Dark Shadows: Season 9
Season 9 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Dark Shadows Season 8.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 9 Progress Shield
DS-981
Mar 30, 1970 · 22 min
In parallel time Barnabas bites Carolyn. Quentin had previously been married to Angelique who has apparently died. Julia is a servant who is still loyal to Angelique. Quentin has m
DS-982
Mar 31, 1970 · 22 min
Barnabas meets William Loomis, Carolyn’s husband and a writer. Carolyn watches over Barnabas. Maggie finds out that Daniel (Quentin’s son with Angelique) hates her. William warns M
DS-983
Apr 1, 1970 · 22 min
Daniel plans to drive Maggie out of Collinwood. Quentin tells Chris to make sure Bruno Hess, another loyal friend of Angelique, is kicked off the estate. Daniel frightens Maggie by
DS-984
Apr 2, 1970 · 23 min
Quentin becomes upset when he finds that Maggie has visited Angelique’s room. Julia suggests that Maggie buy a specific record for Daniel as a gift. Quentin is very upset when he f
DS-985
Apr 3, 1970 · 23 min
Maggie finds that Alexis Stokes is Angelique’s twin sister and has come to Collinwood for a visit. Chris finds that Cyrus Longworth is planing experiments that would separate the g
DS-986
Apr 6, 1970 · 22 min
Amy is frightened when she sees Alexis. Cyrus tells Bruno that Alexis is at Collinwood. Quentin tries to kick Bruno out of a cottage on the estate, however Angelique apparently gav
DS-987
Apr 7, 1970 · 23 min
Quentin apologizes to Alexis and convinces her to stay at Collinwood. Horace Gladstone brings Cyrus a special chemical that he ordered; Horace is curious what Cyrus plans to use it
DS-988
Apr 8, 1970 · 23 min
Quentin and Alexis stop Bruno from opening Angelique’s grave. Bruno continues to be convinced that Alexis is Angelique, and she continues to deny it. Horace Gladstone breaks into C
DS-989
Apr 9, 1970 · 23 min
Cyrus is unable to remember what happen to him the previous night. Cyrus finds out from the police that a strange man was terrorizing the neighborhood and entered his house. Cyrus
DS-990
Apr 10, 1970 · 22 min
Elizabeth and Roger find Sabrina trying to relive the seance from six months earlier when Angelique died. It is decided that another seance will be held, Alexis will take her siste
DS-991
Apr 13, 1970 · 23 min
Sabrina and Alexis are sure that Angelique’s death was murder, however Quentin believes that her death was due to stroke. Daniel sees Alexis and believes she is really his mother.
DS-992
Apr 14, 1970 · 22 min
Bruno goes to Hannah Stokes (Angelique and Alexis’ aunt); she agrees to find out for sure which Alexis really is. Hannah is sure that Angelique is at Collinwood. Alexis is terrifie
DS-993
Apr 15, 1970 · 22 min
Quentin moves Alexis to a new room, as she is disturbed by Angelique’s presence. Horace Gladstone deliverers a new chemical formula to Cyrus which should eliminate the amnesia in t
DS-994
Apr 16, 1970 · 21 min
Quentin sees the ghost Dameon Edwards, later Amy sees him. Mr. Trask, the Collins Butler, has returned to Collinwood and is very disturbed by the news that people are seeing Dameon
DS-995
Apr 17, 1970 · 23 min
Amy shows Quentin where Dameon disappeared through a wall in the basement. Trask warns Bruno that he is not safe with the ghost of Dameon at Collinwood. Dameon’s ghost appears to B
DS-996
Apr 20, 1970 · 23 min
John Yaeger prepares for a night on the town. Trask is very nervous about Dameon and wants everyone to leave Collinwood. Yaeger causes trouble at the Eagle and uses a check from Cy
DS-997
Apr 21, 1970 · 21 min
Yaeger decides to let Buffie go, but tells her he will be back. Quentin finds out from Sabrina that Cyrus has given Yaeger money in the past. Yaeger moves into the same building as
DS-998
Apr 22, 1970 · 23 min
Yaeger runs away from Quentin, then takes the antidote and changes back to Cyrus. Cyrus returns and Quentin questions him about his “friend” Yaeger. Bruno asks Cyrus with help exor
DS-999
Apr 23, 1970 · 22 min
Quentin stops Bruno for killing Alexis. Bruno makes Quentin question whether Angelique is really dead. Quentin starts to suspect that Alexis might be Angelique. Alexis overhears Qu
DS-1000
Apr 24, 1970 · 23 min
Cyrus, Quentin and Alexis find that Angelique’s body is in the coffin and perfectly preserved. Quentin decides to have Angelique’s body cremated so they will have no further doubts
DS-1001
Apr 27, 1970 · 23 min
Angelique kills Alexis and put her in the coffin; Angelique later takes on the role of her sister. Angelique (posing as Alexis) tells Quentin that she agrees that “Angelique’s” bod
