TV Confidential: Recent Episodes
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TV CONFIDENTIAL (www.televisionconfidential.com) talks to the stars, writers, directors and other creative people behind the scenes of some of America's most popular shows. An engaging blend of talk and entertainment, TV Confidential often compares today’s programs with those of the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.
TVC 745.4: Ed welcomes Martha Reeves, the legendary Motown powerhouse who is also one of the most influential voices in American music. Searching, Martha's first new album in twenty-two years, is a blend of jazz, gospel, blues, R & B, and lived experience that was recorded in New Orleans, alongside acclaimed trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis, and co-produced by Marsalis and Martha's longtime manager, Chris Roe. Chris also appears with Martha during our call. Searching becomes available wherever you find music beginning Friday, Aug. 14. Topics this segment include how the making of Searching was very much a collaborative experience; how Martha's mother taught her never to sing a song unless she understood it and could feel it; meeting Stevie Wonder for the first time when he was eight years old, in Berry Gordy's office at Motown; why the release of Searching is an answered prayer; and why purple is Martha's go-to color.
TVC 744.1: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the life and career of Emmy Award-winning director and producer James Burrows (Cheers, Frasier, Taxi, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Will and Grace) in the first in a series of segments that commemorate notable TV actors and behind-the-scenes personnel who passed away earlier in 2026. James Burrows died Friday, June 19 at age eighty-five. Topics this segment include how Burrows approached directing TV sitcoms as if they were thirty-minute stage plays; his early career directing shows for MTM Studios; and his track record for directing pilots that eventually went to series.
TVC 744.2: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss James Burrows' impact on Taxi and Cheers (including the famous "What does a yellow light mean?" scene in the Taxi episode in which Reverend Jim takes his driving test), and why laughter is his legacy as a producer and director. James Burrows died Friday, June 19 at age eighty-five.
TVC 744.2a: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the TV work of noted film critics Gene Shalit and Rex Reed. Shalit passed away on June 12, 2026, a few weeks after turning 100, while Reed died on May 12, 2026 at age eighty-seven. Photo of Gene Shalit courtesy IMDb.com
TVC 744.3: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the life and career of actor, comedian, and voice artist Ronnie Schell (Gomer Pyle, USMC, Good Morning, World, That Girl, The Cat from Outer Space, Gus), including his many appearances on the popular morning show hosted by L.A. radio personality Rick Dees. Ronnie Schell passed away on June 12, 2026 at age ninety-four. Photo courtesy B. Harlan Boll Public Relations
TVC 744.4: Ed welcomes Christopher Martini, stepson of actor Stuart Margolin (the Emmy Award-winning actor known around the world as Angel Martin on The Rockford Files) and an award-winning filmmaker in his own right. Chris is the director of Everybody's Angel, a forthcoming feature length documentary that will celebrate Stuart's remarkable life and career. There is a crowdsourcing campaign going on right now at Indiegogo to help cover some of the various costs related to production of the documentary. If you're a fan of Stuart Margolin and would like to help contribute to the Indiegogo campaign, go to TinyURL.com/EverybodysAngel for more information. Every contribution helps preserve Stuart's incredible legacy for future generations. Topics this segment include growing up with Stuart; how Chris' passion for filmmaking stems from his experience being directed by Stuart in the movie The Glitter Dome; how Stuart's experience as a writer helped him as an actor, and how his experience as an actor helped him as a director.
TVC 744.5: Christopher Martini, director of the forthcoming documentary Everybody's Angel: The Stuart Margolin Story, talks to Ed about why James Garner was the important person in Stuart's life; how their long association began after Jim discovered Stuart performing in one of the blackout sketches on Love, American Style, which led him to cast Stuart in Nichols (and, later, in The Rockford Files); and the many ways in which Garner mentored Stuart, both in front of and behind the camera. If you're a fan of Stuart Margolin and would like to contribute to the crowdsourcing campaign to help underwrite some of the production costs related to the documentary, go to TinyURL.com/EverybodysAngel for more information. Every contribution helps preserve Stuart's incredible legacy for future generations.
TVC 743.1: Ed welcomes Mary Hampton, widow of beloved character actor Jim Hampton (F Troop, The Longest Yard, Sling Blade, Teen Wolf), and an accomplished actress in her own right. Mary is also the driving force behind What? And Give Up Show Business?, the story of Jim's life and career as a working actor, which was published just before Jim's death in 2021. What? And Give Up Show Business? is available in hardcover through TCU Press and Amazon.com. Topics this segment include how Jim and Mary first met; how Jim was very much a bridge between old Hollywood and new Hollywood; Jim's many appearances on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show; and how Jim nearly had a network talk show of his own. Mary Hampton will appear, along with Cindy Mitchum and Julie Rogers Pomilia, at the annual National Day of the Cowboy weekend celebration in Tombstone, Arizona from July 23 through July 26.
TVC 743.2: Actress Mary Hampton, widow of Jim Hampton, talks to Ed about how Jim enjoyed playing golf and backgammon with James Garner; the pivotal role that Casa Manana, the venerable theatre in Fort Worth, Texas, played early in Jim's career; and how Jim landed the role of Michael J. Fox's dad in Teen Wolf. What? And Give Up Show Business?, Jim Hampton's memoir, is available in hardcover through TCU Press and Amazon.com. Mary Hampton will appear, along with Cindy Mitchum and Julie Rogers Pomilia, at the annual National Day of the Cowboy weekend celebration in Tombstone, Arizona from July 23 through July 26.
TVC 743.3: Actress Mary Hampton, widow of Jim Hampton, talks to Ed about how Burt Reynolds provided a vital assist behind the scenes during the episode of Gunsmoke that also marked Jim's very first television appearance, and how Jim helped Burt many times in return, including the night when Burt guest-hosted the Johnny Carson Tonight Show shortly after posing for Cosmopolitan magazine; and how Jim nearly missed his audition for F Troop. What? And Give Up Show Business?, Jim Hampton's memoir, is available in hardcover through TCU Press and Amazon.com. Mary Hampton will appear, along with Cindy Mitchum and Julie Rogers Pomilia, at the annual National Day of the Cowboy weekend celebration in Tombstone, Arizona from July 23 through July 26.
TVC 743.4: Ed welcomes Jane Seymour, the Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning actress known around the world as Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and, more recently, as the star and executive producer of Acorn TV's hit Irish mystery series Harry Wild. Season Five of Harry Wild recently premiered on Acorn TV and is marked by the highly anticipated on-screen reunion between Jane and her longtime co-star on Dr. Quinn, Joe Lando. New episodes of Harry Wild air Mondays exclusively on Acorn TV. Topics this segment include how Joe came to join the cast of Harry Wild this season; the family-like atmosphere among cast and crew; how Jane, like Harry, has reinvented herself more than once throughout her life and career; why Jane enjoys breaking glass ceilings (as she did on Dr. Quinn as well as on Harry Wild); how Jane approaches playing historical figures, which she has done many times in her career; and why Harry Wild continues to be such a fan favorite.
TVC 743.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Cindy Mitchum, youngest daughter of legendary character actor John Mitchum and the niece of screen legend Robert Mitchum. Cindy has just rereleased Them Ornery Mitchum Boys: The Adventures of Robert and John Mitchum, her dad's raw, funny, and unforgettable memoir about growing up with his older brother—before fame, during fame, and through all the chaos in between. Them Ornery Mitchum Boys is available in hardcover and in paperback through Henry Gray Publishing, Amazon.com, and JohnMitchum.com. John Mitchum's Unabashed Love of Country, Cowboys, and God, the two-CD tribute to the music and poetry of John Mitchum, featuring performances by more than fifty than celebrity colleagues and admirers, is available at CD Baby, Amazon.com, and JohnMitchum.com. Topics this segment include how Bob and John first became known as "them Ornery Mitchum boys"; the spiritual side of John Mitchum; and why the world "can use a little Mitchum now." Image courtesy Henry Gray Publishing. Cindy Mitchum will appear at Side Show Books, 1639 South La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA on Monday, July 20, beginning at 8pm. Cindy will sign copies of Them Ornery Mitchum Boys, followed by a screening the original Cape Fear (1962) starring Robert Mitchum. Cindy will also appear, along with Julie Rogers Pomilia and Mary Hampton, at the annual National Day of the Cowboy weekend celebration in Tombstone, Arizona from July 23 through July 26.
TVC 743.6: Cindy Mitchum, youngest daughter of John Mitchum and the niece of Robert Mitchum, talks to Ed about the time when her dad helped his friend Father Latimer Garrett, an Episcopal priest, raise the money needed to build Father Garrett's Boys Ranch, a foster care facility in Acton, California. Them Ornery Mitchum Boys is available in hardcover and in paperback through Henry Gray Publishing, Amazon.com, and JohnMitchum.com. John Mitchum's Unabashed Love of Country, Cowboys, and God is available at CD Baby, Amazon.com, and JohnMitchum.com. Photo of John Mitchum courtesy MitchumMedia.com Cindy Mitchum will appear at Side Show Books, 1639 South La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA on Monday, July 20, beginning at 8pm. Cindy will sign copies of Them Ornery Mitchum Boys, followed by a screening the original Cape Fear (1962) starring Robert Mitchum. Cindy will also appear, along with Julie Rogers Pomilia and Mary Hampton, at the annual National Day of the Cowboy weekend celebration in Tombstone, Arizona from July 23 through July 26.
TVC 742.1: Ed welcomes back Cindy Mitchum, youngest daughter of legendary character actor John Mitchum and the niece of screen legend Robert Mitchum. Cindy has just rereleased Them Ornery Mitchum Boys: The Adventures of Robert and John Mitchum, a rollicking look at the lives and careers of her famous dad and famous uncle as they move through decades of adventure, war, celebrity, vice, loyalty, and loss, while also crossing paths with such legends as John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Burt Reynolds, Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood, John Carradine, Joi Lansing, and many, many others. Them Ornery Mitchum Boys is available in hardcover and in paperback through Henry Gray Publishing, Amazon.com, and JohnMitchum.com. John Mitchum's Unabashed Love of Country, Cowboys, and God, the two-CD tribute to the music and poetry of John Mitchum, featuring performances by more than fifty than celebrity colleagues and admirers, is available at CD Baby, Amazon.com, and JohnMitchum.com. Topics this segment include how Them Ornery Mitchum Boys is an unusual memoir that will sometimes remind you of the works of Mark Twain; how the book is as much a celebration of character actors as it is about John and Bob's careers; the unique bond both John and Bob; and how both Mitchum brothers had a joie de vie that came across in everything they did. Cindy Mitchum will appear at Side Show Books, 1639 South La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA on Monday, July 20, beginning at 8pm. Cindy will sign copies of Them Ornery Mitchum Boys, followed by a screening the original Cape Fear (1962) starring Robert Mitchum. Cindy will also appear, along with Julie Rogers Pomilia and Mary Hampton, at the annual National Day of the Cowboy weekend celebration in Tombstone, Arizona from July 23 through July 26.
TVC 742.2: Cindy Mitchum, youngest daughter of John Mitchum and the niece of Robert Mitchum, talks to Ed about how both her dad and her uncle became actors by accident; how John was an accomplished prize fighter who could also handle himself in a street brawl if necessary; and the many ways in which Them Ornery Mitchum Boys is like a family album. Them Ornery Mitchum Boys is available in hardcover and in paperback through Henry Gray Publishing, Amazon.com, and JohnMitchum.com. John Mitchum's Unabashed Love of Country, Cowboys, and God is available at CD Baby, Amazon.com, and JohnMitchum.com. Cindy Mitchum will appear at Side Show Books, 1639 South La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA on Monday, July 20, beginning at 8pm. Cindy will sign copies of Them Ornery Mitchum Boys, followed by a screening the original Cape Fear (1962) starring Robert Mitchum. Cindy will also appear, along with Julie Rogers Pomilia and Mary Hampton, at the annual National Day of the Cowboy weekend celebration in Tombstone, Arizona from July 23 through July 26.
TVC 741.4: Ed welcomes Perry Hibner, author of Centennial Revisited, a deep dive into the epic length, twelve-part, twenty-six hour miniseries that originally aired on NBC at various times throughout the 1978-1979 season. Centennial was ambitious in scope, majestic to watch, and almost universally praised by television critics for its quality production values and stellar acting performances. And yet, due to erratic scheduling and poor promotion, Centennial never received the audience or recognition it deserved. Centennial Revisited is available in hardcover, paperback, and as an eBook from DorrancePublishing.com, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and wherever books are sold online. Topics this segment include how Centennial remains a point of pride for just about every actor who appeared in it, both at the time they filmed the miniseries in 1978 and when they look back on the experience today; why novelist James Michener felt that Centennial was the best adaptation of his works ever; and how Universal's decision not to promote Centennial hurt the series (and actor Robert Conrad in particular).
TVC 741.5: Perry Hibner, author of Centennial Revisited, discusses some of the differences between Centennial the miniseries and the original James Michener novel; howthe tragic death of actor Richard Kelton affected production of the miniseries; how Andy Griffith saved the life of Sharon Gless during filming of the final episode; and how executive producer John Wilder originally wanted James Garner to narrate the series, instead of David Janssen. Centennial Revisited is available in hardcover, paperback, and as an eBook from DorrancePublishing.com, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and includes exclusive interviews with more than thirty cast members of the epic miniseries, including Gregory Harrison, Barbara Carrera, Cristina Raines, Cliff DeYoung, Mark Harmon, William Atherton, Glynn Turman, Les Lannom, and executive producer John Wilder.
TVC 741.5a: Perry Hibner, author of Centennial Revisited, discusses some of his favorite characters in Centennial and shares a few final thoughts about both the miniseries and the legacy of James Michener. Centennial Revisited: An Oral History of the Epic TV Miniseries is available in hard cover, paperback, and as an eBook from DorrancePublishing.com, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and wherever books are sold online.
TVC 741.1: Phil Gries joins Ed for Part 2 of our special Independence Day-themed edition of The Sounds of Lost Television that looks back at how network television covered the Bicentennial celebration of July 4, 1976, including a few clips from In Celebration of US, the sixteen-hour CBS special, hosted by Walter Cronkite, that aired on July 4, 1976. Highlights this segment include coverage from the opening of the National Air and Space Museum on June 30, 1976; Cronkite and Danny Kaye discussing the history of jazz music in Storyville, the famous red light district of New Orleans; and Cronkite and New York Metropolitan Opera soprano Beverly Sills discussing patriotic music. Audio courtesy Archival Television Audio.
TVC 741.2: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio plays a few more audio highlights of In Celebration of US, the day-long CBS special that aired on July 4, 1976, including Johnny Cash performing at the Pageant of Freedom festival in Washington, D.C.; coverage of the air show in St. Louis commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic in 1927; Charles Kuralt's profile of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson; and "Reflections of America," a music and spoken-word performance by violinist Isaac Stern. Audio courtesy Archival Television Audio. Image of Johnny Cash courtesy Facebook.
TVC 741.3: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio and Ed discuss some of the other television offerings on the days and weeks leading up to July 4, 1976, including audio highlights of The Today Show's weeklong series of programs from Philadelphia. Audio courtesy Archival Television Audio.
TVC 741.6: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio and Ed discuss Sing, America, Sing, the PBS special from March 1976 written by Oscar Brand (pictured above) that originated from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and a rarely heard Bicentennial Minute featuring Burgess Meredith. Audio courtesy Archival Television Audio. Also in this segment: Phil discusses the upcoming Blu-ray release of Harlem School: 1970, the "direct cinema" documentary that he wrote, produced, directed, and filmed when he was an elementary school teacher in Harlem, New York. Harlem School: 1970 will become available on Blu-ray through Kino Lorber on Tuesday, Aug. 25.
TVC 740.1: Phil Gries joins Ed for a special Independence Day-themed edition of The Sounds of Lost Television that looks back at how network television covered the Bicentennial celebration of July 4, 1976. Audio, as always, is courtesy Archival Television Audio. Highlights this segment include the first few minutes of In Celebration of US, a sixteen-hour, day-long special produced by CBS News and hosted by Walter Cronkite, that included a cornucopia of festive events that day from venues across the country.
TVC 740.2: Phil Gries, founder and owner of Archival Television Audio, and Ed discuss how In Celebration of US, the sixteen-hour CBS special hosted by Walter Cronkite that aired on July 4, 1976, not only was inclusive in tone and presentation, but marked the first time that a network had devoted day-long coverage to a single event since the moon landing of July 20, 1969.
TVC 740.3: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio plays a few more audio highlights of In Celebration of US, the day-long CBS special, hosted by Walter Cronkite, that aired on July 4, 1976, including coverage of the largest naturalization ceremony in U.S. history and of the massive parade in Philadelphia that included representatives from the forty-eight continental states plus several other countries. Audio courtesy Archival Television Audio.
TVC 740.4: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio plays more audio highlights of In Celebration of US, including coverage of the jazz festival held on July 4, 1976 that also commemorated the 100th birthday of jazz great Louis Armstrong, plus a few minutes of the Major League Baseball game that day between the Houston Astros and the Cincinnati Reds. Audio courtesy Archival Television Audio. Image of Louis Armstrong courtesy Britannica.com Harlem School: 1970, the "direct cinema" documentary that Phil Gries originally filmed, produced, and directed in 1970, will become available on Blu-ray through Kino Lorber on Tuesday, Aug. 25
TVC 740.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Barry Weitz, co-creator and co-executive producer of Movin' On (NBC, 1974-1976), and Kathy Bird, author of Sundance Turns Fifty: The Amazing Legacy of Movin' On, a fun new book that not only takes you behind the scenes of the production of Movin' On, but introduces you to many of the people who are responsible for keeping the show alive today. Sundance Turns Fifty is available in paperback and as an eBook through Amazon.com. Proceeds from sales of the book will help support the efforts of the Duke Cancer Research Institute in Durham, North Carolina. Topics this segment include how production of Movin' On was as close to the quality of a feature motion picture as you could get on network TV at the time; how the Movin' On museum came to be; and why the series meant a lot to the childhood of many male viewers.
TVC 740.6: Barry Weitz, co-creator and co-executive producer of Movin' On, and Kathy Bird, author of Sundance Turns Fifty: The Amazing Legacy of Movin' On, discuss the circumstances that resulted in NBC canceling Movin' On at the end of its second season, and how the NBC programming executive who made that decision, Marvin Antonowsky, got his comeuppance in a very public way. Sundance Turns Fifty is available in paperback and as an eBook through Amazon.com.
Please enjoy this special preview of our upcoming conversation with Martha Reeves, the legendary Motown powerhouse who is also one of the most influential voices in American music. June is Black Music Month, and to celebrate the occasion Martha is releasing "To Know You is to Love You," the leadoff single for Searching, Martha's first new album in twenty-two years. Both the single and the video for "To Know is to Love You" become available on Spotify, Apple Music, and all digital platforms on Friday, June 26, while the entire album Searching will be released on Friday, Aug. 14. Our complete conversation with Martha Reeves will air in a few weeks on TV Confidential.
TVC 739.4: Ed welcomes Barry Weitz, co-creator and co-executive producer of Movin' On (NBC, 1974-1976), the classic TV series starring Claude Akins and Frank Converse as independent truck drivers that, in many ways, was a modern-day Western, and Kathy Bird, author of Sundance Turns Fifty: The Amazing Legacy of Movin' On, a fun new book that not only takes you behind the scenes of the production of Movin' On, but introduces you to many of the people who are responsible for keeping the show alive today. Sundance Turns Fifty is available in paperback and as an eBook through Amazon.com. Proceeds from sales of the book will help support the efforts of the Duke Cancer Research Institute in Durham, North Carolina. Topics this segment include how Barry came up with the concept for Movin' On; how the show's move to an 8pm time slot in the second season not only introduced the series to younger viewers, but paved the way for the resurgence of interest in Movin' On that continues to this day; how Barry came to cast Frank Converse and Claude Akins; and how Movin' On inspired many viewers to become truck drivers themselves.
TVC 739.5: Barry Weitz, co-creator and co-executive producer of Movin' On, and Kathy Bird, author of Sundance Turns Fifty: The Amazing Legacy of Movin' On, talk to Ed about how Movin' On was an unusual series not only because it was filmed entirely on location in different states throughout the continental U.S., but also insofar as Barry's production team scouted the locations first, then wrote each episode based on that location. This segment also includes a discussion of some of the notable guest stars on the series, including Michael J. Pollard, John Ritter, and Samuel L. Jackson. Sundance Turns Fifty is available in paperback and as an eBook through Amazon.com.
TVC 739.6: Barry Weitz, co-creator and co-executive producer of Movin' On, and Kathy Bird, author of Sundance Turns Fifty: The Amazing Legacy of Movin' On, talk to Ed about how it would be impossible to make Movin' On today in the same way that Barry and his production partner, Phil D'Antoni, made the series when they produced it together in the mid 1970s. Also in this segment: Barry shares an anecdote about "Good for Laughs," the first-season episode, filmed in Oregon, that features Frank Gorshin and Jonathan Goldsmith. Sundance Turns Fifty is available in paperback and as an eBook through Amazon.com.
TVC 738.2: Via remote from the Hollywood Museum: TV Confidential brings you coverage of the recent opening night ceremonies for From Norma Jean to Marilyn Monroe: A Centennial Celebration, a new exhibit at the Hollywood Museum that features, among other items, an exclusive look at never-before-published photographs from George Barris' last photo sessions with Marilyn Monroe, which occurred in mid June and July 1962, just a few weeks before her death. For tickets and more information, go to TheHollywoodMuseum.com. This segment includes remarks from Donelle Dadigan, founder and president of the Hollywood Museum, prior to the re-dedication of the Museum's famous Blondes Only Room (the legendary makeup studio where Monroe was transformed from a brown-haired beauty into a blonde bombshell), plus remarks from guest speakers Traci Park, Los Angeles City Council member; actress Alisha Soper, who played Monroe in two Ryan Murphy television productions (including Feud); and George Barris' daughter, Caroline Barris. Monday, June 1, 2026 marked the centennial birthday of the screen legend.
TVC 738.3: Via remote from the Hollywood Museum: TV Confidential brings you more highlights of the opening night ceremonies for From Norma Jean to Marilyn Monroe: A Centennial Celebration, a new exhibit at the Hollywood Museum that commemorates the 100th birthday of the beloved screen legend. For tickets and more information, go to TheHollywoodMuseum.com. This segment includes remarks from guest speakers Ruta Lee, who shared a poignant memory of her one encounter with Marilyn Monroe; Morgan Fairchild, who discusses why Monroe is forever part of the zeitgeist of the Golden Age of Hollywood; and author Luke Yankee, son of Eileen Heckart (who played Monroe's close confidante friend in Bus Stop).
TVC 738.3: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Hall of Fame radio broadcaster Don Sainte-Johnn, author of San Francisco's Last Top 40 Disc Jockey, a memoir of Don's life and career behind the microphone. Topics this segment include how KFRC transitioned from Top 40 radio to big band in 1986—a successful format change that continued for seven years; why Don chose to stay at KFRC as part of the new format; why one benefit of the Magic 61 rebrand was that it allowed Don to interview some of his favorite artists from that genre (including Tony Bennett, Nancy Wilson, and Lionel Hampton); and how baseball Hall of Famer Lou Brock helped Don get a good deal on a new car one day while Don was a radio host in St. Louis. San Francisco's Last Top 40 Disc Jockey is available through Amazon.com.
TVC 738.4: Ed welcomes back actor, comedian, voice artist, and impressionist Jim Meskimen (Landman, Gaslit, Welcome to Chippendales, The Big Door Prize). Topics this segment include how Jim's early background acting in commercials provided a training ground for delivering a full performance, even when doing a one-line, one-scene, five-second bit (such as his recent appearance as the "cranky diver" in the new commercial for AppleWatch); why a good actor is also a good listener; and how the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Modern Health helped Jim refocus his career path. Jim's latest movie, the action thriller Hungry, becomes available for viewing on demand on all streaming platforms beginning Tuesday, June 23.
TVC 738.5: Actor, comedian, voice artist, and impressionist Jim Meskimen talks to Ed about when he first discovered his gift for mimicry; how his repertoire includes voices that most people probably wouldn't think of as impressionist material (such as actor Paul Giamatti); and how he determines when to add a new voice to his arsenal. Jim's latest movie, Hungry, becomes available for viewing on demand on all streaming platforms beginning Tuesday, June 23.
TVC 737.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with David Spencer, award-winning musical dramatist, author, critic, musical theatre teacher, and the author of The Novelizers, a deep dive into the world of media tie-in writing that not only introduces readers to many of the people who have adapted film and TV screenplays into original tie-in novels, while also making the case that tie-in writing is an honorable tradition with artistry of its own. The Novelizers is available through Bear Manor Media as well as Amazon.com. Topics this segment include a discussion of the Rockford Files tie-in novels written by Stuart Kaminsky in the mid-1990s (and how they reflect the older Jim Rockford, as portrayed in the CBS reunion movies of the same era), and the difference between "high context" dialogue and "low context" dialogue.
TVC 737.2: David Spencer, author of The Novelizers, talks to Ed about how he came to write Passing Fancy: Alien Nation, Book 6 (Pocket Books, 1994), the tie-in novel based on the Alien Nation television series (FOX, 1989-1990). Also in this segment: the Three Most Common Misconceptions About Tie-In Novels, plus three examples of tie-in novels that were unauthorized. The Novelizers: An Affectionate History of Media Adaptations and Originals, Their Astonishing Authors, and the Art of the Craft is available through Bear Manor Media as well as Amazon.com.
TVC 737.3: Ed welcomes Hall of Fame radio broadcaster Don Sainte-Johnn. For more than twenty years, Don was one of the voices heard every day on KFRC, The Big 610 in San Francisco, the powerhouse station that not only shaped a generation of listeners in the San Francisco Bay Area, but was one of the most successful radio stations anywhere in the U.S. throughout the 1970s. Don's memoir, San Francisco's Last Top 40 Disc Jockey, not only takes you behind the scenes of KFRC and the world of Top 40 radio, but is filled with many great stories about a career that also took him to Chicago, St. Louis, San Diego, and other media markets. San Francisco's Last Top 40 Disc Jockey is available through Amazon.com. Topics this segment include how Don fell in love with radio from a very young age; the important role that angels, sponsors, and mentors played in his path to becoming a broadcaster; and how he helped develop his vocal muscles early in his career by reading aloud with a cork in his mouth.
TVC 737.4: Hall of Fame radio broadcaster Don Sainte-Johnn, author of San Francisco's Last Top 40 Disc Jockey, talks to Ed about how he came to choose his radio name; the importance of show prep in the course of a daily broadcast; and the role that Joe Adams, Ray Charles' manager, played early in Don's career. San Francisco's Last Top 40 Disc Jockey is available through Amazon.com.
TVC 737.5: Hall of Fame radio broadcaster Don Sainte-Johnn, author of San Francisco's Last Top 40 Disc Jockey, shares a few of the crazier moments that went on behind the scenes and on the air at KFRC-AM, The Big 610. San Francisco's Last Top 40 Disc Jockey is available through Amazon.com.
From December 2021, via remote from the Hollywood Museum: Five-time Emmy Award-winning writer and producer John Barbour, creator of NBC's Real People, tells Ed the story of how he acquired the moniker "The Godfather of Reality TV." John Barbour passed away Sunday, May 10, 2026 at the age of ninety-three. Please join us the weekend of May 29 for a special program length tribute to John Barbour that will include highlights from several of our conversations with John over the past five years.
TVC 736.1: Ed welcomes David Spencer, award-winning musical dramatist, author, critic, musical theatre teacher, and the author of The Novelizers: An Affectionate History of Media Adaptations and Originals, Their Astonishing Authors, and the Art of the Craft, a deep dive into the world of media tie-in writing—novels that are not only based on existing movies, TV series, made for TV movies, and TV miniseries, but which, in many instances (such as the Diagnosis Murder novels and the Monk novels written by Lee Goldberg), tell original stories based on the characters of those movies and TV series. David's book introduces readers to many of the people who have adapted film and TV screenplays into original tie-in novels, while also making the case that tie-in writing is an honorable tradition with artistry of its own. The Novelizers is available through Bear Manor Media as well as Amazon.com. Topics this segment include why the subject of TV tie-in writing is deeply personal to David, and why tie-in writing, in many respects, is itself a form of literature.
TVC 736.2: David Spencer, author of The Novelizers, uses Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962), the 1984 made-for-TV adaptation of A Christmas Carol starring George C. Scott, and Harry Sinclair Drago's novelization of The Champ (1932) as examples of the kind of choices that an adapting writer will make when presenting characters from the source material in a way that is unique to prose. The Novelizers: An Affectionate History of Media Adaptations and Originals, Their Astonishing Authors, and the Art of the Craft is available through Bear Manor Media as well as Amazon.com.
TVC 736.3: David Spencer, author of The Novelizers, talks to Ed about how writing, in some respects, is another form of acting, insofar as novelists or screenwriters will often inhabit the lives of the characters they create. The Novelizers: An Affectionate History of Media Adaptations and Originals, Their Astonishing Authors, and the Art of the Craft is available through Bear Manor Media as well as Amazon.com.
TVC 736.4: While we're on the subject of TV tie-in novels, we thought we'd bring you an encore presentation of our August 2011 conversation with New York Times bestselling novelist and Edgar Award-nominated television writer and producer Lee Goldberg (Spenser: For Hire, Diagnosis Murder, Monk). Lee's latest novel, Murder by Design, becomes available in bookstores everywhere on Monday, June 1 and has been described as "James Bond meets Adrian Monk." At the time we spoke to Lee in 2011, he had just released the latest in his series of original tie-in novels based on the Monk television series. Tony Figueroa co-hosts.
TVC 736.5: From August 2011: New York Times bestselling novelist Lee Goldberg talks to Ed and Tony about the popularity of his Monk novel series; why he ended the Diagnosis Murder novel series after eight books; and how he and William Rabkin came to write Successful Television Writing. Lee's latest novel, Murder by Design, becomes available in bookstores everywhere on Monday, June 1 and has been described as "James Bond meets Adrian Monk."
TVC 735.3: From May 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed take us back to May 6, 1959, the night on which Raymond Burr won his first Emmy Award as Best Dramatic Actor in Perry Mason (CBS, 1957-1966).
TVC 735.4: Ed welcomes Emmy Award-winning producer Charles Floyd Johnson (The Rockford Files, Magnum, p.i., Quantum Leap, JAG, NCIS, Red Tails, John Lewis: Get in the Way). Charles is also one of the six authors whose work is featured in A Gathering of Voices: The Longwood Writers Workshop, an anthology of vibrant, introspective, lyrical, and personal stories that provide a full, rich, and multidimensional look at life in Black America in the 20th and 21st century. All of the stories told in A Gathering of Voices resonate with memories of struggles waged, battles won and lost, and experiences that illuminate the collective wisdom learned by each author and their hard-won resilience. A Gathering of Voices is available through BookBaby.com, Amazon.com, and LongwoodWritersWorkshop.com. In this segment, Charles talks to Ed about the formation of the Longwood Writers Workshop, and how that eventually led to the publication of A Gathering of Voices. He also discusses some of his mentors in television (including Roy Huggins, Stephen J. Cannell, and Don Bellisario), and how his experience contributing stories for Rockford and Magnum early in his career reflected his longtime desire to become part of the "creative" side of television writing and production.
TVC 735.5: Emmy Award-winning producer Charles Floyd Johnson talks to Ed about his successful battle against cancer in 2020, and how his journey, in many ways, makes him a "poster child" for early detection. He also discusses the importance of learning how to allow himself to become vulnerable on the page when writing about other difficult moments in his life (which he does in each of the six stories that he wrote for A Gathering of Voices). A Gathering of Voices: The Longwood Writers Workshop is available through BookBaby.com, Amazon.com, and LongwoodWritersWorkshop.com.
TVC 735.6: Emmy Award-winning producer Charles Floyd Johnson talks to Ed about how he came to work on the groundbreaking PBS documentary John Lewis: Get in the Way; why Red Tails, the award-winning feature motion picture about the Tuskegee Airmen (which Charles produced, along with George Lucas), took twenty-three years to make; and why Stephen J. Cannell remains a seminal influence in his life. Photo of Charles Floyd Johnson courtesy Military.com Charles Floyd Johnson is one of the six authors—along with Denise Nicholas, Denise Billings, Otto Stallworth, Jr., GW Williams, and Hattie Winston—featured in A Gathering of Voices: The Longwood Writers Workshop, an anthology of vibrant, introspective, lyrical, and personal stories that provide a full, rich, and multidimensional look at life in Black America. A Gathering of Voices is available through BookBaby.com, Amazon.com, and LongwoodWritersWorkshop.com
TVC 734.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with music journalist A. Scott Galloway about the life and legacy of producer, composer, arranger, and musician Quincy Jones. Scott not only interviewed Jones at the time of the release of Jones' album Q's Jook Joint, but also wrote the liner notes for three other Jones music releases (including The Reel Quincy Jones, a compilation of scores from Jones' early years as a composer for film and television), plus he crossed paths with Q on many other occasions during the last thirty years of Jones' life. Quincy Jones passed away on Nov. 3, 2024. Topics this segment include how Jones, Burt Bacharach, and Charles Fox were among the many composers who studied music in France under legendary teacher and conductor Nadia Boulanger; what made Jones a "people groover"; and the full-circle moment when Scott was able to introduce his father to Q, many years after Scott's dad had introduced the music of Jones to him.
TVC 734.2: From May 2012: An encore presentation of our conversation with Mike Pingel, author of Channel Surfing: Wonder Woman, everything you wanted to know about the classic TV series starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. April 2026 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the premiere of Wonder Woman (ABC/CBS, 1976-1979).
TVC 734.4: Ed welcomes back Kathleen Bradley, the first African-American model to join ranks with Barker's Beauties on The Price is Right, and the actress known around the world as the voluptuous Mrs. Parker in the 1995 cult comedy Friday. Kathleen can currently be seen in the highly anticipated two-part episode of E!'s Dirty Rotten Scandals that not only explores the good, the bad, and the ugly behind the scenes of The Price Is Right, but is partly inspired by Kathleen's memoir, Backstage at The Price is Right. Topics this segment include how, both in her memoir and in the docu series, Kathleen presents both sides of the Bob Barker that she knew and worked with for more than ten years; how she joined the show at a time when culture in the workplace was beginning to change; and why The Price is Right still represents the happiest years of Kathleen's professional life. Dirty Rotten Scandals is available for viewing on demand on YouTube TV, the E! app, and other online platforms. Backstage at The Price is Right is available both at Amazon and at KathleenBradley.tv
TVC 734.5: Kathleen Bradley shares a few memories with Ed about performing all over the world with The Love Machine, the popular female soul group of the 1970s (including the night when she experienced a wardrobe malfunction on live TV while performing the song "Rock Steady"). She also talks about how difficult it really is to sing and dance at the same time, plus she shares a few of her personal health tips. Kathleen can currently be seen in the two-part episode of E!'s Dirty Rotten Scandals that not only explores the good, the bad, and the ugly behind the scenes of The Price Is Right, but is partly inspired by Kathleen's memoir, Backstage at The Price is Right. Dirty Rotten Scandals is available for viewing on demand on YouTube TV, the E! app, and other online platforms. Backstage at The Price is Right is available both at Amazon and at KathleenBradley.tv
TVC 733.1: From March 2014: Kimberly Johnson, daughter of Russell Johnson, joins Ed, Tony, Donna, and guest co-host Bill Funt as TV Confidential remembers the life and career of the actor known around the world as The Professor on Gilligan's Island. Kim shares a few memories of her dad, plus she talks about her dad's favorite episodes, her favorite episodes, and her dad's take on the whole Gilligan's Island pop culture phenomenon. The son of Candid Camera originator Allen Funt, Bill Funt first came to know Kim Johnson and other Gilligan's Island personnel (including series creator Sherwood Schwartz) as part of an effort to bring the three Gilligan TV-movies from the late 1970s to DVD. We learned last week via Facebook that Kimberly Johnson passed away on Thursday, Apr. 2, 2026. We are replaying this program in her memory.
From March 2014: Kimberly Johnson, daughter of Russell Johnson, joins Ed, Tony, Donna, and guest co-host Bill Funt as TV Confidential remembers the life and career of the actor known around the world as The Professor on Gilligan's Island. Kim shares a few memories of her dad, plus she talks about her dad's favorite episodes, her favorite episodes, and her dad's take on the whole Gilligan's Island pop culture phenomenon. The son of Candid Camera originator Allen Funt, Bill Funt first came to know Kim Johnson and other Gilligan's Island personnel (including series creator Sherwood Schwartz) as part of an effort to bring the three Gilligan TV-movies from the late 1970s to DVD. We learned last week via Facebook that Kimberly Johnson passed away on Thursday, Apr. 2, 2026. We are replaying this program in her memory.
TVC 733.4: Music journalist A. Scott Galloway joins Ed for a special appreciation of the life and legacy of Grammy Award-winning, Emmy Award-winning, and Tony Award-winning producer, composer, arranger, musician, and Renaissance man Quincy Jones. Scott interviewed Jones at least once (at the time of the release of Jones' album Q's Jook Joint). He also wrote the liner notes for three other Jones music releases (including The Reel Quincy Jones, a compilation of scores from Jones' early years as a composer for film and television), plus he crossed paths with him on many other occasions during the last thirty years of Jones' life. Quincy Jones passed away on Nov. 3, 2024. Topics this segment include how much the music of Quincy Jones has always meant to Scott on a personal level; Jones' facility for bringing people together; why Jones was the "Zelig" of music, in that he always seemed to be in the right place at the right time; and why Jones always looked for a "sound hook," especially when he composed for movies and television.
TVC 733.5: Music journalist A. Scott Galloway talks to Ed about the collaboration between Quincy Jones and Oliver Nelson on the film score for The Pawnbroker, the first film for which Jones composed music (the conversation particularly focuses on the piece "Rack 'em Up"); the circumstances that led Jones to produce Off the Wall and Thriller for Michael Jackson; and how Jones developed his eclectic tastes in music.
TVC 732.4: Ed welcomes Denise Nicholas, the Golden Globe-nominated actress known to television audiences for her starring roles in Room 222 and In the Heat of the Night, and the author of Freshwater Road, the critically acclaimed novel that was largely drawn from Denise's experience as a working actress with the Free Southern Theater in the Deep South in 1964, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Denise's new memoir, Finding Home, is a moving look at her lifelong search for who and what she is—a search that that not only navigates the intersections of love and identity, but which sees Denise endure many traumatic events throughout her life, including nearly being killed several times while performing with the Free Southern Theater; overcoming her volatile marriage to singer Bill Withers; and trying to unfathom the tragic murder of her younger sister, Michele Burgen, in 1980 (a case that is still unsolved). Finding Home is available wherever books are sold through Agate Publishing and Amazon.com. Topics this segment include how Denise has always had the soul of a writer, even when she began her career as an actress; how her experience with the Free Southern Theater not only ignited Denise's lifelong commitment to social justice and activism, but served as the backdrop to the struggles and achievements that marked her path as an artist; how Denise based Liz McIntyre (the guidance counselor she played on Room 222) on her aunt Fanette, a guidance counselor in the Detroit public school system; and the emotional difficulty that Denise often faced in writing about some of the most traumatic moments in her life, including the murder of her sister.
TVC 732.5: Actress and novelist Denise Nicholas (Room 222, In the Heat of the Night, Freshwater Road) talks to Ed about working with Sidney Poitier as a director three times (and how she particularly relished the comedic roles she played opposite Poitier and Bill Cosby in Let's Do It Again and A Piece of the Action); how she first met Carroll O'Connor long before they starred together in In the Heat of the Night (and before O'Connor came to mentor Denise as a writer); why she enjoys writing literary fiction among all other genres; and how Denise has "a little Norman Lear in her" as a writer. Denise's memoir, Finding Home, and her novel, Freshwater Road, are available wherever books are sold through Agate Publishing and Amazon.com. Denise Nicholas is also one of the six authors—along with Denise Billings, Otto Stallworth, Jr., GW Williams, Hattie Winston, and Charles Floyd Johnson—whose work is featured in A Gathering of Voices: The Longwood Writers Workshop, an anthology of vibrant, introspective, lyrical, and personal stories that provide a full, rich, and multidimensional look at life in Black America. A Gathering of Voices is available through BookBaby.com, Amazon.com, and LongwoodWritersWorkshop.com
TVC 732.6: Ed welcomes director and producer Nick Leisure. Known for crafting grounded, character-driven thrillers with strong visual language with performance-driven storytelling, Nick developed his cinematic style combines from his experience directing hundreds of commercials for such major brands as Toyota, Nike, Ray-Ban, and the Sacramento Kings, as well as many music videos for such artists as Babyface, After 7, Too Short, and Kurupt. Nick's latest movie, the action thriller Golden, stars Brian Austin Green (Beverly Hill 90210, Knots Landing) as a struggling print shop worker who discovers that he can create flawless counterfeit money, only to be pulled into a dangerous cross-border criminal world that he cannot escape. Based on a true story, Golden is now available for viewing on demand on Amazon Prime Video and other streaming platforms.
TVC 731.1: TV Confidential commemorates the recent passing of Chuck Norris by bringing you an encore of our conversation with Wayne Péré, the actor known to fans of Walker: Texas Ranger as the villainous Victor LaRue. At the time we spoke to Wayne in November 2018, he was starring as Dr. Emerson in the hit Sony/Marvel feature Venom, while his many other film and television credits include Friends, That 70s Show, Tracey Takes On…, The Practice, Third Rock from the Sun, Nip/Tuck, Star Trek: Voyager, NCIS, SpiderMan: Homecoming, Out of Sight, The Limey, Galaxy Quest, Trumbo, Ocean's Thirteen, and Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House. Topics in this segment include the appeal of Walker: Texas Ranger; how Wayne did some of his own stunt work on Walker while filming an episode in New Mexico; and his experience riding a horse while filming the miniseries Roots.
TVC 731.2: From November 2018: Actor and director Wayne Péré talks to Ed about his approach to playing villains in movies and on television (including a few more memories of playing Victor LaRue on Walker: Texas Ranger); his approach to playing characters movies that are based in the Marvel Comics universe; and how he became a director.
TVC 731.3: From November 2018: Actor and director Wayne Péré talks to Ed about how he sometimes creates his own back story for the characters as he prepares to play them; and the difference between playing a fictional character and a character based on a real person.
TVC 731.4: TV Confidential commemorates the recent passing of Chuck Norris by bringing you an encore of our conversation with actress and producer Sheree J. Wilson (Dallas, Walker: Texas Ranger). At the time we spoke to Sheree in September 2013, she had just produced and starred Easy Rider: The Ride Back, a sequel (and prequel) to the groundbreaking cult classic that explores the lineage of Wyatt "Captain America" Williams while also remaining true to the core values and basic themes of the original 1969 film. Easy Rider: The Ride Back is available for viewing on demand through Amazon Prime. Topics include a brief history of the various lawsuits over the previous few decades that had prevented a sequel to Easy Rider from being made; how Larry Hagman was originally set to play "Wild Bill Hickok" Williams in Easy Rider: The Ride Back, but had to pull out of the project because of litigation that delayed the start of production for three years; plus Sheree shares a few memories of working with Hagman, Patrick Duffy, and director Michael Preece on Dallas. Photo of Sheree J. Wilson courtesy ShereeJWilson.com.
TVC 731.5: From September 2013: Sheree J. Wilson shares a few memories of starring with Chuck Norris on Walker: Texas Ranger, including how the series had struggled to find its footing early on, including several changes in production staff and crew, until Sheree convinced Norris to hire Michael Preece (Dallas, The Streets of San Francisco) as Walker's regular director. Easy Rider: The Ride Back is available for viewing on demand through Amazon Prime. Photo of Chuck Norris and Sheree J. Wilson courtesy Facebook.
TVC 731.6: From September 2013: Sheree J. Wilson talks to Ed about her close friendship with Larry Hagman in the twenty years after Dallas left the air, including traveling with Hagman and his family on many occasions, and spending quality time with Hagman just a few days before he died in November 2012. Easy Rider: The Ride Back is available for viewing on demand through Amazon Prime. Photo of Sheree J. Wilson and Larry Hagman courtesy ShereeJWilson.com
TVC 731.7: TV Confidential concludes its remembrance of Chuck Norris by bringing you a clip of our 2012 conversation with longtime television director Michael Preece (Dallas, Walker: Texas Ranger, The Streets of San Francisco, MacGyver). Preece directed about eighty episodes of Walker; prior to that, he helmed more episodes of Dallas than any other director. Topics this segment include how Preece first came to helm Walker: Texas Ranger, including a few memories of "Blue Movies," an episode of Walker from 1995 that also featured Dallas stars Howard Keel and Cathy Podewell.
TVC 730.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with two-time Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Robert Illes (The Carol Burnett Show, Sanford and Son, Fernwood Tonight, Lily, Silver Spoons, Sister, Sister). Bob's memoir, Funny is Money, is a humorous, irreverent, deeply personal, and often moving look at his forty-two-year career writing and producing comedy for network television. Topics this segment include "Lamont, Is That You?", the episode of Sanford and Son that marked Bob's first sale to a network sitcom; Joe and Sons (CBS, 1975), the first network series that Bob created (along with his longtime writing partner, James Stein); and Bob and Jim's experience writing for Fernwood Tonight (Synd., 1977) and America Tonight (Synd., 1978). Funny is Money is available in hardcover, paperback, and as a eBook through Bear Manor Media and Amazon.com.
TVC 730.5: Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Robert Illes talks to Ed about working with producer Alan Thicke behind the scenes of Fernwood Tonight; writing for Toni Tennille, Daryl Dragon, and John Byner on the Captain and Tennille variety series; and writing for Dick Van Dyke on what turned out to be the final season of The Carol Burnett Show. Bob's memoir, Funny is Money, is available in hardcover, paperback, and as a eBook through Bear Manor Media and Amazon.com.
TVC 730.6: Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Robert Illes talks to Ed about meeting and sometimes writing for many of the iconic performers that he grew up watching on TV as a kid; working on his own for the first time after a twenty-five year partnership with James Stein; and how Bob's solo career began with Sister, Sister and continued for another seventeen years. Bob's memoir, Funny is Money, is available in hardcover, paperback, and as a eBook through Bear Manor Media and Amazon.com.
TVC 729.1: Ed welcomes two-time Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Robert Illes (The Carol Burnett Show, Sanford and Son, Fernwood Tonight, Lily, Silver Spoons, Sister, Sister). Bob's memoir, Funny is Money, is a humorous, irreverent, deeply personal, and often moving look at his forty-two-year career writing and producing comedy for network television—a career that not only included such meteoric highs as winning those two Emmys in a span of four years, but which often had moments that left Bob wondering how to find his piece of ground in an industry that always seemed to be shifting. Funny is Money is available in hardcover, paperback, and as a eBook through Bear Manor Media and Amazon.com. Topics this segment include how Bob broke into TV writing (along with his longtime writing partner, James Stein) by working with George Schlatter and Digby Wolfe on Sing America Beautiful, a star-studded variety special headlined by Tennessee Ernie Ford; how Bob and Stein began their comedy career in radio, hosting a popular weekly show on KUSC-FM, the campus radio station for the University of Southern California; and why writing comedy for television is often a two-person job.
TVC 729.2: Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Robert Illes talks to Ed about how he and James Stein got their first big break in television when they wrote the weekly monologue for comedian Bill Cosby on The New Bill Cosby Show (CBS, 1972-1973); working with Tom and Dick Smothers on The Smothers Brothers Show (NBC, 1975) and with legendary comedy writer Pat McCormick on several TV shows; and how a funny moment with writer Stanley Ralph Ross when he and Bob worked together on The New Bill Cosby Show later became the inspiration for one of the Grandfather Stratton episodes of Silver Spoons (NBC, 1982-1987). Bob's memoir, Funny is Money, is available in hardcover, paperback, and as a eBook through Bear Manor Media and Amazon.com.
TVC 729.3: From March 2016: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the influence of comedian George Burns on two generations of TV comedy writers. George Burns died on Mar. 9, 1996 as part of This Week in TV History.
TVC 729.4: Ed welcomes back renowned actress, author, and conservationist Stefanie Powers (Hart to Hart, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., One from the Hart). The United Nations recently honored Stefanie as an Agent of Change in recognition for her work with the William Holden Wildlife Foundation, the nonprofit organization that Stefanie established in 1982 in memory of her longtime life partner that continues and furthers the conservation work of William Holden in East Africa. Topics this segment include how Stefanie's passion for protecting animals and preserving wildlife stems from her early childhood; how Holden was never afraid to back from a challenge, when he was a young man; how Holden came to form the first-ever game ranch for the preservation of species in East Africa in 1950, long before the general public ever knew about conservationism; and the circumstances that led Stefanie to be cast as April Dancer in The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. Calendar year 2026 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the premiere of The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. March is Women's History Month, while Wednesday, Apr. 22 is Earth Day. Stefanie Powers is also profiled in Vision for the Future: Capturing Inspiring Stories from Leaders and Changemakers, a new anthology eBook that profiles twenty-five visionaries who not only are making a significant impact in their respective fields, but are dedicated to making the world a better place through hope, action, and lasting change. Vision for the Future is available for free at visionforthefuture.ai.
TVC 726.5: From March 2016: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of the Emmy Award-winning drama Family (ABC, 1976-1980) as part of This Week in TV History.
TVC 726.6: From February 2014: Ed and guest co-host Phil Gries welcome Joe Franklin, the legendary TV talk show host whose popular weekday talk show, Joe Franklin's Memory Lane, not only aired every day on New York television for more than forty years (1950-1993), but was also broadcast nationally for many years on superstation WOR and syndicated in many other markets. This past Thursday, Mar. 12, 2026 would have been Franklin's 100th birthday.
TVC 726.7: Ed and guest co-host Phil Gries play more of their conversation with legendary TV talk show host Joe Franklin. Our conversation with Joe originally aired in February 2014, eleven months before his passing in January 2015. Thursday, Mar. 12, 2026 would have been Joe Franklin's 100th birthday.
TVC 728.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with authors, playwrights, and producers Anthony Wynn and Robert Wood. Tony and Bob's latest book, Two for the Road, chronicles the lifelong love story of Barry Morse and his wife of sixty years, actress Sydney Sturgess, as told through the many cards, letters, and audio recordings that Barry and Sydney sent to each other in the course of their marriage. Topics in this segment include Morse's lifelong friendship with playwright George Bernard Shaw; how he always took his work seriously, but never himself seriously; and his genuine affection and compassion for people. Two for the Road: The Lives and Love of Actors Barry Morse and Sydney Sturgess is available for purchase at Amazon.com in the U.S., Amazon.ca in Canada, and Amazon.co.uk in the UK, as well as many other online retailers. Anthony Wynn and Robert Wood also produced the short film The Return of Victor Bergman, which was recently released on Blu-ray by Anderson Entertainment as part of their Space 1999: Super Space Theatre Collectors Edition Blu-ray package. Barry Morse filmed this piece just before his death in 2008.
TVC 728.2: TV Confidential remembers Neil Sedaka, the Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and pianist who sold millions of records worldwide and who wrote or co-wrote more than five hundred songs for himself and other artists in a career that spanned nearly seven decades. Neil Sedaka passed away Friday, Feb. 27 at the age of eighty-six. Because of the often symbiotic relationship between music and television, Neil Sedaka has been the subject of many conversations on TV Confidential, including this segment from June 2012 with Rich Podolksy about Aldon Music, the song publishing firm formed by Don Kirshner in 1958 that published more than two hundred hit records in a five year span, while also launching the careers of such artists as Bobby Darin, Connie Francis, Carole King, Howard Greenfield, and Neil Sedaka. Rich Podolsky's books on music history include Don Kirshner: The Man with The Golden Ear and Neil Sedaka: Rock 'n' Roll Survivor.
TVC 728.3: Our remembrance of Neil Sedaka continues with clips from our conversation from March 2024 with legendary music manager Harvey Lisberg about "Is This the Way to Amarillo," the Sedaka-penned song that became a huge hit in 1971 for British singer Tony Christie; from April 2016 with Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Toni Tennille about "Love Will Keep Us Together," the Sedaka tune that made superstars out of Captain and Tennille while also winning the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1975; and from September 2025 with Ruta Lee about one of Sedaka's final public appearances, a surprise performance at Ruta's ninetieth birthday celebration in May 2025. Neil Sedaka passed away Friday, Feb. 27 at the age of eighty-six. Photo of Neil Sedaka courtesy Facebook.
TVC 728.4: Ed welcomes back actor, author, and documentary filmmaker James Rosin. Jim wrote, produced, and directed Philly Hoops, a deep dive into the early years of one of the NBA's most storied franchises, The Philadelphia Warriors (now the Golden State Warriors), that also traces the rise of professional basketball in the City of Brotherly Love, including the history of the Philadelphia SPHAs, the first professional basketball team in Philadelphia, and a look at the life and legacy of Eddie Gottlieb, the man who not only owned and operated the SPHAs, but was the original owner and coach of the Philadelphia Warriors franchise, not to mention one of the founders of the NBA. Philly Hoops is available on DVD through Amazon.com as well as MovieZyng.com.
TVC 728.5: Actor, author, and documentary filmmaker James Rosin talks to Ed about Wilt Chamberlain's historic 100-point game for the Philadelphia Warriors, which occurred on Mar. 2, 1962 in Hershey, Pennsylvania (the Warriors beat the New York Knicks that night, 169-147); how many of the Warriors players during the first sixteen years of the franchise, including Chamberlain, had direct ties to the city of Philadelphia; and the sale of the Warriors to San Francisco in 1962. Jim's documentary Philly Hoops is available on DVD through Amazon.com as well as MovieZyng.com. Photo of Wilt Chamberlain by Paul Vathis and courtesy Wirephoto Archives.
TVC 728.6: Actor, author, and documentary filmmaker James Rosin talks to Ed about how the Philadelphia SPHAs, the first professional basketball team in Philadelphia, were also one of the best teams on the East Coast during the first part of the twentieth century, competing against—and often beating—some of the best teams in the country, including the Harlem Globetrotters; and how the SPHAs eventually morphed into the Washington Generals, the traveling exhibition team that became the Globetrotters' permanent perennial opponent. Jim's documentary Philly Hoops is available on DVD through Amazon.com as well as MovieZyng.com. Photo of the SPHAs courtesy Encylopedia of Greater Philadelphia.
TVC 727.1: Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen join Ed for an expanded edition of This Week in TV History that remembers Rob Reiner, the Emmy Award-winning actor and writer and Academy Award-nominated director and producer who died tragically on Dec. 14, 2025. Reiner was born on Mar. 6, 1947. The segment begins with Tony sharing a story about the circumstances that led him to spend an afternoon with Reiner about thirty years ago. Photo courtesy Newsday
TVC 727.2: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss Rob Reiner's experience as a staff writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (CBS, 1967-1969), as well as some of Reiner's notable "non-Meathead" roles on television, including his guest appearances as Myrna's boyfriend Sheldn on The Odd Couple in September 1974 (in the episode that also marked Penny Marshall's final appearance as Myrna) and as second-rate pro football quarterback King Sturtevant in "The No-Cut Contract," an episode of The Rockford Files that originally aired in January 1976. Rob Reiner was born Mar. 6, 1947 as part of This Week in TV History.
TVC 727.3: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss Rob Reiner's production company, Castle Rock Entertainment, which produced, among other things, the long-running sitcom Seinfeld; the role that Reiner played in bringing Michael McKean and David L. Lander to the attention of Garry Marshall, which led to Marshall casting McKean and Lander as Lenny and Squiggy on Laverne & Shirley; and Reiner's marriages to Penny Marshall and Michele Singer. Rob Reiner was born Mar. 6, 1947 as part of This Week in TV History. Photo courtesy Embassy Pictures
TVC 727.3a: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss some of the lighter moments between Mike and Archie on All in the Family; why it was notable that many episodes of All in the Family took place on a Sunday; and how Rob Reiner created Norman Lear with recognizing that he could be funny on camera, even before his dad, Carl Reiner, did. Rob Reiner was born Mar. 6, 1947 as part of This Week in TV History.
TVC 727.4: Ed welcomes back authors, playwrights, and producers Anthony Wynn and Robert Wood. Tony and Bob worked closely with actor Barry Morse on numerous projects during the last thirteen years of Barry's life, including the publication of his memoir, Remember with Advantages, as well as two stage productions of A.R. Gurney's Love Letters featuring Barry Morse. Tony and Bob's latest book, Two for the Road, chronicles the lifelong love story of Barry Morse and his wife of sixty years, actress Sydney Sturgess, as told through the many cards, letters, and audio recordings that Barry and Sydney sent to each other in the course of their marriage. Two for the Road also includes the publication of the play that Tony and Robert wrote about Barry and Sydney (also called Two for the Road), which was first presented as a staged reading in 2017. Topics this segment include how Two for the Road, both the play and the book, is essentially the play Love Letters, tailored for Morse and Sturgess. Two for the Road: The Lives and Love of Actors Barry Morse and Sydney Sturgess is available for purchase at Amazon.com in the U.S., Amazon.ca in Canada, and Amazon.co.uk in the UK, as well as many other online retailers.
TVC 727.5: Barry Morse biographers Anthony Wynn and Robert Wood talk to Ed about how Morse helped start PAL, the Performing Arts Lodges of Toronto (the Canadian equivalent of the Motion Pictures Actors Home in Woodland Hill, CA), shortly after his wife, Sydney Sturgess, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, as well as Morse's many efforts to raise funding for PAL throughout the last two decades of his life. Tony and Bob's latest book, Two for the Road: The Lives and Love of Actors Barry Morse and Sydney Sturgess, is available for purchase at Amazon.com in the U.S., Amazon.ca in Canada, and Amazon.co.uk in the UK, as well as many other online retailers.
TVC 727.6: Barry Morse biographers Anthony Wynn and Robert Wood share some behind-the-scenes stories about the benefit productions of Love Letters from 1995 (featuring Barry Morse and June Lockhart) and from 1999 (with Morse and Barbara Bain). Other topics this segment include how Morse considered the fans of Space: 1999 to be his "honorary grandchildren." Tony and Bob's latest book, Two for the Road: The Lives and Love of Actors Barry Morse and Sydney Sturgess, is available for purchase at Amazon.com in the U.S., Amazon.ca in Canada, and Amazon.co.uk in the UK, as well as many other online retailers. Tony and Bob also produced the short film The Return of Victor Bergman, which was recently released on Blu-ray by Anderson Entertainment as part of their Space 1999: Super Space Theatre Collectors Edition Blu-ray package. Barry Morse filmed this piece just before his death in 2008.
TVC 726.1: From February 2016: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the final episode of Shindig (ABC, 1964-1966) on Jan. 8, 1966, the premiere of Third Rock from the Sun (NBC, 1996-2001) on Jan. 9, 1996, and the premiere of Sam 'n' Henry on Chicago radio station WGN on Jan. 12, 1926. Created by and starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, and considered by many to be the first situation comedy, Sam 'n' Henry was reworked two years later as the long-running but controversial series Amos 'n' Andy.
TVC 726.2: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Hal Eisner, the multiple award-winning broadcast journalist who covered the news every day for fifty-eight years, including fifteen years at various radio stations in Texas and Louisiana and the last forty-three years on television in Los Angeles. Hal's memoir, An Accidental Career, is available through Amazon.com. Topics this segment include how Hal's encounters with such celebrities as Ed Asner and Roy Scheider; how news reporting is another form of storytelling; and how living in retirement can be like floating in a bowl of Jell-o. For our listeners in the Greater L.A. Metro area, Hal Eisner will appear at Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena, CA on Wednesday, Mar. 4 beginning at 7pm.
TVC 726.3: Ed welcomes Jennifer Jones, the first African-American member of the world renowned Radio City Rockettes, and an award-winning performer who is celebrated for her pioneering achievements and unwavering advocacy for equal rights in the arts. Jennifer's memoir, Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from The First African-American Rockette, not only tells the story of how she helped establish a transformative era for The Rockettes while inspiring other black dancers, but also recounts her triumphant battle against colorectal cancer in 2018. March is both Women's History Month and Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Becoming Spectacular is available wherever books are sold through Amistad Books, an imprint of HarperCollins. Topics this segment include how Jennifer's faith helped her overcome some of the challenges she faced during her early days with the Rockettes; how she knew, from a young age, that she wanted to perform on stage; and how conquering self-doubt is like peeling away layers of an onion. For our listeners in the Greater L.A. Metro area, Jennifer Jones' story is also included in This Joint is Jumpin', a new exhibit at The Hollywood Museum that honors the contributions of many notable black artists, singers, actors, writers, and sports figures, including Whitney Houston, Lena Horne, Denzel Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, The Pointer Sisters, Dionne Warwick, Forrest Whitaker, Wesley Snipes, Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Angela Bassett, Muhammad Ali, Will Smith, Halle Berry, Viola Davis, Diana Ross, and Oprah Winfrey. For tickets and more information: TheHollywoodMuseum.com
TVC 726.4: Jennifer Jones, the first African-American member of the Radio City Rockettes, talks to Ed about her battle against colorectal cancer in 2018 (including the importance of having the right medical team for her); how she came to write her children's book, On the Line; how she came to create the Dancing Jenn doll; and how she first dreamed of dancing on stage when she was nine years old, after seeing The Wiz on Broadway. March is both Women's History Month and Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Both Jennifer's memoir, Becoming Spectacular, and her children's book, On the Line, are available through HarperCollins and Amazon.com, while the Dancing Jenn doll is available through Wal-Mart. For our listeners in the Greater L.A. Metro area, Jennifer Jones' story is also included in This Joint is Jumpin', a new exhibit at The Hollywood Museum that honors the contributions of many notable black artists, singers, actors, writers, and sports figures. For tickets and more information: TheHollywoodMuseum.com
TVC 725.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Harvey Lisberg, the legendary music manager who shaped the careers of such iconic artists as Herman's Hermits, 10cc, and Tony Christie. Topics this segment include why Herman's Hermits did not tour the United States during the last three years when they were together; how changing trends in the music industry ultimately played a role in the band's demise; and why Don Kirshner respected Harvey's uncanny ability to recognize a hit record. Harvey's memoir, I'm Into Something Good: My Life Managing 10cc, Herman's Hermits, and Many More, is available wherever books are sold through Omnibus Press. Chuck Harter co-hosts.
TVC 725.2: Harvey Lisberg, manager of Herman's Hermits, talks to Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter about the important role that radio played in the band's rise to the top of the charts; Harvey's favorite songs of Herman's Hermits; and why Peter Noone continues to be a true showman to this day. Harvey's memoir, I'm Into Something Good, is available wherever books are sold through Omnibus Press.
TVC 725.3: From January 2012: Award-winning television writer/producer Larry Brody talks to Ed about some of the ways in which television has changed since he first broke in as a writer in the late 1960s; Larry's experience working on Barnaby Jones, The Streets of San Francisco, and other shows produced by Quinn Martin; and why the medical drama House also serves as an illustration for how the television industry works.
TVC 725.4: Ed welcomes Hal Eisner, the multiple award-winning broadcast journalist who covered the news every day for fifty-eight years, including fifteen years at various radio stations in Texas and Louisiana and the last forty-three years on television in Los Angeles, primarily as a field reporter for FOX 11, but also for KCOP (Channel 13) and, for a few years, as a reporter for the L.A. bureau of CNN. Hal's memoir, An Accidental Career, is available through Amazon.com. Topics this segment include how Hal's ability to connect immediately with the people whose lives he covered—a trait he got from his dad—has served him well throughout his career, even in difficult circumstances; the power of organic reporting; and why Hal chose to remain in Los Angeles and cover local news after his tenure at CNN ended. For our listeners in the Greater L.A. Metro area, Hal Eisner will appear at Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena, CA on Wednesday, Mar. 4 beginning at 7pm.
TVC 725.5: Award-winning broadcast journalist Hal Eisner talks to Ed about the day in March 2021 when he was nearly killed after being struck by a drunk driver while covering a story in Hollywood—and the remarkable role that social media played in helping him get back on his feet. Hal's memoir, An Accidental Career, is available through Amazon.com. For our listeners in the Greater L.A. Metro area, Hal Eisner will appear at Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena, CA on Wednesday, Mar. 4 beginning at 7pm.
TVC 724.1: Ed welcomes back Harvey Lisberg, the legendary music manager who shaped the careers of such iconic artists as Herman's Hermits, 10cc, and Tony Christie. Harvey's memoir, I'm Into Something Good, a captivating journey through the golden era of music, is available wherever books are sold. Topics this segment include what made Herman's Hermits different from most other British bands of the 1960s; how "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter" began as a novelty song before becoming one of the band's biggest hits; and why the band's first appearance on television was "a disaster." Chuck Harter co-hosts.
TVC 724.2: Harvey Lisberg, manager of Herman's Hermits, talks to Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter about the band's brief foray into motion pictures in the mid 1960s (including Where The Boys Meet the Girls and Hold On!), and why the band's voices, particularly on the harmonies of their songs, was critical to their success. Harvey's memoir, I'm Into Something Good: My Life Managing 10cc, Herman's Hermits, and Many More, is available wherever books are sold through Omnibus Press.
TVC 724.3: Harvey Lisberg, manager of Herman's Hermits, talks to Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter about why Hold On! (1966), the first movie starring Herman's Hermits, is "a poor man's A Hard Day's Night; how frontman Peter Noone handled the band's sudden burst to fame when he was just sixteen; and why the music of Herman's Hermits was never as respected in England as it was in the United States. Harvey's memoir, I'm Into Something Good: My Life Managing 10cc, Herman's Hermits, and Many More, is available wherever books are sold through Omnibus Press.
TVC 708.1: From October 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of The Flintstones (ABC, 1960-1966), the first animated series development for prime time, along with the various spinoffs and reimaginings of The Flintstones over the ensuing decades.
TVC 708.2: From October 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back to Game 1 of the 1955 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, the first time that a World Series game was broadcast in color. Mel Allen and Vin Scully covered the game for NBC. Photo courtesy National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
TVC 708.3: From October 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of Baywatch Nights (Synd., 1995-1997), the spinoff of Baywatch starring David Hasselhoff, Gregory Alan Williams, Angie Harmon, and Donna D’Errico, the premise of which was more or less “Mitch Buchannon, private detective.”
TVC 708.4: From October 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at how the print and television media covered the death of Rock Hudson. The legendary actor and screen heartthrob died from complications on Oct. 2, 1985. Photo of Rock Hudson courtesy People magazine
TVC 708.5: TV Confidential pays tribute to Academy Award winner Robert Redford by playing highlights from conservations we’ve had with actors who either co-starred with Redford or were directed by him, including Hank Garrett (Three Days of the Condor), Basil Hoffman (The Electric Horseman, Ordinary People, All the President’s Men, The Milagro Beanfield War), and Dinah Manoff (Ordinary People). Also in the segment: special tributes from Stefanie Powers and Joan Van Ark, courtesy of B. Harlan Boll. Robert Redford passed away on Tuesday, Sept. 16 at age eighty-nine.
As long as we're in a Robert Redford frame of mind... please enjoy this special preview of our upcoming conversation with Louise Sorel (Days of Our Lives, Santa Barbara). Louise's husband Herb Edelman starred with Redford in both the original 1963 Broadway production of Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park as well as the 1967 film adaptation. Louise's new book, If There Were No Dogs: Musings and Mutterings, is now available through Book Baby, Amazon.com, and wherever books are sold online. Our complete interview with Louise Sorel will air later in October. Photo of Herb Edelman and Robert Redford courtesy Getty Images. Louise Sorel is scheduled to appear at United Solo, the world's largest solo theatre festival, in New York City on Saturday, Nov. 15 beginning at 2pm. She'll read passages from If There Were No Dogs, followed by a Q&A session. Click here for tickets and more details.
TVC 708.6: Ed welcomes Howard Smith, a retired tech mogul who not only found himself living four doors down the street from Johnny Carson in 1985, but became tennis buddies and, later, best friends with the legendary King of Late Night for the next twenty years. Howard shares many stories of the Johnny Carson he knew—a funny, kind, generous, modest, shy, yet deeply complex man that he knew simply as John—in My Friend Johnny: The Last 20 Years of a Beautiful Life with Johnny Carson and Friends, which you can find right now at MyFriendJohnny.com Calendar year 2025 marks not only the twentieth anniversary of Carson’s passing, but the 100th anniversary of his birth.
TVC 708.6: Howard Smith talks to Ed about the five characteristics that Johnny Carson, Sidney Poitier, Clint Eastwood, Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda, and many other successful people from business, sports, politics, and entertainment have all embodied throughout their life and career. Howard’s new book, My Friend Johnny: The Last 20 Years of a Beautiful Life with Johnny Carson and Friends, is now available at MyFriendJohnny.com
We've been away for a few days, but we'll have a brand new edition of TV Confidential ready for you later this week. In the meantime, please enjoy this special preview of our upcoming conversation with Emmy Award-winning actress Mariette Hartley (Goodnight, Beantown, Law and Order: SVU). Mariette stars, along with her husband Jerry Sroka, in Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story, a romantic comedy that also includes a cast of such other film and TV favorites as Tess Harper, Bernie Kopell, Morgan Fairchild, Peter Onorati, Peter McNichol, and many, many others. Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story is available now for streaming on demand on Amazon Prime and other major platforms. Our complete interview with Mariette will air later in October.
Paul Myers, author of John Candy: A Life in Comedy, talks to Ed about the famous "I like me" speech that John Candy delivered as Del Griffith in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987) and how director John Hughes understood the essence of Candy as few others did. John Candy: A Life in Comedy becomes available wherever books are sold Tuesday, Oct. 7 through House of Anansi Press, as well as Amazon.com.
Listeners in the San Francisco Bay Area can meet Paul Myers at Mrs Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue in Berkeley, CA on Tuesday Oct. 7 beginning at 7pm. Paul will also appear on stage at the 4 Star Theatre, 2200 Clement Street in San Francisco, CA on Saturday Oct. 11 beginning at 7pm; Paul's appearance that night will be immediately followed by a screening of Uncle Buck. For details on these and other upcoming events, go to Houseof Anansi.com and type in John Candy A Life in Comedy Book Tour. Our complete interview with Paul Myers will air later in October on TV Confidential.
From September 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the broadcast history of The Wild, Wild West (CBS, 1965-1969), which originally premiered on CBS in September 1965.
From September 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of The Smothers Brothers Show (CBS, 1965-1966), a short-lived sitcom starring Tom and Dick Smothers that is mostly remembered today for being part of Nick at Nite’s weekend lineup in the late 1980s. The failure of The Smothers Brothers Show spurred the Smothers (and Tom in particular) to take more creative control when CBS gave them a second chance in January 1967, with the premiere of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (CBS, 1967-1969).
TVC 707.1: From September 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the legacy of Get Smart (NBC/CBS, 1965-1970), which premiered on NBC on Sept. 18, 1965.
TVC 707.2: From September 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of Hogan’s Heroes (CBS, 1965-1971) on Sept. 17, 1965.
TVC 707.3: From April 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of Truth or Consequences on television on Sept. 7, 1950, ten years after it had premiered on in 1940.
TVC 707.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with John McCafferty, the actor known around the world as Billy Joe Wright on Texas (NBC, 1980-1982), and Tom Lisanti, sixties movie historian and 1970s daytime TV historian. John is among the many actors, writers, directors, NBC executives, and other behind-the-scenes personnel that Tom interviewed for his latest book, Texas: An Oral History of Daytime’s Answer to Dallas. Topics this segment include how series producer Paul Rauch pushed for casting stage actors fro the series whenever possible, while then-NBC president Fred Silverman insisted on casting younger actors. Texas: An Oral History of Daytime’s Answer to Dallas is available wherever books are sold through our friends at Bear Manor Media.
TVC 707.6: John McCafferty, Tom Lisanti, and Ed discuss why Texas (NBC, 1980-1982) remains popular with fans more than forty years later, and how the series was particularly popular in Canada during its original network run. Tom’s latest book, Texas: An Oral History of Daytime’s Answer to Dallas, is available wherever books are sold through our friends at Bear Manor Media.
TVC 706.1: From September 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed commemorate the milestone broadcast anniversaries for Green Acres (CBS, 1965-1970) and Xena: Warrior Princess (Synd., 1995-2001), both of which originally premiered during This Week in TV History.
TVC 706.2: From September 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember The Dean Martin Show (NBC, 1965-1974), which originally premiered during This Week in TV History. Topics this segment include Martin’s initial reluctance to do a weekly series, and how the format morphed in later years into The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts.
TVC 706.3: From December 2011: Ed welcomes the Alberici Sisters (Maria Lauren and Linda Eichberg), co-authors of Beyond Our Wildest Dreams, a memoir of their two decades performing with Dean Martin as members of the Dean Martin Golddiggers that particularly focuses on the years 1973 through 1978, one of the last great eras of entertainment.
TVC 706.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Ruta Lee (High Rollers, Witness for the Prosecution, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Consider Your Ass Kissed), entertainment legend and the chairperson emeritus of The Thalians. Ruta recently announced that The Thalians will honor Neil Sedaka with its Mr. Wonderful award at this year’s Thalians Christmas gala, which will take place at the Bel Air Country Club Saturday, Dec. 6. The evening will also include a special appearance by Ann Jillian. For tickets and more information, Thalians.org. Topics this segment include some of the previous recipients of Mr. Wonderful award, which include Lucille Ball (that year, of course, it became the “Ms. Wonderful” award) and Clint Eastwood.
TVC 706.5: Ed welcomes John McCafferty, the actor known around the world as Billy Joe Wright on Texas (NBC, 1980-1982), and Tom Lisanti, sixties movie historian and 1970s daytime TV historian. John is among the many actors, writers, directors, NBC executives, and other behind-the-scenes personnel that Tom interviewed for his latest book, Texas: An Oral History of Daytime’s Answer to Dallas—everything you wanted about the highly touted spin-off of Another World (NBC, 1964-1999) that may not have lived up to the expectations of then-NBC head Fred Silverman, but which nonetheless remains beloved by its fans today. Texas: An Oral History of Daytime’s Answer to Dallas is available wherever books are sold through our friends at Bear Manor Media.
TVC 706.6: TV Confidential marks the recent passing of renowned film and TV executive Frank Price by playing a clip from our April 2014 conversation with author Paul Green about the life and career of Roy Huggins. Price not only collaborated with Roy Huggins several times while they were both at Universal Television, but became Huggins’ son-in-law after marrying Roy’s daughter, actress Katherine Crawford. He was also among the many people that Paul Green interviewed for his book Roy Huggins: Creator of Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, The Fugitive, and The Rockford Files. Frank Price passed away on Monday, Aug. 25 at age ninety-five.
TVC 705.1: TV Confidential celebrates the recent centennial birthday of actress June Lockhart by bringing you an encore presentation of our conversation with June from March 2015 in which we discussed the ongoing popularity of Lost in Space (particularly, on MeTV), plus a few other stories from her showbiz career. June Lockhart turned 100 on June 25, 2025. Also in this segment: A replay from a segment that originally aired in September 2015 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed discussed the premiere of Lost in Space on CBS in 1965.
TVC 705.2: From August 2018: Chuck Harter joins Ed for the last of our three-part look at the era of pop music TV shows from the mid to late 1960s. This segment focuses on Malibu U (ABC, 1967), a summer replacement series hosted by Rick Nelson and featuring the Bob Banas Dancers (along with such guests as Leonard Nimoy, James Darren, Dionne Warwick, The Turtles, The Doors, and The Fifth Dimension); Groovy (Syndicated, 1967-1970), a beach party/teen dance show hosted by Michael Blodgett; and Happening ’68 (ABC, 1968-1969), a music variety series hosted by Paul Revere and Mark Lindsday that aired both in prime time and in daytime.
TVC 705.3: From August 2018: Chuck Harter and Ed remember The Music Scene (ABC, 1969), the short-lived music comedy series from the fall of 1969 that featured such top Billboard artists as The Beatles, James Brown, Neil Diamond, Three Dog Night, Tom Jones, Janis Joplin, Sly and The Family Stone—all performing live every week. Hosted by comedian David Steinberg, and also featuring a house band led by Patrick Williams and a regular improvisational comedy group that included a pre-Laugh-In Lily Tomlin, The Music Scene is mostly remembered today for its odd length (45 minutes).
TVC 705.4: Ed welcomes back Ruta Lee (High Rollers, Witness for the Prosecution, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Consider Your Ass Kissed), legendary singer, actress, and philanthropist, and the chairperson emeritus of The Thalians, the charitable organization to which Ruta has dedicated much of her life over the past seventy years, and which to date has raised has raised more than $50 million for mental health related causes. Ruta recently announced that The Thalians will honor Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Neil Sedaka with its Mr. Wonderful award at this year’s Thalians Christmas gala, which will take place at the Bel Air Country Club Saturday, Dec. 6. The evening will also include a special appearance by the one and only Ann Jillian. For tickets and more information, Thalians.org. Topics this segment include the back story of Mr. Wonderful award (which was designed by Walt Disney), and why Ruta believes that Southern California “is the place where God lives.”
TVC 705.5: Entertainment legend Ruta Lee talks to Ed about why live theatre has always been near and dear to her heart. The Thalians, the charitable organization to which Ruta has dedicated much of her life over the past seventy years, will present Neil Sedaka with its annual Mr. Wonderful award at this year’s Thalians Christmas gala, which will take place at the Bel Air Country Club Saturday, Dec. 6. The evening will also include a special appearance by the one and only Ann Jillian. For tickets and more information, Thalians.org.
TVC 704.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with award-winning producer, director, and author Joseph Wallenstein (Knots Landing, Hotel, Seventh Heaven, Flynn vs. Miranda, Nothing Dies for Film), longtime director of physical production for the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the host of the new podcast Whatcha Know Joe? Topics this segment include Joe’s experience working with Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins in American Hot Wax; working with Alex Karras, Garo Yepremian, Mike Lucci, and other NFL players in Paper Lion; and how Joe singlehandedly “nearly ruined” The Godfather (according to director Francis Ford Coppola). Whatcha Know Joe? is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever else you find podcasts.
TVC 704.2: Ed welcomes retired U.S. Army Airborne Ranger Barry Todd. Barry is the author of Stand Your Ground: One Man’s Self-Defense Nightmare, a firsthand look at the emotional and financial toll of defending oneself within a flawed judicial system, which Barry had to do in 2014 after he was wrongfully incarcerated on charges of attempted murder and aggravated assault—despite overwhelming video security camera evidence to the contrary—and how the ordeal ultimately fueled Barry’s determination to help others through the Defense Resources Foundation, a nonprofit organization that Barry founded to make sure other people receive a fair chance in the justice system. Stand Your Ground is available at Amazon, BarnesandNoble.com, StandYourGroundBook.com. All proceeds from sales of the book will support the efforts of the Defense Resources Foundation.
TVC 704.3: TV Confidential commemorates August 29, The Day The Running Stopped, the date on which the famous final episode of The Fugitive originally aired in 1967, by bringing you encore presentations of some of our interviews with actors who appeared on The Fugitive, beginning with a clip from a conversation that originally aired on Talking Television in which Barry Morse shares a few memories with Dave White and Ed Robertson about his career in stage and television, including insight into how he approached playing Gerard on The Fugitive. This interview originally aired in May 2007, about nine months before Barry's death in February 2008. The accompanying photo of Barry with Ed Robertson was taken in November 1995.
TVC 704.4: TV Confidential commemorates August 29, The Day The Running Stopped, by bringing you encore presentations of some of our interviews with actors who appeared on The Fugitive, including this clip from August 2015 in which Richard Anderson (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Perry Mason, Dan August) talks to Ed and guest co-host Alan Doshna about meeting Gary Cooper and Clark Gable early in his career at M-G-M; working with Rock Hudson and John Frankenheimer in Seconds; and playing Lt. Steve Drumm in the final season of Perry Mason.
TVC 704.5: TV Confidential commemorates August 29, The Day The Running Stopped, with an encore presentation of our January 2012 conversation with actress Jacqueline Scott (The Fugitive, Duel). Among other topics in this segment, Jacqui answers email questions from listeners about working with David Janssen and Barry Morse on The Fugitive.
TVC 704.6: TV Confidential commemorates August 29, The Day The Running Stopped, with an encore presentation of our July 2014 conversation with actress Diane Baker. Television writer Paul Robert Coyle co-hosts.
TVC 703.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Joseph Atkins, author of Harry Dean Stanton: Hollywood’s Zen Rebel, a deep dive into the life and times of the angular-faced character actor who became a leading man in the 1980s (most notably, with Paris, Texas and Repo Man). Topics this segment include how the success of Paris, Texas paved the way for Stanton’s singing career (even though his music background stemmed from his upbringing in Kentucky); the back story of how Stanton came to play Roman Grant in Big Love; how Sam Shepard was instrumental in director Wim Wenders casting Stanton in Paris, Texas; and how the word “Zen” came to be associated with Stanton. Harry Dean Stanton: Hollywood’s Zen Rebel is available through University Press of Kentucky as well as Amazon.com.
TVC 703.3: From August 2018: Chuck Harter joins Ed for Part 2 of our look at the era of pop music TV shows from the mid to late 1960s. Topics this segment include The Lloyd Thaxton Show, a popular weekday afternoon show featuring teenagers dancing to hit records, plus guest appearances by such top artists as The Byrds, The Turtles, Jan and Dean, and Sonny and Cher. Originally produced for local television in Los Angeles, The Lloyd Thaxton Show became nationally syndicated in 1964.
