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Current Talk '12 I / Re: 1968: The Great Year of Two Daily Doses of Dark Shadows!
« on: June 20, 2012, 04:19:14 PM »
Back in the fall of '68 I was able to see DS twice a day - though not the same show. But the unfortunate thing was that I was rarely able to see DS at all then because it was on at 8:30am and 2:30pm, times when I was in school - and the time change was all because of some radical parents' group's protest that the show was warping children's minds. But thankfully they only got their way for 4 months because the huge outcry from DS fans convinced the stations to return DS back to 4pm.
However, there was another time when DS was on twice a day in my area, and that was during a large portion of '70. One station showed DS at its regular 4pm time, and then on the following day another station would show the same ep at 3:30pm. So, fans either got to see the same ep twice - or if they missed it one day, they got the chance to see it the next day. It was great while it lasted.
As for Dr. Lang and Jeff - if only Lang had given Jeff "a treatment" - just think of what we might have been spared! But alas...
However, there was another time when DS was on twice a day in my area, and that was during a large portion of '70. One station showed DS at its regular 4pm time, and then on the following day another station would show the same ep at 3:30pm. So, fans either got to see the same ep twice - or if they missed it one day, they got the chance to see it the next day. It was great while it lasted.
As for Dr. Lang and Jeff - if only Lang had given Jeff "a treatment" - just think of what we might have been spared! But alas...