new old pleasures

I do not, as a general rule, watch old reruns on TV.  Except maybe "Fraiser" which I admit always makes me laugh.  However last month one of our local stations, 33.6, started running reruns of the old "Colombo" shows once a week on Sunday evenings.  At least that's when I became aware of them.  Since then I have become hooked.  I had forgotten how much I enjoyed these shows the first time around.  The viewer knows from the opening scene who the murderer is but the fun is in watching Colombo pick away at him or her, scene by scene, bumbling along, pretending to believe his suspect until SNAP he closes the trap in the last scenes.  Of course, if I'm honest with myself some of the pleasure is in the fact that I can watch two hours of TV with absolutely no mention of Covid 19, racial problems, or the coming election.  It's escapism, pure and simple and I make no apology.