I'm watching Wheel of Fortune since I'm too lazy to change the channel after Brokaw's sign-off, and it appears that the Wheel producers consider Will Smith's The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as "Classic Television".

I'd been alive for quite some time when it debuted. and remember when Will Smith when he got his "Parents Just Don't Understand" hit. This aging thing, it is occasionally traumatic.

NB: "Classic" television is that which was either in black and white or very early on in color. By my standards, the later episodes of Bewitched don't yet qualify; not even Happy Days fits yet. The Patty Duke Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show are the kinds of things I think of for "classic" TV. Peh.

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Tom Brokaw is gone from the NBC Nightly News, and I shall miss him. So far as I know, he's been the voice and face of the evening news in my household since the 1970s, and I can't think of any time that my parents, or me, went elsewhere.

Somehow, Brian Williams doesn't carry the well-worn gravitas of Brokaw, but I will probably stick with NBC anyways.

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