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« on: April 02, 2009, 06:34:16 AM »
OK here we go, 38 years ago on april 2nd, 1971.......you know the rest! lets hear the stories for those of u who were watching that day. i had stopped watching in mid 1897 storyline because i had a paper route and maybe just caught a few episodes here and there. in late march 1971, a friend who never missed an episode informed me that friday april 2nd was going to be the last episode. i tried to catch a couple of episodes during that final week being totally confused of what was going on. still i planned to watch the final one. i refused to deliver the papers that friday untill i saw every bit of the last show with my friend and sister and mother. my friend filled us in on the details of [spoiler]why barnabas wasnt barnabas and angelique wasnt angelique etc[/spoiler] then at the very end, Melanie [spoiler]having bite marks on her neck [/spoiler] and i think to myself,"ok now this is the DARK SHADOWS i remember! but then looking at the clock and wondering how they are going to wrap up this story in just a few minutes. then the [spoiler]final narration comes on explaining it all and how it wasnt a vampire bite etc[/spoiler] and then it was all over. then the phone started ringing from people wondering where their newspaper was and then back to reality!