TVC 703.4: From August 2018: Chuck Harter and Ed continue their look at nationally syndicated pop music TV shows from the mid to late 1960s. In this segment, we focus on Shebang (hosted by Casey Kasem), Hollywood a Go Go (aka Ninth Street West), Shivaree, and Groovy.
TVC 703.5: Ed welcomes back award-winning producer, director, and author Joseph Wallenstein (Knots Landing, Hotel, Seventh Heaven, Flynn vs. Miranda, Nothing Dies for Film), longtime director of physical production for the USC School of Cinematic Arts (where he helped oversee more than 15,000 student film projects without a single injury), and now host of the new podcast Whatcha Know Joe? Topics this segment include how Joe first became involved with USC. Whatcha Know Joe? is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever else you find podcasts.
TVC 703.6: Award-winning producer, director, and author Joseph Wallenstein talks to Ed about how Knots Landing producer Michael Filerman helped him become a director. Joe’s podcast, Whatcha Know Joe?, is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever else you find podcasts.
We'll be back with a brand new edition of TV Confidential later this week. In the meantime, please enjoy this clip from August 2012 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the life and career of Groucho Marx and the broadcast history of You Bet Your Life.
TVC 702.1: From August 2018: Chuck Harter joins Ed for Part 1 of a three-part look at Shindig, Hullabaloo, Where the Action Is and other national and syndicated pop music TV shows of the mid to late 1960s—a genre that not only showcased such popular groups as The Kinks, The Righteous Brothers, Herman’s Hermits, Darlene Love, Paul Revere and The Raiders, and Ike and Tina Turner, but which broke ground insofar as many of these shows were produced specifically for young viewers.
TVC 702.2: From August 2018: Chuck Harter and Ed continue their look at national, syndicated, and (in a few cases) locally produced pop music TV shows of the mid to late 1960s. Topics this segment include the back story of Hullabaloo, NBC’s answer to Shindig, which premiered in January 1965.
TVC 702.3: From August 2018: Chuck Harter and Ed discuss the on-air history of Where the Action Is (ABC, 1965-1967), a weekday afternoon music series, created by Dick Clark, that featured such artists as James Brown, Herman’s Hermits, and Paul Revere and The Raiders.
TVC 702.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Joseph Dougherty, author of Comfort and Joi, and Alexis Hunter, author of Joi Lansing: A Body to Die For, about the life and career of singer/actress Joi Lansing. Topics this segment include how Joi’s third husband, producer Stan Todd, not only helped Joi launch her nightclub singing career, but stepped up for both Joi and Alexis, particularly during Joi’s battle with breast cancer. Comfort and Joi is available from Tucker DS Press, while Joi Lansing: A Body to Die For is available from Bear Manor Media.
TVC 702.5: Ed welcomes Joseph Atkins, author of Harry Dean Stanton: Hollywood’s Zen Rebel, a deep dive into the life and times of the angular-faced character actor who not only became a leading man in the 1980s (most notably, with Paris, Texas and Repo Man), but was also an accomplished singer and musician. Joe’s book includes interviews with such Harry Dean Stanton contemporaries as Nehemiah Persoff, L.Q. Jones, Dabney Coleman, Dennis Quaid, directors Alex Cox and Wim Wenders, as well as many members of Stanton’s family. Harry Dean Stanton: Hollywood’s Zen Rebel is available through University Press of Kentucky as well as Amazon.com. Topics this segment include how Stanton was arguably more authentic in his expression of The Method than any other actor; how he came to Hollywood in the 1960s hoping to leave his mark as a movie actor, but was pragmatic enough to recognize that television offered a lot of opportunities to find work; and how Stanton became frustrated near the end of the 1960s when contemporaries like Jack Nicholson and Warren Oates began finding leading roles, while he did not.
TVC 702.6: Joseph Atkins, author of Harry Dean Stanton: Hollywood’s Zen Rebel, talks to Ed how director Monte Hellman cast Stanton frequently in his movies, yet never saw him as a lead; how Stanton and Alex Cox, director of Repo Man, did not always see eye to eye during the early production of that movie; and how the soundtrack of Repo Man kept the film in the public eye. Harry Dean Stanton: Hollywood’s Zen Rebel is available through University Press of Kentucky as well as Amazon.com.
TVC 700.1: Emmy Award-winning writer, director, and producer Joseph Dougherty and author and artist Alexis Hunter join Ed for the first of a special two-part look at the life and career of Joi Lansing, the legendary Blonde Bombshell best known for her pin-up photos, her frequent work in movies and television throughout the '50s and '60s, and her successful nightclub singing act. Joe’s latest book, Comfort and Joi, is a part-biography, part-filmography, and part-appreciation of Joi Lansing that makes the case that Lansing was not only a much better actress than people gave her credit for, but could make even a seven-second silent bit in which she appears on the far edge of the frame interesting to watch just because she was in it. Alexis is the author of Joi Lansing: A Body to Die For, an intimate memoir of Alexis’s four-year relationship with Lansing, a period that coincided with the last four years of Joi’s life before she died from breast cancer in August 1972. Joi and Alexis had to keep their relationship secret, partly because of the pressure Joi felt to maintain her public image as the ultimate object of desire for men, and partly because the public at large in 1969 was not as accepting of intimate relationships between two members of the same sex as they are today. Topics this segment include the many karmic coincidences that brought Joe and Alexis together (as well as the many ways in which their books complement each other); how Joi honed her comedic skills while working with Lucille Ball and Bob Cummings; and Joi's experience working with Orson Welles not only in Touch of Evil, but in the award-winning comedy-drama Fountain of Youth.
TVC 701.2: Joseph Dougherty, author of Comfort and Joi, and Alexis Hunter, author of Joi Lansing: A Body to Die For, talk to Ed about the many times in which producer Al Simon and actress Nancy Kulp crossed paths with Joi Lansing; Joi’s notable television appearances, including her recurring role as Gladys Flatt in The Beverly Hillbillies; and Hot Cars (1956), a film noir thriller that, in many respects, marked Joi’s most prominent appearance on the big screen other than Touch of Evil. Comfort and Joi is available from Tucker DS Press, while Joi Lansing: A Body to Die For is available from Bear Manor Media.
TVC 701.3: From August 2016: Steve Binder, Emmy Award-winning producer and director and the co-author, along with Mary Beth Leidman, of Fade Up 26: The Movers and Shakers of Variety Television, talks to Ed about the controversy involving Petula Clark and Harry Belafonte behind the scenes of Clark’s 1968 special for NBC, and why both The Ed Sullivan Show and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour really shaped the genre of variety television as we know it today.
TVC 701.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with actor, author, playwright, and Emmy Award-winning producer Laurence Luckinbill (The Boys in the Band, The Delphi Bureau, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Lyndon, Hemingway, Teddy Tonight!, Clarence Darrow Tonight!). Topics this segment include how Larry and Mart Crowley, author of The Boys in the Band, had more in common with each other than either had realized; and the night when Larry saw actor Charles Laughton perform passages from the classics—a transformative experience that helped put Larry on his path to becoming an actor. Larry's autobiography, Affective Memories: How Chance and The Theater Saved My Life, is available wherever books are sold through Sunbury Press.
TVC 701.5: Actor and author Laurence Luckinbill (The Boys in the Band, The Delphi Bureau, Star Trek V, Affective Memories: How Chance and The Theater Saved My Life) talks to Ed about working with writer/producer Sam Rolfe on The Delphi Bureau (ABC, 1972-1973); how Larry’s portrayal of Glenn Garth Gregory as a “reluctant hero” was a first for American dramatic television (beating out James Garner’s reluctant hero Jim Rockford by two years); and the invaluable lesson about blocking that Larry learned from William Roderick when they starred together in the national stage tour of A Man for All Seasons. Larry's autobiography, Affective Memories, is available wherever books are sold through Sunbury Press.
TVC 701.6: Actor and author Laurence Luckinbill talks to Ed about why St. Thomas More, the protagonist of Robert Bolt’s award-winning play A Man for All Seasons, was one of the true disciples of Christ. Larry's autobiography, Affective Memories: How Chance and The Theater Saved My Life, is available wherever books are sold through Sunbury Press. Larry Luckinbill’s A History and a Quest is a mini documentary that provides a primary lesson in fundamental civics and a history of why America exists and why true democracy matters. The complete piece runs about forty minutes and is well worth watching. Larry Luckinbill's A History and a Quest is available right now for viewing on demand for free on the Lucie Arnaz Official YouTube Channel.
TVC 701.7: From August 2022: Chuck Harter shares a poignant memory of a scene that he witnessed at a Washington, D.C. tavern on Aug. 16, 1977, the day that Elvis Presley died.
TVC 700.1: From August 2016: Ed welcomes Steve Binder, Emmy Award-winning producer and director (Diana Ross: Live in Central Park, Elvis: The 1968 Comeback Special, The T.A.M.I. Show) and the co-author, along with Mary Beth Liedman, of Fade Up 26: The Movers and Shakers of Variety Television, an oral history of variety television, as told through the voices of the men and women who were and are responsible for bringing these shows into our homes for the past sixty-five years.
TVC 700.2: From August 2016: Steve Binder, Emmy Award-winning producer and director and the co-author, along with Mary Beth Leidman, of Fade Up 26: The Movers and Shakers of Variety Television, talks to Ed about working with Dwight Hemion on the pop music series Hullabaloo (NBC, 1965-1966). Gary Smith, Hemion’s longtime producing partner, passed away on Saturday, July 19 at the age of ninety.
TVC 700.3: Via remote from Las Vegas: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Morgan White, Jr., longtime late night radio personality for WBZ AM-FM/Boston, author of many books on a variety of subjects, and the Undisputed King of Trivia. Topics this segment include the back story of Morgan came to wear his trademark black leather cowboy hat; how he came to be immortalized in two of the works of artist John Wilson, including the statue Father and Child Reading on the campus of Roxbury Community College; and how he was once considered to audition for the role of Hawk in Spenser: For Hire. You can listen to Morgan every Saturday at 10pm ET on WBZ AM-FM/Boston.
TVC 700.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Kathleen Bradley, the first African-American model to join ranks with Barker’s Beauties on The Price is Right, and the actress known around the world as Mrs. Parker in Friday. Topics this segment include Kathleen’s years traveling the world as a member of the female soul and disco group The Love Machine; the time when director Oliver Stone met with Kathleen to discuss her playing a role in one of his films; and why, in many respects, Kathleen can be considered “the Jackie Robinson of The Price is Right.” Kathleen’s memoir, Backstage at The Price is Right, is available both at Amazon and at KathleenBradley.tv.
TVC 700.5: Ed back welcomes actor, author, playwright, and Emmy Award-winning producer Laurence Luckinbill (The Boys in the Band, The Delphi Bureau, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Lyndon, Hemingway, Teddy Tonight!, Clarence Darrow Tonight!). Topics this segment include why both the original stage production and the original theatrical release of The Boys in the Band are literature in the truest sense of the word; Larry's detailed recall of many of the events he depicts in his autobiography, Affective Memories: How Chance and The Theater Saved My Life; and why Larry, by his own admission, was a “bad boy” for most of his formative years, until he was finally given direction. Affective Memories is available wherever books are sold through Sunbury Press.
TVC 700.6: Actor and author Laurence Luckinbill (The Boys in the Band, The Delphi Bureau, Star Trek V, Affective Memories: How Chance and The Theater Saved My Life) talks to Ed about the many times in which providence has played a role in his life, including a pivotal night at the end of his first year as a pre-med student at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Larry's autobiography, Affective Memories, is available wherever books are sold through Sunbury Press.
Please enjoy this special bonus edition of the TV Confidential podcast honoring the memory of Loni Anderson, the actress known around the world as Jennifer Marlowe on WKRP in Cincinnati. Loni Anderson passed away Sunday, Aug. 3 at age seventy-nine. While we never had the opportunity to interview her directly on TV Confidential, Loni Anderson did appear on our program—kinda sorta—in September 2019, when we brought you remote coverage of the Opening Night ceremonies of a special exhibit at the Hollywood Museum honoring Barbara Eden. Loni Anderson was one of the guest speakers that night. She not only shared a few memories of her forty-plus-year friendship with Barbara Eden (which began when the two of them appeared as guests on a Bob Hope special), but—as you're about to hear—she described Barbara Eden as "the real bombshell in the audience." Photo of Loni Anderson courtesy Hanson & Schwam PR
TVC 699.1: An encore presentation of a conversation from May 2015 with Mick Martin, the longtime blues artist and radio host who enjoyed a parallel successful career as film critic for The Sacramento Union and other newspapers. Mick Martin passed away on Sunday, July 13 at age seventy-six. Mick interviewed hundreds of actors and musicians, including Clint Walker, Jack Kelly and Christopher Lee, while his books included Video Movie Guide, a guide to movies and TV shows available on home entertainment that Mick published annually for many years, and Them Ornery Mitchum Boys, a joint biography of actors Robert Mitchum and John Mitchum.
TVC 699.2: From May 2015: Blues artist, radio host, and film historian Mick Martin and Ed discuss why John Mitchum, the younger brother of Robert Mitchum, was something of a “Hard Luck Harry” until his memorable role opposite Clint Eastwood in the original Dirty Harry. Other topics this segment include a look at such other notable character actors as Andrew Robinson, Richard Farnsworth, and Wilford Brimley; why Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones are really “character actors” at heart; and why Lonesome Dove remains one of Mick’s favorite movies. Mick Martin passed away on Sunday, July 13 at age seventy-six.
TVC 699.3: Via remote from Las Vegas: Ed welcomes Morgan White, Jr., longtime late night radio personality for WBZ AM-FM/Boston, author of many books on a variety of subjects, and the Undisputed King of Trivia. Besides his deep roots in radio, Morgan has hosted live improv trivia shows, both in Boston and in other parts of the country, for more than forty-five years—and, as you're able to hear, no one else approaches the subject of trivia quite like he does. You can listen to Morgan every Saturday at 10pm ET on WBZ AM-FM/Boston.
TVC 699.4: Via remote from Las Vegas: Longtime Boston radio personality Morgan White, Jr. talks to Ed about meeting some of his animation heroes, including Daws Butler, Jay Ward, Bill Scott, and June Foray; how both Matt Damon and Ben Affeck were regular listeners of his late night show, before they became stars; and how Morgan became dear friends with one of his TV heroes, David McCallum. You can listen to Morgan every Saturday at 10pm ET on WBZ AM-FM/Boston.
TVC 699.5: Ed welcomes Kathleen Bradley, the first African-American model to join ranks with Barker’s Beauties on The Price is Right, and the actress known around the world as the voluptuous Mrs. Parker in the 1995 cult comedy Friday. Kathleen recently reunited with Ice Cube, one of her co-stars in Friday, on the set of Ice Cube’s music video for “It’s My Ego.” (Kathleen appears prominently in several scenes of the video; she is the stylishly dressed churchgoer in the blue dress and blue wide-brimmed hat.) Topics this segment include how Ice Cube personally requested that Kathleen play Mrs. Parker in Friday; why it was something of a miracle that Kathleen landed the role of Mrs. Parker, considering that the producers of The Price is Right made it difficult for her and other Barker’s Beauties to audition for parts in movies and other TV shows; and why making Friday itself was also something of a miracle. Kathleen’s memoir, Backstage at The Price is Right, is available both at Amazon and at KathleenBradley.tv.
TVC 699.6: Actress, supermodel, speaker, and author Kathleen Bradley talks to Ed about working with some of the other cast members of Friday, including Bernie Mac, Regina King, Tiny Lister, and John Witherspoon. Calendar year 2025 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the release of Friday. Kathleen’s memoir, Backstage at The Price is Right: Memoirs of a Barker Beauty, is available both at Amazon and at KathleenBradley.tv.
TVC 698.1: Ed welcomes Taylor Blackwell, the writer, director, and star of It Happened, the award-winning short biopic about legendary comedienne Judy Tenuta. It Happened was made with the cooperation and financial support of the Judy Tenuta Legacy, which also allowed Taylor to use Judy’s actual accordion in the film, as well as wear Judy’s jewelry, accessories, flowers, feather boas, and wardrobe. Topics this segment include how Taylor came to make the film, how she channeled Judy’s voice in the course of her performance, and how she was mentored by Burt Reynolds early in her acting career. If you run a film festival, or know someone who does, and may be interested in including It Happened: The Judy Tenuta Story, contact Taylor Blackwell at tayblackwell@gmail.com.
TVC 698.5: Ed welcomes Kiki Ebsen, youngest daughter of Buddy Ebsen, and an accomplished singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist in her own right. Kiki will perform her Joni Mitchell Tribute show at the Festival of Arts/Pagent of the Masters in Laguna Beach, CA on Saturday, July 26. She’ll also be part of the Al Jarreau Band Reunion Show at Southcoast Winery in Temecula, CA on Sunday, Sept. 14 beginning at 7pm. For more details on these and other events on Kiki’s calendar, go to the Calendar page at KikiEbsen.com. Topics this segment include how Kiki’s independent spirit stems from her father; Kiki’s approach to songwriting; why being an artist is a lifelong experience. Photo of Kiki Ebsen by Cliff Lipson. Photo courtesy KikiEbsen.com
TVC 698.6: Singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist Kiki Ebsen talks to Ed about the tapestry of stories available in The Great American Songbook; how Kiki’s lifelong passion for horses led her to start The Healing Equine Ranch, a nonprofit organization whose equine-assisted services integrates yoga philosophy, natural horsemanship principles, and trauma-informed science to create a profound connection between humans and horses; and how Kiki was once nearly strangled to death by the reins of a horse while taking Lee Meriwether’s daughters out for a ride. Kiki will perform at the Festival of Arts/Pagent of the Masters in Laguna Beach, CA on Saturday, July 26 and at Southcoast Winery in Temecula, CA on Sunday, Sept. 14. For details on these and other events on Kiki’s calendar, go to the Calendar page at KikiEbsen.com. Photo of Kiki Ebsen by Cliff Lipson. Photo courtesy KikiEbsen.com
A special preview of our upcoming conversation with Taylor Blackwell, the writer, director, and star of It Happened, the award-winning short biopic about legendary comedienne Judy Tenuta. Our complete conversation with Taylor will air during the weekend of July 18, then becomes available as a podcast on Monday, July 21. If you run a film festival, or know someone who does, and may be interested in including It Happened: The Judy Tenuta Story, contact Taylor Blackwell at tayblackwell@gmail.com.
TVC 697.1: Ed welcomes back Rich Manley, world-renowned “adventure illusionist” and the writer, producer, director, and host of Culture Shock: Bridging Cultures Through Magic, the popular series on Tubi that communicates the energy, humility, and compassion of people coming together through the shared experience of magic. The first season of Culture Shock is available for viewing on demand on Tubi, while the series was also recently renewed for a second season. Rich’s live stage show, Journal of Mystery, comes to The Wiggle Room at the Loews Hollywood Hotel in Hollywood, California on Saturday, July 12, with performances at other venues to follow. Keep up with Rich at ExpeditionRich.com.
From June 2023: Ed and Greg Ehrbar look back at the music and television career of Bobby Sherman as part of a conversation about the home entertainment release of Here Come the Brides (ABC, 1968-1970). Though Sherman first came into prominence as the house singer on Shindig (ABC, 1964-1966), the success of Here Come the Brides made him a teen idol, not to mention a gold-selling recording artist. Bobby Sherman passed away on Tuesday, June 24 at the age of eighty-one.
We'll be back with a brand new edition of TV Confidential later in July. In the meantime, please enjoy this clip from June 2011 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed remember The Bicentennial Minutes (CBS, 1974-1976), a series of one-minute educational television segments, produced by CBS News, that every night aired in prime time (usually at the end of the 8pm hour) to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the American Revolution. The series premiered on July 4, 1974 and was originally scheduled to end on July 4, 1976, but continued to run until the end of the bicentennial year, 1976.
TVC 696.4: Via remote from Davenport’s Restaurant in Encino, California: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Robert Crane, co-author, along with Christopher Fryer, of Three-Cornered Circle, is a screen play released in book form that is also an adaptation of one of the most poignant stories of Bob and Chris’ book Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father’s Unsolved Murder: the period in Bob’s life when he had to juggle the biggest break of his career at the time—being hired as right-hand man for movie superstar John Candy—with the tragic news that Bob’s wife at the time, artist and landscape designer Kari Hildegrand, has been diagnosed with cancer. Joining Bob and Ed at Davenport’s are commercial artist John Cerney, who did the cover art and other illustrations that appear in Three-Cornered Circle, and Meagan Bejar, the managing editor of the book. Topics this segment include how Bob first met John Candy while interviewing him and the other cast members of SCTV for Playboy magazine, how Candy embodied the Second City philosophy of “Yes, and…,” and how Candy was a sweet man with a huge heart who always did his best to take care of his family and the people who were closest to him. Three-Cornered Circle is available through Kill Fee Publishing.
TVC 696.5: Via remote from the back patio of Davenport’s Restaurant in Encino, California: Robert Crane, John Cerney, and Meagan Bejar talk to Ed about Bob’s experience with dealing with tragedy and loss; why “closure” is a media term; how John Candy came from a humble background, after losing his father when he was five; and how Candy once lobbied NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana to play for the Toronto Argonauts in the CFL when Candy co-owned that team. Bob’s latest book, Three-Cornered Circle, which he co-authored with Christopher Fryer, is available through Kill Fee Publishing.
TVC 696.6: Christopher Fryer, co-author, along with Robert Crane, of Three-Cornered Circle, shares a few of his favorite stories about his encounters with John Candy, including the time when he, Bob, Candy, and then-NBC broadcaster Bob Costas were all stuck in the same car together along the Garden State Parkway while heading for a concert in New Jersey. Three-Cornered Circle is available through Kill Fee Publishing.
A special preview of our upcoming interview with Kiki Ebsen, youngest daughter of Buddy Ebsen, and an accomplished singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist in her own right. Kiki will perform an evening of jazz standards at the G Spot jazz venue in Los Angeles on Sunday, July 6 beginning at 7pm. Our complete conversation with Kiki will air during the weekend of July 18 on TV Confidential, then will become available for listening on demand as a podcast on Monday, July 21. Photo of Kiki Ebsen by Cliff Lipson. Photo courtesy KikiEbsen.com
TVC 695.1: Ed welcomes Academy Award-nominated director and animator Bill Kroyer (FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Tron, Technological Threat). The title of Bill’s memoir, Mr. In-Between: My Life in the Middle of the Animation Revolution, is a play on words: He began his career in animation drawing something known as “in-betweens,” while the story arc of his career in animation happens to coincide with the many changes in the landscape of animation that have occurred over the past five decades. Mr. In-Between is available wherever books are sold through CRC Press. Topics this segment why working in animation is a “God-like” profession; the generosity in spirit among animators in general; how a chance meeting with legendary Warner Bros. animator Chuck Jones in Chicago circa 1974 inspired Bill to try his luck in Hollywood; plus Bill’s early experiences in television working with producer Glen Larson and Stephen J. Cannell.
TVC 695.2: Academy Award-nominated director and animator Bill Kroyer talks to Ed about what an “in-between” is in animation; why it took more than the success of Tron, the first feature motion picture to integrate computer-generated imagery, for CGI to take off; what led Bill into directing; and how he came to work with Mick Jagger on the music video for “Hard Woman,” one of the first videos to use CGI software that implemented movement. Bill’s memoir, Mr. In-Between: My Life in the Middle of the Animation Revolution, is available wherever books are sold through CRC Press.
TVC 695.4: Via remote from the back patio of Davenport’s Restaurant in Encino, California: Ed welcomes back Robert Crane, eldest son of Hogan’s Heroes star Bob Crane, and the author or co-author of several books on movies and television, including My UnHollywood Family, Hollywood Plateau, Jack Nicholson: The Early Years, Bruce Dern: Things I’ve Said, But Probably Shouldn’t Have: An Unrepentant Memoir, and Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father’s Unsolved Murder (the last three of which were collaborations with Bob’s longtime writing partner, Christopher Fryer). Bob and Chris’ latest book, Three-Cornered Circle, is a screen play released in book form that is also an adaptation of one of the most poignant stories of the Crane book: the period in Bob’s life when he had to juggle the biggest break of his career at the time—being hired as right-hand man for movie superstar John Candy—with the tragic news that Bob’s wife at the time, artist and landscape designer Kari Hildebrand, has been diagnosed with cancer. Three-Cornered Circle is available through Kill Fee Publishing. Also joining Bob and Ed at Davenport’s are commercial artist John Cerney, who did the cover art and other illustrations that appear in Three-Cornered Circle, and Meagan Bejar, the managing editor of the book.
TVC 695.5: Ed welcomes back Christopher Fryer, co-author, along with Robert Crane, of Three-Cornered Circle and other books on movies and television. Topics this segment include how Chris and Bob worked together on Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father’s Unsolved Murder (and, to some degree, on Three-Cornered Circle); the importance of using dialogue to conveying the emotion necessary to drive the story when writing for the screen; and why there can never any “closure” when someone you truly love suddenly dies. Three-Cornered Circle is available through Kill Fee Publishing.
TVC 694.1: Ed welcomes back Tom Lisanti, renowned historian of sixties cinema, and the author of such books as Carol Lynley: Her Film & TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy and Suspense and Ryan’s Hope: An Oral History of Daytime’s Groundbreaking Soap. Tom’s recent books include Dueling Harlows: The Race to Bring the Actress’s Life to the Silver Screen, everything you wanted to know about the two major motion pictures released in 1965 about screen legend Jean Harlow—both of which happened to be named Harlow—and the highly publicized efforts by rival producers Bill Sargent and Joseph Levine to out-do each other. Sargent’s Harlow, a quickly made independent movie starring Carol Lynley, was filmed in black and white, using Sargent’s patented technology Electronovision. Levine’s Harlow, a big budget biopic starring Carroll Baker, was filmed in color for Paramount Pictures. Both Harlows were originally released within a few weeks of each other in 1965; both are available now on home entertainment. Dueling Harlows is available from McFarlandPub.com. Topics this segment include why the Lynley/Sargent Harlow is much better than what the original reviews would suggest; how Lynley originally signed on because Judy Garland was attached to the project, only to remain stuck on it once Garland quit; and why the real-life story of Harlow herself generated such interest in movie makers.
TVC 694.2: Tom Lisanti, author of Dueling Harlows: The Race to Bring the Actress’s Life to the Silver Screen, talks to Ed about his forthcoming oral history of the brief period in which the daytime soap Another World (NBC, 1964-1999) expanded from sixty minutes in length to ninety minutes.
TVC 694.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began two programs ago with Steve Aldous and Gary Gillies, co-authors of The Harry O Viewing Companion: History and Episodes of the Classic Detective Series, a deep dive into the making of Harry O (ABC, 1974-1976), the short-lived but fondly remembered private eye series starring David Janssen, Henry Darrow, and Anthony Zerbe, that also offers insight into what made Harry O so special. Topics this segment include Janssen’s mounting frustration with ABC once each of the qualities that had made Harry O stand out from other private eye shows on television were slowly taken away once production of the series moved from San Diego to Los Angeles. The Harry O Viewing Companion is available wherever books are sold through McFarland Books.
TVC 694.6: Steve Aldous and Gary Gillies, co-authors of The Harry O Viewing Companion: History and Episodes of the Classic Detective Series, talk to Ed about the various reasons why Harry O was canceled in the spring of 1976, despite holding its own in the ratings; the contributions of producer Jerry Thorpe and director Richard Lang; and why part of the allure of Harry O stems from the fact that it only ran for two seasons. The Harry O Viewing Companion is available wherever books are sold through McFarland Books.
TVC 693.1: From January 2017: Emmy Award-winning actress Loretta Swit joins Ed for a conversation about her lifelong interest in watercolor painting, her “proprietary relationship” with wildlife, her vast stage career (including her then-recent portrayal of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt), and, of course, a few questions about MASH. Loretta Swit passed away on Friday, May 30 at the age of eighty-seven. At the time we spoke to Loretta in 2017, she had just released SwitHeart: The Watercolour Artistry & Animal Activism of Loretta Swit, a collection of sixty-four full-color paintings and drawings, all done by Loretta herself, and all accompanied by anecdotes and stories about Loretta’s life, career, and work on behalf of animals. All proceeds from sales of SwitHeart* will continue to support various animal rights organizations as part of Loretta’s endless campaign to end animal suffering and cruelty.
TVC 693.2: Part 2 of our January 2017 conversation with Loretta Swit about her lifelong interest in watercolor painting, her “proprietary relationship” with wildlife, her vast stage career (including her then-recent portrayal of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt), and a few questions about MASH, including Loretta's deep respect for real-life nurses; "The Nurses," the famous episode, written by Linda Bloodworth-Thompson and directed by Joan Darling, that forever changed the trajectory of the character of Major Margaret Houlihan; and the woman on whom Loretta based her portrayal of Margaret. Loretta Swit passed away on Friday, May 30 at the age of eighty-seven. All proceeds from sales of Loretta’s book, SwitHeart*, her SwitHeart greeting cards, and her signature perfume, SwitHeart, will continue to support various animal rights organizations as part of Loretta’s endless campaign to end animal suffering and cruelty.
TVC 693.3: Part 3 of our January 2017 conversation with Loretta Swit, including questions about her vast stage career (including her then-recent portrayal of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt) and the close-knit, almost theatre-like camaraderie between Loretta and her fellow cast members on MASH. Also in this segment: A quote from actor Jamie Farr, courtesy of B. Harlan Boll. Loretta Swit passed away on Friday, May 30 at the age of eighty-seven. All proceeds from sales of Loretta’s book, SwitHeart*, her SwitHeart greeting cards, and her signature perfume, SwitHeart, will continue to support various animal rights organizations as part of Loretta’s endless campaign to end animal suffering and cruelty.
TVC 693.4: From February 2019: Ed, Tony, and Donna accompany Emmy Award-winning actress, artist and animal rights activist Loretta Swit (MASH, SwitHeart: The Watercolour Artistry & Animal Activism of Loretta Swit) on a walk through Central Park as she discusses her efforts on behalf of all animals; her support of our veterans; how she keeps herself in shape; and why she will never retire. All proceeds from sales of Loretta’s book, SwitHeart*, her SwitHeart greeting cards, and her signature perfume, SwitHeart, will continue to support various animal rights organizations as part of Loretta’s endless campaign to end animal suffering and cruelty. Loretta Swit passed away on Friday, May 30 at the age of eighty-seven.
TVC 693.5: Part 2 of a conversation that originally aired in February 2019 in which Ed, Tony, and Donna accompany Loretta Swit (MASH, SwitHeart: The Watercolour Artistry & Animal Activism of Loretta Swit) on a walk through Central Park. Also in this segment: A quote from JoAnne Worley, president of Actors and Others for Animals, that lauds Loretta's efforts on behalf of all animals (quote courtesy B. Harlan Boll), plus Ed shares a brief story about the two times in which he met Loretta in person. Loretta Swit passed away on Friday, May 30 at the age of eighty-seven. All proceeds from sales of Loretta’s book, SwitHeart*, her SwitHeart greeting cards, and her signature perfume, SwitHeart, will continue to support various animal rights organizations as part of Loretta’s endless campaign to end animal suffering and cruelty.
TVC 692.1: Ed welcomes Steve Aldous and Gary Gillies, co-authors of The Harry O Viewing Companion: History and Episodes of the Classic Detective Series, a new book that not only takes a deep dive into the making of Harry O (ABC, 1974-1976), the short-lived but fondly remembered private eye series starring David Janssen, Henry Darrow, and Anthony Zerbe, but offers insight into what made Harry O so special. Topics this segment include a clarification of some of the details pertaining to the early development of the Harry Orwell character; why series creator Howard Rodman originally aimed to make the series a character-driven crime drama, versus one that was plot-driven; and why the eleven episodes of Harry O that were filmed in San Diego during the summer of 1974 are almost a series unto itself. The Harry O Viewing Companion is available wherever books are sold through McFarland Books.
TVC 692.2: Steve Aldous and Gary Gillies, co-authors of The Harry O Viewing Companion: History and Episodes of the Classic Detective Series, talk to Ed about why Harry O has more in common with the Lew Archer novels by Russ MacDonald than the Raymond Chandler novels featuring Philip Marlowe or the Dashiell Hammett novels with Sam Spade; how David Janssen’s skill at performing voice-overs was one of the ways in which he fully inhabited the Harry Orwell character; and how the onscreen rapport between Janssen and Anthony Zerbe changed the dynamics of Harry O for the better. The Harry O Viewing Companion is available wherever books are sold through McFarland Books.
TVC 692.4: A return visit by Dean Butler, the actor known around the world to three generations to television viewers as Almanzo Wilder, Laura Ingalls’ husband on Little House on the Prairie. Among other topics this segment, Dean and Ed discuss the forthcoming Netflix reimaging of Little House; Dean’s early experiences working as an extra (then, later, as an actor) on The Streets of San Francisco, including sharing screen time with Michael Douglas in the famous Streets episode “The Thrill Killers,” featuring Patty Duke and Susan Dey; and the difference between having a craft for acting and having a facility for it. Dean’s memoir, Prairie Man: My Little House *Life & Beyond, is available wherever books are sold through Kensington Books, an imprint of Citadel Press. Dean Butler and other cast members from Little House on the Prairie are scheduled to appear at the Little House* cast reunion at Columbia State Historic Park in Tuolumne County, California on June 6-7-8, 2025. Go to LittleHouseGoldCountry.com for tickets and more information.
TVC 692.5: Dean Butler talks to Ed about how the documentary films of Ken Burns served as a major inspiration when Dean transitioned from acting to production; how Dean’s connection with producer/director Keith Allo led to Dean producing the award-winning NBC Golf Channel talk show Feherty, hosted by former golf professional David Feherty; and the back story behind Feherty’s interview with comedian Larry David. Dean’s memoir, Prairie Man: My Little House *Life & Beyond, is available wherever books are sold through Kensington Books, an imprint of Citadel Press. Dean Butler is scheduled to appear at the Little House* cast reunion at Columbia State Historic Park in Tuolumne County, California on June 6-7-8, 2025. Go to LittleHouseGoldCountry.com for tickets and more information.
TVC 691.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik, co-authors of Watching TV: American Television Season by Season, a sweeping look at the history of television, from its early inception in 1944 through the present day, that not only takes you behind the scenes of every prime time season and prime time schedule over the past nine decades, but tells you what was actually on TV each year; what was happening behind the scenes in television at the times those shows were made; and how the shows we saw from year to year often reflected various events that were happening in the world at large. Watching TV: Revised Fourth Edition is available wherever books are sold through Syracuse University Press. Topics this segment include how the final episode of The Fugitive (originally broadcast on ABC on Aug. 29, 1967) ushered in the era of series finales that attempt to wrap up all the loose ends of a show’s characters and storylines; how even an unsatisfactory finale shows how much we care about the characters of our favorite shows (and why that’s an integral part of the story of American television); and whether physical media such as Blu-rays and DVDs still have a place in television today.
TVC 691.2: Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik, co-authors of Watching TV: American Television Season by Season, talk to Ed about the 1965-1966 television season, a landmark year that not only saw the premiere of many series that are still considered classics (including Get Smart, I Dream of Jeannie, Green Acres, and The FBI), but the start of the now-common network practice of midseason replacements—a phenomenon that came about by accident. Other topics this segment include why network TV schedules used to always begin in September; and the evolution of single sponsor shows during the first decade of network to the now-standard practice of participating sponsors. Watching TV: Revised Fourth Edition is available wherever books are sold through Syracuse University Press.
TVC 691.3: Ed welcomes Tim Gray, award-winning documentary filmmaker, founder of The World War II Foundation, and the producer and director of Miles, Morale and Memories: Bob Hope and World War II, a new documentary about Bob Hope and his dedication to entertaining the troops of World War II. Narrated by Gary Sinise, the documentary features insight and commentary from Linda Hope, Bob Hope’s daughter; Joe Colonna, grandson of Jerry Colonna, Hope’s aide de camp during the World War II years; many World War II historians and World War II veterans; plus some of the many letters written to Hope by our service men and women and/or their families. Miles, Morale and Memories: Bob Hope and World War II is scheduled to air on more than three hundred PBS stations over the next few weeks. Check your local listings for time and channel. You can also enjoy it on demand at PBS.org or by downloading the PBS app. For more on the World War II Foundation, go to wwiifoundation.org. For more on the Bob and Dolores Hope Foundation and the Bob Hope Legacy, go to BobHope.org.
TVC 691.4: Tim Gray, producer and director of Miles, Morale and Memories: Bob Hope and World War II, talks to Ed about the many ways in which Gary Sinise can be considered the “Bob Hope of our generation”; how Hope often ran through his monologue with his wife, Dolores, before he performed it in front of our troops; and why, in many respects, Hope was the first comedian ever to perform stand-up in front of a live audience. Miles, Morale and Memories: Bob Hope and World War II is available for viewing on demand at PBS.org or by downloading the PBS app. For more on the World War II Foundation, go to wwiifoundation.org. For more on the Bob and Dolores Hope Foundation and the Bob Hope Legacy, go to BobHope.org.
TVC 690.1: Ed welcomes back film and television actor James DuMont (The Righteous Gemstones, American Sports Story, The Butler). One of the busiest performers in and out of Hollywood, James can currently be seen opposite Don Johnson, Isabelle Fuhrman, and Jack Huston in Unit 234, the new thriller directed by Andy Tennant that is currently available for viewing on demand after a limited theatrical release in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and other select U.S. cities. Topics this segment include a discussion on the difference between “fortune” and “luck,” and why every actor must continue to work on getting better at their craft if they wish to enjoy a long and successful career.
TVC 690.2: James DuMont talks to Ed about working opposite Don Johnson in the new action thriller Unit 234; his approach to playing the detective who prosecuted fallen NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez in American Sports Story; and the joy of working alongside his son, actor Kelton DuMont, on The Righteous Gemstones. Unit 234 is now available for viewing on demand on Amazon Prime and other steaming platforms.
TVC 690.3: Ed welcomes back Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik, co-authors of Watching TV: American Television Season by Season, a sweeping look at the history of television from 1944 through the present day, from its early inception as a passive activity to its current form as a multi-tiered experience. Recently updated and re-released as a fourth edition, Watching TV not only takes you behind the scenes of every prime time season and prime time schedule over the past nine decades, but includes an ongoing timeline of the major personalities, trends, and breakout shows that comprise the individual stories of each television season. Watching TV: Revised Fourth Edition is available wherever books are sold through Syracuse University Press. Topics this segment include how, despite the many ways in which television has changed since 1944, two things have remained constant: (1) networks want to control the content we watch, while viewers want as many choices as possible, and (2) viewers want to pay as little as possible for the content they watch.
TVC 690.4: Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik, co-authors of Watching TV: American Television Season by Season, talk to Ed about how the phenomenon of “time shifting” for TV viewers began long before the era of streaming; why Jack Gould, television critic for the New York Times during the 1950s and ’60s, can be considered one of the first “influencers” of television (and why Gould was particularly enamored of the many live dramatic anthology series that dominated the first decade of network TV); and why Michael Nesmith (The Monkees, Elephant Parts) was proud to be one of the influencers of television during the mid-to-late 1960s—an era that Nesmith once described to Wally as the “teen age” years of the medium. Watching TV: Revised Fourth Edition is available wherever books are sold through Syracuse University Press.
TVC 689.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began two programs ago with Dore Page, author of Leslie Stevens Goes to Hollywood: Daystar Productions, Kate Manx and the Making of Private Property, a deep dive into the life and career of the maverick television writer and producer best known as the creator of The Outer Limits that particularly focuses on the making of Private Property (1960), the New Wave-style erotic thriller starring Corey Allen, Warren Oates, and Stevens’ wife at the time, Kate Manx. April 2025 marked the 65th anniversary of the release of Private Property. In this segment, Ed, Dore, and guest co-host Chuck Harter discuss the mysterious nature of Manx’s death in November 1964, as well as the reasons why Private Property was branded as “indecent” at the time it was originally released—even though the subject matter is quite tame when viewed through a contemporary lens. Leslie Stevens Goes to Hollywood is available through McFarland Books.
TVC 689.2: Dore Page, author of Leslie Stevens Goes to Hollywood: Daystar Productions, Kate Manx and the Making of Private Property, talks to Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter about Stoney Burke (ABC, 1962-1963), the “art house” look at the lives of 20th-century rodeo riders starring Jack Lord, Bruce Dern, and Warren Oates and produced by Leslie Stevens that ABC canceled after one season—despite garnering a 38 share—partly because the show was considered too ethereal for sponsors to get behind. Other topics this segment include how Warren Oates’ character on Stoney Burke can be considered a forerunner to Angel Martin (the character that Stuart Margolin later played on The Rockford Files), and how Stevens came to pattern his independent production company, Daystar Productions, after Quinn Martin Productions once Stevens decided to focus on developing projects for television. Leslie Stevens Goes to Hollywood is available through McFarland Books.
TVC 689.3: Ed welcomes back singer, actress, and philanthropist Ruta Lee (High Rollers, Witness for the Prosecution, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Consider Your Ass Kissed). Ruta will celebrate her ninetieth birthday this coming Friday, May 30 with an evening of song and stories at the Debbie Reynolds Main Stage at the historic El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood. Proceeds for the evening will support The Thalians, the charitable organization to which Ruta has dedicated much of her life over the past sixty years, and which to date has raised has raised more than $50 million for mental health related causes. (NOTE: Though Ruta’s performance on May 30 has sold out, you can still make a donation to The Thalians in any amount by going to Thalians.org.) Among other topics this segment, Ruta shares a few memories of co-starring opposite Patrick O’Neal in “A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain,” an episode of The Twilight Zone from 1963 that Ruta considers one of her all-time favorite television performances, not only because of the character she played, but for the opportunity to perform the words of the great Rod Serling. Ruta also tells Ed why her experience filming Sergeants 3 (1962) with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop—and hanging out with the Rat Pack in general—ranks as her “favorite time in life.”
TVC 689.4: Entertainment legend Ruta Lee talks to Ed about how she landed her role in Witness for the Prosecution after producer Arthur Hornblow Jr. spotted her in the audience at a Frank Sinatra concert; why it’s important to recognize those moments in life when a benefit happens, and to be grateful for that benefit; the story of Dean Martin’s playful nickname for Ruta; and the great compliment that playwright and composer Meredith Willson (The Music Man, The Unsinkable Molly Brown) paid Ruta when he first saw her play Molly Brown on stage at Casa Manana in Texas. Ruta Lee will celebrate her ninetieth birthday on Friday, May 30 with an evening of song and stories at the Debbie Reynolds Main Stage at the historic El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood. Proceeds will support The Thalians, the charitable organization to which Ruta has dedicated much of her life over the past sixty years. Though the May 30 performance has sold out, you can still donate to The Thalians by going to Thalians.org.
TVC 688.1: TV Confidential remembers longtime radio host, author, recording artist, and game show legend Wink Martindale (Gambit, Debt, Tic Tac Dough, Winking at Life, “Deck of Cards”) with a special program-length tribute to the man who became synonymous with the words “emcee” and “host.” Wink Martindale passed away on Tuesday, Apr. 15, 2025 at the age of ninety-one. In this segment, Steve Beverly, retired professor of broadcast journalism at Union University in Jackson, TN (the hometown of Wink Martindale), game show historian, and the host of Steve Beverly’s TV Classics, talks to Ed about how Martindale developed his skills as a “quality ad-libber” early in his career by doing play-by-play for high school sports broadcasts; how he was often a de facto producer on the set of his game shows, always adapting to changing conditions in the format of the game (particularly in moments when things when awry); and why, unlike most broadcasters, Martindale was never afraid to take a risk by going to a bigger market. Steve Beverly recently re-aired Wink Comes Home, a 90-minute special that he hosted in November 2007 at Union University in which Wink discussed his life and career and took questions from the studio audience, as part of Steve Beverly’s TV Classics. That episode is now available for viewing on demand on your smartphone, tablet, or laptop by going to EPlusTV6.com or, if you have the PBS app, typing in West TN PBS, where you’ll find Steve Beverly’s TV Classics on the drop-down menu of Local Shows.
TVC 688.2: Steve Beverly, retired professor of broadcast journalism at Union University in Jackson, TN (the hometown of Wink Martindale), game show historian, and the host of Steve Beverly’s TV Classics, talks to Ed about how Wink never lost sights of his roots in Jackson, TN; how the success of the Martindale version of Tic Tac Dough in the 1970s forever changed the public perception of that particular game show (because the original Tic Tac Dough had been tarnished by the quiz show scandal of the late 1950s); and how Martindale’s Tic Tac Dough really took off in syndication in 1979, becoming the No. 1. syndicated game show (after failing on CBS the year before), with the “Ken Jennings-like” success of contestant Thom McKee. Also in this segment: Steve and Ed discuss the new version of Tic Tac Dough, hosted by Brooke Burns, which premiered on Game Show Network on Apr. 14, 2025. Wink Martindale passed away on Tuesday, Apr. 15, 2025 at age ninety-nine. Steve Beverly recently re-aired Wink Comes Home, a 90-minute special that he hosted in November 2007 at Union University in which Wink discussed his life and career and took questions from the studio audience, as part of Steve Beverly’s TV Classics. That episode is now available for viewing on demand on your smartphone, tablet, or laptop by going to EPlusTV6.com or, if you have the PBS app, typing in West TN PBS, where you’ll find Steve Beverly’s TV Classics on the drop-down menu of Local Shows.
TVC 688.3: Longtime television announcer Randy West joins Ed as TV Confidential continues its special program-length tribute to game show legend Wink Martindale. Randy was Wink’s announcer on five game shows for the Family Channel, including Trivial Pursuit, Boggle, and Jumble. Among other topics in this segment, Randy mentions what he believes are the two reasons for Martindale’s great success: his roots in Middle America (which Wink never forgot), and his genuine love for people, which particularly showed during Wink’s interactions with the contestants on his various shows. Wink Martindale passed away on Tuesday, Apr. 15, 2025 at age ninety-nine.
TVC 688.4: Randy West, Wink Martindale’s announcer on five game shows for the Family Channel, talks to Ed about Wink’s career as a spoken-word recording artists (including “Deck of Cards,” “Heavenly Child,” and “I Stand for Everyone”). He also shares a funny story about Wink and Mary Steck, the cue card lady on Trivial Pursuit, that gives you a window into who Martindale was a person. Wink Martindale passed away on Tuesday, Apr. 15, 2025 at age ninety-one.
TV Confidential continues its program-length tribute to Wink Martindale by bringing you an encore presentation of Wink's appearance on our program in December 2018. Topics this segment include how Wink taught himself how to become an announcer when he was a kid by reading ads from Life magazine aloud; the back story of "Deck of Cards," the spoken word recording that Wink first released in 1959 and which has sold than three million copies ever since; the many ways in which providence has played a role in Wink's life; and how Wink learned more about the nuances of hosting a game show from Dan Enright, co-executive producer of Tic Tac Dough, than from anyone else. Wink Martindale passed away on Tuesday, Apr. 15, 2025 at age ninety-one.
From December 2018: Wink Martindale talks to Ed about why game shows remain a popular form of entertainment on television; the importance of matching the right host with the right game format; how Wink happened to be at radio station WHBQ in Memphis, TN on the night of July 8, 1954, when deejay Dewey Phillips played an Elvis Presley record ("That's All Right, Mama") on the radio for the very first time; and how Wink also met Elvis for the first time that night when the King was summoned to the station, starting a friendship that continued until Presley's death in 1977. Wink Martindale passed away on Tuesday, Apr. 15, 2025 at age ninety-one.
TVC 687.1: Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter welcome Dore Page, author of Leslie Stevens Goes to Hollywood: Daystar Productions, Kate Manx and the Making of Private Property, a deep dive into the life and career of Leslie Stevens—the maverick television writer and producer whom most of us know best as the creator of The Outer Limits—that particularly focuses on Stevens’ early career as a playwright (including the Broadway production of The Marriage Go-Round); the back story of Daystar Productions, the production company that Stevens formed with Stanley Colbert, which Stevens intended to be the first truly independent TV and film production company; and the making of Private Property (1960), the New Wave-style erotic thriller that Stevens made for relatively little money, but which went on to gross several million dollars—despite being flagged as indecent at the time it was originally released. Dore's book also explores the tragic life of stage actress Kate Manx, Stevens’ wife at the time he made Private Property. Though Manx made a brief splash in Hollywood after the release of Private Property, her film and TV career never got off the ground, while the actress herself died under mysterious circumstances in November 1964. Leslie Stevens Goes to Hollywood is available through McFarland Books.
TVC 687.2: Dore Page, author of Leslie Stevens Goes to Hollywood: Daystar Productions, Kate Manx and the Making of Private Property, talks to Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter about the fragile mix of ambition, frustration, and insecurity that comprised the psyche of actress Kate Manx, and the extent to which depression may have factored into the circumstances leading up to Manx’s death in November 1964. Leslie Stevens Goes to Hollywood is available through McFarland Books.
TVC 687.3: Peter Ford, son of screen legends Glenn Ford and Eleanor Powell and the author of Glenn Ford: A Life, talks to Ed about how his dad used his star power to hire directors and actors on Cade’s County (CBS, 1971-1972) with whom he’d worked before, including George Marshall, Leo Penn, Edgar Buchanan, Barbara Rush, and Broderick Crawford; how James Woods saved Peter’s life in 1976 while the two of them filmed a scene together for “Sins of Thy Father,” an episode of Barnaby Jones; and some of the notable people who hired Peter during his twenty-year career as a building contractor, including Don Simpson, Frank Gehry, Blake Edwards, George Clooney, Sally Kellerman, Mary Kay Place, and Steve Tisch. Glenn Ford: A Life is available wherever books are sold through University of Wisconsin Press.
TVC 686.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Laurel and Hardy historian Randy Skretvedt. Chuck Harter co-hosts. Topics this segment include what first sparked Randy's interest in Laurel and Hardy; Randy’s favorite scene in March of the Wooden Soldiers; and why Wooden Soldiers remains so popular, more than ninety years after its original release. Randy’s latest book, March of the Wooden Soldiers: The Amazing Story of Laurel & Hardy's Babes in Toyland, is available from Bonaventure Press.
TVC 686.2: Peter Ford, son of screen legends Glenn Ford and Eleanor Powell, helps Ed celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the release of Blackboard Jungle, the iconic film from 1955 that not only starred Glenn Ford as a young English teacher in an inner-city high school, but which prominently featured the song “Rock Around the Clock” in its soundtrack, putting Bill Haley and the Comets on the map while also launching the era of rock ’n’ roll music. Peter Ford was just ten years old when Blackboard Jungle was released, yet he played a very prominent role in getting his dad and director Richard Brooks to integrate “Rock Around the Clock” into Blackboard Jungle—indeed, Little Stevie van Zandt once credited Peter as being the catalyst for one of the seminal moments in rock ’n’ roll history. Peter Ford is also the author of Glenn Ford: A Life, an intimate look at the life and times of one of our finest screen actors.
TVC 686.3: Peter Ford, son of screen legends Glenn Ford and Eleanor Powell and the author of Glenn Ford: A Life, talks to Ed about working with his dad and Edgar Buchanan on Cade’s County (CBS, 1971-1972), including the back story for why the series did not last more than one season; how Peter became a reserve deputy for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department a few years after Cade’s County ended; and how both he and Bobby Sherman once appeared together as bachelors (Peter, reluctantly so) on a segment of The Dating Game. Glenn Ford: A Life is available wherever books are sold through University of Wisconsin Press.
From August 2014: Authors Paul Green and Mary Ann Anderson join Ed for a look back at the life and career of Jeffrey Hunter. Paul’s book Jeffrey Hunter: The Film, Television, Radio and Stage Performances is a comprehensive look at the actor best known for his starring roles as Martin Pawley in The Searchers, Christopher Pike in the original pilot episode of Star Trek, and Jesus Christ in Nicholas Ray’s King of Kings. Mary knew Jeffrey Hunter; her mother, actress Emily McLaughlin, married Hunter just three months before he died in May 1969. By all acccounts, Jeffrey Hunter was not only highly respected as an actor, but a genuinely nice person. His sudden death age at forty-two was a shock to everyone who knew him and left many wondering what direction his life and career would have taken, had he lived.
TVC 685.1: Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter welcome author, voice artist, radio host, and Laurel and Hardy historian Randy Skretvedt. Randy's latest book, March of the Wooden Soldiers: The Amazing Story of Laurel & Hardy's Babes in Toyland, is a detailed, behind-the-scenes look at the making of March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934), the adaptation of the Victor Herbert operetta Babes in Toyland (which, in fact, was the title of Wooden Soldiers when it was originally released) that not only has remained a holiday tradition on television since the early 1950s, but was reportedly Stan Laurel's favorite film of the ones with he did with Oliver Hardy. Topics this segment include how March of the Wooden Soldiers was originally intended as an Eastertime release in 1934, as well as the many delays that plagued the production of the movie. March of the Wooden Soldiers: The Amazing Story of Laurel & Hardy's Babes in Toyland is available from Bonaventure Press.
TVC 685.2: Laurel and Hardy historian Randy Skretvedt, author of March of the Wooden Soldiers: The Amazing Story of Laurel & Hardy's Babes in Toyland, talks to Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter about how Stan Laurel not only acted as the de facto director on many of the comedy team's films, but closely oversaw the editing of their films, and how Oliver Hardy was an accomplished actor who was beloved by cast and crew off-camera. March of the Wooden Soldiers: The Amazing Story of Laurel & Hardy's Babes in Toyland is available from Bonaventure Press.
TVC 685.3: Ed welcomes renowned actress, teacher, and independent filmmaker Michelle Danner (Hello Herman, The Runner, Bad Impulse). Michelle’s latest film, The Italians, is an ensemble comedy-drama about an idiosyncratic Italian-American family that drive each other crazy, but who pull themselves together upon learning that the matriarch (Michelle's character) has a serious heart condition—a crisis that causes the entire family to reevaluate themselves. Michelle Danner stars in and directs The Italians, which also features Rob Estes, Matthew Daddario, Abigail Breslin, Lainie Kazan, and a lot of scenes with food. Michelle talks to Ed about what attracted her to making The Italians; why the movie represents a change of pace for her; and what it was like to direct Donald Sutherland in Miranda’s Victim (2023), a historical drama that turned out to be one of Sutherland’s final screen appearances. The Italians is now available for streaming on demand on Amazon Prime.
TVC 684.1: Ed welcomes Nelson Aspen, award-winning entertainment reporter, one of the leading authorities on the subject of the sinking of the Titanic on Apr. 15, 1912, and the author of Kindred Spirits: A Titanic Tale. Inspired by Nelson’s personal experiences, Kindred Spirits not only spans the time between the night when the Titanic met her tragic fate and the hedonistic party scene of contemporary Manhattan, but is a story of love and redemption that was denied to gay men at the time because of the constraints of Edwardian England. Topics this segment include why the Titanic tragedy has remained a source of fascination for more a century; how Nelson's knowledge of Titanic history helped actress Alexandra Boyd land a role in James Cameron's Titanic; and why moviegoers are drawn to "water stories" such as Titanic and The Poseidon Adventure. Kindred Spirits is available wherever books are sold through Red Sky Presents. Titanic Talk, the podcast co-hosted by Nelson Aspen and Alexandra Boyd, is available wherever you find podcasts. For our listeners in the greater L.A. metro area, Nelson will appear at the Titanic Anniversary Weekend aboard the RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach California on Apr. 12-13-14. For more on that, check out TitanicWeekend.com. He’ll also be at the Lobby Lounge at the Four Seasons / Los Angeles on Tuesday, Apr. 15, the actual anniversary date of the sinking of the Titanic. For our listeners in New York, Nelson Aspen will appear at the Clay Restaurant in New York City on Tuesday, Apr. 29 and at Ortomare Ristorante in New York City on Friday, May 2. He also has events coming up in England and in Ireland during the last week of May, and in Baltimore and New York during the month of July. For details and more information, visit NelsonAspen.com
TVC 684.2: Nelson Aspen, author of Kindred Spirits: A Titanic Tale, tells Ed the back story of his decades-long friendship with actress Carol Lynley, plus he recommends some film adaptations of the Titanic story, including A Night to Remember, the 1958 film starring Kenneth More that is based on Walter Lord’s book of the same name. (Nelson wrote the foreword to Tom Lisanti’s excellent book Carol Lynley: Her Film and TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy, and Suspense.) Kindred Spirits is available wherever books are sold through Red Sky Presents. Titanic Talk, the podcast co-hosted by Nelson Aspen and Alexandra Boyd, is available wherever you find podcasts.
TVC 684.2a: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Hank Garrett, the actor known around the world as Officer Nicholson on Car 54, Where Are You? and one of the most accomplished voice artists in the entertainment industry. In this segment Hank shares a few memories of working with Peter Falk on Columbo: Undercover and with Buddy Hackett at one of the nightclubs in the Catskill Mountains of New York early in Hank’s career. Hank’s memoir, From Harlem Hoodlum to Hollywood Heavyweight, is available through Briton Publishing, Amazon.com, and other online retailers.
TVC 684.3: Hank Garrett talks to Ed, Tony, and Donna about working with Sophia Loren in the 1979 thriller Firepower; the night Hank once escorted Audrey Hepburn for a Hollywood event; and the generosity that Tony Bennett showed Hank when he opened for Bennett at the Copa Cabana. Hank’s memoir, From Harlem Hoodlum to Hollywood Heavyweight, is available through Briton Publishing, Amazon.com, and other online retailers.
TVC 683.1: Ed welcomes back David Arnoff, one of the best music photographers of his generation. David’s book Shot in the Dark is a collection of photos featuring Patti Smith, The Clash, Devo, Blondie, Lydia Lunch, The Cramps, The Ramones, David Johanson, Misfits, Nick Cave, Siouxsee and the Banshees, Joan Jett, Elvis Costello, and other music artists—all taken circa 1976 to 1985, and nearly of all which capture these performers in seminal moments in their careers. Shot in the Dark is available at DavidArnoff.com. Topics this segment include how the Beatles and other British bands helped shape the music scene of the 1960s, and how shows like Shindig and Hullabaloo helped influence David’s decision to become a photographer.
TVC 683.2: Music photographer David Arnoff discusses some of the photographs that appear in his book Shot in the Dark, including the ones of Lou Reed, Elvis Costello, and The Kramps. Other topics this segment include what first sparked David’s interest in photography, why he is particularly drawn to “journalistic photography” (i.e., photos that capture candid moments off-stage, but which do not appear staged because there are usually taken in a more controlled environment), and why black and white photography is much “cleaner” in nature. Shot in the Dark is available at DavidArnoff.com
TVC 683.5: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome back Hank Garrett, the actor known around the world as Officer Nicholson on Car 54, Where Are You? and one of the most accomplished voice artists in the entertainment industry. Topics this segment include how Hank first developed his skill for dialects after watching Sid Caesar rehearse for Your Show of Shows. Hank’s memoir, From Harlem Hoodlum to Hollywood Heavyweight, is available through Briton Publishing, Amazon.com, and other online retailers.
TVC 683.6: Hank Garrett talks to Ed, Tony, and Donna about competing against Sammy Davis Jr. in a “quick draw” competition, sparring with Elvis Presley in Las Vegas, and co-starring opposite James Earl Jones on Paris (CBS, 1979-1980). Hank’s memoir, From Harlem Hoodlum to Hollywood Heavyweight, is available through Briton Publishing, Amazon.com, and other online retailers.
TVC 682.1: Ed welcomes Elva Green, author of The Jeffersons: A fresh look back at The Jeffersons (CBS, 1975-1985), Norman Lear’s longest-running sitcom, starring Isabel Sanford, Sherman Hemsley, an Marla Gibbs, and Eddie Green: The Rise of an Early 1900s Black American Entertainment Pioneer. Chuck Harter co-hosts. Topics this segment include how, while The Jeffersons was an immediate hit among viewers, reviews of the show during its first few years on the air were split—both among white critics and black critics—over whether the show was funny or not.
TVC 682.2: Elva Green, author of The Jeffersons: A fresh look back, talks to Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter about such notable episodes of The Jeffersons as “George’s First Dollar” and “And The Doorknobs Shone Like Diamonds,” plus she gives a preview of her upcoming book on Good Times. The Jeffersons: A fresh look back is available through Bear Manor Media.
TVC 682.3: Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter welcome award-winning producer, director, writer, journalist, and author Burt Kearns. Burt’s latest book, SHEMP! The Biography of The Three Stooges’ Shemp Howard: The Face of Film Comedy, not only takes a deep dive into the life and career of Shemp Howard—one of the original members of The Three Stooges and, in real life, the older brother of Moe Howard and Curly Howard—but debunks many myths both about Shemp’s career before and during The Three Stooges and about Shemp’s personal life, including some myths that were perpetuated by either Moe Howard or members of Moe’s family. SHEMP! is available through Applause Books.
TVC 682.4: Burt Kearns, author of SHEMP! The Biography of The Three Stooges’ Shemp Howard: The Face of Film Comedy, talks to Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter about some of the more notable roles in Shemp Howard’s diverse career as a solo actor, including Private Buckaroo (1942), a musical comedy featuring Harry James, The Andrews Sisters, and Mary Wickes that Burt says is as close to a star vehicle that Shemp ever had; why Shemp rejoined The Stooges in 1946, after Curly’s debilitating stroke; and why rejoining the Stooges gave Shemp an immortality that he may not have achieved had he remained on his own. SHEMP! is available through Applause Books.
TVC 682.5: Burt Kearns, author of SHEMP! The Biography of The Three Stooges’ Shemp Howard: The Face of Film Comedy, talks to Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter about how the repeated blows to the head that Shemp Howard, Curly Howard, and Larry Fine all took during the many live appearances that The Three Stooges made every year during their annual hiatus from Columbia Pictures resulted in cerebral hemorrhages that proved to be fatal for all three actors. SHEMP! is available through Applause Books.
We'll be back with a brand new edition of TV Confidential later this week. In the meantime, please enjoy this clip from March 2012 in which Tony, Donna and Ed remember “A House Divided,” the famous episode of Dallas that launched the “Who Shot J.R.?” phenomenon of 1980. “A House Divided” originally aired Mar. 21, 1980.
We'll be back with a brand new edition of TV Confidential later this week. In the meantime, please enjoy this clip from March 2013 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the first nationally televised broadcast of the Academy Awards ceremony, which took place on Mar. 19, 1953 during This Week in TV History.
TVC 681.1: Music journalist A. Scott Galloway joins Ed as TV Confidential remembers the life and legacy of Grammy Award-winning recording artist Roberta Flack. Scott interviewed Flack in 1988 for her comeback album, Oasis, plus he wrote a very eloquent essay on his Facebook page that captures why the news of her death struck a chord with music lovers around the world, particularly those of us who grew up listening to her songs playing on the radio throughout the 1970s. Roberta Flack passed away Monday, Feb. 24 at the age of eighty-eight. Topics this segment include how Flack was a “full, 360-degree” artist; her tireless activism on behalf of gay rights, women’s rights, people’s rights, and liberty as an American human being; how Clint Eastwood changed the trajectory of Flack’s life and career by integrating “First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” in the pivotal love sequence between Eastwood and Donna Mills in Play Misty for Me; and how the success of Oasis was a “buoyant, wonderful surprise.”
TVC 681.2: From October 2010: Charles Fox, the Grammy Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning composer who co-wrote “Killing Me Softly with His Song” along with Norman Gimbel, talks to Ed about the phone call he received from Roberta Flack in 1972, asking if she could perform “Killing Me Softly,” and how that call changed Charles’ life. Nearly forty years later, Flack wrote the foreword to Charles’ memoir, Killing Me Softly: My Life in Music (Scarecrow Press, 2010). Roberta Flack passed away Monday, Feb. 24 at the age of eighty-eight.
TVC 681.2a: From January 2012: Television writer/producer Larry Brody takes Ed and his listeners behind the scenes of Police Story (NBC, 1973-1979), the Emmy Award-winning police anthology series created by Joseph Wambaugh and executive produced by David Gerber. Larry received one of his first breaks in television working with Gerber. Topics this segment include Gerber’s peculiar mandate that discouraged writers on his shows from ever allowing characters to show any positive emotion. Joseph Wambaugh passed away Friday, Feb. 28 at the age of eighty-eight. Also in this segment: A remembrance of Gene Hackman, the Academy Award-winning actor who was found dead in his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, along with his wife Betsy Arakawa, on Wednesday, Feb. 26.
TVC 681.3: Ed welcomes back singer/actress Linda Purl (Happy Days, Matlock, The Office). Linda is about to star in Crazy Mama, a riveting one-woman play that not only sheds light on the issue of mental illness with Southern-style humor and directness, but will feature Linda playing sixteen different characters. Ed asks Linda what first attracted her to the play and how she approaches to taking on the various personalities she must assume over the course of the story, plus Linda shares a few memories about working with Garry Marshall, including the many ways that Marshall kept the cast of Happy Days grounded despite the show’s enormous success. Written by Sharon Scott Williams and directed by Linda's fellow Happy Days alumnus Anson Williams, Crazy Mama makes its world premiere at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura, California on Wednesday, Mar. 26 through Sunday, Apr. 6. For tickets and more information, call (805) 667-2900 or go to RubiconTheatre.org. Linda Purl will also perform at the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood, California for one night only, Sunday, Mar. 16, beginning at 7:30pm. Click here for tickets and more information.
TVC 681.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Anne Serling and Jodi Serling, the daughters of Rod Serling, and Marc Scott Zicree, longtime television writer/producer and the author of The Twilight Zone Companion. Dec. 25, 2024 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rod Serling, while the 2024-2025 television season marks the 65th anniversary of the premiere of The Twilight Zone on CBS. In this segment, Anne and Jodi share a few examples of the “many moments of helpless hilarity” that they often experienced while growing up with their dad; Marc talks about how Serling, like many good writers, “listened more than he talked”; while Anne and Jodi both discuss Serling’s experience as a teacher at Ithaca College in New York, and how he often learned more from his students that they did from him. Both The Twilight Zone Companion and Anne’s book, As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling, are available wherever books are sold.
TVC 681.5: Anne Serling and Jodi Serling, the daughters of Rod Serling, and Marc Scott Zicree, author of The Twilight Zone Companion, share some final thoughts with Ed about the legacy of Rod Serling, including how Serling never “saw the signpost up ahead” with regard to the tremendous impact that his writing continues to have. Both The Twilight Zone Companion and Anne’s book, As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling, are available wherever books are sold.
TVC 680.3: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Harrison Page, the actor known around the world as Joshua in Lionheart, Captain Trunk on Sledge Hammer!, CPO Robinson on CPO Sharkey, and Niles in Russ Meyer’s Vixen! Topics this segment include how Harrison approached playing Niles when he first read the script for Vixen; why it’s important for every actor to know the difference between listening and hearing every time they take the stage or work; and the success of Vixen at the box office led Meyer to cast Harrison in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, after he had sent Harrison the script for Beyond in advance and asked for his input.
TVC 680.4: Harrison Page talks to Ed about how the success of Vixen led Michael Landon to cast him in “The Wish,” an episode of Bonanza written and directed by Landon that not only aired in 1969, but also marked Harrison’s first network appearance; how, upon completing production of “The Wish,” Landon made a phone call that resulted in Harrison being cast in “Tooth of the Serpent,” an episode of Mannix that also aired in 1969; and how Peter Falk immediately made Harrison feel at ease by paying homage to the character Harrison played in Lionheart on the first day of the shoot for Columbo: Undercover. Harrison Page will be seen opposite Jonathan Majors in Magazine Dreams, the story of a man who looks after his ailing grandfather while trying to succeed in the world of professional bodybuilding. Magazine Dreams is scheduled for release in theaters on Friday, Mar. 21.
TVC 680.5: Ed welcomes Anne Serling and Jodi Serling, the daughters of Rod Serling, and Marc Scott Zicree, longtime television writer/producer and the author of The Twilight Zone Companion, for a celebration of both the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rod Serling and the 65th anniversary of the premiere of The Twilight Zone on CBS television. Anne’s book, As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling, is an intimate portrait of the Emmy Award-winning writer/producer that is also a moving testament to the love between fathers and daughters, while The Twilight Zone Companion (now in its third edition) not only has influenced such TV show runners and filmmakers as J.J. Abrams, Vince Gilligan, Brannon Braga, Matthew Weiner, and Ron Moore, but created the genre of books that capture the history of popular television series. Topics this segment include how Serling never let his tremendous notoriety go to his head because he kept himself grounded (and his family kept him grounded).
TVC 680.6: Anne Serling and Jodi Serling, the daughters of Rod Serling, and Marc Scott Zicree, author of The Twilight Zone Companion, talk to Ed about how Rod Serling was not only the first modern-day show runner, in that he was a writer who also served as his own producer, but also the “Leonardo da Vinci of television,” in that he represented the pinnacle of what the medium can do. Other topics this segment include thoughts on such notable Twilight Zone episodes as “Eye of the Beholder,” “Walking Distance,” and “On Thursday We Leave for Home.” Both The Twilight Zone Companion and Anne’s book, As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling, are available wherever books are sold.
We'll be back with a brand new edition of TV Confidential later this week. In the meantime, please enjoy this clip from February 2020 in which Tony and Ed remember Pink Lady and Jeff (NBC, 1980), the short-lived and, in many respects, infamous variety series produced by Sid & Marty Krofft, which premiered on Mar. 1, 1980 during This Week in TV History. Tony’s coverage includes first-hand knowledge: He was in the studio audience at NBC/Burbank on the night that the first episode of Pink Lady was taped in December 1979.
We'll be back with a brand new edition of TV Confidential later this week. In the meantime, please enjoy this clip from February 2015 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed remember some of the early TV roles of Howard Hessman, before he became known as Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati, as part of This Week in TV History. Howard Hesseman was born on this day in 1940.
TVC 679.1: TV Confidential remembers actor, author, playwright, and decorated U.S. Army veteran James McEachin (Tenafly, Matlock, The Perry Mason Mysteries, Play Misty for Me, The Heroin Factor, Farewell to the Mockingbirds, The Alpha Caper, Above the Call: Beyond the Duty, Reveille, Swing Low, My Sweet Chariot: The Ballad of Jimmy Mack) by bringing you an encore presentation of a conversation with James that originally aired in February 2013. James McEachin passed away on Jan. 11, 2025 at the age of ninety-four. At the time we spoke with James in February 2013, he had just released the audiobook edition of Tell Me a Tale: A Novel of the Old South that delves into the many issues of slavery during the Civil War era while also offering a better understanding of the white man’s view of the times. James’ reading of the Tell Me a Tale audiobook ”is so good,” said Peter Bart of Daily Variety, “it would make Morgan Freeman a fan.” Topics this segment how James originally wrote Tell Me a Tale in 1965, and how the novel generated interest from both Henry Fonda and Hal Holbrook. TV Confidential spoke to James McEachin a second time in November 2014. That conversation is available for listening on demand for free by clicking here.
TVC 679.5: From February 2013: Actor, author, playwright, and decorated Korean War veteran James McEachin talks to Ed about why he re-enlisted in the U.S. Army to serve in Korea after previously serving in Japan (and why it was important to James that he serve on the frontlines in Korea); serving with the 9th Infantry Regiment, an all-black unit; living with post-traumatic stress disorder after being shot at in Korea; working with Gary Sinise on behalf of U.S. veterans; reuniting with David Huddleston, his co-star on Tenafly, in the short film Reveille; and how James’ experience in Reveille led him to write his one-man show, Above The Call: Beyond the Duty. James McEachin passed away on Jan. 11, 2025 at the age of ninety-four. TV Confidential spoke to James McEachin a second time in November 2014. That conversation is available for listening on demand for free by clicking here.
TVC 679.6: From February 2013: James McEachin talks to Ed about the important role that Jack Webb played early in his acting career, particularly when James was under contract at Universal. He also shares a few memories of working with Clint Eastwood, Charles Floyd Johnson, David Janssen, and James Garner. James McEachin passed away on Jan. 11, 2025 at the age of ninety-four. TV Confidential spoke to James McEachin a second time in November 2014. That conversation is available for listening on demand for free by clicking here.
TVC 679.4: Ed welcomes Harrison Page, the actor known around the world as Joshua in Lionheart, Captain Trunk on Sledge Hammer!, CPO Robinson on CPO Sharkey, and Niles in Russ Meyer’s Vixen! Topics this segment include how Meyer first cast Harrison in Vixen!; working with Erica Gavin in Vixen! (and, particularly, how she and Harrison approached playing the controversial scene in the film in which Niles rapes Vixen); how Harrison came to be cast in Sledge Hammer!, and how he drew on some of his training with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio to ground his performance as Trunk, especially whenever the script called for Trunk to yell at Hammer. Severin Films has just released Russ Meyer's Vixen!, Russ Meyer’s Supervixens, and Russ Meyer's Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens on Blu-ray for the first time as part of a landmark partnership with the Russ Meyer Trust. The Blu-ray release of Vixen! includes more than three hours of extra features (including a brand-new audio commentary by Erica Gavin, plus archival interviews with Erica Gavin and Harrison Page), while both Supervixens and Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens are likewise chockful of extra features. In addition, both Russ Meyer's Up! and Russ Meyer's Motorpsycho are now available for pre-order at SeverinFilms.com.
We'll be back with a brand new edition of TV Confidential later this week. In the meantime, please enjoy this clip from February 2015 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the Miracle on Ice, the U.S. men’s hockey team’s win over the Soviet Union’s men’s hockey team in the medal-round game on Feb. 22, 1980 during the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
TVC 678.1a: From February 2015: Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen remember the origins of The Andy Griffith Show (CBS, 1960-1968), the pilot of which originally aired during This Week in TV History as “Danny Meets Andy Griffith,” an episode of Make Room for Daddy. Topics this segment include how the Andy Taylor we see in “Danny Meets Andy Griffith” is much closer in spirit to the character that Griffith played in No Time for Sergeants, and how the dynamics of The Andy Griffith Show changed once Don Knotts joined the cast.
TVC 678.1: Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter welcome back actress, author, songwriter, composer, filmmaker, and reverend Alison Mills Newman (Julia, The Leslie Uggams Show, The Tree Widow). Alison’s novel, Francisco, is a genre-bending, autobiographical story about a young black actress in the early 1970s who falls in love with an intensely driven filmmaker, makes her way through the Black Arts movement, and searches searching for her own way of seeing. Originally published in 1974, Francisco was recently reissued by New Directions Publishing and is available wherever books are sold.
TVC 678.2: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Laurence Luckinbill (The Boys in the Band, The Delphi Bureau, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Lyndon, Hemingway, Teddy Tonight!, Clarence Darrow Tonight!). Topics this segment include how Larry’s guest appearance on Harry O in the summer of 1974 resulted in Larry adopting an Alaskan Malumute, whom Larry named Mush (and who remained a beloved part of the Luckinbill family for the next thirteen years), and how William Shatner cast Larry as Sybok in Star Trek V after seeing his one-man show Lyndon on PBS. Larry's autobiography, Affective Memories: How Chance and The Theater Saved My Life, is available wherever books are sold through Sunbury Press.
TVC 678.3: Actor and author Laurence Luckinbill talks to Ed about working with William Shatner, both as an actor and as a director, in Star Trek V, as well as the approach he took toward playing Sybok, Spock’s half-brother, in that film. Larry's autobiography, Affective Memories: How Chance and The Theater Saved My Life, is available wherever books are sold through Sunbury Press.
TVC 677.1: An encore presentation of an edition of The Sounds of Lost Television that originally aired in February 2012 in which Phil Gries plays audio highlights from the Feb. 11, 1960 broadcast of The Tonight Show, the night when host Jack Paar walked off the air after NBC had edited out a joke that Paar had told the night before without his consent. Topics this segment include how Paar was the first host of The Tonight Show to pre-record his show earlier in the day (prior to Paar, The Tonight Show had always aired live), plus a discussion of how the controversy that led to Paar’s walk-off can be boiled down to who really controlled the content of The Tonight Show: Paar, the host, or NBC, the broadcaster? Audio courtesy ATVAudio.com.
TVC 677.2: From February 2012: Phil Gries shares more audio highlights from the Feb. 11, 1960 edition of The Tonight Show, including on-air reaction from co-host Hugh Downs and guests Orson Bean and Shelley Berman in the moments after host Jack Paar had walked off the air to protest NBC’s decision to edit out a joke that Paar had told on the previous night’s show. Also in this segment: Phil discusses that the role that Jonathan Winters played in convincing Paar to return to The Tonight Show (which Paar did on Mar. 7, 1960), plus Ed plays an clip from the interview that he and Phil did with Hugh Downs in September 2013 in which Downs reveals that, while he knew that Paar was going to quit prior to the taping of the Feb. 11, 1960 broadcast, he did not expect Paar to walk off at the beginning of the show. Audio courtesy ATVAudio.com.
TVC 677.3: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Erica Gavin, the actress known around the world as the star of Vixen! (1968), the satiric sexploitation movie produced, directed, and co-written by Russ Meyer that none other than Roger Ebert once described as "the quintessential Russ Meyer film." Topics this segment how Erica initially clashed with Meyer over how to approach the famous “lesbian scene” in Vixen! between her and Vincene Wallace, and how she worked out a solution that ultimately pleased Meyer. Chuck Harter co-hosts.
TVC 677.4: Actress Erica Gavin talks to Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter about the time when she and Russ Meyer both met film critic and future Meyer collaborator Roger Ebert for the first time while doing promotion for Vixen! (1968), how Erica had earned Meyer’s trust by convincing him to let her break the fourth wall while filming the final shot of Vixen, and how Meyer paid homage to Alfred Hitchcock by making a cameo appearance in the final scene of Vixen. Severin Films has just released Russ Meyer's Vixen!, Russ Meyer’s Supervixens, and Russ Meyer's Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens on Blu-ray for the first time as part of a landmark partnership with the Russ Meyer Trust. The Blu-ray release of Vixen! includes more than three hours of extra features (including a brand-new audio commentary by Erica Gavin, plus archival interviews with Erica Gavin and Harrison Page), while both Supervixens and Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens are likewise chockful of extra features.
TVC 677.5: Ed welcomes actor, author, playwright, and Emmy Award-winning producer Laurence Luckinbill (The Boys in the Band, The Delphi Bureau, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Lyndon, Hemingway, Teddy Tonight!, Clarence Darrow Tonight!). Larry's autobiography, Affective Memories: How Chance and The Theater Saved My Life, is a page-turning, brutally honest story of how Larry overcame a meager upbringing up in the Ozark Mountains to forge his way into a successful career as a working actor and playwright. While it includes a lot of great showbiz stories from Larry’s career on stage, film, and television, Affective Memories is really a book that transcends genres, evoking many classic American themes (one of which is finding redemption and a second lease on life through the love of a good woman), while also providing insight into what it means to be an actor, the healing power of the performing arts, and the lifetime discovery of what it means to be human. Among other topics this segment, Larry shares the story of how he came to write Teddy Tonight, his one-man show about the life of President Theodore Roosevelt, to illustrate how to find the “motor” that drives the particular story one wants to tell, be that as a play, a memoir, or a long-form work of fiction.
TVC 677.6: Actor and author Laurence Luckinbill (The Boys in the Band, The Delphi Bureau, Star Trek V, Affective Memories: How Chance and The Theater Saved My Life) shares a few memories of his years in Oakland, California, where he moved to be with his family in the 1950s; the many mentors in his life, including the Catholic nun who taught him to appreciate the power of words; and how he first came to learn the difference between a “movie horse” and a “horse” horse while filming an episode of Bonanza. Affective Memories is available wherever books are sold through Sunbury Press.
We'll be back with a brand new edition of TV Confidential later this week. In the meantime, please enjoy this clip from February 2015 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed remember Khan! (CBS, 1975), the short-lived yet controversial series starring Khigh Dheigh as a contemporary private eye who is reminiscent of Charlie Chan. Khan! premiered Feb. 7, 1975 as part of This Week in TV History.
TVC 676.1: An encore presentation of an edition from The Sounds of Lost Television that originally aired in September 2011 in which Phil Gries plays audio highlights from Jackie Gleason, the short-lived CBS prime talk show that The Great One hosted for two months in early 1961, and a show that was borne out of necessity following the demise of You're in The Picture, the infamous game show hosted by Gleason, which CBS canceled after its one and only broadcast on Jan. 20, 1961. This segment includes a clip from the famous on-air “apology” for You’re in the Picture (telecast Jan. 27, 1961), in which Gleason spent thirty minutes denouncing Picture as “the biggest bomb” in TV history, plus clips from Gleason’s subsequent interviews with Art Carney (telecast Feb. 17, 1961) and Gordon MacRae and Sheila MacRae (telecast Feb. 24, 1961). Audio courtesy ATVAudio.com.
TVC 676.2: From September 2011: Phil Gries plays a clip from Jackie Gleason’s interview with Bobby Darin on the Mar. 17, 1961 edition of Jackie Gleason, the short-lived prime talk show (CBS, 1961) that was borne out of necessity following the demise of You're in The Picture, the infamous game show hosted by The Great One that CBS canceled after its premiere broadcast on Jan. 20, 1961. This segment also includes audio from Darin’s appearance on Stage Show (CBS, 1954-1956), a music variety series produced by Gleason. Darin’s appearance on Stage Show marked his first national TV appearance. Audio courtesy ATVAudio.com.
