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Current Talk '07 I / Re: How Did DS Influence Your Life?
« on: May 30, 2007, 05:36:45 PM »
My Mom DETESTS Dark Shadows. Now she more or less ignores it, but back in the day she actually forbade me to watch it. It was banned--the only TV show I can recall my parents banning from the house. I think she happened to catch part of the episode in 1897 when the werewolf is attacking Judith in the drawing room and just thought it was WAY too violent for a child to watch. I know she did think it was a bad influence on me and when I left home for college she went through my bedroom and made a clean sweep of every bit of DS memorabilia in plain sight. (She still denies doing this.)
I used to know someone who described to me how when they were on vacation, his father drove him several miles to another town because the local affiliate did not carry DS (this happened more and more in '70-'71) and he watched the day's show on a portable set--in the back of the car! Needless to say, I often had to put up with missing episodes when we were on vacation or if I had to stay late at school to work on a project.
From '69 onwards I had very few friends who watched it as religiously as I did. I remember being shocked at a pool party in the neighborhood when several other kids were commenting that they had long since stopped watching it because it was "too confusing." This was in the Summer of '69 around the time when Count Petofi first came on, I think.
G.
I used to know someone who described to me how when they were on vacation, his father drove him several miles to another town because the local affiliate did not carry DS (this happened more and more in '70-'71) and he watched the day's show on a portable set--in the back of the car! Needless to say, I often had to put up with missing episodes when we were on vacation or if I had to stay late at school to work on a project.
From '69 onwards I had very few friends who watched it as religiously as I did. I remember being shocked at a pool party in the neighborhood when several other kids were commenting that they had long since stopped watching it because it was "too confusing." This was in the Summer of '69 around the time when Count Petofi first came on, I think.
G.