DS-1002
Apr 28, 1970 · 22 min
Yaeger leaves a message for Quentin and sneaks out of Collinwood. Yaeger beats up Buf!e, she almost forgives him when he gives her a painting and asks her out to dinner. Yaeger tri
DS-1003
Apr 29, 1970 · 23 min
For a brief moment, the lives of the “real world” David Collins and Amy Jennings threaten to intersect with those of their parallel-time counterparts, Daniel and Amy Collins. The p
DS-1004
Apr 30, 1970 · 22 min
Angelique threatens Hannah to get her help. Angelique reads a telegram intended for Quentin that says Maggie is missing. Trask reveals that Bruno killed Dameon. Bruno apologizes to
DS-1005
May 1, 1970 · 23 min
Horace delivers Cyrus more chemicals for his experiment and asking many questions. Dameon’s ghost appears to Quentin and Hannah. Hannah later tells Angelique; Angelique prepares to
DS-1006
May 4, 1970 · 23 min
Angelique sends Dameon back to his grave. Yaeger meets with a lawyer, Larry Chase, who is supposed to help him get a bank account thanks to Cyrus.
DS-1007
May 5, 1970 · 22 min
Horace blackmails Cyrus to keep quite about Yaeger. Angelique (posing as Alexis) shows Quentin where Dameon is buried. Angelique (posing as Alexis) asks Julia to help find out who
DS-1008
May 6, 1970 · 23 min
Quentin tells Angelique about the strange things he has seen. Later Angelique sees Julia in the standard timeline. Daniel becomes possessed and tries to break into the basement of
DS-1009
May 7, 1970 · 22 min
At the seance Joshua Collins appears and tells Quentin to restore honor to the family. Horace demands $10,000 for more chemicals and his continued silence, Cyrus refuses to be blac
DS-1010
May 8, 1970 · 22 min
Larry Chase sees Yaeger running away from the murder of Horace Gladstone. Larry pursues Yaeger. Yaeger gets Buf!e to help him get the antidote from the laboratory. Larry talks with
DS-1011
May 11, 1970 · 22 min
William stops Yaeger from opening Barnabas’ coffin. Carolyn watches over Yaeger, however he escapes. Buffie brings Yaeger the antidote. Cyrus tells Larry Chase that Yaeger will nev
DS-1012
May 12, 1970 · 23 min
Barnabas bites William then forces him to destroy the book he was writing. Quentin questions William about Barnabas Collins, then is shocked when Barnabas introduces himself. Barna
DS-1013
May 13, 1970 · 23 min
Quentin accuses Barnabas of being the same as the Barnabas that people in the other timeline are talking about; Barnabas denies it. Angelique (posing as Alexis) encourages Quentin
DS-1014
May 14, 1970 · 23 min
Quentin slashes the portrait of Maggie. Quentin’s behavior continues to become more erratic. Cyrus recommends that Quentin bring Maggie back to Collinwood. Cyrus wants to forget Ya
DS-1015
May 15, 1970 · 23 min
Angelique reads in the cards that Quentin is going to hang himself, she runs to him and stops him. Angelique admits who she really is to Julia, who agrees to help her. Angelique us
DS-1016
May 18, 1970 · 20 min
Cyrus examines Quentin who says that he is near death. Elizabeth calls Maggie telling her what has happened to Quentin asking her to come back. Angelique tries to undo her voodoo
DS-1017
May 19, 1970 · 22 min
With Maggie’s presence Quentin starts to recover. Barnabas asks William to keep him from leaving so he will not attack Maggie. Barnabas escapes from William and prepares to bite Ma
DS-1018
May 20, 1970 · 23 min
Julia approaches Maggie’s room and Barnabas runs off before he can bite her. When Maggie awakes, she is frightened by Julia. Cyrus examines Quentin, can no longer find anything wro
DS-1019
May 21, 1970 · 23 min
Quentin confronts Maggie about the doll; they wonder if Julia put it in the suitcase. Julia and Angelique plan their next moves against Maggie. Angelique (posing as Alexis) tells M
DS-1020
May 22, 1970 · 23 min
Buffie, now under Barnabas’ power, tells Yaeger that she is fine and Barnabas sends him on his way. Angelique makes flowers die which Maggie was holding, causing Quentin to become
DS-1021
May 25, 1970 · 22 min
Angelique, posing as Alexis, plants more seeds of suspicion in Maggie’s mind. Using carefully worded sentences, Angelique intimates that she and Quentin were married while Maggie w
DS-1022
May 26, 1970 · 22 min
Maggie visits Cyrus to ask him about the recent strange things happening; Cyrus starts to become attracted to her. Cyrus becomes Yaeger, and asks Maggie to meet him to find more in
DS-1023
May 27, 1970 · 23 min