TVC 676.3: Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter welcome Erica Gavin, the actress known around the world as the star of Vixen! (1968), the satiric sexploitation movie produced, directed, and co-written by Russ Meyer that esteemed critic Roger Ebert once described as "the quintessential Russ Meyer film." Despite numerous attempts at censorship (including one of the first-ever X ratings and twenty-three separate U.S. prosecutions for obscenity), Vixen! became one of the top-grossing movies of 1968, forever changing the face of independent film making while remaining the creative template for Meyer’s unapologetic vision of American cinema. Topics discussed this segment include the various taboo issues that Meyer tackled in Vixen! (nymphomania, racism, communism, draft dodging, lesbianism, and incest) and how the maverick filmmaker was both of his time and ahead of his time. Severin Films has just released Russ Meyer's Vixen!, Russ Meyer’s Supervixens, and Russ Meyer's Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens on Blu-ray for the first time as part of a landmark partnership with the Russ Meyer Trust. The Blu-ray release of Vixen! includes more than three hours of extra features (including a brand-new audio commentary by Erica Gavin, plus archival interviews with Erica Gavin and Harrison Page), while both Supervixens and Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens are likewise chockful of extra features.
TVC 676.4: A return appearance by Jeffrey Sitcov, founder and president of Doors of Change, the non profit organization that uses arts and music to help keep teenage homeless youths off the streets (and, in many cases, find safe forever homes), and Lucie Arnaz, one of the celebrity spokespeople for Doors of Change. Topics this segment include the many partnerships that Jeffrey has forged with such music superstars as Billy Joel and Elton John to help create awareness of Doors of Change among the general public; some of the many “sustainable” services that Doors of Changes provides homeless teenagers beyond finding them shelter; and why the performing arts particularly resonates with “transitional age” (i.e., teenagers between the age of seventeen and twenty-four) homeless youth. To learn more about Doors of Change, including how you can become involved for as little as $18/month, go to DoorsofChange.org.
TVC 676.5: Jeffrey Sitcov, founder and president of Doors of Change, and Lucie Arnaz, one of the celebrity spokespeople for Doors of Change, talk to Ed about the annual Concert of Hope that will benefit Doors of Change, and which is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 6 in San Diego. Also in this segment: Lucie shares a few memories of working with Neil Simon, Marlin Hamlisch, Carole Bayer Sager, and Robert Klein in the original Broadway production of They’re Playing Our Song. To learn more about Doors of Change, including how you can become involved for as little as $18/month, go to DoorsofChange.org.
TVC 675.1: Ed welcomes back Julie Rogers Pomilia, granddaughter of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and the author of Your Heroes, My Grandparents: A Granddaughter’s Love, the storybook tale of a little girl who just happened to have two famous relatives and who cherished every moment that she spent with them. Julie also worked very closely with Steve Nycklemoe, director of operations for The Hollywood Museum, in putting together the Happy Trails exhibit, honoring the life and legacy of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, that is currently on display at the Museum. In this segment, Julie shares memories of hunting and skeet shooting with her grandfather, discusses why family was always important to Roy and Dale, and why Roy always took his responsibility to his fans very seriously.
TVC 675.2: Julie Rogers Pomilia, granddaughter of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and the author of Your Heroes, My Grandparents: A Granddaughter’s Love, talks to Ed about how why Roy Rogers and Dale Evans came to adorn their costumes with rhinestones; Dale’s prolific writing career, which included thirty songs and many songs (including “Happy Trails” and “The Bible Tells Me So”); and why Roy and Dale didn’t always comprehend the impact of their lives and career on the public at large. The Happy Trails exhibit at The Hollywood Museum features a host of never before seen personal items from the Roy Rogers collection, including an impressive array of vivid color movie posters, personal furniture made for Roy and Dale by actor George Montgomery, plus vintage photos, collectibles, costumes, merchandise, and more. For tickets and more information, go to TheHollywoodMuseum.com.
TVC 675.3: Ed’s guests are Emmy Award-winning actress, screenwriter, and novelist Louise Shaffer (Ryan’s Hope, Search for Tomorrow, The Edge of Night, All My Suspects, Talked to Death) and film and television historian Tom Lisanti (Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies, Carol Lynley: Her Film & TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy and Suspense, Trippin’ with Terry Southern: What I Think I Remember, Dueling Harlows). Louise is among the four dozen alumni of Ryan’s Hope (ABC, 1975-1989) that Tom interviewed for his latest book, Ryan’s Hope: An Oral History of Daytime’s Groundbreaking Soap, everything you wanted to know about the Emmy Award-winning daytime drama, as told from the perspective of the people who brought you Ryan’s Hope. Topics this segment include why part of the appeal of Ryan’s Hope for viewers and performers alike was that it was very concrete; why series co-creator Claire Labine was such a great writer of dialogue; and why many of the actors on Ryan’s Hope bonded with each other because they shared a background working on the stage.
TVC 675.4: Emmy Award-winning actress Louise Shaffer (Ryan’s Hope) talks to Ed and guest co-host Tom Lisanti about the instrumental role that Ryan’s Hope co-creator Claire Labine played in helping Louise transition from acting to writing, and why Maeve Ryan, Helen Gallagher’s character on Ryan’s Hope, was the hardest character on the series for Louise or any other writer to write for. Other topics this segment includes Louise and Tom’s favorite storylines of Ryan’s Hope, plus Louise shares a few memories of working with Ben Gazzara on Run For Your Life. Louise is among the four dozen alumni of Ryan’s Hope that Tom interviewed for his latest book, Ryan’s Hope: An Oral History of Daytime’s Groundbreaking Soap.
TVC 675.5: From June 2016: Actress and author Charlotte Stewart (Little House on the Prairie, Twin Peaks, Little House in the Hollywood Hills) shares a few memories about working with David Lynch on both Twin Peaks and Eraserhead, plus she talks to Ed about the “David Lynch-like” approaching to directing that Neil Young took when Charlotte worked with Young on the film Human Highway. David Lynch passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 15 at age seventy-eight.
TVC 674.1: TV Confidential remembers Michael Schlesinger, the film executive and champion of classic movie restoration who was also the writer, producer, and director of The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster, a collection of 1930s-style comedies—all starring Will Ryan and Nick Santa Maria—that pay homage to The Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, and other vintage comedy teams from the Golden Era of Hollywood. Though filmed circa 2013, the sets, camera shots, attention to detail, and, above all, the performances of everyone involved in the Biffle and Shooster films are all so convincing, they look and sound as if they really were unearthed from the 1930s. Michael Schlesinger passed away Thursday, Jan. 9 at age seventy-four. In this segment, which originally aired in August 2018, Mike and Will join Ed and Greg Ehrbar for a conversation about the origin of the Biffle and Shooster characters (and how Mike came to be involved with them); the painstaking dedication to authenticity that Mike took to making the Biffle and Shooster shorts; and how Mike parlayed his friendships with such stars as Robert Forster, H.M. Wynant, and Robert Picardo into getting each of them to appear in the films.
TVC 674.2: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with singer, actor, producer, and entertainment legend Pat Boone. Pat stars, along with Michael Learned, Kevin Sorbo, Tom Wopat, and Dean Cain, in the biopic Our Crossroads, a true story of family and faith that is scheduled for release in July 2025. Pat and Kevin Sorbo also both play Thomas Jefferson in The American Miracle, another film that is slated for release later in 2025, while Pat can currently be seen in Reagan and Miracle in the Valley, both of which are available now for viewing on demand through Amazon Prime. Topics this segment include Pat’s longtime friendship with Elvis Presley, which began in 1956 and continued until the day The King died in 1977; why Elvis was terribly shy with most people when he wasn’t performing onstage; and the time that Elvis met evangelist Oral Roberts, which Pat had arranged at Elvis’ request.
TVC 674.3: Pat Boone talks to Ed about working with Shirley Jones in April Love, with Ann-Margret in State Fair, and with Barbara Eden in All Hands on Deck. Pat can currently be seen in Reagan and Miracle in the Valley, both of which are available now for viewing on demand through Amazon Prime, while Pat’s latest movies, Our Crossroads and The American Miracle, are both scheduled for release later in 2025.
We'll be back with a brand new edition of TV Confidential later this week. In the meantime, please enjoy this clip from January 2015 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the legacy of The Simpsons on television and on pop culture in general. The first regular episode of The Simpsons originally aired on Jan. 14, 1990.
TVC 673.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began just before the holidays with Nick Nugent, author of The Knight Rider Companion: Abridged Edition, everything you wanted to know about the classic TV series starring David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, and the voice of William Daniels. Topics this segment include how series creator Glen Larson originally saw Knight Rider as a contemporary rendering of The Lone Ranger; why KITT and the car were two different entities; the show’s impact on 1980s pop culture; and the throughline between Knight Rider, My Mother the Car, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Knight Rider Companion Abridged Edition is available from Black Pawn Press and includes new and updated interviews with series creator Glen Larson, series stars David Hasselhoff, William Daniels, and Rebecca Holden, and many other key personnel; an updated Hall of Fame Autograph Guide, Vehicle States Guide, Knight Rider Fonts Guide, Knight Rider Logos Guide, Knight Equipment Guide, and a complete series episode guide; several pages of one-of-a-kind artwork created exclusively for the abridged edition.
TVC 673.2: Nick Nugent, author of The Knight Rider Companion: Abridged Edition, discusses some of the new material available in his book. The Knight Rider Companion Abridged Edition is available from Black Pawn Press.
TVC 673.3: Ed welcomes back Pat Boone, the legendary singer, actor, and all-around entertainer who not only celebrated his ninetieth birthday a few months back, but also recently marked his seventieth year in show business. Pat Boone and Michael Learned star as Bob and Barbara Fraley in the biopic Our Crossroads, a true story of family and faith that also features Kevin Sorbo, Tom Wopat, and Dean Cain. Our Crossroads is scheduled for release in July 2025. Pat Boone and Kevin Sorbo also both play Thomas Jefferson in The American Miracle, another film that is slated for release later in 2025. Pat can currently be seen in Reagan and Miracle in the Valley, both of which are available now for viewing on demand through Amazon Prime. Topics this segment include how Pat met Michael Learned for the first time just before filming their scenes together in Our Crossroads; how Pat approached providing the voice of our sixteenth president for “The Legacy of Abraham Lincoln,” a 2023 episode of the animated series Star Spangled Adventures; and why films have always been influential on our culture, particularly among young people.
TVC 673.4: Ed welcomes Dawn Moore, one of the top marketing and branding professionals in the luxury retail industry, and the daughter of Clayton Moore, the actor known to three generations of television viewers as The Lone Ranger. The 2024-2025 television season marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the premiere of The Lone Ranger (ABC, 1949-1957) on TV. Topics this segment include the throughline between what Dawn does for a living today and what her dad was doing forty and fifty years ago, when he was promoting the brand of The Lone Ranger through his many personal appearances; how her dad was a master of crafting whatever questions were asked of him, whenever he did interviews; the many people who entered careers of service because of the values that Clayton Moore embodied through his performance as The Lone Ranger; and her dad’s wry, nonchalant reaction to Dawn telling him that she had met Elizabeth Taylor one day in the course of her work.
TVC 673.5: Dawn Moore, daughter of Clayton Moore, talks to Ed about the origins of the Lone Ranger Creed; how her dad embodied the words of the Creed every day for the last fifty years of his life; and how Dawn displayed quotes from some of the tenets of the Creed on the window of the Harry Winston jewelry store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills to help calm her neighborhood on the day after of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Other topics this segment include the various connections between Clayton Moore, Roy Rogers, and Dale Evans, and how that is captured in some of the vintage photographs that are currently on display as part of the Happy Trails exhibit at TheHollywoodMuseum.com. For more about Dawn, go to MooreAbout.com.
We'll be back with a brand new edition of TV Confidential later this week. In the meantime, please enjoy this clip from January 2015 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the circumstances that led to James Garner to end The Rockford Files (NBC, 1974-1980)in the middle of the show's sixth season. The final episode of The Rockford Files aired on Jan. 10, 1980 during This Week in TV History.
TVC 672.1: Ed welcomes entertainment journalist and comedy historian Tripp Whetsell. Tripp’s latest book, Norman Lear: His Life and Times, is the first comprehensive biography of the legendary, Emmy Award-winning producer of All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, The Fact of Life, and many other series that helped elevate the American network sitcom. While much has been written about Norman Lear, before and after his death on Dec. 5. 2023, Tripp’s book shows that there remains much to learn about the legendary “man in the white hat”— since Lear himself was often reluctant to discuss his early life in great detail. Topics this segment include how Lear got his foothold in show business by way of Danny Thomas, and his roots in the golden era of variety television throughout the 1950s and early ’60s. Norman Lear: His Life and Times is available wherever books are sold through Applause Books. For our listeners in Southern California, Tripp Whetsell will appear at Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood on Wednesday, Jan. 8 beginning at 7pm.
TVC 672.2: Tripp Whetsell, author of Norman Lear: His Life and Times, talks to Ed about how the latitude that Norman Lear often gave his actors and his writers on his television shows was often a double-edged sword; Lear’s years as a motion picture producer in the 1960s; and the events that led to the premiere on All in the Family on CBS in January 1971. Norman Lear: His Life and Times is available wherever books are sold through Applause Books. Tripp Whetsell will appear at Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood on Wednesday, Jan. 8 beginning at 7pm.
TVC 672.3: Part 2 of a conversation that began just before the holidays with Steve Randisi, author of Penny Singleton: A Biography, a comprehensive look at the life and career of the actress who not only achieved worldwide fame in the 1930s and ’40s as the star of the Blondie movie series from Columbia Pictures (and, later, to TV audiences as the voice of Jane Jetson on the original Jetsons TV series and, later, the Jetsons movie), but who made history in 1958 when she became the first female president of an AFL-CIO union, the American Guild of Variety Artists. Topics this segment include how Singleton was nearly fired from the first Blondie picture because of an incident over a cigarette; the values she formed while growing up in South Philadelphia; and how her longtime connection with Rod Serling resulted in her appearance opposite John McGiver in the Twilight Zone episode “Sounds and Silences.” Penny Singleton: A Biography is available from Bear Manor Media.
We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past clip from January 2015 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the premiere of A.M. America, the precursor to Good Morning, America, on Jan. 6, 1975. An offshoot of Ralph Story's A.M., a local program produced by KABC-TV in Los Angeles, A.M. America never found an audience on a national level and was canceled ten months later.
We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past clip from January 2015 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed celebrate the life and legacy of Alan Hale, the actor known around the world as The Skipper on Gilligan’s Island. Alan Hale passed away on Jan. 2. 1990, thirty-five years ago This Week in TV History.
We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past clip from January 2015 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the premiere of Hullabaloo, NBC's answer to Shindig, on Jan. 12, 1965.
We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past clip from January 2012 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the tragic death of Alias Smith and Jones star Pete Duel on Dec. 30, 1971.
TVC 619:1: Ed welcomes filmmaker Gregory Orr, son of William T. Orr, the original head of television production at Warner Bros. Studios, and the grandson of Warner Bros. co-founder Jack L. Warner. Calendar year 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of Warner Bros.; to mark the occasion, Greg has just released the director’s cut of his 1993 documentary Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul, an unvarnished look at one of the founding fathers of the American film industry, all told through Warner Bros. film clips, personal home movies, exclusive interviews with such luminaries as Shirley Jones, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Pat Buttram, Sheila MacRae, and Debbie Reynolds, and more than forty minutes of new material—all in high definition. The release of the director’s cut marks the first time that the film has been shown in the United States in its entirety, as it was intended. Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul is available now for streaming on demand on all major platforms and on DVD through outlets such as MovieZyng.com. Use promo JACK through the end of August and receive 10 percent off your purchase of the DVD through Movie Zyng. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 617.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Jim Benson, host of Jim Benson's TV Time Machine and the co-author, along with Scott Skelton, of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour, everything you wanted to know about the other famous TV series created by Rod Serling. Topics this segment include how Night Gallery was both a director’s show as well as a producer’s show, and how series creator Rod Serling took away his own leverage by not insisting on having creative control of the series once Night Gallery went into production. Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour has been recently updated and reissued as a marvelous 50th anniversary second edition that includes a host of new material, including more than four hundred pages of new information, plus a brand new foreword by Oscar and Emmy winning director Guillermo del Toro. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 617.2: Jim Benson, co-author of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour, talks to Ed about some of many misconceptions about Night Gallery, many of which stem from the truncated versions of many episodes as they appeared in the show’s syndication package. Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour has been recently updated and reissued as a marvelous 50th anniversary second edition that includes a host of new material, including more than four hundred pages of new information, plus a brand new foreword by Oscar and Emmy winning director Guillermo del Toro. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 617.3: Jim Benson, co-author of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour, talks to Ed about “They’re Tearing Down Tim Riley’s Bar,” the first-season episode starring William Windom, Diane Baker, and Bert Convy that is universally recognized as one of the best, among the most personal, scripts that Rod Serling ever wrote. Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour has been updated and reissued as a 50th anniversary second edition that includes a brand new foreword by Oscar and Emmy winning director Guillermo del Toro. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 617:4: Ed welcomes back Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and novelist Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriter’s Companion). Joe has just published The First Cylinder, a breakout science fiction novel that draws inspiration from War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, only it tells the story of the invasion of Mars from the perspective of the Martians. Tony Figueroa and Dan Farren join Joe and Ed for a roundtable discussion of such early science fiction TV shows as Tales of Tomorrow, Science Fiction Theater, Space Patrol, and Fireball-XL5. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 617.5: Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and novelist Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriter’s Companion) talks to Ed, Tony Figueroa, and Dan Farren about why The Outer Limits is more lyrical and visually stylistic than The Twilight Zone, even though the network run of Outer Limits lasted just fifteen months. Joe’s new novel, The First Cylinder, is available from Fayetteville Mafia Press and Amazon.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 618.6: Ed welcomes Dale Pederson, the writer, director, and producer of In Through the Out Door, an upcoming time travel/suspense/thriller series that not only draws inspiration from H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, but blends elements of the true crime genre by thrusting its two protagonists back to 1893 Chicago, where they find themselves terrorized by notorious serial killer H.H. Holmes. Topics this segment include how the premise of In Through the Out Door is also somewhat reminiscent of that of Lost in Space. In Through the Out Door is set to premiere later in 2023. You can follow Dale @MagicTVFilms on Instagram for updates and more information. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 616.1: Ed welcomes back Jim Benson, host of Jim Benson's TV Time Machine and the co-author, along with Scott Skelton, of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour, everything you wanted to know about the other famous TV series created by Rod Serling. Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour has been recently updated and reissued as a marvelous 50th anniversary second edition that includes a host of new material, including more than four hundred pages of new information, plus a brand new foreword by Oscar and Emmy winning director Guillermo del Toro. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 616.2: Jim Benson, co-author of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour, talks to Ed about how Night Gallery helped launch the career of many directors, including John Badham, John Astin, Jeannot Szwarc, and, most famously, Steven Spielberg. Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour has been updated and reissued as a marvelous 50th anniversary second edition that includes a host of new material, including more than four hundred pages of new information, plus a brand new foreword by Oscar and Emmy winning director Guillermo del Toro. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 616.3: From June 2016: Ed welcomes actor and motivational speaker Jimmy Weldon, the voice of Yakky Doodle on Yogi Bear, and the author of Go Get ’Em Tiger, a part autobiographical, part motivational book that shows that the real definition of success is becoming the person you want to be and doing what you really want to do. Jimmy Weldon passed away Thursday, July 6 at age ninety-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 616.4: From June 2016: Ed welcomes actor and motivational speaker Jimmy Weldon, the voice of Yakky Doodle on Yogi Bear, and the author of Go Get ’Em Tiger, a part autobiographical, part motivational book that shows that the real definition of success is becoming the person you want to be and doing what you really want to do. Jimmy Weldon passed away Thursday, July 6 at age ninety-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 616.5: From June 2016: Ed welcomes actor and motivational speaker Jimmy Weldon, the voice of Yakky Doodle on Yogi Bear, and the author of Go Get ’Em Tiger, a part autobiographical, part motivational book that shows that the real definition of success is becoming the person you want to be and doing what you really want to do. In this segment, Jimmy talks to Ed about some of his other TV roles, including working with James Garner in "The Big Cheese," one of the last, and one of the best, episodes of The Rockford Files. Jimmy Weldon passed away Thursday, July 6 at age ninety-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 615.1: Emmy Award-winning actor, writer, and producer Kevin Spirtas (After Forever, Days of Our Lives) talks to Ed about what it means to receive the Hollywood Museum Trailblazer Award at this year’s 10th annual Real to Reel exhibit. He also gives us a sneak preview of Season 3 of After Forever, which will feature Linda Purl in the role of Brian’s therapist. One of the Hollywood Museum’s most popular attractions, the Real to Reel exhibit offers a historic perspective of monumental LBGTQ+ contributions in film and television over the past 100 years, spanning the eras of silent movies, pre-Code Hollywood, the Golden Ages of Film and Television, and cable and digital platforms. For more about Real to Reel, and other exhibits on display this summer, go to TheHollywoodMuseum.com. Both Seasons 1 and 2 of After Forever are available for streaming on demand on AmazonPrime, while Season 3 is scheduled for release later in 2023 Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 615.2: Kevin Spirtas (After Forever, The Hills Have Eyes) talks to Ed about the importance of costuming in any project, whether for film, stage or television; his recent appearance in Subspecies V: Blood Rise, the upcoming sequel to the 1981 vampire slasher film Subspecies; and why watching a horror movie is like going on a carnival ride. Kevin donated some of his costumes for After Forever to the Hollywood Museum as part of this year’s 10th annual Real to Reel exhibit. For more about Real to Reel, and other exhibits on display this summer, go to TheHollywoodMuseum.com. Both Seasons 1 and 2 of After Forever are available for streaming on demand on Amazon Prime, while Season 3 is scheduled for release later in 2023 Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 615.3: From June 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the fallout surrounding the murder of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane on June 29, 1978. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 615.4: From June 2015: Ed, Tony and Donna welcome Robert Crane, eldest son of Bob Crane, and the co-author, along with Christopher Fryer, of CRANE: Sex, Celebrity and My Father’s Unsolved Murder, a memoir of growing up with Bob Crane as a father before, during and after Hogan’s Heroes that also provides a first-person account and commentary of the investigation and prosecution of the Bob Crane murder case, from the perspective of the Crane family. Among other topics, Bob takes us back to the afternoon of Thursday, June 29, 1978, when he was summoned to the crime scene in Scottsdale, Arizona to identify his father’s body. He also shares memories of growing with Bob Crane as a father, including his formative years in Connecticut before his dad moved his family to Los Angeles in 1956 so that he could join KNX Radio and, of course, launch his acting career and eventually star in Hogan’s Heroes. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 615.5: From June 2015: Ed, Tony and Donna welcome Robert Crane, co-author of CRANE: Sex, Celebrity and My Father’s Unsolved Murder, a memoir of growing up with Bob Crane as a father before, during and after Hogan’s Heroes that also provides a first-person account and commentary of the investigation and prosecution of the Bob Crane murder case, from the perspective of the Crane family. Among other topics, Bob takes us back to the afternoon of Thursday, June 29, 1978, when he was summoned to the crime scene in Scottsdale, Arizona to identify his father’s body. He also shares memories of growing with Bob Crane as a father, including his formative years in Connecticut before Bob Crane moved to Los Angeles in 1956 to join KNX Radio and, of course, launch his acting career and eventually star in Hogan’s Heroes. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 615.5: From June 2015: Ed, Tony and Donna welcome Robert Crane, co-author of CRANE: Sex, Celebrity and My Father’s Unsolved Murder, a memoir of growing up with Bob Crane as a father before, during and after Hogan’s Heroes that also provides a first-person account and commentary of the investigation and prosecution of the Bob Crane murder case, from the perspective of the Crane family. Among other topics, Bob takes us back to the afternoon of Thursday, June 29, 1978, when he was summoned to the crime scene in Scottsdale, Arizona to identify his father’s body. He also shares memories of growing with Bob Crane as a father, including his formative years in Connecticut before Bob Crane moved to Los Angeles in 1956 to join KNX Radio and, of course, launch his acting career and eventually star in Hogan’s Heroes. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 615.7: From June 2015: Ed, Tony and Donna welcome Robert Crane, co-author of CRANE: Sex, Celebrity and My Father’s Unsolved Murder, a memoir of growing up with Bob Crane as a father before, during and after Hogan’s Heroes that also provides a first-person account and commentary of the investigation and prosecution of the Bob Crane murder case, from the perspective of the Crane family. Among other topics, Bob takes us back to the afternoon of Thursday, June 29, 1978, when he was summoned to the crime scene in Scottsdale, Arizona to identify his father’s body. He also shares memories of growing with Bob Crane as a father, including his formative years in Connecticut before Bob Crane moved to Los Angeles in 1956 to join KNX Radio and, of course, launch his acting career and eventually star in Hogan’s Heroes. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 614.1: Actor and author James Rosin joins Ed as TV Confidential pays tribute to George Maharis, the Brandoesque actor known around the world as Buz Murdock on Route 66 (CBS, 1960-1964). George Maharis passed away this past Wednesday, May 24 at age ninety-four. Jim interviewed Maharis for his book Route 66: The Television Series; he not only remained friends with the actor for the rest of his life, but spoke to Maharis just a few weeks before his death. Among other topics this segment, Jim clarifies some of the misinformation and innuendo surrounding Maharis’ departure from Route 66 in the middle of the third season. (Maharis himself addressed this subject when he appeared on TV Confidential in March 2012; we replay that interview in our second hour of this week’s program.) Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 614.2: James Rosin, author of Route 66: The Television Series and other books on popular culture, talks to Ed about the advice that Cary Grant gave George Maharis shorte before Maharis left Route 66 in the middle of the third season, after the actor had a near-fatal relapse of hepatitis. George Maharis passed away this past Wednesday, May 24 at age ninety-four. Jim not only interviewed Maharis for Route 66: The Television Series, but remained friends with the actor right up to his death. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 614.2a: Greg Ehrbar talks to Ed about the recent DVD release of Here Come the Brides (ABC, 1968-1970), the first hour-long comedy-drama Western from Screen Gems that put both David Soul and Bobby Sherman on the map. Topics this segment include why Here Come the Brides is often overlooked by such other Screen Gems shows of the 1960s and ’70s as Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Flying Nun, The Partridge Family, and The Monkees. Season 1 of Here Come the Brides is available on DVD through Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 614.3: Greg and Ed talk about the recording career of Bobby Sherman and how Here Comes the Brides (ABC, 1968-1970) is actually based on a true story. Season 2 of Here Come the Brides is available on DVD through Shout! Factory. Gangway, Lord: The Here Come the Brides Book is available through Bear Manor Media. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 614.4: From March 2012: Ed welcomes actor, singer, and painter George Maharis (Route 66, Exodus, The Most Deadly Game). George Maharis passed away this past Wednesday, May 24 at age ninety-four. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 614.5: From March 2012: George Maharis, in his own words, clarifies some of the misinformation surrounding his departure from Route 66 in the middle of the third season. George Maharis passed away this past Wednesday, May 24 at age ninety-four. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 614.6: From March 2012: Ed plays audio highlights of George Maharis’ appearance on the May 18, 1962 edition of PM East, the New York-based late night television talk show hosted by Mike Wallace, in which Maharis discussed what he may have done with his life had he not pursued acting, and why he was thinking of leaving Route 66 at the end of the third season. (Though he did not know it at the time he spoke to Wallace, Maharis would end up leaving the series in the middle of the third season, following a near-fatal release of hepatitis.) Audio courtesy of Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio, ATVAudio.com. George Maharis passed away this past Wednesday, May 24 at age ninety-four. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 613.1: TV Confidential remembers Milt Larsen, founder of The Magic Castle and the patriarch of magic and illusion around the world, with an encore presentation of a conversation that originally aired in October 2016. Milt Larsen passed away this past Sunday, May 28 at age ninety-two. At the time we spoke to Milt, he was about to celebrate the 60th anniversary of It's Magic, the star-studded live stage show that Milt produced for more than sixty years. Topics this segment include the early days of The Magic Castle, why the Castle is “three times bigger on in the inside than it is on the outside,” and why we continue to be enamored with magic. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 613.2: From October 2016: Milt Larsen, founder of The Magic Castle, talks to Ed about his background in television, which includes eighteen years as a writer for Ralph Edwards Productions, where he worked on both This is Your Life and Truth or Consequences and, in the case of the former show, often entertained such entertainment legends as Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, Ed Wynn, Mack Sennett, George Burns, and Jack Benny while Edwards’ production team set up the surprise for those guests. Also in this segment: audio highlights from Milt’s final public appearance (courtesy of both the Larsen family and B. Harlan Boll Public Relations), which took place at The Magic Castle in April 2023 at a special gathering that celebrated both the fiftieth anniversary of The Castle and Milt’s ninety-second birthday. Milt Larsen passed away this past Sunday, May 28. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 613.3: From August 2015: TV Confidential continues its tribute to Milt Larsen, founder of The Magic Castle, with a look at Milt’s songwriting career, which included several collaborations with Academy Award-winning composer Richard Sherman. At the time this conversation originally aired, Milt and Richard had just re-released their two cult comedy albums, Bon Voyage, Titanic: Smash Flops! and Banned Barbershop Ballads. Milt Larsen passed away this past Sunday, May 28 at age ninety-two. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 613.4: From August 2015: Academy Award-winning composer Richard Sherman and Milt Larsen, founder of The Magic Castle, talk to Ed about the re-release of their two cult comedy albums, Bon Voyage, Titanic: Smash Flops! and Banned Barbershop Ballads. Milt Larsen passed away this past Sunday, May 28 at age ninety-two. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 613.5: Ed welcomes back actress and author Dee Wallace (E.T: The Extraterrestrial, The Howling, Cujo, Critters, Rob Zombie’s 3 from Hell, Born: Giving Birth to a New You). Dee currently stars in Fatal Attraction: The Series, the Paramount+ reimagining of the classic thriller of 1980s. She is also about to mark her 300th screen role as an actress. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 613.6: Actress and author Dee Wallace (E.T: The Extraterrestrial, The Howling, Born: Giving Birth to a New You) talks to Ed about how her naivete about the acting industry actually worked in her favor when she first came to New York; and how she left her mark with casting directors when she first came to Hollywood with the help of chocolate chip cookies. Dee currently stars in Fatal Attraction: The Series, now streaming on Paramount+ Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TVC 598.1: Ed welcomes Dan Harary, the longtime Hollywood publicist once described as the “Forrest Gump of show business,” given his uncanny knack for bumping into famous people from all walks of life, one way or another, throughout his life and career. Dan’s new book, Flirting with Fame: A Hollywood Publicist Recalls 50 Years of Celebrity Close Encounters, is available now wherever books are sold online. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 598.1: Ed welcomes Dan Harary, the longtime Hollywood publicist once described as the “Forrest Gump of show business,” given his uncanny knack for bumping into famous people from all walks of life, one way or another, throughout his life and career. Dan’s new book, Flirting with Fame: A Hollywood Publicist Recalls 50 Years of Celebrity Close Encounters, is available now wherever books are sold online. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 598.1: Ed welcomes Dan Harary, the longtime Hollywood publicist once described as the “Forrest Gump of show business,” given his uncanny knack for bumping into famous people from all walks of life, one way or another, throughout his life and career. Dan’s new book, Flirting with Fame: A Hollywood Publicist Recalls 50 Years of Celebrity Close Encounters, is available now wherever books are sold online. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 598.2: Dan Harary, longtime Hollywood publicist and author of Flirting with Fame, talks to Ed about his friendships with actresses Dee Wallace, which began when Dan handled P.R. for Dee’s series The New Lassie, and Caryn Richman (The New Gidget, A Very Brady Christmas). Flirting with Fame is available now wherever books are sold online. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 598.2: Dan Harary, longtime Hollywood publicist and author of Flirting with Fame, talks to Ed about his friendships with actresses Dee Wallace, which began when Dan handled P.R. for Dee’s series The New Lassie, and Caryn Richman (The New Gidget, A Very Brady Christmas). Flirting with Fame is available now wherever books are sold online. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 598.2: Dan Harary, longtime Hollywood publicist and author of Flirting with Fame, talks to Ed about his friendships with actresses Dee Wallace, which began when Dan handled P.R. for Dee’s series The New Lassie, and Caryn Richman (The New Gidget, A Very Brady Christmas). Flirting with Fame is available now wherever books are sold online. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 598.3: From June 2015: Robert Crane, eldest son of Bob Crane, shares a few memories of Hogan's Heroes stars Robert Clary, Ivan Dixon, Werner Klemperer, and John Banner. Robert Clary passed away on Wednesday, Nov. 16 at age ninety-six. Bob’s memoir, Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father’s Unsolved Murder, doubles as a biography of his dad and, as such, includes many behind-the-scenes stories of Hogan’s Heroes. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 598.3: From June 2015: Robert Crane, eldest son of Bob Crane, shares a few memories of Hogan's Heroes stars Robert Clary, Ivan Dixon, Werner Klemperer, and John Banner. Robert Clary passed away on Wednesday, Nov. 16 at age ninety-six. Bob’s memoir, Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father’s Unsolved Murder, doubles as a biography of his dad and, as such, includes many behind-the-scenes stories of Hogan’s Heroes. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 598.3: From June 2015: Robert Crane, eldest son of Bob Crane, shares a few memories of Hogan's Heroes stars Robert Clary, Ivan Dixon, Werner Klemperer, and John Banner. Robert Clary passed away on Wednesday, Nov. 16 at age ninety-six. Bob’s memoir, Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father’s Unsolved Murder, doubles as a biography of his dad and, as such, includes many behind-the-scenes stories of Hogan’s Heroes. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 597.1: Randy West joins Ed for a look back at the career of Gene Wood, the longtime television announcer for Goodson-Todman shows who was also one of the few announcers to host his own game show. Randy’s latest book, TV Inside Out: Flukes, Flakes, Feuds and Felonies provides a backstage pass to both the outrageous behavior that many stars exhibit in their pursuit of success, and the inspiring stories of television performers who beat the odds and enjoy their success while still living by The Golden Rule. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 597.2: Greg Ehrbar with a remembrance of Jules Bass, the award-winning lyricist and composer who, along with Arthur Rankin, produced some of the most beloved TV holiday specials ever, including such classics as Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town and Rudolph: The Red-Nosed Reindeer. Jules Bass passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 27 at age eighty-seven. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 597.3: Greg Ehrbar and Ed discuss the imprint that Rankin/Bass left on Saturday morning television between the mid 1960s through the late 1980s, including such shows as King Kong, Kid Power, The Jackson 5ive, The Osmonds, and ThunderCats. Jules Bass passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 27 at age eighty-seven. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 597.4: Ed welcomes Christopher Fryer, co-author, along with Robert Crane, of several books on movies and television, including Jack Nicholson: The Early Years—the first authorized biography of the Academy Award-winning actor—Bruce Dern: A Memoir, and Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father’s Unsolved Murder, the memoirs of Robert Crane, eldest son of Bob Crane, that also doubles as a biography of the beloved star of Hogan’s Heroes. Chris is also one of the contributors to Beyond Where the Buses Run, a collection of short stories, edited by Theresa Griffin Kennedy, that centers around the unexpected directions that life often takes us in. Topics this segment include “Hunting License,” the story that Chris contributed to Beyond Where the Buses Run and how the title of the anthology owes itself to a saying coined by Bruce Dern. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 597.5: Christopher Fryer, co-author, along with Robert Crane, Jack Nicholson: The Early Years, talks to Ed about the unlikely series of events that led he and Bob to interview Jack Nicholson in 1973, a few years before Nicholson became a superstar. Chris is also one of the contributors to Beyond Where the Buses Run, a collection of short stories that centers around the unexpected directions that life often takes us in. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 597.6: Longtime voice artist and television announcer Randy West talks to Ed what made Bob Barker and Bob Eubanks such great game show hosts. Plus: A behind-the-scenes look at the live versions of The Price is Right and Wheel of Fortune, both of which Randy has hosted in various venues. Randy’s latest book, TV Inside Out: Flukes, Flakes, Feuds and Felonies provides a backstage pass to both the outrageous behavior that many stars exhibit in their pursuit of success, and the inspiring stories of television performers who beat the odds and enjoy their success while still living by The Golden Rule. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 596.1: A return visit by Lee Goldberg, the New York Times bestselling novelist whose many credits as a television writer and producer include such shows as Diagnosis Murder, Monk, Psych, Hunter, Nero Wolfe, Sliders, and Spenser: For Hire. Lee is also the author / creator of the Eve Ronin novels, a page-turning series of murder mysteries, set in the otherwise sleepy community of Calabasas, California, that centers around the exploits of detective Eve Ronin, the youngest robbery homicide detective in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The latest entry, Movieland, follows Eve’s investigation of a series of unreported sniper attacks in Malibu Creek State Park, the historic state park in the San Fernando Valley that has also served as the backdrop for many movies and TV shows. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 596.2: Lee Goldberg, New York Times bestselling novelist and Edgar Award-nominated television writer and producer, talks to Ed about his recent trip to England in September, which happened to coincide with the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II; why character is always the starting point whenever he embarks on a new novel; and his love of television shows from the 1970s. All four Eve Ronin novels by Lee Goldberg (including the latest, Movieland) are available wherever books are sold. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 596.3: Nick Santa Maria joins Greg Ehrbar for a look at the recently restored Blu-ray release of The Abbott and Costello Show: Season One, the season that, among other things, featured Joe Besser as Stinky, the man-child who often got the best of Costello. Topics this segment include how the rhythm of The Abbott and Costello Show, in many respects, inspired Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David many years later when they developed Seinfeld. Nick Santa Maria is the co-author of The Annotated Abbott and Costello: A Complete Viewer’s Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films, a new book that becomes available in December from McFarland Books. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 596.4: An encore presentation of a conversation with actor and author James McEachin (The Perry Mason Mysteries, Tenafly, The Heroin Factor, Farewell to the Mockingbirds, Tell Me a Tale) that originally aired during Veterans Day weekend in 2014. At the time we spoke to James, he was developing The Purple Heart, a screen project based on the true story of the discovery of a lost Purple Heart medal that belonged to Lt. Henry Schenk, James’ patrol leader in the Korean War—and the role James played in helping restore that medal to Schenk’s family. The film also discusses the history of the Purple Heart itself, plus issues such as survivors guilt, the right and wrongs of war, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 596.5: From November 2014: Ed welcomes actor and author James McEachin (The Perry Mason Mysteries, Tenafly, The Heroin Factor, Farewell to the Mockingbirds, Tell Me a Tale, The Purple Heart). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 596.6: From November 2014: Actor and author James McEachin (The Perry Mason Mysteries, Tenafly, The Heroin Factor, Farewell to the Mockingbirds, Tell Me a Tale, The Purple Heart) shares a few memories of working with Sidney Poitier, John Wayne, Raymond Burr, and producer Dean Hargrove. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 595.1: Ed welcomes actress, writer, and stunt artist Kayla Adams, the star of Hex, a horror-thriller about a sky diving team that attempts to execute a dangerous formation jump known as “The Hex.” When one of the team members mysteriously disappears in mid air while practicing the stunt, Kayla’s character must navigate a lot of weird and scary stuff, including the possibility that The Hex may be cursed. Hex is now available on DVD and for streaming on demand on all major platforms. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 595.2: Actor, author, and comedian Nick Santa Maria (The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster) joins Greg Ehrbar for the first of two DVD and streaming reports that focuses on recent Blu-ray titles featuring Abbott and Costello, including the digitally remastered limited edition 70th anniversary re-release of Jack and the Beanstalk (1952). Nick is the co-author of The Annotated Abbott and Costello: A Complete Viewer’s Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films, a new book that becomes available in December from McFarland Books. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 595.3: Joyce Bulifant joins Ed to help us pay tribute to Ron Masak, the actor best known to TV audiences for playing Sheriff Mort Metzger on Murder, She Wrote (CBS, 1984-1996). Ron Masak passed away last Thursday, Oct. 20 at the age of eighty-six. Joyce co-starred with Ron on Love Thy Neighbor (ABC, 1973), plus they worked together on many charitable functions in the years after that show. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 595.4: From October 2010: Actor Ron Masak (Murder, She Wrote, Ice Station Zebra, Harper Valley PTA, Second Effort) talks to Ed about the one-man show about Mark Twain that he wrote and starred in; his passion for baseball, including how Ron was offered a contract to play for the Chicago White Sox after being scouted by Major League Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby; and working with Patrick McGoohan in both Ice Station Zebra and Columbo. At the time we spoke to Ron, he had just released his memoirs, I've Met All My Heroes from A to Z, a heartfelt tribute to some of the many people from all walks of life that Ron met in his career who had an impact not only on his life, but the world in general—people such as Neil Armstrong, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Roy Campanella, Joe DiMaggio, Rock Hudson, Cary Grant, Audie Murphy, Angela Lansbury, Elvis Presley, Alan Shepard, John Wayne, NFL Hall of Fame coach Vince Lombardi, legendary Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda, country western artist Garth Brooks, and General Norman Schwartzkopf. Ron Masak passed away last Thursday, Oct. 20 at the age of eighty-six. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 596.5: From October 2010: Actor and author Ron Masak talks to Ed about working with NFL Hall of Fame coach Vince Lombardi in Second Effort, the acclaimed motivational film about salesmanship that is reportedly the most-watched non-theatrical film in history, and some of the lessons that Ron learned from Coach Lombardi that continued to guide his life. Ron’s memoir, I've Met All My Heroes from A to Z, pays tribute to some of the many people from all walks of life that Ron met in his career and who continued to impact his life. Ron Masak passed away last Thursday, Oct. 20 at the age of eighty-six. Also in this segment: A brief tribute to Tony Award winner and Disney Legend Angela Lansbury (Murder She Wrote, Mame, Bednobs and Broomsticks, Beauty and the Beast). Angela Lansbury and Ron Masak starred together on Murder She Wrote; Ron pays tribute to her in his memoirs. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 596.6: Actress, author, and philanthropist Joyce Bulifant (Match Game, The Happiest Millionaire, Love Thy Neighbor, My Four Hollywood Husbands) shares a few more memories of working with Ron Masak, plus she talks about the tribute to stage legend Helen Hayes, her onetime mother-in-law, that she performed in October in Nyack, New York. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 594.1: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome David Van Deusen, writer and producer of The Dick Van Dyke Show: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary, a fully authorized, feature length documentary that provides an oral history of The Dick Van Dyke Show, as told by both the original cast and crew of Van Dyke show, as well as members of the second generation Van Dyke show family, notable guest stars, and many others. David’s primary goal for making the documentary is to introduce The Dick Van Dyke Show to a new generation of viewers while also raising funds for St. Jude Children’s Hospital. The Dick Van Dyke Show: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary is available for viewing on demand, for free, on the David Van Deusen YouTube channel. If you enjoyed the documentary, and are so inclined, please consider making a donation to St. Jude’s Hospital. #DVDS60th Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 594.2: David Van Deusen, writer and producer of The Dick Van Dyke Show: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary, discusses the new exhibit dedicated to Carl Reiner that recently opened at the National Comedy Center, including the role that David played in donating the “Alan Brady” desk that Reiner used on The Dick Van Dyke Show. David’s documentary, The Dick Van Dyke Show: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary, includes archival audio from Sheldon Leonard, Carl Reiner, Lucas Reiner, Christian Van Dyke, Dick Van Dyke, Robert Levine (Mary Tyler Moore’s widower), Mary Tyler Moore, Larry Mathews, Rose Marie, Georgiana “Noopy” Rodriguez (Rose Marie’s daughter), Gregory Amsterdam, Morey Amsterdam, Nora Epstein (daughter of Ann Morgan Guilbert), Frank Adaimo, John Rich, Bill Persky, Ernest Chambers, Earle Hagen, and many others, plus brand-new interviews from such notable Dick Van Dyke Show guest stars as Barbara Bain, Barry Livingston, Bernie Kopell, Gloria Roberts, Larrs Jackson, Jackie Joseph, Jamie Farr, and Jeremy Clyde of Chad and Jeremy. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 594.3: David Van Deusen, writer and producer of The Dick Van Dyke Show: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary, talks to Ed, Tony, and Donna about why “It May Look Like a Walnut” is as close to a “perfect episode” as The Dick Van Dyke Show can be, and how Carl Reiner overcame a mild objection from Sheldon Leonard to get the episode made. The Dick Van Dyke Show: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary is available for viewing on demand, for free, on the David Van Deusen YouTube channel. If you enjoyed the documentary, and are so inclined, please consider making a donation to St. Jude’s Hospital. #DVDS60th Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 594.4: David Van Deusen, writer and producer of The Dick Van Dyke Show: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary, talks to Ed, Tony, and Donna about why every episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show is a “half-hour show crammed full of little moments.” The Dick Van Dyke Show: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary is available for viewing on demand, for free, on the David Van Deusen YouTube channel. If you enjoyed the documentary, and are so inclined, please consider making a donation to St. Jude’s Hospital. #DVDS60th
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TVC 594.5: From September 2012: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome Rose Marie, the singer/actress known to three generations of television viewers as Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show and for her many appearances on the original Hollywood Squares. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 594.6: From September 2012: Rose Marie talks to Ed, Tony, and Donna about how she discovered actor/comedian Tim Conway in the early 1960s and how she came to join the cast of Hollywood Squares in 1966. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started:
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TVC 593.1: Ed welcomes Martin Harris, one of the cast members of Amsterdam, the star-studded 1930s murder mystery that also features Christian Bale, Timothy Olyphant, Chris Rock, and Robert DeNiro. Martin discusses his experience of sharing screen time in Amsterdam with his longtime idol, DeNiro, plus he tells Ed the story of how NBA superstar Kobe Bryant encouraged him to move to Hollywood and pursue an acting career. Amsterdam is now playing in theaters everywhere. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 593.4: A return appearance by Michael Learned, the four-time Emmy Award-winning actress known around the world as Olivia Walton, the matriarch of the Walton family. Calendar year 2022 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the premiere of The Waltons on CBS. Michael is also one of the stars of Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, the new Netflix series by Ryan Murphy that is reportedly one of Netflix’s most watched shows ever, with nearly 300 viewing hours in its second week alone. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 593.5: Actress Michael Learned (The Waltons, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story) tells Ed the back story of her unusual first name, and how her being named Michael often confused other people, including members of the Television Academy on the night when she won her first Emmy for playing Olivia Walton. Monster is available for viewing on demand on Netflixt, while The Waltons is available on several viewing platforms. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 593.5a: From June 2012: Two-time Grammy-nominated comedienne and actress Judy Tenuta talks to Ed about some of the features in her book Full Frontal Tenudity, including Big Fat Secrets, Stoner Snacks for Love Slaves, and the “Hollywood to English” dictionary. Judy Tenuta passed away Thursday, Oct. 6 at age seventy-two. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 593.6: A special edition of This Week in TV History that originally aired in October 2017, a few weeks after the passing of Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-winning actor Martin Landau (Mission: Impossible, Space: 1999, Ed Wood). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 592.1: Ed welcomes Paul Friedman, longtime marketing and promotions executive for CBS Television and the author of The Unexpected Danny Green, the inspiring story of an African-American athlete who was born on the wrong side of the tracks, but rises to the top to become a gifted boxer, a published author, and a major Hollywood star. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 592.2: Tony Figueroa joins Ed for a look at Tony Dow’s life and career before, during, and after Leave It to Beaver (ABC/CBS, 1957-1963), including Dow’s lengthy and successful career as a director in television post-Beaver. Tony Dow passed away this past Wednesday, July 27 at age seventy-seven. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 592.3: Chuck Harter, author of Mr. Novak: An Acclaimed Television Series and other books on music and television, talks to Ed about the recurring role that Tony Dow had on Mr. Novak (NBC, 1963-1965), and why Dow considered his experience on that series among the best work he’d ever done as an actor. Chuck interviewed Tony Dow several times for Mr. Novak: An Acclaimed Television Series and remained friends with Tony over the rest of his life. Tony Dow passed away this past Wednesday, July 27 at age seventy-seven. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 592.4: Ed welcomes back Grammy Award-winning singer, actress and songwriter Toni Tennille. Toni will star as matchmaker Dolly Levi—a role that has long been on her bucket list—in a lavish production of Jerry Herman’s Hello, Dolly! at the Yavapai College Performing Arts Center, 1100 East Sheldon Street in Prescott, Arizona, beginning Thursday, Nov. 3 and continuing through Sunday, Nov. 20. For tickets and more information, call (928) 776-2000 or visit YCPAC.com Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 592.5: Greg Ehrbar talks about the recent home entertainment releases of the Hanna-Barbera animated series Space Stars, Yogi’s Space Race, and Galaxy Goof-Ups. Calendar year 2022 marks the 65th anniversary of the start of Hanna-Barbera Productions. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 592.6: Paul Friedman, longtime marketing and promotions executive for CBS Television, talks to Ed about some of the notable marketing campaigns on which he worked over the years, including those for Survivor, The Amazing Race, Big Brother, and such high-profile specials as The Grammy Awards, the Kennedy Center Honors, and the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Paul’s debut novel, The Unexpected Danny Green, is available wherever books are sold online. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 591.1: We’ll bring you Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and director Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Judging Amy, Pretty Little Liars). Topics this segment include Joe’s award-winning stage play Chester Bailey, and how the works of Rod Serling, Herb Gardner, Kurt Vonnegut, and Ray Bradbury both influenced and inspired Joe to become a writer. Joe’s new book, A Screenwriter’s Companion: Instruction, Opinion, Encouragement offers insights and advice, both practical and nonpractical, to writers and would-be writers about the writing process, how to survive in “the business,” and reflections on the influences that led Joe to a successful career. A Screenwriter’s Companion is available now through Amazon.com as well as your local bookseller; a select number of autographed editions are available through Fayetteville Mafia Press. A new production of Chester Bailey opens Wednesday, Oct. 5 at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York City and continues through Sunday, Nov. 6. For tickets and more information, call (212) 727-2737 or visit IrishRep.org. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 591.2: Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and director Joseph Dougherty talks to Ed about why novelist Stephen King is the Charles Dickens of our generation; why imagination is another essential tool that every writer should have; and why the process of writing and editing is often like peeling an onion. Joe’s new book, A Screenwriter’s Companion: Instruction, Opinion, Encouragement is available now through Amazon.com as well as your local bookseller; a select number of autographed editions are available through Fayetteville Mafia Press. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 591.3: Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and director Joseph Dougherty talks to Ed about some of the challenges posed when adapting a novel into a screenplay. Joe’s new book, A Screenwriter’s Companion: Instruction, Opinion, Encouragement is available now through Amazon.com as well as your local bookseller; a select number of autographed editions are available through Fayetteville Mafia Press. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 590.1: Ed welcomes back Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and director Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Saving Grace, Pretty Little Liars, Chester Bailey). Joe’s new book, A Screenwriter’s Companion: Instruction, Opinion, Encouragement offers insights and advice, both practical and nonpractical, to writers and would-be writers about the writing process, how to survive in “the business,” and reflections on the influences that led Joe to a successful career. A Screenwriter’s Companion is available now through Amazon.com as well as your local bookseller; a select number of autographed editions are available through Fayetteville Mafia Press. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 590.2: From September 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed go back to Sept. 17, 1972, the night that MAS*H premiered on CBS television, as part of This Week in TV History. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 590.3: From September 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the famous, movie-length series finale of MAS*H, which originally aired in February 1983 (and remains the highest-rated TV episode ever), as well as when the series morphed from being a comedy with occasional moments of drama to a drama with humor. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 590.4: Ed welcomes back Oscar nominee and three-time Golden Globe Award-nominated actor Eric Roberts (Runaway Train, King of the Gypsies, Star 80, Less Than Perfect, The Righteous Gemstones). Eric co-stars with Lana Wood and a very talented newcomer named Jeff Yazzie in Dog Boy, a comedy drama about the unlikely friendship between a self-absorbed Hollywood actress whose best days are behind her and a young Navajo slacker who skateboards through life—literally—despite being pursued by the mob. The latest film from the husband-and-wife production team of Paul and Patty Winters, Dog Boy is now available for streaming on device on Flixwest, a fast-growing commercial-free streaming channel that particularly specializes in independent films. You can find Flixwest on IOS, Roku, your Amazon Fire Stick, and any web connected device. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 590.2: Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and director Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Saving Grace, Pretty Little Liars, Chester Bailey) talks to Ed about the importance of curiosity and specificity when writing (regardless of which form of writing one practices) and why the difference between writing and directing often comes down to verbs. Joe’s new book, A Screenwriter’s Companion: Instruction, Opinion, Encouragement offers insights and advice, both practical and nonpractical, to writers and would-be writers about the writing process, how to survive in “the business,” and reflections on the influences that led Joe to a successful career. A Screenwriter’s Companion is available now through Amazon.com as well as your local bookseller; a select number of autographed editions are available through Fayetteville Mafia Press. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 590.6: Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and director Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Saving Grace, Pretty Little Liars, Chester Bailey) talks to Ed about why writing for actors often means learning how those actors breathe and writing to their lung capacity. Joe’s new book, A Screenwriter’s Companion: Instruction, Opinion, Encouragement is available now through Amazon.com as well as your local bookseller; a select number of autographed editions are available through Fayetteville Mafia Press. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 589.3: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Randy West, author of TV Inside Out: Flukes, Flakes, Feuds, and Felonies, is an empathetic look into the mystery (and occasional misery) of television stardom, and how some TV performers, such as Dom DeLuise, managed to overcome the trappings of stardom and maintain a happy, functional, and satisfying life. Topics this segment include the story of how Dom DeLuise helped get The Newlywed Game on the air. TV Inside Out is available through Bear Manor Media and Amazon.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 589.4: Ed welcomes renowned vegan chef Josie Clemens, co-creator of, and head judge on, Peeled, the very first all-vegan cooking competition show, and the first cooking competition show to feature an all-vegan cast. The first episode of Peeled will stream live on Saturday, Sept. 24 at 9pm ET 6pm PT at PeeledShow.com. The entire first season of Peeled will then become available for viewing on demand Sunday, Sept. 25 on Unchained TV. (You can find the Unchained TV channel on Roku, Apple TV, and your Amazon Fire Stick.) If you listen to us in Southern California, or plan on being in L.A. in late September, you can attend the premiere night festivities for Peeled, which will take place Saturday, Sept. 24 at the Directors Guild of America, 7920 Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles, CA beginning at 4pm. Guests will have an opportunity to meet Chef Josie and the entire cast of Peeled while also enjoying beer, wine, spirits, plus vegan hors d’oeuvres crafted by the show’s contestants. Check out PeeledShow.com for more information. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 589.5: Ed welcomes Caroline Aaron, the actress known around the world as Shirley Maisel, Midge’s eccentric mother-in-law, on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. The first four seasons of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel are available for viewing on demand on Amazon Prime Video, while the fifth and final season of Mrs. Maisel is scheduled for release later in 2022. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 589.6: Caroline Aaron tells Ed why her experience on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is “the gift that keeps on giving,” plus she talks about Chanshi, a new comedy series that she filmed in Israel earlier this year with Henry Winkler. The first four seasons of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel are available for viewing on demand on Amazon Prime Video, while the fifth and final season of Mrs. Maisel is scheduled for release later in 2022. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 588.1: Part 1 of a two-part conversation with voice artist, announcer, and biographer Randy West. Randy has spent more than thirty years in television, working behind the scenes as an announcer on talk shows, award shows, and game shows hosted by such icons as Dick Clark, Wink Martindale, Chuck Woolery, Bob Eubanks, Howie Mandel, Ryan Seacrest, and Bob Barker, while he was mentored in the business by legendary announcer Johnny “C’mon down!” Olson. Randy’s latest new book, TV Inside Out, provides an empathetic look at how the pursuit of fame and fortune can lead to bad behavior among some celebrities, while other stars manage to enjoy the success they achieve while still living by The Golden Rule. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 588.2: Randy West, author of TV Inside Out and Johnny Olson: A Voice in Time, shares the story of how he first crossed paths with legendary announcer Johnny “C’mon down!” Olson as a kid growing up in New York, and how that experience eventually led Olson to take Randy under his wing many years later, when both were in Los Angeles. Both TV Inside Out and Johnny Olson: A Voice in Time are available through Bear Manor Media. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 588.3: Ed, Tony, and Donna pay tribute to Nichelle Nichols, the actress known around the world as Lieutenant Uhura, communications officer of the Starship Enterprise on the original Star Trek, Star Trek: The Animated Series, and the first six Star Trek movies. Nichelle Nichols passed away this past Saturday, July 30 at the age of eighty-nine. Topics include the impact that Nichols had on the lives of three generations of African-American girls and African-American women, and the recruitment effort that Nichols led on behalf of NASA in 1977 that resulted in more than 8,000 applicants in just six months, including more than 1,600 female applicants and more than 1,000 applicants from minorities. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 588.4: An encore presentation of our August 2017 conversation with Nichelle Nichols, the actress known around the world as Lieutenant Uhura, communications officer of the Starship Enterprise on the original Star Trek, Star Trek: The Animated Series, and the first six Star Trek movies. Nichelle Nichols passed away this past Saturday, July 30 at the age of eighty-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 588.5: Ed welcomes singer, actress, producer, philanthropist, and Broadway star Lucie Arnaz (Here’s Lucy, They’re Playing Our Song, The Lucie Arnaz Show). Lucie recently joined forces with Doors of Change—the nonprofit organization that uses arts and music to keep homeless youth off the streets and, in many cases, help them find safe forever homes—to create awareness of the plight of homeless youth in the United States. There are more than 4 million homeless youth in the U.S. today, many of whom are between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five. Topics this segment include how a desire to “go local, but think global” spurred Lucie’s interest in becoming involved with Doors of Change. Jeffrey Sitcov, founder of Doors of Change, co-hosts. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 588.6: Singer/actress Lucie Arnaz talks to Ed about how both Lucy and Desi, the Emmy-nominated documentary produced by Ron Howard and directed by Amy Poehler, and Let’s Talk to Lucy, the daily talk show that Lucille Ball hosted for CBS radio in 1964-1965 (and which Lucie recently re-released as a podcast), present the personal side of her famous mom. Lucie Arnaz recently joined forces with Doors of Change, the nonprofit organization, founded by Jeffrey Sitcov, that uses arts and music to keep homeless youth off the streets and, in many cases, help them find safe forever homes. There are more than 4 million homeless youth in the U.S. today, many of whom are between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five. Jeffrey Sitcov co-hosts this segment. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 587.1: From 2015: Phil Gries joins Ed for a special edition of the Sounds of Lost Television featuring rarely heard audio highlights from the early years of the broadcast career of Vin Scully, the legendary voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers who was also known to national TV audiences for covering NFL Football, PGA Golf, and the NBC Baseball Game of the Week. Vin Scully passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 2 at the age of ninety-four. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 587.2: From 2015: Phil Gries plays more audio from the early broadcast career of Vin Scully, circa 1955 to 1965, as part of a special edition of the Sounds of Lost Television, including a clips from the 1955 World Series, the year when the Brooklyn Dodgers won their only championship, including Scully’s call of Jackie Robinson stealing home. Also in this segment: A clip from our April 2017 conversation with actor and longtime Dodgers fan Ed Asner in which Asner talks about his love and appreciation for Vin Scully. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 587.3: From 2015: Phil Gries plays more audio from the early broadcast career of Vin Scully, circa 1955 to 1965, as part of a special edition of the Sounds of Lost Television, including a clip of Scully emceeing the pre-game festivities on Aug. 28, 1957, the night when the Brooklyn Dodgers honored Carl Furillo before a game at Ebbets Field. Vin Scully passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 2 at the age of ninety-four. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 587.4: From 2015: Phil Gries plays more audio highlights from the early broadcast career of Vin Scully as part of a special edition of the Sounds of Lost Television, including Scully’s sign-off on the last day of the 1957 baseball season, the Dodgers’ final year in Brooklyn before moving to Los Angeles. Vin Scully passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 2 at the age of ninety-four. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 587.5: From 2015: Phil Gries plays more audio highlights from the early broadcast career of Vin Scully, including Scully’s call of the ninth inning of Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax’s perfect game on Sept. 9, 1965, plus a rarely heard celebrity softball game from November 1967 in which Scully shared the microphone with actor/comedian Jerry Lewis. Vin Scully passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 2 at the age of ninety-four. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 587.6: Tony Figueroa talks to Ed about how Vin Scully was an integral part of the soundtrack of the lives of three generations of Dodgers fans in Los Angeles. Vin Scully passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 2 at the age of ninety-four. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 586.1: Musician and historian Chuck Harter joins us for Part 2 of our special two-part tribute to the life and music of Elvis Presley. Chuck helped produced I, Elvis, a three-part look at the life and career of The King that originally aired in 1992 on the syndicated magazine series Hard Copy. As a result of that project, Chuck interviewed and got to know several members of the Memphis Mafia, including Charlie Hodge, Lamar Fike, Sonny West, Marty Lacker, Jerry Schilling, and Billy Smith. That gave him first-hand knowledge of Elvis from the people who knew him best. Chuck shares a few more of those stories in this segment, plus he performs “Love Me Tender.” Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 586.2: Chuck Harter and Ed discuss some of the many cover songs that Elvis Presley performed throughout his career, including “Love Letters (Straight from the Heart),” “Any Day Now,” “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Long Tall Sally,” and “Tomorrow is a Long Time.” Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 586.3: Musician and historian Chuck Harter discusses the differences between Elvis Presley: The Image and Elvis the man. Chuck helped produced I, Elvis, a three-part look at the life and career of The King that originally aired in 1992 on the syndicated magazine series Hard Copy. As a result of that project, Chuck interviewed and got to know several members of the Memphis Mafia, including Charlie Hodge, Lamar Fike, Sonny West, Marty Lacker, Jerry Schilling, and Billy Smith. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 586.4: Musician and historian Chuck Harter shares a poignant memory of a scene he witnessed at a Washington, D.C. tavern on Aug. 16, 1977, the day that Elvis Presley died. Chuck also performs “For the Heart,” one of the last songs that Elvis recorded. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 586.5: From December 2018: Ed welcomes game show legend Wink Martindale (Gambit, Debt, Tic Tac Dough, Winking at Life, “Deck of Cards”). Known for his long association with Elvis Presley, Wink was there at the very beginning: the night in July 1954 when Memphis, TN radio station WHBQ became the first station to play an Elvis record on the radio. Wink Martindale’s spoken word recording “Heavenly Child,” a tribute to Elvis Presley, is available through iTunes and wherever music is sold online. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 586.6: From March 2017: Ed welcomes Emmy Award-winning producer and director Steve Binder (Elvis: The 1968 Comeback Special, Shindig, The T.A.M.I. Show, Fade UP: 26… The Movers and Shakers of Variety Television). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 586.7: From March 2017: Emmy Award-winning producer and director Steve Binder (Elvis: The 1968 Comeback Special) shares with Ed the back story of “If I Can Dream,” the now-iconic closing number of the ’68 Comeback Special. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 585.1: TV Confidential launches its fifteen season on the air with a return appearance by filmmaker, director, screenwriter, and novelist Julian David Stone. Julian’s latest novel, It's Alive!, is a page-turning work of historical fiction based on the actual events behind the scenes of the making of the original Frankenstein movie that Carl Laemmle Jr. produced for Universal Studios in 1931. It’s Alive is available in hardcover, as an eBook, and as an audiobook through Greenleaf Book Group and Amazon.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 585.2: Julian David Stone talks to Ed about the many ways in which wunderkind producer Carl Laemmle Jr. changed Universal Studios and the face of movies altogether in the 1930s. Julian’s latest novel, It's Alive!, captures the vibrant, exciting, and often chaotic days of 1930s Hollywood while also weaving in such actual figures as Bela Lugosi, director James Whale, legendary gossip columnist Louella Parsons, and Boris Karloff himself. It’s Alive is available in hardcover, as an eBook, and as an audiobook through Greenleaf Book Group and Amazon.com. Julian David Stone’s other books include No Cameras Allowed: My Career as an Outlaw Rock ’n’ Roll Photographer: 1981-1987, the amazing story of how Julian managed to sneak camera equipment into rock concerts over a six-year period during the mid 1980s (and, along the way, amassed a collection of more than 10,000 up-close-and-personal photographs of some of the biggest rock stars of the era), and The Strange Birth, Short life, and Sudden Death of Justice Girl, a historical novel based in the world of the 1950s live television that is currently being developed into a TV series. For more on Julian, visit JulianDavidStone.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 585.3: Greg Ehrbar discusses the recent DVD release of Dusty's Trail (Synd., 1973), the short-lived series starring Bob Denver and Forrest Tucker, and created by Sherwood Schwartz, that is best described as "Gilligan's Island Meets Wagon Train." Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 585.4: Greg and Ed discuss Kino Lorber’s Blu-ray release of The Outer Limits (ABC, 1963-1965). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 585.5: Rich Little, America’s Master Mimic, talks to Ed about about performing before live audiences again, after a two-year hiatus brought on by the pandemic. Rich can be seen every Thursday thru Sunday at the Tropicana/Laugh Factory, 3801 S. Las Vegas Blvd in Las Vegas. For tickets and more information, call 702-739-2411 or visit TropLV.com or TheRichLittle.com. Rich Little is also the author of People I've Known and Been: Little By Little, a collection of stories and anecdotes of some of the many notable showbiz figures and politicians that he has impersonated over the years. Now available online, and recently updated with more than 200 pages of new material, Little by Little also features more than 100 photographs (many of which are in color) plus some of Rich’s favorite original charcoal sketches. All proceeds from sales of Little by Little will support U.S. veterans, by way of the Gary Sinise Foundation. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 585.6: Rich Little, America’s Master Mimic, talks to Ed about his encounters with Don Rickles, Paul Lynde, and Elvis Presley. Rich can be seen every Thursday thru Sunday at the Tropicana/Laugh Factory, 3801 S. Las Vegas Blvd in Las Vegas. For tickets and more information, call 702-739-2411 or visit TropLV.com or TheRichLittle.com. Rich Little is also the author of People I've Known and Been: Little By Little, a collection of stories and anecdotes of some of the many notable showbiz figures and politicians that he has impersonated over the years. Now available online, and recently updated with more than 200 pages of new material, Little by Little also features more than 100 photographs (many of which are in color) plus some of Rich’s favorite original charcoal sketches. All proceeds from sales of Little by Little will support U.S. veterans, by way of the Gary Sinise Foundation.
