I enjoy being happy and love puppies - but how boring would THAT have been to watch?!
But being DS, maybe, just maybe one of those puppies might've turned into.................
Cujo!Anyway, I always thought that DS, with its witches, vampires, devil-worshipers and other assorted nasties, gave a very clear "moral" message. Rather than the good-witch/bad-witch, good-vampire/bad-vampire stuff of today, virtually all the dark-dwelling denizens of DS were blatantly evil. The demarcation between good and evil was always there, and good would, in some way shape or form, always vanquish the enemy (even if the enemy would resurrect later only to get whacked down again). Some of splitfoot's minions would even discover the error of their ways and try to overcome it and make restitution (I can think of five off-hand, but won't say for spoiler).
One would think that the '60's defenders of moral and spiritual virtue would have embraced that as worthwhile viewing. Heck, when all was said and done, things even worked out for Durwood after Endora had turned him into an aardvarck.
Gerard