the sci-fi channel and when we got it a year later. the show wasn't airing anymore. i was pissed.
yet again. anyways, thankfully we got it in (1998) and the 1st one that aired was episode #188 and i had no idea it was that episode until a couple years later when i found the right place to look. and it took me forever to get into the show. cause it hadn't started from episode #1 and it wasn't until a couple episodes after we got our vampire that i fell in love with it. and here i am almost 15 years later.
The Sci-Fi Channel first began DS on September 25, 1992 with Ep #1 (& Ep #2), and that first run concluded on March 17, 1995 with Ep #1245. But that same date also began their second run with Ep #1, and that run concluded on September 25, 1997 with Ep #1245 (& a bonus showing of Ep #1). DS didn't come back again to Sci-Fi until January 4, 1999, and that run began with Ep #189 (& Ep #190). That time Ep #1245 (& Ep #1244) ran on May 16, 2001. Ep #1 (& Ep #2) was then on Sci-Fi again on May 17, 2001 - but that last run ended prematurely with Ep #1227 on December 30, 2003, leaving the last 18 eps unshown.
There was also an attempt by Sci-Fi to show one ep of DS at 11:30pm ET, Mondays through Thursdays. That run began on July 10, 2000, again with Ep #189, but it ended very abruptly on August 3, 2000, with Ep #204, and obviously before Barnabas had even shown up.