I watched the show from the very first episode. The thing is, the local affiliate aired it, even from the pilot, the day after the original broadcast because it had its own cooking-or-something show on at the later of time of, I believe, back then, of 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon, central time. It also shifted any other soaps to a morning slot the day after. So I watched DS the day after at 11:00 a.m. The local affiliate must've made the shift to the original afternoon time sometime later that summer, because I recall watching it after school let out once September came around. However, I think it was still a day delayed because I watched it at 3:00 p.m. central time, even though it should've been at (I think - I say that so much, because I'm fuzzy on the broadcast history) 2:00 p.m. central. I think (there I go again) that when ABC moved it up to four p.m. eastern time to cash in on us kids, thus making it 3:00 p.m. central time, we had two back-to-back broadcasts on one day, and the following it was in the usual 3:00 p.m. slot. Anyway, after all that (I think), I never remember the delayed broadcast being in the fuzzy kineoscope version. It was always crystal clear (well, as crystal clear could be back then with rodors and antennaes and scraggliness happening when my mom turned on the vacuum cleaner or the mix-master or a plane flew overhead).
I think. Hey! It's not like I'm a nine-year-old anymore! I forget some things. Anyway, I watched the show from the very first episode. The thing is...oh, never mind.
Gerard