Hi, Deb. I'm boring, so there ain't much to tell you about me. But as regards DS, I watched it from the very beginning when it went on the air in the summer of 1966 - I saw the very first episode. On our local affiliate, it came on at ten or eleven in the morning (initially; probably delayed videotaped broadcast), and I saw the ad for it following whatever ABC show I was watching (it was a gameshow; that I remember) which looked so intriguing to a nine year old who already loved the macabre at that age. So I watched it, although on and off at first because it was just a gothic romance with no real things that went bumb in the night. I got some other friends to watch it, and we would actually play out David-tries-to-kill-his-father, and used an old hotel-room key as the part David took from his father's car and hid. By the time the ghosts started to appear, the school year began so we missed a great deal until it transferred to later in the afternoon (the Laura storyline was underway). From that point on, we watched it as much as we could. I would close my eyes when Jeremiah's ghost stalked the sets because, at that time, seeing a bloodied ghost with his eye hanging out was pretty heady stuff. My mom hated it ("that spooky crap" she would call it) and we had a war, since she wanted to watch Art Linkletter's House Party which came on opposite, but I won. Even though she considered it always as "that spooky crap", she would sit down and watch when Joan Bennett appeared ("I can't believe Joan Bennett is in that spooky crap," she would say.) For a short while we had another battle when Graham Kerr's The Galloping Gourmet came on opposite, but I won that one, too. I collected as many of the comic books and the Marilyn Ross novels as possible, cut out the newspaper fliers for the movies, and cried my eyes out on that April day in 1971 when it left the air. So that's pretty much me. Welcome aboard!
Gerard