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TVC 584.1: An encore presentation of our September 2014 conversation with Larry Storch, the actor known around the world as Corporal Agarn on the classic comedy series F Troop (ABC, 1965-1967). Among other topics, Larry talked about his early career as a stand-up comedian (and how Lucille Ball gave him his first break), plus he shared some memories of working alongside Tony Curtis, Peter Falk, Don Adams, and, of course, Forrest Tucker. Larry Storch passed away this past Friday, July 8 at the age of ninety-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 584.2: Part 2 of a conversation that began on our last program with Jay Moriarty, longtime producer of The Jeffersons, one of the longest-running shows in the entire Norman Lear canon. Jay’s memoir, Honky in the House, takes readers behind the scenes of Tandem Productions and shows why Norman Lear was, and is, one of the most courageous producers in television. Topics this segment include Zara Cully’s portrayal of Mother Jefferson and how close the cast of The Jeffersons was, on and off camera. Jay Moriarty’s new book, Deadeye, pays homage to Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger, The Cisco Kid, and other favorite movie and TV cowboys. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 584.3: From June 2013: Emmy Award winning writer David Pollock talks to Tony, Donna, and Ed about Jean Stapleton’s indelible portrayal of Edith Bunker on All in the Family, and how Norman Lear got the green light for the All in the Family series in 1970 while making Cold Turkey, the first of three motion pictures that Lear was under contract to produce for United Artists at the time. David Pollock’s credits as a writer of television comedy include MAS*H, Cheers, Frasier, The Steve Allen Show, and the episode of All in the Family in which Edith got a mink coat. David is also the author of Bob and Ray: Keener Than Most Persons, a dual biography of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding that included insights and commentary such friends, colleagues, and admirers of Bob and Ray as Carl Reiner, Harry Shearer, Stan Freberg, and Norman Lear. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 584.4: Ed welcomes back Jim Colucci, deputy editor for CBS Watch magazine, and the co-author, along with Norman Lear, of All in the Family: The Show That Changed Television, an oral history of All in the Family that particularly focuses on fifty episodes that, in the opinion of Norman Lear, best exemplify how All in the Family not only changed the face of television when it premiered in 1971, but remains as funny and relevant as ever today. Norman Lear turns 100 on Wednesday, July 27. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 584.5: Jim Colucci, co-author, along with Norman Lear, of All in the Family: The Show That Changed Television, talks to Ed about how a good show, such as All in the Family, builds equity in its characters, such that we as viewers feel like those characters are members of our own families. All in the Family: The Show That Changed Television includes behind the scenes photographs, script pages, production designs, previously unseen notes from Norman Lear, commentary from Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Norman Lear, and many of the writers and guest stars on All in the Family, plus archival commentary from Carroll O’Connor and Jean Stapleton, select letters from viewers, and a whole lot more. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 584.6: Jim Colucci, co-author, along with Norman Lear, of All in the Family: The Show That Changed Television, talks to Ed about how Norman Lear and the writers of All in the Family tailored the Edith Bunker character after the innate goodness of Jean Stapleton. All in the Family: The Show That Changed Television includes behind the scenes photographs, script pages, production designs, previously unseen notes from Norman Lear, commentary from Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Norman Lear, and many of the writers and guest stars on All in the Family, plus archival commentary from Carroll O’Connor and Jean Stapleton, select letters from viewers, and a whole lot more. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started:
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TVC 583.1: Phil Rosenzweig, author of Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men, joins Ed for a look back at The Defenders (CBS, 1961-1965), the Emmy Award-winning, highly influential, and sometimes controversial legal drama created by Reginald Rose, and starring E.G. Marshall and Robert Reed, that proved, among other things, that commercial network television and absorbing drama with something to say were not mutually exclusive. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 583.2: Phil Rosenzweig, author of Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men, and Ed discuss the interesting relationship The Defenders and Perry Mason, including how both were water cooler-type shows, albeit for completely different reasons. Phil’s book includes several chapters that discuss the back story of The Defenders, including the toll that the series took on series creator Reginald Rose’s personal life. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 583.3: Ed welcomes Christian Ganiere, the actor who plays Ten on the popular Netflix series Stranger Things. All four seasons of Stranger Things are available for streaming on demand. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 583.4: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome back writer, producer, and author Jay Moriarty. Jay’s career in network television spanned than thirty years, including eight years with Norman Lear and Tandem Productions. Along with his longtime writing partner Mike Milligan, he spent seven of those years writing and producing The Jeffersons, one of the longest-running shows in the entire Norman Lear canon. Jay and Mike’s credits also include “The Draft Dodger,” the famous episode of All in the Family from December 1976 that was recently singled out as one of the fifty most significant episodes of that entire series. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 583.5: Ed, Tony, Donna, and writer, producer, and author Jay Moriarty (The Jeffersons, All in the Family, Honky in the House) discuss how episodes such as “The Draft Dodger,” “Florence’s Problem,” and “The First Store” are just a few examples of Norman Lear’s trademark balancing of uproarious comedy with serious topical issues. Jay’s memoir, Honky in the House, takes you behind the scenes of not only The Jeffersons, but Tandem Productions in general. His new book, Deadeye, pays homage to Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger, The Cisco Kid, and other favorite movie and TV cowboys. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 583.6: Ed, Tony, Donna, and writer/producer Jay Moriarty (The Jeffersons, All in the Family) continue their discussion about “The First Store,” the episode of The Jeffersons set against the backdrop of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as well as how Sherman Hemsley helped paved the way for Mike Evans’ return to The Jeffersons after an absence of four seasons. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 583.7: Ed, Tony, Donna, and writer/producer Jay Moriarty (The Jeffersons, All in the Family) discuss the memorable episode of All in the Family that not only introduced Beatrice Arthur as Edith’s cousin Maude, but paved the way for the Maude spinoff series. Jay’s memoir, Honky in the House, takes you behind the scenes of not only The Jeffersons, but Tandem Productions in general. His new book, Deadeye, pays homage to Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger, The Cisco Kid, and other favorite movie and TV cowboys. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 582.1: Musician, historian, producer, and author Chuck Harter joins Ed for the first of two programs that will celebrate the life and career of Elvis Presley. Chuck helped produce I, Elvis, a three-part profile of The King that originally aired in 1992 on the syndicated magazine series Hard Copy. While working on this project, Chuck not only interviewed and got to know several members of the Memphis Mafia (including Charlie Hodge, Lamar Fike, Sonny West, Marty Lacker, Jerry Schilling, and Billy Smith), but obtained first-hand knowledge and insight into Elvis from the people who knew him best. With the highly anticipated biopic Elvis opening in theaters this week, Chuck and Ed take a look at some of the other notable portrayals of The King in movies and on television, including Kurt Russell in Elvis (ABC, 1979), the short-lived but critically acclaimed Elvis weekly series starring Michael St. Gerard (ABC, 1990), and Elvis Meets Nixon (1997). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 582.2: Musician and historian Chuck Harter talks to Ed about some of the similarities between Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon, Elvis and Michael Jackson, and Elvis and Frank Sinatra. Chuck interviewed several members of the Memphis Mafia while producing I, Elvis, a highly acclaimed profile of The King that originally aired on the syndicated magazine series Hard Copy. As a result of this project, Chuck obtained first-hand knowledge and insight into Elvis from the people who knew him best. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 582.3: Chuck Harter talks about the time when Elvis Presley met The Beatles (and, later, Led Zeppelin); why Elvis was always a very song-oriented performer; and how Elvis’ career was confined because of the management of Colonel Tom Parker. Chuck interviewed several members of the Memphis Mafia while producing I, Elvis, a highly acclaimed profile of The King that originally aired in 1992 on Hard Copy. As a result of this result, Chuck obtained insight into Elvis from the people who knew him best. Chuck Harter will perform an evening of music at Sideshow Books, 1639 La Cienega Blvd. in Los Angeles on Saturday, July 23 beginning at 8pm. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 582.4: Ed welcomes Emmy nominated actress Naomi Matsuda (The Bold and the Beautiful) and her best friend for more than thirty years, fashion designer and entrepreneur Ginger Che. Ginger designed the lotus flower-themed gown and ensemble that Naomi wore for the red carpet ceremonies for at the 49th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday, June 24. Not only that, but Naomi wearing one of Ginger’s creations embodies one of the many dreams that they have shared together throughout their journey as friends. The Bold and the Beautiful airs weekdays on CBS. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 582.5: Emmy nominated actress Naomi Matsuda (The Bold and the Beautiful) talks to Ed about how she joined the cast of Bold; the importance of creating a back story for whatever character she plays (including Li Finnegan on Bold); and the many ways in which she and her best friend and fellow “Goddess Sister,” fashion designer Ginger Che, try to empower other women by example. The Bold and the Beautiful airs weekdays on CBS. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 582.6: Ed welcomes Da’Jour Jones, one of the stars of Players, the new comedic documentary-style series from Paramount+ about a team of eSports players who must put their egos aside and work together as they pursue their first league championship. Players is now available for streaming on demand. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 581.1: Part 2 of our special roundtable discussion devoted to Columbo featuring Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, playwright, and author Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, Saving Grace, Chester Bailey), David Koenig, author of Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV’s Rumpled Detective, writer/producer Dan Farren (Story Salon), and Tony Figueroa of This Week in TV History. Topics this segment include how Southern California was very much a character in and of itself on Columbo; episodes that were either filmed, or at least took place, outside Los Angeles; and Columbo clues that were originally written with one episode in mind, but were eventually used in another. Shooting Columbo is available in hardcover, as an eBook, and as an audiobook through Amazon.com. Joseph Dougherty’s new book, A Screenwriter’s Companion, is now available for pre-order through Amazon.com and Fayetteville Mafia Press. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 581.2: Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Joseph Dougherty, author David Koenig (Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV’s Rumpled Detective), Dan Farren, and Tony Figueroa discuss the important role that music played in the original Columbo (particularly the score that Oliver Nelson wrote for “The Greenhouse Jungle”); favorite moments of Columbo episodes; and the New York company that briefly produced a line of Columbo yogurt. Shooting Columbo is available in hardcover, as an eBook, and as an audiobook through Amazon.com. Joseph Dougherty’s new book, A Screenwriter’s Companion, is available for pre-order through Amazon.com and Fayetteville Mafia Press. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 581.3: Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Joseph Dougherty, author David Koenig (Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV’s Rumpled Detective), Dan Farren, and Tony Figueroa discuss the important role that the first clue plays in a given Columbo episode, and why Columbo has discovered new viewers of late, for reasons that go beyond the pandemic. Shooting Columbo is available in hardcover, as an eBook, and as an audiobook through Amazon.com. Joseph Dougherty’s new book, A Screenwriter’s Companion, is available for pre-order through Amazon.com and Fayetteville Mafia Press. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 580.1: Ed welcomes film historian Andrew Erish, author of Vitagraph: America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio, a comprehensive history of The Vitagraph Company, the first major motion picture studio in the United States, yet a company that is virtually forgotten, despite establishing many of the norms of movie making as we know it today. Vitagraph: America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio is available wherever books are sold. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 580.2: Film historian Andrew Erish, author of Vitagraph: America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio, discusses the vital role that businessman William T. “Pop” Rock played in stabilizing the fortunes of The Vitagraph Company, as well as the studio’s often contentious relationship with inventor Thomas Edison. Vitagraph: America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio is available wherever books are sold. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 580.3: Film historian Andrew Erish, author of Vitagraph: America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio, talks to Ed about how The Vitagraph Company not only made movies that appealed to every aspect of society, but was one of the first to make “socially responsible” films (such as An Easter Lily, an entry in the popular Sonny Jim comedy series that addressed racial prejudice). Other topics include how Moe Howard got his start by appearing in several Vitagraph movies before becoming a star with The Three Stooges. Vitagraph: America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio is available wherever books are sold. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 580.4: A special roundtable discussion devoted to Columbo, including the original NBC series (1971-1978); Prescription: Murder, the play by Richard Levinson and William Link that begat Columbo (and which eventually led to the two Columbo pilots, Prescription: Murder and Ransom for a Dead Man); and how the ABC revival (1989-2003) holds up, compared to the original series. Joining us on the panel are Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, playwright, and author Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, Saving Grace, Chester Bailey); David Koenig, author of Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV’s Rumpled Detective; writer/producer Dan Farren (Story Salon); and Tony Figueroa of This Week in TV History. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 580.5: Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars), author David Koenig (Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV’s Rumpled Detective), writer/producer Dan Farren (Story Salon), and Tony Figueroa of This Week in TV History discuss the often unheralded contributions of mystery writer Jackson Gillis to Columbo; why the episodes shepherded by Richard Alan Simmons and Patrick McGoohan were more character-driven than mystery-driven; and why shoes were important to Columbo. Shooting Columbo is available through Amazon.com. Joseph Dougherty’s latest book, A Screenwriter’s Companion, is available for pre-order through Fayetteville Mafia Press. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 580.6: Our special roundtable discussion devoted to Columbo, featuring Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, Saving Grace, Chester Bailey), David Koenig, author of Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV’s Rumpled Detective, writer/producer Dan Farren (Story Salon), and Tony Figueroa of This Week in TV History continues. Joseph Dougherty’s latest book, A Screenwriter’s Companion, is available for pre-order through Fayetteville Mafia Press. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 579.1: A conversation recorded in February 2020 with John Cerney, a commercial artist who specializes in creating 16-foot-high, billboard-size cut-out art murals that dot the landscape of some twenty-eight states across the U.S. (and, particularly, the highways of California and the Midwest). John’s pieces include a portrait of James Dean that welcomes visitors to the SPCA in Monterey County, California; a mural of George Harrison in Benton, Illinois; a mural of Amelia Earhart in her hometown of Atchison, Kansas; flying saucers in Roswell, New Mexico; and, arguably his most famous mural, “Giant Marfa,” the multimedia tribute to George Stevens’ epic motion picture Giant that appears on Highway 90 in Marfa, Texas. Topics this segment include how out former Monkee Michael Nesmith became involved in Giant Marfa, and including helping John turn the mural into a multimedia experience. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 579.2: Commercial artist John Cerney talks to Ed about some of the logistics involved in putting together Giant Marfa and the various other 16-foot-high, billboard-size cut-out art murals that dot the landscape of some twenty-eight states across the U.S. The Giant Marfa mural includes a giant 1951 Ford Deluxe (the car that Rock Hudson drove in Giant), plus music by Michael Nesmith and the First National Band. To learn more about John’s work, visit JohnCerneyMurals.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 579.2a: Greg Ehrbar discusses Broadside (ABC, 1964-1965), the short-lived spin-off of McHale’s Navy starring Kathleen Nolan, Dick Sargent, and Edward Andrews that is best remembered today as the show that prevented William Asher and Elizabeth Montgomery from casting Sargent as Darrin on Bewitched when that series began production in 1964. (Sargent, of course, later joined the cast of Bewitched in 1969 as the replacement for Dick York.) Select episodes of Broadside are available for screening on YouTube. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 579.3: Part 2 of a conversation that began with last week with George Stevens Jr., founder of the American Film Institute and the Kennedy Center Honors, and the son of Academy Award-winning filmmaker George Stevens (A Place in the Sun, Shane, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Giant). Topics this segment include a recap of the events that led to the creation of AFI, including the back story of the Life Achievement Award (the annual event that has honored such celebrated actors and filmmakers as John Ford, James Cagney, Orson Welles, and Martin Scorsese), plus George shares a few memories of Academy Award winner Sidney Poitier and legendary Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda. George’s memoir, My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington, is available now wherever books are sold. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 578.2: Ed welcomes Cable Ace Award-winning actor and voice artist Stuart Pankin (Dinosaurs, Not Necessarily the News, The San Pedro Beach Bums). Though we often think of Stu for his many comedic roles, he has a host of dramatic parts among his credits, including Michael Douglas’ best friend in Fatal Attraction and his latest film, Deep in the Forest, a political thriller written, produced, and directed by Jeremy Lanni that becomes available for streaming on demand on Tuesday, May 31. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 578.3: Actor and voice artist Stuart Pankin talks to Ed about how Dinosaurs posed a challenge for the voice actors who worked on the show because they had to match their voices with the movements of the Jim Henson puppets first (instead of the other way around), and how Stu’s experience on The San Pedro Beach Bums fomented an important professional relationship that eventually led to his roles on Not Necessarily the News, No Soap Radio, and Dinosaurs. Stu’s latest film, the political thriller Deep in the Forest, becomes available for streaming on demand on Tuesday, May 31. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 578.4: Ed welcomes George Stevens Jr., son of Academy Award-winning director George Stevens, the founder of the American Film Institute, and the creator of the Kennedy Center Honors. After working with his father on the sets of A Place in the Sun, Shane, The Diary of Anne Frank, and Giant, George was well on his way to establishing his own career as a director when a unique opportunity to work with legendary broadcaster Edward R. Murrow brought him to Washington, D.C. at the outset of the JFK administration. That journey not only changed the course of George’s life, but changed the course of film history in the United States through George’s efforts with AFI. George’s memoir, My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington, is available now wherever books are sold. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 578.5: Emmy Award winner, Academy Award recipient, and American Film Institute founder George Stevens Jr. talks about his working with Edward R. Murrow at the United States information Agency (including the production of USIA’s first feature-length film, John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums), and his experience working with Jack Webb, Blake Edwards, and Alfred Hitchcock during his early years as a director. George’s memoir, My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington, is available now wherever books are sold. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From November 2018: Iconic television producer Marty Krofft talks to Ed about the origins of Sigmund and the Sea Monsters and working with Charles Nelson Reilly on Lidsville. Marty was among the special guests that appeared at the first ever Krofft Kon, which took place Saturday, May 21 at the Orinda Theatre in Orinda, California. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 577.1: An encore presentation of our June 2014 conversation with Marion Ross (Happy Days, Brooklyn Bridge). Marion Ross, June Lockhart, and Michael Learned are among the many stars who have contributed photographs to the Hollywood Museum as part of a special Mothers Day exhibit that will be on display for a limited time only through Sunday, May 15. Two years in the making, and originally scheduled for Mothers Day in 2020, this remarkable collection features photos dedicated to some of the most celebrated working moms in entertainment history, all in loving and amusing images with their families. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From May 2014: Marion Ross, the actress known around the world as Mrs. C on Happy Days, talks to Ed, Tony, and Donna about how the cast of Happy Days bonded together by playing softball, and how the Happy Days softball team toured to such places as Okinawa and East Germany. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 577.2a: Greg Ehrbar and Ed discuss the recent DVD release of McHale’s Navy (ABC, 1962-1966), the long-running sitcom starring Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway and Joe Flynn that was more or less styled after The Phil Silvers Show, only with a Navy setting. Topics this segment include the two McHale’s Navy feature motion pictures from the 1960s, both of which are available through Shout! Factory. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 577.3: Greg and Ed continue discussing the recent Shout! Factory DVD release of McHale’s Navy (ABC, 1962-1966). Though remembered by Baby Boomers as a broad send-up of Navy etiquette, McHale’s was originally conceived as an hour-long dramatic series. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 577.4: An encore presentation of our March 2015 conversation with June Lockhart (Lost in Space, Lassie, Petticoat Junction). June Lockhart, Marion Ross, and Michael Learned are among the many stars who have contributed photographs to the Hollywood Museum as part of a special Mothers Day exhibit that will be on display for a limited time only through Sunday, May 15. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 577.5: A brand new conversation with Michael Learned, the four-time Emmy Award-winning actress known around the world as Olivia Walton, the matriarch of the Walton family. Michael’s latest film, Second Acts, is now available for streaming on demand. She is also about to star, along with Evan Peters, Richard Jenkins, and Penelope Ann Miller, in the forthcoming new Netflix series about serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer (the working title of which is Monster). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 577.6: Michael Learned shares a few memories about The Waltons (CBS, 1972-1981), including the story of she originally won the role of Olivia Walton. Michael’s latest film, Second Acts, is now available for streaming on demand. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 577.1: Ed welcomes actor, author, screenwriter, producer, and acting teacher Joe Coyle (Promised Land, Jack Reacher, Ocean’s 11, Out of Sight, Three Kings, Zoolander, Fail Safe). Joe is one of the contributors to Beyond Where the Buses Run, an anthology of short stories edited by Theresa Griffin Kennedy that also features Robert Crane. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 577.2: Greg Ehrbar talks to Ed about the Blu-ray release of The Wonderful World of The Brothers Grimm, a restoration of the 1962 fantasy musical starring Barbara Eden, Laurence Harvey, Russ Tamblyn, and Buddy Hackett that was not a huge hit when it was originally released, even though it was among the highest grossing movies of 1962. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From April 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the Captain Midnight incident of Apr. 27, 1986, when a video pirate known only as Captain Midnight managed to override the satellite transmission of the HBO broadcast of The Falcon and the Snowman. The culprit hijacked the feed to protest HBO's subscription fees. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From April 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the first coast-to-coast telecast by satellite communications, which took place on Apr. 24, 1962, a technological advance that changed the face of broadcast television. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 577.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began on our last program with Stefanie Powers, the actress known around the world as Jennifer Hart on Hart to Hart, and the founder and president of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation, a nonprofit organization that Stefanie established in 1982 in memory of William Holden, the love of her life, that continues and furthers Holden’s conservation work in East Africa. Among other topics this segment, Ed asks Stefanie what first fueled her interest in animal wildlife preservation. Our friends at the Gold Coast International Film Festival will honor William Holden in early May as the next recipient of The Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award, an award that honors legendary actors and actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Stefanie Powers will accept the award that night on Holden’s behalf in a ceremony that will take place in Great Neck, New York. For reservations and more information, call (516) 829-2570 or visit GoldCoastArts.org. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 577.5: Stefanie Powers answers listener email questions about her film and TV career, plus she tells Ed which motion picture was William Holden’s favorite, and why. The Gold Coast International Film Festival will honor William Holden as the next recipient of The Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award, an award that honors legendary actors and actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Stefanie Powers will accept the award that night on Holden’s behalf in a ceremony that will take place in Great Neck, New York. For reservations and more information, call (516) 829-2570 or visit GoldCoastArts.org. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 577.6: Actor, author, screenwriter, producer, and acting teacher Joe Coyle talks to Ed about his experience working as a stand-in for George Clooney and Ben Affleck. Joe is one of the contributors to Beyond Where the Buses Run, an anthology of short stories edited by Theresa Griffin Kennedy that also features Robert Crane. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 575.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Budd Burton Moss, legendary Hollywood talent manager and agent, and the namesake of The Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award, an award that honors legendary actors and actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Topics this segment include a tribute to Budd’s dear friend Sidney Poitier and the role that Budd played in getting legendary attorney Melvin Belli to audition for the role of Don Corleone in The Godfather. Our friends at the Gold Coast International Film Festival will honor William Holden in early May as the next recipient of The Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award. Stefanie Powers will accept the award that night on Holden’s behalf in a ceremony that will take place in Great Neck, New York. For reservations and more information, call (516) 829-2570 or visit GoldCoastArts.org. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 575.2: Budd Burton Moss, legendary Hollywood talent manager and agent, tells Ed the story of how he helped convince Elizabeth Montgomery to accept the role of Samantha Stephens on Bewitched (after she had initially resisted), and how he eventually came to represent some legendary NFL stars as Jim Plunkett, Gene Washington, and Joe Theismann. Budd’s latest book, Act III, is schedule for release later in 2022. For more information on the Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award, the Gold Coast International Film Festival, and the upcoming ceremony honoring William Holden, call (516) 829-2570 or visit GoldCoastArts.org. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 575.3: Ed welcomes actor, impressionist, voice artist, and improv comic Jim Meskimen. The current voice of Colonel Sanders for KFC, Jim has also produced a popular series of parody videos in which Colonel Sanders approaches celebrities like Bing Crosby, John Lennon, and Humphrey Bogart about endorsing Kentucky Fried Chicken. Topics this segment include the degree of physicality that is often involved when creating voice characters, as well as how long it takes for Jim to practice a voice before he feels ready to perform it. You can follow Jim Meskimen on Instagram, TikTok, and the Jim Meskimen channel on YouTube. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 575.4: Actor and voice artist Jim Meskimen talks to Ed about the collaborative approach that Oscar-winning director Ron Howard take to working with actors on his films; his mother, Marion Ross, and the role that Jim, his wife, and his sister all played in the success of Marion’s memoir, My Days: Happy and Otherwise; and Jim’s upcoming roles in the Starz network limited series Gaslit, the new season of the Amazon Prime limited series Hunter, and the forthcoming Apple TV series The Big Door Prize. Gaslit premieres Sunday, Apr. 24 on Starz. You can follow Jim Meskimen on Instagram, TikTok, and the Jim Meskimen channel on YouTube. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 575.5: Part 1 of a two-part conversation with Stefanie Powers, the actress known around the world as The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. and Jennifer Hart on Hart to Hart, and the founder and president of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation, a nonprofit organization that Stefanie established in 1982 in memory of her long-time life partner that continues and furthers Holden’s conservation work in East Africa. Stefanie gives us a glimpse into the William Holden she knew during the nine years they spent together (including the many ways in which Holden fueled Stefanie’s lifelong passion for travel, adventure, animal preservation and protection, and life itself), while also debunking some of the myths about the Academy Award-winning actor. Our friends at the Gold Coast International Film Festival will honor William Holden in early May as the next recipient of The Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award, an award that honors legendary actors and actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Stefanie Powers will accept the award that night on Holden’s behalf in a ceremony that will take place in Great Neck, New York. For reservations and more information, call (516) 829-2570 or visit GoldCoastArts.org. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 575.6: Stefanie Powers (Hart to Hart, One from the Hart) talks to Ed about the significance of William Holden being named the next recipient of The Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award, and the tireless efforts of the award’s namesake, Budd Burton Moss, to preserve the legacy of the stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Stefanie Powers will accept the award on Holden’s behalf in a ceremony that will take place in early May as part of the Gold Coast International Film Festival in Great Neck, New York. For reservations and more information, call (516) 829-2570 or visit GoldCoastArts.org. For more information on the William Holden Wildlife Foundation, visit WHWF.org Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 575.7: Ed commemorates the passing of character actor Nehemiah Persoff by playing a clip from our October 2021 conversation with James Rosin, the publisher of The Many Faces of Nehemiah, the memoirs of Persoff’s career in stage, film, and television. Topics this segment include why Persoff always felt a tremendous responsibility as an actor, especially to his native Jewish people. Nehemiah Persoff passed away Apr. 5, 2022 at age 102. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 574.1: Part 1 of a two-part conversation with Budd Burton Moss, the legendary Hollywood agent, talent manager, and showbiz raconteur who has not only represented many of the brightest stars in film, television and sports over the past six decades, but had a hand in casting in some of the most iconic comedy and dramatic series in TV history (including Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, and Happy Days, just to name a few). Budd Moss is also the namesake of The Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award, an award that honors legendary actors and actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood (1919 through 1963). Previous recipients of the Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award include Robert Wagner and the late Rita Hayworth. The next Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award will be awarded posthumously to Oscar winner William Holden during the first week of May as part of the Gold Coast International Film Festival in Great Neck, New York. Actress Stefanie Powers will accept the award that night on Holden’s behalf. For reservations and more, call (516) 829-2570 or visit GoldCoastArts.org. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 574.2: Ed welcomes attorney, speaker, homeless youth advocate, and Ms. Universe 2021 Nikki Johnson-Huston and Jeffrey Sitcov, founder and president of Doors of Change, a nonprofit organization that has not only helped more than 2,300 homeless youth find safe forever homes since 2001, but has transformed the lives of more than 8,300 homeless youths in fourteen states through a program, Taking Music and Art to the Streets, that offers music and art instruction in small group settings. If you listen to us in Southern California—or are planning a trip to the San Diego area around the Fourth of July weekend—Three Dog Night will perform a special Concert of Hope for Homeless Youth that will benefit Doors of Change on Thursday, June 30 at the Moonlight Amphitheater in Vista, CA. The concert begins at 7:30pm, while a VIP reception takes place at 5:30pm. For tickets and more information, visit DoorsofChange.org Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 574.3: Ms. Universe 2021 Nikki Johnson-Huston shares some of her personal story, including how she overcame poverty and homelessness as a teenager, and how she first found inspiration for becoming a lawyer through such classic TV characters as Perry Mason. Three Dog Night will perform a special Concert of Hope for Homeless Youth that will benefit Doors of Change on Thursday, June 30 at the Moonlight Amphitheater in Vista, CA. The concert begins at 7:30pm, while a VIP reception takes place at 5:30pm. For tickets and more information, visit DoorsofChange.org Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 574.4: Ed welcomes John James, Jack Coleman, and Gordon Thomson, three of the stars of the original Dynasty (ABC, 1981-1989), the iconic prime time soap opera that gave its viewers around the world a taste of glitz and glamour every week, amidst often outrageous plot lines and even bigger catfights. John, Jack, and Gordon are getting ready to tour the country with their three-man reunion show, Cocktails with the Carringtons: The Men of Dynasty, an evening of laughter and conversation in which the three stars share behind-the-scenes stories with the audience (and, occasionally, break out into song). John, Jack and Gordon will bring Cocktails with the Carringtons to the Burbank Marriott Hotel in Burbank, CA on Saturday, Apr. 16. They will also perform it at the Hollywood Roosevelt Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, Apr. 17 and Monday, Apr. 18. Check out CocktailswiththeCarringtons.com for tickets and more information on these events, as well as news and information on other upcoming venues. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 574.5: John James, Jack Coleman, and Gordon Thomson each tell Ed when they first realized the impact of Dynasty on audiences all over the world. John, Jack and Gordon will bring their three-man reunion show, Cocktails with the Carringtons: The Men of Dynasty, to the Burbank Marriott Hotel in Burbank, CA on Saturday, Apr. 16. They will also perform it at the Hollywood Roosevelt Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, Apr. 17 and Monday, Apr. 18. Check out CocktailswiththeCarringtons.com for tickets and more information on these events, as well as news and information on other upcoming venues. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 574.6: From July 2011: Ed welcomes Richard and Esther Shapiro, the co-creators, co-writers and co-executive producers of Dynasty. Richard and Esther’s many other credits in television include such acclaimed made-for-TV movies and miniseries as Friendly Fire, East of Eden, Intimate Strangers and Sarah T: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic. For a time Esther Shapiro was vice president in charge of miniseries for ABC, where she oversaw the production of such top-rated minis as Masada, Pearl, Ike, and The Winds of War, while Richard Shapiro is the author of the epic novel Tobacco Brown. Topics this segment include the origins of Dynasty and the Shapiros’ experience collaborating with Aaron Spelling. Cocktails with the Carringtons: The Men of Dynasty will be performed at the Burbank Marriott Hotel in Burbank, CA on Saturday, Apr. 16 and at the Hollywood Roosevelt Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, Apr. 17 and Monday, Apr. 18. Check out CocktailswiththeCarringtons.com for tickets and more information on these events, as well as news and information on other upcoming venues. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 573.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Kelly Conway, the eldest child—and only daughter—of comedy star Tim Conway. Topics this week include Kelly’s career as a costume designer and wardrobe stylist in the motion picture industry; the resourcefulness she learned from her dad; and the many indelible life lessons that Tim Conway dispensed to his children, even in such unlikely places as the Santa Anita race track. Kelly’s memoir, My Dad’s Funnier Than Your Dad: Growing Up with Tim Conway in The Funniest House in America is available in hardcover and as an eBook through Lyons Press and Amazon.com and as an audiobook through Audible. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 573.2: Ed plays Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with actor Ernest Harden Jr. (The Jeffersons, White Men Can’t Jump, Velvet Jesus) and Jay Moriarty, longtime writer/producer of The Jeffersons and other Norman Lear shows, and the author of Honky in the House: Writing and Producing The Jeffersons. Marla Gibbs, Ernest Harden Jr., and Jay Moriarty will appear at the next Hollywood Show, Friday, Apr. 15 and Saturday, Apr. 16 at the Burbank Marriott Hotel, 2500 North Hollywood Way in Burbank, California. For tickets and more information, go to HollywoodShow.com Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 573.3: Ernest Harden Jr. (The Jeffersons, White Men Can’t Jump, Velvet Jesus) shares a few memories about his experience starring opposite Bette Davis in the CBS World Premiere movie White Mama, plus he tells Ed why the Superman insignia has always been meaningful to him. Marla Gibbs, Ernest Harden Jr., and Jay Moriarty will appear at the next Hollywood Show, which will take place on Friday, Apr. 15 and Saturday, Apr. 16 at the Burbank Marriott Hotel, 2500 North Hollywood Way in Burbank, California. For tickets and more information, go to HollywoodShow.com Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 573.4: Actress and author Joyce Bulifant (Match Game, Airplane!, The Happiest Millionaire, The Mary Tyler Moore Show) shares a few memories of her fellow Mary Tyler Moore Show cast mates Betty White and Gavin MacLeod. Joyce’s memoir, My Four Hollywood Husbands, is now available as an audiobook through Tilton Bass Publishing and Audible.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 573.5: Actress, author, and philanthropist Joyce Bulifant (Match Game, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, My Four Hollywood Husbands) talks to Ed about working with Ed Asner on The Gift of Greatness, an educational film about learning differences that Joyce produced; her experience working with Stephen J. Cannell on a film about dyslexia; and her long association with game shows produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. Also in this segment: Joyce helps Ed give away a free copy of the print edition of her memoir, My Four Hollywood Husbands. The audiobook edition of My Four Hollywood Husbands is available through Tilton Bass Publishing and Audible.com. Joyce Bulifant is also among the stars that you can see on Hollywood Museum Squares, the special five-episode tribute to The Hollywood Squares that is available for streaming on demand, both individually and as a bundle, through StellarTickets.com. The episode featuring Joyce is Episode No. 4 and is hosted by Pat Finn. All proceeds from the sales of Hollywood Museum Squares episodes support the efforts of the Hollywood Museum. Go to StellarTickets.com for more information. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 573.6: Actress, author, and philanthropist Joyce Bulifant (Match Game, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, My Four Hollywood Husbands) talks to Ed about some of her upcoming projects, including a book about her final years with her fourth husband, the late Roger Perry, and the lessons Joyce learned as she helped Roger make his final transition into the spirit world. The audiobook edition of My Four Hollywood Husbands is available through Tilton Bass Publishing and Audible.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 572.1: Part 1 of a two-part interview with Kelly Conway, the eldest child—and only daughter—of comedy star Tim Conway, and the author of My Dad’s Funnier Than Your Dad, a memoir of growing up with her dad and mom and five brothers that also shows us the quiet side of Tim Conway, including his dedication as a father, the indelible life lessons that he dispensed to his children (even in such unlikely places as the Santa Anita race track), and how Kelly often drew on those lessons during the last five years of her father’s life, when she engaged in a legal battle with her stepmother over Tim Conway’s conservatorship. My Dad’s Funnier Than Your Dad: Growing Up with Tim Conway in the Funniest House in America is available in hardcover and as an eBook through Lyons Press and Amazon.com and as an audiobook through Audible. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 572.2: Broadway star and Emmy Award-winning actor, writer, and producer Kevin Spirtas (After Forever) talks to Ed about recently reprising his role Dr. Craig Wesley on Days of Our Lives, as well as viewer reaction to the story arc that revealed that Dr. Wesley is gay. The first two seasons of After Forever are available for streaming on demand on Amazon Prime Video. TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 572.2: Broadway star and Emmy Award-winning actor, writer, and producer Kevin Spirtas talks to Ed about the upcoming third season of After Forever, as well as his experience being Hugh Jackman’s stand-by in the Broadway production of The Boy From Oz. The first two seasons of After Forever are available for streaming on demand on Amazon Prime Video. Kevin Spirtas, Lindsay Wagner, Joyce Bulifant, and Dee Wallace are among the stars that you can see on Hollywood Museum Squares, the special five-episode tribute to The Hollywood Squares that is available for streaming on demand through StellarTickets.com. All five episodes of Hollywood Museum Squares are available both individually and as a bundle. (The episode featuring Kevin is Episode No. 2 and is hosted by Tom Bergeron.) All proceeds from the sales of Hollywood Museum Squares episodes support the efforts of the Hollywood Museum. Go to StellarTickets.com for more information. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 572.4: Ed welcomes Marla Gibbs and Ernest Harden Jr., two of the stars of The Jeffersons (CBS, 1975-1985). Jay Moriarty, longtime writer/producer of The Jeffersons and the author of Honky in the House: Writing and Producing The Jeffersons, co-hosts. Marla Gibbs, Ernest Harden Jr., and Jay Mortiarty are all scheduled to appear at the next Hollywood Show, which will take place on Friday, Apr. 15 and Saturday, Apr. 16 at the Burbank Marriot Hotel, 2500 North Hollywood Way in Burbank, California. For tickets and more information, go to HollywoodShow.com Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 572.5: Marla Gibbs, Ernest Harden Jr., and writer/producer Jay Moriarty (Honky in the House) share some more behind-the-scenes stories about their years on The Jeffersons (CBS, 1975-1985), including the family environment among cast and crew, as well as their first experience with the notoriety that came from the series. Marla Gibbs, Ernest Harden Jr., and Jay Moriarty are all scheduled to appear at the next Hollywood Show, which will take place on Friday, Apr. 15 and Saturday, Apr. 16 at the Burbank Marriot Hotel, 2500 North Hollywood Way in Burbank, California. For tickets and more information, go to HollywoodShow.com Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started:
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TVC 572.6: From the floor of the Hollywood Museum’s recent Celebrity Authors Forum: Ed visits with Leron Gubler, former president of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and the author of The Walk of Dreams: Finding Fame in Hollywood or Wherever Life Leads. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 572.7: Geoffrey Mark, host of Geoffrey Mark Plays Ella and the author of the forthcoming The New Lucy Book, shares a few memories of his friend Norm Crosby. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 571.1: Film, music and TV historian Chuck Harter joins Ed for a look back at The Untouchables (ABC, 1959-1963), the long-running crime drama starring Robert Stack as federal agent Eliot Ness, and the show that put Quinn Martin on the map as a creative force in television. Martin produced the first season of The Untouchables for Desilu Productions (Desi Arnaz was executive producer), infusing it with many of the characteristics that would become his trademark once Martin became an independent producer throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including top-notch production values, motion picture-like quality, tight-knit editing, night for night shooting, and an amazing array of guest stars every week. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 571.2: Chuck Harter and Ed continue their retrospective on The Untouchables (ABC, 1959-1963), the long-running crime drama starring Robert Stack as federal agent Eliot Ness, and the show that put Quinn Martin on the map as a creative force in television. Chuck recently rediscovered The Untouchables while sheltering in place during COVID and was pleased to see how well the series continues hold up today. Also in this segment: Chuck gives our listeners a preview of his forthcoming new book on actress Lila Leeds, including how to sign up for updates on the book’s progress. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 571.3: Greg Ehrbar remembers The Big Valley (ABC, 1965-1969), the iconic Western series starring Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck, Linda Evans, and Lee Majors that, in many respects, served as a prototype for such popular night-time soap operas as Dallas, Dynasty, and Falcon Crest. The first two seasons of The Big Valley are available through Shout! Factory, while the last two seasons are available through Timeless Media. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 571.4: Ed welcomes award-winning actress, author, and fashion model Blanca Blanco (Tale of Tails, Betrayed). Blanca’s memoir, Breaking the Mold, is the inspiring story of how a young Mexican-American girl, the daughter of immigrants and one of seven children, overcame more obstacles in her life than anybody since Job—including extreme poverty, bullying, and abuse as a child, the loss of her home in Malibu as a result of the devastating Woolsey Fire in 2018, and the death of her mother in 2021—to become one of the most successful actresses in the entertainment industry today. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 571.5: Actress and author Blanca Blanco talks to Ed about losing her home to the Woolsey Fire in 2018; the important roles that comedienne Kathy Griffin and acting coach Gordon Hunt played during her early years in Hollywood; and how the approach Blanca takes to preparing for acting roles parallels her training as a track-and-field athlete. Blanca’s memoir, Breaking the Mold, is available wherever books are sold online. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 571.6: Greg and Ed continue their review of The Big Valley (ABC, 1965-1969), including a look at such notable episodes as “The Disappearance” and “The Great Safe Robbery,” as well as how the series really gave Lee Majors an opportunity to shine as an actor. The first two seasons of The Big Valley are available through Shout! Factory, while the last two seasons are available through Timeless Media. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 570.1: Ed welcomes Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated actress Penny Fuller (Applause, The Elephant Man, All the President’s Men). Penny stars as an eccentric woman who quietly rebels against a world that records our dreams, taxes our dreams, and infuses them with nonstop advertising latest in Strawberry Mansion, a charming, surrealistic fantasy that is not only futuristic, retro, and timely—all at once—but has elements that will remind you of Alice in Wonderland. Strawberry Mansion is now available for streaming on demand on all major platforms. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 570.2: Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated actress Penny Fuller talks to Ed about co-starring with both Lauren Bacall and Anne Baxter in the original Broadway production of Applause; the difference between an understudy and a stand-by in the world of theatre; and how she has always sought the best roles possible, whether they were for film, stage, or television. Penny’s latest film, Strawberry Mansion, is now available for streaming on demand on all major platforms. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 570.3: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Ketty Lester, the Grammy Award-nominated singer/actress known around the world for her international No. 1 hit record from 1962, “Love Letters (Straight from Your Heart),” and for playing schoolteacher Hester Sue Terhune on Little House on the Prairie and Juanita, the wise-cracking cab driver, in the 1972 blaxploitation horror movie Blacula. In this segment, Ketty talks to Ed about how she came to join the cast of Little House, as well as some of her other film and TV roles. She also shares a few memories of working with Moses Gunn (both before and during Little House), Bernie Mac, David Janssen, and with William Marshall and director William Crain on Blacula. Ketty’s memoir, Ketty Lester: A Memoir: From Arkansas to Grammy nominated Love Letters to Little House on the Prairie, is available at Amazon.com and wherever books are sold online. You can follow Ketty Lester on Facebook, Instagram and KettyLester.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 570.4: Ketty Lester talks to Ed about her love for acting, which began when she was a young girl in Arkansas; how she formally studied acting at Theatre West in Los Angeles (and befriended, among others, Carroll O’Connor); and how she successfully transitioned from nightclub singer to actress when the music industry changed in the late 1960s. Ketty’s memoir, Ketty Lester: A Memoir: From Arkansas to Grammy nominated Love Letters to Little House on the Prairie, is available at Amazon.com and wherever books are sold online. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 570.5: Grammy Award-nominated singer/actress Ketty Lester talks to Ed about the many ways in which performing a song is another form of acting. Ketty’s memoir, Ketty Lester: A Memoir: From Arkansas to Grammy nominated Love Letters to Little House on the Prairie, is available at Amazon.com and wherever books are sold online. You can follow Ketty Lester on Facebook, Instagram and KettyLester.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 569.1: Ed welcomes Ketty Lester, the Grammy nominated singer/actress known around the world for her international No. 1 record, “Love Letters (Straight from Your Heart),” and as schoolteacher Hester Sue Terhune on Little House on the Prairie. Ketty’s memoir, Ketty Lester: A Memoir, is the story of how a young girl from Hope, Arkansas—the youngest of fifteen children—not only opened doors for many African American women, but overcame many obstacles throughout her life, including a recurring battle with epilepsy, with the help of her faith and the values she learned from her parents. Ketty Lester: A Memoir is available at Amazon.com and wherever books are sold online. You can follow Ketty Lester on Facebook, Instagram and KettyLester.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 569.2: Ketty Lester talks to Ed about working with Maya Angelou when both performed as singers at the Purple Onion in San Francisco; co-starring with Beah Richards on stage in A Raisin in the Sun; her appearance as Patience Jones in Brewster Place (ABC, 1990), the short-lived series produced by and starring Oprah Winfrey; her first national TV appearance (on You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx); and the important role that singer Dorothy Shay played early in Ketty’s career. Ketty’s memoir, Ketty Lester: A Memoir: From Arkansas to Grammy nominated Love Letters to Little House on the Prairie, is available at Amazon.com and wherever books are sold online. You can follow Ketty Lester on Facebook, Instagram and KettyLester.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 568.1: Ed welcomes The Reverend Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook (aka Dr. Sujay), the nationally known advocate, author, pastor, motivational speaker, and former presidential advisor who was once described as Oprah Winfrey and Billy Graham all rolled into one. Dr. Sujay’s books include Rhythms of Rest: 40 Devotions for Women on the Move, a series of devotions that teach the principle of selah, an Old Testament word that means “pause, rest, and reflect.” While each of the devotions in Rhythms of Rest are written by and for African American women, the basic principle behind selah applies to all of us. Dr. Sujay’s web series, Live with Sujay, is available for free on her popular YouTube channel. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 568.2: The Reverend Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook (aka Dr. Sujay) talks to Ed about her latest book, My Fabulous Fifth Chapter: It’s My Turn Now!, which explores the five chapters in each of our lives—and how what we learn from the first four chapters not only set the stage for our fabulous fifth chapter, but can keep us from falling into a rut. Also in this segment: Dr. Sujay shares some memories of her lifelong friendship with civil rights advocate Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 568.3: From the floor of the Hollywood Museum’s recent Celebrity Authors Forum: Ed visits with actress, author, teacher, speaker, radio host, and legendary “scream queen” Dee Wallace. Dee’s latest books, Born: Giving Birth to a New You and Buppa LaPaloo and The I Love Mes: The Most Powerful Little Bear on the Planet, are available wherever books are sold online, as well as at IAmDeeWallace.com Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 568.3: From the floor of the Hollywood Museum’s recent Celebrity Authors Forum: Ed chats with Carolyn Hennesy, star of General Hospital, and the author of The Secret Life of Damian Spinelli and the Pandora young adult series of novels. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 568.5: From February 2020: Tony, Donna, and Ed commemorate the birthday of actor, comedian and improv artist Howard Hesseman, born Feb. 27, 1940, as part of This Week in TV History. Topics include Hesseman’s work as a member of The Committee; his appearances on such shows as Dragnet, Harry O, and The Bob Newhart Show; and the legacy of WKRP in Cincinnati, including the landmark episodes “In Concert” and “Turkeys Away.” Howard Hesseman passed away Saturday, Jan. 29 at age 81. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 568.6: Grammy-nominated comedienne, actress, Love Goddess, and Aphrodite of the Accordion Judy Tenuta talks to Ed about her successful battle against stage 4 ovarian cancer; her latest video, Kicking Cancer’s Ass, which you can enjoy for free on the Judy Tenuta YouTube channel; and the resurgence of interest in Desperation Boulevard, the comedy/satire from 1998 in which Judy plays a former child star who will do anything get her name back in the spotlight. Desperation Boulevard is available for streaming on demand on Amazon Prime. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 568.7: Grammy-nominated comedienne and actress Judy Tenuta discusses some of her comic influences, which include George Carlin and Joan Rivers, as well as who makes her laugh today. Judy’s latest video, Kicking Cancer’s Ass, has become a battle cry for those who are battling cancer, COVID, and other serious health issues, as well as feelings of isolation. You can enjoy Kicking Cancer’s Ass for free on the Judy Tenuta YouTube channel. Desperation Boulevard is available for streaming on demand on Amazon Prime. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 568.8: From the floor of the Hollywood Museum’s recent Celebrity Authors Forum: Academy Award winner George Chakiris shares a few thoughts on the life and legacy of composer Stephen Sondheim and the recent remake of West Side Story. George’s memoir, My West Side Story, is available in hardcover and as an eBook from Lyons Press. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 567.1: Ed welcomes actor and voice artist Petri Hawkins-Byrd (Judge Judy) and his wife, Emmy-nominated producer Makita Bond-Byrd. Byrd and Makita host and produce Bonding with Byrd, a fun web series that Byrd hosts and produces along with Makita, and which provides their friends, fans, and followers with a peek inside their lives. Topics this segment include how Byrd and Makita came to develop Bonding with Byrd; Makita’s recent bout with cancer; and how she has overcome many other adversities with positivity. New episodes of Bonding with Byrd drop every Tuesday at 9pm ET, 6pm PT on YouTube. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 567.1: Actor and voice artist Petri Hawkins-Byrd and Emmy-nominated producer Makita Bond-Byrd talk to Ed about some of the other projects they have in development. New episodes of Bonding with Byrd drop every Tuesday at 9pm ET, 6pm PT on YouTube. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 567.3: Greg Ehrbar reviews The Complete Michael Shayne PRC Collection, a series of five action-packed whodunits, produced by Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) in 1946, and starring Hugh Beaumont (Leave It to Beaver) as Michael Shayne, the wisecracking private detective created by Brett Halliday. Available from ClassicFlix.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 567.4: From the floor of the Hollywood Museum’s recent Celebrity Authors Forum: Ed welcomes John Barbour, five-time Emmy Award-winning talk show host, comedian, critic at large, and documentary film maker, and co-creator of Real People; author of Your Mother’s Not a Virgin, the story of his life and career in show business; and the co-author of The Greatest Reviews I’ve Ever Read, a collaboration with Carol Hoenig that not only features some of John’s many film reviews for Los Angeles magazine, but discusses how those movies impacted Carol’s life. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 567.5: A return visit by Burt Ward, Robin the Boy Wonder on the classic TV series Batman (ABC, 1966-1968). Two generations of dog lovers know Burt as an advocate for the care and nutrition of dogs—which Burt, along with his wife Tracy, have done since 1994, first through their nonprofit animal rescue organization, Gentle Giants Rescue, and, more recently, through their line of all natural Gentle Giants Pet Products for dogs (and, now, cats). Dogs who eat Gentle Giants Dog Food, and who follow the special Gentle Giants feeding and care program, are as living as long as twenty-seven healthy, active years (with wonderful quality of life), while cats who eat Gentle Giants Cat Food are enjoying up to thirty-two years of healthy, active, quality life. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 567.6: Burt Ward, Robin the Boy Wonder on Batman, talks to Ed about his background as an entrepreneur; with legendary martial arts artist Bruce Lee, before and after Batman; his experience reprising Robin on Legends of the Superheroes and Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders; and his three-point recipe for a happy life. Gentle Giants pet products are available in more than 1,100 Target stories throughout the U.S., as well as more than 2,400 Walmart stores throughout the U.S. and more than 400 Walmart stores in Canada. Gentle Giants Rescue is a nonprofit organization; all sales of Gentle Giants products go directly to the Gentle Giants Rescue. Burt and Tracy take no salary, nor do they make any money, from the sales of the dog food or cat food, or from the rescue. For more information, go to GentleGiantsDogFood.com, GentleGiantsCatFood.com, or GentleGiantsPetProducts.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 567.7: From the floor of the Hollywood Museum’s recent Celebrity Authors Forum: Actor and entrepreneur Anson Williams (Happy Days) talks to Ed about his memoir, Singing to a Bulldog; the benefits of Alert Drops; and The Perfect Portion Cookbook, a book that Anson co-authored that includes recipes for 150 comfort food favorites, all crafted in multiples of 100 calories. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 566.1: Part 2 of our final conversation with Ron Bacon, the Emmy Award-winning associate director whose four-decade career in network TV production spanned more than 12,500 broadcasts and covered just about every type of programming available. Topics this segment include the live country western music program that Ron hosted every week on WMAN radio (Mansfield, Ohio) before he entered television, and the night that a young Wayne Newton performed on his show. Ron Bacon passed away Tuesday, Dec. 21 at age ninety-one. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 566.7: Emmy Award-winning associate director Ron Bacon talks to Ed about some of the music legends that he met throughout his career, including Little Richard. Ron Bacon passed away Tuesday, Dec. 21 at age ninety-one. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 566.3: Retired television journalist and sports announcer Steve Beverly joins Ed for a look back at the broadcast career of John Madden, the legendary Super Bowl-winning and NFL Hall of Fame coach of the Oakland Raiders who also enjoyed an extraordinarily successful career on television as an NFL game analyst and commentator, including seventeen Emmy Awards. John Madden passed away Tuesday, Dec. 28 at age eighty-five. Besides his extensive background as a TV news professional, Steve did play-by-play for men’s and women’s college basketball on television for twenty-five years, including thirteen years on a national level. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 566.4: Steve Beverly and Ed continue their look at John Madden’s legacy as a sports broadcaster, including how Madden prepared for each NFL game telecast almost as if he were coaching; his on-air partnership with Pat Summerall; Madden’s career in radio, which began with San Francisco disc jockey Gene Nelson; and his masterful use of such technology as the telestrator. John Madden passed away Tuesday, Dec. 28 at age eighty-five. Also in this segment: A look at what’s on tap on Steve Beverly’s TV Classics, the weekly TCM-like look at classic television that Steve hosts every week on EPlusTV6.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 566.5: Ed welcomes Gabriel Jarret, the actor that many of you remember as the fourteen-year-old whiz in the 1985 teen comedy Real Genius. Gabe recently appeared in the true tornado survival motion picture 13 Minutes, plus he’ll soon be seen in the romantic comedy Ask Me to Dance (also starring Tom Malloy, Briana Evigan, Jesse Kove, and Joyce DeWitt). We discuss both films, as well as Gabe’s background in American Sign Language. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 566.6: Actor Gabriel Jarret talks to Ed about his role in the upcoming limited series Bring on the Dancing Horses (starring Kate Bosworth); his early roles in television, including the short-lived sitcom Goodnight, Beantown (CBS, 1983); and working with such actor/directors as Ron Howard, Rob Reiner, and Tom Malloy. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 566.7: Emmy Award-winning associate director Ron Bacon talks to Ed about some of the music legends that he met throughout his career, including Little Richard. Ron Bacon passed away Tuesday, Dec. 21 at age ninety-one. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 565.1: TV Confidential celebrates the life and career of Betty White with a special program-length tribute to the legendary actress who was not only The First Lady of Television, but one of the very first television stars, period, having appeared on one of the very first experimental television broadcasts in 1939, then also hosting one of the first TV talk shows, Hollywood on Television, in 1949. Betty White passed away on Friday, Dec. 31, at age ninety-nine, just a few days shy of what would have been her 100th birthday. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started:
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TVC 565.2: Ed, Tony, and Donna discuss Betty White’s versatility as an actress, including the iconic characters she played on The Golden Girls, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Hot in Cleveland. Betty White passed away on Friday, Dec. 31, at age ninety-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 565.3: Game show historian Steve Beverly talks to Ed about Betty White’s long association with TV game shows, particularly the many classic games produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman (including, most notably, Password and the CBS Match Game). Steve interviewed Betty about a dozen times throughout his career as a TV journalist. Betty White passed away on Friday, Dec. 31, at age ninety-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 565.4: Game show historian Steve Beverly talks to Ed about the Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host that Betty White won in 1983 for hosting the short-lived NBC game show Just Men; why she and Allen Ludden were the consummate couple; and Betty’s heartfelt tribute to Allen at the 2009 Game Show Congress in Hollywood. Steve Beverly interviewed Betty White about a dozen times throughout his career as a TV journalist. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 565.5: A special Betty White-centric DVD report with Greg Ehrbar that covers White’s widespread appeal across all kinds of TV audiences, including her years hosting coverage of the Thanksgiving Day Parade and Tournament of Roses Parade; her voiceover career; and her guest appearance on the classic “Password” episode of The Odd Couple. Betty White passed away on Friday, Dec. 31, at age ninety-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 565.5a: From October 2020: Emmy nominated costume designer Diana Eden talks to Ed about the two times that she worked with Betty White. Diana’s memoir, Diana’s memoir, Stars in Their Underwear: My Unpredictable Journey from Broadway Dancer to Costume Designer for Some of Hollywood’s Biggest Stars, is available in softcover and as an eBook. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 565.6: Emmy Award-winning producer and showbiz raconteur Geoffrey Mark talks to Ed about Betty White’s professionalism and innate understanding about how television worked. Geoff interviewed Betty for his documentary on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Betty White passed away on Friday, Dec. 31, at age ninety-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 565.7: Ed welcomes Ray Richmond, author of Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life, the last biography about White that was published before her death. Betty White passed away on Friday, Dec. 31, at age ninety-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 565.7a: From November 2019: Actor David Starzyk talks to Ed about what a joy it was to work with Betty White on TV Land’s Hot in Cleveland. Betty White passed away on Friday, Dec. 31, at age ninety-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 565.8: Jennifer Armstrong, author of Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted and All The Brilliant Minds That Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Television Classic and When Women Invented Television, talks to Ed about what a firebrand Betty White was, particularly in the early stages of her career in television. Betty White passed away on Friday, Dec. 31, at age ninety-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 565.9: Jim Colucci, author of Golden Girls Forever, talks to Ed about the trans-generational appeal of The Golden Girls; Betty White’s remarkable timing as a performer; and why Rose Nyland was the hardest of the four Golden Girls to play. Betty White passed away on Friday, Dec. 31, at age ninety-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 565.10: Ed, Tony, and Donna share some final thoughts on the life and legacy of Betty White, as well as information on how you can still participate in The Betty White Challenge. Betty White passed away on Friday, Dec. 31, at age ninety-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 564.1: Part 1 of our final conversation with Ron Bacon, the Emmy Award-winning associate director who was also one of the true pioneers of network television. Ron Bacon passed away Tuesday, Dec. 21 at age ninety-one. Besides wearing many hats throughout his thirty-five years in network TV production, Ron was an accomplished musician and songwriter whose accomplishments after television include The Chicken Man, a full-length musical stage comedy that he wrote and produced for the Sedona Arts Center in Sedona, Arizona in September 2000. The origins for The Chicken Man, however, date back to the early 1960s, when Ron encountered a local character in New Orleans known as “the Chicken Man” while waiting out a hurricane in the French Quarter. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 564.2: Emmy Award winner Ron Bacon talks to Ed about the back story of The Chicken Man, the musical stage comedy that he wrote and produced in September 2000; his remarkable encounter with legendary trumpeter Louis Armstrong; and the joy that comes from the creative process. Ron Bacon passed away Tuesday, Dec. 21 at age ninety-one. Part 2 of this conversation will air on our Jan. 28-30 program. You can enjoy The Chicken Man for free at RonBacon.net. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 564.3: Part 2 of our conversation with Jordan Young about the television career of bandleader Spike Jones, including the near-collaboration between Jones and Ernie Kovacs in the early 1950s, when Kovacs hosted The Tonight Show. Jordan’s many books on entertainment history include Spike Jones, Off the Record: The Man Who Murdered Music, a comprehensive history and discography of Spike Jones that has been completely updated and reissued with a host of new material, including more than 260 never before published photographs, scripts, arrangements, memorabilia and more. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 564.4: Adam Sharp, president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (aka the Daytime Emmys), discusses the recent collaboration between the Daytime Emmy Awards and the Prime Time Emmys regarding two major changes that will go into effect in 2022, including the creation of the Children’s and Family Emmy Awards as a standalone franchise, and the realignment of the Daytime Emmys and Prime Time Emmys so that both competitions will be organized entirely by content genre. The latter announcement not only marks a major shift away from the long-established traditional method (which is based on what time of day or which day/night of the week that Emmy-nominated programs air), but is the most significant change to the Emmy Awards platform in nearly fifty years. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 564.5: Adam Sharp, president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (aka the Daytime Emmys), shares a few thoughts on the recent passing of Betty White and John Madden. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 564.6: From the floor of the Hollywood Museum’s recent Celebrity Authors Forum: Ed welcomes Geoffrey Mark, host of Geoffrey Mark Plays Ella, a new radio show that celebrates the music of the First Lady of Song, and the author of the forthcoming The New Lucy Book, a comprehensive look at the career of Lucille Ball on television, radio, stage, and film. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 564.7: From the floor of the Hollywood Museum’s recent Celebrity Authors Forum: Ed welcomes Michael Stern, author of I Had a Ball: My Friendship with Lucille Ball. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 563.1: Playwright and author Jordan Young joins Ed for a look at the television career of Spike Jones, the legendary bandleader and musical satirist whose influence in comedy and satire paved the way for the likes of Monty Python, Jimmy Buffett, George Carlin, Peter Sellers, and, arguably most notably, Weird Al Yankovic. Jordan Young’s many books on entertainment history include Spike Jones, Off the Record: The Man Who Murdered Music, a comprehensive history and discography of Spike Jones that has been completely updated and reissued with a host of new material, including more than 260 never before published photographs, scripts, arrangements, memorabilia and more. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 563.2: Jordan Young, author of Spike Jones, Off the Record: The Man Who Murdered Music, talks to Ed about the many ideas that Jones for television programming (even though TV itself never quite figured out how to put his talents to use); Jones’ skill for marketing himself and his band; and how Dr. Demento helped create two new generations of Spike Jones fans. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 563.3: From the floor of the Hollywood Museum’s recent Celebrity Authors Forum: Ed welcomes Kelly Conway, the eldest of Tim Conway’s six children (and his only daughter), and the author of My Dad’s Funnier Than Your Dad: Growing Up with Tim Conway in the Funniest House in America, a poignant look at who Tim Conway was, as a father and as a person. Kelly Conway will also join us in February on TV Confidential for a full-length conversation about growing up in the Conway household and the many indelible life lessons that her dad taught her and her brothers, even in such unlikely places as the Santa Anita race track. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 563.4: From the floor of the Hollywood Museum’s recent Celebrity Authors Forum: Ed welcomes Carol Hoenig, author of The Greatest Reviews I’ve Ever Read, a collaboration with Emmy Award winner John Barbour that not only features some of John’s many film reviews for Los Angeles magazine, but discusses how those movies impacted Carol’s life. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 563.5: Ed welcomes Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes, the legendary stars of NBC’s Days of Our Lives and daytime TV’s first supercouple. Bill and Susan recently launched SoapOperaSecrets.com, a free website that not only reveals some of their many secrets for a happy, fulfilling, long lasting, and loving relationship, but features clips of Bill and Susan (as Doug and Julie) illustrating the principles of each of their secrets. Sign up for the email list at SoapOperaSecrets.com and you will receive an automatic update whenever a new secret is posted. Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes can also be seen in World By the Tail: The Bill Hayes Story, an excellent documentary that you can enjoy for free at BillHayesMovie.com. World By The Tail provides a detailed look at Bill’s life and career before he met Susan on Days of Our Lives (which includes starring on Your Show of Shows and other music variety shows in the days of live television; starring in many Broadway productions; and the story of his gold record, “The Ballad of Davy Crockett”), while the second half of the film is devoted to Bill’s life with Susan on and off camera over the past fifty years, and the story of how their characters on Days on Our Lives changed during that time. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 563.6: Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes (Days of Our Lives) discuss some of their other work in television. For Bill, that includes starring on Your Show of Shows and appearing with Florence Henderson in a series of popular musical commercials for Oldsmobile automobiles; for Susan, that includes appearances in such popular series as Perry Mason, The Fugitive, The FBI, Matinee Theatre, 77 Sunset Strip, and Bonanza. Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes recently launched SoapOperaSecrets.com, a free website that reveals some of their many secrets for a happy, fulfilling, long lasting, and loving relationship. Sign up for the email list at SoapOperaSecrets.com and you will receive an automatic update whenever a new secret is posted. Bill and Susan can also be seen in World By the Tail: The Bill Hayes Story, an excellent documentary that also features anecdotes and remembrances from Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Shirley Jones, Shirley MacLaine, Florence Henderson, Peter Marshall, and many, many others. You can enjoy World By The Tail for free at BillHayesMovie.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 563.7: From May 2021: New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Armstrong talks to Ed about the early television career of Betty White, including how, in many ways, White lived the life of Mary Richards long before The Mary Tyler Moore Show came into existence. Jennifer’s book When Women Invented Television traces the history of the first decade of network television through the lives and accomplishments of Irna Phillips, Gertrude Berg, Hazel Scott and Betty White. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 563.8: From December 2017: Jim Colucci, deputy editor of CBS Watch magazine and author of Golden Girls Forever, talks to Ed and Greg Ehrbar about the circumstances that led Betty White to being cast as Rose on The Golden Girls after she had already been cast as Blanche. We are putting together a formal program-length tribute to Betty White that will air later this month on TV Confidential. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2010: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the network premiere of A Charlie Brown Christmas, the very first Peanuts animated special, which aired on CBS on Dec. 9, 1965. Topics include why CBS was nervous about audience and sponsor reaction to the scene in which Linus explains the true meaning of Christmas by telling the Nativity story. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2018: Greg Ehrbar and Ed discuss the new DVD release of Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town; how the various mythologies that screenwriter Romeo Muller created specifically for Santa Claus is Comin' to Town has since become part of the lore of Santa; and why the casting of Mickey Rooney, Fred Astaire and Keenan Wynn were all inspired choices. Greg not only provides audio commentary for Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, but appears in The Animagic World of Rankin/Bass, the excellent documentary that is part of the DVD package. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2010: Tony, Donna, and remember the premiere of the Rankin-Bass animated special Frosty the Snowman (CBS, 1969). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 562.1: Ed welcomes James and Rebekah Ganiere, the husband-and-wife creative team behind Rekindling Christmas, the Emmy Award-nominated family romance movie about relationships, mistakes, miscommunications, pain of loss, assumptions, perceptions, and what really matters in life. A true family effort, Rekindling Christmas stars Ashley Atwood, Michael Patrick Lane, Stella May Grubb, and Christian Ganiere (James and Rebekah’s son). James Ganiere directed the film, while Rebekah Ganiere wrote the screenplay, based on her novel of the same name. Rekindling Christmas is available for streaming on demand on Apple TV, Amazon Prime and other streaming platforms. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 562.2: Part 2 of our conversation with David Koenig, author of Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV’s Rumpled Detective, a “behind the raincoat” look at the production of the Columbo television series, both on NBC and on ABC, and the development of the Lieutenant Columbo character. Topics this week include some of the various people behind the scenes of the groundbreaking mystery series—including the peculiar relationship between Columbo, Peter Falk, and John Cassavetes. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 562.3: Greg Ehrbar discusses the DVD releases of Yogi’s First Christmas (available through Warner Archive) and Yogi Bear’s All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper (available through Warner Home Entertainment). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 562.4: Ed welcomes Colleen Foy, the actress who plays Inara on ABC’s Station 19. Colleen will soon be seen opposite Ana de Armas, Bobby Cannavale, and Adrien Brody in Blonde, the highly anticipated biopic of Marilyn Monroe that is scheduled to premiere on Netflix in 2022. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 562.5: Actress and voice artist Colleen Foy talks to Ed about how her experience with the National Theatre of the Deaf led to her television debut on Sesame Street. Colleen will soon be seen in Blonde, the highly anticipated biopic of Marilyn Monroe that is scheduled to premiere on Netflix in 2022. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 562.6: Ed remembers Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and music video pioneer Michael Nesmith by playing highlights from our April 2018 tribute to The Monkees featuring Chuck Harter. Chuck interviewed Michael Nesmith—along with Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, Davy Jones—as part of Hey, Hey, We’re The Monkees, the excellent documentary on the history of The Monkees and the ongoing impact of the Monkees phenomenon, which Chuck wrote for the Disney Channel. Michael Nesmith passed away on Friday, Dec. 10 at the age of 78. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 562.7: From April 2018: Ed, Tony, Donna and Chuck Harter (writer of the Disney Channel documentary Hey, Hey, We’re The Monkees) discuss the success of the various Monkees reunion tours after their 1986 comeback and how the death of Davy Jones in 2012 changed the dynamics of the group. Chuck interviewed Jones, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, and Michael Nesmith for Hey, Hey, We’re The Monkees. Michael Nesmith passed away on Friday, Dec. 10 at the age of 78. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 562.8: From April 2018: Chuck Harter performs two Monkees tunes, “Sunny Girlfriend” (written by Michael Nesmith) and “Daydream Believer.” Michael Nesmith passed away on Friday, Dec. 10 at the age of 78. Click here for news and updates about Chuck’s latest book. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 561.1: Ed welcomes back David Koenig, author of Mouse Tales: A Behind the Ears Look at Disneyland, Danny Kaye: King of Jesters, and other pop culture titles. David’s latest book, Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV’s Rumpled Detective, takes us behind the scenes of the production of Columbo, the groundbreaking mystery series starring Peter Falk and created by Richard Levinson and William Link that celebrates its fiftieth anniversary on television this fall. Topics this segment include the first appearance of the Columbo character on television (which occurred in a live production of Enough Rope, the original play written by Richard Levinson and William Link, that aired on The Chevy Mystery Show in the summer in 1960); how important Peter Falk was to the success of the series; the pivotal role that Universal Studios executive Sid Sheinberg played in championing the careers of Levinson and Link, series producer Dean Hargrove, and director Steven Spielberg; and how Jackson Gillis and Larry Cohen both left their marks on Columbo. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 561.2: David Koenig, author of Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV’s Rumpled Detective, discusses how Prescription: Murder (the original pilot for Columbo) evolved from the original TV production that Richard Levinson and William Link wrote in 1960 to a full-length stage production starring Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, and Thomas Mitchell (with Mitchell essaying the role of Lieutenant Columbo), and how Levinson and Link weathered a series of clashes with the actors behind the scenes; the memorable scores that Oliver Nelson and Gil Melle provided for the NBC series; and the influence that actor/director Patrick McGoohan and writer/producer Richard Alan Simmons had on Peter Falk and the Columbo series, both on NBC and on ABC. Shooting Columbo provides a blow by blow account of Peter Falk’s endless battles with Universal Studios over the production of the series, a treasure trove of behind the scenes production information, a look at how the various locations in Beverly Hills were chosen, the answers to such burning questions as “What was Columbo’s first name?” Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 561.3: Greg Ehrbar and Ed pay tribute to Will Ryan, the actor, voice artist, songwriter, singer, and musician who passed away on Friday, Nov. 19 at age 72. Topics this segment include Will’s many contributions to Disney Entertainment and Walt Disney Records, plus his long association with the audio drama Adventures in Odyssey. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 561.4: Ed welcomes back actress, author, teacher, speaker, radio host, and legendary “scream queen” Dee Wallace. Dee’s latest book, Born: Giving Birth to a New You, is a hands-on, reader-friendly guide to the principles of self-creation that Dee has taught and lived by for most of her life. Born not only shows how spirituality, brain science, and religion all teach the same principles that can help us create the life we want, but illustrates how we can all learn the principles of creation by following the example of E.T. and accepting the power of love. As Dee herself puts it in Born, redirecting our inner energy to achieve what we want in life can really be as simple as making ice. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 561.5: Dee Wallace talks to Ed about the fortieth anniversary of the release of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial; how the tremendous success of E.T. not only changed the course of Dee’s life as an actress, but allowed her to change and expand how she saw herself as a person; and how we can all learn the principles of creation by following the example of E.T. Dee’s latest book, Born: Giving Birth to a New You, is a hands-on, reader-friendly guide to the principles of self-creation that Dee has taught and lived by for most of her life. Dee Wallace also recently published a children’s book, Buppa LaPaloo and The I Love Mes: The Most Powerful Little Bear on the Planet, while her latest movie, Every Time a Bell Rings, airs several times throughout December on The Hallmark Channel. Both Born and Buppa LaPaloo and The I Love Mes are available wherever books are sold online, as well as at IAmDeeWallace.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 561.6: Greg Ehrbar and Ed discuss Will Ryan’s voice acting career, which spanned many film and TV productions for all major studios; his performing career with The Saguaro Sisters as part of Will Ryan and the Cactus County Cowboys; and the renaissance he enjoyed with actor Nick Santa Maria as faux comedy team Benny Biffle and Sammy Shooster in The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster. Will Ryan passed away on Friday, Nov. 19 at age 72. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 458.1: Actors Nick Santa Maria and Will Ryan (The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster) appear in character as Benny Biffle and Sammy Shooster as we take a look at Biffle and Shooster’s often overlooked, but nonetheless significant TV career of the 1960s. The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster is available now on DVD. In addition, The Biffle and Shooster Portable Guide to Etiquette is available for purchase, as are all four issues of the Biffle and Shooster comic book. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 533.2: Ed plays Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with George Chakiris, the Academy Award-winning actor known around the world as Bernardo, the leader of The Sharks, in the iconic 1961 screen adaptation of West Side Story. In this segment, George shares memories of working with John Astin and Simon Oakland in West Side Story, and with Elaine Stritch in the national stage production of Company. My West Side Story: A Memoir by George Chakiris is available in hardcover and as an eBook from Lyons Press. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 533.3: Oscar winner George Chakiris discusses the approach he took to playing Frederic Chopin in the acclaimed PBS miniseries Notorious Woman, plus he shares a few memories of starring opposite Barbara Carrera in the “dream season” of Dallas. My West Side Story: A Memoir by George Chakiris is available in hardcover and as an eBook from Lyons Press and includes a wonderful back cover quote from George’s co-star, dear friend, and fellow Oscar winner from West Side Story, Rita Moreno. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 533.4: Ed welcomes back entertainment legend Ruta Lee. Ruta’s new memoir, Consider Your Ass Kissed, not only is the story of how a young girl—the daughter of Lithuanian immigrants—became one of the most legendary entertainers in Hollywood history through hard work and determination, but includes a treasure trove of authentic memories about the Golden Age of Entertainment, including her work opposite such leading men as Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Charles Bronson, James Garner, Fred Astaire, Robin Williams, Howard Keel, Bob Crane, and Frank Sinatra. Consider Your Ass Kissed is available for pre-order right now at Amazon.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 533.5: Ruta Lee shares the amazing but true story of how she convinced Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to release her 92-year-old Lithuanian grandmother from the Soviet Union in 1964 so that she could live her remaining years in America—and be reunited with her daughter, Ruta’s mother, for the first time in thirty-six years. Ruta’s memoir, Consider Your Ass Kissed, is available for pre-order right now at Amazon.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 458.2: Will Ryan, Nick Santa Maria, and Michael Schlesinger (The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster) appear in character as Greg and Ed continue their look at the faux television career of Biffle and Shooster, including their short-lived Saturday morning cartoon series and their celebrated appearance on Batman. The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster is available on DVD. The Biffle and Shooster Portable Guide to Etiquette is also available for purchase, as are all four issues of the Biffle and Shooster comic book. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 560.1: Ed welcomes back Mark Shaw, investigative reporter, former criminal defense attorney and cable TV legal analyst, and the author of more than twenty-five books, including The Reporter Who Knew Too Much, a biography of Dorothy Kilgallen, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated newspaper columnist and panelist on What’s My Line? whose mysterious death in November 1965 remains unsolved to this day. Mark’s latest book, Collateral Damage: The Mysterious Deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Kilgallen and The Ties That Bind Them to Robert Kennedy and the JFK Assassination, makes the argument that interconnected relationship between Kilgallen, film legend Marilyn Monroe, and President John F. Kennedy—and, specifically, the ambitions of Kennedy patriarch Joseph Kennedy and the war against the mob waged by Robert F. Kennedy in the early 1960s—ultimately led to each of their demises, all within forty months of each other. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 560.2: Mark Shaw, author of Collateral Damage: The Mysterious Deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Kilgallen and The Ties That Bind Them to Robert Kennedy and the JFK Assassination, discusses a few of the fifty remarkable similarities between the lives and deaths of Pulitzer Prize-nominated newspaper columnist Dorothy Kilgallen and film legend Marilyn Monroe. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 560.3: From November 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the anniversary of the premiere of Bosom Buddies (ABC, 1980-1982), as well as the onscreen chemistry and off-camera friendship between series stars Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari. Peter Scolari passed away on Oct. 22, 2021 at age sixty-six. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 560.4: Television critic, columnist, and entertainment journalist Ray Richmond joins Ed for an early 100th birthday salute to entertainment legend Betty White. Ray’s latest book, Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life, provides a visual salute to the eighty-year performing career of the First Lady of Television, including her lifelong passion for animals; the various glass ceilings that White broke as a performer and as a producer during the first decade of television as we know it; her legacy on such TV game shows as Password, What’s My Line?, and Match Game; her skills in unscripted television (including her own talk show, The Pet Set, and her years hosting NBC’s coverage of both the Tournament of Roses Parade and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade); and more. Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life becomes available wherever books are sold beginning Tuesday, Dec. 7. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 560.5: Ray Richmond, author of Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life, talks to Ed about Allen Ludden’s year-long effort to woo Betty White; why they proved to be the perfect mates for each other; and the many ways in which their marriage bucked the odds. Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life becomes available wherever books are sold beginning Tuesday, Dec. 7. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 560.6: Ray Richmond, author of Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life, talks to Ed about the numerous ways in which Betty White has left her mark on television. A visual salute to White’s eighty-year performing, Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life not only includes tributes from such friends and colleagues as Gavin MacLeod, Ed Asner, Carol Burnett, Candice Bergen, and Ed. Weinberger, but features many rare photographs. Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life becomes available wherever books are sold beginning Tuesday, Dec. 7. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 559.1: A return appearance by Emmy Award winner Ron Bacon, a true pioneer of television who wore many hats throughout his thirty-five year career in TV production, including stage manager, associate director, writer, producer, and director on more than 12,500 network TV broadcasts, covering just about every type of programming available, including variety shows, variety specials, sporting events, and many Academy Awards broadcasts. In this segment, Ron talks to Ed about the enormous amount of preparation that goes into planning and producing an Oscarcast, as well as how he became friends with Liberace as a result of the pianist’s daytime series on ABC-TV. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 559.2: Emmy Award winner Ron Bacon talks to Ed about his many years of working with Dick Clark, including Clark’s knack for recognizing talent and his willingness to listen to others; how Ron was approached to play Meathead in Those Were the Days, the second pilot for All in the Family; and his work on other scripted series, including the short-lived ABC-TV version of Operation: Petticoat. Ron’s short film, The Kite Song, is available for free at RonBacon.net. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 559.3: Ed welcomes Ebin Antony, an actor and voice artist who recently made his Hollywood film debut in the horror thriller Spoken. Spoken is now available for viewing on demand through Amazon Prime. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 559.4: Ed welcomes Emmy Award-winning art director and set decorator Ray Klausen. Ray’s memoirs, Behind the Scenes: From Hollywood to Broadway, not only is a history of theatre and variety television in its heyday, but pays homage to the many teachers who made a difference in Ray’s life—both the teachers in his formative years in high school and college, and the many mentors who guided Ray as he learned his craft as a professional. Topics this segment include Ray’s early years in television, including working on such variety series as The Dean Martin Show and The Andy Williams Show; the heart and kindness of Beatrice Arthur, including the generous endowment she left the Ali Forney Center in New York City upon her death; and the work ethic that Ray developed while he was a student at the Yale School of Art. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 559.5: Emmy Award-winning art director and set decorator Ray Klausen shares a few stories about his career as the set designer of more than 400 productions for television, Broadway, and Las Vegas showrooms, including working with such stars as Carol Burnett, Lynda Carter, and Bernadette Peters, and producers Allan Carr and Dick Clark. Ray’s memoirs, Behind the Scenes: From Hollywood to Broadway, is a history of theatre and variety television in its heyday that also pays tribute to the many teachers who made a difference in Ray’s life. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 559.6: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with multi-award-winning actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, voice artist, and radio host Harry Shearer (The Simpsons, This is Spinal Tap, Le Show). Topics include Harry’s career as a voice artist, including when he first discovered his gift for mimicry, why he considers the voices he creates to be characters (versus impressions), and how long it takes Harry to hone down a particular voice before he feels ready to perform it. We also learn which Spinal Tap song is most popular among groupies of the band. Chuck Harter co-hosts. Harry Shearer is the host of Le Show, a weekly, hour-long romp through the worlds of media, politics, sports, and show business that you can hear every week on NPR stations and other public stations throughout the U.S. and worldwide. It is also available for listening on demand as a podcast through many platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and HarryShearer.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 558.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with James Rosin, author of the novellas Butterfly and Belle Garden Beat and the publisher of The Many Faces of Nehemiah, the memoirs of his cousin Nehemiah Persoff, one of the greatest and most versatile character actors of the twentieth century. Topics this segment include Persoff’s long association with the Actors Studio in New York, and the important lesson he learned early in his career about the difference between acting for the stage and acting on film. James Rosin is scheduled to appear at the Williamsburg Nostalgia Fest, Nov. 11 through Nov. 13 in Williamsburg, VA. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 558.2: Greg Ehrbar discusses When We’re Singin’: The Partridge Family and Their Music, a new book by Johnny Ray Miller that provides a comprehensive history of Partridge Family music and the Partridge Family television series. Topics this segment include what the producers of The Partridge Family learned from The Monkees when incorporating the music into the series. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 558.3: Greg and Ed discuss When We’re Singin’: The Partridge Family and Their Music, a new book by Johnny Ray Miller that provides a comprehensive history of Partridge Family music and the Partridge Family television series, including the back story of some of the group’s most popular and iconic songs. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 558.4: Actor, comedian, musician, voice artist, and radio personality Harry Shearer talks to Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter about the upcoming 38th anniversary of Le Show, Harry’s weekly radio series, and the back story of This is Spinal Tap, including the pivotal role that Norman Lear played in helping the movie get made. A weekly, hour-long satirical look at the worlds of media, politics, sports, and showbiz, Le Show is heard every week on NPR stations and Continental Public Radio stations throughout the U.S. and worldwide. It is also available for listening on demand as a podcast through many platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and HarryShearer.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 558.5: Ed welcomes stage, film, and television actor Tony Winters (Queen Sugar, Two Degrees: The Series, Yellowjackets). Tony has a key role as an NCAA executive in the feature motion picture National Champions, which opens in theaters on Wednesday, Nov. 24. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 558.6: Stage, film, and television actor Tony Winters talks to Ed about making his directorial debut in a recent episode of Two Degrees: The Series; playing the hard-as-nails Assistant Coach in the bestselling videogames NBA 2K 15 and NBA 2K 16; and the day he met his idol, Sidney Poitier, on the set of the movie Sneakers. Tony can be seen in the pilot episode of the new Showtime series Yellowjackets, which premieres on Sunday, Nov. 14. He also has a key role as an NCAA executive in the feature motion National Champions, which opens in theaters on Wednesday, Nov. 24. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 557.2: James Rosin, publisher of The Many Faces of Nehemiah, continues his discussion with Ed about the stage, screen and television career of his cousin, actor Nehemiah Persoff. Jim is scheduled to appear at the Williamsburg Nostalgia Fest, Nov. 11 through Nov. 13 in Williamsburg, VA. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 557.2: James Rosin, publisher of The Many Faces of Nehemiah, continues his discussion with Ed about the stage, screen and television career of his cousin, actor Nehemiah Persoff. Jim is scheduled to appear at the Williamsburg Nostalgia Fest, Nov. 11 through Nov. 13 in Williamsburg, VA. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 556.3: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Phil Rosenzweig, professor at both Harvard Business School and IMD business school, and the author of Reginald Rose and The Journey of 12 Angry Men—the first biography of Reginald Rose, one of the first great voices in television, and the screenwriter and producer of 12 Angry Men (1957), the iconic motion picture starring Henry Fonda that began as a one-hour drama for that Rose wrote for the CBS anthology series Westinghouse Studio One. Topics this segment include some of the differences between the movie and the original TV production, including the back story of one of the most famous scenes in the movie. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 557.4: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome back Louise Sorel, the actress known around the world as Vivian Alamain on Days of Our Lives. When she visited us earlier this year, Louise mentioned that she was working on several writing projects, including a series of essays about New York. She shares a few of those works during this segment. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 557.5: Louise Sorel pays tribute to actors Joseph Mascolo and Peggy McCay, two of her longtime colleagues on Days of Our Lives. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 557.6: Greg Ehrbar discusses the DVD release of The Halloween Tree, the 1993 animated feature produced by Hanna-Barbera, based on the short story by Ray Bradbury and featuring the voice of Leonard Nimoy. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 470.2: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the original broadcast of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (CBS, 1966). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 470.3: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss how celebrating Halloween has changed in our culture since the original broadcast of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and how Roseanne helped usher in the current tradition of prime time sitcoms having a Halloween episode every year as part of its network order. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 556.1: Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Geoffrey Mark joins us to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the premiere of I Love Lucy and the legacy of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Geoff’s forthcoming book The New Lucy Book is a comprehensive look at the career of Lucille Ball on television, radio, stage, and film. Geoff also hosts Geoffrey Mark Plays Ella, a new radio show that celebrates the music of the First Lady of Song. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 556.2: Ed welcomes Phil Rosenzweig, professor of organizational behavior at IMD business school, and the author of Reginald Rose and The Journey of 12 Angry Men—the first biography of Reginald Rose, one of the first great voices in television, and the screenwriter and producer of 12 Angry Men (1957), the iconic motion picture starring Henry Fonda that only continues to touch audiences all over the world, but has been used by many schools for its depiction of group dynamics and human relations, its use of rhetoric, and its portrayal of ordinary citizens reaching a just verdict. Topics this segment include how Rose was among the first writers to use television drama as a platform to present topical issues to the American public, and how Rose arguably understood television better than any of his contemporaries. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 556.3: Phil Rosenzweig, author of Reginald Rose and The Journey of 12 Angry Men, talks to Ed about how Henry Fonda became attached to the 1957 movie version of 12 Angry Men; why Fonda’s character, Juror No. 8, was a great fit for the actor; and how the movie cemented television plays as a legitimate source for motion picture adaptation. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 556.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began on our last program with actress, teacher and monologist Veronica Redd. Fans of The Young and the Restless know Veronica as the second of two actresses to play Mamie Johnson, while fans of The Jeffersons know her for her lead role in “Once a Friend,” the groundbreaking episode that marked one of the first portrayals of a transgender person on network television. Topics this segment include how Veronica came to join the cast of Y&R and the important role that casting directors played in her life and career when she first came to Hollywood. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 556.5: Ed welcomes back singer, actress, producer, and comedienne Kat Kramer (Turnover, Child of the ’70s). After returning to stand-up comedy earlier this year, Kat will perform a special Halloween-themed comedy show at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on Friday, Oct. 29—an event that, in many respects, will bring her career full circle. See the events page at TheHollywoodRoosevelt.com for tickets and more information. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 556.6: Award-winning singer, actress, producer, and comedienne Kat Kramer talks to Ed about being the opening act for Milton Berle early in her career, and her experience writing and performing comedy as part of a duo. Also in this segment: Kat pays tribute to her dear friend Ed Asner. Kat will perform a special Halloween-themed comedy show at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on Friday, Oct. 29. See the events page at TheHollywoodRoosevelt.com for tickets and more information. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 555.1: Greg Ehrbar joins Ed for a remembrance of film and television actor Tommy Kirk. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 555.2: Greg Ehrbar talks to Ed about Tommy Kirk’s many contributions to Walt Disney Pictures, which include The Shaggy Dog, The Monkey’s Uncle, Swiss Family Robinson, The Horsemasters, and Old Yeller. Tommy Kirk passed away Sept. 28, 2021 at age 79. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 555.3: Ed welcomes actress, director, producer, and voice artist Judi Beecher. Judi is also one of the stars, and one of the executive producers, of Tango Shalom, the award-winning comedy about a Hassidic rabbi (played by Jos Laniado) who gets a message from God that he must enter a TV dance competition to resolve his financial problems. Tango Shalom is now playing in select theaters, plus it will become available for streaming on demand on Friday, Oct. 29. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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mentors, which include such acting masters such as Uta Hagen, Bill Hickey, Bobby Lewis, and Broadway legend Elaine Stritch. Also starring Joseph Bologna (in his final screen role), Renee Taylor, Lainie Kazan, and Karina Smirnoff (from Dancing with the Stars), Tango Shalom is now playing in select theaters, plus it will become available for streaming on demand on Friday, Oct. 29. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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TVC 555.6: Alexis Hunter, author of Joi Lansing: A Body to Die For, discusses the dangers of silicon enhancements, especially today. For our listeners on the East Coast, Alexis will sign copies of Joi Lansing: A Body to Die For at the historic Stonewall Inn in New York City, the birthplace of the contemporary LGBTQ movement, on Monday Oct. 18 from 6pm to 8pm. Alexis will also read a passage from the book that night, while Vincent DeSalvo, and Joseph Dougherty—the producer and screenwriter, respectively, of the forthcoming miniseries adaptation of Joi Lansing: A Body to Die For—will join her for a Q & A session afterward. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 555.7: Ed welcomes actress and monologist Veronica Redd (The Young and the Restless). Fans of The Jeffersons know Veronica best for her lead role in “Once a Friend,” the groundbreaking episode of The Jeffersons in which George learns that his old Navy buddy, Eddie Stokes, has undergone a sex change operation and is now living life as a woman, Edie. Written by Jay Moriarty and Mike Milligan, and originally broadcast in October 1977, “Once a Friend” not only marked one of the first portrayals of a transgender person on network television, but was certainly the first time that subject had ever been explored on a network TV sitcom. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 555.8: Actress and monologist Veronica Redd (The Young and the Restless) tells Ed a poignant story about when she first realized just how much her performance as Edie Stokes “Once a Friend,” the groundbreaking episode of The Jeffersons, meant to real-life transgender people. She also talks about working with Ed Asner on the set of Lou Grant. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 524.1: A program-length celebration of the life and career of Ed Asner, the eight-time Emmy Award-winning actor who passed away this past Sunday, Aug. 29 at age 91. Known to three generations around the world for his portrayals of Carl Frederickson in Pixar’s UP!; Santa Claus in several films (including, most notably, Elf); his stellar performances in the classic miniseries Roots and Rich Man, Poor Man; and, of course, his signature role as newsman Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and, later, his own show, Lou Grant, Ed Asner was a multifaceted, well-informed human being known for his tireless activism (particularly when he was president of the Screen Actors Guild), his desire to make a difference in the world (and to always do the right thing, even at great personal cost), his generosity of spirit, and his marvelous sense of humor. Our tribute will include remembrances from many friends and colleagues of Ed Asner, plus highlights from two of our favorite moments with Ed on TV Confidential. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started:
