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  There it is, my “secret vice” besides just loving to read good old, hold-in-your-hand newspapers, I love to watch those corny “Andy Griffth Show” reruns.

  Call it a silly weakness, but I really get a kick out of the old Mayberry gang. And, by the way, I even enjoy the mid- to late-60s episodes after Don Knotts left. Many “purists” among fans won’t consider post-Knotts episodes the “real” show. (I do, however, draw the line at anything with Ken Berry or “Mayberry R.F.D.” associated with it. Ugh.)

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  For quite some time, my wife and I have enjoyed watching some of the early morning “news” programs put on every weekday morning by the networks. You know the ones I’m talking about on CBS, NBC, ABC, and now Fox and CNN, and I suppose other cable networks.

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• Two brothers all movie fans should applaud; one now gone:

  Peter Graves, who died yesterday at his home at the age of 83, was one of two famous actor brothers all movie fans should applaud. The other is James Arness, best known as Matt Dillon, marshal of Dodge City, Kansas, in the classic western series “Gunsmoke.”

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• Why are daily ‘soaps,’ medical shows, legal dramas so popular?:

  Ever thought about why the daily “soaps” on daytime television, medical shows, legal dramas, and other such well-worn forms remain so popular on television? It’s my belief that we all have a streak of the voyeur in us. We really want to take a peek behind the window blinds of other people’s lives — and the soaps, melodramas like medical shows and courtroom dramas, and even some of the so-called “reality” shows on television, give us socially acceptable ways of taking those peeks into other people’s lives.

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