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I, too, watched and was hooked from the beginning. I distinctly remember seeing the first episode, “Where is Everybody?”, and my dad and I being particularly thrilled with it. In general, I stayed with it, but we as a family had a lot going on during that first year, including our move from Columbus to Fort Lauderdale, so we didn’t catch every episode. I was obsessed, nevertheless, and it became “my” regular thing in the second season. I lived for those Friday nights. It was actually my dad who noticed the second paperback (the red one, More Stories From...) and brought it home to me, and I nearly, um, SHUT THE GARAGE DOOR when I saw that. I was as obsessed with those books as with the show, and I soon caught up with the first volume and of course bought them all thereafter.
Loved them all, but my favorites — and the most disturbing to me — were those dealing specifically with hospitals or death or the prospect of nuclear war. Notably...
Eye of the Beholder
Twenty-Two (or Room 22)
A Stop at Willoughby
I actually screamed and covered my eyes at the reveal in “Beholder” on its first broadcast. I was sensitive to this stuff at that tender age, but I couldn’t get enough.
Yes, “Owl Creek” was an independent, and that episode gets the credit for being my introduction to the story.
