Quentin Collins II

Quentin Collins is the name of several characters featured in the 1967-1971 ABC soap opera television series Dark Shadows. All variations of the character have been played by actor David Selby. The second Quentin Collins was actually the first one featured in the series, and is arguably the more popular of the two versions among fans, owing primarily to the fact that he was a werewolf.

Biography
Quentin Collins was the great-nephew of the first Quentin Collins and was also a direct paternal ancestor of the modern Collins family of Collinsport, Maine.

Quentin originally appeared as an angry malevolent spirit haunting the playroom in the West Wing of Collinwood (along with the ghost of his lover Beth Chavez). Quentin and Beth's spirits befriended the children David Collins and his friend, Amy Jennings. Eventually, they took possession of both children and used them to serve their own interests.

In an effort to save his family, the former vampire known as Barnabas Collins, used the cosmological principles of the I Ching to send his spirit backwards through time to the year 1897 (Unfortunately for Barnabas, this meant becoming a vampire once again as such was his physical state during that time period). This series of episodes is commonly referred to as the "1897 flashback".

Upon meeting Quentin, Barnabas discovered him to be a selfish and spiteful individual, a womanizing manipulator constantly at odds with his family. Quentin earned himself the reputation of being the black sheep of the family – due largely in part to his marriage and subsequent abuse of a gypsy girl named Jenny Racosi. Along with Beth Chavez, the two conspired to keep Jenny hidden from the rest of the family by imprisoning her inside of the tower room at Collinwood.

Quentin's philandering lifestyle changed forever when he ran afoul of an occultist known as Count Petofi. Through Petofi's machinations, Quentin inherited a curse that transformed him into a werewolf whenever the moon was full. Barnabas, sympathetic to Quentin's plight, tried to help him overcome the curse, but to no avail. He did however succeed in altering Quentin's destiny, preventing the creation of the future timeline where Quentin's spirit plagued Collinwood.

Not only was Quentin forced to suffer the curse of Lycanthropy, but he was also rendered immortal due to the efforts of his artist friend Charles Delaware Tate (Roger Davis). In a pastiche of Oscar Wilde's, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Tate painted a portrait of Quentin Collins. So long as the portrait remained intact, Quentin would be forced to live the life of a werewolf forever.

Quentin was still alive and wandering the streets of Collinsport by the year 1969. An amnesiac calling himself Grant Douglas, he reunited with Barnabas Collins and soon regained his true memories. He worked closely alongside Barnabas and his trusted companion Doctor Julia Hoffman and aided them against the likes of the witch Angelique and the Cult of the Leviathans.

During this time, Quentin discovered that his lycanthropy had passed along his family line affecting his descendent Chris Jennings (Chris' twin brother Tom, ironically enough, became a vampire).

Notes & Trivia
Quentin Collins II was a recurring character in the Dark Shadows novels written by Marilyn Ross and published by Paperback Library in the 1960s-70s. He shared the title spotlight (along with Barnabas Collins) in seventeen Ross novels.

Quentin was also a regularly featured character in the Dark Shadows comic book series published by Gold Key Comics from 1969 until 1976. Quentin frequently worked alongside Barnabas in an effort to find a cure for the disease that turned him into a werewolf.

Quentin Collins II had a son named Jamison. Actor David Selby also has a son named Jamison.

Parallel Time
Both Quentin I and Quentin II had counterparts that appeared during the various Parallel Time story-arcs. Quentin I appeared in the 1841 Parallel Time arc, which began with episode 1186 and continued until the final episode of the series. Played once again by David Selby, there was very little to distinguish this version of Quentin from his mainstay 1840 counterpart. Quentin's first actual appearance in Parallel Time was in episode 1200. He appeared in a total of 14 Parallel Time episodes.

Quentin II appeared in another Parallel Time reality (of the same continuity), but this time in the year 1970. Here Quentin became the pawn of the witch Angelique, who used him as a means of striking out against his wife Maggie Collins (Kathryn Leigh Scott).

Appearances
Quentin Collins appeared in the following episodes of Dark Shadows 646 669 676 679 680 681 682 684 685 689 690 691 693 694 696 699 701 702 703 704 705 707 708 709 710 711 714 718 719 720  721 722 723 724 725 726 727 728 729 730 731 732 733 736 737  738 741 742 743 744 745 746 747 748 749 751 752 755 757 758  759 761 762 763 766 767 768 779 780 785 786 788 790 791 792  793 795 796 797 798 799 800 801 803 804 806 808 809 810 811  812 814 815 816 817 818 819 823 825 828 829 830 831 832 833  836 837 838 839 840 844 845 847 848 849 850 851 852 853 854  855 856 857 858 859 860 862 863 864 865 866 867 868 869 870  871 872 873 874 875 876 877 880 881 882 884 904 905 907 909  910 911 916 918 919 922 931 932 933 934 935 937 940 941 949  950 951 955 956 958 962 964 965 973 978 981 982 983 984 985  986 987 988 990 991 992 993 994 996 997 998 999 1000 1001  1002 1003 1004 1005 1007 1008 1009 1012 1013 1014 1015 1016  1017 1018 1019 1021 1022 1024 1027 1029 1035 1037 1040 1041  1047 1051 1052 1054 1056 1060 1065 1068 1069 1071 1075 1076  1077 1078 1079 1085 1086 1087 1088 1097 1098 1099  1102 1103  1107 1109 1113