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What was your first job? Babysitter? Newspaper deliverer? Protector of the world’s most magical and awesome antiquities?

When Good Times debuted in February of 1974, it was a television first: a sitcom about an African American family in an inner-city housing project. And now, 45 years later, audiences will have a chance to revisit the Evans family — or meet them for the first time!

Life is good for Hal Williams. The veteran actor — who turns 81 on December 14 — is healthy, still working, and better-known than ever. “I get more recognition now than when I did Sanford And Son,” he recently told getTV. “They don’t care what else I’ve done. ‘You played Smitty!’”

At an age when many actors slow down — either by choice or by circumstance — Clifton Davis is more in-demand than ever. The 74-year-old has recurring roles on two TV shows: Madam Secretary on CBS and Godfather of Harlem on Epix. He recently completed a four-year run as the Sultan in Disney’s Aladdin, his eighth Broadway show. And he has a role in Jane Austen’s Pride, a musical version of Pride And Prejudice that he hopes is destined for Broadway.

If you’ve turned on a TV anytime in the last 45 years or so, there’s a good chance you’ve seen Bruce Boxleitner.

It’s not every day that a living legend turns 90. So, when we heard that seven-time Emmy winner Ed Asner was celebrating his 90^th birthday with a gala benefit at a historic Hollywood landmark, getTV just had to be there!