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Disgraced ex-CBS anchor Rob Morrison whines to judge

Disgraced ex-CBS anchor Rob Morrison whined to a judge Tuesday that he only serial-dialed his estranged wife more than 120 times over three days because he wanted to talk to their son.

“I want the system to start working for me — I’m a great dad who deserves to spend time with his son. … It’s not capricious,” Morrison said outside superior court in Stamford, C​onn., after being hauled before a judge for allegedly violating the order of protection his wife has against him.

Morrison, 46, was busted after phoning Ashley Morrison, 40, an ex-CBS “MoneyWatch” anchor, 121 times over the several-day period in May.

He said he only did so because while his wife and 9-year-old son are in Florida, he is supposed to get to talk to the boy every day at 5 p.m. — and hadn’t gotten through.

But cops have said Ashley was “physically shaking’’ and in a “very fragile state” when she fled to them over the alleged phone harassment — and told them she was terrified that her husband “could kill her if she got him arrested.”

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Morrison’s lawyer, Frank DiScala, scoffed Tuesday that his client’s arrest was just a misunderstanding — and added that Ashley had insisted to the cops that she never wanted to get her husband in trouble.

“This entire new arrest was never supposed to be an arrest. The wife specifically asked that he not be arrested,” DiScala said.

“The only reason we’re here is because [Rob Morrison] wants to talk to his son. If you can’t reach your son and you try to reach him two times, what’s the difference between twice and 100 times?”

DiScala said Ashley asked the cops to keep her complaint confidential but that they videotaped it and eventually arrested her husband.

A spokesman for the police department in Darien, Ct., where the once-golden couple has a home, declined comment Tuesday other than to say, “A lot of people come to us, and for their own safety, we do something that they don’t actually prefer.”

Ashley Morrison declined to comment to The Post on Tuesday.

Rob Morrison is due back in court in about a week for the judge’s expected ruling in the case.

He also has another court custody hearing next week.

The couple’s marriage exploded in February 2013, after he allegedly choked her and threatened to kill her in their home. The charges were later dropped.

The troubled pair reconciled last summer, only to split again this past April.

Morrison and DiScala refused to say Tuesday whether he has found another job since resigning from CBS.