DARK SHADOWS (TV SERIES) Barnabas Is Freed From His Coffin

[Victoria Liss]

This is when Barnabas Collins played by Jonathan Frid was introduced to the show. In 1967 Willie Loomis finds a chained up coffin in the Collins Family Mausoleum at the Eagle Hill Cemetery where he believes that their family jewels are hidden. He is unaware however, that the coffin is that of vampire Barnabas Collins who has been chained up and imprisoned there since 1795. Willie unwittingly releases him from his coffin, and subsequently Barnabas proceeds to return to the Collins family mansion posing as a distant cousin from England and a direct descendant from the original Barnabas Collins from the eighteenth century; whom in truth of course is he himself. A far contrast from the Johnny Depp version of this character.