"All Things TV"---Not a weekend without CBS Sunday Morning

I never used to understand why my Uncle Gerry used to watch "CBS Sunday Morning" every, well, Sunday morning.

The then-Charles Kuralt hosted program seemed so deadly-dull with its news and feature stories and peaceful segments on nature.

That's not to say I still wouldn't take the train from Port Jefferson to Seaford though for my aunt Lois' delicious breakfasts.

I just didn't understand why Gerry, a large and gregarious man with a voice that could barrel through Brooklyn, could sit there for an hour and a half contently and quietly watching that program.

After the passing of Kuralt some years back, Charles Osgood took over as host and nothing changed.

Except me, thank goodness.

Being a little bit older and SLIGHTLY more mature now, I get why Gerry Gallagher, who also unfortunately passed in recent years, enjoyed the program so much.

The best way to describe it is like opening a Sunday newspaper without getting all the ink all over your hands.

Osgood, and a cast of fine reporters, deftly take the viewer through features on news, politics, history and culture and thanks usually to Bill Geist, a laugh or two as well.

The show's recent piece on a goose that befriended a man at an L.A. park was simple but brilliant.

Perhaps that's the best way to describe CBS Sunday Morning, as well.

Simple but brilliant ... tty Monday.

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This column is in memory of my cousin Timothy Gallagher, who left this earth far too soon recently after suffering a heart attack. Thank God for a great aunt and uncle, and for all my cousins too!