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Episode 61 is another Burke-dominated one which is all for the better as he's one of the most interesting characters from this era of the series. He attends a dinner party with Sam and goes into the circumstances of the accident that saw him jailed. It's nice to have the pieces of the puzzle coming together in this way.

TV veteran actor Conrad Bain returns for a third appearance as the hotel clerk, now named Mr. Wells, ask by Sam Evans to turn over the letter that Sam wrote to Maggie and put in the hotel safe. Mr. Wells refuses to turn it over without Maggie's permission, leaving Sam upset after he has stormed out of his cottage after Burke interrupted start dinner and told his side of the same story that Sam had just told Victoria moments before. Enough suspicion is planted in Victoria's mind to wonder about the motives of the family she works for, especially of the father of the son she's tutoring. Maggie, too, realizes that her father is involved more than he let on to her, and the unknown details of how Sam was involved in that night becomes another mystery.

As Dark Shadows enters its 13th week and nearly 4th month on the air, the story has moved along slowly but pleasantly mysterious, and for those who are tuned in prior to the introduction of Barnabas Collins we're giving a combination of Gothic horror, standard mystery and business intrigue along with a teeny bit of romance. It's obvious that "Dark Shadows" was unlike any other soap opera on the air, close to "The Edge of Night" in mystery, but cloudy in macabre story telling. The past few episodes begin to really establish Katherine Leigh Scott's Maggie Evans, previously a back burner character, but slowly moving into a leading one.