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Mike Rowe’s new show ‘Six Degrees’ is a love letter to his dad

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How did this series come about?I stole this from James Burke, who was a famous English television presenter back in ’70s who hosted a show called “Connections.” It was the granddaddy of all history stylized fiction shows.

He would spend an hour — he was like the professor you wish you had, Oxford-educated, white leisure suit, white hair flapping in the breeze — and he would stalk around the English countryside saying, for example, “Tonight, we’re going to explain why the tracks left by the original Roman chariots are the identical dimensions to those tracks left on the moon by the lunar landing.” An hour later you’re still watching.

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