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TVC 524.2: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss their favorite “Lou Grant” moments from Ed Asner, both on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant; his work as president of the Screen Actors Guild; his activism (including his controversial stance on the U.S. involvement in El Salvador in 1982); and some of his many other roles, including Two Jews Talking, the stage production with Jamie Farr that he was rehearsing two days before his death. This segment also includes quotes from Jamie Farr and Ruta Lee, courtesy of B. Harlan Boll Public Relations. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 524.2a: From May 2013: Jennifer Armstrong, author of Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted and All the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic, talks to Ed about the difficulty that Ed Asner initially had with delivering the now iconic line “I hate spunk” during the original taping of the pilot for The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Ed Asner passed away this past Sunday, Aug. 29 at age 91. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 524.3: Greg Ehrbar joins Ed for a special Ed Asner-centric edition of our DVD and streaming report, with particular emphasis on Ed’s extensive work as a voice artist on many animated films and TV specials (including the many times other than Elf in which he played Santa Claus), as well as his performances as a reader on audiobooks. This segment also includes quotes from Bob Bergen and Leonard Maltin, courtesy of B. Harlan Boll Public Relations. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 524.4: Greg and Ed discuss Ed Asner’s performance in The Gathering (ABC, 1977), the made-for-TV holiday classic that was also among Hanna-Barbera’s first ventures into live-action movies. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 524.5: Emmy Award winner Geoffrey Mark joins Ed to share a few memories about Ed Asner. Geoff not only interviewed Ed for a documentary he produced about The Mary Tyler Moore Show, but was among the many recipients of Ed’s generosity of spirit. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 524.6: Chuck Harter joins Ed to share a few memories about Ed Asner. Chuck interviewed Ed in person for his book Mr. Novak: An Acclaimed Television Series. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 524.7: Nine-time Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and humorist Ed. Weinberger (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi) talks to Ed about his three collaborations with Ed Asner over the past ten years, including Two Jews Talking, a new stage comedy that Asner was rehearsing with Jamie Farr two days before he died. Ed Asner passed away this past Sunday, Aug. 29 at age 91. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 524.8: Writer, producer, and humorist Ed. Weinberger (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi) talks to Ed about his three collaborations with Ed Asner over the past ten years, including The Grouchy Historian: An Old Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs, an earnest, engaging, and well researched look at the back story of the U.S. Constitution. Ed Asner passed away this past Sunday, Aug. 29 at age 91. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 524.9: Actress Veronica Redd (The Young and the Restless) talks to Ed about why Ed Asner was not only a good leading actor, but a good leader who set a tone of camaraderie on the set for everyone for who worked on his shows. Veronica’s many TV appearances include three episodes of Lou Grant. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 524.10: Susan Silver, one of the original writers of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, talks to Ed about “The Square Shaped Room” and “Is a Friend in Need,” two episodes of the Moore show that created singular moments for Ed Asner as Lou Grant. Asner not only acknowledged Susan Silver in his acceptance speech when he won his second Emmy for playing Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, but wrote a back cover blurb for Susan’s memoir, Hot Pants in Hollywood. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 524.11: Ed welcomes filmmaker Matthew Asner, eldest son of Ed Asner, and the president and CEO of The Ed Asner Family Center, a nonprofit organization that provides an oasis of creativity and support for families with special needs children. Topics this segment include the Asner family’s longtime commitment to children with special needs, as well as some of Matt’s favorite Ed Asner roles. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 524.12: From October 2016: Ed Asner talks to Ed and guest co-host Deborah Pearl about how he learned to hone his approach to comedic roles; how he played Lou Grant differently on Lou Grant than he did on The Mary Tyler Moore Show; and how, upon reflection, he would have handled his stance on the El Salvador controversy differently than he did at the time it happened. A longtime friend of Ed Asner, Deborah directed Ed and Jean Smart in the award-winning short comedy film Getting Ed Laid. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 524.13: From April 2017: Ed Asner talks to Ed about his one-man show A Man and His Prostate; his love of the Los Angeles Dodgers; and his admiration for Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully. Ed Asner passed away this past Sunday, Aug. 29 at age 91. Ed’s memoir, Son of a Junkman: My Life from the West Bottoms of Kansas City to the Bright Lights of Hollywood, is available wherever books are sold online. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 553.1: Game show historian Steve Beverly helps Ed sort through the latest developments in the ongoing search for a new permanent host of Jeopardy! When Steve visited us in August, Sony Pictures Television had just named Jeopardy! executive producer Mike Richards as the official successor to Alex Trebek—a controversial choice that, among other things, called into question the integrity of having a long series of guest hosts, many of whom were supposedly in the running for the permanent host position. Since Steve’s last visit, an investigative report from TheRinger.com revealed that Richards had made a series of demeaning remarks on the air about women and people of other races and ethnicities during a podcast that Richards had hosted between 2013-2014. That caused Sony to remove Richards as host of Jeopardy, although he stayed on as executive producer. Last week, however, Sony announced that it had fired Richards altogether and that he would no longer oversee Jeopardy! or Wheel of Fortune. Steve and Ed discuss how the fallout over Richards not only represents a systematic breakdown on the part of Sony (and, particularly, its human resources division), but may be the worst debacle in the history of game shows since the quiz show scandals of the late 1950s. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 553.2: Game show historian Steve Beverly talks to Ed about what Sony Pictures Television must do to right the ship and restore the public’s confidence in the Jeopardy! franchise; why naming Michael Davies as the interim show runner of Jeopardy! is an important step in that regard; and why it would be a bad idea for the series to do another prolonged round of guest hosts. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 553.3: Part 2 of a conversation that began on our last program with Susan Silver, one of the original writers for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and one of the very first female writers to break the glass ceiling in the world of TV comedy. Topics this segment include The Girl Who Came Gift-Wrapped, the romantic comedy starring Karen Valentine, Richard Long, and Louise Sorel that Susan wrote for the ABC Movie of the Week in 1973. While very much a product of its time, Girl still holds up today because of the strong characters that Susan created. Susan’s memoir, Hot Pants in Hollywood: Sex, Secrets and Sitcoms, is available as a print edition through Amazon.com and as an audiobook through Audible.com. Susan’s radio commentary, Susan Says with Susan Silver, is heard on RobinHoodRadio.com and on Apple Podcasts. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 553.4: Ed welcomes Emmy nominated actress and stunt woman Janeshia Adams-Ginyard (Black Panther, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier). Janeshia was recently nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Stunt Performance for her work in Lovecraft Country. This is the first year that the Academy has created the category of Outstanding Stunt Performance—and while other women received nominations as part of a team, Janeshia was the only stunt woman to receive an Emmy nod as an individual. The Emmy Awards airs Sunday, Sept. 19 on CBS. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 553.5: Ed welcomes AIDS/HIV activist the Reverend Steve Pieters. One of the first non-celebrity figures to be identified with AIDS in the early 1980s, Steve’s amazing story of surviving AIDS and two forms of cancer in 1985 is considered a medical anomaly and a modern-day miracle. In the world of popular culture, Steve is best known for an interview that he gave televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in 1985, while he was recovering from the effects of the experimental AIDS drug suramin, that not only discussed and dispelled many of the myths surrounding HIV/AIDS, but marked the first time that a televangelist had given an affirming interview to a gay man living with AIDS. Steve’s interview with Bakker is part of the backdrop of The Eyes of Tammy Faye, a new movie starring Jessica Chastain that will be released on Friday, Sept. 17. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 553.6: AIDS/HIV activist the Reverend Steve Pieters talks to Ed about how he fought AIDS in 1985 with a self-devised wellness plan that combined prayer, meditation, exercise, nutrition, music, and laughter (including healthy dosages of I Love Lucy reruns), and the circumstances that allowed Steve to thank Lucille Ball in person for the healing power of laughter four years later. Steve’s affirming television interview with Tammy Faye Bakker from 1985 is part of the backdrop of The Eyes of Tammy Faye, a new movie starring Jessica Chastain that will be released on Friday, Sept. 17. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TV Confidential honors the memory of Ed Asner, the eight-time Emmy Award-winning actor known around the world as Lou Grant on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and his own show, Lou Grant. Ed Asner passed away on Sunday, Aug. 29 at age ninety-one. We are putting together a formal tribute to Ed Asner that will include memories from some colleagues of his that we’ve gotten to know as a result of doing this program. That will likely air later in September, and we will keep you posted as always. In the meantime, this week’s show includes encore presentations of two of our conversations with Ed over the past five years. We begin with a special edition of This Week in TV History that originally aired in October 2019, a few weeks before Ed Asner’s ninetieth birthday. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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From March 2020: Ed welcomes back eight-time Emmy Award winner Ed Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant, Elf, Disney Pixar’s UP, Briarpatch). Ed’s new memoir, Son of a Junkman: My Life from the West Bottoms of Kansas City to the Bright Lights of Hollywood, is a charming, funny, and often very poignant look at his life and career, from his colorful childhood as the son of a junkman in Kansas City to his spectacular acting career. Ed Asner passed away on Sunday, Aug. 29 at age ninety-one. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From March 2020: Legendary actor, author, and activist Ed Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant, Elf, Disney Pixar’s UP, Briarpatch) talks about the roles that actor Richard Crenna and The House on Greenapple Road—a made-for-TV movie produced by Quinn Martin—both played in helping him land his signature role of Lou Grant. Ed Asner passed away on Sunday, Aug. 29 at age ninety-one. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From October 2020: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome back Ed Asner, the eight-time Emmy Award-winning actor known around the world as Lou Grant both on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and his own hour-long spinoff series, Lou Grant. The 2020-2021 television marks the fiftieth anniversary of the premiere of the Moore show and, by extension, the Lou Grant character. Ed Asner’s memoir, Son of a Junkman: My Life from the West Bottoms of Kansas City to the Bright Lights of Hollywood, not only pays tribute to each of his cast members on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, but reveals the persons on whom he based his portrayal of Lou Grant. Ed Asner passed away on Sunday, Aug. 29 at age ninety-one. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From October 2020: Actor and author Ed Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant, Son of a Junkman, The Grouchy Historian) talks to Ed, Tony, and Donna about “Chuckles Bites the Dust,” arguably the most famous episode of the Moore show; how Lou Grant brought many viewers into the world of print journalism; and who Ed would like to see cast as himself, if a movie were made about his life. Ed Asner passed away on Sunday, Aug. 29 at age ninety-one. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From October 2020: Ed, Tony, and Donna continue their conversation with Ed Asner, the eight-time Emmy Award-winning actor known around the world as Lou Grant both on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and his own hour-long spinoff series, Lou Grant. Topics this segment include Ed’s experiences playing two other iconic characters: Santa Claus, which he famously did in Elf, and God Almighty, whom Ed has played on at least two occasions (including the critically acclaimed political comedy God Help Us). Ed Asner passed away on Sunday, Aug. 29 at age ninety-one. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 552.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Steve Beverly, recently retired professor of broadcast journalism at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. Besides his extensive background as a TV news professional, Steve has twenty-five years experience doing play-by-play for men’s and women’s college basketball on television, including thirteen years on a national level. Topics this segment include what it takes to make a big call on television, as well as some of the announcers who have inspired Steve, which include Dick Enberg and Ray Scott. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 552.2: Steve Beverly shares a few more memories from his twenty-five-year career calling men’s and women’s basketball games at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee (including thirteen years on a national level), including the importance of keeping the broadcast entertaining, even if that day’s game becomes one-sided. Also in this segment: Steve lets our listeners know what’s on tap in September on Steve Beverly’s TV Classics, the weekly TCM-like festival of classic TV shows that streams every week at EPlusTV6.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 552.3: Ed welcomes Susan Silver, one of the original writers for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and one of the very first female writers to break the glass ceiling in the world of TV comedy. Topics this segment include the integral role that Garry Marshall played in helping Susan make that breakthrough, and the many ways in which her personal story arc resembles that of Mary Richards. Susan’s memoir, Hot Pants in Hollywood: Sex, Secrets and Sitcoms, is available as a print edition through Amazon.com and as an audiobook through Audible.com. Susan’s radio commentary, Susan Says with Susan Silver, is heard on RobinHoodRadio.com and on Apple Podcasts. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 552.4: Author, speaker, and television pioneer Susan Silver talks to Ed about some of her early TV writing credits, which include what would have been a pivotal episode of That Girl; some of her other mentors in television, which include producer George Eckstein; and the unlikely circumstances that resulted in her dating comedian Lenny Bruce one New Year’s Eve night. Susan’s memoir, Hot Pants in Hollywood: Sex, Secrets and Sitcoms, is available as a print edition through Amazon.com and as an audiobook through Audible.com. Susan’s radio commentary, Susan Says with Susan Silver, is heard on RobinHoodRadio.com and on Apple Podcasts. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 552.5: Ed welcomes three-time Emmy Award winner Beau Bridges and his daughter, actress/director Emily Bridges. Beau and Emily are the co-playwrights of Acting: The First Six Lessons, an adaptation of a book by Richard Boleslawski about a dedicated acting teacher who not only teaches an aspiring young actress the craft of acting, but dispels invaluable life lessons to her as well. Originally published in 1933, Acting: The First Six Lessons has held a special place in the Bridges family for three generations. Topics this segment include how Beau and Emily approached adapting the source material into a play (and, later, into a film). For our listeners in Southern California, Beau Bridges and Emily Bridges will perform a staged reading of Acting: The First Six Lessons at Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon, California on Friday, Sept. 17 beginning at 8pm. Seating will be socially distanced; masks will be required as recommended by the CDC and L.A. County on the day of the performance. See Theatricum.com for tickets and more information. Emily Bridges also directed the film version of Acting: The First Six Lessons, which features Beau, her, and other members of the Bridges family discussing the importance of Boleslawski’s book. A screening of Acting: The First Six Lessons will take place on Sunday, Sept. 12 as part of the Burbank Film Festival. Beau and Emily will take part in a Q & A session after the screening. See BurbankFilmFest.org for more information on that event. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 552.6: Beau Bridges and his daughter, actress/director Emily Bridges, talk to Ed about the important role that Theatricum Botanicum has played in both of their performing lives. Beau also answers a few questions about some of his other film, TV, and stage roles, including working with David Janssen on The Fugitive early in his career and his approach to playing such historical figures as Benjamin Franklin and legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden. Beau Bridges and Emily Bridges will perform a staged reading of their play, Acting: The First Six Lessons, at Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon, California on Friday, Sept. 17 beginning at 8pm. Seating will be socially distanced; masks will be required as recommended by the CDC and L.A. County on the day of the performance. See Theatricum.com for tickets and more information. Emily Bridges also directed the film version of Acting: The First Six Lessons, which features Beau, her, and other members of the Bridges family. A screening of Acting: The First Six Lessons will take place on Sunday, Sept. 12 as part of the Burbank Film Festival. Beau and Emily will take part in a Q & A session after the screening. See BurbankFilmFest.org for more information on that event. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 551.1: Steve Beverly, game show historian and professor emeritus of broadcast journalism at Union University (Jackson, TN), joins Ed to discuss the various issues surrounding Sony Pictures Television’s controversial selection of Jeopardy! executive producer Mike Richards as the new permanent host of the popular game show, officially succeeding Alex Trebek (pictured, with Steve). NOTE: Our conversation with Steve was recorded on Friday, Aug. 13. One week later, on Friday, Aug. 20, Richards announced that he would step down as host of Jeopardy! in light of revelations, published Wednesday, Aug. 18, that he had made numerous remarks that demeaned women, Jews, and little people on a podcast he once hosted. Sony Pictures then announced that it would resume the practice of guest hosts on Jeopardy! for the time being. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 551.2: A return appearance by Emmy Award winner Ron Bacon, a true pioneer of network TV production who wore many hats throughout his thirty-five-year career, which spanned more than 12,500 broadcasts, covering just about every type of programming imaginable. Topics this segment include how Ron’s background in filming documentaries for Dick Clark Productions served him well when he made The Kite Song, a thirty-minute dramatic short that Ron wrote, produced, filmed, and directed in 1967. Though made on a shoestring budget, the film was considered avant-garde at the time Ron originally made it, and still holds up today. You can enjoy The Kite Song for free at RonBacon.net. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 551.3: Emmy Award winner Ron Bacon takes Ed behind the scenes of ABC's coverage of the 1984 Summer Olympics, including the many ways in which the production of those Games set the standard for Olympic broadcasts since. Ron won his Emmy for his work on the 1984 Games. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 551.4: Television pioneer Ron Bacon talks to Ed about how ABC came to acquire the rights to the Academy Awards in 1960 (and why that was such a coup for the network at the time); his various responsibilities on a typical Oscarcast (which included editing the three-hour broadcast down to fifty-five minutes, for telecast the next day overseas); and how Vanessa Redgrave’s controversial acceptance speech during the 1978 Oscars caused trouble for Ron after he had completed editing the overseas telecast. You can enjoy Ron’s thirty-minute dramatic short, The Kite Song, for free at RonBacon.net. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 551.5: Ed welcomes actress and director Ellen Geer, daughter of legendary actor Will Geer, and the artistic director of Theatricum Botanicum, the outdoor amphitheatre that Buzz magazine named one of the coolest places in Los Angeles. Founded by Will Geer in 1973, and located in the rustic woods of Topanga Canyon, Theatricum recently resumed outdoor performances after being shuttered last year because of COVID-19, offering a full schedule of theatre, music, and family entertainment every weekend through Sunday, Nov. 7 (including productions of two Shakespeare plays, Julius Caesar and A Midsummer’s Night Dream, and a new play, The Last, Best Small Town by John Guerra), plus a special Friday night salon series, Under the Oaks, every week in September. Seating for all performances will remain socially distanced; masks will be required as recommended by the CDC and L.A. County on the day of each performance. See Theatricum.com for tickets and more information. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 551.6: Ellen Geer, artistic director of Theatricum Botanicum, talks to Ed about playing Sunshine Doré in Harold and Maude (and, years later, Maude in a stage production for Theatricum); working with Patrick Stewart in the “Silicon Avatar” episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation; and playing Sue Ellen’s doctor in the famous two-parter on Dallas that culminated in the birth of John Ross Ewing III. The 2021 summer season of Theatricum Botanicum is under way right now and includes productions of two Shakespeare plays, Julius Caesar and A Midsummer’s Night Dream, and a new play, The Last, Best Small Town by John Guerra, every weekend through Sunday, Nov. 7. Under the Oaks, Theatricum’s annual Friday night salon series, runs from Sept. 3 through Sept. 24 and includes Beau Bridges and his daughter, Emily Bridges, in a staged reading of their play, Acting: The First Six Lessons; an evening of Beatles songs performed by the Theatricum players; and more. Seating for all performances will remain socially distanced, while masks will be required as recommended by the CDC and L.A. County on the day of each performance. See Theatricum.com for tickets and more information. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started:
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TVC 550.1: Mark Dawidziak, television critic and author/editor of more than twenty books on American popular culture, joins Ed, Tony, and Donna for a celebration of Hal Holbrook, the legendary actor who entertained audiences around the world for sixty-three years with for his one-man show, Mark Twain Tonight. Holbrook passed away earlier this year at the age of ninety-five; Mark knew Holbrook personally for more than thirty-five years. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 550.2: Mark Dawidziak joins Ed, Tony, and Donna as we continue our tribute to Emmy Award-winning actor Hal Holbrook. Though best known around the world for his one-man show, Mark Twain Tonight, Holbrook was also an incredibly versatile actor who left his mark in movies and on television, including All The President’s Men (as Deep Throat), Sandburg’s Lincoln (as Abraham Lincoln), Evening Shade, The Senator, Pueblo, Into the Wild, and the groundbreaking made-for-TV movie That Certain Summer. Topics this segment include how Holbrook not only brought Twain alive as a complex artist and insightful social critic, but captured his unique vocal inflections—despite the fact that there are no known recordings of Twain’s voice in existence. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 550.3: Ed welcomes back film and television actor James Moses Black (This is Us, Snowfall, Bayou Caviar, Alex and Me, and Black and Blue. James stars as a U.S. Army colonel who develops super highly intelligent mutant fighting machines in S.O.Z.: Soldados o Zombies, the new post-apocalyptic horror series that is now available for viewing on demand at Amazon Prime. James also has a supporting role in Lansky, the new biopic starring Harvey Keitel as legendary crime boss Meyer Lansky (available now for streaming on demand on all major streaming platforms), while he’ll soon be seen opposite Kristen Bell and Vince Vaughn in Queenpins, which opens in theaters nationwide on Friday, Sept. 10. Topics this segment include the advice that Robert Guillaume gave James when he was a young actor, and how that wisdom has guided James’ choices as an actor ever since. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 550.4: A return visit by actress, author, and philanthropist Ruta Lee, the legendary grande dame of Hollywood who is also one of the hardest-working entertainers in showbiz history. Ruta cultivated both her work ethic and her instincts for business as a result of her immigrant parents. Ruta’s memoir, Consider Your Ass Kissed, is available right now at Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, as well as your local bookseller. Autographed editions of Ruta’s book are now available at the historic Larry Edmunds Bookshop in Hollywood and can be ordered right now at LarryEdmunds.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 550.5: Actress, author, and philanthropist Ruta Lee answers email questions about her work as a voice artist for Hanna-Barbera (including the animated series The Frankenstones); shares a funny story about a mishap that occurred while filming an episode of The Wackiest Ship in the Army; and helps Ed give away a free copy of her memoir, Consider Your Ass Kissed. Autographed editions of Ruta’s book are now available at the historic Larry Edmunds Bookshop in Hollywood and can be ordered right now at LarryEdmunds.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 550.6: Mark Dawidziak joins Ed, Tony, and Donna as we continue our tribute to the life and career of Emmy Award-winning actor Hal Holbrook. The longtime television critic for the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, Mark knew Holbrook personally for more than thirty-five years. Topics this segment include the many ways in which Holbrook found playing Twain to be a cathartic experience. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 549.1: Greg Ehrbar welcomes Emmy nominated and Annie Award-winning writer, director, storyboard artist, and voice actor C.H. Greenblatt (Spongebob Squarepants, Chowder, Harvey Beaks). C.H. is the creator and executive producer of Jellystone!, the new animated series that not only marks the first series starring Yogi Bear in thirty years, but features just about every cartoon character in the Hanna-Barbera, all somehow coexisting in the same universe. While Jellystone! is not a nostalgia show, Greenblatt sees the series as a love letter to the various Hanna-Barbara series that we all grew up watching. Among other topics, he talks to Greg about balancing his desire to pay homage to his favorite H-B characters while also staying true to the show he wanted to make. The first ten episodes of Jellystone! are available for streaming on demand on HBO Max; another ten will be released later in the year. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 549.2: Greg and Ed discuss Warner Bros. Archive’s recent DVD release of Hank (NBC, 1965-1966), the one-season sitcom that had an innovative, if not complicated, premise. Starring Dick Kallman as an enterprising young man with an unquenchable desire to learn, Hank was also one of the first network TV series with a planned series finale. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started:
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TVC 549.3: Part 2 of the conversation that began last week with Marc Cushman about the making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, including the back story of the iconic score composed by Jerry Goldsmith (and why Gene Roddenberry later chose to use it as the theme for Star Trek: The Next Generation). Marc’s latest book, These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s, is a three-volume history of Star Trek/biography of Gene Roddenberry that chronicles the ten-year period spanning the cancellation of the original series in 1969 through the making and release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979. All three volumes are available through Jacobs Brown Media Group and include production reports, ratings, memos written by Gene Roddenberry, vintage press coverage, plus many original interviews by Marc Cushman himself. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 549.4: Ed welcomes actress Louise Sorel, the award-winning actress known around the world as Vivian Alamain on Days of Our Lives and Augusta Lockridge on Santa Barbara. Topics this segment include some of the writing projects that Louise has developed in recent years; her fierce protection of the Vivian character on Days, and how that stemmed from Louise’s background as a stage actress; plus a funny anecdote about her first day of filming “The Survivors,” the episode of The Fugitive in which Louise played Richard Kimble’s sister-in-law. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 549.5: Award-winning actress Louise Sorel talks to Ed about playing Don Rickles’ wife on The Don Rickles Show (the stand-up comedian’s first network TV sitcom); working with Teresa Graves and Harry Guardino in the 90-minute pilot for Get Christie Love!; and the treacherous shoot for “River of No Return,” an episode of The FBI featuring Louise Sorel, Frank Converse, and Henry Darrow that was filmed on location along the Rogue River in southwestern Oregon. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 549.6: With this weekend marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lucille Ball, we played some highlights of our coverage of an event held at the Hollywood Museum in April 2019 that honored the life and career of the legendary Queen of Comedy. Speakers that evening included Kate Luckinbill-Conner, Lucille Ball’s granddaughter. Also in this segment: A conversation with Geoffrey Mark, author of The Lucy Book and host of Geoffrey Marks Plays Ella. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 548.1: A return visit by renowned author, director, and screenwriter Marc Cushman. Marc’s latest book, These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s, is a three-volume history of Star Trek/biography of Gene Roddenberry that chronicles the ten-year period spanning the cancellation of the original series in 1969 through the making and release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979. This week, Mark and Ed specifically discuss Volume 3, which depicts the various battles for control that Roddenberry waged with Paramount Pictures throughout the production of the film. All three volumes of These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s are available through Jacobs Brown Media Group. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 548.2: Star Trek historian and Gene Roddenberry historian Marc Cushman discuss why why production of Star Trek: The Motion Picture began before the script was even finished; why the expensive special effects nearly sank the film; and the brief yet strange furor involving Roddenberry, NBC, and the short-lived sci-fi parody Quark. All three volumes of These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s are available through Jacobs Brown Media Group. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 548.3: Ed welcomes back Laura Niemi of NBC’s This Is Us. Laura currently stars in Pool Boy, a new stage comedy, set in Los Angeles during the 2020 pandemic, about two people who are desperate for human contact after months of isolation. The first site-specific production of The Lost Angels Theatre Company, Pool Boy will be performed outdoors and poolside, in a Covid-friendly atmosphere, from a private home on Mulholland Drive overlooking the Hollywood Hills, on Saturday and Sunday evenings between now and August 22. For tickets and more information, go to LostAngelsTheatre.com or Facebook.com/LostAngelsTheatre. The sixth and final season of This Is Us will premiere on NBC either in late 2021 or early 2022. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 548.4: From August 2012: Ed welcomes actor, author, and screenwriter Lawrence Montaigne (A Vulcan Odyssey, The Guardian List). Known to fans of The Original Series as Decius in “Balance of Terror” and Stonn in “Amok Time,” Lawrence also appeared in twenty-five motion pictures, including The Great Escape with Steve McQueen and James Garner, plus episodes of such classic TV series as The Fugitive, The Rogues, Burke’s Law, Batman, The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Streets of San Francisco, and Dallas. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 548.5: From August 2012: Actor, author, and screenwriter Lawrence Montaigne (A Vulcan Odyssey, The Guardian List) talks to Ed about being cast as Haines in The Great Escape, and how his connection to director Murray Golden led to many opportunities in film and television after production ended five months later. Lawrence Montaigne passed away in March 2017. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 548.6: From August 2012: Actor and author Lawrence Montaigne (A Vulcan Odyssey, The Guardian List) talks to Ed about his adventures as a gold smuggler in Bangkok and Hong Kong; working on various Irwin Allen shows; and reprising the role of the Vulcan Stonn in the web miniseries Star Trek: Of Gods and Men. Lawrence Montaigne passed away in March 2017. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started:
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TVC 547.1: Part 2 of the conversation that began last week with Emmy Award winner Ron Bacon. One of the true pioneers of network television, Ronn spent thirty-five years in network TV production—mostly with ABC, where he wore many hats (including stage manager, associate director, writer, producer, and director) on more than 12,500 broadcasts, covering just about every type of programming available. Topics this segment include the family-like environment that Lawrence Welk created behind the scenes of his popular Saturday night music show. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 547.2: Emmy Award winner Ron Bacon talks to Ed about some of the many game shows on which he worked when he was with ABC, including Let’s Make a Deal, Split Second, Password, Queen for a Day, and Family Feud, as well as some of the mishaps that occurred during production of You Asked for It. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 547.3: Ed welcomes back Michelle Danner, producer and director of The Runner, an action thriller starring Cameron Douglas (son of Michael Douglas), Eric Balfour (24), and newcomer Edouard Philipponnat about a troubled high school student who, after being arrested, finds himself going undercover to help the police bring down a drug kingpin. The Runner will be released in the fall of 2021. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 547.4: Actress, filmmaker, and acting coach Michelle Danner talks to Ed about Bad Impulse, a psychological thriller starring Paul Sorvino and Grant Bowler about a family terrorized by a high-tech technology system (and which also has elements of The Shining). Produced and directed by Michelle Danner, Bad Impulse is available right now on Blu-ray and for viewing on demand on Amazon Prime and all other streaming platforms. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 547.5: Ed discusses the release of Code 3: The Complete Series (Synd., 1956-1957), the Dragnet-like series produced by Ben Fox and Hal Roach Studios, now available on DVD and streaming on demand for the first time through MPI Media Group. Based on actual case files from the search and rescue branch of the Los Angeles Police Department, Code 3 starred Richard Travis, Denver Pyle, and Fredd Wayne, while then-real life L.A. Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz appeared at the end of most episodes. Guest stars include Dick Sargent, William Schallert, DeForest Kelley, Russell Johnson, Claude Akins, Mike Connors and many other familiar faces. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 547.6: Ed welcomes Jenna Frisby, Emmy nominated producer and journalist, and owner and operator of The William Windom Tribute Site, the most complete source of information on the Internet about the life and career of one of the most versatile and prolific actors in the history of television. Topics this segment include the series of documentaries about William Windom that Jenna is presently developing. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 547.7: Emmy Award winner Ron Bacon talks to Ed about some of the many comedians that he either worked with or knew personally during his production career at ABC, including why it was both fun and dangerous to work with Ernie Kovacs. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 546.1: Part 2 of the conversation that began last week with Howard Storm and Steve Stoliar, co-authors of The Imperfect Storm: From Henry Street to Hollywood, the story of Howard’s fifty-year career as a stand-up comedian, actor, and film and TV director (including nearly sixty episodes of Mork & Mindy). Topics this segment include Howard’s experience performing improve with The Committee; some of the many comedians who influenced Howard as a performer; and the upcoming documentary about Howard’s career, Eye of the Storm. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 546.2: Ed welcomes Suzanne de Laurentiis, host of Suzanne’s Saturday Night Scares, a fun, new homage to drive-in-type horror movies from the early 1970s that you can now enjoy on demand on Apple TV and Amazon Prime. Shot on location in an historic haunted mansion, Suzanne’s Saturday Night Scares, in many respects, will remind you of the various late night Creature Features-type shows that we all enjoyed on local television back in the day. The first episode of Suzanne’s Saturday Night Scares features Sisters of Death (the 1976 movie starring Claudia Jennings that is considered the blueprint of sorority horror movies), plus an original interview with Morgan Fairchild; the second episode features the 1973 thriller Messiah of Evil, plus a brand new interview with Lara Parker. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 546.3: From August 2011: Ed welcomes James Christie, author of You're The Director, You Figure It Out: The Life and Films of Richard Donner, a comprehensive biography and filmography that includes a detailed look at Donner’s early career as a director of episodic television and made-for-TV movies. Topics this segment include why Donner particularly enjoyed directing such shows as The Wild, Wild West and The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and how the title of James’ book stems from a comment that Steve McQueen once made to Donner during production of an episode of Wanted: Dead or Alive. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 546.4: Ed welcomes Emmy Award winner Ron Bacon. Ron spent thirty-five years in network TV production—mostly with ABC, where he wore many hats (including stage manager, associate director, writer, producer, and director) on more than 12,500 broadcasts, covering just about every type of programming available, including such variety shows as The Lawrence Welk Show, The Frank Sinatra Show, The Hollywood Palace, The Jonathan Winters Show, and Shindig; live events, such as the Academy Awards and Emmy Awards broadcasts; the now-iconic specials that Ernie Kovacs did for ABC just before his death in 1962; sporting events, such as the 1984 Summer Olympics (for which Ron won an Emmy); and many of the game shows produced by Chuck Barris, Monty Hall, and Goodson-Todman. The story of how Ron broke into television is a classic example of how persistence and networking, coupled with the right opportunity, can help you land the right job. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 546.5: Emmy Award winner Ron Bacon shares a few memories about his thirty-five year career in network TV production, which began in the days of live television and included more than 12,500 broadcasts, covering just about every type of programming available, including such variety shows as The Lawrence Welk Show, The Frank Sinatra Show, The Hollywood Palace, and The Jonathan Winters Show. Topics this segment how Sinatra brought a “loose” approach to television, whether he was starring in his own series or appearing in an ABC special. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 546.6: From August 2011: Ed welcomes James Christie, author of You're The Director, You Figure It Out: The Life and Films of Richard Donner, a comprehensive biography and filmography that includes a detailed look at Donner’s early career as a director of episodic television. Topics this segment include Donner’s insight into the 99 character on Get Smart, and how he understood Sherwood Schwartz’s underlying concept for Gilligan’s Island like few others. Richard Donner passed away on Monday, July 5 at age 91. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 546.7: From August 2011: James Christie, author of You're The Director, You Figure It Out: The Life and Films of Richard Donner, takes us behind the scenes of the making of Superman, the 1978 movie directed by Richard Donner that created the modern-day blockbuster superhero motion picture genre. Topics include how Donner saw Superman as a story about what it meant to be an immigrant in America, and the occasional clashes that he had with producers Alexander Salkind and Ilya Salkind during production of the film. Richard Donner passed away on Monday, July 5 at age 91. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 545.1: Part 2 of the conversation that began on our last program with Emmy Award-nominated comedy writer Jim Abell (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Love, American Style), including a look at some of the many cultural references that originated from Laugh-In. Jim also discusses how he came to write material for Ann-Margret, Cass Elliot, The Doobie Brothers, and Los Angeles radio and TV personalities Al Lohman and Roger Barkley. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 545.2: Emmy nominated comedy writer Jim Abell (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Love, American Style) talks to Ed, Tony, and Donna about writing a sketch for Carol Burnett for The Lohman and Barkley, as well as how Laugh-In executive producer George Schlatter recruited Allan Katz and Jack Douglas to write for the show. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 545.3: Greg Ehrbar provides a capsule history of DePatie-Freleng Productions and the Pink Panther cartoon series as part of a discussion of The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection, a six-volume Blu-ray release from Kino Lorber. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 545.4: Greg and Ed discuss how the Pink Panther cartoons stemmed from the opening title sequence of the original Pink Panther movie from 1963, and the great degree to which they influenced many other cartoon series over the past fifty years. All six volumes of The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection are available on Blu-ray release from Kino Lorber, both as individual releases and as a six-volume box set. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 545.5: A return visit by Howard Storm and Steve Stoliar, co-authors of The Imperfect Storm: From Henry Street to Hollywood, the story of Howard’s career as a stand-up comedian, actor, improv performer (with The Committee), and film and TV director. Topics this segment include Howard’s stint as a member of The Desilu Players, where he worked closely with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz and learned his craft along with such other young actors as Robert Osbourne and Roger Perry. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 545.6: Actor, comedian, and director Howard Storm talks to Ed about the career of Lenny Bruce; how long it takes for most comedians to hone their stand-up act; and the nightclub scene in San Francisco in the 1960s, where Howard developed a following while performing in such venues as The Playboy Club and The hungry i. Steve Stoliar, Howard’s collaborator on The Imperfect Storm: From Henry Street to Hollywood, co-hosts. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 545.7: Actor, comedian, and director Howard Storm talks about the time when The Committee performed at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas as the opening act for Blood, Sweat & Tears. Steve Stoliar, Howard’s collaborator on The Imperfect Storm: From Henry Street to Hollywood, co-hosts. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From August 2011: Ed welcomes James Christie, author of You're The Director, You Figure It Out: The Life and Films of Richard Donner, a comprehensive biography that discusses Donner's work in feature motion pictures, episodic television, and made-for-TV movies. Topics this segment include the sly bit of activism that Donner worked into Sarah T.: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic, the TV-movie that he directed in 1975, as well as how he convinced Gregory Peck to play the lead role in The Omen. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A encore presentation of our May 2016 tribute to William Schallert, the amiable, reliable character actor known to Baby Boomers for playing Patty Duke’s dad, Nancy Drew’s dad, Gidget’s dad, Dobie Gillis’ teacher, the Admiral on Get Smart, plus a host of other roles in various movies and TV series. Topics this segment include Bill’s background in music, which he was able to implement in some of his acting roles, including “The Strange Journey of Jenny Hill,” a notable episode of Maverick that originally aired in 1959. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A encore presentation of our May 2016 tribute to William Schallert, the beloved television favorite who was born this weekend in 1923. Topics this segment include a discussion of Bill’s early career with The Circle Theatre, a stage company in Los Angeles whose members also included Mabel Albertson, Kathleen Freeman, Strother Martin, and Danny Arnold. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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A encore presentation of our May 2016 tribute to beloved television actor William Schallert, featuring highlights from Bill’s previous appearances on TV Confidential. In this segment, Bill discusses being directed by Charlie Chaplin in a stage production of Rain, as well as some of his credits from 1959—a year that saw Bill work in fifty-seven different TV shows, including Dobie Gillis, Gunsmoke, and Philip Marlowe. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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A encore presentation of our May 2016 tribute to beloved television actor William Schallert, featuring highlights from Bill’s previous appearances on TV Confidential. In this segment, Bill talks to Ed about playing The Admiral on Get Smart; filling in for Ross Martin on The Wild, Wild West; his lead role in The Man from Planet X; and his two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild during the mid to late 1970s. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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A encore presentation of our May 2016 tribute to beloved television actor William Schallert, featuring highlights from Bill’s previous appearances on TV Confidential. In this segment, Bill talks about working with Elvis Presley in Speedway; with Walter Matthau in both Lonely are the Brave and Charley Varrick; and the role that Kirk Douglas played in ending the Hollywood Blacklist by ensuring that Dalton Trumbo received screen credit for writing the screenplay for Spartacus. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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From May 2016: Greg Ehrbar reviews The Matchless Gene Rayburn, a comprehensive biography of game show legend Gene Rayburn (Match Game). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From January 2013: Bob Leszczak, author of Single Season Sitcoms, 1948-1979: A Complete Guide, talks to Ed about My World... and Welcome to It, the Emmy Award-winning, critically acclaimed avant garde sitcom starring William Windom that likely wasn't renewed for a second season because the show's animated sequences, which were produced by DePatie-Freleng, were too expensive. Other topics this segment include how Prime of Life, a proposed series produced by Monty Hall that would've starred Windom, morphed into The McLean Stevenson Show because of a network decision. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 499.7: From June 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember The Bicentennial Minutes (CBS, 1974-1976), a series of one-minute educational television segments, produced by CBS News, that aired in prime time (usually at the end of the 8pm hour) to commemorate the bicentennial of the American Revolution. The series premiered on July 4, 1974 and was originally scheduled to end on July 4, 1976, but continued until Dec. 31, 1976. First Lady Betty Ford delivered the Minute on July 4, 1976, while President Gerald Ford delivered the final Minute on Dec. 31 of that year. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
First hour: Bob Leszczak, author of Single Season Sitcoms, 1948-1979: A Complete Guide, provides Ed with the back story of The Paul Lynde Show, The Nancy Walker Show, Headmaster, My World and Welcome to It, The McLean Stevenson Show and other comedy series that, for one reason or another, lasted less than one season. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From January 2013: Bob Leszczak, author of Single Season Sitcoms, 1948-1979: A Complete Guide, provides some background details about The Good Life, A Year at the Top, Ichabod and Me and other comedy series that, for one reason or another, lasted less than one season. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 544.1: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome Emmy nominated comedy writer Jim Abell. Jim spent three years as a staff writer for Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In (NBC, 1968-1973), while his other credits include Lily Tomlin’s second comedy album, And That’s the Truth, plus many of the blackout sketches on Love, American Style. Topics this segment include the clever ways in which Laugh-In circumvented the network censors every week, plus the story of how Jim began his journey in TV after receiving encouragement from actor/comedian Harvey Korman. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 544.2: Emmy nominated comedy writer Jim Abell shares a few more stories about writing for Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In and Love, American Style, including how he and his writing partner, Chet Dowling, often found inspiration from the tombstones of the great comedians who lay in repose at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Burbank, California. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 544.3: An encore presentation of our March 2019 conversation with Will Ryan, Nick Santa Maria and Michael Schlesinger. Will and Ryan are the stars, and Mike is the writer, producer and director, of The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster—the Rondo Award-nominated DVD collection of 1930s-style comedies that pay homage to The Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy and other vintage comedy teams from the Golden Era of Hollywood. The Biffle and Shooster shorts were filmed over a five-year period in the early 2010s, yet they look and sound as if they were actually unearthed from the 1930s. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 544.4: From March 2019: Will Ryan, Nick Santa Maria and Michael Schlesinger of The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster talk to Ed and Greg Ehrbar about why the humor of the Biffle and Shooster shorts is timeless and appeals to all age groups. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 544.5: From March 2019: Will Ryan, Nick Santa Maria and Michael Schlesinger talk to Ed and Greg Ehrbar about the various comic inspirations for the Biffle and Shooster shorts, which include Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, The Ritz Brothers, and even the obscure comedy team of Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo. The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster is available now on DVD. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 544.6: Award-winning ad writer and columnist Michael Shevack shares the back story of the spot for which he is best known: The iconic slogan for Gillette razors, “Gillette, the best a man can get.” Michael’s books include Soul Lessons from The Wizard of Oz: How to Find Your Yellow Brick Road and The Six Fix: Spiritual Healthcare for a Stronger America. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From August 2011: Ed and Tony welcome Edgar Award-nominated writer, producer and novelist Lee Goldberg (Diagnosis Murder, Monk, Psych, Hunter, Spenser: For Hire, Successful Television Writing). Topics this segment include what not to do when writing a spec script for a particular TV series, and why writing episodic television in general is like being a carpenter for hire. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From August 2011: Ed and Tony welcome Edgar Award-nominated writer, producer and novelist Lee Goldberg (Diagnosis Murder, Monk, Psych, Hunter, Spenser: For Hire, Lost Hills, Bone Canyon, Successful Television Writing). Topics this segment include how Lee and his longtime writing partner, William Rabkin, worked together when they wrote and produced television, and why Act I of any given script is always the hardest to write. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From August 2011: Ed and Tony welcome Edgar Award-nominated writer, producer and novelist Lee Goldberg (Diagnosis Murder, Monk, Psych, Hunter, Spenser: For Hire, Lost Hills, Bone Canyon, Successful Television Writing). Topics this segment include why, once a pilot is sold, the networks become very protective of what they call "the franchise" of the series--that is, the show's contract with the audience to deliver the same type of stories for that show every week. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 543.1: A return appearance by Alexis Hunter, author of Joi Lansing: A Body to Die For, a memoir of Alexis’ life with singer/actress Joi Lansing, which began in 1969 and continued until Joi’s death from breast cancer in August 1972. Alexis’ book is a love story that also serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers of silicon enhancements. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 543.2: From June 2011: Film and television historian Douglas Brode (Shooting Stars of the Small Screen) joins Ed for a tribute to James Arness and the legacy of Gunsmoke (CBS, 1975-1975). Topics this segment include why Gunsmoke expanded to an hour in 1961 after six seasons as a half-hour show, and why Arness was essential to the success and longevity of the series. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 543.2a: From August 2020: Amy Stoch (Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Dallas) shares a few memories of working with James Arness on the Gunsmoke reunion movies. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 543.3: Greg and Ed discuss Little Fugitive, the remarkable film by Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin that many believe inspired the French New Wave movement of the 1950s. Little Fugitive: The Collected Films of Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin is available on Blu-ray through Kino Lorber. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 543.4: Greg and Ed discuss Lovers and Lollilops, Weddings and Babies, and I Need a Ride to California, all of which are included in Little Fugitive: The Collected Films of Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin, available on Blu-ray through Kino Lorber. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 543.5: Ed welcomes actress, comedienne, and voice artist Laraine Newman, one of the original Not Ready for Prime Time Players on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Laraine’s new audio memoir, May You Live in Interesting Times, not only takes you backstage of the first five years of Saturday Night Live, but gives you a glimpse of the people behind the personalities of SNL, including the writers, musicians, producers, guest stars and, of course, her fellow cast mates. Topics this segment include how Laraine really hit her stride as a performer once she became a voice artist. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 543.6: Laraine Newman talks to Ed about working with such voice actors as Rob Paulsen, Tom Kenny, and Mary Elizabeth McGwinn, plus she shares a poignant story about a chance encounter with screen legend Fred Astaire. Laraine’s audio memoir, May You Live in Interesting Times, is available now through Audible.com/larainenewman. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 543.6a: Laraine Newman talks to Ed about providing the voice of Peaches, the space monkey, in Ridley Jones, the new animated series by Chris Nee (Doc McStuffins). Ridley Jones premieres Tuesday, July 13 on the Netflix Jr. YouTube channel. Laraine’s audio memoir, May You Live in Interesting Times, is available now through Audible.com/larainenewman. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember of the birthday of Roger Ebert on June 19, 1942. Ebert, along with Gene Siskel, made it cool to be a critic. Want to advertise/sponsor our show?
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From June 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember of the birthday of Roger Ebert on June 19, 1942. Topics this segment include how Siskel and Ebert brought attention to many independent films that the public otherwise would not have known about, as well as how many movies were a lot better than their trailers. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss how television covered the O.J. Simpson murder case in 1994-1995, and particularly how it impacted day-to-day life in Los Angeles as various events unfolded. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss how both local and network television news covered O.J. Simpson's flight from the law on June 17, 1994 and the ensuing events leading up to Simpson's murder trial. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss how comedians and late night TV hosts covered the events of the O.J. Simpson case in 1994-1995. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the death of actor George Reeves on June 16, 1959, how it impacted Baby Boomers growing up at the time and how the rumors surrounding his demise may have led to the concept of conspiracy theories. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss how the print media covered the news of the death of actor George Reeves on June 16, 1959, Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 543.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with actress, author, songwriter, composer, filmmaker, and reverend Alison Mills Newman (The Tree Widow). After performing on stage as a teenager with the American Theater of Being, one of the first L.A.-based showcases for African-American actors, Alison made her network television debut in 1965 on an episode of Mr. Novak. That opened the door to other TV opportunities, including regular roles on the groundbreaking NBC series Julia starring Diahann Carroll and the CBS variety series The Leslie Uggams Show. Topics this segment include how Alison landed the role of Carol, Corey Baker’s babysitter, on Julia; her bond with Diahann Carroll; and why she left the series. Chuck Harter, who arranged Alison’s appearance this week, co-hosts. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 543.2: Alison Mills Newman discusses her journey as a musical artist, including the eight-minute short Spirit Song (which features some of her original songs), performing with legendary jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, and the spiritual awakening that changed her life. Chuck Harter co-hosts. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 543.3: Actress, author, songwriter, composer, filmmaker, and reverend Alison Mills Newman discusses the circumstances that led to her record deal with Herb Alpert and A&M Records, plus the latest developments with The Tree Widow, a series of faith-based films that Alison wrote, produced and directed about a charismatic woman who helps young women make better choices in their lives. Chuck Harter, who arranged Alison’s appearance this week, co-hosts. See LilaLeedsBook.com for information and updates about his latest project. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 543.4: Ed welcomes Joseph Wallenstein, award-winning writer, producer, and director for film and television, and the director of physical production at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Joe’s latest book, Flynn and Miranda: Your Right to Remain Silent, is a historical novel that not only tells the back story of the historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling Miranda v. Arizona from June 1966, but puts a human face on the people involved—particularly, John Flynn, the real-life defense lawyer from Phoenix, Arizona who not only argued the Miranda case before the U.S. Supreme Court at great personal cost, but in so doing created a legal precedent, the right to fairness, that changed the lives of all Americans. June 13, 2021 marked the 55th anniversary of the Miranda decision. Topics this segment include what first drove Joe’s interest in the Miranda case, and how the Supreme Court ruling helped shape the U.S. Code of Criminal Procedure as we know it today. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 543.5: Joseph Wallenstein, author of Flynn and Miranda: Your Right to Remain Silent, discusses how the Miranda case addresses both Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment issues. He also shares a few stories about his career in television, including working with Julie Harris and producer Michael Filerman on Knots Landing, and with Oscar winner Jessica Tandy on the award-winning TV-movie The Story Lady. Flynn and Miranda: Your Right to Remain Silent is a historical novel that not only tells the back story of the historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling Miranda v. Arizona from June 1966, but explores how the outcome of the case had a ruinous effect on attorney John Flynn. Joe’s book also includes the original U.S. Supreme Court petition that Flynn filed in July 1965, plus the transcript of a detailed interview that Flynn gave to Joe in September 1979 (just a few months before Flynn died). June 13, 2021 marked the 55th anniversary of the Miranda decision. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2012: Ed welcomes David Misch, writer and producer for such shows as Mork & Mindy, Saturday Night Live, Late Night with David Letterman, and Police Squad! David's book Funny: The Book: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Comedy, is an entertaining look at the art of comedy from every conceivable angle: historical, musical, psychological, philosophical and everything in between. Topics this segment include a look at the comedic styles of George Carlin, Richard Pryor, and Redd Foxx; the genius of Buster Keaton; and why all comedians themselves come from a mythical character known as Trickster. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2011: Film and television historian Douglas Brode (Shooting Stars of the Small Screen) joins Ed for a tribute to James Arness and the legacy of Gunsmoke (CBS, 1975-1975). Topics this segment include how series creator Charles Marquis Warren originally sought to capture the essence of High Noon every week, and how the tone of Gunsmoke took on a more family-friendly, Andy Griffith Show-like vibe once the series moved to Monday nights in 1967. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2011: Film and television historian Douglas Brode (Shooting Stars of the Small Screen) joins Ed for a look at the legacy of Gunsmoke. Topics this segment include how Gunsmoke changed in another fundamental way once the series expanded to an hour in 1961. Whereas the half-hour episodes focused primarily on Matt Dillon and the other core residents of Dodge City, the hour-long episodes focused mostly on the guest stars, such that Gunsmoke essentially became an anthology series with several running characters. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sunday, June 6, 2021 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the final broadcast of The Ed Sullivan Show, a Sunday night tradition on CBS television for twenty-three years. With that in mind, we take you back to June 2011, when Tony, Donna and Ed remember the premiere of The Ed Sullivan Show, then known as Toast of the Town, on June 20, 1948. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the death of George Carlin on June 22, 2008. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 541.1: Mark Dawidziak, longtime TV critic for the Cleveland Plain-Dealer and author of The Columbo Phile and many other books on American pop culture, joins Tony, Donna, and Ed for a roundtable discussion about Norman Lloyd, the legendary actor, producer, and director who passed away Tuesday, May 11 at age 106. Lloyd’s career not only spanned the history of 20th century entertainment, but encompassed the world of movies, television, radio, stage, and streaming. Topics this segment include the turbulence behind the scenes of “Lady in Waiting,” the episode of Columbo that Norman Lloyd directed in the summer of 1971, during the height of Peter Falk’s contractual dispute with Universal Television. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 541.2: Tony, Donna, and Ed continue their discussion with Mark Dawidziak about the life and career of Norman Lloyd. Topics this segment include how Lloyd’s many contributions to both Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as producer and director (including the classic episodes “Man from the South” and “The Jar”); why Lloyd was among the leading interpreter of the works of Ray Bradbury; the innate curiosity Lloyd shared with both John Houseman and Orson Welles; and how, in many respects, what really made Lloyd stand out as an artist was his extraordinary versatility. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 541.3: Tony, Donna, and Ed continue their discussion with Mark Dawidziak about the life of Norman Lloyd. Topics this segment included how the Red Scare of the early 1950s impacted Lloyd’s career. Norman Lloyd passed away Tuesday, May 11 at age 106. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 541.4: Geoff Littlefield joins us for Part 2 of our celebration of the centennial birthday of Nelson Riddle. Topics this segment include Riddle’s collaborations in the early 1980s with Linda Ronstadt—a platinum-selling trilogy of albums of American pop standards that, in many respects, was the coda of Riddle’s illustrious career. Geoff’s latest book, Nelson Riddle: Music with a Heartbeat, was written with the consent of the Nelson Riddle estate and includes first-hand accounts from three of Riddle’s children, including Christopher Riddle (current leader of the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, and the only Riddle offspring to become a professional musician), Rosemary Acerra, and Nelson Riddle III; a detailed discography; never before published photographs; and more. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 541.5: Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter welcome actress, filmmaker, songwriter, and minister Alison Mills Newman (Julia, The Leslie Uggams Show, Francisco). Alison’s latest project, The Tree Widow, is a series of faith-based films about a charismatic woman who helps young people (and, particularly, young women) make better choices in their lives. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 541.6: Alison Mills Newman discusses her early stage performances with the American Theater of Being, one of the first prominent L.A.-based stage companies to showcase African-American actors, and how that paved the way for her network TV debut in 1965, opposite James Franciscus and Lois Nettleton, in a well-received episode of Mr. Novak that opened the door to other opportunities in television. Chuck Harter, who arranged Alison’s appearance this week, co-hosts. Alison is the writer, director, producer, and star of The Tree Widow, a series of faith-based films that is available for viewing on YouTube. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the final broadcast of The Oprah Winfrey Show, which occurred during This Week in TV History. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2012: Ed welcomes David Misch, writer and producer for such shows as Mork & Mindy, Saturday Night Live, Late Night with David Letterman, and Police Squad! David's book Funny: The Book: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Comedy, is an entertaining look at the art of comedy from every conceivable angle: historical, musical, psychological, philosophical and everything in between. Topics this segment include why Leslie Nielsen excelled at playing deadpan comedy in Police Squad! and Airplane! and why some people know how to tell a joke and some do not. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2012: Ed welcomes David Misch, writer and producer for such shows as Mork & Mindy, Saturday Night Live, Late Night with David Letterman, and Police Squad! David's book Funny: The Book: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Comedy, is an entertaining look at the art of comedy from conceivable angle: historical, musical, psychological, philosophical and everything in between. Topics this segment include why ducks are funny animals and why fart jokes have always been funny. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 540.1: Ed welcomes Geoffrey Littlefield, author of Nelson Riddle: Music with a Heartbeat, a cradle to grave look at the complex, but often forlorn genius who was one of the chef architects of the Great American Songbook. Known for his many collaborations with Frank Sinatra, as well as such other music greats as Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, and Linda Ronstadt, Riddle had a tremendous influence on American popular music and the movie and TV soundtracks of our lives. Topics this segment include Riddle’s peculiar relationship with Sinatra, as well as his early work with Doris Day, Nat King Cole, and the Les Baxter orchestra. Tuesday, June 1, 2021 marks the centennial birthday of Nelson Riddle. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 540.2: Geoffrey Littlefield, author of Nelson Riddle: Music with a Heartbeat, talks to Ed about Riddle’s work during the golden era of movies and television, including the themes to Route 66 and The Blue Knight and the score for the 1966 Batman movie. Written with the consent of the Nelson Riddle estate, Nelson Riddle: Music with a Heartbeat includes first-hand accounts from three of Riddle’s children, including Christopher Riddle (current leader of the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, and the only Riddle offspring to become a professional musician), Rosemary Acerra, and Nelson Riddle III; a detailed discography; never before published photographs; and more. Tuesday, June 1, 2021 marks the centennial birthday of Nelson Riddle. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 540.3: Ed welcomes bestselling author and nationally known advertising writer Michael Shevack. Michael’s latest book, Soul Lessons from The Wizard of Oz: How to Follow Your Yellow Brick Road, makes the case that The Wizard of Oz is not just a great story, but a pathway to profound spiritual lessons that can help us move away from the dull, flat black-and-white existence that can hold us back and discover the vibrant, Technicolor, spiritually open “Oz state” that leads to our True Self. Soul Lessons from The Wizard of Oz will change the way you look at The Wizard of Oz while also, maybe, changing the course of your life. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 540.4: An encore presentation of December 2012 conversation with Charles Grodin, the actor known around the world for his appearances in such films as Rosemary's Baby, Catch-22, Midnight Run, The Heartbreak Kid, Seems Like Old Times, and the Beethoven movies, as well as his popular CNBC talk show, his daily commentaries for CBS Radio, and his numerous appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, The Late Show with David Letterman, and other late-night talk shows. At the time he appeared on our program, Charles had just released The Perils of Show Business: Proceed at Your Own Risk, an informative and entertaining DVD that offers hands-on, straight-shooting, real world advice about acting schools, the audition process, the world of agents, and many other things that one must know when considering a career in show business. That DVD is still available from Amazon, while proceeds from all of Grodin’s earnings from the sales of The Perils of Show Business will be donated to The Lend a Hand Foundation, a nonprofit organization that Charles started to help people in need who are not covered by any other organization. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 540.5: From December 2012: Charles Grodin talks to Ed about why Lee Strasberg, by his own admission, was a better teacher than actor; what makes a good talk show host and a good radio commentator; and Grodin’s own approach to acting, which includes listening, responding, and the ability to personalize the journey of whatever character he plays. At the time he appeared on our program, Charles had just released The Perils of Show Business: Proceed at Your Own Risk, an informative and entertaining DVD that is still available from Amazon. All of Grodin’s earnings from the sales of The Perils of Show Business will be donated to The Lend a Hand Foundation, a nonprofit organization that Charles started to help people in need who are not covered by any other organization. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 540.6: From December 2012: Charles Grodin talks more about his “personalization” approach to acting, as well as how some of the choices he made in selecting roles changed over the years. He also shares a few poignant memories of his friendship with Johnny Carson. Charles Grodin passed away on May 18 at age eighty-six. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 452.1: Ed welcomes Torchy Smith, host of Baby Boomers Talk Radio and author of Shooting the Breeze with Baby Boomer Stars: Surprising Celebrity Conversations for the Retro Generation, a collection of fifty first-hand accounts of such Baby Boomer celebrities as Jerry Mathers, Bill Mumy, Cubby O'Brien, Stephen Furst, Judy Norton, Cindy Williams, Clint Howard, Celeste Yarnall, Angela Cartwright, George Wyner, and Kathryn Leigh Scott. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 452.2: Part 2 of Greg Ehrbar’s interview with author and TV historian Herbie J Pilato, author of Twitch Upon a Star: The Bewitching Life and Career of Elizabeth Montgomery and Mary: The Mary Tyler Moore Story, the first objective cradle-to-grave biography of the star of The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 452.2a: The conclusion of Greg Ehrbar’s interview with Herbie J Pilato, author of Twitch Upon a Star: The Bewitching Life and Career of Elizabeth Montgomery and Mary: The Mary Tyler Moore Story. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 452.3: Ed welcomes Kevin Hamiliton and Ned O’Gorman, co-authors of Lookout America: The Secret Hollywood Studio at the Heart of the Cold War, the inside story of Lookout Mountain Laboratory—a secret motion picture studio, run by the U.S. Government, that was officially known as 1352nd Photographic Group of the United States Air Force. Lookout Mountain Laboratory not only recruited the services of such Hollywood luminaries as John Ford, James Stewart, Susan Hayward, and Marilyn Monroe, but shaped public opinion of the Cold War and much of our political culture today. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 452.4: Kevin Hamiliton and Ned O’Gorman, co-authors of Lookout America: The Secret Hollywood Studio at the Heart of the Cold War, discuss how Oscar-winning actor and U.S. Air Force reserve brigadier general James Stewart lent gravitas to the efforts of Lookout Mountain Laboratory and the subtle connection between the secret Hollywood studio and the Hitchcock classic Rear Window. A rollicking story that depicts an unlikely mix of Hollywood artists, nuclear scientists, and military movers, Lookout America includes hundreds of breathtaking photographs, plus easy-to-follow charts, graphs, timelines, side bars, screen grabs, and a ton of information. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 452.5: Torchy Smith, host of Baby Boomers Talk Radio and author of Shooting the Breeze with Baby Boomer Stars: Surprising Celebrity Conversations for the Retro Generation, shares some insight into his approach to interviewing such Baby Boomer celebrities as Bill Mumy, Stephen Furst, George Wyner, and Angela Cartwright, plus he reveals the secret behind his famous first name. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2013: Bob Mills, former staff writer for The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts and longtime writer for comedian Bob Hope, joins Ed in the studio for a conversation that originally aired on June 26, 2013---but which was actually recorded on May 29, 2013, the day that would have marked Bob Hope's 110th birthday. Topics this segment include why Hope particularly thrived during the era of variety television. Bob Mills' book, The Laugh Makers, not only provides great insight into Bob Hope (the comic and the person), but takes you behind the series of the final decade of the network TV variety show, while also paying tribute to the “gag men” and “gag women” who made it happen. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2013: Bob Mills, longtime writer for comedian Bob Hope and author of The Laugh Makers, joins Ed in the studio for a conversation that was recorded on May 29, 2013, the day that would have marked Bob Hope's 110th birthday. Topics this segment include how Bob wrote for Hope's stage act as well as for his TV specials, and how Hope managed to joke about political figures without ever identifying himself as left or right. The Laugh Makers not only provides great insight into Bob Hope (the comic and the person), but takes you behind the series of the final decade of the network TV variety show, while also paying tribute to the “gag men” and “gag women” who made it happen. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2013: Bob Mills, longtime writer for comedian Bob Hope and author of The Laugh Makers, joins Ed in the studio for a conversation that was recorded on May 29, 2013, the day that would have marked Bob Hope's 110th birthday. In this segment Bob gives Ed and the listeners insight into how Hope's writers put together a typical monologue for his various TV specials. The Laugh Makers not only provides great insight into Bob Hope (the comic and the person), but takes you behind the series of the final decade of the network TV variety show, while also paying tribute to the “gag men” and “gag women” who made it happen Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2013: Bob Mills, longtime writer for comedian Bob Hope and author of The Laugh Makers, joins Ed in the studio for a conversation that was recorded on May 29, 2013, the day that would have marked Bob Hope's 110th birthday. In this segment Bob talks about the final years of Bob's television career. The Laugh Makers not only provides great insight into Bob Hope (the comic and the person), but takes you behind the series of the final decade of the network TV variety show, while also paying tribute to the “gag men” and “gag women” who made it happen Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 539.1: From May 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember Small Talk, the first Our Gang comedy produced with sound (original release date: Apr. 18, 1929) and Dancing Romeo, the very last Our Gang comedy produced (original release date: Apr. 29, 1944). Want to advertise/sponsor our show?
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TVC 539.2: Greg and Ed discuss the ClassicFlix DVD release of Public Defender, starring Reed Hadley. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 539.3: Greg and Ed discuss the MPI Video complete series DVD release of Man with a Camera, the only weekly network television series starring Charles Bronson. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 539.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began earlier this month with Martha Bolton, the first and only female staff writer that Bob Hope ever hired, and the co-author, along by Linda Hope, Bob Hope’s daughter, of Dear Bob: Bob Hope's Wartime Correspondence with the G.I.s of World War II, a collection of just a few of thousands of letters, postcards, and packages that Bob Hope every day from our fighting men and women of World War II that is as close as to a replica of Bob Hope’s personal scrapbook as you can possibly get. Topics this segment include the importance that Hope always placed on his monologues, and how Hope was fearless as a performer in more ways than one. For more about Dear Bob, see BobHope.org/dearbobmore. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 539.5: Iconic producer Marty Krofft of Sid & Marty Krofft Productions joins Ed and Greg Ehrbar for a tribute to Billie Hayes, the actress who was an integral part of many of the Saturday morning Krofft shows of the late ’60s and 1970s (including, most notably, as Witchiepoo on H.R. Pufnstuf and Weenie the Genie on Lidsville). Billie Hayes passed away on this past Thursday, Apr. 29 at age ninety-six. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 539.6: Greg Ehrbar on why the manic energy that Billie Hayes brough to her performance as Witchiepoo on H.R. Pufnstuf not only was vital to the success of H.R. Pufnstuf, but laid the groundwork for such other memorable Krofft comic villains as Hoo Doo on Lidsville and Benita Bizarre on The Bugaloos. Billie Hayes passed away on this past Thursday, Apr. 29 at age ninety-six. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jim Rosin, author of The Streets of San Francisco: A Quinn Martin TV Series, and actor Gary Lockwood, a frequent guest star on QM shows, share a few thoughts on the legacy of Quinn Martin. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From July 2013: Ed welcomes Charlie Barrett, longtime publicist for Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon. Prior to launching his own PR and marketing firm, The Barrett Company, Charlie was one of the top publicists at NBC throughout the 1980s, where he was charge of media relations for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. In this segment, Charlie discusses how Carson often discussed the monologue with him every night after the taping, and how Carson was particularly interested in whatever feedback may have come from the media. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From July 2013: Former NBC publicist Charlie Barrett shares a few memories of working with Johnny Carson, Ed McMahon, and Robert Stack. Prior to launching his own PR and marketing firm, The Barrett Company, Charlie was one of the top publicists at NBC throughout the 1980s, where he was charge of media relations of such shows as The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Unsolved Mysteries. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 538.1: Tony, Donna, and Ed celebrate the life and career of Ken Osmond, the actor known around the world as Eddie Haskell on Leave It to Beaver. Osmond passed away one year ago during This Week in TV History. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 538.2: Ed welcomes acclaimed singer/songwriter Severin Browne, the first white folk/country-type singer signed by Motown Records, and a popular guest at many singer-songwriter festivals and shows. Severin’s new CD, Overdue, is available wherever CDs are sold. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 538.3: Ed welcomes TV historian and New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Armstrong. Jennifer’s latest book, When Women Invented Television, traces the history of the first decade of network television through the lives and accomplishments of four women: Irna Phillips, the originator of many of the first radio and TV soap operas; Gertrude Berg, star and creator of The Goldbergs, and the first woman to write and produce her own prime time series (not to mention brand herself); jazz pianist Hazel Scott, the first African American to host her own national prime time variety series (five years before Nat King Cole); and Betty White, who, long before The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls, hosted one of the very first experimental television shows in Los Angeles before becoming one of the first stars, and first Emmy winners, of daytime television. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 538.4: New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Armstrong talks to Ed about the early television career of Betty White, including how, in many ways, White lived the life of Mary Richards long before The Mary Tyler Moore Show came into existence. Jennifer’s latest book, When Women Invented Television, traces the history of the first decade of network television through the lives and accomplishments of Irna Phillips, Gertrude Berg, Hazel Scott and Betty White—and shows how all four found themselves marginalized as television became more popular, and more lucrative, amidst the changing culture of the 1950s. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 538.5: Jennifer Armstrong, author of When Women Invented Television, talks to Ed about how the Blacklist spelled the end for both The Goldbergs and The Hazel Scott Show; how Scott’s carefully managed persona paved the way for such other sophisticated African-American women as Oprah Winfrey, Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, the Claire Huxtable character on The Cosby Show, and Diahann Carroll’s character on Julia; and the spiritual connection between Betty White and television. When Women Invented Television, shows how Scott, White, Irna Phillips, and Gertrude Berg all paved the way for many of the forms of TV programming that we take for granted today—and how all four found themselves marginalized as television became more popular, and more lucrative, amidst the changing culture of the 1950s. Jennifer Armstrong joins us in our second hour. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 538.6: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the lasting appeal of Leave It to Beaver. Ken Osmond, the actor who played Eddie Haskell on Leave It to Beaver, passed away one year ago during This Week in TV History. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From May 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember "Dancing Romeo," the final film in the Our Gang series of comedy shorts, which was released on Apr. 29, 1944. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2010: Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Aviva Kempner (Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg) joins Ed for a discussion on the life and career of television pioneer Gertrude Berg (The Goldbergs). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2010: Part 2 of our conversation with Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Aviva Kempner. Aviva's documentary Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg brings to light what a dynamic force Gertrude Berg was, while also putting a human face on the tragic circumstances that have overshadowed the history of The Goldbergs (including, most notably, the suicide of Berg's co-star Philip Loeb after he had been blacklisted during the "Red Scare" of the early 1950s) and the legacy of Berg herself. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From March 2018: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of Dick Cavett's first network TV talk show on Mar. 4, 1968 as part of This Week in TV History. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From March 2018: An encore presentation of our March 2018 conversation with Grammy Award-nominated singer, author, comedian, radio host, and show business raconteur Geoffrey Mark. Geoff is the host of Geoffrey Mark Plays Ella, a new hour-long radio program featuring the music of the First Lady of Song, while his book Ella: A Biography of the Legendary Ella Fitzgerald: Centennial Birthday Edition is a comprehensive biography, discography, and videography of the iconic songstress whose rags to riches story embodied the American Dream. This week, we’ll talk to Geoff about Ella’s remarkable range as a singer (including her ability to sing virtually any song, from any era, and still make it her own), as well as her numerous appearances on television all over the world (including her famous Memorex commercials. Ella: A Biography of the Legendary Ella Fitzgerald: Centennial Edition is available in hardcover through Amazon.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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From March 2018: Geoffrey Mark, host of Geoffrey Mark Plays Ella and author of Ella: A Biography of the Legendary Ella Fitzgerald, talks to Ed about the kindred spirit that Ella shared with screen legend Marilyn Monroe. Ella: A Biography of the Legendary Ella Fitzgerald: Centennial Edition is available in hardcover through Amazon.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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From March 2018: An encore presentation of our March 2018 conversation with acclaimed actor, director, and screenwriter Lou Antonio. Lou’s memoir, Cool Hand Lou: My Fifty Years in Hollywood and on Broadway, not only provides a window into the ups and downs of an artist’s life, but shares many great stories of his work alongside some of the biggest names in stage, film and television. Topics this segment includes Lou’s experience acting with and directing David Janssen, James Arness, Elia Kazan, Wayne Rogers, Lee Remick, and Jaclyn Smith. Cool Hand Lou is available in softcover and as an eBook through McFarland Books. You can also order it by calling (800) 253-2187. If you’d like an autographed edition of Cool Hand Lou from Lou Antonio himself, you can contact Lou Antonio through his website, LouAntonio.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From March 2018: Actor/director Lou Antonio talks to Ed about working with James Garner, Quinn Martin, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Elizabeth Taylor, and Patti LuPone, as well as the role he played in discovering such talents as Henry Thomas and Renée Zellweger. Lou’s memoir, Cool Hand Lou: My Fifty Years in Hollywood and on Broadway, is available in softcover and as an eBook through McFarland Books. If you’d like an autographed edition of Cool Hand Lou from Lou Antonio himself, you can contact Lou Antonio through his website, LouAntonio.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From March 2018: Greg and Ed discuss the Warner Entertainment DVD release of Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle (CBS, 1976-1978), the animated series produced by Filmation Associates that is also a surprisingly faithful adaptation of the classic character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From March 2018: Greg Ehrbar discusses the Warner Archive DVD release of The Roman Holidays (NBC, 1972-1973), a Hanna-Barbera animated series that is more or less a variation of The Flintstones, only set in ancient Rome. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From February 2012: Television director Michael Preece (Dallas, The Streets of San Francisco, Barnaby Jones, The Young Riders, Walker: Texas Ranger) shares some memories of working with Barbara Bel Geddes on Dallas, and particularly the famous episode from 1982 in which Miss Ellie finally accepts that Jock has died. Want to advertise/sponsor our show?
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TV Confidential wishes Willie Mays a happy 90th birthday by sharing this clip from a May 4, 1963 interview between New York Mets broadcaster Ralph Kiner and the Hall of Fame outfielder of the New York Giants and San Francisco Giants. Audio courtesy Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio. Mays’ memoir, 24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid, was released in 2020. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From May 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss Raymond Burr's first Emmy win for playing Perry Mason, which occurred on May 6, 1959, and the many ways in which Perry Mason set the standard for legal dramas on television.Practice, and L.A. Law. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 537.1: Ed welcomes back David Hofstede, founder and publisher of the popular blog Comfort TV. David’s latest book, When Television Brought Us Together, is an often whimsical, but always thought-provoking look at Father Knows Best, The Brady Bunch, That Girl, The Andy Griffith Show and other favorite shows from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s and whether the values reflected by those shows still hold up in our ever-changing world today. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 537.2: David Hofstede, founder and publisher of the popular blog Comfort TV, talks to Ed about the final episode of That Girl, the “Moo goo gai pan” episode of The Bob Newhart Show, and other favorites from the Comfort TV era. David’s latest book, When Television Brought Us Together, is available from Black Pawn Press. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 537.3: Tony Figueroa talks to Ed about some of the experiences that he and Donna have had while going out on auditions as a couple. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 537.4: Ed welcomes Martha Bolton, the first and only fulltime female staff writer that Hope ever hired, and the co-author, along with Linda Hope, Bob Hope’s daughter, of Dear Bob: Bob Hope's Wartime Correspondence with the G.I.s of World War II, a selection of some of the thousands of letters, postcards, and packages that Bob Hope received every day from 1941-1945 from the fighting soldiers of World War II. A time capsule that reveals just how important Hope's service was to our fighting men and women, Dear Bob also provides a window into the heart of Bob Hope, the person. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 537.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with award-winning television writer/producer Jay Moriarty. Jay’s memoir, Honky in the House: Writing & Producing The Jeffersons, not only takes you inside the writing room of The Jeffersons (CBS, 1975-1985), but provides a capsule history of the so-called Golden Age of TV Sitcoms, as well as insight into why Norman Lear was, and is, one of the shrewdest and most courageous producers television will ever know. In this segment, Jay debunks some of the myths surrounding The Jeffersons (including the reason why Mike Evans left the series after the first season), plus he pays tribute to each of the various cast members. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 537.6: Jay Moriarty, longtime writer and producer of The Jeffersons (CBS, 1975-1985), talks to Ed about why it is a disservice to describe the character of George Jefferson as a “black Archie Bunker.” Jay’s memoir, Honky in the House: Writing & Producing The Jeffersons, is available through Amazon.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2011: Music journalist Jason Draper, author of Prince: Chaos, Disorder and Revolution, joins Ed for a look at the life, career and music of Prince, as well as the artist's impact on MTV. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2011: Music journalist Jason Draper, author of Prince: Chaos, Disorder and Revolution, talks to Ed about how the movie Purple Rain came to be developed. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2011: Music journalist Jason Draper, author of Prince: Chaos, Disorder and Revolution, tells Ed how the iconic music artist came to adapt his famous stage name. Want to advertise/sponsor our show?
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TVC 536.1: From October 2018: An encore presentation of our special ten-question Bob Crane TV Trivia Quiz featuring special guest emcee Robert Crane—the eldest son of Bob Crane, and an accomplished screenwriter, journalist, and author in his own right. Every question in the quiz touches on Bob Crane’s career, one way or another. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 536.2: From October 2018: The final question of the Bob Crane TV Trivia Quiz with special guest emcee Robert Crane , plus Ed, Tony, and Donna talk to Bob about his latest book, Hollywood Plateau, a collection of candid interviews with the likes of Jimmy Kimmel, Bruce Dern, John Wayne, Teri Garr, Jack Nicholson, Cheech and Chong, Karen Black, Oscar de la Hoya, and other celebrities and newsmakers that Bob originally conducted circa 1974 to 2013, before the era of political correctness—a time when industry people still spoke their minds without self and organizational censorship. In many cases, Bob interviewed these celebrities before they became as famous as they are today. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 536.3: From March 2019: Legendary Hollywood agent and talent manager Budd Burton Moss (Hollywood: Sometimes Reality is Better Than the Dream) and longtime television director Howard Storm (The Imperfect Storm: From Henry Street to Hollywood) join Ed for a roundtable discussion about All in the Family, The Bob Newhart Show, the “sneaky comedy” of Harold Gould, and the genius of Norman Lear. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 536.4: Ed welcomes award-winning television writer/producer Jay Moriarty. Jay spent about thirty years writing and producing sitcoms for network television, including eight years for Norman Lear and Tandem Productions—seven of which Jay and his longtime writing partner, Mike Milligan, spent writing and producing The Jeffersons (CBS, 1975-1985). Jay’s memoir, Honky in the House: Writing & Producing The Jeffersons, not only takes you inside the writing room of The Jeffersons, but provides many great tips for anyone considering a career in television writing, or writing comedy in general. Topics this segment include the back stories of the episodes “Florence’s Problem” and “Once a Friend” (the Jeffersons episodes that discussed suicide and transgender identity, respectively) and the back story of “The Draft Dodger,” the controversial episode of All in the Family from December 1976 that Jay and Mike wrote. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 536.5: Award-winning television writer/producer Jay Moriarty talks to Ed about “The First Store,” the seriocomic episode of The Jeffersons that paid tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; the portrayal of interracial marriage on The Jeffersons; and the May 2019 live staging of “A Friend in Need,” the premiere episode of The Jeffersons, as part of Live in Front of a Studio Audience. Jay’s memoir, Honky in the House: Writing & Producing The Jeffersons, is available at Amazon.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 536.6: Greg and Ed discuss the Blu-ray release of Jetsons: The Movie, and why it’s still an important film in the Hanna-Barbera canon, despite the widely panned decision to replace Janet Waldo with pop star Tiffany as the voice of Judy Jetson. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From April 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed go back to Apr. 19, 1938, when NBC launched experimental television broadcasts from the Empire State Building. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From April 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the Captain Midnight incident of Apr. 27, 1986, when a video pirate known only as Captain Midnight managed to override the satellite transmission of the HBO broadcast of The Falcon and the Snowman. The culprit hijacked the feed to protest HBO’s subscription fees. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From April 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the first coast-to-coast telecast by satellite communications, which took place on Apr. 24, 1962. This technological advance changed the face of television. Want to advertise/sponsor our show?
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TVC 535.1: A special baseball-themed edition of This Week in TV History that celebrates the life and career of Tommy Lasorda, the legendary manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers who went on to become one of the great ambassadors of Major League Baseball. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 535.2: Tony and Ed commemorate the anniversary of Hank Aaron’s then-record 715th major league home run, which he hit against Al Downing of the Los Angeles Dodgers on Apr. 8, 1974—an historic moment, both in the world of sports and for the U.S. in general, that was captured live on television as part of NBC’s Monday Night Baseball. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 535.3: Ed plays the conclusion of a three-part conversation with Carol Ford and Linda Groundwater, two of the co-authors (along with Dee Young) of Bob Crane: The Definitive Biography, a comprehensive, cradle-to-grave look at the life and career of the beloved Hogan’s Heroes star. Topics this segment include the lengths that Crane took to overcome his addiction to sex and porn, including seeking out and working with an addiction counselor in the weeks before he was killed. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 535.4: Bob Crane biographers Carol Ford and Linda Groundwater talk to Ed about Crane’s longtime compulsion to record every aspect of his life via written journals, audio tape, 8-mm film, and, finally, video cassette. Bob Crane: The Definitive Biography includes first-hand insight from more than two hundred people who knew Bob Crane personally and better than most, including family members; his friends from Connecticut, including many who knew him as far back as grade school; his colleagues from TV, the theatre, the movies, and, above all, radio; and Reverend Ed Beck, the addiction counselor whose help Crane sought just before his death. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started:
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TVC 535.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began a few weeks ago with Radames Pera, the actor best known for playing young Kwai Chang Caine, aka “Grasshopper,” in the flashback sequences of the original Kung Fu (ABC, 1972-1975), and John Edwards, Mary Ingalls’ love interest, on Little House on the Prairie. After a successful career as a child actor, Radames left acting in the late 1980s and reinvented himself as an entrepreneur, drawing on his love for design and his interest in electronics and sound to launch Get It Wired, a company that specialized in installing home theatre systems. Topics this segment include how Radames successfully transferred his business several times after moving from L.A. to different cities (despite the fact that home theatre installation is a traditionally regionally-based service), as well as the pros and cons of working as a sole proprietor. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 535.6: Actor and entrepreneur Radames Pera (Kung Fu, Little House on the Prairie) talks to Ed about his recent decision to return to acting after an absence of three decades, as well as his upcoming memoir. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From April 2013: Actress and author Karen Kondazian (James Dean, Shannon, Shootout at the OK Corral) talks to Ed about how writing is a form of "disciplined improvisation" insofar as it encourages writers to remain free enough to use their imagination. Karen’s historical novel The Whip is based on the life of Charlotte “Charley” Parkhurst, an extraordinary woman who lived most of her life as a man in the Old West. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From April 2011: Tony, Donna and Ed go back to Apr. 14, 1956, the date of the first demonstration of the videotape recorder. Invented by Ray Dolby, Charles Ginsberg, and Charles Anderson, the first such machine was originally the size of a piano and could record both images and sound. CBS purchased three of these videotape recorders in 1956 for $75,000 apiece. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From April 2011: Tony, Donna and Ed discuss the legacy of The Andy Griffith Show and the Return to Mayberry reunion movie, the latter of which first aired on Apr. 13, 1986. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 499.2: Ed, Carol Ford, and Linda Groundwater play a few audio clips from some of Bob Crane’s celebrity interviews on his top-rated morning show on KNX Radio in Los Angeles (1956-1965), including a memorable appearance by Jonathan Winters that marked one of the few times when Crane found himself bested on the air. Bob Crane: The Definitive Biography includes first-hand insight from more than two hundred people who knew Bob Crane personally and better than most: family members; his friends from Connecticut, including many who knew him as far back as grade school; his colleagues from TV, the theatre, the movies, and, above all, radio; and the addiction counselor whose help Crane sought in an effort to overcome his addiction, in the weeks before he was killed. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 499.1: Ed plays Part 2 of a three-part conversation with Carol Ford and Linda Groundwater, two of the co-authors (along with Dee Young) of Bob Crane: The Definitive Biography, a comprehensive, cradle-to-grave look at the life and career of the beloved Hogan’s Heroes star whose accomplishments in television and radio are often overshadowed by the brutal nature of his unsolved murder on June 29, 1978 and the tabloid-like coverage of his addiction to sex and porn once that became public knowledge after his death. This week, we look back on Crane’s radio career, from its unlikely start on WLEA in Hornell, Connecticut to his nine-year run (1956-1965) as host and star of the top-rated morning show on KNX Radio in Los Angeles. Crane not only made radio a spectator sport, but pioneered many elements of radio production that remain industry standard today. Bob Crane: The Definitive Biography includes first-hand insight from more than two hundred people who knew Bob Crane personally and better than most: family members; his friends from Connecticut, including many who knew him as far back as grade school; his colleagues from TV, the theatre, the movies, and, above all, radio; and the addiction counselor whose help Crane sought in an effort to overcome his addiction, in the weeks before he was killed. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 499.3: Carol Ford and Linda Groundwater, two of the co-authors of Bob Crane: The Definitive Biography, discuss the convoluted history of The Bob Crane Show (NBC, 1975), the ill-fated sitcom that failed to last beyond its thirteen-episode order partly for reasons beyond Crane’s control (and partly because of his own undoing), and how Crane was just beginning to grow as an actor at the time of his murder on June 29, 1978. Bob Crane: The Definitive Biography includes first-hand insight from more than two hundred people who knew Bob Crane personally and better than most: family members; his friends from Connecticut, including many who knew him as far back as grade school; his colleagues from TV, the theatre, the movies, and, above all, radio; and the addiction counselor whose help Crane sought in an effort to overcome his addiction, in the weeks before he was killed. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 534.3: Greg Ehrbar provides a capsule history of Josie and The Pussycats in comic books and on television. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 534.4: Greg and Ed continue their review of the Josie and The Pussycats and Josie and The Pussycats in Outer Space Blu-ray releases from Warner Archive, including the connection between the original 1970 animated series and the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon Jonny Quest. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started:
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TVC 534.5: Part 2 of the conversation that began last week with legendary actress, singer, and philanthropist Ruta Lee. In this segment Ruta shares some memories about working with James Garner and Jack Kelly on Maverick, Raymond Burr and Barbara Hale on Perry Mason, as well as her appearances on such shows as The Lineup. Ruta’s memoir, Consider Your Ass Kissed can be ordered right now at Amazon.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 543.6: Entertainment legend Ruta Lee shares some memories of her dear friend Alex Trebek (with whom she co-hosted High Rollers, making Ruta one of the first females to host a popular network TV game show), as well as some of the talk shows that she has hosted in her career, including Talk of the Town. Ruta Lee’s memoir, Consider Your Ass Kissed, not only tells the story of how a young girl—the daughter of Lithuanian immigrants—became one of the most legendary entertainers in Hollywood history through hard work and determination—but is a treasure trove of authentic memories about the Golden Age of Entertainment. Consider Your Ass Kissed can be ordered right now at Amazon.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 450.1: Via remote from The Hollywood Museum: Ed interviews singer/actress Barbara van Orden, co-executive producer of L.A.’s Next Great Stage Star: 2019; Jim Colucci, deputy editor for CBS Watch! Magazine and author of Golden Girls Forever and the forthcoming Love Boat Forever; and film and TV historian Mary Ann Anderson (Ida Lupino: Beyond the Camera). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 450.2: Greg Ehrbar interviews award-winning producer, composer and conductor Christopher Lennertz (Marvel’s Agent Carter, Galavant, Netflix’s Lost in Space). Christopher’s latest feature is Ugly Dolls, the animated musical starring Kelly Clarkson that is also the first movie musical featuring a cast of all pop stars. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 450.2a: Greg Ehrbar interviews award-winning producer, composer and conductor Christopher Lennertz (Marvel’s Agent Carter, Galavant, Netflix’s Lost in Space). Christopher’s latest feature is Ugly Dolls, the animated musical starring Kelly Clarkson. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 451.3: Ed welcomes actor, author, teacher, producer, and longtime movie and TV villain Patrick Kilpatrick (Dying for Living: Sins and Confessions of a Hollywood Villain and Libertine Patriot). As an actor, Patrick has been killed, beaten up or jailed by some of the biggest names in Hollywood. In real life, he nearly died three times before he turned seventeen, including severe bouts with asthma, allergies, and a near-fatal stabbing by his own mother. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 451.4: Actor and author Patrick Kilpatrick (Dying for Living: Sins and Confessions of a Hollywood Villain and Libertine Patriot) discusses the psychosexual approach he often takes to playing heinous characters in movies and on TV, and on the effect that has sometimes had on his acting partners. Volume I of Dying for Living is available now in hardcover, as an eBook, and as an audiobook; Volume II is scheduled for release later in 2019. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 451.5: Via remote from The Hollywood Museum: Ed interviews singer, actor and author Richard Pryor Jr. (In a Pryor Life) and twelve-year-old actor and host Brandin Stennis (The Young and the Restless). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 451.6: From the recent Richard Pryor Jr. book signing at The Hollywood Museum: Author, musician and pop culture historian Chuck Harter shares a poignant memory about comedian Richard Pryor. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From July 2018: A preview of our special Bob Crane Trivia Quiz featuring screenwriter and journalist Robert Crane, eldest son of actor Bob Crane, and author of Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father's Unsolved Murder, Hollywood Plateau, and other books on movies and television. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 488.5: From April 2019: Kirk Taylor, the actor who plays Simon Peter in Revival: The Experience, talks to Ed about how the film gave him a “second life” as a performer—and how Kirk’s own life story is truly a miracle in every sense of the word. A musical film based on the Gospel According to John, Revival! also features Harry Lennix, Chaka Khan, Michelle Williams, T’Keyah Crystal Keyman, Dawnn Lewis, and Grammy nominee Mali Music. Revival! is now available on DVD. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today being April 7 (James Garner’s birthday), we’ll mark the occasion with this minisode edition featuring our April 2012 conversation with Jon Winokur. Jon is the co-author, along with James Garner, of The Garner Files, the story of Jim’s life and career in the motion picture industry. Among other topics, Jon and Ed talk about Jim’s passion for auto racing, including the lengths he took while working with John Frankenheimer during the filming of Grand Prix. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From January 2011: We continue our celebration of James Garner's birthday with a replay of our conversation with "star car" researcher Jim Suva. Jim not only contributed to the "Crime Drama" segment of Pioneers of Television (PBS, 2011), but provided an authentic replica of Jim Rockford's famous Pontiac Firebird that was featured on the program. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 488.6: From April 2019: Part 2 of our special Easter Weekend conversation with actor Kirk Taylor (Revival: The Experience). In this segment, Kirk talks about the movie’s original score by Mali Music (who also plays Jesus in Revival!), and how the story of Simon Peter particularly brings out the human side of Jesus. Revival is now available on DVD. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From April 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the events that led CBS-TV to fire Tom and Dick Smothers on Apr. 4, 1969. Also in this segment: A look at Happy Pappy, the first TV variety series featuring an all-African American cast, which premiered on Chicago station WENR on Apr. 1, 1949. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 454.1: Emmy Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated writer, producer, performer, author, music and TV historian, and showbiz raconteur Geoffrey Mark joins Ed for a remembrance of singer, actress, and animal rights activist Doris Day. Geoff's new podcasts, Geoffrey Mark Plays Ella and Hitting the Mark with Geoffrey Mark, are both available wherever podcasts are found. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2019: Emmy Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated writer, producer, and performer Geoffrey Mark talks to Ed about why Calamity Jane was Doris Day's favorite film; how the actress always strove for excellence from everyone on the set; and why Day's range as an actress and confidence in herself were among her sexiest traits. Geoff knew Doris Day for the last thirty years of her life. Geoff's new podcasts, Geoffrey Mark Plays Ella and Hitting the Mark with Geoffrey Mark, are both available wherever podcasts are found. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From March 2011: Stephen Bowie, publisher of The Classic TV History Blog, joins Ed for a conversation about East Side/West Side (CBS, 1963-1964), the short-lived but controversial series starring George C. Scott and Cicely Tyson. While East Side/West Side represented a milestone in the evolution of quality television, it also proved to be too dark, too controversial, too unglamorous, too depressing, and perhaps too good to attract a mainstream network audience at the time it originally aired. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From April 2011: Stephen Battaglio, author of David Susskind: A Televised Life, talks to Ed about how East Side/West Side (CBS, 1963-1964) was one of several network shows that were developed in direct response to then-FCC chairman Newton Minow's famous "vast wasteland" speech; why George C. Scott was amenable to doing the series, even though he was a major movie star at the time; and how the casting of Cicely Tyson as Scott's administrative assistant on East Side/West Side was both groundbreaking and controversial, given the backdrop of the Civil Rights movement. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 532.1: Tony, Donna, and Ed celebrate the life and career of iconic actress Cicely Tyson, including her Emmy Award-winning performance in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (and how that movie itself was essentially a lesson in American history), as well as her work in Sounder, The Help, How to Get Away with Murder, East Side/West Side, Free to Be You and Me, and the night she hosted Saturday Night Live in 1979. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 532.2: A return visit by award-winning actor, author, playwright, director, and painter Raymond J. Barry. Ray stars opposite Randy Nazarian and Shondrella Avery in Free Byrd, a new road comedy/buddy movie that not only has a lot of heart and a lot of laughs, but has a lot to say about what it means to live—and how it is never too late to reinvent yourself. Free Byrd becomes available for viewing on demand beginning Thursday, Apr. 1 on Amazon Prime and iTunes. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 532.3: Raymond J. Barry talks to Ed about his early career as an actor, including the many acting workshops that Ray conducted for inmates in Sing-Sing Penitentiary, Attica, and Grasslands County Jail during the 1970s, as well as his moving performance as Tom Cruise’s father in Born on the Fourth of July. Ray’s new movie, Free Byrd, becomes available for viewing on demand beginning Thursday, Apr. 1 on Amazon Prime and iTunes. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 532.4: Raymond J. Barry talks to Ed about the generosity of Oscar winner Robert Duvall (opposite whom Ray starred in Falling Down); why Ray enjoys the process of painting; and why some athletes can make the transition to acting, depending on their sport. Ray stars with Randy Nazarian and Shondrella Avery in Free Byrd, a new road comedy/buddy movie that becomes available for viewing on demand beginning Thursday, Apr. 1 on Amazon Prime and iTunes. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 532.5: Ed welcomes George Chakiris, the Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning actor known around the world as Bernardo, the leader of The Sharks, in the iconic 1961 screen adaptation of West Side Story. George’s memoir, My West Side Story, not only is the story of his life and career on stage, screen, and television, but reveals, for the first time, the inside story of how West Side Story evolved from a conversation between Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents, and Leonard Bernstein in Robbins’ Manhattan apartment in 1949 to becoming the cinematic and theatrical landmark that continues to dazzle audiences more than seventy years later. Topics this segment include some of the subtle differences between the stage version of West Side Story and the iconic motion picture, as well as George’s experience playing Riff in the London West End stage production of West Side Story before he was cast as Bernardo in the movie. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 532.6: Academy Award winner George Chakiris talks to Ed about some of his early screen appearances as a dancer in such films as Gentleman Prefer Blondes, White Christmas, and There’s No Business Like Show Business; assisting Robert Alton with the choreography of Judy Garland’s first stage show in Las Vegas; and how George came to develop his interest in designing jewelry. George’s memoir, My West Side Story, is available in hardcover and as an eBook and includes a wonderful back cover quote from George’s co-star, dear friend, and fellow Oscar winner from West Side Story, Rita Moreno. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TV Confidential wishes Peter Marshall a happy 95th birthday by sharing this clip from our conversation with the Master of the Hollywood Squares from July 2016, shortly after he had celebrated his 90th birthday and 75th year in show business. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From March 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the 40th anniversary of The Rockford Files, the pilot of which originally aired on Mar. 27, 1974 during This Week in TV History. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From April 2016: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the shows of Quinn Martin while also spotlighting the career of actor/producer William Conrad. The pilot for Cannon originally aired on Mar. 26, 1971, while the final episode of Cannon aired on Mar. 3. 1976. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From April 2016: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember William Conrad's work on Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Fugitive, and Jake and the Fatman, as well as his musical appearances on such variety shows as The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour and The Carol Burnett Show. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 531.1: Ed welcomes Gina Goff, producer of Senior Moment, a delightful romantic comedy starring William Shatner, Jean Smart, and Christopher Lloyd about a retired NASA pilot who must learn how to navigate life and love all over again when he finds himself stripped of his drivers license and unable to drive his beloved vintage Porsche. Senior Moment will have a limited theatrical release on Friday, March 26 then become available for viewing on demand on the major streaming platforms. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 531.2: Gina Goff, producer of Senior Moment, talks to Ed about some of the vintage cars featured in the movie, and how Senior Moment might be developed into a TV series. Senior Moment will have a limited theatrical release on Friday, March 26 then become available for viewing on demand on all major streaming platforms. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 531.3: Greg Ehrbar provides a capsule history of the early film and TV adaptations of the popular comic strip Blondie. The 1957 television version of Blondie starring Arthur Lake and Pamela Britton is available both on DVD and for streaming on demand on Amazon Prime. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 531.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began a few weeks ago with Emmy Award-winning actor Kevin Spirtas (Days of Our Lives). Kevin is the star and co-creator, along with Michael Slade, of After Forever, the multi Emmy Award-winning digital series that has won critical acclaim not only for its portrayal of gay men in their fifties, but for its unflinching honesty in dealing with loss. Both Seasons 1 and 2 of After Forever, as well as Riley’s Unforgettable School Project, are available for streaming on demand on Amazon Prime Video. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 531.5: Television writer and producer Paul Robert Coyle takes us behind the scenes of Xena: Warrior Princess. Paul’s memoir, Swords, Starships and Superheroes, includes great stories about his experiences on such shows as The Streets of San Francisco, Barnaby Jones, CHiPs, Crazy Like a Fox, Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and Stephen King’s The Dead Zone, plus many useful tips on how to pursue a career as a professional writer—whether you want to write for television or any other form. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 531.6: Television writer and producer Paul Robert Coyle takes our listeners behind the scenes of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. Paul’s memoir, Swords, Starships and Superheroes, includes great stories about his four-decade career writing for television, plus many useful tips on how to pursue a career as a professional writer—whether you want to write for television or any other form. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 531.7: Television writer and producer Paul Robert Coyle shares the strange but true story of his experience writing for Stephen King’s The Dead Zone. Paul’s memoir, Swords, Starships and Superheroes, includes great stories about his four-decade career writing for network, cable, and syndicated television, plus many useful tips on how to pursue a career as a professional writer—whether you want to write for television or any other form. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 531.8: From May 2010: Actress Ann Rutherford, star of Gone with the Wind and the Andy Hardy films from the Golden Age of Hollywood, tells the story of how she launched her radio career with some gumption… and a little guile. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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From March 2016: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the legacy of Barney Miller as part of their birthday tribute to Hal Linden. Hal Linden was born ninety years ago This Week in TV History. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From March 2016: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss Hal Linden's early career as a big band musician, as well as his Tony Award-winning stage career, plus a few of his other notable TV roles. Hal Linden was born ninety years ago This Week in TV History. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 530.1: Television writer and producer Paul Robert Coyle talks to Ed about how he transitioned into writing for sci-fi and fantasy, including such iconic shows as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Paul’s memoir, Swords, Starships and Superheroes, not only includes great behind-the-scenes stories of his experiences on such shows as The Streets of San Francisco, Barnaby Jones, CHiPs, Crazy Like a Fox, Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Incredible Journeys, and Stephen King’s The Dead Zone, but includes many useful tips on how to pursue a career as a professional writer—whether you want to write for television or any other form. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 530.2: Tony, Donna, and Ed celebrate the life and career of Academy Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning actress Cloris Leachman as part of a special edition of This Week in TV History. Cloris Leachman passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 27 at age 94. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 530.3: From October 2020: Ed Asner shares a few memories of working with Cloris Leachman on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Also in this segment: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss Leachman’s performance in Young Frankenstein and what made the “Frau Blucher” gag so funny. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started:
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TVC 530.4: Ed plays Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Walter Koenig, the actor known around the world as Mr. Chekhov on the original Star Trek TV series (and the first seven Star Trek movies) and Alfred Bester on Babylon 5. Topics this segment includes what Walter describes as the “complexity of character” of actor William Shatner; why Leonard Nimoy was arguably the most indispensible actor on Star Trek; the broad audience appeal of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; and a funny story involving Walter, James Doohan, George Takei, and a personal appearance at a video store in Dothan, Alabama. Walter’s memoir, Beaming Up and Getting Off: Life Before and Beyond Star Trek, is available in hardcover and as an eBook through Jacobs Brown Media Group.
