Saturday, July 23, 2011

Episode Guide 1967: Investigating the Vampire

251.  6/12/67.  Writer:  Ron Sproat.  Director:  John Sedwick.
            Barnabas threatens to kill Maggie and Willie.  Willie convinces Barnabas that Maggie deserves a second chance to be his bride.  After a visit from Vicki, Barnabas realizes that she is interested in the past.  He locks Maggie in a basement cell.
252.  6/13/67.  Writer:  Malcolm Marmorstein.  Director:  John Sedwick.
            Carolyn renews her acquaintence with motorcyle hippie Buzz.  Later, they drink and dance at Collinwood.  Carolyn screams at her mother, calling her “Mrs. McGuire” over and over as Liz struggles to escape. 
253.  6/14/67.  Writer:  Joe Caldwell.  Director:  John Sedwick.
            David finds Maggie’s ring at the Old House.  Barnabas retrieves it, dashing Maggie’s hopes of escape.

254.  6/15/67.  Writer:  Joe Caldwell.  Director:  John Sedwick.
            Carolyn tells Liz that she and Buzz will be married the same day that her mother will marry Jason.
255.  6/16/67.  Writer:  Ron Sproat.  Director:  John Sedwick.
            Maggie refuses to be Josette and Barnabas orders her to be locked in the basement again.  Maggie believes she will go mad, and later see a little girl in 18th century clothing singing “London Bridge.”

256.  6/19/67.  Writer:  Malcolm Marmorstein.  Director:  Lela Swift.
            The little girl appears not to notice Maggie.  David meets her later and discovers that her name is Sarah.  When Maggie sees her again, Sarah warns her not to tell “my big brother” that she was playing in the basement.

257.  6/20/67.  Writer:  Malcolm Marmorstein.  Director:  Lela Swift.
            Liz refuses to allow Buzz into Collinwood but Carolyn lets him in.  Jason tries to bribe Buzz into leaving Carolyn.
258.  6/21/67.  Writer:  Malcolm Marmorstein.  Director:  Lela Swift.
            Sarah appears to Maggie again, and they play catch together.  Barnabas decides that Maggie is mad and must be killed.
259.  6/22/67.  Writer:  Joe Caldwell.  Director:  Lela Swift.
Carolyn, driving drunk, nearly kills a woman.  Later, Liz admits to Vicki that she killed Paul Stoddard.
260.  6/23/67.  Writer:  Ron Sproat.  Director:  John Sedwick.
            Sarah gives Maggie a riddle that will help her escape.  As Maggie makes her way through secret passages to the beach, Barnabas pursues her close behind.
261.  6/26/67.  Writer:  Ron Sproat.  Director:  John Sedwick.
            Sam finds Maggie on the beach.  Dr. Woodard suggests that, in order to keep Maggie safe, they pretend that she died, when in reality she will be at a rest-home, Windcliff, run by Dr. Julia Hoffman.  Barnabas believes that Maggie is dead.
262.  6/27/67.  Writer:  Joe Caldwell.  Director:  John Sedwick.
            Vicki and Burke mourn Maggie.  When Carolyn and Liz continue fighting, Vicki agrees to be Liz’s legal witness at her wedding.

263.  6/28/67.  Writer:  Ron Sproat.  Director:  John Sedwick.
            Carolyn dreams that she is to be the next victim of the madman stalking the town.  She softens for a bit when talking to Joe, then becomes angry again when she sees violets to Liz from Jason.


264.  6/29/67.  Writer:  Malcolm Marmorstein.  Director:  John Sedwick.
            Willie meets Sarah outside the Old House.  Barnabas decides that Jason has been asking too many questions.  He is shocked when Willie tells him about Sarah.

265.  6/30/67.  Writer:  Joe Caldwell.  Director:  John Sedwick.
            Dr. Julia Hoffman resists allowing Joe and Sam to see Maggie.  They find that she has reverted to a child-like state, singing the words to “London Bridge.” 


