We have a recumbent bike that we bought after I had a meniscus tear in my left knee. The doc said that if we would swap off using it for part of our workouts as opposed to always walking (me) or jogging (hubby), it would probably give us an extra 3 to 5 years “wear” on our knees. Since we remodeled the kitchen instead of having the dream house, we don’t have a dedicated exercise room and the bike fits into a corner of the guest room. (Yay for Febreeze!). We also do not have U-verse in that room, but do have an old television and DVD player. Unlike hubby who usually enjoys reading and listening to his I-pod while on the bike, I watch DVDs. I’m building a collection of some of the old TV detective shows and in a few cases, I’ve gone way back to some that I was either barely familiar with or didn’t know at all. I mean, we’re talking the original “Dragnet” before Harry Morgan joined the cast. Anyway, the other day, I popped in one with some “Peter Gunn” episodes (kind of knew that one), “Burke’s Law” (knew that one) and “Jim Diamond”. I didn’t know that one, but it has a narrator, a technique that we both like. The voice I knew instantly and it took a very close look to recognize a young David Janssen. It turns out that the original “Jim Diamond” was a radio show in the early 1950s and they brought it to television in 1956 where it ran for four seasons.

The extra interesting part of this is that one of hubby’s favorite TV detective shows from the 1970s was “Harry O”, the series starring David Janssen that was on after the “Fugitive” series finished. One of the first DVD sets I bought was the old “Harry O”, and unfortunately the  conversion technique wasn’t very good at that time (or with that particular series) and thus the viewing quality is rather lacking. It’s fun though looking back at the period pieces and seeing how so many things have changed.