When I was a kid, I loved playing Barnabas. I had a cane, would put a blanket over my shoulders to serve as his Sherlock Holmes cape, and a friend of mine had one of those old toy things where you could make plastic things like fangs.
When the show first aired, during the David-tries-to-kill-his-father story, I pretended I was David. I would use an old hotel room key chain (remember those? - the big plastic things that had the address on them which stated you could just drop the key into the nearest mailbox if you forgot to leave it at the hotel and it would get mailed) as the brake valve and would hide it.
Of course, I don't do any of that stuff today, otherwise I'd get stranger looks than what I get now.
But when we were kids, we also played who-murdered-Barbie? Our friends next door (the sister, at least), had the whole 60's Barbie stuff, including one of the first Barbie houses and Barbie car. We had our GI-Joes and would bring them over. Going up into the attic which was a veritable paradise for a kiddie playland, we'd put Barbie in her car, and the "brakes" would fail, sending her careening off the "cliff" (the attic stairs). If we really wanted to make it realistic, we'd pull her head off. And then the process of solving "who murdered Barbie" would begin. Usually it was either Ken or one of our GI-Joe's, jealous over Barbie's attention to either one or the other.
Gerard