266.  7/3/67.  Writer:  Ron Sproat.  Director:  Lela Swift.
            Liz hears the Widows calling her from Widow’s Hill.  When Mrs. Johnson retells the legend of the women who threw themselves from the hill, Liz decides that the sea is her grave.


267.  7/4/67.  Writer:  Malcolm Marmorstein.  Director:  Lela Swift.
            Barnabas saves Liz from falling from the cliff.  Vicki finds the family Bible with the date of Liz’s death.

268.  7/5/67.  Writer:  Ron Sproat.  Director:  Lela Swift.
            Carolyn realizes that Liz is acting strangely.  Liz returns to Widow’s Hill, where she hears the Widows calling her.
269.  7/6/67.  Writer: Malcolm Marmorstein.  Director:  Lela Swift.
            Vicki saves Liz as she is about to jump from the cliff. 
270.  7/7/67.  Writer:  Joe Caldwell.  Director:  Lela Swift.
            Jason threatens to throw Carolyn out of Collinwood.  On the verge of the wedding, Liz admits to everyone that she killed Paul Stoddard … and that Jason was her accomplice.

271.  7/10/67.  Writer:  Joe Caldwell.  Director:  John Sedwick.
            Liz relates the story of the night she killed Paul Stoddard, and how she struck him over the head with a poker when she discovered he was stealing Carolyn’s inheritance.  After that, she knew she must be a prisoner of Collinwood forever.

272.  7/11/67.  Writer:  Joe Caldwell.  Director:  John Sedwick.
            Jason makes a run for it, pursued by Burke and Roger.  Carolyn, distraught, screams at the sight of her mother.  Burke and Sheriff Patterson dig up the trunk containing Paul’s body.

273.  7/12/67.  Writer:  Joe Caldwell.  Director:  John Sedwick.
            The trunk is empty.  Jason tells the story of how Paul was merely stunned, and how he helped Paul escape.

274.  7/13/67.  Writer:  Malcolm Marmorstein.  Director:  John Sedwick.
            Barnabas tells Willie that he has selected the next woman who will become Josette.  Jason taunts Vicki with the possibility that he holds the answers to the truth behind her real identity.  Later, Jason breaks into the Old House.
275.  7/14/67.  Writer:  Ron Sproat.  Director:  John Sedwick.
            Carolyn and Liz vow to communicate better from now on.  Jason finds Barnabas’ coffin and lifts the lid.  Barnabas seizes his throat.
276.  7/17/67.  Writer:  Ron Sproat.  Director:  Lela Swift.
            Barnabas has strangled Jason.  As Willie is shocked and horrified at losing a friend, Barnabas laments about losing a “young friend” when she was very young, before he met Josette.  Dr. Woodard shows Maggie a sketch Sam made of Sarah.  Willie learns that Sarah was Barnabas’ sister.

277.  7/18/67.  Writer:  Malcolm Marmorstein.  Director:  Lela Swift.
            Barnabas decides that the new Josette must come to him of her own free will.  He decides to host a costume party.  Vicki, he decides, will come as Josette.


278.  7/19/67.  Writer:  Joe Caldwell.  Director:  Lela Swift.
            In Josette’s room, Barnabas and Vicki select clothing for the party.  Both feel that they are being watched.  Barnabas is visibly touched when he discovers a dress that belonged to Sarah.  Later, Sarah appears and takes her dress.




279.  7/20/67.  Writer:  Malcolm Marmorstein.  Director:  Lela Swift.
            Carolyn feels a strange chill dressed as Millicent Collins, but Vicki likes the idea of playing Josette.  Barnabas casts Burke as Jeremiah Collins, his hated rival.



 

280.  7/21/67.  Writer:  Ron Sproat.  Director:  Lela Swift.
            After Liz feels a ghostly hand on her shoulder during the costume party, Roger proposes that they hold a séance.  Vicki goes into a trance.

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