As I posted several times before, I watched that pilot episode (on the next day, since out ABC affiliate did a day-later broadcast at 11:00 in the morning for awhile). I'm boastfully one of those who saw it and watched it almost in its entirety from the beginning to the end. I missed episodes when I had to battle my mother (when it switched to it's regular time at 3:00 p.m. on the initial day of broadcast CST) because she wanted to watch Art Linkletter's House Party and then The Galloping Gourmet, but I won. During a part of the Linkletter/Gourmet/DS mom/son war, I would run with my best friend to his house to watch it. And his family was among the first in the neighborhood to get a color TV, so I got to see certain episodes in color (although on those primitive sets, attached to antennas with rotors, most everything looked green). But I did win. Art went off the air, my mom lost interest in the gourmet, and my stubbornness won out over hers. From then on, 3:00 was reserved for DS. I'd race home, throw open the door, rip off my jacket/coat and toss it on my bed, and slide across the carpet to turn on the TV just in time to catch the opening. I actually wore out that patch of carpeting and my parents had to replace the whole thing which still exists in late 60's brown shag that's still there.
Gerard