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TVC 530.5: Walter Koenig talks to Ed about how playing Bester on Babylon 5, in some ways, brought his career full circle. Walter’s memoir, Beaming Up and Getting Off: Life Before and Beyond Star Trek, walks you through Walter’s growing up years as the son of Russian immigrants in 1940s Manhattan; his formative years as an actor with the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York (where Walter learned his craft alongside such classmates as Christopher Lloyd, Brenda Vaccaro, Jessica Walter, James Caan, and Dabney Coleman); his lifelong love of theatre; and his deep appreciation for the many opportunities that Star Trek continues to give him. Beaming Up and Getting Off: Life Before and Beyond Star Trek is available in hardcover and as an eBook through Jacobs Brown Media Group. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 530.6: Ed welcomes Darren Wadyko, the distributor of Betty White’s The Pet Set: The Complete Series, an excellent new DVD set featuring all thirty-nine episodes of the long-lost syndicated talk show from 1971 that Betty White always considered to be among her favorite projects. The Pet Set blended White's lifelong passion for animals of all kind, both domestic and wild, with her gift for conversation and her many skills in unscripted television. Betty White’s The Pet Set: The Complete Series includes a host of extra features, including documentaries about White’s long association with game shows and her years hosting experimental television (both in Los Angeles and on a national level), plus rarely seen episodes of White’s first two sitcoms, Life with Elizabeth and A Date with The Angels. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 530.7: From June 2013: Jennifer Armstrong, author of Mary and Lou and Rhoda and All the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic, talks to Ed, Tony, and Donna about where the characters of Phyllis Lindstrom and Sue Ann Nivens fit in the “sexy feminism” pantheon. Jennifer’s latest book, When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today, will be released on Tuesday, Mar. 23 and includes a profile of Betty White’s early, early career as a pioneer in experimental unscripted television. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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From September 2014: Singer/actress Connie Stevens shares a few memories of working with James Garner, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lewis, Patrick Macnee, and Marty Allen. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of The Lawrence Welk Show on ABC in July 1955. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss how the success of The Lawrence Welk Show in the late 1950s changed the landscape of television in the 1960s. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From January 2013: Barbara Feldon became a role model for women around the world when she played Agent 99 on the long-running, groundbreaking comedy series Get Smart. But while 99 continues to live happily ever after in reruns, Barbara found herself at a crossroads many years ago when her 12-year live-in relationship came to an end, and she found herself faced with the prospect of actually living by herself for the first time in her life. After struggling with the notion at first, Barbara discovered, with the help of some friends, that living alone is just a state of mind — and that no matter what one’s age is, there are many ways to lead a full, happy and enriching life without a permanent housemate or live-in life partner. Barbara’s book, Living Alone and Loving It: A Guide to Relishing the Solo Life, not only speaks openly about her own experience, but challenges the often negative perceptions society has about the concept of living on one’s own. Statistics show that nearly 50 percent of the world’s population choose to live by themselves — and yet there remains a stigma to living alone that even Barbara had to overcome. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 529.1: A return visit by sci-fi screenwriter and sci-fi and fantasy film historian Gary Gerani. Gary provides commentary for the Blu-ray release of Dark Intruder, a horror/thriller/fantastical type movie starring Leslie Nielsen and Peter Mark Richman. Released in theaters in 1965, Dark Intruder was actually conceived by Universal as a pilot for The Black Cloak, a prospective TV series about an intrepid investigator who specializes in crimes involving the occult. While Dark Intruder never materialized as a series, it paved the way for other Universal TV explorations of the occult and the supernatural, including Fear No Evil, Ritual of Evil, Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, The Sixth Sense, and Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 529.2: Documentary filmmaker and film/TV historian Gary Gerani updates Ed on the latest developments about Romantic Mysticism (his upcoming documentary on the life and music of Billy Goldenberg), and discusses some of his other upcoming projects. The Dark Intruder Blu-ray release, now available from Kino Lorber, includes commentary by Gary Gerani, plus an interview with Mike Westmore, son of legendary Universal makeup artist Bud Westmore. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 529.3: From March 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the birthdays of Ben Murphy and Billy Crystal, the death of George Burns, and the anniversary of the first Academy Awards telecast as part of This Week in TV History. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 529.4: Ed welcomes back actor, author, producer, director, screenwriter, and novelist Walter Koenig (Star Trek, Babylon 5). Walter’s latest book, Beaming Up and Getting Off: Life Before and Beyond Star Trek, is actually two books in one: Part One is a reissue of Walter’s memoir, Warped Factors (originally published in 1997), while Part Two includes nearly 100 new pages of material that brings you up to date on Walter’s life and career over the past twenty-five years. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 529.5: Walter Koenig talks to Ed about the events that led to his being cast as Alfred Bester on Babylon 5. Walter’s memoir, Beaming Up and Getting Off: Life Before and Beyond Star Trek, walks you through Walter’s growing up years as the son of Russian immigrants in 1940s Manhattan; his formative years as an actor with the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York (where Walter learned his craft alongside such classmates as Christopher Lloyd, Brenda Vaccaro, Jessica Walter, James Caan, and Dabney Coleman); his lifelong love of theatre; and his deep appreciation for the many opportunities that Star Trek continues to give him. Beaming Up and Getting Off is available in hardcover and as an eBook through Jacobs Brown Media Group. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 529.5: Ed welcomes screenwriter and director Giorgio Serafini. Giorgio’s latest movie, Senior Moment, is a delightful romantic comedy starring William Shatner, Jean Smart, and Christopher Lloyd about a retired NASA pilot who must learn how to navigate life and love all over again when he finds himself stripped of his drivers license and unable to drive his beloved vintage Porsche. Senior Moment will have a limited theatrical release on Friday, March 26 then become available for viewing on demand on the major streaming platforms. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From February 2011: Ed welcomes Charles Tranberg, author of I Love The Illusion, a comprehensive biography of Emmy Award-winning actress Agnes Moorehead. Topics this segment include how Agnes inherited much of her theatricality from both her father, a charismatic Presbyterian minister, and her mother, a former singer whose flamboyant personality Chuck describes as "a mortal version of Endora." Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From February 2011: Ed welcomes Charles Tranberg, author of I Love The Illusion, a comprehensive biography of Emmy Award-winning actress Agnes Moorehead. Topics this segment include how Agnes came up with the name for Endora on Bewitched, how she approached playing the character, and why she was particularly close to Dick York when they worked together on the show. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From March 2011: Actor John O'Hurley (Seinfeld) talks to Ed about the appeal of appearing on Dancing with the Stars. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 528.1: From March 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed pay tribute to George Kennedy, the Oscar-winning actor who passed away five years ago This Week in TV History. This segment originally aired on the occasion of Kennedy’s 90th birthday. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started:
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TVC 528.2: From September 2013: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In star Jo Anne Worley. Topics this segment include Jo Anne’s background with the renowned Chicago improv group Second City; her stage career (including playing both characters, on different occasions, in the female version of The Odd Couple); playing Mrs. Arthur, aka Nana Banana, in the Disney series Jessie; and her work as president of Actors and Others for Animals, one of the longest-standing animal welfare organizations in Los Angeles. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started:
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TVC 528.3: From September 2013: Jo Anne Worley shares a few memories about her years on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, including how the boa became her fashion trademark. Time-Life’s comprehensive DVD release Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In: The Complete Series is now available at retail for the very first time. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 528.4: Greg and Ed celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Point, the first feature-length animated movie made for television, which premiered on the ABC Movie of the Week in February 1971. Written by Harry Nilsson, and featuring the voice of Mike Lookinland (The Brady Bunch) and original songs by Nilsson, The Point remains an iconic film, despite a somewhat convoluted broadcast and distribution history that includes five different narrators for its various releases. The Point is now available on Blu-ray through MVD Visual. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 528.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Donzaleigh Abernathy, star of Lifetime Television’s Any Day Now, and the youngest daughter of the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy—the man who co-founded the Civil Rights Movement along with his best friend, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Donzaleigh is the lead soloist on “The Listening,” a unique social justice choral project inspired by “Beyond Vietnam: A Time for Break Silence,” a speech delivered by Dr. King in April 1967. “The Listening” is now available as a single through Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, and Pandora. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 528.6: Actress, author, and vocalist Donzaleigh Abernathy talks to Ed about the direct line between her and national youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman, and how Donzaleigh’s father, the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, encouraged Donzaleigh to pursue her career as an artist just before he died. Donzaleigh’s book Partners to History: Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and The Civil Right Movement is a pictorial history of the Civil Rights Movement that also captures the words of both Dr. King and Rev. Abernathy, while showing you first-hand glimpses of who they were as people. Donzaleigh is also the lead soloist on “The Listening,” a unique social justice choral project inspired by “Beyond Vietnam: A Time for Break Silence,” a speech that Dr. King gave in April 1967. “The Listening” is now available as a single through Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, and Pandora. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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From November 2010: Emmy Award-winning and Grammy Award-winning composer Charles Fox tells Ed the backstory of how the theme song for The Love Boat came together, and why a really good theme song is like an old friend who immediately puts us in the mood to watch our favorite show. Charles' memoir, Killing Me Softly: My Life in Music, not only discusses his collaborations with such artists as Roberta Flack, Paul Williams, Norman Gimbel, Barry Manilow, Jim Croce, Lena Horne and Fred Astaire, but also pays tribute to the teacher who continues to influence him, the great French composer and conductor Nadia Boulanger. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From February 2016: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the early television career of Sandy Duncan, including her two TV series from the early 1970s (Funny Face, The Sandy Duncan Show), as well as her dramatic turn opposite Leslie Uggams in the original Roots. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From February 2016: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the circumstances that led to Sandy Duncan replacing Valerie Harper as the star of Valerie (later renamed Valerie's Family, and then The Hogan Family). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 527.1: Ed welcomes novelist, essayist, and TV historian Mitchell Hadley. Mitchell’s latest book, The Electronic Mirror: What Classic TV Tells US About Who We Were and Who We Are (and Everything in Between), is a series of essays that take a look at what classic television is, what it says about the culture that produced it, and why the shared experience of television that marked the lives of so many of us who came of age in a three-network TV universe is often lost on viewers today. Topics this segment include why shows Route 66 and The Fugitive provide a better window into the culture of the 1960s than modern-day shows such as Mad Men. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 527.2: Novelist, essayist, and TV historian Mitchell Hadley talks to Ed about the eternal appeal of Perry Mason; the genius of Ernie Kovacs; and how prime time game shows such as What’s My Line? also serve as “inadvertent documentaries” about the culture of the early 1960s. Mitchell’s latest book, The Electronic Mirror: What Classic TV Tells US About Who We Were and Who We Are (and Everything in Between), traces the evolution of the various genres that populated the first three decades of television, while also showing why the shared experience of television that marked the lives of so many of us who came of age in a three-network TV universe is often lost on contemporary viewers. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 527.3: Greg Ehrbar reviews The Flintstones: The Complete Series (Blu-ray). Topics this segment include how The Flintstones was the first prime time animated series with an air of sophistication; the origin of the “Meet the Flintstones” theme song; and a capsule history of Hanna-Barbera animation. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 527.4: Ed welcomes actress and author Donzaleigh Abernathy, star of Any Day Now and the youngest daughter of the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy—the man who co-founded the Civil Rights Movement along with his best friend (and Donzaleigh’s godfather), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Donzaleigh’s book Partners to History: Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and The Civil Right Movement is a pictorial history of the Civil Rights Movement that also captures the words of both Dr. King and Rev. Abernathy, while showing you first-hand glimpses of who they were as husbands, fathers, and people. Donzaleigh Abernathy is also the lead soloist on “The Listening,” a unique social justice choral project inspired by “Beyond Vietnam: A Time for Break Silence,” a speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1967. “The Listening” is now available as a single through Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, and Pandora. In addition, Donzaleigh will discuss Partners to History in a two-hour Zoom talk hosted by the Pasadena Public Library on Saturday, Feb. 27 beginning at 2pm. The Zoom talk is free, but registration is required. Go to CityofPasadena.net/library/calendar/ for more information. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 527.5: Donzaleigh Abernathy tells Ed the backstory of how she came to write Partners to History: Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and The Civil Right Movement, plus she shares stories of her encounters with the likes of Dina Merrill, Dennis Haysbert, Gregory Peck, and Alicia Keys. Donzaleigh is also the lead soloist on “The Listening,” a unique social justice choral project inspired by “Beyond Vietnam: A Time for Break Silence,” a speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1967. “The Listening” is now available as a single through Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, and Pandora. In addition, Donzaleigh will discuss Partners to History in a two-hour Zoom talk hosted by the Pasadena Public Library on Saturday, Feb. 27 beginning at 2pm. The Zoom talk is free, but registration is required. Go to CityofPasadena.net/library/calendar/ for more information. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 527.6: Greg and Ed discuss The Man Called Flintstone, the 1966 animated feature motion picture that is included as an extra feature in The Flintstones: The Complete Series Blu-ray release, now available from WarnerBrothers Home Entertainment. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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From July 2013: Mark Dawidziak, television critic for the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, joins Ed in remembering novelist and screenwriter Richard Matheson. Mark not only covered Matheson’s career in television, but also edited three collections of the works of Richard Matheson, all of which are available through Gauntlet Press. Often classified as a science fiction writer, Matheson not only wrote for many different genres (including fantasy, horror, suspense, and Westerns), but only a few of his credits actually qualify as sci-fi per se. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From July 2013: Mark Dawidziak, television critic for the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, joins Ed in remembering novelist and screenwriter Richard Matheson. Mark not only covered Matheson’s career in television, but also edited three collections of the works of Richard Matheson, all of which are available through Gauntlet Press. Topics this segment how Mark's friendship and professional collaborations with Matheson began indirectly as a result of The Columbo Phile, Mark's behind-the-scene look at the making of the NBC Columbo television series. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From July 2013: Mark Dawidziak, television critic for the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, joins Ed in remembering novelist and screenwriter Richard Matheson. Mark not only covered Matheson’s career in television, but also edited three collections of the works of Richard Matheson, all of which are available through Gauntlet Press. Topics this segment include why the vampires that Matheson wrote about were really zombies; the direct path from Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend to Night of the Living Dead to The Walking Dead; Matheson's frequent creative jousts with Dan Curtis; and how Matheson was a much funnier person that most people realize. . Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 526.1: Part 2 of a conversation with Marc Cushman that began on our last program about These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s, a three-volume history of Star Trek/biography of Gene Roddenberry that covers the ten years spanning the cancellation of the original series in 1969 and the release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979. Volume 2 includes a fascinating account of Roddenberry’s encounter with a group called The Nine, plus a look at the many surprising parallels between Star Trek and Space: 1999—and the great degree to which Isaac Asimov shaped public opinion of the latter. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 526.2: From September 2018: Television producer Cy Chermak, author of The Show Runner: An Insider’s Guide to Successful TV Production, uses his experience on CHiPs to illustrate why a successful show must have a believable concept as well as likeable characters. Cy Chermak passed away on Jan. 29, 2021 at age ninety-one. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 526.3: From September 2018: Television producer Cy Chermak, author of The Show Runner: An Insider’s Guide to Successful TV Production, talks to Ed about working with writers David Chase, Rudolph Borchert, Robert Zemeckis, and Bob Gale on Kolchak: The Night Stalker; while Kolchak was particularly popular with college students when it originally aired; and Cy’s penchant for casting comic actors such as Art Metrano and Jim Backus on that series. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 526.4: From September 2018: Television producer Cy Chermak, author of The Show Runner: An Insider’s Guide to Successful TV Production, talks to Ed about Amy Prentiss, the Emmy Award-winning police drama starring Jessica Walter that was created by Cy’s wife, Francine Carroll. Cy Chermak passed away on Jan. 29, 2021 at age ninety-one. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 526.5: From September 2018: Emmy Award-winning and Grammy Award-winning writer/producer Geoffrey Mark talks to Ed about the life and music of Ella Fitzgerald—including Ella’s many collaborations with Louis Armstrong, and the pivotal stance she took against NBC in 1959, just before her appearance on The Bell Telephone Hour. Geoff is the host of Geoffrey Mark Plays Ella, a new hour-long radio program featuring the music of Ella Fitzgerald. The premiere edition of Geoffrey Mark Plays Ella airs Wednesday, Feb. 17 at 8am ET, 5am PT on Metromedia Radio. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 526.6: Emmy Award-winning actor, writer, and producer Kevin Spirtas pays tribute to his colleague Michael Slade. Kevin and Michael co-created After Forever, the multi Emmy Award-winning digital series that has won critical acclaim not only for its portrayal of gay men in their fifties, but for its unflinching honesty in dealing with loss. In an untimely example of life imitating art, Michael Slade died from cancer on Dec. 27, 2020, a few days before the release of Riley’s Unforgettable School Project, a thirty-minute documentary-style stand-alone special that provides a bridge between the end of Season 2 of After Forever and the start of Season 3. Among other topics, Kevin talks to Ed about the blueprint that Michael left behind for Season 3 of After Forever, once it is safe to resume production of the series. Both Seasons 1 and 2 of After Forever, as well as Riley’s Unforgettable School Project, are available for streaming on demand on Amazon Prime Video. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 526.7: TV Confidential honors our colleague Paul Green with a replay of our conversation from December 2015 about the life and career of Pete Duel. Author of many books on film and television (including Pete Duel: A Biography), and a frequent guest on our program since its inception, Paul Green passed away on Sunday, Jan. 17 at age sixty-five. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 526.8: From September 2018: Geoffrey Mark, host of Geoffrey Mark Plays Ella, provides the backstory of “Miss Otis Regrets,” one of Ella Fitzgerald’s many collaborations with the legendary Cole Porter. The premiere edition of Geoffrey Mark Plays Ella airs Wednesday, Feb. 17 at 8am ET, 5am PT on Metromedia Radio. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 450.3: From the floor of The Hollywood Museum: Geoffrey Mark, author of The Lucy Book and other books on film and television, tells Ed the question he asked Ms. Ball that immediately got her attention, as well as why Lucy’s radio interview show, Let’s Talk to Lucy, was such a great vehicle for her. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 450.1: Star Trek historian Mark Cushman takes us behind the scenes of The Questor Tapes, the critically acclaimed series pilot that many consider to be Gene Roddenberry’s best work (other than Star Trek). Marc’s latest book, These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s, is the first of a two-volume biography that chronicles the career of the Great Bird of the Galaxy between the cancellation of the original Star Trek in 1969 and the release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 450.2: Marc Cushman, author of These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s and other books on film and television, tells Ed the story of how his research for his I Spy book uncovered the reason why I Spy was canceled—and how that revelation had a tremendous effect on series star Robert Culp. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 450.5: Greg Ehrbar and Ed discuss the special picture disc soundtrack commemorating the 90th anniversary of the release of Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie. Plus: Greg recommends the album Songs from Alice in Wonderland, an interpretation by legendary music director/composer Tutti Camarata of the musical score of the classic Disney film. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 450.4: From the floor of The Hollywood Museum: Ed interviews Susan Olsen (The Brady Bunch) and Frank Sheftel of KABC Radio’s Sunday Night Live with Susan and Frank. Susan and Frank were among the special guests who attended the recent unveiling of the Remembering Lucy exhibit that is currently on display at the Museum. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 450.7: Robert Hooks talks about the role that one of his sons played in convincing him to join the cast of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Chuck Harter co-hosts. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 450.6: Robert Hooks, founder of the Negro Ensemble Company, joins Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter for Part 2 of a conversation about his film, TV and stage career, including Trouble Man, the cult classic from 1972 that, tough widely considered a “blaxploitation” film, is really a private eye movie. Topics include the iconic soundtrack of Trouble Man by Marvin Gaye; singer/actor Bill Henderson, Robert’s co-star in the movie; and the present whereabouts of the stylish wardrobe that Robert wore onscreen. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2014: Ed welcomes Bill Daily, the actor known around the world as Roger Healey on I Dream of Jeannie and Howard Borden on The Bob Newhart Show. Bill began his career in television in Chicago directing such shows as Kukla, Fran and Ollie and Garroway at Large, and later worked with the likes of Steve Allen and Mike Douglas. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2014: Part 2 of our conversation with Bill Daily (The Bob Newhart Show, I Dream of Jeannie). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2018: TV Confidential pays tribute to legendary actor Burt Reynolds. Though you probably know Reynolds as a major motion picture star (including five consecutive years as the No. 1 star at the box office), he was also a steady presence on television, both early and late in his career, including supporting roles on Gunsmoke and Riverboat and starring roles in four shows of his own: Hawk, Dan August, Evening Shade and B.L. Stryker. This segment includes highlights from conversations with people who knew Reynolds and worked with him throughout his career, including actors Richard Anderson and James Best and director Ralph Senensky. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 496.4: Emmy-nominated writer/producer Michael Sloan (The Equalizer, Columbo, Harry O, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues) discusses the series of remarkable events that opened the door to his career in television. Michael Sloan’s memoir, “One More Thing, Sir…” The Musings of a Television Writer/Producer, is a charming, personable tale that is filled with great stories about his work alongside Glen Larson, Fred Silverman, David Janssen, Anthony Zerbe, David Carradine, Clint Walker, Richard Anderson, John Frankenheimer, Raymond Burr, Patrick McGoohan, Patrick Macnee, Denzel Washington and other movie and TV legends. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 496.5: Michael Sloan, creator and producer of The Equalizer (CBS, 1985-1989), discusses the origins of the long-running series starring Edward Woodward and the developments that led to the two box-office smash feature motion pictures The Equalizer and The Equalizer II starring Denzel Washington and Michael’s series of best-selling original Equalizer novels (the latest of which is scheduled for release later in 2020). Michael’s memoir, “One More Thing, Sir…” The Musings of a Television Writer/Producer, is available through Bear Manor Media. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From February 2013: Ed welcomes Christopher and Linda Lewis, curators of the Loretta Young estate. Christopher’s mom, Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning actress Loretta Young, was one of the first major motion picture stars to not only embrace television, but leave her mark on it, which she did as the star and producer of The Loretta Young Show. Topics this segment include "The Road to Lourdes," the controversial episode that Young made in 1956, despite losing one of her sponsors over the show's overt religious overtones. About 100 episodes of The Loretta Young Show, including "The Road to Lourdes," are available through Shout! Factory as part of the excellent 100th anniversary DVD box set. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From November 2012: Actor Robert Colbert (Maverick, The Time Tunnel, The Young and the Restless) shares a few memories of his career in film and television—a career that began with his stirring performance of a dramatic poem in 1956. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From November 2012: Robert Colbert talks to Ed about why The Time Tunnel continues to entertain and find new audiences from all over the world. Calendar year 2021 marks the 55th anniversary of the premiere of The Time Tunnel. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From November 2012: Robert Colbert shares a few memories of the years when he was a contract player with Warner Bros. during the last days of the studio system. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2015: Lindsay Wagner talks to Ed about working with James Garner on The Rockford Files and the episode of The Bionic Woman for which she won the Emmy Award for Best Dramatic Actress in 1976. Calendar year 2021 marks the 45th anniversary of the premiere of The Bionic Woman. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2015: Paul Green, author of Pete Duel: A Biography, talks to Ed about what first sparked his interest in studying the life of Duel; the differences in tone between the pilot for Alias Smith and Jones and the series itself; and how Duel came as close as any actor to capturing the essence of the Bret Maverick character when he played Hannibal Heyes in the series. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2018: Ed welcomes Cy Chermak, the award-winning television producer who passed away Jan. 29, 2021 at age 91. Cy's memoir, The Show Runner: An Insider’s Guide to Successful TV Production, tells you everything you need to know to succeed as a producer in television today, from the importance of a good concept, keeping it believable, and staying on top of the writing, to staying within budget and knowing when to delegate responsibilities while still maintaining control. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2018: Award-winning producer Cy Chermak talks to Ed about the extent to which television today is still a producer's medium, and why believabilty is vital when developing a concept for a series. Cy's memoir, The Show Runner: An Insider’s Guide to Successful TV Production, tells you everything you need to know to succeed as a producer in television today, from the importance of a good concept, keeping it believable, and staying on top of the writing, to staying within budget and knowing when to delegate responsibilities while still maintaining control. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 525.1: A return visit from the award-winning screenwriter, director, producer, documentary maker, and author Marc Cushman. Marc’s latest book, These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s, is a three-volume history of Star Trek/biography of Gene Roddenberry that covers the ten years spanning the cancellation of the original series in 1969 and the release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979—a period in which Roddenberry experienced many personal and professional ups and downs, while Star Trek itself became a worldwide phenomenon. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 525.2: Star Trek historian and Gene Roddenberry biographer Marc Cushman discusses some of the myths behind the making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Marc’s latest book, These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s, Volume 2, takes you behind the scenes of the making of Roddenberry’s pilot Spectre, the aborted Star Trek: Phase II television series, and the various battles between The Great Bird and studio executives at Paramount over what Star Trek was—and what it wasn’t. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 525.3: Tony, Donna, and Ed pay tribute to Norm Crosby, the legendary malaprop comedian who died this past Saturday, Nov. 7 at age 93. Topics include Crosby’s stint as host of the syndicated series The Comedy Shop, one of the first TV showcases for young comedians; his commercials for Natural Light beer; and his many years in support of those who are hearing-impaired. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 525.4: From October 2020: Ed plays a clip from a conversation with Anson Williams in which the Happy Days star shared a favorite Dodger Stadium memory involving Dodgers pitcher Don Sutton. A member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, and a longtime broadcaster for the Atlanta Braves, Don Sutton passed away on Jan. 19 at age 75. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started:
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TVC 525.5: Ed welcomes back actor, director, and voice artist Moosie Drier, the youngest member of the cast of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, and one of the few actors who made the transition from successful child star to successful grown-up actor. Topics this segment include working with Jack Lemmon and Jason Robards in The War Between Men and Women, and how Moosie’s interest in directing began when he was a little kid. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 525.6: Moosie Drier talks to Ed about what a mensch Bill Daily was on the set of The Bob Newhart Show, as well as how Daily’s entrances as Howard likely influenced Michael Richards when he played Kramer on Seinfeld. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 525.7: Moosie Drier talks to Ed about meeting John Wayne on the set of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In; working as a voice actor; why being a director means being a good listener; and how he and James Garner both kept their cool when a rattlesnake disrupted production while filming an episode of Nichols. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 525.8: Ed shares a few thoughts on the passing of legendary talk show host Larry King. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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From February 2013: Ed welcomes Christopher and Linda Lewis, curators of the Loretta Young estate. Christopher’s mom, Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning actress Loretta Young, was one of the first major motion picture stars to not only embrace television, but leave her mark on it, which she did as the star and producer of The Loretta Young Show, the long-running NBC drama that remains one of the best anthology series to come out of the Golden Age of Television. 2013 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Loretta Young, as well as the 60th anniversary of the premiere of The Loretta Young Show. Topics this segment include how The Loretta Young Show was Young's show in every sense of the word, allowing her to play a wide array of characters, many of which went against her glamorous cinematic image. About 100 episodes of The Loretta Young Show are available through Shout! Factory as part of the excellent 100th anniversary DVD box set. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From February 2013: Ed welcomes Christopher and Linda Lewis, curator of the Loretta Young estate. Christopher’s mom, Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning actress Loretta Young, was one of the first major motion picture stars to not only embrace television, but leave her mark on it, which she did as the star and producer of The Loretta Young Show. Topics this segment include how Young insisted on bringing motion picture production values to each episode of her series (making them high quality "mini movies") and how she was a hands-on producer at a time when TV production was mostly male-driven. About 100 episodes of The Loretta Young Show are available through Shout! Factory as part of the excellent 100th anniversary DVD box set. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From February 2013: Part 3 of our conversation with Christopher and Linda Lewis, curators of the estate of Loretta Young, and executive producers of the 100th anniversary DVD box set from Shout! Factory featuring approximately 100 episodes of The Loretta Young Show, plus many extra features. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From February 2013: Christopher and Linda Lewis, curators of the Loretta Young estate, talk to Ed about how Christopher’s mom, Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning actress Loretta Young, not only embodied the best aspects of the old Hollywood studio system, but mentored many young actors later in her career, including Dennis Hopper. About 100 episodes of The Loretta Young Show are available through Shout! Factory as part of an excellent 100th anniversary DVD box set. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 524.1: Ed plays highlights of our May 2011 conversation with Peter Mark Richman, the accomplished actor, author, artist, and Renaissance man who passed away on Thursday, Jan. 14. Though mostly known by TV viewers for playing bad guys (particularly whenever he appeared on shows produced by Quinn Martin), Peter Mark starred as good guys both on Longstreet and Cain’s Hundred, plus he played Chrissy’s father, Reverend Snow, on the early years of Three’s Company. He also enjoyed a concurrent career as a writer for the stage, for film, and long and short fiction. Topics this segment how Peter Mark’s writing career began during the Golden Age of Television, with encouragement from Paddy Chayefsky; why he particularly liked writing short stories; his long association with Quinn Martin, which began in the early 1950s; and working with director Martin Ritt in The Black Orchid. Peter Mark’s autobiography, I Saw a Molten White Light: An Autobiography of My Artistic and Spiritual Journey, is available through BearManor Media. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 524.2: From May 2011: Peter Mark Richman talks to Ed about working in live TV during the Golden Age of Television; why stage work is the preferred medium for the total actor; why he is particularly proud of his play 4 Faces; and how he overcame being typecast as “grim-jawed” characters on television. Peter Mark Richman passed away on Thursday, Jan. 14 at age 93. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 524.3: From July 2018: Peter Mark Richman talks to Ed about working with Jack Klugman and Dorothy Dandridge on his series Cain’s Hundred (NBC, 1961-1962), as well as the interesting link between his character, prosecuting attorney Nicholas Cain, and then-U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; working with Gary Cooper and director William Wyler in Friendly Persuasion (1956); meeting Coretta Scott King; and the unique approach that Peter Mark took to playing villains on television. Peter Mark Richman passed away on Thursday, Jan. 14 at age 93; his autobiography, I Saw a Molten White Light: An Autobiography of My Artistic and Spiritual Journey, is available through BearManor Media. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 524.4: From January 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premieres of Dynasty and Hill Street Blues in 1981, and of Donny & Marie in 1976. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 524.5: A return visit by award-winning actress, singer, comedienne, and producer Kat Kramer (Turnover, Child of the ’70s, Mother’s Day Memories). Kat’s heartfelt musical tribute to Lily Tomlin is among the many videos that you can enjoy on demand—and for free—right now on the new HMP Celebrity Showcase YouTube channel. Launched in December 2020, the HMP Celebrity Showcase features highlights from some of the many tributes to radio and TV luminaries that have been presented over the years by Hollywood Media Professionals. As HMP events are usually membership-exclusive, these videos are available for public viewing for the first time and provide a front row seat to Hollywood royalty. Lily Tomlin was the HMP Celebrity Showcase honoree for the month of December; Rich Little is the honoree for January, while the late Carl Reiner will be honored in February. New videos are posted every Sunday on the HMP Celebrity Showcase YouTube channel. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 524.6: Singer, actress, and comedienne Kat Kramer talks to Ed about Mother’s Day Memories, the acclaimed short film that explores the effects of Alzheimer’s disease on families; how Tracey Ullman, Martin Short, and Peter Sellers all inspired the various characters that Kat created for Child of the ’70s; and the legend behind the haunted house in Hollywood in which Kat was born. Kat’s heartfelt musical tribute to Lily Tomlin is among the many videos that you can enjoy on demand—and for free—right now on the new HMP Celebrity Showcase YouTube channel. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 524.7: Actress, author, and life coach Sterling Mire tells Ed how a chance encounter with actor Gary Oldman set her on the path to developing AOM, the Art of Manifestation, a four-step method that explains the creation process in a simple, concrete way that can help you achieve your goals and avoid the obstacles that can get in your way. Sterling’s book, The AOM System: Manifestation Mastery in 30 Days, is available through Amazon.com and other online retailers. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From January 2012: Ed welcomes actress and author Julie Adams (The Creature from The Black Lagoon, Man from the Alamo, The Jimmy Stewart Show, Murder She Wrote) and Emmy Award-winning film editor Mitchell Danton (Survivor, The Path to 9/11), co-authors of Julie’s memoir, The Lucky Southern Star. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From January 2012: Ed welcomes actress and author Julie Adams (The Creature from The Black Lagoon, Man from the Alamo, The Jimmy Stewart Show, Murder She Wrote) and Emmy Award-winning film editor Mitchell Danton (Survivor, The Path to 9/11), co-authors of Julie’s memoir, The Lucky Southern Star. Topics this segment include why The Creature from the Black Lagoon stands out from most other horror movies because the audience feels empathy for the Creature. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From March 2016: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember Abe Vigoda, the actor best known to TV viewers as Fish on Barney Miller (ABC, 1975-1982). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From March 2016: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the legacy of Barney Miller (ABC, 1975-1982), including how the show endured despite several cast changes and a significant change in format. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 523.1: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the life and career of Dawn Wells, the iconic actress, author, and producer who passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 30 at age eighty-two. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 523.2: Emmy Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated writer/producer Geoffrey Mark talks to Ed about Dawn Wells’ innate interest in learning everything she could about the world, how things worked, and about the people she encountered, whether they were fans, friends, or loved ones. Geoff knew Dawn Wells for more than twenty-five years. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 523.3: Geoffrey Mark shares a few more memories of his friend Dawn Wells, including her proclivity for letting the people in her life shine as people. Dawn Wells passed away Wednesday, Dec. 30 at age eighty-two. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 523.4: Ed plays highlights from the September 2019 ceremony at the Hollywood Museum honoring Dawn Wells and the legacy of Gilligan’s Island, including remarks by actress Ruta Lee, producer Lloyd Schwartz, and Dawn Wells herself. This segment also includes a clip from our July 2017 conversation with actor Michael Dante in which he speaks fondly about working with Dawn on the 1975 western Winterhawk. Dawn Wells passed away Wednesday, Dec. 30 at age eighty-two. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 523.5: Bill Funt, son of Candid Camera creator Allen Funt, and a longtime friend of Sherwood Schwartz and the family members of many Gilligan’s Island cast members, shares some memories of his friend Dawn Wells, including how reverent she was about people and all kinds of life, and how close she became to comedienne Samantha Hale, granddaughter of “Skipper” Alan Hale. Bill knew Dawn Wells for more than ten years. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 523.6: Bill Funt talks to Ed about how Mary Ann made Dawn Wells a beloved icon around the world, almost on the same level as The Beatles. Dawn Wells passed away Wednesday, Dec. 30 at age eighty-two. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 523.7: From July 2017: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome Dawn Wells, star of Gilligan’s Island, Life Interrupted, Winterhawk, and more than sixty stage productions. Of Dawn’s three appearances on TV Confidential, this is my personal favorite. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From July 2017: Dawn Wells talks to Ed, Tony, and Donna about how much of the appeal of Gilligan's Island stems from the casting of the actors who played the seven castaways, and particularly the Laurel and Hardy-like comic timing of Bob Denver and Alan Hale. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 523.9: From July 2017: Ed, Tony, and Donna talk to Dawn Wells about some of her many non-Gilligan credits, including the classic western Winterhawk and the stage production of The Owl and the Pussycat (one of Dawn’s favorite roles), and the highly rated made-for-TV movies she produced about the back stories of Gilligan’s Island and Batman. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 523.10: Ed reads a brief passage from Russell Johnson’s foreword to Dawn Wells’ book What Would Mary Ann Do? A Guide to Life that captures why we all continue to love Dawn Wells and the Mary Ann character. Dawn Wells passed away Wednesday, Dec. 30 at age eighty-two. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2014: Ed and Greg Ehrbar discuss the cross-generational appeal of actress Betty White. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2014: Ed and Greg Ehrbar discuss the Shout! Factory/Mill Creek Entertainment DVD release of episodes from Betty White's first two TV series, Life with Elizabeth and A Date with the Angels. Topics include how White's experience hosting the local TV talk show Hollywood on Television led to Life with Elizabeth; White's longtime connection with game show legends Jack Narz and Tom Kennedy; and how White's career spans the history of television itself. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 522.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began on our Dec. 18-20 program with television writer and producer Paul Robert Coyle. Paul’s memoir, Swords, Starships and Superheroes, not only includes great behind-the-scenes stories of his experiences on such shows as The Streets of San Francisco, Barnaby Jones, CHiPs, Crazy Like a Fox, Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Incredible Journeys, and Stephen King’s The Dead Zone, but includes many useful tips on how to pursue a career as a professional writer—whether you want to write for television or any other form. Topics this segment include Paul’s work with producer Philip Saltzman on Barnaby Jones and Jake and the Fatman; why writer/producer Ed Lakso was an early inspiration for Paul; and what to keep in mind when writing for certain TV actors. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 522.2: Television writer/producer Paul Robert Coyle talks to Ed about his experiences on Crazy Like a Fox and CHiPs, and the meetings he had with Peter Falk near the end of the ABC run of Columbo; the importance of paying attention to a producer’s notes whenever a writer receives them; and why even a one-line handwritten rejection note is better than no response at all. Paul’s memoir, Swords, Starships and Superheroes, includes many useful tips on how to pursue a career as a professional writer—whether you want to write for television or any other form. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 522.3: From July 2011: Ed welcomes Emmy Award-winning writer/producer William Link (Columbo, Mannix, Ellery Queen, Murder She Wrote, The Columbo Collection). This particular conversation originally aired as part of a tribute to Peter Falk. As such, we talked to Bill that day about the origins of Columbo (which Bill created along with his longtime collaborator, Richard Levinson); Falk’s friendship with Levinson and Link, which predated their work on the Columbo television series; how Falk came to be cast as Columbo; and the enduring appeal of the Columbo character. William Link passed away on Sunday, Dec. 27. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 522.4: Ed welcomes Carolyn Hennesy, the Emmy Award-winning actress who has played attorney Diane Miller on General Hospital for fourteen years and more than five hundred episodes. (Carolyn’s 500th episode aired on GH just before the Christmas holidays.) Topics includes how Carolyn approaches playing characters that are either downright evil or over the top; the fun she had filming The Swing of Things; how her interest in trapeze helped her cope with the industry-wide shutdown in production due to COVID-19; and why it’s impossible to listen to the music of ABBA and resist the urge to dance. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From January 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the many ways in which All in the Family changed television when it premiered on Jan. 12, 1971. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From January 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the many ways in which Batman changed the face of television when it premiered on Jan. 12, 1966. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 522.5: From July 2011: Emmy Award-winning writer/producer William Link, co-creator of Columbo, Mannix, Ellery Queen, Murder She Wrote, and other acclaimed TV-movies and TV series, gives Ed and his listeners a window into how he and his longtime collaborator Richard Levinson worked together. William Link passed away on Sunday, Dec. 27. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 522.6: From July 2011: From July 2011: Emmy Award-winning writer/producer William Link, co-creator of Columbo, talks to Ed about the three elements that comprise a typical Columbo story, including the final clue (or what Peter Falk liked to call “The Pop”). Other topics include The Columbo Collection, a series of original Columbo short stories, written by Bill, was published in 2011. William Link passed away on Sunday, Dec. 27. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started:
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From May 2011: Pete Duel biographer Paul Green talks to Ed about Duel's work on television in the mid 1960s, particularly when he starred in the Screen Gems comedies Gidget and Love on a Rooftop. Paul’s books include Pete Duel: A Biography, a comprehensive look at the life of the actor best known for playing Hannibal Heyes on Alias Smith and Jones. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From May 2011: Pete Duel biographer Paul Green talks to Ed about how Duel's confidence as an actor grown during the time he filmed Love on a Rooftop; the similarities in format and style between Rooftop and Bewitched; and how well Duel played off Rich Little when they worked together on the series. Paul’s books include Pete Duel: A Biography, a comprehensive look at the life of the actor best known for playing Hannibal Heyes on Alias Smith and Jones. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 445.3: Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter welcome Robert Hooks (Trouble Man, N.Y.P.D., Star Trek III: The Search for Spock), the Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated actor and producer who founded three significant African-American theatre companies: the Group Theatre Workshop in New York; the DC Black Repertory Company in his hometown of Washington, D.C.; and the internationally recognized Negro Ensemble Company in New York. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 446.3: Actress and author Joyce Bulifant (Match Game, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Love Thy Neighbor, Disney’s The Happiest Millionaire, Airplane!) talks to Ed and Greg Ehrbar about being directed by her son John Asher in the Amazon movie I Hate Kids and the independent film Taken. Joyce’s book, My Four Hollywood Husbands, is the inspiring story of how she overcame dyslexia, feelings of self doubt, and a series of marriages characterized by alcoholism, co-dependency and addictive behavior. This segment also pays tribute to Joyce’s late husband Roger Perry, the gifted actor and musical composer who made his final screen appearance in I Hate Kids. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 446.4: Actress and author Joyce Bulifant (My Four Hollywood Husbands) talks to Ed and Greg Ehrbar about the Disney TV series that nearly came about while she was filming The Happiest Millionaire; the trouble she had making eye contact with Raymond Burr when they worked together on Perry Mason; and how she nearly turned down Airplane! My Four Hollywood Husbands is the inspiring story of how Joyce overcame dyslexia, feelings of self doubt, and a series of marriages characterized by alcoholism, co-dependency and addictive behavior. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 445.4: Emmy Award-winning actor and producer Robert Hooks talks to Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter about the origins and legacy of the Negro Ensemble Company, one of the three significant African-American theatre companies that Robert founded. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 445.5: Emmy Award winner Robert Hooks shares a few memories with Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter about Jack Warden and Frank Converse, his co-stars on the groundbreaking police drama N.Y.P.D. (ABC, 1967-1969), the first TV cop show with the official imprimatur of the New York Police Department, the first network TV drama with an African-American star, and the first show to portray an African-American police officer as one of its regular characters. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From February 2016: Actor and artist Roy Thinnes (The Invaders, The X Files) talks to Ed about playing unorthodox psychiatrist James Whitman in The Psychiatrist (NBC, 1971), a six-episode series created by Richard Levinson and William Link and produced by Norman Felton. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From July 2011: William Link, co-creator of Columbo, Ellery Queen, Mannix and other classic TV series, talks to Ed about how he and Richard Levinson were actively involved in all aspects of the production of their projects (including casting). Other topics include That Certain Summer, the groundbreaking TV-movie starring Hal Holbrook that Levinson and Link wrote and produced in 1972, and The Gun, a controversial Movie of the Week, written and produced by Levinson and Link, that originally aired in 1974. William Link passed away on Sunday, Dec. 27 at age 87. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From October 2014: Ed, Tony and Donna welcome Dawn Wells, the actress known to three generations of television viewers as Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island. Dawn’s new book, What Would Mary Ann Do? A Guide to Life, takes the question “Ginger or Mary Ann” a step further by showing readers how Mary Ann would respond to the various changes in today’s culture that face women of all ages. The book also includes memories of Dawn’s life and career before and after Gilligan’s Island, while also paying tribute to each of her six fellow cast members. In this segment Dawn tells us that, because Mary Ann was the least developed character on Gilligan's Island going into production, she had to build the character from scratch, such that her values became Mary Ann's values, and vice versa. This marked the first of several appearances that Dawn made on our program. Dawn Wells passed away on Dec. 29, 2020 at age 82. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From October 2014: Ed, Tony and Donna welcome Dawn Wells, the actress known to three generations of television viewers as Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island. Dawn’s new book, What Would Mary Ann Do? A Guide to Life, includes memories of Dawn’s life and career before and after Gilligan’s Island, while also paying tribute to each of her six fellow cast members. In this segment Dawn talks about how part of the enduring appeal of Gilligan's Island is its timelessness. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From October 2014: Dawn Wells, the actress known to three generations of television viewers as Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island, shares a few more memories of her time "on the Island," including how she and her fellow cast members particularly enjoyed filming the various dream sequences on the show. Then, Ed, Tony, and Donna spend a few minutes talking amongst themselves about what a thrill it was to meet one of their favorite TV icons. Dawn Wells passed away on Dec. 30, 2020 at age 82. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From October 2010: Emmy Award-winning writer/producer William Link shares a few memories of his friend and colleague Stephen J. Cannell, including how Cannell, like Levinson and Link, was "obsessed" with writing (but in a good way). Cannell wrote "Double Exposure," one of the best episodes of the original Columbo, plus he briefly collaborated with Bill and Richard Levinson on Stone (ABC, 1980), a short-lived crime drama starring Dennis Weaver as a Joseph Wambaugh-like police detective. William Link passed away Dec. 27, 2020 at age 87. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From October 2010: Emmy Award-winning writer/producer William Link (Columbo, Mannix, Murder She Wrote, Ellery Queen) talks to Ed about his particular approach to writing, plus he mentions some of his favorite writers, including Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker. William Link passed away Dec. 27, 2020 at age 87. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From February 2017: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome back Jennifer Armstrong, author of Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted and All the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic. Topics this segment include how The Mary Tyler Moore Show celebrated Mary Richards' various friendships, both male and female, and how the series began focusing more on Mary's relationships with her professional family at WJM-TV in the last few years of the series. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 521.1: A return visit from longtime television writer Paul Robert Coyle (The Streets of San Francisco, Barnaby Jones, Crazy Like a Fox, Simon & Simon, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Incredible Journeys, Stephen King’s The Dead Zone). Paul’s memoir, Swords, Starships and Superheroes: From Star Trek to Xena to Hercules: A TV Writer’s Life Scripting the Stories of Heroes, is the story of how a young boy from Providence, Rhode Island not only decided when he was fourteen years old that he wanted to write for television, but embarked on that journey at age eighteen and overcame several obstacles before making his first sale at age twenty-five and remaining one of the most reliable writers in television ever since. Topics this segment include how, in some respects, Paul’s path to television began with the series Death Valley Days; his years studying screenwriting with Star Trek writer/producer D.C. Fontana; and how television is an industry built on relationships. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 521.2: Paul Robert Coyle talks to Ed about the importance of adapting to changes in the TV industry; the events that led to the first sale of one of his scripts (the Streets of San Francisco episode “The Honorable Profession”); how writing for television is a step process, and how the Quinn Martin operation embodied that. Paul’s memoir, Swords, Starships and Superheroes, includes many useful tips on how to pursue a career as a professional writer—whether you want to write for television or any other form. Available in paperback and as an eBook through Jacobs Brown Media Group, Amazon.com, and other online retailers. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 521.3: TV Confidential commemorates the recent 40th anniversary of the death of John Lennon by playing highlights from our December 2010 conversation with television producer and New York Times bestselling author Keith Elliot Greenberg. Keith's book December 8, 1980: The Day John Lennon Died not only provides a minute-by-minute, almost documentary-like look at the last day of John Lennon’s life, but is a moving account of Lennon’s life as a whole, his career with The Beatles, his relationship with Yoko Ono, and his impact on the world in general. Topics this segment include how Lennon’s infamous remark about the Beatles being bigger than Jesus has often been misconstrued, and the effect that remark eventually had on Mark David Chapman. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 521.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with actor, comedian, and voice artist Hank Garrett (Car 54, Where Are You?, Three Days of the Condor). Topics this segment include the events that brought Hank to the West Coast, including co-starring with James Earl Jones in the police drama Paris (CBS, 1979), and how that role stemmed from the time when Hank and Jones worked together on stage in New York. Hank’s memoir, From Harlem Hoodlum to Hollywood Heavyweight, is available through Briton Publishing, Amazon.com, and other online retailers. Proceeds from sales of Hank’s book will support Wounded Warriors and Disabled Veterans of America. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 521.4: TVC 521.5: Actor and comedian Hank Garrett talks to Ed, Tony, and Donna about the famous fight sequence between Robert Redford and him in Three Days of the Condor; his background in the martial arts; and the time when Elvis Presley asked Hank to spar with him. Hank’s memoir, From Harlem Hoodlum to Hollywood Heavyweight, is available through Briton Publishing, Amazon.com, and other online retailers. Proceeds from sales of Hank’s book will support Wounded Warriors and Disabled Veterans of America. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 521.6: From December 2010: More highlights from our conversation with New York Times bestselling author Keith Elliot Greenberg (December 8, 1980: The Day John Lennon Died). Topics this segment include Lennon’s accessibility with the public, including some of his notable encounters with fans; how pop culture would have changed, had Lennon lived; and how Lennon used his celebrity to affect change. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A special sneak preview of our upcoming interview with Emmy Award-winning actress Carolyn Hennesy (General Hospital). Carolyn's landmark 500th episode playing Diane Miller on General Hospital airs Tuesday, Dec. 22 on ABC. Our complete interview with Carolyn Hennesy will premiere on TV Confidential during the weekend of Jan. 8-10. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2013: "The Big Little Jesus," the second of two Christmas episodes that Jack Webb produced for Dragnet, aired on Dec. 24, 1953, both on television as well as for the radio version of Dragnet. "The Big Little Jesus" was reimagined for Dragnet 1967 as "The Christmas Story," airing on Dec. 21, 1967, and featuring many of the cast members from the 1953 episode. Also in this segment: Tony notes that, on Dec. 22, 1953, Dragnet became the first network TV series with a regular sponsor, Fatima cigarettes. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2013: "The Big .22 Rifle for Christmas," an episode of Dragnet in which Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith search for a missing boy three days before Christmas, airs on Dec. 18, 1952. An adaptation of an episode of the Dragnet radio series that originally aired in December 1949, this was the first of two Christmas episodes that Jack Webb produced for the original Dragnet TV series. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From November 2011: Greg Ehrbar and Ed discuss the career of Thurl Ravenscroft, the longtime voice of Tony the Tiger, and an accomplished recording artist whose bass vocals are heard on "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch," "This Ole House" (with Rosemary Clooney), and many projects for Walt Disney Records and the Walt Disney Company. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 520.1: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome back Hank Garrett, the actor, comedian, and voice artist that Baby Boomers around the world know as Officer Nicholson on Car 54, Where Are You? and that film buffs know as the homicidal postal worker in Three Days of the Condor. Topics this segment include working with the often cantankerous Al Lewis; how Hank learned to develop his talent for creating voices by watching Sid Caesar; and the year he spent in England working with David Frost on That Was the Week That Was. Hank’s memoir, From Harlem Hoodlum to Hollywood Heavyweight, is available through Briton Publishing, Amazon.com, and other online retailers. Proceeds from sales of Hank’s book will support Wounded Warriors and Disabled Veterans of America. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 520.2: Actor, comedian, and voice artist Hank Garrett talks to Ed, Tony, and Donna about how an intervention from Sammy Davis Jr. when Hank was thirteen years old saved him from a life on the streets and opened the doors for what would become a sixty-five-year career as an entertainer. Hank’s memoir, From Harlem Hoodlum to Hollywood Heavyweight, is available through Briton Publishing, Amazon.com, and other online retailers. Proceeds from sales of Hank’s book will support Wounded Warriors and Disabled Veterans of America.
