans to leave and is further enthralled by the portrait of Barnabas Collins, both for its jewelry and its other characteristics.

First appearance of Barnabas Collins; While Jason and Elizabeth argue over the whereabouts of Willie, a mysterious cousin pays a visit to Collinwood, one with an uncanny resemblance to an 18th century ancestor...

The residents of Collinwood are surprised to discover that a previously unknown cousin from England, Barnabas Collins, has arrived in Collinsport to set down roots.

Carolyn grows more suspicious of the hold that Jason McGuire has over her mother, Elizabeth.

Victoria visits Barnabas in the ruins of the Old House and learns about the ancestral home's history and construction.

At the Blue Whale, Willie reappears with none of his old bravado and refuses to tell Jason where he's been; Jason notices blood on Willie's sleeve.

Willie is gravely ill and terrified to return to Collinwood under any circumstances.

Willie's illness grows worse and he begins to hear voices telling him what to do.

Barnabas visits Collinwood and asks Elizabeth and Roger for their permission to move into the dilapidated Old House.

Sheriff Patterson consults with Roger about recent cattle slayings, and Dr. Woodard examines Willie's injuries.

Jason and Willie sever their partnership, and Willie finds a new place to stay, the Old House.

Barnabas commissions Sam to paint a new portrait of himself to be displayed at the Old House.

David is dismayed to discover that Barnabas has removed the portrait of Josette from its position in the Old House.

Elizabeth learns that Willie is working at the Old House, and orders Barnabas to fire him.

Joe, Maggie, Sam, Barnabas and Burke spend an evening together at the Blue Whale, but later that night a sleeping Maggie has an unexpected visitor.

NOTE: This episode was double numbered with 226 (225/226) in order to correct the out of sync numbering caused by the AFTRA strike pre-emption that shifted 206 a day forward, in order to keep the production numbers balanced with the calendar, i.e. Friday episodes ending in a 5 or 0.

Late at night, Barnabas Collins breaks into the Maggie's bedroom and drinks her blood.

Jason continues to insinuate himself deeply into the Collins family fortune.

Maggie's condition worsens, and Sam has to call in Dr. Woodard to examine her.

Sarah makes first appearance;

End of Jason McGuire story arc;

Start of Barnabas turning Vickie into Josette story arc:

Start of Barnabas aging story arc;

Start of Victoria going back in time story arc;