Halleluiah - someone sewed the button back onto Vicki's trenchcoat!
But seriously, there are several interesting things worth noting in the July 13th's eps:
When DS originally aired, Roger had his car accident, and viewers were looking for a clue to the suspect in the car tampering, it was likely that most only thought as far back as the scene in ep #13 in which Vicki catches Burke around Roger's car. But it's very interesting to realize that there's a scene that took place a few eps further back in which the entire solution to the mystery is actually revealed before it began but it most probably went over the majority of the viewers heads - which is, no doubt, exactly the way Art Wallace wanted it.
In ep #274 it's interesting to see Jason taunt Vicki with the possibility that he knows something about her past. I think that's the first time in a long time that the subject of Vicki's search for her past comes up. And if I'm not mistaken, it might also be the last...
It's absolutely fascinating to watch Barnabas desperately trying to prove PT Quentin's innocence in ep #1056. The circumstances in other storylines is that at the very least Barn has a familial connection to the Collinses and/or he's trying to save people in the present from a terrible fate. But in 1970PT Barn has no familial connection, he's not trying to save anyone left back in his own time - he's not even trying to save himself once he's able to escape from Will. Dare we say that in more 1970PT instances than not he's actually being completely unselfish? He even escapes from PT at one point but insists on returning to save PT Maggie. And once she joins him, Julia even asks Barn at several points along the way why they're working so hard to save these people and Barn's response is that he simply cannot allow PT Angelique to destroy innocent people. Sounds like a bout of unselfishness to me.
And what makes this particular behavior even more astounding is that Barn is a vampire, and when Barn is under the vampire curse is most often when we see him in full my-survival-at-all-costs-and-to-hell-with-the rest-of-you-especially-if you-stand-in-my-way mode. Many fans excuse or even blame Barn's bad behavior on the vampire curse. But if he can more often than not behave magnanimously in 1970PT while under the vampire curse, it certainly appears to call into question whether or not the vampire curse alone alters his personality for the worse. Any thoughts?