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Take a bunch of retirees from the film and TV business, let them live together in the Motion Picture and Television Fund's Wasserman Campus retirement home in Woodland Hills, and I guess no one should be surprised that they program and produce an in-house TV channel for the other residents. Channel 22 mixes Hollywood movies and sitcom reruns with original programs created by — and starring — the retirees. Gideon Brower paid a visit for NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday last month.

"It's almost like working with a network, except you don't have to kowtow as much to the network bigwigs," says Irma Kalish, whose husband, Rocky, is a resident at Wasserman.

Irma and Rocky are a husband-and-wife team who wrote scores of episodes of shows like F Troop, My Three Sons and All in the Family. They're about to shoot the latest in a series of short films they've written for Channel 22.

"It's a sketch about two people who live in the same building and what happens to people in a stuck elevator," Rocky says.

