Dark Shadows - Retail Release Date, Package Art, Cost & Extras for The Beginning, Vol. 5 DVD Set!
In Stores on July 29th
Posted by David Lambert
4/07/2008
MPI Home Video has announced that Dark Shadows -The Beginning, Vol. 5: Episodes 144 - 178 will release to retail starting on July 29th. This is the next-to-last set in the "pre-Barnabas" run of the classic spooky soap opera. Cost is going to be $59.98 SRP, but you can pre-order from Amazon for $41.99 right away! Here is the studio description, including extras, and then a look at the front and rear cover art from the package:
Named one of TV's top 25 cult shows by TV Guide, DARK SHADOWS was one of the most popular daytime series of all time. For the first time on DVD, MPI presents the spooky series' rare, early episodes before Barnabas. Dark Shadows: The Beginning #5 includes episodes 144-178 that originally aired from January 12, 1967 to March 1, 1967.
Victoria Winters and Frank Garner anxiously search for clues to Laura Collins' strange origins, and are led to a series of bizarre discoveries. Elizabeth Collins Stoddard orders Laura to leave Collinwood, but Laura secretly visits Elizabeth while she sleeps and places her in a trance. Laura warns Victoria that she will take control of her son, David Collins, but becomes frightened when the ghost of Josette Collins appears to her. Against Roger Collins' wishes, a psychic investigator, Dr. Peter Guthrie, is called in to examine the strange occurrences at Collinwood and a seance is held. Victoria and Guthrie learn that the body of a dead woman identified as Laura has disappeared from the morgue in Phoenix, Arizona.
Bonus features include new interviews with actress Diana Millay, author/horror expert Leonard Wolf and writers Ron Sproat and Malcolm Marmorstein.
