“I occasionally watch old movies, or repeats of Perry Mason or Gunsmoke.”......
You watching FETV and the Western Channel?? LOL...I do almost every day. I record Gunsmoke off channel 364 (INSP) and Perry Mason off 323 (FETV)....I make sure I have something to watch in case there is nothing worth a darn on & that is daily!!
I'm gonna go completely off topic and hope the mods don't mind...
I'm literally as old as Brown v. Board of Education, born on the same day, so I was a kid watching Perry Mason and Gunsmoke before moving to Japan in '67. Even as a child, I thought Paul Drake walking into Mason's office and saying, "Hi beautiful," to Della Street was a really nice way to affirm a woman's self-esteem.
Last week I was running an errand with my Millennial (adopted, I'm old enough to be Granddad) daughter, who voted for Trump both times, and works as a computer tech, a job she loves...except for two aspects: men never take her seriously as a female tech, and older guys hit on her (and they're serious) nearly every day. I figured that kind of stuff went out with the Reagan administration, so it's been an eye-opener for me. It doesn't make her want to be a feminazi, she just wants to be respected and professional, and the boss agrees, and so do I.
But I mentioned in the conversation that I thought there was a difference between being hit up on and having someone compliment you, and I brought up Paul Drake as an example of the latter. Her response: "Dad, you can't do that any more, when you say something like that women don't know what's coming next, and they're tired of getting hit up on by every old perv who thinks he has a chance."
It makes me sad to think that the morals of the 21st century make it so you can't be an angel of light because the devil has stolen the MO and ruined it, like he's ruined so much in our society. Kyrie eleison.