For years, even decades, although I had watched the whole storyline in its original run, I had thought that it wasn't Quentin who had haunted Collinwood, but Petofi who had possessed Quentin's body and got "trapped" in it, the whole thing being revealed in the 1897 flashback. When I finally saw it all over again on the Sci-Fi Channel in the early 90's, I was stunned how I could've been so wrong. Classic FDSMS. I also had another bout, but this one was understandable. I clearly remembered in a scene in 1970PT, when Quentin and Maggie were in their bedroom and Maggie was changing, even though she had her back to the camera, she was topless - you saw her bare back. Then when I saw it again on Sci-Fi, she was clearly wearing a slip. Then something crossed my mind. I had taped that episode and rewound it and then turned the color off on my TV (we only had a black-and-white set back in 1970; color TV was for, as my dad use to say, "fancy people") so it was black-and-white. Sure enough, the color of the slip had blended in with the flesh color of Maggie's back. Unless one looked very close, she appeared topless. Vindication.
I have a friend, another DS fanatic like me, who was convinced, in the classic blooper scene during an episode's closing credits. of Jonathan Frid walking through the Collinwood foyer carrying a cup of coffee. I told him, no, he was carrying his costume. No, he insisted, it was a cup of coffee. I informed him I've seen that episode several times in Sci-Fi reruns. No matter, according to him, I wasn't seeing it right. It was a cup of coffee. I'm sure if he even saw it again he still wouldn't be convinced. Classic FDSMS.
Gerard