[Rick Lee]

Before the days of cable tv I watched a lot of documentaries with my dad when I was pretty young. In fact, watching the entire World at War series several times before I was even in junior high sparked my interest in German, whereby we later hosted a German exchange student and I later became one myself, both in high school and college. It was a life-changing experience. I watched all of Carl Sagan's Cosmos episodes long before I could have understood the book. That was all on channel 13 in those days. Now I have History, Discovery, Military, etc. I'm not a tv addict, but I do need to have the news on in the background a few hours a day. I haven't watched a minute of network tv in many years, aside from Seinfeld and Frasier reruns. I could not survive on network tv. It's just insulting to see how they ruin classic movies with their edits and commercials.