There are many good things to be said about the fact that Ted Danson will be back on TV this fall -- playing a therapist in an ABC comedy called "Help Me Help You" -- and one of them is that we get to talk about his hair. Again.

Actually, Danson himself, who's currently gray-haired and happy, was doing most of the talking Tuesday afternoon when the subject of hair color came up. Here's what he had to say:

"My hair became a topic of conversation in the beginning of 'Cheers.' And I used to color -- I had a bald spot about this big [he indicates something the size of perhaps a silver-dollar pancake] when I started 'Cheers,' and I'd surreptitiously put my little brown thing on it and comb my hair over it.

"And then the tabloids said that I'm wearing a huge hairpiece. And I couldn't go, 'No, no. I'm just' -- 'I just color it in.'

"Then about five years later, I indeed did have to wear a little divot hairpiece for Sam Malone. So I put that in, and then one of the tabloids airbrushed my entire head and said that I'm one of the people who is totally bald. And I, once again, couldn't say, 'No, no, I just wear
this little' --

"So I'm out of the closet. I really -- it's very nice not to sit around with a bunch of ladies with silver things in my hair getting dye jobs. So I'm happy to be gray."