Around 1969, "One Life To Live" came on (on the West Coast) before DS. DS ran from 4-4:30pm. Then came either "Let's Make A Deal" and/or "The Dating Game," or the local news. Of course, once DS was over for the day, the neighborhood kids would run out into the streets and "play" Dark Shadows. We'd recreate the scenes we'd just watched, and of course, the boys wanted to play Barnabas or Quentin.
When it was syndicated in the 70's, DS came on at 11:30pm, right after "Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman!" They started with the intro to Barnabas episodes, and it ran a solid year. Then in the early 80's, a local station put it on at 3:30pm, but switched it to midnight (featuring the Dream Curse/Adam/Quentin/Chris Jennings stories), right after the 10 o'clock movie. If the movie ran over 2 hours, and DS was pushed back to 12:30a.m. or 1 a.m., viewers were bummed, but patient.
