Guys From 'Car Talk' Reluctantly Tackle Tv

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BOSTON -- Tom and Ray Magliozzi, aka Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, of NPR's "Car Talk" fame, are just two low-ego lugs. That's why -- familiar self-deprecating shtick aside -- the boys' ambivalence about their new public television series rings seriously true.

"I hope that people look at it mercifully," says the younger, stockier, talkier Ray (Clack) about "As the Wrench Turns," a half- hour series that wraps social and environmental messages inside an animated sitcom.

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Guys From 'Car Talk' Reluctantly Tackle Tv

Premiering tonight on PBS, the show follows Click and Clack's exploits co-hosting a nationally syndicated radio show and running a car repair shop that mirrors their real-life Good News Garage in Cambridge, Mass....

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