Break from “Dark Shadows.”

For those who complain about network television having so many commercials, DS was a half-hour show.

Episode #211 (April 18, 1967) is the one where Willie Loomis breaks into the Collins’s mausoleum, finds a secret room, breaks into a coffin surrounded with chains, and frees Barnabas Collins.

The episode on the DVD includes all the original adverts.

How old do you feel? Which of these products do you recognise? (Drat, all of them Katie for me).

First break after the teaser:

Diaparene baby products
Lux dishsoap (with Dermasil!)
Lux bar soap (our regular brand here now)

Break after Act One

Diaparene
Cope (over-the-counter pain medication to relieve a “woman’s everyday nervous tension headache” with “gentle relaxer”)

Break after Act Two

Dream Whip
Gaines Meal (dog food, this was before Gaines Burgers)
Clariol Hair Dew (conditioner)
Windex (with new Ammonia-D!)

Break after Act Three

Princess Bar Soap
Armour Potted Meat Food Product

Before final credits

Woolite
Anacin

Voice-over credits: Plug for the “Joey Bishop Show” (tonight, in colour!)