Summary: Burke Devlin was anti-hero leading man bent on revenge on the family who wrongly sent him to prison for five years. When Dan Curtis was looking for the right actor to lead the show, he found him in Mitchell Ryan. But Ryan's time at Dark Shadows was tumultuous much to his own doing. Even so, he was magnificent in the part leaving a huge hole when he was fired a year later. In part 1, we only touch the surface of Dark Shadows as Ryan's career was long, varied, and very successful
