TV: Time Marches On

I came upon an episode of Wizards Beyond Waverly Place. 

The original ended twelve years ago. Justin returns in a leading role with various family members having guest appearances. Alex (Selena Gomez) pops up in the first episode. The series starts with him being 34, the same age as the actor. Time flies. 

I liked the original after it got going with a subplot with a vampire family (the daughter later becomes another character in Good Luck Charlie; the actress is Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's -- yes that one -- niece). 

The first episode of this series was a bit forced, but the other took a while to get into a groove. 

I saw Emily Osment on After Midnight. She did the comedy panel stuff well enough though did come in third per the somewhat arbitrary point system.  

Emily had a guest appearance on Friends in a Halloween episode as a cute trick-and-treater with a long name. She was best known by some as "Lily" on Hannah Montana, which is about as long ago as Wizards. She was also in many other things, including a serious role (with a downer ending) on Mom.

She is all grown up and on a sequel to a prequel of Big Bang Theory. The show is on so much on syndication (seems less so of late) so I caught it from time to time. That show ended in 2019 though the second prequel starts in real time in 1994.  

I have only watched a tiny bit of the prequel, which had a good run. In the latest, she plays an older woman who marries the older brother (who is around 18). The "first marriage" in the title is quite true according to Big Bang Theory, which once noted he married and divorced twice.  

Hallmark Channel is the place to really feel old. A variety of old television actors from at least back to the 1970s have been in films over the years. 

The early morning duo of Petticoat Junction episodes on MeTV included the "last" episode of the sixth season and the first episode of the seventh. 

The curious nature of the season finale is that the mom is still in the opening credits even though the actress had died earlier in the season (they never address it except by cutting her out of the credits). 

Wikipedia explains the episode was pre-empted and time-wise (as shown by the youngest daughter still being pregnant) fit in near the beginning of the season. They sort of overdo that baby bump. 

The other surprise is that the black actor [who is light-skinned] who replaced the season regular on Hogan's Heroes pops up in a guest appearance. The actor is the one surviving character from the main cast. He guest-starred before serving in that late-season role.  

(The Russian spy who guest starred in some episodes is still alive too per Wikipedia.) 

Was there another black actor on the show?!