Moonlight is amazingly good. I had my doubts about it, but it was a kick-a** first season. Being a genre show on CBS has always been iffy (recall how creepy "American Gothic" was and how quickly it was mangled and cancelled; same with Wolf Lake). Moonlight has teeth, though :)

Back in Chicagoland, they used to have afternoon movies, and several times a year they had monster week. All of the great Hammer films in the afternoon right after school. I hated Elvis week, but monster week(s) were always my favorite. 

Good to see other Dark Shadows fans. My mom never realized how much we understood of that show, or can recall, since we were just toddlers. But i have distinct memories of the frankenstein-type creature storyline and Quentin the werewolf ;)  

Drive-in movies! I can recall seeing most of the Planet of the Apes flicks at Drive-in theaters. The whole family in the car, with pillows and sleeping bags hearing the crackle of static over the speakers and staying from dusk until the last show ended and we kids were falling asleep and had to be carried back into the house :)

And don't forget the great books at the time: that were actually from the wirters' imagaination and not just media tie-in titles or longer septologies of meandering prose. Especially in the fantasy market, which hit it's zenith in the late 60's/early 70's with all of the great still active and turning out fantastic works: Heinlein, Ballard, Sturgeon, Clarke, Asimov, Moorcock -- and the bountiful reprints of Edagr Rice Burroughs and Robert Howard. And a young man named Stapehn King (being he was a household brand name). Forgot Phil K. Dick. Oops. 

Great time to grow up.

-- Jeff