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Thanks, Adrian. Very nice of you to say that. I enjoy self depricating humor about my age, but, in truth, my age doesn't really bother me. It is something over which I have absolutely no control. When the results of aging bother me, I direct all my anger toward my parents. If they'd only taken a 20 year hiatus from fooling around after my older sister was born, I'd be a much younger man.

If you can get past the B&W of the early seasons (no problem for me) I think it does really well. I’d say I still like it better than “Band of Brothers” for the stories, however BoB wins on the technical side.

Something I didn’t remember as a kid was that some of the episodes were really very antiwar. I also forgot how much stock footage of cannons firing and other stuff they reused all the time.

It’s also interesting to go back and see all the people who made guest appearances.

I remember when we played I always wanted to be Kirby and have the B.A.R. but always got stuck being the Lieutenant cause I was best at figuring things out and giving orders.

My first thought was Land of the Lost, and how corny it seems now. Sleestacks and all. Didn't the Krofft's do Electro-woman and Dyna-girl as well as Doctor Shrinker?

Two other shows I watched many moons ago and don't care for as much now are, Cheers and The Cosby Show.

Same here with 'Cheers'. I tried watching 'Cosby' and 'Rosanne' when they aired back in the day, but I just never got them.

The 'Incredible Hulk' was one of my favourite shows when it came out...it's been on one of the cable stations lately, the 'bad guys' just seem so absurd, it's funny.

I liked Courtship of Eddie's Father and Family Affair back in the day.

I haven't seen any re-runs to see if how it fares today. Jody from Family Affair was in the Krofft's Sigmund the Seamonster.

Barney Miller was one of my favorites, along with Dick Van Dyke and yes.......The Mary Tyler Moore show. I always thought Ted was a hoot and Lou often stole the show.

Oh....one more - not sure how it plays out up north but I never tire of the reruns down here - the Andy Griffith show. Don Knotts was a genius - would not have been a show without him.

Watched all three, but was a total Barney Miller and MTM addict. Both had GREAT supporting casts. Jack Soo's and Steve Landesberg's dry, dead pan wit on Barney Miller would have me rolling on the floor. Ted knight and Ed Asner would do the same to me.

You can throw in Betty White's performance on MTM too. At 87 she seems still to be running on all 8 cylinders. She worked in a film this year (The Proposal - due on DVD Oct. 13), and has another currently in production and slated for release next year (You Again). Hell of a gal!