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There’s an old-fashioned feel to Prime Video’s newest comedy, “Clean Slate.” Its title, which harkens back to network sitcoms of yesteryear and wholesome themes of a family growing and learning together, feel straight out of a Norman Lear production.

And that’s by design.

Stand-up comedian George Wallace, who plays car wash owner Harry Slate, first imagined this affable father/daughter series as a riff on a classic Black sitcom.

“I went to Norman Lear, who I’d known since the ’90s, and I said, ‘You rebooting everything else!

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Let’s reboot ‘Sanford and Son,’ ” he recalls over Zoom, sitting next to his “Clean Slate” co-star, Laverne Cox.

“I basically just wanted to hear [Wallace hums the sitcom’s iconic Quincy Jones theme song] because that makes you feel good already, right?” he adds.

“But [Lear] said, ‘That’s the craziest idea I ever heard. Get out of here, come back with a twist.’ ”

The twist that Wallace, co-creator Dan Ewen and Cox developed, feels, despite its traditional trappings,

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