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« on: April 17, 2007, 03:25:41 PM »
Holy Hekate! How on Earth did I miss saluting my beloved, entrancing Divine One's first day on the series? I'm gonna PAY bigtime for such an oversight!
I first saw this show during the 1976 syndication (on Phila's Channel 48) and it was like SEEING GOD. I was fascinating by Julia's fishtank. I think I wondered whether she was keeping her very own pet piranha pool in there. There seemed something vaguely lethal about how she was playing with that little thingamujig (now, I KNOW it's not called a fishnet...).
I was very surprised at how different Jules was when she was introduced, from how she was when I first "met" her in June of '68. I do think that some of Julia's harder edges come out occasionally in later storylines (thinking of some scenes in the original Chris and Sabrina story here, for example).
The other story I always remember about this episode is from an article in TWODS. It was by a fan who had become enamoured of Grayson through Night of the Iguana. One afternoon while she was sitting at home after school filing her nails, a dear friend rang her up and said "Hurry and turn on the TV, it's Grayson Hall running around in a lab coat! You won't believe it!" Her initial reaction was to blandly inform her friend, "Darling, put down whatever it is you're smoking and take a deep breath and snap out of that trip!" Her friend finally convinced her to put the show on and her jaw dropped... and thereby, hangs a tail!
G.