Dark Shadows: 1796 Flashback

The "1796 Flashback" is actually a sub-story of the larger "1795 Flashback" story-arc featured in the ABC television series Dark Shadows. The producers of the show did not always maintain accuracy in terms of continuity of the storyline, so it is difficult to accurately determine at what point the 1795 Flashback ends and the 1796 Flashback begins. Since the majority of the present day episodes take place on or around the dates in which they were recorded and broadcast, this database is going to use January, 1968 as the measuring stick for distinguishing between episodes of one year and the next. The first broadcast episode of Dark Shadows that aired in 1968 was episode 396, which takes place following the death of Jeremiah Collins.

Notes & Trivia

 * An alternate timeline variation of the year 1796 was presented in episodes 885-887. In this reprisal story, Josette Collins poisons herself rather than leap to her death from the top of Widows' Hill. These episodes lock the year of Josette's original death in the year 1796.

Home Video

 * Dark Shadows: The Complete Original Series
 * Dark Shadows DVD Collection 5 (Discs 3-4)
 * Dark Shadows DVD Collection 6
 * Dark Shadows DVD Collection 7 (Disc 1)
 * Dark Shadows DVD Collection 17 (Disc 3)