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TVC 520.3: Actor James DuMont (The Righteous Gemstones, Spenser: Confidential) talks to Ed about Safety, a new drama that is now available for streaming on demand on Disney+, and The Underground Railroad, the highly anticipated miniseries from Amazon Prime Video, which is scheduled for release sometime in 2021. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 520.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Burt Ward, the actor known around the world as Robin the Boy Wonder on Batman (ABC, 1966-1968). With January 2021 marking the fifty-fifth anniversary of the premiere of Batman, Burt talks to Ed about working with Adam West, Julie Newmar, and Stanley Ralph Ross on the original Batman, and with William Shatner in the full-length animated feature Batman vs. Two-Face. Burt Ward—along with his wife Tracy—have been real-life super heroes to dogs and cats of all sizes and breeds for more than twenty-six years, advocating for the care and nutrition of our four-legged friends through their nonprofit organization, Gentle Giants Rescue. Gentle Giants has a line of all-natural pet products for dogs and cats that will help maximize both the life span and quality of life of your animal. Dogs who eat Gentle Giants Dog Food, and who follow the special Gentle Giants feeding and care program, have enjoyed healthy, active life spans of up to twenty-seven years with a wonderful quality of life. Gentle Giants pet products are available in more than 1,100 Target stories throughout the U.S., as well as more than 2,400 Walmart stores throughout the U.S. and more than 400 Walmart stores throughout Canada. You can also order them directly at GentleGiantsDogFood.com or GentleGiantsPetProducts.com. Gentle Giants Rescue is a nonprofit organization; all sales of Gentle Giants products go directly to the rescue. Burt and Tracy take no salary, nor make any money, from the sales of their pet products or from the rescue. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2010: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the death of Walt Disney on Dec. 15, 1966; the important role that the Disney theme parks have played in cementing Disney's legacy; and the mutually beneficial partnership between ABC and Disney in the 1950s that directly led to the construction of Disneyland. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 520.5: Ed welcomes Academy Award-winning, Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning actor Louis Gossett Jr. (An Officer and a Gentleman, Roots, Enemy Mine, Watchmen). Lou plays Pastor Jim, a blind man who befriends a drifter who appears to have miraculous powers, in The Reason, a faith-based film that becomes available on DVD and as a digital release on Tuesday, Dec. 15. Lou plays the title character in The Cuban, an award-winning independent film about a renowned musician with dementia who rekindles his spirit after befriending a nurse at his care home, plus he stars opposite Matthew Modine in Foster Boy, an award-winning legal drama, executive produced by Shaquille O’Neal, that brings to light many of the inequities of our foster care system. Both Foster Boy and The Cuban are available for viewing on demand right now on all major streaming platforms. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 520.6: Actor Louis Gossett Jr. (An Officer and a Gentleman, Roots, Enemy Mine, Watchmen) talks to Ed about his early comedic roles in movies and television; the particular challenges an actor faces when playing an actual person, such as Anwar Sadat or Satchel Paige; working with David Janssen and James Garner; and why it was never a good idea to play poker with Jack Elam. Lou plays Pastor Jim in The Reason, a faith-based film that becomes available on DVD and as a digital release on Tuesday, Dec. 15. He also plays the title character in The Cuban, and stars opposite Matthew Modine in Foster Boy. Both Foster Boy and The Cuban are available for viewing on demand right now on all major streaming platforms. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 520.7: Film and TV actor James DuMont (Safety, The Righteous Gemstones, Spenser: Confidential, The Underground Railroad) talks to Ed about the various safety regulations now in effect on film and TV sets because of COVID-19, and the importance of building relationships with producers and directors. James plays Mike Ferro in Safety, a new drama from Disney+ that is now available for streaming on demand. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2018: Greg Ehrbar and Ed discuss the lengths to which Rankin/Bass studied and replicated the dance moves of Fred Astaire during production of Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town and how Keenan Wynn, in some ways, channels his father, Ed Wynn, when performing "Put One Foot in Front of the Other." Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 519.1: Tony, Donna, and Ed pay tribute to Alex Trebek, the Emmy Award-winning game show host who presided over Jeopardy! for an astonishing thirty-six years, beginning in 1984 and continuing up until the time of his death. Alex Trebek passed away on Sunday, Nov. 8 at the age of eighty. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 519.2: Steve Beverly, game show historian and the host of Steve Beverly’s TV Classics, talks to Ed about Alex Trebek’s career in television before and during Jeopardy! He also shares some memories of his various encounters with Trebek—including the time they worked together in 1985 on a promotion for WWAY-TV, the Jeopardy! affiliate in Wilmington, North Carolina. Steve’s tribute to Trebek is available for viewing on demand at EPlusTV6.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 519.3: Our tribute to Alex Trebek continues with some thoughts from our friend Ruta Lee. One of the grande dames of Hollywood and the world of entertainment, Ruta Lee knew Alex Trebek for more than forty-five years—dating back to 1974, when they starred together on the NBC game show High Rollers—and remained dear friends up until the very end. One of the last things Trebek did was write the foreword to Ruta’s soon-to-be-published memoir, Consider Your Ass Kissed. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 519.4: Ruta Lee shares a few more insights into her friend Alex Trebek, including his passion for do-it-yourself projects and building things. Alex Trebek wrote the foreword to Ruta’s soon-to-be-published memoir, Consider Your Ass Kissed. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 519.5: Steve Beverly, game show historian and the host of Steve Beverly’s TV Classics, talks to Ed about the moment when Alex Trebek first came into his own as host of Jeopardy! as a result of the then-record cash winnings run of contestant Chuck Forrest during the 1985-1986 season. Trebek’s second year as host of the show. Steve’s tribute to Trebek is available for viewing on demand at EPlusTV6.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2010: Ed welcomes television producer and New York Times bestselling author Keith Elliot Greenberg. Keith's book December 8, 1980: The Day John Lennon Died not only provides a minute-by-minute, almost documentary-like look at the last day of John Lennon’s life, but is also a moving account of Lennon’s life as a whole, his career with The Beatles, his relationship with Yoko Ono, and his impact on the world in general. In this segment Keith discusses why Lennon particularly felt at home in New York, and how his book attempts to recreate the atmosphere of the City at the time Lennon lived there. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2010: Ed welcomes Keith Elliot Greenberg, author of December 8, 1980: The Day John Lennon, a minute-by-minute, almost documentary-like look at the last day of John Lennon’s life. In this segment Keith and Ed discuss the relationship between John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and how both were immediately attracted to each other because they both had the soul of an artist. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2010: Wesley Hyatt, author of Kicking Off the Week, a history of the first thirty-years of ABC's Monday Night Football, discusses the historic cut-in on Dec. 8, 1980, when Howard Cosell informed viewers of Monday Night Football of the death of John Lennon. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 519.6: Ed welcomes Burt Ward, the actor known around the world as Robin on Batman (ABC, 1966-1968). While Robin and Batman saved Gotham City and the world from super villains every week, Burt—along with his wife Tracy—have been real-life super heroes to more than 15,000 dogs of all sizes and breeds since 1994 through their nonprofit animal rescue organization, Gentle Giants Rescue. Besides finding forever homes for many dogs, Burt and Tracy have become advocates for the caring of our four-legged friends, including how to feed your dog, and—just as important—what to feed your dog. Toward that end, Gentle Giants has a line of all-natural dog food (and, now, cat food) that will help maximize both the life span and quality of life of your animal. Dogs who eat Gentle Giants Dog Food and who follow the special Gentle Giants feeding and care program have enjoyed healthy, active life spans of up to twenty-seven years with a wonderful quality of life. In this segment, Burt tells us how he first became involved with rescuing dogs. Gentle Giants pet products are available in more than 1,100 Target stories throughout the U.S., as well as more than 2,400 Walmart stores throughout the U.S. and more than 400 Walmart stores. Gentle Giants Rescue is a nonprofit organization; all sales of Gentle Giants products go directly to the rescue. Burt and Tracy take no salary, nor make any money, from the sales of the dog food or cat food, or from the rescue. To learn more, go to GentleGiantsDogFood.com or GentleGiantsPetProducts.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 519.7: Actor and animal care and nutrition advocate Burt Ward talks to Ed about how his nonprofit organization, Gentle Giants, expanded from dog food to cat food; shares some tips on the proper care and feeding of your animal; and previews the exciting, new virtual fan experience that he will be offering fans of Batman in 2021. Gentle Giants pet products are available in more than 1,100 Target stories throughout the U.S., as well as more than 2,400 Walmart stores throughout the U.S. and more than 400 Walmart stores. Gentle Giants Rescue is a nonprofit organization; all sales of Gentle Giants products go directly to the rescue. Burt and Tracy take no salary, nor make any money, from the sales of the dog food or cat food, or from the rescue. To learn more, go to GentleGiantsDogFood.com or GentleGiantsPetProducts.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 519.8: Steve Beverly, game show historian and host of Steve Beverly’s TV Classics, talks to Ed about the particular qualities that Jeopardy! producers look for when choosing contestants for the program, including skills in gamesmanship and communications. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From November 2011: Phil Gries plays audio highlights from the Nov. 23, 1961 edition of Joe Franklin's Memory Lane in which songwriter Johnny Marks ("Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer," "Holly Jolly Christmas") tells Joe why Gene Autry was originally reluctant to record "Rudolph," and who Marks originally wanted to record the song. This segment aired as part of a special edition of The Sounds of Lost Television that saluted the career of talk show pioneer Joe Franklin. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2010: Wesley Hyatt, author of Kicking Off the Week: A History of Monday Night Football on ABC Television, talks to Ed about the many ways in which Monday Night Football owed its immediate success in 1970 to Don Meredith. Meredith not only provided the perfect foil for Howard Cosell every week, but conveyed a looseness to each broadcast that you didn't always see in football announcers at the time. Don Meredith passed away on Dec. 5, 2010 at age 72. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2010: Part 2 of our roundtable discussion about Saturday morning cartoons from the 1960s and '70s, an era of appointment viewing for many of us that is sadly lost today. Topics this segment include the various live-action Saturday morning shows produced by Filmation Associates and Sid & Marty Krofft Productions during the mid 1970s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2010: Tony, Donna, and Ed with a look back at Jonny Quest, Scooby Doo, Where Are You?, Schoolhouse Rock, classic Bugs Bunny and other favorite Saturday morning cartoons---a touchstone of childhood, particularly for those of us who grew up in the 1960s and '70s, that has virtually disappeared from network television in recent years. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 518.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with actress, photographer, clothes designer, educator, activist, and author Daphne Maxwell Reid (The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Sister, Sister, Jacqueline and Jilly, Simon and Simon, WKRP in Cincinnati, Frank’s Place). Topics this segment include Daphne’s mini-memoir, Grace + Soul & Mother Wit, in which she shares many recipes from her family (and the stories behind them); how her marriage to actor Tim Reid stems, in part, from their mutual interest in photography; and the pivotal role that Robert Conrad played early in her acting career. Daphne’s new holiday movie, The Business of Christmas, premieres Tuesday, Dec. 1 on BET+ (with additional airings throughout December). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 518.2: Actress, author, photographer, clothes designer, seamstress, and self-described “fabric-aholic” Daphne Maxwell Reid talks to Ed about her process for designing clothes and how every design begins with her choice of fabric. She also reflects on the recent election of U.S. Senator Kamala Harris as the first female and the first African-American to be elected Vice-President of the United States. Daphne Maxwell Reid can be seen in the cast reunion of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air that is now airing on HBO Max. She also stars in The Business of Christmas, a new holiday movie that premieres Tuesday, Dec. 1 on BET+ (with additional airings throughout December). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 517.1: Ed welcomes Emmy-nominated writer, producer, actor and playwright Billy Van Zandt (I Love Lucy: The Very First Show, Martin, The Hughleys, Newhart). Billy’s memoir, Get in the Car, Jane! Adventures in the TV Wasteland, not only provides a front row seat to the absurdity that often goes on behind the scenes of network TV sitcoms, but provides useful tips on how to deal with the day-to-day frustrations of your job, no matter what you do for a living. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 517.2: Emmy-nominated writer/producer Billy Van Zandt (I Love Lucy: The Very First Show, Martin, The Hughleys, Newhart) talks to Ed about the similar approach that Martin Lawrence and Jerry Lewis had as comedians; why the production of Martin reminded him of his experience behind the scenes on Newhart; and why working with Don Rickles on Daddy Dearest remains his favorite experience in television. Billy’s memoir, Get in the Car, Jane! Adventures in the TV Wasteland, is available in paperback and as an eBook. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 517.3: Game show historian and TV host Steve Beverly (Steve Beverly’s TV Classics) shares some thoughts on who might be named the next host of Jeopardy! and the particular challenges facing that successor in light of the passing of Alex Trebek. Steve Beverly’s TV Classics paid tribute to Trebek’s early game show career; that program is now available for viewing on demand at EPlusTV6.com. TV Confidential will air a formal tribute to Alex Trebek on our Dec. 4-6 program. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 517.4: Part 2 of our conversation that began last week with groundbreaking comedian Tom Dreesen. Tom provides insight on how to find your own voice as a stand-up comedian, plus he shares the invaluable advice that Jack Benny once gave Tom early in his stand-up career. Tom Dreesen’s memoir, Still Standing: My Journey from Streets and Saloons to the Stage, and Sinatra, not only includes great stories of Tom’s working with Tim Reid, Sammy Davis Jr., and Frank Sinatra, but shows readers why his roots in Harvey, Illinois have always been central to his life and career. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 517.5: Ed welcomes actress, photographer, clothes designer, and author Daphne Maxwell Reid (The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Sister, Sister, Jacqueline and Jilly, WKRP in Cincinnati, Frank’s Place). Daphne can be seen in the cast reunion of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air that is now streaming on HBO Max. She also stars in The Business of Christmas, a new holiday movie that will premiere on BET+ on Tuesday, Dec. 1 (with additional airings throughout December). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 517.6: From April 2011: Phil Gries plays a clip from the Mar. 19, 1967 telecast of Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun on NBC starring Ethel Merman. As no known video of this production exists, this truly is an example of The Sounds of Lost Television. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2013: Actress and producer Sheree J. Wilson shares a few memories about her years starring on Dallas and Walker: Texas Ranger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From March 2012: Tony, Donna and Ed remember “A House Divided,” the famous episode of Dallas that launched the “Who Shot J.R.?” phenomenon of 1980, and how a perfect storm of events that summer fueled worldwide interest in the outcome of the cliffhanger. “A House Divided” originally aired March 21, 1980; "Who Done It," the episode that revealed J.R.'s assailant, originally aired Nov. 21, 1980. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2018: Game show legend Wink Martindale talks to Ed about his long association with Elvis Presley, which began in July 1954 and continued until the day The King died. Wink was at radio station WHBQ in Memphis, TN on the night when an Elvis Presley record ("That's Alright, Mama") was played on the radio for the very first time, launching a phenomenon that has never stopped. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 516.1: Tony, Donna, and Ed commemorate the passing of broadcast legend Hugh Downs earlier this year as part of a special edition of This Week in History. Topics this segment include what a versatile performer Downs was: He anchored news programs (Today, 20/20), hosted game shows (Concentration), co-hosted The Tonight Show with Jack Paar (and filled in for Paar as host on many occasions), and even performed in comedy sketches with Jack Benny and Sid Caesar. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 516.2: Tony, Donna, and Ed continue their tribute to Hugh Downs in this special edition of This Week in History. Topics this segment include Downs’ impact on TV journalism: He established a level of trust with viewers and interview subjects alike, regardless of the subject matter. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 516.3: From November 2010: Ed and Tony welcome Ken Corday, executive producer of Days of Our Lives. Ken’s book, The Days of Our Lives: The True Story of One Family’s Dream and The Untold History of Days of Our Lives, not only chronicles the history of Days of Our Lives on television, but pays tribute to his parents, Ted and Betty Corday, the creators and original executive producers of the series. Days of Our Lives marked its fifty-fifth anniversary on television earlier this week. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 516.4: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome back entertainment legend and comedy pioneer Tom Dreesen. Tom’s memoir, Still Standing: My Journey from Streets and Saloons to the Stage, and Sinatra, not only includes great stories of Tom’s years working with Tim Reid, Sammy Davis Jr., and Frank Sinatra, but, in many respects, is a story that embodies the American Dream. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 516.5: Actor, comedian and motivational speaker Tom Dreesen talks to Ed, Tony, and Donna about the generosity that both Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. extended to him throughout his career. Tom’s memoir, Still Standing: My Journey from Streets and Saloons to the Stage, and Sinatra, is available in paperback and as an eBook through Post Hill Press and Amazon.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 516.6: From November 2010: Ken Corday, executive producer of Days of Our Lives, talks to Ed and Tony about some of the notable storylines of the first twenty years of Days of Our Lives, as well as the show’s occasional struggles with network Standards and Practices over certain subject matters (and, in more recent years, product placement). Ken’s book, The Days of Our Lives: The True Story of One Family’s Dream and The Untold History of Days of Our Lives, not only chronicles the history of Days of Our Lives on television, but pays tribute to his parents, Ted and Betty Corday, the creators and original executive producers of the series. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From April 2019: Actress Lee Purcell (Carol of the Bells, Adam at 6 A.M., Big Wednesday) shares some memories of working with James Garner on The Rockford Files and with Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno in The Incredible Hulk Returns. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From March 2014: Kimberly Johnson, daughter of Russell Johnson, tells Ed, Tony, Donna, and guest co-host Bill Funt why her dad and the other cast members on Gilligan's Island particularly enjoyed filming the episodes that included dream sequences. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From March 2014: Ed, Tony, Donna and guest co-host Bill Funt welcome Kimberly Johnson, the daughter of Russell Johnson, the actor known to three generations of television viewers know Russell Johnson as “The Professor” on Gilligan’s Island. In this segment we ask Kimberley when she first realized the impact that the popularity of Gilligan's Island had on viewers and on her family. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 515.1: Ed welcomes actress, writer and producer Liliana Tandon. Liliana wrote and stars in A Ring for Christmas, a new romantic comedy that also features Lorraine Bracco (The Sopranos, GoodFellas) and Michael Gross (Family Ties). A Ring for Christmas will air several times throughout November and December on UPtv and on the Philo app. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 515.2: Greg and Ed discuss the DVD release of The Joe McDoakes Collection starring George O’Hanlon (and produced and directed by Richard L. Bare), and how fans of The Jetsons can hear the intonations of George Jetson in O’Hanlon’s voice as he plays McDoakes. Available from Warner Archive. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 515.3: Greg and Ed discuss the Blu-ray release of The Jetsons that includes the original twenty-four episodes from 1962 featuring the voices of George O’Hanlon and Jean Vander-Pyl. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 515.4: Greg and Ed discuss the DVD releases of such Jetsons titles as Rockin’ with Judy Jetson, Jetsons: The Movie, and The Jetsons & WWE Robo-Wrestlemania. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 515.5: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome back actor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Anson Williams (Happy Days, Harvest Time, Alert Drops).Topics include the Oct. 25 reunion of Happy Days cast members that raised funds for Wisconsin Democrats; Anson’s efforts to emergency medical technicians in various U.S. hotspots so they can remain alert naturally during the COVID-19 pandemic; and why Happy Days continues to have a positive impact on viewers more than forty-five years later. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 515.6: Actor and entrepreneur Anson Williams talks to Ed, Tony, and Donna about the new version of “Pump Your Blood,” the song he made famous on Happy Days, in an effort to teach children the importance of washing their hands to stop the spread of COVID-19; plus he shares a few memories of meeting Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Don Sutton while practicing at Dodger Stadium with the Happy Days softball team. This segment also includes a clip from our May 2014 conversation with Marion Ross. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 515.7: Actress and documentary filmmaker Penny Peyser (All the President’s Men, The Tony Randall Show, The In-Laws, Crazy Like a Fox, Trying to Get Good, Stillpoint) talks to Ed about her new web series, Sonnets from Suburbia, plus she’ll shares a few memories of working with Jack Warden on Crazy Like a Fox. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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From November 2010: Ed and Tony welcome Ken Corday, executive producer of Days of Our Lives and the author of The Days of Our Lives: The True Story of One Family’s Dream and The Untold History of Days of Our Lives, a history of Days of Our Lives on television. This conversation originally aired on Nov. 8, 2010, the day that marked the 45th anniversary of the show's premiere on NBC. In this segment, Ken talks about the emotional connection that viewers of Days have to the hourglass logo and narration by Macdonald Carey that begins each episode, and why the show's opening will likely never change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From November 2010: Ed and Tony welcome Ken Corday, executive producer of Days of Our Lives and the author of The Days of Our Lives: The True Story of One Family’s Dream and The Untold History of Days of Our Lives, a history of Days of Our Lives on television that also pays tribute to his parents, Ted and Betty Corday, the creators and original executive producers of the series. Topics this segment includes how viewership of DOOL has often branched from one generation to another, and why the set of the show has always been a welcoming environment for actors. Our colleague Donna Allen appeared in more than twenty episodes of DOOL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From May 2012: Ed welcomes Mike Pingel, author of Channel Surfing: Wonder Woman, everything you wanted to know about the classic TV series from the 1970s starring Lynda Carter, including a detailed episode guide, information about the designs behind Wonder Woman’s various costumes, interviews with Lynda Carter, series producer Douglas S. Cramer, guest stars Joan Van Ark and Stella Stevens, and much, much more. Topics this segment include how Carter not only embraced the Wonder Woman character and made it her own, but was instrumental in creating the famous "spin transformation" that is now part of the Wonder Woman lore. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 514.1: Screenwriter, filmmaker and TV and film historian Gary Gerani (Pumpkinhead, Vampirella, Fantastic Television) discusses the 50th anniversary Blu-ray release of Fear No Evil and Ritual of Evil, the highly acclaimed made-for-TV movies starring Louis Jourdan that not only were two of the first made-for-TV horror movies, but paved the way for such later supernatural TV efforts as The Sixth Sense, The Night Stalker, and The X Files. Fear No Evil and Ritual of Evil also marked Billy Goldenberg’s first works as a full-length film composer. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 514.2: Screenwriter, filmmaker and TV and film historian Gary Gerani shares a few memories of his longtime friendship with Billy Goldenberg, the Emmy-winning composer who passed away earlier this year at age 84. Known for his work in television, including the early work of Steven Spielberg (Duel, the pilot for Night Gallery, and the premiere episode of Columbo), Goldenberg set the tone for the distinctive sounds of many TV shows and TV-movies throughout the 1970s and ’80s. Gary is currently editing a documentary about the Goldenberg’s life and career, plus he provides commentary for the 50th anniversary Blu-ray release of Fear No Evil and Ritual of Evil available from Kino Lorber. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 514.3: Music and TV historian Geoffrey Mark joins Ed for a remembrance of singer/songwriters Helen Reddy and Mac Davis. Both artists changed music at a time, the 1970s, when pop music was somewhat schizophrenic. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 514.4: Ed welcomes actress and documentary filmmaker Penny Peyser (All the President’s Men, The Tony Randall Show, The In-Laws, Crazy Like a Fox). Penny’s latest film, Stillpoint, offers viewers a window into the lives of members of a Zen community in Santa Cruz, California. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 514.5: Actress and documentary filmmaker Penny Peyser and Ed discuss Trying to Get Good, her critically acclaimed portrait of trumpet player extraordinaire Jack Sheldon. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 514.6: From April 2015: Ed welcomes Sylvia Resnick, longtime entertainment journalist and former staff editor for Rona Barrett’s Hollywood. Sylvia’s book The Evolution of the Hollywood Heartthrob profiles some of the greatest male heartthrobs in film and TV history, from Douglas Fairbanks and Rudolph Valentino, to Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, Chad Everett, Robert Redford and Burt Reynolds. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From October 2013: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the many ways in which Miami Vice left its mark on network television. The original soundtrack for Miami Vice reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts on Nov. 2, 1985 and would remain No. 1 for the next eleven weeks. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From February 2012: Actress Sherry Jackson (Make Room for Daddy, Come Next Spring, Gunn) talks to Ed about working with Adam West and Frank Gorshin on Batman; with Jack Kelly and Maverick on Maverick; and how her stepfather, screenwriter Montgomery Pittman, helped her make the transition from child actress to grown-up actress by writing characters specifically for her. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From February 2012: Actor and author Henry Winkler tells Ed and Gary Snyder how he came to write the Ghost Buddy children's book series; how he channeled who he wanted to be when he played The Fonz on Happy Days; and why being "cool" as an adult means being comfortable in your own skin. Audio courtesy The Gary Snyder Show. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 513.1: Game show historian Steve Beverly joins Ed as we pay tribute to Tom Kennedy, the legendary game show host who passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 7 at age 93. Topics this segment include how Kennedy, born James Edward Narz (and the younger brother of fellow game show host Jack Narz), came to be known by his famous stage name. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 513.2: Game show historian Steve Beverly talks to Ed about Tom Kennedy’s versatility as a game show host; how he and his real-life brother, Jack Narz, came to be related to fellow game show legend Bill Cullen; why many, including Kennedy himself, considered Cullen to be the best in the business; some insight on Kennedy’s experience hosting The Price is Right; and why You Don’t Say, Split Second and Name That Tune were all “Tom Kennedy shows.” Steve knew Tom Kennedy for more than twenty years. Tom Kennedy passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 7 at age 93. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 513.3: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Ed Asner, the eight-time Emmy Award-winning actor known around the world as Lou Grant both on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and his own hour-long spinoff series, Lou Grant. Topics include Ed’s experiences playing two other iconic characters: Santa Claus, which he famously did in Elf, and God Almighty, whom Ed has played on at least two occasions (including the critically acclaimed political comedy God Help Us). Ed Asner will star, along with Michael Shannon and Jordan Coley, in a virtual production of of God Help Us that will be streamed live via the Piven Theatre Workshop in Chicago on Saturday, Oct. 31 beginning at 6pm CT 4pm PT. Tickets begin at $22 for individual viewing, $35 for families (2-9 viewers on the same device), and $150 for groups (10 or more viewers on the same device). The running time for God Help Us is 90 minutes with no intermission. Immediately after the performance, Ed Asner, Michael Shannon, and Jordan Coley will participate in a live talk back with viewers; admission for that is $150 and includes your ticket to the performance. For tickets and more information, go to PivenTheatre.org or OntheStage.com/piven-theatre-workshop Ed Asner’s memoir, Son of a Junkman: My Life from the West Bottoms of Kansas City to the Bright Lights of Hollywood, features a host of great stories about his sixty-year acting career, including the challenges that Ed faced as president of the Screen Actors Guild; the backlash he faced from the El Salvador controversy in 1982, and the effect that had not only on Lou Grant, but his career in general; the influence that Ed’s father continues to have on his life today; plus tributes to each of his fellow cast members on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant. Ed’s book The Grouchy Historian—a collaboration with his longtime friend and fellow Mary Tyler Moore Show collaborator Ed. Weinberger—is a thoughtful and engaging look at the back story of the U.S. Constitution that is also very timely today. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 513.4: Music and TV historian Geoffrey Mark talks to Ed about why Tom Kennedy, Jack Narz and Bill Cullen were all great communicators as broadcasters and game show hosts. Geoff knew Tom Kennedy and Jack Narz for more than twenty years. Tom Kennedy passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 7 at age 93. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started:
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TVC 513.5: Ed welcomes actor, author, magician, and adventurer Rich Manley. Rich is the host, producer, writer and director of Culture Shock: Bridging Cultures Through Magic, a new series on Tubi that attempts to communicate the energy, humility, and compassion of people coming together through the shared experience of magic. Each edition of Culture Shock not only features dangerous stunts, exploration, tests of will, and illusions, but draws on Rich’s love of travel and his diverse background, which includes tutelage in the martial arts under Shaolin Monks; his interest in the films and career of Bruce Lee; and the wisdom of his grandfather, a world traveler who instilled in Rich his innate curiosity, his drive for excellence, and his skills in sleight of hand. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 513.6: Actor and magician Rich Manley talks to Ed about the upcoming occult thriller Angel One Eye; working with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in the movie Night and Day; and the eternal appeal of illusionist Harry Houdini. Rich is the host, producer, writer and director of Culture Shock: Bridging Cultures Through Magic, a new series on Tubi that attempts to communicate the energy, humility, and compassion of people coming together through the shared experience of magic. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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From May 2014: Marion Ross, the actress known around the world as Mrs. C on Happy Days, talks to Ed, Tony, and Donna about how the cast of Happy Days bonded together by playing softball, and how the Happy Days softball team toured to such places as Okinawa and East Germany. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From February 2014: Actor and author Michael Dante (Star Trek, Custer, Westbound, Winterhawk, Winterhawk's Land, The Naked Kiss, Somebody Up There Likes Me, From Hollywood to Michael Dante Way) talks to Ed about working with Elvis Presley in Kid Galahad (and why that movie was among The King's all-time favorites); how producer David Weisbart cast Michael as Chief Crazy Horse in The Legend of Custer as a result of his performance in Kid Galahad; and how producer Charles B. Pierce cast Michael in the title role of Winterhawk as a result of his performance in Custer. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember Tiny Tim's wedding to Victoria Budinger (a.k.a. Miss Vicki), which was nationally televised on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on Dec. 17, 1969. More than 21.1 million viewers tuned in that night, making it the highest-rated Tonight Show broadcast at the time. (Carson's highest-rated broadcast, of course, was the May 22, 1992 edition of The Tonight Show, his final night as host, when an estimated 55 million U.S. viewers tuned in.) Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From May 2011: TV Confidential celebrates what would have been Johnny Carson's 95th birthday with this clip from a special edition of The Sounds of Lost Television featuring rarely heard audio from The King of Late Night's first ten years as host of The Tonight Show. This segment includes a clip from the Oct. 1, 1963 edition of The Tonight Show, Carson's first anniversary show. Guests that night included singer/actress Abbe Lane and then-New York mayor Robert Wagner. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 512.1: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome back Stan Goldman, tenured professor of criminal law and evidence law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, and a longtime legal analyst for such national TV, radio and print venues as CNBC, CBS, King World, Fox News Channel, and the New York Daily News. Given the recent confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, many questions remain as to how the realities of replacing the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court may affect the 2020 presidential election and the landscape of our country in the years to come. Stan helps us sort through these issues (including some surprising options that have yet to be addressed), as well as whether Ginsburg’s death may have overshadowed her many accomplishments on the court. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 512.2: Stan Goldman, tenured professor of criminal law and evidence law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, provides analysis of some of the various issues following the death of Supreme Court Justice Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, including the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill Ginsburg’s seat, and the implications that could have on both the 2020 presidential election and the landscape of our country in the years to come. Also the founding director of the Loyola Center for the Study of Law and Genocide, Stan is the author of Left to the Mercy of a Rude Stream: The Bargain That Broke Adolf Hitler and Saved My Mother and the legal article “Breaking in Announcement Statutes,” the latter of which is recognized by both West and Deering’s as reference authority for the analysis of the U.S. and California knock and announce statutes. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 512.3: From May 2013: Ed welcomes Jennifer Armstrong, television historian and author of such books as Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted and All The Brilliant Minds Who Helped Make The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 512.4: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome back Ed Asner, the eight-time Emmy Award-winning actor known around the world as Lou Grant both on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and his own hour-long spinoff series, Lou Grant. The 2020-2021 television marks the fiftieth anniversary of the premiere of the Moore show and, by extension, the Lou Grant character. Ed Asner’s memoir, Son of a Junkman: My Life from the West Bottoms of Kansas City to the Bright Lights of Hollywood, not only pays tribute to each of his cast members on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, but reveals the persons on whom he based his portrayal of Lou Grant. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 512.5: Actor and author Ed Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant, Son of a Junkman) talks to Ed, Tony, and Donna about “Chuckles Bites the Dust,” arguably the most famous episode of the Moore show; how Lou Grant brought many viewers into the world of print journalism; and who Ed would like to see cast as himself, if a movie were made about his life. Son of a Junkman includes many stories about Ed’s sixty-year career, including the challenges that he faced as president of the Screen Actors Guild; the backlash he faced from the El Salvador controversy in 1982, and the effect that had not only on Lou Grant, but his acting career in general; and the influence that Ed’s father continues to have on his life. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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Part 3 of our discussion with Stan Goldman, tenured professor of criminal law and evidence law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, and the founding director of the Loyola Center for the Study of Law and Genocide. The son of a Holocaust survivor, Stan Goldman is also the author of Left to the Mercy of a Rude Stream: The Bargain That Broke Adolf Hitler and Saved My Mother, the remarkable but true story of how Nazi interior minister Heimrich Himmler spared the life of Stan’s mother, Malka Repstein, along with one thousand other Jewish women, in 1945—and how the saving of those lives ultimately led to the demise of Adolf Hitler. A page-turning narrative about a previously untold moment in world history, Stan’s book is also incredibly timely, given the political climate of today. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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From February 2013: Actor and author James McEachin (Tenafly, First Monday, Tell Me a Tale) talks to Ed about some of his many TV guest appearances in the 1970s, including working with Jack Webb, James Garner and David Janssen. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From October 2010: Actor and author Frank Bank (Leave It to Beaver, Call Me Lumpy) shares a few thoughts on the eternal appeal of Leave It to Beaver. This conversation was recorded on Oct. 16, 2010, a few hours after Barbara Billingsley passed away that day at age 94. Stu Shostak of Stu's Show co-hosts this segment. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From October 2010: Frank Bank, the actor known around the world as Lumpy Rutherford on Leave It to Beaver, shares a few memories of actress Barbara Billingsley, including why he considered her to be his "second mother," plus he shares a poignant story about the last time he saw Billingsley, at an event honoring Leave It to Beaver earlier in 2010. This conversation was recorded on Oct. 16, 2010, a few hours after Billingsley passed away that day at age 94. Stu Shostak of Stu's Show co-hosts this segment. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 511.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began earlier this year with Suzy Friendly about her thirty-five-year career in network television production. Suzy worked behind the scenes in many capacities, both above the line and below the line, in many genres, including variety specials; live telecasts such as the Emmy Awards, the NAACP Image Awards, and the Democratic National Telethon; such made-for-TV movies as Lisa, Bright and Dark; and many projects with Emmy Award-winning producer Bob Banner. Topics this segment include how Suzy became known among her colleagues as “The Shark.” Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 511.3: Greg Ehrbar reviews the Wonder Woman complete series Blu-ray release from Warner Archive. Topics this segment include how the 2017 Wonder Woman feature motion picture starring Gal Gadot compares with the classic Lynda Carter series. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 511.4: Greg and Ed talk about the differences between the CBS version of The New, Original Wonder Woman (1977-1979) and the thirteen ABC episodes (1976-1977), and how a fourth season of Wonder Woman would have looked like had it materialized. Wonder Woman: The Complete Collection is now available on Blu-ray from Warner Archive. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 511.4: Ed welcomes back Alison Arngrim, the actress known around the world as Nellie Oleson on Little House on the Prairie. Alison Arngrim is getting ready to direct Rich Little in his very first virtual concert performance, Rich Little... Virtually Speaking. While the Little concert marks mark Alison’s debut as a director, she has helped organize and produce many live comedy vehicles, plus she has become a pioneer in producing live virtual comedy performances in the era of COVID-19. Rich Little... Virtually Speaking will stream live on Thursday, Oct. 15 beginning at 8:30pm ET 5:30pm PT. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased by visiting StageIt.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 511.5: Alison Arngrim talks to Ed about Twice Upon a Song, an upcoming movie that completed production last month in Utah (following all safety precautions recently instituted by the film and TV industry) and which also marks her first on-screen acting role, post-COVID. Other topics include Alison’s involvement with Coach the World, where you can book a live interactive chat with your favorite celebrities or influencers; her daily live readings of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, which take place every day at 1:30pm PT on Alison’s Facebook page; and where you can purchase the various bonnets that Alison wears during each of her Little House readings. Alison Arngrim will direct impressionist Rich Little in Rich Little... Virtually Speaking, which will stream live on Thursday, Oct. 15 beginning at 8:30pm ET 5:30pm PT. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased by visiting StageIt.com. Alison herself will perform the virtual shows Nellie’s Scary Prairie on Thursday, Oct. 29 and Nellie’s Nasty Noel on Thursday, Dec. 17; both performances will stream live at StageIt.com on those respective dates. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 511.6: Greg Ehrbar looks back at The Peter Potamus Show (ABC, 1964-1966) as part of this bonus DVD report. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 511.7: Suzy Friendly talks some more with Ed about her career in TV production, including such projects as Laugh Trax, Presenting Susan Anton, the Democratic National Telethon, and the Emmy Awards telecast. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2013: Tony, Donna and Ed remember the five-year anniversary of the death of comedian George Carlin. Topics include Carlin's eternal fascination with language, his parodies of TV newscasts (often done with Flip Wilson), and, of course, hosting the premiere broadcast of Saturday Night Live on Oct. 11, 1975. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From February 2014: Tony, Donna and Ed welcome Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Alan Zweibel, one of the original writers of Saturday Night Live and the author of Bunny, Bunny, the story of Alan's relationship with comedienne Gilda Radner. Topics this segment include how The Dick Van Dyke Show first inspired Alan to become a comedy writer; how the only barometer for SNL's writers in the early going of the series was to make each other laugh; and the moment when Alan first realized that SNL had become a cultural phenomenon. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From October 2014: Ed welcomes Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad, co-authors of Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live, a behind-the-scenes look at the first ten years of the groundbreaking NBC late night series. Topics this segment include how the frankness and honesty of the early episodes of Saturday Night shocked many NBC executives (including those in Standards and Practices), and how executive producer Lorne Michaels fought tirelessly on behalf of the show over the network's efforts to censor certain material---including, in some cases, right up to the final minutes before airtime. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From April 2012: George Maharis talks to Ed about some of the many now-famous guest stars who appeared every week on Route 66; the long hours that he and Martin Milner spent on the road every week, filming the series in different locations across the country; and the unusual offer George once received from an admirer in Dallas, Texas. TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From February 2016: Author and actor James Rosin talks to Ed about working with Martin Milner on two occasions on Adam-12; how the chemistry between Milner and George Maharis on Route 66 stemmed from their contrasting styles as actors; and how Milner's performance as Sgt. Pete Malloy on Adam-12 inspired many viewers to become police officers. Jim's books on television include Route 66: The Television Series. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 510.1: Ed welcomes three-time Emmy nominated costume designer Diana Eden. Diana’s memoir, Stars in Their Underwear: My Unpredictable Journey from Broadway Dancer to Costume Designer for Some of Hollywood’s Biggest Stars, is the remarkable story of a how young girl from England, after finding her promising career as a ballerina snatched away at age sixteen, reinvents herself, with pluck and determination, as a Broadway dancer and actress before finding joy, fulfillment and tremendous success as a costume designer for such stars as Ann-Margret, Diana Ross, George Clooney, Cloris Leachman, Debra Messing, Lea Thompson, Betty White, Larry Hagman and legendary costume designer Bob Mackie. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 510.2: Emmy nominated costume designer Diana Eden talks to Ed about surviving the tragic fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in 1980; working with Cloris Leachman on The Facts of Life, Larry Hagman on Staying Afloat, and Debra Messing on Ned and Stacey; and traveling with Diana Ross as her costume designer for her European tour and iconic Central Park concert. Diana’s memoir, Diana’s memoir, Stars in Their Underwear: My Unpredictable Journey from Broadway Dancer to Costume Designer for Some of Hollywood’s Biggest Stars, is available in softcover and as an eBook. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 510.3: From February 2014: Phil Gries joins Ed in the studio for a special edition of The Sounds of Lost Television featuring audio highlights of how the network TV evening broadcasts covered the Beatles phenomenon in November 1963, three months before the band’s iconic appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on Feb. 9, 1964. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 510.4: Ed welcomes Bruce Morrow, the legendary radio personality known around the world as Cousin Brucie. As Cousin Brucie, Morrow introduced millions of listeners across the U.S. to The Beatles, Motown, 1960s soul, surf music, and other musical artists simply by playing their songs on his top-rated radio show. After a successful fifteen-year run on SiriusXM satellite radio, Morrow returned to terrestrial radio last month with Cousin Brucie’s Saturday Night Rock ’n’ Roll Party, a new, weekly Saturday night music show on WABC Radio in New York that not only marks a personal homecoming, but brings the essence of local radio to a national audience. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 510.5: National Radio Hall of Famer Bruce Morrow, aka Cousin Brucie, talks to Ed about his friendships with such music legends as The Beatles and Harry Chapin; the time he taught Bob Hope and Jackie Gleason how to become disc jockeys—live on the air; and why music is the food of love, especially in times such as these. Cousin Brucie’s Saturday Night Rock ’n’ Roll Party airs Saturdays 6pm ET 3pm PT on WABC Radio (New York City), WLIR-FM (Hampton Bays, NY), the WABC app, and nationally across all digital media platforms for streaming on your smartphone or smart speaker. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 510.6: From February 2014: Phil Gries plays audio highlights of a CBS Evening News report from Nov. 21, 1963 about the growing sensation over The Beatles, and a CBS Morning News segment with Mike Wallace that aired on Feb. 7, 1964, two days before their iconic appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From January 2018: Ken Berry talks to Ed about the circumstances that led him to join the cast of The Andy Griffith Show in 1968 and eventually take over as the series lead when the Griffith show morphed into Mayberry, RFD the following year. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From July 2013: Tony, Donna and Ed commemorate the one-year anniversary of the death of Andy Griffith. Topics include Griffith's work in A Face in the Crowd, No Time for Sergeants, The Headmaster and, of course, The Andy Griffith Show, as well as how Griffith fought hard to establish and protect the integrity of each of the characters on the Griffith show. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From May 2011: A special edition of The Sounds of Lost Television featuring rarely heard audio from Johnny Carson’s first few years as host of The Tonight Show, including a clip from an interview with Marlon Brando on May 15, 1963, and the first appearance of Carson as Carnac the Magnificent on May 19, 1964. The audio for this segment comes from the private collection of Phil Gries. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From May 2011: A special edition of The Sounds of Lost Television featuring rarely heard highlights from Johnny Carson’s first few years on The Tonight Show, including audio from Johnny’s debut broadcast of Oct. 1, 1962. Most of the tapes from the first decade of the Tonight Show broadcasts were erased by NBC, so this is a rare opportunity to hear the King of Late Night in his early days. The audio for this segment, which comes from the personal collection of Phil Gries, includes a clip from Carson's first monologue as Tonight Show host. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 509.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Emmy nominated writer, producer, and author Ted Bergman, Emmy nominated writer/producer and author of , Confessions of a Rogue TV Comedy Writer: Forty Years of Fame, Fear and Combat Inside the Writers Room. Topics this segment include working with Redd Foxx on Sanford and Son, as well as how Ted’s experience on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour led to assignments on other comedy/variety shows of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Confessions of a Rogue TV Comedy Writer not only includes behind the scenes stories of life in the writers room, but captures the highs, lows and various in-betweens that just about every professional writer experiences, no matter which genre or industry. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 509.2: An impromptu roundtable discussion with Tony, Donna, and Ed that celebrates the recent birthday of iconic producer Norman Lear. Topics include how All in the Family, Maude and other Lear-produced shows fared when slotted in the so-called “family viewing hour” (8pm to 9pm) of the mid-1970s. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 509.3: Tony, Donna, and Ed take a look at how Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Trevor Noah and other late night TV hosts have adjusted the formats and content of their shows in the months following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 509.4: Ed welcomes radio and TV host, producer, and novelist Tara Newley Arkle. Tara draws on her background in radio and music with her first novel, Radio Honey, a coming of age story about the simmering sexual tensions of an all-female radio station in London that also asks the eternal question “Is there a formula for love?” Radio Honey is available in paperback and as an eBook through Black Pawn Press, Amazon.com and other online retailers. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 509.5: Ed welcomes back actor, comedian, and impressionist Rich Little. Rich is getting ready for his very first virtual concert performance, Rich Little... Virtually Speaking, which will be streamed live from a socially distant location on Thursday, Oct. 15 beginning at 8:30pm ET 5:30pm PT. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased by visiting StageIt.com or TheRichLittle.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 509.6: Rich Little, America’s master mimic, talks to Ed about his work on such Screen Gems favorites as Love on a Rooftop and The Flying Nun; his friendships with David Janssen and Barry Morse of The Fugitive; and the unusual offer that David Niven made after Rich dubbed Niven’s voice in Curse of the Pink Panther and Trail of the Pink Panther. Rich Little... Virtually Speaking will be streamed live from a socially distant location on Thursday, Oct. 15 beginning at 8:30pm ET 5:30pm PT. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased by visiting StageIt.com or TheRichLittle.com. Rich Little is also the author of People I've Known and Been: Little By Little (recently re-released and now available online), a collection of stories and anecdotes of some of the many notable showbiz figures and politicians that he has impersonated over the years. The book also features more than 100 photographs (many of which are in color) plus some of Rich’s favorite original charcoal sketches. All proceeds from sales of the Little by Little book will support U.S. veterans, by way of the Gary Sinise Foundation. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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From July 2013: Tony, Donna, and Ed have an impromptu discussion about rediscovering The Odd Couple (ABC, 1970-1975) on MeTV and how the show is still consistently laugh-out-loud funny after more than four decades. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2013: Monty Hall gives Ed the backstory of the famous episode of The Odd Couple in which Felix and Oscar play Let’s Make a Deal (and a great deal of the "game" portion was ad-libbed), as well as Monty's encore appearance the following season in which he displayed his musical prowess. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From January 2014: Tony, Donna and Ed remember actor, comedian and voice artist Dave Madden (Reuben Kinkaid on The Partridge Family). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From August 2013: Oscar winner and TV icon Shirley Jones tells Ed that playing Shirley Partridge on The Partridge Family appealed to her because it allowed her to play a single working mom while also allowing her to stay at home and raise her real-life sons. Other topics include how Dabney Coleman made Shirley feel at home when she joined the cast of Slap Maxwell; how Shirley landed the role of Lulu Baines in Elmer Gantry as a result of a live TV appearance; and her favorite episode of The Partridge Family. Shirley Jones: A Memoir is available wherever books are sold. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 508.1: Part 1 of a two-part conversation with Emmy nominated writer, producer, and author Ted Bergman. Ted spent four decades writing and producing such TV comedy and variety shows as The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (where he was the youngest staff writer at the time, and the show for which he received his Emmy nomination), All in the Family, The Hollywood Squares, The Jonathan Winters Show, What’s Happening, Gimme a Break, The Munsters, and Sanford and Son. Ted’s memoir, Confessions of a Rogue TV Comedy Writer: Forty Years of Fame, Fear and Combat Inside the Writers Room, captures the highs, lows and various in-betweens that just about every professional writer experiences, no matter which genre or industry. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 508.2: Emmy nominated writer/producer Ted Bergman talks to Ed about his experience as a staff writer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (CBS, 1967-1969), and how that series was unusual because it was one of the few network shows in production at the time that welcomed younger writers. Ted’s memoir, Confessions of a Rogue TV Comedy Writer: Forty Years of Fame, Fear and Combat Inside the Writers Room, not only includes behind the scenes stories of working with the likes of Garry Shandling, Steve Martin, Redd Foxx, Flip Wilson, and Jonathan Winters, but captures the highs, lows and various in-betweens that just about every professional writer experiences, no matter which genre or industry. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 508.3: From 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of Truth or Consequences on CBS-TV on Sept. 7, 1950, ten years after the series originated on NBC radio in March 1940. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 508.4: Ed welcomes back Gigi Garner, daughter of beloved film and TV actor James Garner, and founder of the James Garner Animal Rescue Fund (JGARF), the nonprofit organization that is dedicated to raising funds to help rescue organizations, shelters, individuals, fosters, and veterans with emergencies, evacuations, medical care, adoptions, training, pet supplies, shelter, rehabilitation, boarding, transportation, food, and other pressing needs. Gigi started JGARF in June 2019 as a way for Garner fans to honor Jim’s memory and extend his legacy. Gigi Garner also runs the Official James Garner Facebook Page, where she shares personal photos of her dad off and on set. She also wrote a wonderful foreword to my book 45 Years of The Rockford Files that gives Garner fans a glimpse into who Jim was a person. 25 percent of all sales of 45 Years of The Rockford Files will support the efforts of the James Garner Animal Rescue Fund, plus if you order the book directly from Black Pawn Press, you will receive an exclusive bonus gift. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 508.5: Gigi Garner, daughter of James Garner and founder of the James Garner Animal Rescue Fund (JGARF), talks to Ed about the classic film Grand Prix, her dad’s passion for auto racing, and her brief stint as a private investigator. A nonprofit organization that raises money for animal rescue organizations, JGARF is one way for Garner fans to honor Jim’s memory and extend his legacy. Gigi Garner also runs the Official James Garner Facebook Page, where she shares personal photos of her dad off and on set. She also wrote a wonderful foreword to my book 45 Years of The Rockford Files that gives Garner fans a glimpse into who Jim was a person. 25 percent of all sales of 45 Years of The Rockford Files will support the efforts of the James Garner Animal Rescue Fund, plus if you order the book directly from Black Pawn Press, you will receive an exclusive bonus gift. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 508.6: Part 3 of a conversation that began last month with Union University journalism professor and television historian Steve Beverly. When he isn’t teaching, Steve hosts Steve Beverly’s TV Classics, a weekly three-hour TCM-like festival of classic shows from the 1950s and ‘60s that originates from EPlusTV Channel 6 in Jackson, TN, and which streams several times a week at EPlusTV6.com. Steve Beverly is also a member of the National Association on Mental Illness. As such, he is ready, willing and able to speak to any television news operation in America about depression, as well as coping with and surviving vulnerabilities to mental illness in the TV news profession. Contact Steve directly for more information about the seminars and webinars that he provides. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 508.7: TV host Steve Beverly gives Ed an idea of what’s on tap for over the next few weeks on Steve Beverly’s TV Classics, his weekly three-hour TCM-like festival of classic shows from the 1950s and ‘60s that originates from EPlusTV Channel 6 in Jackson, TN, and which streams several times a week at EPlusTV6.com. Steve Beverly is also a member of the National Association on Mental Illness. As such, he is ready, willing and able to speak to any television news operation in America about depression, as well as coping with and surviving vulnerabilities to mental illness in the TV news profession. Contact Steve directly for more information about the seminars and webinars that he provides. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2013: Jennifer Armstrong, author of Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted, talks to Ed, Tony and Donna about the famous "Chuckles Bites the Dust" episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and why Mary Tyler Moore initially had reservations about making it. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2012: Bill Daily shares some more memories of working with Larry Hagman, including the "Haven't I Seen Me Somewhere Before?" episode of I Dream of Jeannie (where Tony and Roger switch bodies) and visiting Hagman on the set of Primary Colors. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2012: Actor Bill Daily shares a few memories of working with Larry Hagman on I Dream of Jeannie. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From November 2012: An excerpt from an interview that actor Barry Morse (The Fugitive, Space: 1999, Remember with Advantages) gave to Dave White and Ed Robertson that originally aired on Talking Television with Dave White in May 2007, about nine months before Barry's death in February 2008. In this clip, Barry talks about his early television career, which began with many of the very BBC telecasts of the late 1930s; his work on American anthology shows in the 1950s; and his approach to playing Lieutenant Philip Gerard on The Fugitive. The accompanying photo of Barry with Ed Robertson was taken in November 1995. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 507.1: Film and TV biographer Paul Green pays tribute to James Drury, the actor known around the world as the star of The Virginian. James Drury passed away on April 6, 2020 at the age of 85. Paul’s books A History of Television’s The Virginian: 1962-1971, Pete Duel: A Biography, Jeffrey Hunter: The Film, Television, Radio and Stage Performances, and Roy Huggins: Creator of Maverick, The Fugitive, The Rockford Files and 77 Sunset Strip. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 507.2: From September 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at how network and cable TV news covered the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 507.3: From September 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember how the events of 9/11 put a hold on the world of late night comedy. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 507.4: A return visit by Emmy Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated writer, producer, singer, and author Geoffrey Mark (Ella: A Biography of the Legendary Ella Fitzgerald, Ethel Merman: The Biggest Star on Broadway, The Lucy Book). In this segment Geoff shares a few memories of his friendship with actor and voice artist Jack Riley (The Bob Newhart Show, Rugrats). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 507.5: Author and showbiz raconteur Geoffrey Mark (Ella: A Biography of the Legendary Ella Fitzgerald, Ethel Merman: The Biggest Star on Broadway, The Lucy Book) shares a few memories of his friendships with TV icons Pat Harrington, Rip Taylor, Tom Poston, and Suzanne Pleshette. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 507.6: Film and TV biographer Paul Green (A History of Television’s The Virginian: 1962-1971) talks to Ed about some of the other notable film and TV roles of actor James Drury, including Love Me Tender, Ride the High Country, and the Perry Mason episode “The Case of the Missing Melody.” James Drury passed away on April 6, 2020 at the age of 85. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From November 2011: Jon Winokur, co-author of The Garner Files, the memoirs of James Garner, talks to Ed about how Garner approached his craft as an actor and particularly how Garner never accepted a part unless he had a complete understanding of the character he played. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From November 2011: Jon Winokur, co-author of The Garner Files, the memoirs of James Garner, talks to Ed about how Garner's breach-of-contract lawsuit against Warner Bros. in 1960 helped lead to the end of the studio system in Hollywood. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2013: Ed welcomes Mark Pendergrast, author of For God, Country & Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It, an epic-length history of how the refreshment beverage that began as a medicinal product in 1886 not only evolved into the dominant consumer product in the United States, but, in many respects, came to be identified with America itself. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2013: Ed welcomes Mark Pendergrast, author of For God, Country & Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It. Topics this segment include the origins of such famous TV campaigns as “The Hilltop Ad” and “Thanks, Mean Joe” (as well as the differences in how Coke and Pepsi advertise their products), plus business lessons from Coca-Cola that any company can use. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From 2011: Phil Gries plays audio highlights from the last two seasons of the CBS News interview series Person to Person, including clips from a July 1960 interview with Gene Autry, a December 1960 interview with Spike Jones, and a June 1961 interview with Carol Burnett Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2013: Ed welcomes Tim Hollis, author of Part of a Complete Breakfast: Cereal Characters of the Baby Boom Era, a fun book that reveals the origins and appeal of the popular TV commercials from the’50s, ’60s and early 1970s featuring Cap’n Crunch, Sugar Crisp, Lucky Charms, Froot Loops, Fruity Pebbles, Quisp and Quake, the Trix Rabbit, the Cheerios Kid, Count Chocula, Franken Berry and numerous other mascots from popular breakfast cereals made by Kellogg’s, Post, Quaker, Ralston-Purina and other manufacturers. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2013: Ed welcomes Tim Hollis, author of Part of a Complete Breakfast: Cereal Characters of the Baby Boom Era. Topics this segment include the national competition between Quisp and Quake cereals; the 1976 ad campaign in which viewers finally let the Trix Rabbit eat some Trix; and how the efforts of the activist group ACT led to the demise of many cereal TV characters. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2013: Tim Hollis, author of Part of a Complete Breakfast: Cereal Characters of the Baby Boom Era, talks about Baron Von Redberry, Sir Grapefellow and other cartoon cereal characters that never quite caught on with the public. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From August 2017: Ed, Tony and Donna welcome Nichelle Nichols, the actress known around the world as Lieutenant Uhura on the original Star Trek and the first six Star Trek movies. Topics this segment include Nichelle's roots in her hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2011: Actor, author, screenwriter and director Walter Koenig (Star Trek, Babylon 5) talks to Ed about writing his comic books Raven and Things to Come, and particularly how he collaborates with Raven artist Henry Martinez and Things to Come artist Juan Carlos Baez in those respective projects. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2017: Greg Ehrbar tells Ed why CinderFella: The Album was harder to make than CinderFella: The Movie, while also sharing a few personal anecdotes about his encounters with the legendary entertainer. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2017: Ed and Greg look back at the life and career of actor, director and comedian Jerry Lewis and his impact on films, television, radio, movie theaters, and nightclub comedy. Topics include how Lewis' movies in the 1960s where essentially live-action cartoons, as well as whether Lewis actually said "Hey, Layyyy-deeee!" Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2017: Ed and Greg welcome Jeff Brodrick, purveyor of JerryLewisUnauthorized.com, the first website devoted to the life and career of Jerry Lewis. Topics this segment include how Lewis's long tenure with the annual Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon made him synonymous with Labor Day for many Baby Boomers. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2017: Jeff Brodrick, purveyor of JerryLewisUnauthorized.com and an acknowledged authority on the career of Jerry Lewis, tells Ed and Greg why The Colgate Comedy Hour was such a great vehicle for Lewis, given his skills as a live performer. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From May 2019: Ed welcomes Star Trek historian Mark Cushman, author of These Are the Voyages, a critically acclaimed three-volume history of the original Star Trek. Marc’s latest book, These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s, is a two-volume biography of the Great Bird’s ups and downs between the cancellation of the original Star Trek in 1969 to its triumphant return as a feature length major motion picture, in 1979. Topics this segment include how the initial grassroots Star Trek conventions of the early 1970s led to the birth of Star Trek: The Animated Series and, eventually, Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From May 2019: Ed welcomes Star Trek historian Mark Cushman, author of These Are the Voyages, a critically acclaimed three-volume history of the original Star Trek. Marc’s latest book, These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s, is a two-volume biography of the Great Bird’s ups and downs between the cancellation of the original Star Trek in 1969 to its triumphant return as a feature length major motion picture, in 1979. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 506.1: Ed welcomes author, screenwriter, USA Today opinion columnist, and educator Larry Strauss. Larry has taught high school English in South Los Angeles for nearly thirty years, while his books include The Facts of My Life, the memoir of his mother, stage and television actress Charlotte Rae. Topics this segment include the misguided federal pressure to reopen campuses in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fundamental question of what constitutes a school, and why so many aspects of classroom teaching cannot be replicated by distance learning. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 506.2: Author, screenwriter, USA Today opinion columnist, and high school educator Larry Strauss talks to Ed about working with his mother, Charlotte Rae, on her memoir, The Facts of My Life. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 506.3: Greg and Ed discuss the DVD release of The Practice (NBC, 1976-1977), the short-lived sitcom that, in many respects, was a change of pace for Danny Thomas. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 506.4: Actress Amy Stoch (Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Dallas, the Gunsmoke reunion movies) talks to Ed about reprising her role as Missy, Bill Preston’s stepmom, in Bill and Ted Face the Music. She also shares the story of the wonderful compliment that Barbara Bel Geddes paid her early during her arc on Dallas. Bill and Ted Face the Music is now showing in select drive-ins and is available for viewing on demand on many platforms. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 506.5: Actress Amy Stoch (Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Bill and Ted Face the Music) shares a few memories of playing Matt Dillon’s daughter in the Gunsmoke reunion movies. She also talks to Ed about her second career as an adjunct instructor at four universities (and the challenges of teaching her students online this past semester, in light of COVID-19). Bill and Ted Face the Music is now showing in select drive-ins and is available for viewing on demand on many platforms. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 506.6: Greg Ehrbar provides a thumbnail history of The Danny Thomas Show (ABC/CBS, 1953-1964), including how, in many respects, the series paved the way for such future sitcoms as The Andy Griffith Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show. Seasons Five and Six of The Danny Thomas Show are available on DVD through S’more Entertainment; Seasons Five, Six, and Seven are also available for streaming on demand on Amazon Prime. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From January 2011: Ed welcomes Ray Starman, author of TV Noir: The Twentieth Century, a book that discusses the portrayal of film noir in Dragnet, The Fugitive, The Untouchables, M Squad, The Lineup, The Prisoner, Miami Vice and other popular television series over the past six decades. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From Januay 2012: Ed welcomes Jacqueline Scott, the actress known around the world as Donna Kimble Taft on The Fugitive. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From January 2019: Tony, Donna, and Ed welcome Douglas Howard, editor of such books as Dexter: Investigating Cutting Edge Television, and David Bianculli, longtime television critic and contributor to NPR’s Fresh Air, and the author of such books as Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Doug and David are the co-editors of Television Finales: From Howdy Doody to Girls, a new book that explores seventy-one of the most notable series finales over the past five decades: why they are important (to critics and viewers alike) and what they mean to the audience. Topics this segment include the final episodes of The Fugitive, Monk, Star Trek: Voyager and The Dick Van Dyke Show. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From January 2019: Tony, Donna, and Ed welcome Douglas Howard, editor of such books as Dexter: Investigating Cutting Edge Television, and David Bianculli, longtime television critic and contributor to NPR’s Fresh Air, and the author of such books as Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Doug and David are the co-editors of Television Finales: From Howdy Doody to Girls, a new book that explores seventy-one of the most notable series finales over the past five decades: why they are important (to critics and viewers alike) and what they mean to the audience. Topics this segment include why the final episode of The Fugitive (ABC, 1963-1967) in many respects, set the standard for future TV series finales. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 506.1: Tony, Donna, and Ed take a look at how network and cable television covered the death of Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the longtime civil rights leader who passed away on July 17, 2020. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 506.2: From August 2013: Phil Gries presents audio highlights of how network television and network radio covered the historic March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963, when more than 200,000 Americans of every age, race and religion came to Washington, D.C. to support the passage of the landmark Civic Rights Bill. This segment includes clips of ABC News correspondent Howard K. Smith interviewing Philip Randolph, one of the “Big Six” organizers of the march; and NBC News correspondent Marvin Agronsky interviewing socialist, pacifist, and civil rights advocate Norman Thomas. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 506.3: From August 2013: Phil Gries plays audio highlights of an ABC News segment from Aug. 28, 1963 in which Sen. Strom Thurmond (D./R.-SC) voiced his opposition to the March on Washington, and of the rebuttal by ABC News correspondent Howard K. Smith (pictured) voicing his opposition to Thurmond. The audio heard in this segment is from Phil’s private collection. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 506.4: From August 2013: Phil Gries presents audio highlights of how network television and network radio covered the historic March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963, including NBC News interviews with march supporters Marlon Brando and Burt Lancaster, and ABC News correspondent Lisa Howard interviewing James Baldwin. Also in this segment: A brief excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. Audio heard in this segment is from Phil’s private collection. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 505.5: Ed welcomes singer/actress Linda Purl (Happy Days, Matlock, The Young Pioneers, The Office, Homeland, Desperate Housewives). Linda’s latest CD, Taking a Chance on Love, includes fresh takes on classic pop tunes from The Great American Songbook. Proceeds from sales of Linda Purl: Taking a Chance on Love will support the Actors Fund. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 505.6: Singer/actress Linda Purl shares a few memories of working with Don Most, Jerry Paris, and Garry Marshall on Happy Days. Linda’s latest CD, Taking a Chance on Love, includes fresh takes on classic pop tunes from The Great American Songbook. Proceeds from sales of Linda Purl: Taking a Chance on Love will support the Actors Fund. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2013: An excerpt from Ed's conversation with David Pollock, Emmy Award-winning television writer and author of Bob and Ray: Keener Than Most Persons, a comprehensive dual biography of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding, the comedy twosome who not only created such classic characters as Wally Ballou, Tex Blaisdell and The Slow Talker, but influenced three generations of comedians and comedy writers, including Bob Newhart, George Carlin, Woody Allen, Harry Shearer and David Letterman. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From August 2011: Tony, Donna and Ed continue their discussion about the longevity of the Star Trek phenomenon. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From August 2011: Tony, Donna and Ed celebrate the legacy of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, born Aug. 19, 1920 as part of This Week in TV History. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 504.1: From August 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the birth of Julia Child and how the success of The French Chef (PBS, 1963-1973) paved the way for such other notable TV chefs as Graham Kerr, Martha Stewart, and Rachael Ray. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 504.2: From August 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember how television covered the death of Elvis Presley on Aug. 16, 1977. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 504.3: Ed welcomes back Steve Beverly, television historian and professor of communications arts at Union University (Jackson, TN), where he coordinates the Broadcast Journalism major and supervises the daily student-produced newscast, Jackson 24/7. Steve discusses the challenges that he and his students faced earlier this year, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced classes at Union to go online—as well as the game plan that he and his colleagues have in place as the school prepares to resume in-classroom teaching this fall. Steve Beverly also hosts Steve Beverly’s TV Classics, a weekly TCM-like festival of classic shows from the 1950s and ‘60s that streams every week from EPlusTV Channel 6 in Jackson. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 504.4: Steve Beverly, journalism professor at Union University (Jackson, TN) and a former news director and on-air correspondent for WBBJ-TV, talks to Ed about the toll that covering the daily COVID-19 news cycle can take on the mental health of reporters. A member of the National Association on Mental Illness, Steve Beverly is ready, willing and able to speak to any television news operation in America about depression, as well as recognizing and coping with surviving vulnerabilities to mental illness in one of the most rewarding but highest-stress professions: TV news. Contact Steve directly for more information about the seminars and webinars that he provides. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 504.5: Ed welcomes actor, comedian, impressionist, and voice artist John Byner (Soap, Something Else, The Practice, The John Byner Comedy Hour, Bizarre). John's memoir, Five Minutes, Mr. Byner, not only shares many stories of his work with the likes of Steve Allen, Mel Torme, Dinah Shore, Johnny Carson, Ed Sullivan, Henry Fonda, and Elvis Presley, but gives readers a glimpse of the person behind each of these performers. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 504.6: Actor, comedian, impressionist, and voice artist John Byner talks to Ed about working with the cast of Soap (including the famous “Step Brothers” episode); why the ambiance on talk shows during the era of Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, and Dinah Shore was often like going to a cocktail party; and how, in many ways, he inherited his gift for humor from his father. John’s memoir, Five Minutes, Mr. Byner, not only shares many stories of his work with the likes of Steve Allen, Mel Torme, Dinah Shore, Johnny Carson, Ed Sullivan, Henry Fonda, and Elvis Presley, but gives readers a glimpse of the person behind each of these performers. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 504.7: From August 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the death of comedian Groucho Marx on Aug. 18, 1977. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From January 2013: Renowned Elvis Presley expert Cory Cooper talks to Ed about some of his favorite Elvis movies, including Kid Creole, Wild in the Country, and Live a Little, Love a Little; how Presley's deferential manner often surprised his fellow actors on movie sets; and why The King always sang with conviction, especially when he performed power ballads. Cory’s knowledge about The King is based on his deep ties to many of the people who were closest to Elvis, including members of the "Memphis Mafia." Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From January 2013: Renowned Elvis Presley expert Cory Cooper talks to Ed about Presley's work with Dr. Jonas Salk and such charitable organizations as St. Jude's Hospital (much of which was unpublicized); his longtime support of law enforcement; and his complex relationship with manager Colonel Tom Parker. Cory’s knowledge about The King is based on his deep ties to many of the people who were closest to Elvis, including members of the "Memphis Mafia." Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From January 2013: Renowned Elvis Presley historian Cory Cooper tells Ed why Graceland remains a popular destination for Presley fans and music fans all over the world. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From January 2013: A return visit by noted Elvis Presley historian Cory Cooper. Cory’s knowledge about The King is based on his deep ties to many of the people who were closest to Elvis, including members of the "Memphis Mafia." Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 503.1: TV Confidential dedicates our entire two-hour program this week to the life and career of Regis Philbin, the iconic talk show host and game show host who passed away on Friday, July 24 at age 88. In this segment, Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss Philbin’s roots in local television, including his years hosting A.M. Los Angeles, and how the success of A.M. Los Angeles spurred other U.S. markets into creating similar local morning talk shows. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 503.2: From February 2012: Former NBA star and pioneer TV broadcaster Tommy Hawkins tells Ed how he landed the job as host of Mid-Morning Los Angeles after fellow Notre Dame graduate Regis Philbin encouraged him to audition. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 503.3: Our colleague Greg Ehrbar shares some memories of working with Regis Philbin, Joan Lunden, and Mayim Bialik behind the scenes on the annual Disney Christmas Parade telecasts in the early 1990s. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 503.4: Greg Ehrbar tells Ed about what made Regis Philbin an official Disney Legend. Greg worked with Philbin for many years on the annual Disney Christmas Parade telecasts. Regis Philbin passed away on Friday, July 24 at age 88. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 503.5: Television historian Steve Beverly joins Ed for an in-depth look at Regis Philbin’s game show career with ABC, including The Neighbors, Almost Anything Goes, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, include how Philbin’s ability to connect with contestants instantly helped make Millionaire into a huge hit. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 503.6: From June 2016: Phil Gries and Ed discuss Regis Philbin’s turbulent stint as the announcer and on-air sidekick on Joey Bishop’s late night talk show (ABC, 1967-1969), including archived audio footage from Nov. 26, 1969—the night that Bishop stepped down as host on the air, about ten minutes into the program, after ABC had informed him earlier in the day that it had canceled the show. This segment includes audio footage of Philbin speaking extemporaneously that night about how Bishop went to bat for him, despite ABC’s efforts to drop Regis from the show, plus highlights from Phil’s interview with Bishop from 2002 in which Bishop discussed his relationship with Philbin, on and off the air. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 503.7: Tony, Donna, and Ed with some final thoughts on the legacy of Regis Philbin, including his many appearances on David Letterman’s late night talk show. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From March 2017: Emmy Award-winning producer/director Steve Binder tells Ed the backstory of "If I Can Dream," the iconic final number of Elvis: The 1968 Comeback Special, including an incredible act of selflessness by Billy Goldenberg, the show's musical director. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From March 2017: Emmy Award-winning producer/director Steve Binder (The T.A.M.I. Show, Diana Ross: Live in Central Park, Elvis: The 1968 Comeback Special) tells Ed the backstory of Lucy in London (CBS, 1966), an one-hour musical special, filmed on location in London, that allowed Lucille Ball an opportunity to return to her roots as a musical performer. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From August 2012: Dan Farren joins Tony, Donna, and Ed for a look back at Jack Paar's five-year tenure as host of The Tonight Show, which began on July 29, 1957, and why his legacy should not be limited to the "water closet joke" controversy of February 1960. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From November 2011: Ed welcomes James Rosin, author of The Streets of San Francisco: A Quinn Martin TV Series, everything you wanted to know about the long-running ABC police drama starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas. Quinn Martin himself believed that The Streets of San Francisco was the best show that he ever produced. Topics this segment include the chemistry and harmony between series stars Karl Malden and Michael Douglas; the extent to which series producer John Wilder worked every week to humanize the guest characters (even those who were villains); and why the Q in “Quinn Martin Productions” always stood for “quality.” Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From November 2011: James Rosin, author of The Streets of San Francisco: A Quinn Martin TV Series, talks to Ed about how Karl Malden immersed himself in every aspect of production; how Malden took a theatre actor’s approach to playing Mike Stone; and the difference in Malden’s on-screen rapport with Michael Douglas and Richard Hatch. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From November 2011: James Rosin, author of The Streets of San Francisco: A Quinn Martin TV Series, tells Ed the back story of “Mask of Death,” the controversial episode starring John Davidson; how The Streets of San Francisco differed from Poor, Poor Ophelia, the novel on which the series was based; and why the city of San Francisco was the “third star” of the show. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From August 2012: Ed welcomes actor and author Barry Livingston (My Three Sons, The Importance of Being Ernie). Topics this segment include what it was like for Barry to work with his brother, Stanley Livingston, every day on the set on My Three Sons, plus he shares a few memories of series star Don Grady. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From August 2012: Actor and author Barry Livingston (My Three Sons, The Importance of Being Ernie) discusses some of his film and stage roles before and after My Three Sons, including working with Paul Newman, Martin Landau, John Cassavetes, and (indirectly) Peter Falk. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From August 2012: Actor and author Barry Livingston (My Three Sons, The Importance of Being Ernie) talks to Ed about working with Charlie Sheen and Robert Downey Jr., as well as learning how to drive a stick shift on the fly while filming an episode of The Streets of San Francisco. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From April 2019: Barry Livingston (My Three Sons, The Importance of Being Ernie) shares a few memories of his encounters with Lucille Ball on the Desilu backlot in between production of My Three Sons, including the time when Lucy saved Barry from the wrath of her then-husband, Desilu executive Gary Morton. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From July 2013: Bob Mills, longtime writer for comedian Bob Hope, takes listeners inside the writers room of a typical Bob Hope special (including how many jokes it took to put together a typical Hope monologue), and how closely Hope worked with the director and editor in post-production of the monologue. Bob's book, The Laugh Makers, not only provides great insight into Bob Hope (the comic and the person), but takes you behind the series of the final decade of the network TV variety show, while also paying tribute to the “gag men” and “gag women” who made it happen. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From July 2013: Comedy writer Bob Mills talks to Ed about how his experience writing for The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts taught him the art of putting words in the mouths of famous people. Bob’s book, The Laugh Makers, provides great insight into Bob Hope while also paying homage to the last decades of network variety shows. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From July 2013: Comedy writer Bob Mills joins Ed for Part 2 of our conversation about Bob Hope. Bob’s book, The Laugh Makers, not only provides great insight into Bob Hope, but takes you behind the scenes of the last decades of the network variety show while also paying tribute to the “Gag Men” and “Gag Women” who made it happen. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From August 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the film career of Bugs Bunny. The iconic Warner Bros. character made his first official screen appearance on July 27, 1940 in the Tex Avery cartoon A Wild Hare. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 502.1: Tony and Donna join Ed as TV Confidential dedicates its two-hour program this week to the life and career of Carl Reiner, the Grammy Award-winning and multiple Emmy Award-winning actor, writer, producer, director, author, philanthropist and humanitarian who passed away on Monday, June 29 at age 98. Topics include Reiner’s humanity, his service in the Pacific as a member of the Army Entertainment section during World War II, and the many ways in which The Dick Van Dyke Show set the standard for the modern-day sitcom. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 502.2: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss Carl Reiner’s lifelong friendship with Mel Brooks, which began when they wrote for and performed with Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows (NBC, 1950-1954) and continued for the next seventy years. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 503.3: Comedy historian and longtime entertainment publicist Jeff Abraham talks to Ed about how “The 2,000 Year Old Man,” the classic comedy routine by Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, morphed from a dinner party act that Reiner and Brooks used to perform before friends into a series of international smash record albums. Jeff worked with Carl Reiner on many occasions over the past seventeen years, including, most recently, with the National Comedy Center. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 503.4: Singer/actress Ilene Graff (Mr. Belvedere) joins Ed as TV Confidential continues its program-length tribute to Carl Reiner. Irene’s father, singer Jerry Graff, served with Reiner in the same Special Services unit of the U.S. Army in World War II—a unit that also happened to include Howard Morris (Your Show of Shows), Allen Ludden (Password), and Maurice Evans (Bewitched)—plus she shares some personal memories, including one that touches on Reiner’s love of TV game shows. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 503.5: Film and television actor Basil Hoffman talks to Ed about why Carl Reiner was an “actor’s director.” Hoffman was directed by Reiner twice in his career, including the feature motion picture All of Me (1984). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 503.6: Emmy Award-winning actress Loretta Swit (MAS*H, SwitHeart) talks to Ed about acting with and being directed by Carl Reiner in the “Good Neighbor Maxine” episode of his short-lived but fondly remembered comedy anthology series Good Heavens (ABC, 1976). Topics include how, in many respects, the premise of Good Heavens embodied who Reiner was as a person. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 503.7: Director, voice actor, and former child star Moosie Drier joins Ed as TV Confidential continues its program-length tribute to Carl Reiner. Moosie was directed by Reiner directed in Oh, God! (1976), and he shares a few memories of working with Reiner, John Denver, George Burns, Teri Garr, and Rachel Longaker on the set of the film. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 503.8: Tony, Donna, and Ed talk about some of Carl Reiner’s other work as a motion picture director and screenwriter, including Enter Laughing, Where’s Poppa, The Thrill of It All, and The Jerk, as well as his onscreen appearances in the Ocean’s Eleven movies. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 503.9: Singer/actress Roslyn Kind (Light of Love, Save the Country) shares some memories of her longtime friendship with Estelle Reiner, the actress and cabaret singer also known as Mrs. Carl Reiner (and who had a memorable cameo appearance in When Harry Met Sally, directed by Rob Reiner). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 503.10: Tony, Donna, and Ed with some final thoughts on the life and legacy of Carl Reiner, including his activism and how Reiner used Twitter to provide his fans with a window into his mind on a variety of topics. Carl Reiner passed away on Monday, June 29 at age 98. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 503.11: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss Carl Reiner’s decision to end production of The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS, 1961-1966) after five seasons, as well as some of Reiner’s other efforts in television, including The New Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS, 1971-1974). This segment was not included in the terrestrial broadcast of this week’s program because of time constraints. Carl Reiner passed on Monday, June 29 at age 98. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2016: Award-winning writer Vince Waldron, author of The Official Dick Van Dyke Show Book, joins Tony, Donna, and Ed for a behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Dick Van Dyke Show, the most acclaimed comedy series of TV's golden age. Vince’s book tells you everything you wanted to know about the iconic sitcom, as seen through the eyes of the cast and crew, including Carl Reiner, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews, and, of course, Dick Van Dyke himself. In this segment Vince tells the story of how Reiner cast Mary Tyler Moore as Laura Petrie. Carl Reiner passed away June 29, 2020 at age 98. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From October 2011: A special edition of the Sounds of Lost Television that looks back at how TV covered New York Yankees slugger Roger Maris' then-record 61st home run, which he hit on Oct. 1, 1961, the final day of the 1961 Major League Baseball season. This segment includes audio highlights of an interview with Maris that aired on the Oct. 8, 1968 edition of the CBS Evening News, shortly before Maris ended his playing career. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From October 2011: Phil Gries joins Ed for a special edition of the Sounds of Lost Television that commemorates how TV covered New York Yankees slugger Roger Maris' then-record 61st home run, which he hit on Oct. 1, 1961, the final day of the 1961 Major League Baseball season. This segment includes audio highlights of Yankees announcer Red Barber interviewing manager Ralph Houk after the game, which Maris and the Yankees won, 1-0, over the Boston Red Sox. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From October 2011: Phil Gries joins Ed for a special edition of the Sounds of Lost Television that commemorates the 50th anniversary of Oct. 1, 1961, the day on which Roger Maris hit his 61st home run, surpassing Babe Ruth’s record for most home runs in a Major League Baseball season. This segment includes audio highlights of Red Barber and Mel Allen calling Maris' 61st homer on WPIX-TV. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 501.1: Suzy Friendly talks to Ed about her three-decade-plus career in network television production, which saw her work behind the scenes in many capacities (both above the line and below the line) on projects that span many genres, including variety specials like The AFI Tribute to John Ford, live telecasts such as the Emmy Awards and the NAACP Image Awards, scripted series (including Maggie Winters, Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper, and the groundbreaking HBO series Brothers), and sports competition shows like The Superstars and Almost Anything Goes. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 501.2: Ed continues his conversation with Suzy Friendly about her career in network TV production. Topics include Suzy’s years working with Emmy Award-winning producer Bob Banner and Emmy-nominated writer/producer Kari Lizer. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 501.3: From July 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed commemorate the birthday of Merv Griffin with a look at his long-running daytime talk show (NBC/Westinghouse/CBS/Metromedia, 1962-1986) and his contributions to the world of TV game shows, including Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 501.4: Ed welcomes film and TV actor, author, and noted acting teacher Basil Hoffman (Acting and How to Be Good at It, Cold Reading and How to Be Good at It). In a screen career that spans five decades, Basil has appeared in two Academy Award-winning Best Pictures (Ordinary People, The Artist), plus he’s worked with fourteen Oscar-winning actors (including Jason Robards, Sophia Loren, Dustin Hoffman, Mary Steenbergen, Renee Zellweger, J.K. Simmons, Timothy Hutton, and Christopher Walken), two Oscar-winning cinematographers, and ten Oscar-winning directors (including Steven Spielberg, the Coen Brothers, Michel Hazanavicius, Sydney Pollack, and Robert Redford), while his television credits include such shows as Seinfeld, Square Pegs, Sanford & Son, The Rockford Files, Columbo, MAS*H, The Defenders, Kung Fu, Ellery Queen, Hill Street Blues, and The Practice. NOTE: Out of an abundance of caution due to local government quarantine regulations, the two-day acting workshop that Basil Hoffman was scheduled to lead at Blue Light New Mexico on July 25-26 has been canceled. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 501.5: Actor, author and acting teacher Basil Hoffman (Acting and How to Be Good at It, Cold Reading and How to Be Good at It) talks to Ed about the difference between “actor first” directors and “camera first” directors, plus he shares some memories of working with directors Sydney Pollack, Carl Reiner, and Robert Redford. Basil is one of just two actors to work with Redford four times—twice as an actor, and twice being directed by Redford. NOTE: Out of an abundance of caution due to local government quarantine regulations, the two-day acting workshop that Basil Hoffman was scheduled to lead at Blue Light New Mexico on July 25-26 has been canceled. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 501.6: Actor, author and acting teacher Basil Hoffman (Acting and How to Be Good at It, Cold Reading and How to Be Good at It) shares a few memories of working with Peter O’Toole in My Favorite Year, James Garner in The Rockford Files, and Peter Falk in Columbo. NOTE: Out of an abundance of caution due to local government quarantine regulations, the two-day acting workshop that Basil Hoffman was scheduled to lead at Blue Light New Mexico on July 25-26 has been canceled. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 501.7: From July 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of Pantomime Quiz, a variation of Charades that began as a locally produced game show in Los Angeles (KTLA, 1947-1949) before airing in prime time on ABC, NBC, CBS and the Dumont network at various points between 1949 and 1959. One of the first TV shows to win an Emmy Award (which it did in 1949), Pantomime Quiz later morphed into Stump the Stars (CBS, 1962-1963) and continued to run in syndication under that title throughout the 1960s. Topics include how the CBS version of Stump the Stars included cast members of such shows as Perry Mason. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From July 2013: Tony, Donna, and Ed commemorate the 40th anniversary of the death of Bruce Lee with a look at the actor's life and career in movies and television, in the U.S. and overseas, as well as his influence on such martial arts stars as Chuck Norris and Jackie Chan. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From July 2013: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the final broadcast of Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, its influence on such future competition shows as The Vocie and American Idol, and the aftermath of Godfrey's ill-fated decision to fire Julius LaRosa on the air. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From July 2013: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the birthday of Red Skelton, his long-running TV variety series (NBC/CBS, 1951-1971), his genius for pantomime, his influence on such comedians as George Carlin and Robert Klein, and his famous monologue about the meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 500.1: From September 2013: Broadcast legend Hugh Downs talks to Ed and Phil Gries about his years as announcer/sidekick on The Jack Paar Tonight Show (NBC, 1957-1962), including the night of Feb. 10, 1960, when Downs found himself suddenly filling in as host after Paar walked off the set of The Tonight Show seven minutes into the broadcast to protest NBC’s decision to censor an on-air joke Paar had told the night before concerning a water closet. This segment includes audio highlights from the Feb. 10, 1960 Tonight Show broadcast, as well as a clip from Downs’ 1953 interview with Frank Lloyd Wright for the NBC program Wisdom. Hugh Downs passed away on July 1, 2020 at age 99. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 500.2: Part 1 of a two-part conversation with Radames Pera, the actor best known for playing young Kwai Chang Caine, aka “Grasshopper,” in the flashback sequences of the original Kung Fu (ABC, 1972-1975), and John Edwards, Mary Ingalls’ love interest, on Little House on the Prairie. Earlier this year Universal announced plans to develop Kung Fu as a feature motion picture, while The CW will reimagine Kung Fu as a new weekly series that is scheduled to premiere during the 2020-2021 television season. Ed talks to Radames about both these developments, plus Radames shares some memories about his work on the original series, including the role that Bruce Lee played indirectly in getting Kung Fu on the air. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 500.3: Radames Pera, the actor who played young Kwai Chang Caine in the flashback sequences of the original Kung Fu (ABC, 1972-1975), talks to Ed about working with actors Keye Luke, Philip Ahn, James Hong, and Benson Fong and producers Jerry Thorpe and Alex Beaton on the series, and how Kung Fu infused elements of Eastern philosophy into the trappings of a TV Western. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 500.4: Ed welcomes Peri Gilpin, the award-winning actress known around the world as acerbic radio producer Roz Doyle on Frasier (NBC, 1993-2004). Peri currently stars as a Hollywood agent who eagerly takes on a client in his eighties—only to cast him in a host of less than dignified roles—in Old Guy, the critically acclaimed six-episode short form comedy series that takes a satiric look at how the film and TV industry often portrays older people, particularly those in their seventies and eighties. All six episodes of Old Guy are available for streaming on demand, for free, at OldGuyComedy.com. Old Guy is based on both Don’t Sit Down Yet, a book by Gabrielle Burton about aging, and on the experiences of Gabrielle’s husband, Roger Burton, a retired psychologist and former professional musician who enjoyed a wildly successful third act in his seventies and eighties as a film and TV actor. With that in mind, the creators and producers of Old Guy—Gabrielle and Roger’s daughters Ursula Burton, Jennifer Burton, Maria Burton, Gabrielle Burton, and Charity Burton—also join Peri and Ed to discuss how the series uses both sharp wit and broad humor to address and comment on the ongoing issue of ageism. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 500.5: Actress Peri Gilpin answers listener email questions about her work as a voice actress, her early stage career, and, of course, Frasier. Peri currently stars opposite Roger Burton in Old Guy, the critically acclaimed six-episode short form comedy series that takes a satiric look at how the film and TV industry often portrays older people, particularly those in their seventies and eighties. All six episodes of Old Guy are available for streaming on demand, for free, at OldGuyComedy.com. Also joining Peri in this segment are the creators and producers of Old Guy—Ursula Burton, Jennifer Burton, Maria Burton, Gabrielle Burton, and Charity Burton. For our listeners who are also members of the Television Academy: Peri Gilpin and Roger Burton are both under consideration for Emmy nominations for Outstanding Actress and Actor for a Short Form Comedy, respectively, while Old Guy is a contender for a nomination for Outstanding Short Form Comedy. If you have not already done so, watch Old Guy at OldGuyComedy.com and then consider nominating Peri, Roger, and the show. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 500.6: From September 2013: Broadcast legend Hugh Downs talks to Ed and Phil Gries about his interviews with President Dwight D. Eisenhower and chess champion Bobby Fischer for the Today Show, as well as the night he felt genuinely starstruck in the presence of Rita Hayworth when he interviewed her on The Tonight Show. This segment includes a brief clip from Downs’ Tonight Show interview with Hayworth on Aug. 17, 1962. Hugh Downs passed away on July 1, 2020 at age 99. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 500.7: Some final thoughts on the passing of Hugh Downs, including tributes posted via Facebook by author Steven Tiabbi and Patty Duke biographer Bill Jankowski. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From July 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the historic Live Aid concert on July 13, 1985 and how that event helped cement the MTV brand. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From July 2015: Remembering Hugh Grant’s appearance on The Tonight Show on July 10, 1995 ("What the hell were you thinking?!?"), and how that impacted the network late night talk show wars between Jay Leno and David Letterman. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
An encore presentation of our July 2014 conversation with Dwayne Epstein, author of Lee Marvin: Point Blank, an excellent biography of the Academy Award-winning actor. Topics this segment include how Marvin became a household name partly because of television (and, particularly, the nourish crime drama M Squad). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From July 2014: Dwayne Epstein, author of Lee Marvin: Point Blank, talks to Ed about how watching a Lee Marvin performance on screen “was like throwing a glass at a wall,” and the many ways in which Marvin created the modern American cinema of violence. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From July 2014: Dwayne Epstein, author of Lee Marvin: Point Blank, talks to Ed about the outcome of the controversial palimony lawsuit of 1979 involving Lee Marvin and Michelle Triola, as well as Marvin’s love/hate relationship with the medium of television. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