Buffie stops Yaeger from harassing Maggie. Maggie goes to Cyrus and asks him to get rid of his friend John Yaeger; Cyrus promises her that she will never see Yaeger again. Cyrus de
DS-1024
May 28, 1970 · 23 min
In the secret compartment Maggie finds love letters written by Quentin to Angelique. Quentin is furious when he finds Maggie reading the letters. Angelique helps Maggie pick out a
DS-1025
May 29, 1970 · 23 min
Roger tells Maggie that she cannot take Angelique’s place. Angelique pretends to be friendly toward Maggie. Roger believes Julia knows more about what is going on at Collinwood tha
DS-1026
Jun 1, 1970 · 23 min
Elizabeth stops Maggie from jumping. Barnabas becomes suspicious of Angelique (posing as Alexis). Barnabas stares at the portrait of Angelique; Angelique realizes that someone is w
DS-1027
Jun 2, 1970 · 23 min
Barnabas warns Angelique that he will find a way to stop her. Angelique reveals to her father, Timothy Stokes, that she really is Angelique; she also tells him about parallel time
DS-1028
Jun 3, 1970 · 22 min
Yaeger is interrupted and leaves Maggie. Sabrina confronts Yaeger, she is sure he can change back to Cyrus; Yaeger warns her to keep her mouth shut or he will kill her. Yaeger rent
DS-1029
Jun 4, 1970 · 22 min
Angelique accuses Barnabas of coming from parallel time; Barnabas avoids her questions. Barnabas warns Quentin to take Maggie away from Collinwood. Barnabas warns Maggie that Alexi
DS-1030
Jun 5, 1970 · 22 min
Yaeger forces Maggie to write Quentin a letter telling him she never wants to see him again. Angelique feels cold again and almost makes Roger her next victim until Elizabeth walks
DS-1031
Jun 8, 1970 · 22 min
Stokes reveals that he has a woman who’s life force is being used to keep Angelique alive. Quentin believes Maggie’s letter that she left him, Barnabas tries to convince him otherw
DS-1032
Jun 9, 1970 · 22 min
After talking with Julia in the standard timeline Barnabas plans to go back to parallel to help save Maggie; Barnabas wait and is transported back to parallel time. Angelique is de
DS-1033
Jun 10, 1970 · 23 min
Elizabeth has a dream in which she and Sabrina find Maggie’s body in Cyrus’ lab. Maggie tries to escape and Yaeger catches her; he know that she was lying and ties her up. Sabrina
DS-1034
Jun 11, 1970 · 22 min
After killing Sabrina, Yaeger runs back to the lab, drinks the antidote and becomes Cyrus again. Julia (PT) finds Barnabas’ coffin. Cyrus feeling bad about what he has done tells B
DS-1035
Jun 12, 1970 · 21 min
Barnabas returns and kill Yaeger, after he dies he changes back to Cyrus. Barnabas tells Quentin that Cyrus was really Yaeger. Julia (PT) sees Quentin and Julia (PT) talking in the
DS-1036
Jun 15, 1970 · 22 min
Julia shows up and kills Julia (PT) saving Barnabas. William meets Julia and agrees to help her. Julia pretends to be Julia (PT) and is able to fool Angelique. Looking for money Br
DS-1037
Jun 16, 1970 · 23 min
Bruno demands $5000 from Angelique (posing as Alexis) for Cyrus’ journal. The journal claims that Quentin killed Angelique and Cyrus admits protecting him by declaring Angelique’s
DS-1038
Jun 17, 1970 · 23 min
Julia tells Barnabas that she is going to stay in parallel time to help him. Angelique starts to become weak again, Julia goes to Stokes and finds out about the body that he is usi
DS-1039
Jun 18, 1970 · 22 min
Barnabas is unable to kill the woman after seeing her. Barnabas attempts to revive the woman, as he does Angelique becomes weak; Barnabas and Julia are interrupted when Stokes retu
DS-1040
Jun 19, 1970 · 22 min
Inspector Hamilton starts asking questions about Angelique’s death. Quentin starts making threats against Bruno and plans to go see him. Angelique uses voodoo to strangle Bruno. La
DS-1041
Jun 22, 1970 · 23 min
Quentin is arrested for the death of Bruno. Angelique plants a voodoo doll in Maggie’s clothing, causing Quentin to believe that Maggie caused Bruno’s death. Quentin tells Barnabas
DS-1042
Jun 23, 1970 · 22 min
Maggie finds the voodoo doll and starts to suspect that Quentin killed Angelique. Julia questions Carolyn about the seance that Angelique died at. Carolyn has a dream in which she
DS-1043
Jun 24, 1970 · 22 min
Julia questions Carolyn, however she won’t reveal who she suspects murdered Angelique. Barnabas forces Carolyn to admit that Elizabeth killed Angelique. Barnabas plans to take the
DS-1044
Jun 25, 1970 · 22 min
Barnabas and Will move the body to the secret room of the Old House, Angelique starts to feel weak. Angelique discovers that the body is missing and is sure that Barnabas took it.
