VCR alert

[vinljnkie]

I'm pretty sure Dark Shadows was originally entirely shot in color. The reason there are black and white episodes is due to the original tapes being erased and reused leaving only black and white kinescope copies remaining. The earliest episodes are all kinescope then as the show progresses and color videotape copies are found color episodes start intermittently showing up. There is one episode that is missing out of the entire series because the videotape went missing immediately after it was broadcast. I believe there is an audio recording of it combined with still images that was created to fill in this missing episode. I've seen the whole series all the way through at least 3 times.