I can't remember how old I was before I could stay up after 9PM. I remember wanting to watch the original Star Trek episodes in the '60s but it started at 9PM and that was after my 8PM bedtime at the time.
Agree, Landru was an inspiration for the Borg. "Are you of the body?"
I was 7 when it first aired but, as long as I didn't give her a hard time about getting up for school, my mom used to let me stay up so I could see some good shows on our brand new Magnavox color tv!
We were strapped, all the money was in dad's business, we had 1 TV, 17" B/W "portable" by RCA. 3 stations came in most of the time and occasionally a very snowy PBS station in good weather. I'm thinking I was around 8 yrs old but my folks were adamant about my bedtime. I didn't get to see all of the episodes until they reran the series a few years later.
We were far from rich. Dad worked in a factory and sucked up all the overtime he could, mom worked part time bookkeeping for a couple friends who owned their own businesses. Dad would do anything for Mom, so when she wanted one of those newfangled color tvs, she got one.
Star Trek first aired in '66, so we had it before then. Probably one of the first in the neighborhood to get one. I liked seeing all the saturday morning cartoons in color.
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