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« on: November 10, 2014, 08:08:46 AM »
I remember the commercials promoting the premiere of the show. Something like this: Two women have already fallen to their deaths from Widow's Hill. Legend says a third will fall. Fade out on a very pensive Alexandra Moltke. It was summer. I was thirteen. And more interested in playing outside.
I sampled the show just before 1795 began when I was home with some extended illness. I enjoyed it, especially the character that I thought was named Margie Evans. But it didn't hook me. When I recovered from whatever illness I had, I simply went back to my routine.
Things changed in 1968. I had outgrown the local kid TV shows and was looking for something different. I certainly found it. It was towards the end of the dream curse and there was a lot going on. It was the characters that initially engaged me, not the supernatural stuff.
Once hooked, I stayed hooked. The story became more and more complicated and sometimes quite frustrating. But I stayed until the end. I didn't mind the 1841pt story. It was kind of nice to have a story that didn't rely on so much back story. But I felt somewhat cheated. If the show was going to go off the air, I would have loved to have spent those last few weeks with the characters that I truly cared about.