CBS Sunday Morning is on the television: they just said that Richard Crenna died. He was 75.

Richard Crenna has always been there, on those ancient TV sets back in the fifties right through this year's television season. I can remember his squeaky Walter Denton voice from Our Miss Brooks. (I wonder, TV was so low definition back then, perhaps voices mattered even more for actors.) Then he became Luke on The Real McCoys. And then...he kept on working and playing different parts and was still going strong, playing Tyne Daley's love interest in Judging Amy.

Oh no! Now they've headlined the passing of Richard Simmons. No, not that Richard Simmons. Sargent Preston of the Yukon Mounties Richard Simmons. Dang. Another major blast from the past. Sargent Preston and his dog, Yukon King, always got their man. Saturday mornings were a lot different back in the '50s.