It’s How It All Begins….. Year: 1966. Narrator: Victoria Winters. Writer: Art Wallace. Director: Lela Swift. Tape date: June 11, 1966/June 13, 1966. Air date: June 27, 1966. Teaser: “My name is Victoria Winters. My journey is beginning, a journey that I hope will open the doors of life to me and link my past with my future, a journey that will bring me to a strange and dark place, to the edge of the sea, high atop Widows’ Hill, a house called Collinwood, a world I’ve never known, with people I’ve never met, people who tonight are still only shadows in my mind, but who will soon fill the days and nights of my tomorrows.” Victoria Winters heads towards Collinsport on a train. At Collinwood, matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard defends her hiring practices to her brother, Roger. Roger believes it’s a mistake to invite a stranger into their home and that she should send the girl back to New York with a month’s pay. Elizabeth tells Roger the only mistake she’s invited is he. Roger fumes and breaks a goblet. Act I An old lady passenger named Mrs. Mitchell tells Victoria about how little significance a town like Collinsport, Maine holds. She asks Vicki what she plans to do there since she’s used to the big city and Vicki tells her she’s got a job. Victoria flashes back to the day she received a letter from Mrs. Stoddard, offering her the job as governess to David Collins. She showed the letter to her boss Mrs. Hopewell, but she’s never heard of Mrs. Stoddard either. Vicki is …