DS-1045
Jun 26, 1970 · 23 min
Angelique finds Will searching, and tells him that she really is Angelique. Angelique forces Will to jump to his death after he refuses to tell her anything about Barnabas. Angeliq
DS-1046
Jun 29, 1970 · 23 min
Roxanne is unable to speak, although she appears to recognize a picture drawn of her by a man named Claude North. Barnabas takes her to the Collins mausoleum. Stokes tells Angeliqu
DS-1047
Jun 30, 1970 · 23 min
Stokes calls Claude North to use his psychic powers to find Roxanne. Stokes sees Barnabas at the Collins mausoleum. Carolyn contemplates suicide now that Will is dead, Quentin inte
DS-1048
Jul 1, 1970 · 23 min
Inspector Hamilton asks questions about Will’s death. The inspector was apparently an old friend of Julia (PT), he becomes concerned about her memory when she does not remember his
DS-1049
Jul 2, 1970 · 22 min
Trask is listening while Carolyn tries to convince Roger that Alexis is really Angelique. Amy tells Trask that someone is living in the tower room. Carolyn goes to the tower and so
DS-1050
Jul 3, 1970 · 23 min
Roger tells Julia and Elizabeth that Carolyn has been murdered; Roger believes that Quentin is responsible. Julia conducts an experiment in order to revive Roxanne, however it does
DS-1051
Jul 6, 1970 · 23 min
Claude North is angry that Roxanne is unable to speak, and for whatever Stokes has done to her. Claude catches Maggie at the Old House and tells her to tell Barnabas that he will b
DS-1052
Jul 7, 1970 · 20 min
Maggie thinks Quentin is trying to kill her and she runs. Angelique starts to suspect something is odd about Julia. Quentin is convinced that Maggie is a witch. Angelique mentions
DS-1053
Jul 8, 1970 · 23 min
Julia tries to convince Angelique that she is the Julia that she knows; Angelique appears to believe her. Elizabeth finds out that Roger killed Angelique and Carolyn; Roger then ki
DS-1054
Jul 9, 1970 · 23 min
Angelique offers to let Julia go if she reveals Barnabas’ secret; Julia refuses. Quentin threatens to kill Maggie to stop her from killing anyone else. Roger, becoming increasingly
DS-1055
Jul 10, 1970 · 23 min
Angelique interrupts Roger; Maggie tells her that Roger killed Angelique. Angelique starts to feel cold and kills Roger for his warmth. Claude North attempts to make Roxanne speak
DS-1056
Jul 13, 1970 · 22 min
Claude forces Roxanne to speak, Angelique dies, and Maggie is release from her power before shooting Quentin. Barnabas convinces Quentin that Angelique took Alexis’ place, and Magg
DS-1057
Jul 14, 1970 · 22 min
Barnabas finds that Stokes plans to raise Angelique as soon as he can get the body. Stokes convinces Roxanne that Barnabas killed Claude North; she later tries to kill Barnabas but
DS-1058
Jul 15, 1970 · 23 min
Maggie plans to leave Collinwood, giving up hope of getting Quentin out of jail or finding Julia. Roxanne tells Barnabas that she loves him; fearing he will harm her Barnabas tells
DS-1059
Jul 16, 1970 · 22 min
Barnabas realizes that the scarf Roxanne uses belonged to Julia (PT) not Julia, and that she might still be alive. Again using Roxanne’s psychic powers they are able to find Julia.
DS-1060
Jul 17, 1970 · 20 min
Roxanne dreams that she and Barnabas are separated by fire. Stokes lures Quentin to Collinwood to kill him. Barnabas and Quentin are able to stop Stokes and save Maggie. Stokes esc