Back in the late 60s, Dad got home from work by 4 pm (an electrician, he started his day at 7 am, ended at 3:30, with a one-half-hour lunch), and Mom was expected to have dinner on the table when he walked in the door. Well....in 1969 DS aired in Dayton at 4 pm, and I was allowed to watch it on the brand new 25 inch color television in the living room...and dinner was delayed to 4:30 or 5:00. There was never any censoring of what I watched. Fast forward to late 1990s...Dad would see a picture of Jonathan Fird as Barnabas and he would remember the character as "Barnaby the vampire." (I remember we had watched HODS on CBS late-night once or twice in the late 70s, so that was his frame of reference).
Dad passed in 2002--and he was in awe of DVDs and surround sound; I wish he had been able to experience more modern technology! Mom passed on February 1 this year, but she also always recalled and appreciated my interest in DS and movie musicals right to the end. My parents, born in the late 30s, were open-minded, progressive thinkers...and they "got it," i..e., they didn't buy into all that religious crap about DS and other such shows/movies/comics and how such entertainment would send us to hell.
I love them both, may they RIP!
Brian