An encore presentation of our December 2014 conversation with actor, producer, and director Stanley Livingston. Known around the world as Chip Douglas on My Three Sons (ABC/CBS, 1960-1972), Stan is also the founder and CEO of The Actors Journey Project, a teaching program for both aspiring actors and working actors that helps fill a crucial gap in an actor’s education. While many colleges, universities and acting academies teach the craft of acting, very few programs teach students about the business of acting—specifically, how to navigate the inner workings of the entertainment industry so that you can launch, advance and, most important, sustain a career in acting in the film and television industries. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2014: Actor, director, and producer Stanley Livingston talks to Ed about working with Ozzie Nelson and Jackie Cooper in the years before he was cast as Chip Douglas on My Three Sons, and how Nelson was particularly instrumental in the launch of Stan’s acting career. Stan is also the founder and CEO of The Actors Journey Project, a teaching program for both aspiring actors and working actors that helps fill a crucial gap in an actor’s education. The Actors Journey Project has two programs: The Actors Journey (for adult actors) and The Actors Journey for Kids (for parents of aspiring child actors). Both programs cover more than sixty topics and pool the wisdom of more than 100 entertainment industry professionals. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2104: Actor, director, and producer Stanley Livingston talks to Ed about the many parallels between working actors and working writers, as well as some of his other upcoming projects. Stan is also the founder and CEO of The Actors Journey Project, a teaching program that connects the dots of the business side of the acting industry for working actors, aspiring actors, and parents of aspiring child actors. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2013: Broadcast legend Hugh Downs talks to Ed and Phil Gries about the events that first brought him to NBC; his appearances on The Jack Benny Program (including one that also featured Rock Hudson); working with Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, and Carl Reiner on the short-lived variety series Sid Caesar Invites You (ABC, 1958); and which interview, among the many that Hugh conducted throughout his career, that he is most proud of. This segment includes audio highlights of the Feb. 18, 1962 edition of The Jack Benny Program (featuring Hugh and Don Wilson) and the premiere broadcast of Sid Caesar Invites You. Hugh Downs passed away on July 1, 2020 at age 99. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2013: Hugh Downs talks to Ed and Phil Gries about the day he conducted the NBC orchestra when it played his original composition "Sandwriting" on The Merv Griffin Show; why composers aren't always the best conductors of their own work; and the brief time when Hugh wore three different hats on NBC-TV at the same time: host of The Today Show, host of Concentration, and sidekick to Jack Paar on The Tonight Show. Also during this segment: Phil plays a clip from the Jan. 14, 1963 edition of the Griffin show on which Hugh conducted the performance of "Sandwriting." Hugh Downs passed away on July 1, 2020 at age 99. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2013: Ed and Phil Gries welcome broadcast legend Hugh Downs. In a career that spanned seven decades, Hugh left his mark on three of the most iconic shows in television history (The Tonight Show, The Today Show, and ABC’s 20/20). plus he hosted Over Easy and Live from Lincoln Center for PBS, the syndicated talk show Not for Women Only (with Barbara Walters), and the long-running NBC game show Concentration. Certified by The Guinness Books of World Records for logging more hours on network commercial television than anyone else, Hugh also hosted numerous other television broadcasts from both poles and just about every continent. In this segment, Phil and Ed talk to Hugh about his lifelong interest in music composition, including the thrill he felt when Yo Yo Ma performed Hugh's original composition for cello with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Hugh Downs passed away on July 1, 2020 at age 99. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2016: Award-winning writer Vince Waldron, author of The Official Dick Van Dyke Show Book, joins Tony, Donna, and Ed for a behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Dick Van Dyke Show, the most acclaimed comedy series of TV's golden age. Vince’s book tells you everything you wanted to know about the iconic sitcom, as seen through the eyes of the cast and crew, including Carl Reiner, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews, and, of course, Dick Van Dyke himself. In this segment Vince talks about why Reiner and Sheldon Leonard cast Van Dyke because he embodied all three aspects of the Rob Petrie character: the introverted writer, the devoted husband and caring father, and the ability to break out and perform sketches when needed. Carl Reiner passed away June 29, 2020 at age 98. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2016: Television historian and Emmy Award-winning writer Vince Waldron joins Tony, Donna, and Ed for a behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Dick Van Dyke Show, the most acclaimed comedy series of TV's golden age. Vince’s book The Official Dick Van Dyke Show Book, Deluxe Expanded Archive Edition tells you everything you wanted to know about the iconic sitcom, as seen through the eyes of the cast and crew, including Carl Reiner, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews, and, of course, Dick Van Dyke himself. Topics this segment include how Reiner originally developed the series, why the show’s ensemble cast is among the best ever assembled, and why the Van Dyke show particularly resonates with longtime residents of Chicago. Carl Reiner passed away June 29, 2020 at age 98. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2018: Ed, Greg Ehrbar and Greg's son, Colin, discuss the "Uncle Goopy" sketch featuring Carl Reiner, Sid Caesar, and Howard Morris, the famous parody of This is Your Life from Your Show of Shows that continues to find new audiences today because it is timeless and funny. Carl Reiner passed away on Monday, June 29 at age 98. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2018: Greg Ehrbar talks to Ed about how the "Uncle Goopy" sketch from Your Show of Shows, featuring Carl Reiner, Sid Caesar, and Howard Morris, continues to resonate with all kinds of audiences, including comedian Billy Crystal and even Greg's dog. Carl Reiner passed away on Monday, June 29 at age 98. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 499.4: From June 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the finalization of Sonny & Cher’s divorce on June 27, 1975, and how the couple’s separation impacted not only The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour (CBS, 1971-1974), but their respective solo variety hours during the 1974-1975 television season. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 499.5: Part 4 of Ed’s four-part conversation with five-time Emmy Award-winning talk show host, comedian, critic at large, and documentary film maker John Barbour, creator, producer, principal writer, and one of the original co-hosts of Real People (NBC, 1979-1984). Topics this segment include what a valuable commodity Real People T-shirts were during the show’s original network run. John Barbour’s memoir, Your Mother’s Not a Virgin: The Bumpy Life and Times of the Canadian Dropout Who Changed the Face of American TV, is available wherever books are sold online, while select videos of John reading chapters from Your Mother’s Not a Virgin are available for free viewing on his YouTube channel and at JohnBarboursWorld.com. John’s film The American Media and the Second Assassination of John F. Kennedy is available at Amazon.com for $1.99 to watch and $4.99 to own. His documentaries The Garrison Tapes and Ernie Kovacs: Television’s Original Genius are both available for free on his YouTube channel and at JohnBarboursWorld.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 499.6: John Barbour provides Ed with the back story of his guest appearance opposite Tim Conway in the “Take My Life, Please” episode of the original CSI, and the events that led John to write and produce Ernie Kovacs: Television’s Original Genius, the 1982 Showtime documentary that is still considered the definitive look at Kovacs’ life and career. John Barbour’s memoir, Your Mother’s Not a Virgin: The Bumpy Life and Times of the Canadian Dropout Who Changed the Face of American TV, is available wherever books are sold online, while select videos of John reading chapters from Your Mother’s Not a Virgin are available for free viewing on his YouTube channel and at JohnBarboursWorld.com. John’s film The American Media and the Second Assassination of John F. Kennedy is available at Amazon.com for $1.99 to watch and $4.99 to own. His documentaries The Garrison Tapes and Ernie Kovacs: Television’s Original Genius are both available for free on his YouTube channel and at JohnBarboursWorld.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 499.8: From June 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the first TV commercial to be sanctioned by the FCC—a ten-second spot for Bulova watches (“America runs on Bulova time”), which NBC affiliate WNBT (now WNBC) aired on July 1, 1941 before the start of the broadcast of a Major League Baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies. The price of the ad was nine dollars—four dollars for the air time, five dollars for station charges, according to Advertising Age magazine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From November 2015: Part 3 of our roundtable discussion with Anne Serling (As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling), Joseph Dougherty (Pretty Little Liars), Dan Farren (Story Salon), and Tony Figueroa about the legacy of Rod Serling and episodes of The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery that continue to resonate with us. Topics this segment include Anne's thoughts on what particularly makes a good Twilight Zone story. A poignant memoir of growing up with Rod Serling that also humanizes the man whom many of us think of as an icon, As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling is also a book, as Joseph Dougherty put it, "for anyone who has ever had a dad." Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From November 2015: Part 2 of our roundtable discussion on the legacy of Rod Serling featuring Anne Serling, Rod's daughter, and the author of As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling. Topics this segment include the Night Gallery episode "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar" (one of the best scripts Serling ever wrote), and the sheer number of people who became writers because of Serling, despite Serling's fear that his body of work would not stand the test of time. Joining Anne, Ed, and Tony Figueroa are Joseph Dougherty, Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and director of such shows as thirtysomething and Pretty Little Liars, and Dan Farren, one of the producers of Story Salon. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TV Confidential commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the death of Rod Serling with a special multi-part minisode edition of our November 2015 conversation with Anne Serling, Rod's daughter. Anne joins Joseph Dougherty, Dan Farren, and Tony Figueroa for a special roundtable discussion of the legacy of Rod Serling, his impact on three generations of television writers, and episodes of Twilight Zone and Night Gallery that continue to stay with us. Anne’s book, As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling, is a poignant memoir of growing up with Rod Serling that also humanizes the man whom many of us think of as an icon. Joseph Dougherty is the Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and director of such shows as thirtysomething, Saving Grace, and Pretty Little Liars. (He is also one of the biggest Twilight Zone fans that we know.) Dan Farren is one of the producers of Story Salon. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From June 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the premiere of the television adaptation of Amos 'n' Andy (CBS, 1951-1953) on June 28, 1951; the controversy that preceded and followed the series, as it aired during the era of segregation in the U.S. that led to the Civil Rights Movement; why CBS pulled the series from syndication in 1966; and how some of the stereotypes in casting the series—particularly, that Alvin Childress and Spencer Williams, the African-American actors who played the title roles, were instructed to pattern their voices and delivery after Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, the two white actors who created Amos 'n' Andy for CBS and played the characters on radio—still exist in the industry today. Also discussed this segment: The TV version of Amos 'n' Andy was among the first shows to be filmed using a three-camera setup (implementing that technique four months before I Love Lucy did, when that show premiered in October 1951), while the writers of Amos 'n' Andy included Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, the future creators of Leave It to Beaver and The Munsters. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 498.1: Ed welcomes four-time Emmy Award-winning talk show host, producer, author and entrepreneur Bill Boggs (Midday Live, My Generation, Bill Boggs Corner Table, Comedy Tonight, The Morton Downey Jr. Show). Bill’s latest book, The Adventures of Spike the Wonder Dog, is a comic novel loosely based on Bill’s TV career that also satirizes today’s media and political culture. With many of us still sheltered in place for the foreseeable future, and looking for ways to escaping the COVID-19 news cycle, The Adventures of Spike the Wonder Dog may provide some welcome laughs. Proceeds from the sales of Bill’s book will support animal rescue organizations. Topics this segment include a look at Bill’s early career as a comedy writer (during which time he met and managed the careers of Jay Tarses and Tom Patchett, two of the creative forces behind The Bob Newhart Show) and a important life lesson that Bill learned from his dad after a mishap involving a slice of blueberry pie. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 498.2: Four-time Emmy Award-winning talk show host and producer Bill Boggs (Midday Live, My Generation, Bill Boggs Corner Table) talks to Ed about his experiences working with such legends as Dick Clark, Frank Sinatra, and John “the voice of NFL Films” Facenda, and why a good talk show host also think like a producer. Bill’s latest book, The Adventures of Spike the Wonder Dog, is a comic novel loosely based on Bill’s TV career that also satirizes today’s media and political culture. Proceeds from the sales of Bill’s book will support animal rescue organizations. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 498.3: A brief segment about James Garner’s passion for golf that includes a clip from a conversation with Jon Winokur, co-author of The Garner Files (Garner’s memoir), that originally aired in November 2011. Bonhams Auction House will auction select personal items from James Garner, including a golf club once presented to Jim by President Bill Clinton, through Monday 6/29. Proceeds from sales will support the James Garner Animal Rescue Fund. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 498.4: Part 1 of a two-part segment in which Tony, Donna, and Ed remember actor, comedian, singer, and jazz trumpeter extraordinaire Jack Sheldon (The Merv Griffin Show), with a particular focus on his contributions to the iconic Saturday morning educational series Schoolhouse Rock. Sheldon wrote and performed seven tunes for Schoolhouse Rock, including “Conjunction Junction” and “I’m Just a Bill.” Part 2 airs at the end of our second hour. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 498.5: Part 3 of a conversation that began earlier this spring with John Barbour, the five-time Emmy Award-winning talk show host, comedian, critic at large, and documentary film maker who is also the creator, producer, principal writer, and one of the original co-hosts of Real People (NBC, 1979-1984). In this segment, John shares a few more stories about his show business career (including his years as Bobby Darin’s opening act in Las Vegas), plus we learn the connection between the title of John’s memoir, Your Mother’s Not a Virgin, and his relationship with Kevin Garrison, the former D.A. of New Orleans known for his investigations into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. John Barbour’s memoir, Your Mother’s Not a Virgin: The Bumpy Life and Times of the Canadian Dropout Who Changed the Face of American TV, is available wherever books are sold online, while select videos of John reading chapters from Your Mother’s Not a Virgin are available for free viewing on his YouTube channel and at JohnBarboursWorld.com. John’s film The American Media and the Second Assassination of John F. Kennedy is available at Amazon.com for $1.99 to watch and $4.99 to own. His documentaries The Garrison Tapes and Ernie Kovacs: TV’s Original Genius are both available for free on his YouTube channel and at JohnBarboursWorld.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 498.6: John Barbour, creator, producer, principal writer, and one of the original co-hosts of Real People (NBC, 1979-1984), talks to Ed about the impact that Real People continues to have on our culture, including the role it played in establishing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the platform of future America’s Most Wanted host John Walsh. John Barbour’s memoir, Your Mother’s Not a Virgin: The Bumpy Life and Times of the Canadian Dropout Who Changed the Face of American TV, is available wherever books are sold online, while select videos of John reading chapters from Your Mother’s Not a Virgin are available for free viewing on his YouTube channel and at JohnBarboursWorld.com. John’s film The American Media and the Second Assassination of John F. Kennedy is available at Amazon.com for $1.99 to watch and $4.99 to own. His documentaries The Garrison Tapes and Ernie Kovacs: TV’s Original Genius are both available for free on his YouTube channel and at JohnBarboursWorld.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 498.7: Part 2 of a special edition of This Week in TV History that remembers the contributions of Jack Sheldon to the iconic Saturday morning series Schoolhouse Rock. Sheldon wrote and performed seven songs for Schoolhouse Rock, including “The Tale of Mr. Morton,” “Energy Blues,” “Where the Money Goes,” and, of course, “Conjunction Junction” and “I’m Just a Bill.” Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 497.1: Tony, Donna, and Ed pay tribute to actor, comedian, and improvisational genius Fred Willard (Modern Family, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, Fernwood Tonight, Roseanne). Topics include a look at Willard’s early comedy partnership with Vic Greco and his years as a founding member of the improv group Ace Trucking Company; how Willard developed the Jerry Hubbard character on Fernwood Tonight; and a roundup of the various late night tributes from many of Willard’s friends and co-stars. Fred Willard died on Friday, May 15 at the age of 86. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 497.2: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss some of Fred Willard’s early TV roles, including D.A. Bud Nugent on Sirota’s Court (a precursor to the character that John Larroquette played on Night Court), and how Willard brought an Everyman quality to just about every character he played. Fred Willard passed away on Friday, May 15 at the age of 86. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 497.3: Iconic television producer Marty Krofft of Sid & Marty Krofft Productions talks to Ed about the star that he and his brother received in February of this year on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, as well as some of their upcoming projects. The 2019-2020 season marks the fiftieth anniversary of Sid and Marty Krofft Productions. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 497.4: Author, producer, and Hollywood historian Laurie Jacobson talks to Ed about her years studying improv with Harvey Lembeck (and the many famous actors who often dropped in Harvey’s classes unannounced), taking acting lessons from Russell Johnson (and how The Professor took his role as teacher very seriously), and why cookbooks will never go out of style, especially right now. Laurie’s latest book, TV Dinners: 40 Classic Kids Dish Up Recipes with a Side of Memories, features recipes from the kitchens from your favorite classic TV child stars from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s, including Jerry Mathers, Jon Provost, Paul Petersen, Alison Arngrim, Kathy Garver, Bill Mumy, Ernest Thomas, and Dawn Lyn. TV Dinners not only offers fun twists on such comfort food favorites as macaroni and cheese, but provides memories of the places and people from whom these recipes originated. Some of the profits from the sales of TV Dinners will support the efforts of A Minor Consideration, the non-profit organization, founded by Paul Petersen, that helps child stars, past and present, make the often difficult transition from child acting to adult life. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 497.5: Greg and Ed discuss the Our Gang DVD collection from Warner Bros. Archive and the Little Rascals DVD collection from Genius Entertainment. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 497.6: Greg Ehrbar continues his review of the various Best of Sesame Street titles that are available on DVD, including Sesame Street Spoofs and Sesame Street: Old School. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From November 2011: Jon Winokur, co-author of The Garner Files, the memoir of actor James Garner, provides insight into the production of My Name is Bill W., the Emmy Award-winning Hallmark Hall of Fame production starring and produced by Garner that tells the story of the co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous. Also in this segment: How Garner overcame his own problems with alcohol early in his life. Bonhams Auction House will auction select personal items from James Garner beginning Monday 6/15 and continuing through Monday 6/29. Proceeds from sales will support the James Garner Animal Rescue Fund. Among the items available is a golf club presented to Garner by President Bill Clinton. Additional items will be listed soon. See link to Bonhams website below for more information: https://tinyurl.com/ycwlkqhw Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From November 2011: Jon Winokur, co-author of The Garner Files, the memoir of James Garner's life and career in show business, talks to Ed about the friendship and frequent collaborations between Garner and James Woods, including the time when Garner taught Woods how to play golf after making the acclaimed TV-movie Promise. Bonhams Auction House will auction select personal items from James Garner beginning Monday 6/15 and continuing through Monday 6/29. Proceeds from sales will support the James Garner Animal Rescue Fund. Among the items available is a golf club presented to Garner by President Bill Clinton. Additional items will be listed soon. See link to Bonhams website below for more information: https://tinyurl.com/ycwlkqhw Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From May 2011: This Week in TV History: Tony, Donna and Ed go back to June 10, 2007, the night that the final episode of The Sopranos originally aired on HBO, as well as the uproar sparked by how the final scene ended. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 496.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with author, screenwriter, raconteur, and novelist Marvin J. Wolf. Marv’s latest book, They Were Soldiers: The Sacrifices and Contributions of Our Vietnam Veterans (a collaboration with New York Times bestselling author Joseph L. Galloway), profiles fifty men and women from various walks of life who all served in Vietnam in one capacity or another. Among the veterans profiled in the book are former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, and Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone. They Were Soldiers also shows that the Vietnam generation is as worthy of respect and admiration as any generation of soldiers that preceded them—particularly given the animosity that many Vietnam veterans faced when they came home from the war. Marv illustrates that point by sharing stories that illustrate both extremes of the “coming home” spectrum, including a personal anecdote involving novelist Norman Mailer. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 496.2: Tony, Donna, and Ed pay tribute to actor/comedian Jerry Stiller, including a round-up of the various tributes on late night television from Stiller’s friends and colleagues. Jerry Stiller passed away on Monday, May 11 at age 92. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 496.3: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the many incarnations of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, both as a comedy duo as well as their individual acting careers. Jerry Stiller passed away on Monday, May 11 at age 92. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 496.6: Greg and Ed discuss the DVD release of Big John, Little John (NBC, 1976), the short-lived Saturday morning fantasy series starring Herb Edelman, Robbie Rist, and Joyce Bulifant that also marked the fulfillment of a promise that creator/producer Sherwood Schwartz had once made to Bulifant. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 496.7: Greg and Ed discuss the DVD release of Bosom Buddies (ABC, 1980-1982), starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 495.1: Ed welcomes back author, screenwriter, novelist and raconteur Marvin J. Wolf. A veteran of the U.S. Army, Marv served more than thirteen years active duty, including a combat tour in Vietnam, before returning to the States in 1974 to embark on a very successful career as a freelance writer and photojournalist that has continued for more than four decades. Marv’s latest book, They Were Soldiers: The Sacrifices and Contributions of Our Vietnam Veterans, is a collaboration with Joseph L. Galloway, the New York Times bestselling author of the We Were Soldiers series and, like Marv, an accomplished journalist and decorated Vietnam veteran. They Were Soldiers not only profiles fifty men and women from various walks of life who served in Vietnam in one capacity or another, but shows that the Vietnam generation is every bit as worthy of respect and admiration as the generations of soldiers that preceded them—particularly in light of the animosity that many Vietnam veterans faced when they came home to the United States. Among those profiled in They Were Soldiers are Ted Gostas and Hal Kushner, both of whose stories Marv shares in this segment. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 495.2: Part 2 of our conversation with Marvin J. Wolf, co-author of They Were Soldiers: The Sacrifices and Contributions of Our Vietnam Veterans, a collaboration with New York Times bestselling author Joseph L. Galloway (We Were Soldiers) that profiles fifty men and women from various walks of life who served in Vietnam in one capacity or another. Among the veterans profiled in They Were Soldiers are former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, and Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone. In many respects, Oliver Stone’s personal story typifies that of many Vietnam War veterans, as Marv discusses in this segment. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 495.3: Part 3 of our conversation with Marvin J. Wolf, co-author of They Were Soldiers: The Sacrifices and Contributions of Our Vietnam Veterans, a collaboration with New York Times bestselling author Joseph L. Galloway (We Were Soldiers) that profiles fifty men and women who served in Vietnam in one capacity or another. Among the veterans profiled in They Were Soldiers is elder care activist Russell Balisok, whose story Marv shared in this segment. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 495.4: From May 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the launch of CNN on June 1, 1980 as part of This Week in TV History and the many ways in which the cable news network helped spur the rise of the Internet as we know it today. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 495.5: An encore presentation of our October 2014 conversation with Ken Osmond, the actor known around the world as Eddie Haskell on Leave It to Beaver. Ken Osmond passed away on Monday, May 18 at age 76. Our chat with Ken was a well-rounded conversation that covered not only his show business life before and after Leave It to Beaver (including his early career as a child actor working with the likes of Jennifer Jones, Ozzie Nelson, and Spencer Tracy), but his service with the U.S. Army Reserve (a stint that coincided with the last years of production of Beaver), his lifelong interest in military history, his distinguished career as a peace officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, and his struggles with PTSD after he was shot in the line of duty Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 495.6: From June 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the final episode of Mad Men, which originally aired on May 17, 2015 as part of This Week in TV History, as well as the show’s final season in general and the ways in which Mad Men influenced the landscape of television during its run on AMC. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 495.7: Part 4 of our conversation with Marvin J. Wolf, co-author of They Were Soldiers: The Sacrifices and Contributions of Our Vietnam Veterans, a collaboration with New York Times bestselling author Joseph L. Galloway (We Were Soldiers) that profiles fifty men and women who served in Vietnam in one capacity or another. Among the veterans profiled in They Were Soldiers are Diane Carlson Evans, founder of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial; Eileen Moore, a Vietnam nurse who is now a California Appellate Court judge; Mary Cohoe, the only Native American who served as a Red Cross “Donut Dolly” during the Vietnam War; and Scott Ratliff, a Native American who served in the Wyoming state legislature and founded Native Ed for All, an organization that strives to expose all students in Wyoming to Native American culture. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 495.1: A return appearance by author Steven Taibbi (Grateful Guilt: Living in the Shadow of My Heart). Born with a cyanotic heart and three birth defects, Steven has spent much of his life in and out of hospitals receiving treatment for these and other medical conditions, including two open heart surgeries and two heart transplants. Since his last visit to our program, Steven had a chance to meet the family of the man whose heart he received in his second heart transplant procedure. Statistically, only 3 percent of donor families answer any correspondence from recipients, let alone meet them. This segment was recorded in February 2020, prior to the national lockdown. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 495.2: Part 2 of our conversation with Steven Taibbi, author of Grateful Guilt: Living in the Shadow of My Heart. Born with a cyanotic heart and three birth defects, Steven has spent much of his life in and out of hospitals receiving treatment for these and other medical conditions, including two open heart surgeries and two heart transplants. In this segment Steven talks about the difference between complex trauma and PTSD. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 495.3: Steven Taibbi, author of Grateful Guilt: Living in the Shadow of My Heart, talks to Ed about his experience working in television, which includes producing daytime talk shows hosted Joan Lunden and Dr. Ruth Westheimer and the personal power exhibited by both Dr. Ruth and former President Richard Nixon. Other topics in this segment include coping strategies for living with serious illness. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 495.4: Greg and Ed discuss the DVD release of The New Adventures of Superman (CBS, 1966-1967), the first animated series produced by Filmation Associates. Topics include the voice work of Bud Collier, the contemporary theme music by John Gart, and the long relationship between Ted Knight and Filmation before The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 495.5: Greg and Ed discuss the DVD releases of Monster Squad (NBC, 1976-1977) and Drak Pack (CBS, 1980), two Saturday morning series about that reimagined Dracula, the Wolf Man and Frankenstein’s Monster as intrepid crime fighters. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 495.6: Ed welcomes Oscar nominee and three-time Golden Globe Award nominee Eric Roberts (King of the Gypsies, Star 80, Runaway Train, Less Than Perfect, Heroes). One of the most prolific, highly sought-after actors in the industry today, with more than 500 film and TV credits under his belt—including a staggering 150 movie or television roles between 2013 and 2015 alone—Eric talks about how much he loves to work and how he’s holding up during this time of industry shutdown. This segment also discusses Eric’s experience using The Rocket, an affordable, FDA-registered solution for erectile dysfunction that you can use in the privacy of your home. A portable device with a 90-percent success rate, The Rocket uses sound-wave therapy to clear the plaque that causes ED, a condition that affects roughly 50 percent of all men age forty and up. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 495.7: Legendary actor Eric Roberts (King of the Gypsies, Star 80, Runaway Train, Less Than Perfect, Heroes) talks to Ed about the perception of fame, his lifelong love of animals, and why the actors and crew members on daytime soap operas are the hardest-working people in the film and TV industry. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From May 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember May 25, 1992, the night of Jay Leno's first appearance as host of The Tonight Show and the controversy that went on behind the scenes as to whether Leno or David Letterman would succeed Johnny Carson as host. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From May 2011: Phil Gries joins Ed in the studio for more highlights from the first ten years of Johnny Carson's reign as host of The Tonight Show, including a surprise appearance by Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, on Sept. 16, 1965 (one night after Carson made a flip remark in his monologue about the then-upcoming fight between Clay and Floyd Patterson). Most of the tapes from the first decade of the Carson Tonight Show broadcasts were erased by NBC, so this is a rare opportunity to hear the King of Late Night in his early days. Also in this segment: Phil plays a clip from a celebrity roast of Johnny Carson that aired on the Kraft Music Hall on Oct. 23, 1968. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From May 2011: Phil Gries joins Ed in the studio for a special edition of The Sounds of Lost Television featuring rarely heard audio highlights from Johnny Carson’s first ten years as host of The Tonight Show, including a clip from the first anniversary program of Oct. 1, 1963. Most of the tapes from the first decade of the Tonight Show broadcasts were erased by NBC, so this is a rare opportunity to hear the King of Late Night in his early days. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From May 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember May 22, 1992, the night of Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of The Tonight Show. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 493.8: From April 2011: Phil Gries remembers Here’s Hollywood, an NBC daytime talk show from the early 1960s, as part of The Sounds of Lost Television. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 493.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with three-time Emmy nominated writer/producer Phil Savenick, curator of TheHistoryofTV.com, a virtual museum devoted to television that not only celebrates the life and career of Philo T. Farnsworth, the man who invented television when he was age fourteen, but includes such authentic artifacts as Farnsworth’s original chalk drawing for the first television camera and the most impressive collection of vintage TV sets you will ever see. In many respects, these early model sets serve as a window into the formative years of television itself. This segment was recorded on location in January 2020, before the national lockdown. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 493.2: Via remote from TheHistoryofTV.com: Phil Savenick provides Ed with a guided tour of his collection of vintage television sets, which includes the very first TV set sold by RCA, an early French model (with wings), and a rarely seen Pilot radio canopy TV—the set whose screen was so small, mothers across America warned their children not to sit too close to it “or else you’ll burn your eyes out.” This segment was recorded in January 2020, before the national lockdown. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 493.3: Via remote from TheHistoryofTV.com: Phil Savenick shares the back stories of some of the mementos from the Golden Age of Television that are on display at his virtual museum, including the first remote control clicker, an autographed cigar butt from Milton Berle, a silver dollar from Jack Benny, and an authentic replica of the hat that Mary Tyler Moore tossed in the air at the end of the opening sequence of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. This segment was recorded in January 2020, before the national lockdown. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 493.4: From May 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the tragic murder of actor/comedian Phil Hartman (Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, NewsRadio) in May 1998 as part of This Week in TV History. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 493.5: From May 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed revisit May 20, 2007, the night on which The Simpsons aired its 400th episode. Topics include how The Simpsons was originally considered controversial when it premiered in 1989, only to be seen as mainstream with age, as well as how the show’s number of episodes ranks with other long-running series. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 493.6: Ed welcomes film and TV Western actor Don Collier (The High Chaparral, The Outlaws) and radio host, documentary film maker, and pioneer TV casting director Susan McCray. Susan produced Don Collier: Confessions of an Acting Cowboy, a new DVD based on Don’s popular one-man show, and Kent McCray: Laughter, Love and Television, an excellent documentary about the life and career of the widely respected and much deloved producer and unit production manager personal story arc in television parallels the history of the first forty years of TV itself. You can order Don Collier: Confessions of an Acting Cowboy directly by emailing discmasters.fulfullment@gmail.com or through his website, DonCollierActingCowboy.com. Kent McCray: Laughter, Love and Television is included in The High Chaparral: The Final Season, the DVD collection available through Shout Factory. However, you can also order the Kent McCray documentary separately through select retailers. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 493.7: Actor Don Collier (The High Chaparral, The Outlaws) and pioneer TV casting director Susan McCray (Little House on the Prairie) share some more memories about their mutual love for Kent McCray. Plus: Don talks about playing cards with John Wayne and golfing with Dean Martin, while Susan shares the latest developments of her popular radio magazine show, Kaleidoscope—including a new segment featuring Don Collier. You can order Don Collier: Confessions of an Acting Cowboy directly by emailing discmasters.fulfullment@gmail.com or through his website, DonCollierActingCowboy.com. Kent McCray: Laughter, Love and Television is included in The High Chaparral: The Final Season, the DVD collection available through Shout Factory. However, you can also order the Kent McCray documentary separately through select retailers. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In light of the passing earlier this week of comedian Jerry Stiller, we thought we'd post this clip from a conversation that Greg Ehrbar and Ed had in June 2015 about the career of Anne Meara, including her years performing stand-up alongside her husband as the landmark comedy team Stiller and Meara, as well as her solo effects on television, including The Corner Bar and the short-lived legal drama Kate McShane. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From May 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed take us back to May 13, 1999, when Susan Lucci (All My Children) won her first Emmy Award after nineteen Emmy nominations. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 492.1: From May 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the death of Moe Howard of The Three Stooges on May 4, 1975 as part of This Week in TV History. Topics include why Curly Howard was the Stooge that seemed to resonate the most with fans. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 492.2: From May 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed go back to May 9, 1971, when the final segment of The Honeymooners was broadcast as part of The Jackie Gleason Show (CBS, 1962-1970). Though CBS had canceled Gleason at the end of the 1969-1970 season, it aired reruns of the show on Sunday nights from January 1971 through May 1971. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 492.3: Ed welcomes three-time Emmy nominated writer/producer Phil Savenick. After thirty-five years in TV production, during which time he created many highly regarded compilation documentaries concerning TV and its history, Phil decided to devote the third act of his life to expressing the impact that the medium of television continues to have all over the world. That expression takes several forms, including a virtual museum devoted to television, which originates from the living room of Phil’s home in Los Angeles. This interview was recorded via remote in January 2020, before the national lockdown. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 492.4: Three-time Emmy nominee Phil Savenick talks to Ed about how he came to develop TheHistoryofTV.com, a virtual museum devoted to the creation of television, which Phil curates from his home in Los Angeles. The mission statement of TheHistoryofTV.com is to celebrate the life and career of Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television. This interview was recorded via remote in January 2020, before the national lockdown. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 492.5: Ed welcomes back actress, comedienne and producer Kat Kramer. Kat is one of the producers, as well as one of the cast members, of Turnover, an uplifting independent film that celebrates the resilience that resides in all of us, particularly after life suddenly throws us a curve. Co-written and directed by Linda Palmer, and also featuring Paul Guilfoyle, Donna Mills, Beverly Todd, and many other familiar faces, Turnover is currently available for viewing on demand on Amazon Prime. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 492.6: Actress and producer Kat Kramer (Turnover) talks to Ed about some of her upcoming projects, including the independent drama Mother’s Day Memories. Plus: Since we’ll all at home for the foreseeable future, Kat recommends some films of her father, Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning producer/director Stanley Kramer, to watch or revisit during this time. Turnover is currently available for viewing on demand on Amazon Prime. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 492.7: Via remote from TheHistoryofTV.com: Phil Savenick gives Ed a guided tour of his virtual museum dedicated to the history of television. Besides celebrating the life and legacy of Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of television, TheHistoryofTV.com includes many authentic Farnsworth artifacts (including the original drawing for the first television camera, which Farnsworth conceived at age fourteen), plus such mementos from the Golden Age of Television as the Emmy Award that First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy won in 1962 for hosting A Tour of the White House. This interview was recorded in January 2020, before the national lockdown. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From May 2011: Stephen Battaglio, author of David Susskind: A Televised Life, discusses former FCC chairman Newton Minow's famous "vast wasteland" speech on the state of network television, which he delivered on May 9, 1961 at that year's convention of the National Association of Broadcasters. Battaglio interviewed Minow for his Susskind biography; topics this segment include how Minow's speech ultimately changed the landscape in television by giving viewers shows such as Mr. Novak, East Side/West Side, The Defenders, and Star Trek---all of which spoke about the human condition, while also providing entertainment. NOTE: At the time we recorded this interview, Steve Battaglio was business editor for TV Guide magazine. He is currently business editor for the Los Angeles Times. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From May 2011: Ed welcomes back actor and author Dan Frischman (Head of the Class, Kenan & Kel, Jackons & Jenks: Master Magicians). Also an accomplished singer, songwriter, musician, stand-up comedian, and stage magician, Dan talks about his background in music and how magic has always played a vital role throughout his life and career. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 491.1: A return visit by Adam Sharp, president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (aka the Daytime Emmys). Topics this segment include how viewership of the nightly network evening news broadcasts has increased by about 50 percent since the national lockdown began in March, plus the impact that news coverage of COVID-19 may have on next year’s Emmy categories. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 491.2: Part 2 of our conversation with Adam Sharp, president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (aka the Daytime Emmys). The National Academy oversees The Daytime Emmys, the Sports Emmys, the News and Documentary Emmys, and the technical and engineering Emmys—the ceremonies for which have all been postponed for the time being because of the corona virus pandemic. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 491.3: Adam Sharp, president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, tells Ed the back story of the Daytime Emmys’ new logo—a dynamic new emblem that, in many respects, reflects the forward thinking embodied by the National Academy in recent years. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 491.4: Donelle Dadigan, founder and president of The Hollywood Museum, talks to Ed about the various ways in which the Museum is using its social media platforms (Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter) to bring the museum to the public during this time of national lockdown, including a series of videos that will see Ruta Lee, Dee Wallace, Judy Tenuta, Bob Bergen and other stars sharing memories about their favorite Museum exhibits. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 491.5: Donelle Dadigan, founder and president of The Hollywood Museum and chair of both the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to and the Hollywood Historic Tour, talks to Ed about the various Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremonies that are available for streaming on demand, for free, during this time of national lockdown. Other topics include which of the current exhibits at the Hollywood Museum will be on display once the Museum gets the OK to reopen its doors. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 491.6: From December 2013: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome Mark Milano, curator of Kukla.tv, the official website of Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and the producer of Kukla, Fran and Ollie: The First Episodes. Volume 3 of The First Episodes includes guest appearances by guitarist Jose Greco, singer Dennis Day, and NBC news commentator H.V. Kaltenborn, plus black-and-white clips of two KFO episodes that were the among first color television shows ever broadcast. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 491.7: From December 2013: Ed welcomes author, musician, and storyteller John Kruth. John’s book Rhapsody in Black: The Life and Music of Roy Orbison is a comprehensive biography and discography of Roy Orbison, the legendary balladeer who sang about love, pain and heartache like few others—no doubt, because he understood it like few others, having experienced more pain and misery than most of us will see in a lifetime, including the tragic deaths of his first wife and first two children. As John himself put it, perhaps Orbison’s most remarkable attributes as an artist were his kindness and his unfailing ability to make lemonade, no matter what life threw at him. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 491.8: From December 2013: Part 2 of our conversation with John Kruth, author of Rhapsody in Black: The Life and Music of Roy Orbison. Topics this segment include some of Orbison’s notable appearances on television, including Roy Orbison: A Black and White Night, the award-winning special produced by Cinemax that is still considered one of the best concert films ever made. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From May 2011: Donna, Tony, and Ed remember the passing of Hubert Schafly, the engineer who invented the TelePrompTer in 1950. Schafly's device not only enabled actors and politicians to read scripts on TV without looking down, but shaped the content and presentation of TV newscasts on local, network, cable, satellite, and digital television all over the world. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From April 2011: Phil Gries says Happy Birthday to Ann-Margret by playing highlights from "Today," an NBC special hosted by Andy Williams that also marked one of the singer/actress' very first network TV appearances. Originally broadcast in May 1962, "Today" was also one of several Williams specials for the Peacock Network that eventually led to his popular NBC variety hour. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From April 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the fiftieth anniversary of the premiere of My Name is Barbra, an hour of music starring Barbra Streisand, and the first in a series of specials that the Broadway star and future Oscar winner filmed for CBS in the late 1960s. Though it went on to win two Emmys and a Peabody Award, CBS was nervous about My Name is Barbra before it aired. Rather than rely on variety show conventions (such as having guest stars), Streisand chose to perform every musical number in the show by herself. That posed a risk for the network because Streisand was not a household name at the time. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 490.4: Ed welcomes back Alison Arngrim, the actress known around the world as Nellie Oleson on Little House on the Prairie. With everyone sheltered at home these days, Alison began reading the original Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder aloud to her fans and followers around the world and posting them every day, for free, on her Facebook page. Alison’s daily readings have not only exploded in popularity, but have inspired fellow Little House cast members Dean Butler and Charlotte Stewart to join her. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From April 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed go back to Apr. 19, 1938, when NBC launched experimental television broadcasts from the Empire State Building. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 490.5: Alison Arngrim (Little House on the Prairie) tells Ed about the upcoming live digital version of her acclaimed one-woman show, Confessions of a Prairie Terror, on Saturday, May 9 and again on May 16. For more details, go to SpinCycleNYC.com. Alison’s memoir, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, is available wherever books are sold. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 490.6: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with John Barbour, the five-time Emmy Award-winning talk show host, comedian, critic at large, and documentary film maker who is also the creator, producer, principal writer, and one of the original co-hosts of Real People (NBC, 1979-1984). In this segment, John shares a few thoughts about isolation during this extraordinary time, including a whimsical, Tom Lehrer-like song set to the tune of “Mack the Knife.” John’s memoir, Your Mother’s Not a Virgin: The Bumpy Life and Times of the Canadian Dropout Who Changed the Face of American TV, is available in softcover and as an eBook wherever books are sold online. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 490.7: Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, comedian and talk show host John Barbour (Real People) shares a few more stories about his days at a nightclub comedian in the 1960s, including finding his own piece of ground as a comic and helping a young Pat Morita do the same. John’s memoir, Your Mother’s Not a Virgin: The Bumpy Life and Times of the Canadian Dropout Who Changed the Face of American TV, is available wherever books are sold online, while select videos of John reading chapters from Your Mother’s Not a Virgin are available for free viewing on his YouTube channel and at JohnBarboursWorld.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 490.8: Emmy Award-winning talk show host, comedian, critic at large, and documentary film maker John Barbour (Real People) tells Ed the story of his unlikely friendship with screenwriter Harlan Ellison. John’s memoir, Your Mother’s Not a Virgin: The Bumpy Life and Times of the Canadian Dropout Who Changed the Face of American TV, is available wherever books are sold online. John Barbour’s film The American Media and the Second Assassination of John F. Kennedy is available at Amazon.com for $1.99 to watch and $4.99 to own, while his documentaries The Garrison Tapes and Ernie Kovacs: TV’s Original Genius are both available for free on his YouTube channel and at JohnBarboursWorld.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From April 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the screen debut of Warner Bros. character Daffy Duck in Porky's Duck Hunt (1937), which was originally released on Apr. 17, 1937. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From April 2018: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the world premiere of The Blues Brothers on the Apr. 22, 1978 edition of Saturday Night Live. Topics include the sheer level of talent that Dan Ackroyd put together in creating the band. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In light of the passing earlier this week of Tom Lester, the actor known around the world as Eb on Green Acres, we you bring this minisode edition in which Greg and Ed discuss the broadcast history of Green Acres (CBS, 1965-1971). In many respects, Green Acres was the closest thing American television came to capturing the genius and absurdity of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 489.1: From April 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember Apr. 22, 1976, when Barbara Walters signed a $5 million contract to join Harry Reasoner as co-anchor of The ABC Evening News. The deal made Walters not only the highest paid TV journalist at the time, but the first female to headline a network news broadcast. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 489.2: From April 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed go back to Apr. 24, 1936, when television cameras in Camden, New Jersey filmed a group of firemen responding to an alarm. This not only marked the first time an unplanned event was broadcast on television, but paved the way for what we now know as "breaking news" or live TV news coverage. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 489.3: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome back actor, director, and entrepreneur Anson Williams. Anson directed and co-stars, along with fellow longtime Happy Days cast member Don Most, in Harvest Time, a dramatic short with dark humor that is also the pilot episode for a possible anthology series that would feature actors from movies and TV in roles that are completely different than the characters for which they are best known. You can watch Harvest Time for free at PopGoestheCulture.tv. Anson and Don will also appear together in The Happy Days of Garry Marshall, a new two-hour special that will premiere on ABC on Tuesday, May 12. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 489.4: Actor/director Anson Williams tells Ed, Tony, and Donna how fellow Happy Days alumnus Don Most made it easy for Anson for appear in front of the camera for the first time in years during production of Harvest Time. The pilot for a possible anthology series, Harvest Time can be seen for free at PopGoestheCulture.tv. Anson Williams, along with his business partner Joanna Connell, also recently partnered with entrepreneur Meggie Jones in her effort to provide needed items to our frontline healthcare workers as they tend to those in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. Anson and Joanna donated supplies of Alert Drops to emergency medical technicians so that they can alert naturally during this critical time. If you own a business, large or small, and would like to help Meggie with this important cause, a list of needed items can be found at NutrientSoak.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 489.5: Five time Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, comedian and talk show host John Barbour talks to Ed about his affinity for Superman and the role that played in ultimately getting Real People (NBC, 1979-1984) on NBC after John had originally developed the concept for ABC. John’s memoir, Your Mother’s Not a Virgin: The Bumpy Life and Times of the Canadian Dropout Who Changed the Face of American TV, is available in softcover and as an eBook wherever books are sold online. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 489.6: John Barbour, creator, producer, principal writer and one of the original hosts of Real People (NBC, 1979-1984), talks to Ed about why Real People is the best form of realty television because it celebrates the “entertainment of reality.” John’s memoir, Your Mother’s Not a Virgin: The Bumpy Life and Times of the Canadian Dropout Who Changed the Face of American TV, is available wherever books are sold online, while select videos of John reading chapters from Your Mother’s Not a Virgin are available for free viewing on his YouTube channel and at JohnBarboursWorld.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 489.7: Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, comedian and talk show host John Barbour talks to Ed about the many ways in which Redd Foxx helped him during the years when John performed as a nightclub comedian. John’s memoir, Your Mother’s Not a Virgin: The Bumpy Life and Times of the Canadian Dropout Who Changed the Face of American TV, is available wherever books are sold online. John Barbour’s film The American Media and the Second Assassination of John F. Kennedy is available at Amazon.com for $1.99 to watch and $4.99 to own, while his documentaries The Garrison Tapes and Ernie Kovacs: TV’s Original Genius are both available for free on his YouTube channel and at JohnBarboursWorld.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 489.8: Greg and Ed remember Shirley Temple’s Storybook (NBC, 1958-1961), select episodes of which are available for streaming on demand on Amazon. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout
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TVC 489.9: Greg and Ed discuss some of the many Shirley Temple movies that are available for home viewing, including Bright Eyes, Heidi, The Blue Bird, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and The Little Colonel. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From April 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed go back to Apr. 24, 1982, the day when Jane Fonda's first workout video was released and the effect that Fonda's bestselling series of aerobics tapes had on VCR sales, the home video market, and our culture in general. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2012: Ed welcomes actor, author and CBS Radio commentator Charles Grodin (Rosemary’s Baby, Catch-22, Midnight Run, The Heartbreak Kid, Seems Like Old Times, Beethoven, The Perils of Show Business: Proceed at Your Own Risk). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From May 2011: Actor, playwright, artist, and novelist Peter Mark Richman (Cain's Hundred, Longstreet, Dynasty, Three's Company, 4 Faces, Hollander's Deal, A Medal for Murray, The Rebirth of Ira Masters) on how he first began writing during the Golden Age of Television, when he was appearing in live TV shows in New York City; how he received encouragement from Paddy Chayefksy and, particularly, developed his ear for dialogue; and how his introduction to the spiritual movement Subud changed the course of Peter Mark's life. Since this conversation originally aired, Peter Mark Richman has published his autobiography, I Saw a Molten White Light (Bear Manor Media, 2018), which is available wherever books are sold Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 488.1: Ed welcomes singer, actress, and songwriter Roslyn Kind. Through the encouragement of friends, fans and family, Roslyn has released the digital singles of “Save the Country” and “Light of Love,” two songs that are not only very uplifting, but have particular significance for Roslyn, both as a female and as an American. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 488.2: Part 2 of our conversation with singer, actress, and songwriter Roslyn Kind (“Save the Country,” “Light of Love”). Topics this segment include how Roslyn came to write “Light of Love,” appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show, and how she recorded her first album on the day of her high school graduation. The digital singles of both “Save the Country” and Light of Love” are available wherever music is sold. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 488.3: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Howard Storm, Robin Williams’ regular director during the first three seasons of Mork & Mindy. Howard’s memoir, The Imperfect Storm: From Henry Street to Hollywood, is available through Bear Manor Media. Steve Stoliar, author of Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s House and Howard’s collaborator on The Imperfect Storm, co-hosts. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 488.4: Howard Storm (Mork & Mindy, The Imperfect Storm: From Henry Street to Hollywood) talks to Ed about the path that led him to become a director, as well as his encounters with the legendary Judy Garland during his days as a stand-up comic. Steve Stoliar, author of Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s House and Howard’s collaborator on The Imperfect Storm, co-hosts. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 488.7: Meggie Jones, founder of Nutrient Soak, talks to Ed about her ongoing effort to support our frontline healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Meggie recently donated $50,000 worth of Nutrient Soak products to frontline healthcare workers in Seattle, Los Angeles, New York City and Chicago to keep their immune systems strong throughout this difficult time, plus she recently partnered with Northwell Health to help collect necessities for healthcare workers in other hotspots. If you own a business, large or small, and would like to help Meggie with this important cause, a list of needed items can be found at NutrientSoak.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From December 2016: Greg Ehrbar with a behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Judy Garland Show. (CBS, 1963-1964), including the clashes between Garland and then-CBS network president James T. Aubrey. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2013: Ed welcomes David Koenig, author of Danny Kaye: King of Jesters, the first in-depth examination of the stage, film, radio and TV career of Danny Kaye that not only explores Kaye’s often complicated relationship with his wife, Sylvia Fine, but chronicles his lifelong dedication to helping children around the world through his efforts with UNICEF. Topics this segment include the origin of the "sit down spot," the most popular feature of Kaye's weekly variety series on CBS. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 487.1: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember actor and entrepreneur Lyle Waggoner (The Carol Burnett Show, Wonder Woman) as part of This Week in TV History. Waggoner passed away Tuesday, March 17 at age 84. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 487.2: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the indelible imprint that Lyle Waggoner left on the film and television industry since the launch of his company, Star Waggons, in 1979. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From April 2013: Phil Gries plays a clip from a 1963 interview between New York Mets broadcaster Ralph Kiner and Hall of Fame outfielder Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants. Mays' memoir, 24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid, is scheduled for release later in 2020. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 487.4: Ed welcomes back actor, comedian, director and raconteur Howard Storm. After beginning his showbiz career when he was a teenager, performing in nightclubs in New York in the 1950s, Howard worked steadily as an actor and improvisational performer in the late ’60s and early 1970s before becoming one of the most sought-after directors in television, including such popular shows as Laverne & Shirley, Everybody Loves Raymond, Kenan and Kel, Fish, Daddy Dearest, Rhoda, ALF, Angie, and nearly sixty episodes of Mork & Mindy. Howard’s memoir, The Imperfect Storm: From Henry Street to Hollywood, is available through Bear Manor Media. Co-hosting the hour is Steve Stoliar, author of Raised Eyebrows and Howard’s collaborator on The Imperfect Storm. Topics this segment include the many ways in which Howard’s upbringing in the Lower East Side of New York prepared him for the rough and tumble world of show business. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 487.5: Actor, comedian, and director Howard Storm reveals how he won the confidence of a skeptical Beatrice Arthur during production of Amanda’s (ABC, 1983) and why Pam Dawber’s efforts as the Abbott to Robin Williams’ Costello on Mork & Mindy often go unappreciated. Howard’s memoir, The Imperfect Storm: From Henry Street to Hollywood, is available through Bear Manor Media. Co-hosting the hour is Steve Stoliar, author of Raised Eyebrows and Howard’s collaborator on The Imperfect Storm. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From April 2013: Phil Gries plays audio highlights of a 1963 interview between Emmy Award-winning announcer Ralph Kiner and fellow baseball Hall of Famer Duke Snider of the Brooklyn Dodgers. A member of the New York Mets broadcast team for more than fifty years, Kiner passed away in 2014. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 486.1: Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen join Ed via Skype for a special edition of This Week in TV History that looks at how the corona virus pandemic continues to affect not just the television industry, but all walks of our daily lives around the world, including the postponement of several upcoming primaries in the 2020 presidential campaign. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 486.2: Greg and Ed discuss the DVD release of Keeping Up Appearances (BBC1, 1990-1995), the British sitcom starring Patricia Routledge and Clive Swift. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 486.3: Ed welcomes back Eric Braeden, the Emmy Award-winning actor who earlier this year celebrated his fortieth anniversary playing complex self-made billionaire Victor Newman on the popular CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless. Topics include how Victor has evolved as a character over the past four decades; the chemistry Eric has enjoyed with Melody Thomas Scott and other Y and R cast members; and Eric’s admiration for L.A. Lakers star Kobe Bryant and his relentless pursuit of excellence. If you’re looking for a good read during this period of social distancing, may we suggest Eric's memoir, I’ll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me to America’s #1 Daytime Drama, a classic immigration story that embodies the American Dream. Born and raised in Germany at the height of World War II, Eric arrived in the U.S. in 1959 unaware of the atrocities of the Holocaust. That changed dramatically one day in 1961, when he watched the film Mein Kampf—an experience that not only awakened him politically, but left him determined to redress the wrongs of his homeland and to fighting prejudice not only against Germans, but all ethnicities. Eric tells his story candidly and very movingly; you will enjoy it as much as I did. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 486.4: Actor and author Eric Braeden (The Young and the Restless, The Rat Patrol, Colossus: The Forbin Project, I’ll Be Damned) talks to Ed about some of his other movie and TV roles, including learning how to downhill ski when making the film The Ultimate Thrill, and the joy he felt when he first stepped onto the set of Den of Thieves, the feature-length crime thriller written and directed by his son, Christian Gudegast. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 486.5: From March 2014: Susan Kesler, producer of the award-winning Get Smart Complete Series Box Set from 2007, talks to Ed about the lengths she went to locate and secure the many extra features that are part of that amazing DVD collection. Also the author of The Wild, Wild West: The Series, as well as one of the top editors in network television over the past three decades, Sue passed away on Thursday, March 19 after a brief bout with cancer. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 485.1: Emmy Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated writer, producer, singer, and showbiz raconteur Geoffrey Mark shares a few memories of his friend Jack Sheldon, the virtuoso jazz trumpeter and comedian whom some of you may remember as Merv Griffin’s sidekick throughout the 1970s. Also one of the many contributors to Schoolhouse Rock, including the songs “Conjunction Junction” and “I’m Just a Bill,” Jack Sheldon passed away Monday, Dec. 30 at age 88. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 485.2: A return appearance by James DuMont, one of the busiest character actors in film and TV today. Currently seen as Danny McBride’s right-hand man on The Righteous Gemstones (which HBO recently renewed for a second season), James has prominent roles as Senator McClellan in The Banker, the first feature film produced by Apple TV (now available for streaming on demand on Apple TV+), and as “Tracksuit Charlie” in Spenser: Confidential, available now for on-demand viewing on Netflix. Topics this segment include how Tracksuit Charlie’s flashy attire, coupled with the character’s Kill Bill yellow Corvette, has given James a newfound level of notoriety. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 485.3: James DuMont (Spenser: Confidential, The Righteous Gemstones) talks to Ed about how he often looks for the Achilles heel of a character whenever he takes on a part, and how he approaches playing historical characters such as Senator McClellan in The Banker. Both The Banker and Spenser: Confidential are available now for streaming on demand. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 485.4: Ed welcomes Emmy Award-winning actor Rob Paulsen, the voice of Pinky from Pinky and the Brain, Yakko Warner from Animaniacs, and both Raphael and Donatello from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Rob’s voice was nearly silenced in 2016 when he learned that he had throat cancer. Rob’s memoir, Voice Lessons: How a Couple of Ninja Turtles, Pinky, and an Animaniac Saved My Life, is the story of how his two-year fight with cancer gave him a new lease on life and an even greater appreciation for his gift for creating voices. Animaniacs will return this winter with brand new episodes that will air on Hulu. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 485.5: Rob Paulsen (Pinky and the Brain, Animaniacs, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Talkin’ Toons), talks to Ed about working with such voice actors as Jack Riley; his approach to directing voice actors; and the degree to which he and his cast mates on Animaniacs are allowed to ad-lib. Rob’s memoir, Voice Lessons: How a Couple of Ninja Turtles, Pinky, and an Animaniac Saved My Life, is the story of how his two-year fight with cancer gave him a new lease on life and an even greater appreciation for his gift for creating voices. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 485.6: Rob Paulsen (Pinky and the Brain, Animaniacs, Talkin’ Toons) talks to Ed about the importance of getting things checked out once you reach a certain age. Rob’s memoir, Voice Lessons: How a Couple of Ninja Turtles, Pinky, and an Animaniac Saved My Life, is the story of how his two-year fight with cancer gave him a new lease on life and an even greater appreciation for his gift for creating voices. Rob Paulsen is also this year’s spokesperson for The Head and Neck Cancer Alliance (HNCA)’s annual Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness® Program (OHANCA®), which celebrates its twenty-second year in 2020. The cornerstone of OHANCA is Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week, when dozens of free oral, head and neck cancer screenings and awareness programs take place around the world. This year’s Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week takes place Apr. 13-19, 2020. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 485.7: Film and TV actor James DuMont (Spenser: Confidential, The Banker) talks to Ed about the importance of auditioning for your career, not for any one job. Both The Banker and Spenser: Confidential are available now for streaming on demand. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From March 2014: Ed and guest co-host Susan Kesler welcome actress and television executive Stacey Adams, the daughter of Don Adams. Stacey has enjoyed a long and successful career in television in her own right, both in front of the camera and behind the scenes, while Sue was one of the producers of the award-winning Get Smart Complete Series Gift Set DVD collection. Also one of the top film editors in television, Sue is the co-author of The Wild, Wild West: The Series. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
With Playboy announcing earlier today that it is suspending production of the print edition of its flagship magazine for the rest of 2020---a move that many believe also signals the end of the publication---we thought we'd post this bonus edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL in which Phil Gries played audio highlights from some of the early television ventures of Playboy founder and publisher Hugh Hefner, including a 1960 edition of Playboy’s Penthouse (a precursor to Playboy After Dark) featuring Dave Brubeck; a 1962 profile of Hef on Keyhole, a documentary series produced by Ziv; and Hefner's appearance in The Pursuit of Pleasure, a documentary that aired on NBC in May 1967. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 484.1: From March 2015: A special edition of This Week in TV History in which Tony, Donna, and Ed pay tribute to the life and career of Leonard Nimoy. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 484.2: From May 2019: Marc Cushman, author of These Are The Voyages, a three-volume biography of Star Trek: The Original Series, on the loyalty Leonard Nimoy showed to his fellow cast mates on Star Trek, and the actor’s mindset when he wrote his two memoirs, I Am Not Spock (1975) and I Am Spock (1995). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 484.3: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with eight-time Emmy Award winner Ed Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant, Elf, Disney Pixar’s UP, Briarpatch), including why his experience providing the voice of Carl Fredericksen in UP gave him a feeling of rebirth. Ed’s new memoir, SON OF A JUNKMAN: My Life from the West Bottoms of Kansas City to the Bright Lights of Hollywood, not only includes many stories about his spectacular acting career, but pays tribute to his cast members on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant, reveals the person on whom he based his portrayal of Grant when he did the hour-long series, and shows why Ed’s father continues to be the guiding force of his life today. Ed Asner plays God Almighty in God Help Us, a political comedy written by Samuel Warren Joseph that provides hope for the future, provided we all listen to each other. Samuel Warren Joseph was one of Ed’s collaborators on Son of a Junkman. To find out how to book God Help Us at a playhouse near you, go to GodHelpUs.net. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 484.4: Ed welcomes back two-time Emmy nominee Lee Purcell (Adam at 6 A.M., Valley Girl, Big Wednesday, Long Road Home, Secret Sins of the Fathers). Lee can currently be seen, along with Donna Mills, Donna Pescow, Geri Jewell, and RJ Mitte, in Carol of the Bells, a heartwarming feature film directed by Joey Travolta and his company, Inclusion Films, that is now available on DVD and streaming on demand on many platforms. Inclusion Films teaches and employs people in the film industry who have developmental and physical disabilities; 70 percent of the crew members on Carol of the Bells graduated from Travolta’s schools, while the title role of Carol is played by Andrea F. Friedman, a charming actress who happens to have Down Syndrome. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 484.5: Lee Purcell talks to Ed about the wonderful letter she received earlier this year from Kirk Douglas (her co-star on Eddie Macon’s Run), just a few weeks before he passed; her experience playing Olivia de Havilland in the CBS miniseries My Wicked, Wicked Ways; and why it’s apparently difficult to teach people who are ambidextrous how to play tennis. Lee’s latest film, Carol of the Bells, is now available on DVD and for on-demand viewing on many streaming platforms. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 484.6: Greg Ehrbar reviews some of the many editions of Sesame Street that are on available on DVD, including Sesame Street: 50th Anniversary Celebration, Sesame Street: 50 Years and Counting, 40 Years of Sunny Days, and the Barnes and Noble picture disc record featuring music from the first five decades of Sesame Street. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From March 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed say Happy Birthday to Judd Hirsch, who was born March 15, 1935 during This Week in TV History. Topics include the legacy of Taxi as well as some of Hirsch's other television work, including The Law, Delvecchio, and Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 483.2: Part 1 of a three-part interview with Carol Ford and Linda Groundwater, two of the co-authors (along with Dee Young) of Bob Crane: The Definitive Biography, a comprehensive, cradle-to-grave look at the life and career of the beloved Hogan’s Heroes star, including the impact he had on radio. The book includes first-hand insight from more than two hundred people who knew Bob Crane personally and better than most: family members; his friends from Connecticut, including many who knew him as far back as grade school; his colleagues from TV, the theatre, the movies, and, above all, radio; and the addiction counselor whose help Crane sought in an effort to overcome his addiction, in the weeks before he was murdered on June 29, 1978. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 483.1: Tony and Ed commemorate the fortieth anniversary of Pink Lady and Jeff (NBC, 1980), the short-lived and, in many respects, infamous variety series produced by Sid & Marty Krofft, which premiered forty years ago This Week in TV History. Tony’s coverage includes first-hand knowledge: He was in the studio audience at NBC/Burbank on the night that the first episode of Pink Lady was taped in December 1979. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 483.4: Legendary actor, author, and activist Ed Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant, Elf, Disney Pixar’s UP, Briarpatch) talks about the roles that actor Richard Crenna and The House on Greenapple Road—a made-for-TV movie produced by Quinn Martin—both played in helping him land his signature role of Lou Grant. Ed can currently be seen as town boss James Staghorne Sr. in Briarpatch, which airs Monday nights on USA Network. Ed’s memoir, SON OF A JUNKMAN: My Life from the West Bottoms of Kansas City to the Bright Lights of Hollywood, not only pays tribute to his cast members on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant, but reveals the person on whom Ed based his portrayal of Grant when he did the hour-long series. Son of a Junkman also discusses the challenges that Ed faced during his tenure as president of the Screen Actors Guild; the backlash he faced from the El Salvador controversy in 1982, and the effect that had not only on Lou Grant, but his acting career in general; and the influence that Ed’s father continues to have on his life today. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 483.3: Ed welcomes back eight-time Emmy Award winner Ed Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant, Elf, Disney Pixar’s UP, Briarpatch). Ed’s new memoir, SON OF A JUNKMAN: My Life from the West Bottoms of Kansas City to the Bright Lights of Hollywood, is a charming, funny, and often very poignant look at his life and career, from his colorful childhood as the son of a junkman in Kansas City to his spectacular acting career. Ed Asner plays God Almighty in God Help Us, a political comedy written by Samuel Warren Joseph that provides hope for the future, provided we all listen to each other. Samuel Warren Joseph was one of Ed’s collaborators on Son of a Junkman. To find out how to book God Help Us at a playhouse near you, go to GodHelpUs.net. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 483.5: Greg and Ed discuss the DVD release of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (BBC, 1976-1979); why the humor of the series is not for everyone; and why the American adaptation, Reggie (ABC, 1983), starring Richard Mulligan, failed to catch on. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 482.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with author, screenwriter, and voice artist Steve Stoliar. Steve’s career in the entertainment industry began in the early 1970s, when a series of events led to a job as the personal secretary and archivist of the one, the only Groucho Marx during the last three years of Groucho’s life—a period of time in which Steve went from being a starry-eyed fan to becoming Groucho’s protector. Steve’s memoir, Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s House, is available in hardcover, paperback, as an eBook and as an audiobook through BearManor Media. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 482.3: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the Miracle on Ice, the U.S. men’s hockey team’s win over the Soviet Union’s men’s hockey team in the medal-round game on Feb. 22, 1980 during the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 482.2: Author, screenwriter, and voice artist Steve Stoliar talks to Ed about how he came to develop his skill for mimickry; his recent collaboration with director Howard Storm; and the wisdom that Jack Lemmon once shared during a conversation with Bill Marx, Harpo’s son. Steve’s memoir, Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s House, is available in hardcover, paperback, as an eBook and as an audiobook through BearManor Media. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 482.5: Ed welcomes actress and voice artist Joan Van Ark (Knots Landing, Dallas, Spider-Woman). Topics include Joan’s background as a stage actress; the role that Knots producer Michael Filerman played in bringing Julie Harris to the series; and how the costumes of Joan’s that are currently on display at the Hollywood Museum are an example of how Valene Ewing evolved as a character on Knots. The Knots Landing lobby exhibit at The Hollywood Museum is on display through Wednesday, April 1. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 482.6: Joan Van Ark talks to Ed about her background as a voice artist; some of her early TV roles; and the advice that James Garner once gave her early in her career. The Knots Landing lobby exhibit is on display through Wednesday, April 1. For more information, go to TheHollywoodMuseum.com. 2019-2020 also the marks the fortieth anniversary of the premiere of Spider-Woman, the first TV adaptation of a female superhero from the Marvel Comics universe; Joan Van Ark provided the voices of both Spider-Woman and her alter ego, Jessica Drew. All sixteen episodes of Spider-Woman are now available on demand on Disney+. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2012: Ed welcomes Charlene Tilton, Lucy Ewing on Dallas (both the original series on CBS and the new Dallas on TNT), Charlene is also the president of Actors for Autism, a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to the advancement, education and training of children and adults with autism. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From September 2012: Ed talks to Charlene Tilton, Lucy Ewing on Dallas (both the original series on CBS and the new Dallas on TNT), and the president of Actors for Autism, a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to the advancement, education and training of children and adults with autism. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 481.1: Part 1 of a two-part conversation with author, screenwriter, and voice artist Steve Stoliar. Steve’s book Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s House is a memoir of his experience as the personal secretary and archivist of the one, the only Groucho Marx during the last three years of Groucho’s life—a period of time in which Steve went from being a starry-eyed fan to becoming Groucho’s protector. Raised Eyebrows is available in hardcover, paperback, as an eBook and as an audiobook through BearManor Media. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 481.2: Greg and Ed discuss the Shout! Factory Blu-ray release of Abbott & Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection, as well as the Warner Archive releases of Abbott and Costello in Hollywood, Lost in a Harem, Rio Rita, and Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd. Topics include how Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein was one of the inspirations for the Scooby-Doo franchise. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 481.3: Greg and Ed discuss the various configurations of The Abbott and Costello Show (CBS, 1952-1954) available for home entertainment and how the series itself influenced Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David when they went on to develop Seinfeld. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 481.4: Ed welcomes back stage and TV actor Stacy Keach (Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, Titus, Man with a Plan). Topics include how Stacy’s love of radio dramas helped inspire him to become an actor; why humor is the best way to approach the humanity of a character; and why the works of Mary Shelley, Rod Serling, and Bob Kane have all stood the test of time. Stacy Keach will be starring as The Creature in an original adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, produced by L.A. Theater Works, that will be recorded live in front of an audience for future radio broadcast at UCLA’s James Bridges Theatre on Friday, Feb. 28, Saturday, Feb. 29 and Sunday, March 1. There will be two performances on Saturday, Feb. 29, one of which is a matinee that will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Leslie S. Klinger, author of The New Annotated Frankenstein. If you listen to us to in the L.A. area, and would like to attend one of the recordings, call 310-827-0889 or go to www.latw.org for tickets and more information For our listeners everywhere, the performance of Frankenstein starring Stacy Keach will soon be broadcast on public radio stations across the U.S., as well as heard daily in China and worldwide on the Radio Beijing Network. It will also become available for download as a podcast via iTunes and NPR One, as well as streaming on demand at www.latw.org Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A special edition of This Week in TV History in which Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss what a brilliant comedienne Gracie Allen was and the influence that The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show had on many other sitcoms, including It's Garry Shandling's Show. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ed and Phil close out this week's program with an encore presentation of The Sounds of Lost Television that includes a clip from Meet Mr. Lincoln, a short film about the life of Abraham Lincoln that originally aired on Project Twenty (NBC, 1954-1970), the documentary series that, in many respects, was a precursor to the type of documentaries that Ken Burns has produced over the past three decades. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From October 2014: Bill Marx, son of Harpo Marx, talks to Ed about how all four Marx Brothers were good athletes as well as gifted comedians; how the Brothers "trained" every week for twenty years, honing their act in vaudeville and on Broadway before they made movies; and why Chico was such a great straight man for both Harpo and Groucho. An accomplished musician in his own right, Bill Marx is also executive producer of The Marx Brothers TV Collection, a DVD configuration featuring some of the Brothers’ many appearances on television, collectively and individually, throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 480.1: TV Confidential marks the passing of screen legend Kirk Douglas with an encore presentation of our December 2016 centennial tribute to the Academy Award-winning actor featuring audio highlights from some of Douglas’ appearances on television throughout the 1960s and ’70s. This segment includes a clip of Douglas on The Tonight Show in April 1962 in which he discusses the film Lonely Are the Brave, plus an excerpt from TV Confidential’s interview with William Schallert from July 2013 in which Schallert discusses the role that Douglas played in ending the blacklist by ensuring that Dalton Trumbo received screen credit for writing the screenplay for Spartacus. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 480.2: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio plays highlights of a May 1963 radio interview with Kirk Douglas in which the actor discusses, among other topics, his often hectic daily schedule as an actor while in New York City. Kirk Douglas passed away on Feb. 5, 2020 at age 103. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 480.3: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio plays a clip from the Oct. 28, 1963 of Tell Us More, a precursor to Biography that aired on WNBC-TV in New York in the early 1960s. In this segment, actress and Tell Us More correspondent Muriel Davidson shares a few anecdotes about her friendship with Kirk Douglas during the late 1940s, around the time of the actor’s first marriage. Kirk Douglas passed away on Feb. 5, 2020 at age 103. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 480.4: TV Confidential pays tribute to TV icon Robert Conrad by playing highlights from our October 2013 conversation with Bob Herron, one of the five core stuntmen who worked with Conrad every week on The Wild, Wild West, and Susan Kesler, author of The Wild, Wild West: The Series. Robert Conrad passed away on Feb. 8, 2020 at age 84. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 480.5: Ed welcomes back Michelle Danner, the legendary Hollywood acting coach whose students include such A-list actors as Jason Alexander, Chris Rock, Marcia Cross, Seth MacFarlane, Christian Slater, Selma Hayek, Gerald Butler, Norman Reedus, Zooey Deschanel, Gabrielle Union, and Penelope Cruz. Also an accomplished actress and director, Michelle recently completed principal filming of The Runner, an action thriller that marks her sixth effort as a director; The Runner stars Cameron Douglas and Edouard Phillipponnat and is slated for release later in 2020. Michelle is also preparing to direct actress Anne Archer in a stage production of A Ticket to the Circus, a one-woman show about Norris Church Mailer’s marriage to Norman Mailer. For our listeners in Southern California, Bad Impulse, a psychological thriller directed by Michelle Danner, will open this year’s Cinema at the Edge Film Festival, Feb. 21-23, 2020 in Santa Monica, California. For tickets and more information, CinemaattheEdge.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 480.6: From October 2013: Actor/stuntman Bob Herron (The Wild, Wild West) and author Susan Kesler (The Wild, Wild West: The Series) talk about the fight sequences that Robert Conrad choreographed each week on The Wild, Wild West, and how Conrad did his own stunts every week until early 1968, when CBS required him to have a double after the actor suffered a serious injury that shut down production of the series. Robert Conrad passed away on Feb. 8, 2020 at age 84. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 480.7: A few final thoughts on the passing of Robert Conrad. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This special minisode edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL includes a bonus segment from our December 2016 tribute to Kirk Douglas. Phil Gries plays audio highlights of Douglas' February 1970 appearance on The Johnny Cash Show (ABC, 1969-1971) and the actor's musical duet with singer Tom Jones from the Special London Bridge Special (NBC, 1972). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of The Midnight Special (NBC, 1972-1981) and how the series paved the way for "late late" night TV programming as we know it today, both on a network level as well as on cable TV and local stations. Also in this segment: The premiere of Project UFO, the last network TV series produced by Jack Webb. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tony, Donna, and Ed remember The Wonder Years (ABC, 1988-1993), the coming of age dramedy that premiered on Jan. 31, 1988. Topics included how the series was an early example of a prime time network series with a cable TV sensibility. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From February 2018: Ed welcomes actor, director and screenwriter Lou Antonio (Cool Hand Luke, Splendor in the Grass, Star Trek, The Snoop Sisters, Dog and Cat, Makin’ It, Something for Joey). Topics this segment include "Roundabout," one of five episodes of The Rockford Files that Lou directed, and a show that includes an offbeat foot chase filmed on location at the Hoover Dam in Las Vegas. Lou’s memoir, Cool Hand Lou: My Fifty Years in Hollywood and on Broadway, not only provides a window into the ups and downs of an artist’s life, but shares many great stories of his work alongside some of the biggest names in stage, film and television, including Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, Eli Wallach, Julie Andrews, Julie Harris, Edward Albee, Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Carol Burnett, George C. Scott, Michael J. Fox, Dennis Weaver, Jaclyn Smith, Elizabeth Montgomery, Heath Ledger, Louis Gossett Jr., Candice Bergen, Renee Zellweger, Lee Remick, Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Laurence Olivier, David Janssen and James Garner. Cool Hand Lou is available in softcover and as an eBook through McFarland Books. You can also order it by calling (800) 253-2187. Autographed editions of Cool Hand Lou are available from Lou Antonio himself. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In light of the passing of Robert Conrad earlier today, we are posting a bonus minisode featuring an excerpt from our October 2013 conversation with actor and stuntman Bob Herron, Ross Martin's stunt double on The Wild, Wild West, and author Sue Kesler (The Wild, Wild West Book). In this clip, Bob talks about his early background in movie and TV Westerns at Warner Bros. (including a brief time working as Robert Conrad's stunt double on Hawaiian Eye) and how it was Conrad who recommended that Bob work on Wild West as Martin's double. . Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From March 2013: Kathleen Sharp, author of Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood: Edie and Lew Wasserman and Their Entertainment Empire, discusses the instrumental role that Universal Television, under Lew Wasserman's leadership, played in developing original full-length two-hour movies made expressly for television—and how the studio would've cornered the market by developing the 90-minute "Movie of the Week" format were if not for a strategic mistake. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 479.1: Ed welcomes Ian Nathan, one of the best known film journalists in the UK, and the author of Quentin Tarantino: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work, an engaging new book that explores the entirety of Tarantino’s career—from his early writing on such screenplays as True Romance and Natural Born Killers to his break-out directorial debut, Reservoir Dogs, the career-defining Pulp Fiction, and such later efforts as Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Topics include what it means for a movie to be “Tarantinoesque”; how certain TV shows from the 1960s and 1970s helped shape the Tarantino style; and Tarantino’s belief that movies can right wrongs, if not change the world. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 479.2: Ian Nathan, author of Quentin Tarantino: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work, talks to Ed about the lengths that Tarantino took to recreate footage of the episode of The FBI that appears in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood; how the film, in many respects, pays homage to the many working actors who appeared in the TV shows that Tarantino devoured as a youth; the role that Tarantino played in reviving the film careers of John Travolta, Pam Grier, and Robert Forster; and why Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Jackie Brown can be considered companion movies. Quentin Tarantino: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work not only explores the whole of Tarantino’s career, but has a visually arresting design that mimics the director’s singular approach to filmmaking. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 479.4: An encore presentation of our February 2015 conversation with Ida Lupino biographer Mary Anderson that includes audio highlights from a 1991 interview between Lupino and author A.M. Sperber that was among the last formal interviews that Lupino gave before her death in 1995. Mary’s books include Ida Lupino: Beyond the Camera and The Making of The Hitch-Hiker: Illustrated. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 479.3: TV Confidential brings you special remote coverage of the recent unveiling ceremony for the new lobby exhibit at the Hollywood Museum honoring the 40th anniversary of Knots Landing. The event included remarks by each of the three leading ladies of Knots Landing—Michele Lee, Joan Van Ark, and Donna Mills—plus Museum president Donelle Dadigan. Now open to the public through Wednesday, Apr. 1, the Knots Landing exhibit includes costumes worn by Lee, Van Ark, and Mills on the beloved CBS prime time soap. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 479.5: Ida Lupino biographer Mary Anderson plays more highlights from a 1991 interview between Lupino and author A.M. Sperber. Topics this segment include The Hitch-Hiker, the iconic film noir thriller directed by Lupino that starred Edmund O’Brien and William Tallman, and Lupino’s experiences working with Humphrey Bogart and director Raoul Walsh on High Sierra. Mary’s books include Ida Lupino: Beyond the Camera and The Making of The Hitch-Hiker: Illustrated. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 479.6: Ida Lupino biographer Mary Anderson discusses “I Will Be Remembered,” the 1977 episode of Charlie’s Angels that marked Lupino’s final onscreen acting appearance. Mary’s books include Ida Lupino: Beyond the Camera and The Making of The Hitch-Hiker: Illustrated. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From March 2013:Ed talks to Chris Robinson, the actor/director also known as Dr. Rick Webber on General Hospital, Jack Hamilton on The Bold and the Beautiful, and Sgt. Sandy Komansky on Twelve O’Clock High. The complete interview with Chris is available online for listening on demand at Shop.TVConfidential.net. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 478.1: Ed welcomes film and TV actor Massi Furlan, the “go-to” guy for European crime roles over the past decade. Currently seen as Switchblade in Jumanji: The Next Level and the villainous Lee Taglin in Bad Boys for Life, Massi is a renaissance man off-camera, with a background that includes stand-up comedy. Both Bad Boys for Life and Jumanji: The Next Level are playing in theaters everywhere. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 478.2: Ed welcomes Golden Globe Award-winning and three-time Oscar nominee Dyan Cannon (Heaven Can Wait, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Honeysuckle Rose, The Last of Sheila). Topics include playing Judge “Whipper” Cone on Ally McBeal, working with Crystal Hunt on the Pure Flix comedy series Mood Swings, and Dyan’s background in music, which includes adapting her best-selling memoir, Dear Cary, as a musical. Dyan Cannon and Richard Benjamin appeared at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday, January 26 following a special screening of The Last of Sheila (1973), the clever murder mystery also starring James Mason, James Coburn, and Raquel Welch that has also been cited as the inspiration for the contemporary whodunit Knives Out. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 478.4: Ed welcomes Golden Globe Award-winning actor and director Richard Benjamin (The Sunshine Boys, The Last of Sheila, He and She, Quark, Catch-22, Goodbye, Columbus, Diary of a Mad Housewife, Westworld, Portnoy’s Complaint). Topics include Richard’s many collaborations with the likes of Buck Henry, Neil Simon, and Carl Reiner, and how Anthony Perkins and Steven Sondheim infused the screenplay of The Last of Sheila with their personal love of games. Richard Benjamin and Dyan Cannon appeared at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday, January 26 following a special screening of The Last of Sheila (1973), the clever murder mystery also starring James Mason, James Coburn, and Raquel Welch that has also been cited as the inspiration for the contemporary whodunit Knives Out. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 478.3: Movie and TV actor Massi Furlan (Jumanji: The Next Level, Bad Boys for Life) discusses some of his notable non-villain roles, including playing a priest on Supernatural. Other topics include the upcoming production Experiment 77. Both Bad Boys for Life and Jumanji: The Next Level are both playing in theaters everywhere. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 478.5: Golden Globe Award-winning actor/director Richard Benjamin discusses some of the films that he has helmed (including My Favorite Year, The Money Pit, and Mermaids); why he takes his “director’s hat” off whenever he acts in a film; and the word of advice that Carl Reiner gave him when it came to casting My Favorite Year. Richard Benjamin and Dyan Cannon appeared at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday, January 26 following a special screening of The Last of Sheila (1973), the clever murder mystery also starring James Mason, James Coburn, and Raquel Welch that has also been cited as the inspiration for the contemporary whodunit Knives Out. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 478.6: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember Khan! (CBS, 1975), the short-lived yet controversial series starring Khigh Dheigh as a contemporary private eye who is reminiscent of Charlie Chan. Khan! premiered Feb. 7, 1975 as part of This Week in TV History. Though it only aired for four weeks, Khan! sparked many protests among the Asian-American community, to the point where some CBS affiliates refused to air the show in their cities. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 477.1: This Week in TV History: Tony, Donna, and Ed look at the legacy of The Simpsons on television and on pop culture in general. The first regular episode of The Simpsons originally aired on Jan. 14, 1990. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 477.2: Greg Ehrbar on the Blu-ray release of Space: 1999 (ITC, 1975-1977), the sci-fi series starring Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, and Barry Morse, and produced by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, that, in many respects, served as the gateway between the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1969 and the release of the original Star Wars in 1977. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 477.3: Greg and Ed discuss the many differences in style and tone between the second season of Space: 1999 and the first season, including a new producer, Fred Freiberger, and the reason why Barry Morse did not return to the show. Both seasons of Space: 1999 are now available on Blu-ray through Shout! Factory. Destination: Moonbase Alpha by Robert Wood is available through Amazon. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 477.4: Ed welcomes Emmy nominated and Golden Globe nominated actress Lynda Day George (Mission: Impossible, The Silent Force, Chisum, The Gentle Rain). Topics include Lynda’s upcoming memoir; falling in love with Christopher George while filming The Gentle Rain, an independent movie filmed on location in Brazil; Lynda’s long association with the shows of Quinn Martin; and a few other memories about her film and TV career. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 477.5: TV Confidential remembers Emmy winner and two-time Oscar nominee Buck Henry with a replay of our November 2017 conversation with screenwriter, story editor, and film historian Beverly Gray (Seduced by Mrs. Robinson: How The Graduate Became a Touchstone of a Generation). The iconic writer, director, and satirist who co-created Get Smart, Henry co-wrote the screenplay for The Graduate, and was a steady presence during the early years of Saturday Night Live. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 477.6: A remembrance of Edd “Kookie” Byrnes, the iconic star of 77 Sunset Strip and Grease who was also arguably TV’s first teenage heartthrob. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 476.1: This Week in TV History celebrates the life and legacy of actor Alan Hale (The Skipper on Gilligan’s Island) on the thirtieth anniversary of his passing. Topics include The Lobster Barrel, the popular seafood restaurant and steakhouse in L.A. that Hale owned throughout the 1970s and ’80s. Also in this segment: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at A.M. America, the precursor to Good Morning, America that premiered ion Jan. 6, 1975. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 476.2: Ed welcomes author and speaker Steven Taibbi (Grateful Guilt: Living in the Shadow of my Heart). Born with a cyanotic heart and three birth defects—all of which required operations from a very young age—Steven has also undergone and overcome two open heart surgeries and two heart transplants. Each of these procedures brought on feelings of gratitude and survivors guilt, which Steven recounts in Grateful Guilt. A moving memoir, the book also includes many useful coping mechanisms that can help anyone who is facing a serious health challenge, whether you’re a patient or a caregiver. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 476.3: Part 3 of our three-part interview of our three-part interview with film and TV voice actor Michael Bell (The Houndcats, The Plastic Man Comedy Adventure Show, SuperFriends, The Smurfs, Rugrats, The Transformers, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero). Topics include Michael’s recurring role as Les Crowley, Bobby Ewing’s banker, on Dallas; the water-conservation invention that he co-created along with fellow Rugrats star Melanie Chartoff; the time he beat out Davy Jones for a singing role; and how he landed the voice of the Parkay tub (“Butter!”) on the long-running series of commercials for Parkay margarine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 476.5: Ed remembers radio host David Cummings with a replay of a September 2017 conversation in which David shared some memories of his friendship with legendary voice artist June Foray (Rocky and Bullwinkle), including the role that Gary Owens played in bringing David and June together. The longtime host of Rockin’ and Rhythm, a weekly music show that aired on both KFAI-FM Fresh Air Radio in Minneapolis/St. Paul and KSAV.org in the San Francisco Bay Area, David Cummings passed away from cancer on Sunday, Dec. 22. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 476.4: Greg and Ed take a look at some of the various other iterations of Jonny Quest that are available on Blu-ray through Warner Bros. Archive, including Jonny Quest: The Complete Eighties Adventures, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (Volumes 1 and 2), Jonny’s Golden Quest, and Jonny Quest and The Cyber Insects. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 475.1: A return visit award-winning filmmaker, comedienne, photographer, and former White House press corps member Anna Wilding. Anna’s acclaimed exhibit of photographs from the Obama White House, Celebrate Hope, is now available as a limited edition fine art coffee table book, featuring select black and white and color images that promise to bring “The People’s House” into your own home. Available both as a small book (8″ x 8″ size) and as a large book (16″ x 12″ size), both editions of Celebrate Hope are made with luxurious clear lucite hardcover, bound in black vegan leather, and are printed on thick high quality archival colorfast paper that will last for generations. The large book edition comes in a black luxury gift box with black satin ribbon. Order Celebrate Hope directly from AnnaWilding.world and receive a 10% discount if you also sign up for Anna’s newsletter. Discount code is promotion092 Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 475.2: Greg and Ed discuss the Blu-ray release of Jonny Quest: The Complete Original Series (ABC, 1964-1965), the iconic Hanna-Barbera animated series featuring the voices of Tim Matheson, Mike Road, Don Messick, and John Stephenson. Jonny Quest: The Complete Original Series is available through Warner Archive. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 475.3: From May 2019: Ed and Star Trek historian Mark Cushman (These Are the Voyages, These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s) discuss how the Writers Guild strike of 1973 actually benefited production of Star Trek: The Animated Series. The Animated Series was among the many collaborations between Roddenberry and Dorothy “D.C.” Fontana, one of the first female writers to break the glass ceiling in television. Dorothy Fontana passed away Tuesday, Dec. 3 at the age of 80. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 475.4: Part 2 of our conversation with Michael Bell, the prolific voice actor whose career in film and TV animation spans more than four decades and several hundred credits. In this segment, Ed and Greg ask Michael about some of his many on-screen acting roles, what he means by "vocalbating," and his appearances on Devlin, The Snorks, and The Smurfs. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 475.5: Ed welcomes Jarrad Hewett, the longtime voice of the Disney Channel and a voice you’ve heard on more than 2,000 commercials, including national ad campaigns for CocaCola and White Castle hamburgers. Jarrad’s latest book, The Answer IS Energy, is a thirty-day guide that shows you how to shift energy and reframe thinking about family, money, relationships, abundance, control, and living in the moment of now by tuning into your own personal energy frequency. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 475.6: Jarrad Hewett, longtime voice of the Disney Channel and a veteran of more than 2,000 commercials, tells Ed the story of how he landed his first national ad by practicing an exercise he learned from actress and teacher Dee Wallace. Jarrad’s latest book, The Answer IS Energy, shows you how to overcome any obstacle by tuning into your own personal energy frequency. Bonus online material available at JarradHewett.com/meditations Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 474.1: Ed pays tribute to Arthur Marks, the last surviving producer and director of the original Perry Mason, by playing highlights from a 2015 conversation in which Art shared a few memories of Raymond Burr, Leonard Nimoy, and Margaret O’Brien, and from 2017, in which Art paid tribute to Barbara Hale and Mike Connors. Arthur Marks died Wednesday 11/13 at age 92. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 474.2: From 2013: Shelley Morrison (The Flying Nun, Will & Grace) and her husband, producer/director Walter Dominguez (Weaving the Past: Journey to Discovery) share memories with Ed about James Garner, David Janssen, and Joseph Campanella. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 474.3: Ed plays Part 2 of Greg Ehrbar’s interview with singer, director, and teacher Roberta Levitow, co-founder of Theatre Without Borders. Roberta’s father, Abe Levitow, directed Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol (NBC, 1962); Roberta’s album, Lost in the Stars, features Roberta’s renditions of songs from Magoo and other animated musicals that her father directed. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 474.4: Part 1 of a three-part conversation with Michael Bell, whose prolific career in film and TV animation has spanned more than four decades. Topics include how Michael’s career as a voice actor began somewhat accidentally, as well as his work on such shows as The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show and SuperFriends. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 474.5: Ed welcomes Dr. Uli Chettipally, a recently retired emergency physician who is also president of the Innovator MD Global Summit, a two-day event coming up in San Francisco (Jan. 11-12, 2020) that will shed light on the work of physician innovators who are doing their part to effect change in healthcare. Topics this segment include how George Clooney’s performance as Dr. Doug Ross on ER partly inspired Dr. Chettipally to become an emergency physician. Doctors who attend IGS2020 will receive eight hours of Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit. To register for the summit, go to IGS2020.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 474.6: From 2009: Michael Davis, author of Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street, on why Oscar the Grouch is just as important a character on Sesame Street as Big Bird. Caroll Spinney, who played both Oscar and Big Bird, narrated the audiobook version of Street Gang. Spinney passed away Sunday 12/8 at age 85. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Best of TVC: Ed interviews with Tommy Hawkins, the Emmy Award-nominated broadcaster, renaissance man and former NBA star who passed away in 2017 at the age of 80. Tommy Hawkins enjoyed a 10-year career in the NBA for both the Minneapolis Lakers, the Los Angeles Lakers and the old Cincinnati Royals, playing alongside such Hall of Famers as Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West, Elgin Baylor and Oscar Robertson. When his basketball career ended, he embarked on new challenges, first in radio and television (including co-hosting Mid-Morning Los Angeles with Stephanie Edwards and Meredith MacRae, as well as broadcasting for NBC Sports), then as a baseball executive for eighteen years with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Originally broadcast in February 2012. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Best of TVC: Author, poet, and television pioneer Tommy Hawkins (Life’s Reflections: Poetry for the People) tells Ed the story about how Regis Philbin played a key role in one of Tommy's first breaks as a broadcaster. This segment originally aired in February 2012. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 473.1: Tony, Donna, and Ed turn back the clock to Oct. 21, 1962, the night when Chubby Checker performed his No. 1 hit “The Twist” on The Ed Sullivan Show. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 473.3: Part 2 of our conversation with film and TV actor James DuMont (The Righteous Gemstones, Men of a Certain Age, Trumbo, Dallas Buyers Club, The Butler). James will soon be seen opposite Mark Wahlberg in Wonderland—the forthcoming Netflix feature, directed by Peter Berg, based on Robert B. Parker’s Wonderland—and the upcoming independent features Designed to Kill and The Banker. Topics include shooting Wonderland on location in Boston, and how Wahlberg’s Spenser compares that of Robert Urich in the Spenser: For Hire television series. Wonderland is scheduled for release in early 2020. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 473.2: From 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed commemorate the birthday of singer/actress Annette Funicello, the quintessential Girl Next Door, America’s original Queen of Teen, and one of the most, if not the most, popular members of the Mickey Mouse Club. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 473.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Donna Mills (Knots Landing, General Hospital). Dec. 27, 2019 marks the fortieth anniversary of the premiere of Knots on CBS. Topics include the legacy of Knots (and how, in many ways, it was the original This is Us), plus a look at some of Donna’s other movie and TV roles, including Play Misty for Me. The FBI, and Dan August. Donna Mills currently stars, along with Lee Purcell, Geri Jewell, Donna Pescow, RJ Mitte, and Andrea F. Friedman, in Carol of the Bells, the award-winning holiday-themed drama produced and directed by Joey Travolta and his company, Inclusion Films. Carol of the Bells will be released soon for viewing on demand. Donna can also be seen in Christmas Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses (which airs throughout the holiday season on the Hallmark Channel), plus she is one of the cast members of Turnover, the award-winning comedy drama directed by Linda Palmer that becomes available on DVD in December. You can also see Donna in Mood Swings, a new comedy series from the streaming service Pure Flix. New episodes of Mood Swings premiere Thursdays on Pure Flix. In addition, she owns and operates—along with her partner, Larry Gilman—Mandeville Vineyards, the first, and only, producer of estate-grown and bottled Malbec in Los Angeles, including an award-winning 2016 Reserve Malbec/Cabernet Blend. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 473.5: From 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the life and career of film and TV producer Hal Roach, with a particular focus on the legacy of The Little Rascals. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 473.6: This Week in TV History: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the issues that led to the Writers Guild strike that commenced on Nov. 5, 2007. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 473.7: Greg and Ed discuss the broadcast history of Steptoe and Son (BBC, 1962-1974), the British series that Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin adapted as Sanford and Son for NBC. Topics include how Steptoe was never intended to be a series, how it is much more poignant and dramatic than Sanford and Son, and how you can watch the series on DVD or streaming today. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 472.2: Tony and Ed talk about how the award-winning video “You Might Think” by The Cars—the first music video to use computer graphics—went on to influence the production of movies and TV shows, as well as such other music video pioneers as Michael Nesmith. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 472.1: Tony Figueroa remembers Ric Ocasek, the front man of The Cars, with a particular focus on the iconic video “You Might Think,” the first music video to use computer graphics. Ric Ocasek passed away on Sept. 15, 2019. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 473.3: Greg Ehrbar discusses the complete series DVD release of Sanford and Son (NBC, 1972-1977) available through Sony Home Entertainment. Topics include how the first two seasons of Sanford were remarkably faithful adaptations of Steptoe and Son (the British series on which Sanford was based), while also remaining a star vehicle for Redd Foxx. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 472.4: Part 1 of a two-part conversation with Emmy Award-winning actress Donna Mills (Knots Landing, General Hospital). Topics include Donna’s journey as a winemaker, having recently launched—along with her partner, Larry Gilman—Mandeville Vineyards, the first, and only, producer of estate-grown and bottled Malbec in Los Angeles, including an award-winning 2016 Reserve Malbec/Cabernet Blend. Donna also discusses her recent return to TV comedy in Mood Swings, a new series from the streaming service Pure Flix, and her collaboration with Larry Hagman in the short-lived comedy The Good Life (NBC, 1971). Donna Mills currently stars, along with Lee Purcell, Geri Jewell, Donna Pescow, RJ Mitte, and Andrea F. Friedman, in Carol of the Bells, the award-winning holiday-themed drama produced and directed by Joey Travolta and his company, Inclusion Films. Carol of the Bells will be released soon for viewing on demand. Donna can also be seen in Christmas Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses, which premieres Nov. 17 on the Hallmark Channel (with replays throughout the holiday season), plus she is one of the cast members of Turnover, the award-winning comedy drama featuring Paul Guifoyle, Beverly Todd, and Kat Kramer that becomes available on DVD in December. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 472.5: Ed plays Part 2 of our conversation with David Starzyk, the actor who plays Richard Casablancas on Veronica Mars. Topics this segment include David’s appearances in the famous episode of Hot in Cleveland that marked the final screen appearance of Mary Tyler Moore. Season Four of Veronica Mars is available for streaming on demand on Hulu. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 472.6: David Starzyk of Veronica Mars and TV Land’s Hot in Cleveland talks to Ed about working with Betty White, his recent appearance on Showtime’s The Affair, and filming a project on location inside the mansion in Pasadena that Peter Falk and John Cassavetes made famous in the “Ètude in Black” episode of Columbo. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 471.1: From January 2019: Ed welcomes David Steinberg, Robin Williams’ manager for more than forty years, and the executive producer of Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind, the critically acclaimed HBO documentary from 2018 that is just one part of Robin Williams: Comic Genius, an astonishing collection of vintage Robin Williams material. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 471.2: Tony, Donna, and Ed commemorate the birthday of actress, comedian, and The View moderator Whoopi Goldberg with a look at her career in film and television. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 471.5: From July 2015: Ed welcomes Kathy Coleman. Kathy faced grave peril every week when she played Holly Marshall on Land of the Lost—but that was nothing compared to her life outside of television, which she discusses in her book, LOST GIRL: The Truth and Nothing But the Truth, So Help Me Kathleen. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 471.3: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the history of Sesame Street, its impact on children’s television and our culture, and such seminal moments as how the series addressed the death of Will Lee, the actor who played Mr. Hooper. Sesame Street premiered on Nov. 9, 1969. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 470.1: Ed welcomes actor and Roman Mitichyan (Trauma Center, 10 Minutes Gone, Vice, John Wick). A former UFC mixed martial arts fighter known as “The Emperor,” Roman can now be seen opposite Jennifer Aniston in The Morning Show, the highly anticipated new series that is now available on Apple TV. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 470.4: An encore presentation of our October 2014 conversation with Bill Marx, son of Harpo Marx, and the executive producer of The Marx Brothers TV Collection, a configuration featuring some of the Brothers’ many appearances on television, collectively and individually, throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 470.5: Part 2 of our conversation with Ruta Lee, the legendary singer, actress, and philanthropist (The Thalians) who has left her mark on movies, TV, and stage for more than six decades. Topics include working with David Janssen on The Fugitive and the nickname Dean Martin gave Ruta when they worked on Sergeants Three. Ruta’s memoirs, Consider Your Ass Kissed, are targeted for release in 2020. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 470.6: Part 2 of Tony and Ed’s conversation with comedy historian Jeff Abraham, co-author (along with Burt Kearns) of The Show Won’t Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage, is the first book to explore the phenomenon of performers who died onstage in the middle of their act. Topics this segment include the unusual request that Penn Jillette made when he was interviewed for the book. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 469.2: Via remote from the Hollywood Museum: Emmy Award winner and Grammy Award nominee Geoffrey Mark helps Ed pay tribute to Dawn Wells and the legacy of Gilligan’s Island and shares a few memories of his friend Peter Fonda. The Gilligan’s Island lobby exhibit is now on display at the Hollywood Museum. Also in this segment: In light of the Oct. 6 passing of comedian Rip Taylor, Ed plays a clip from August 2018 in which Geoff shared the story of how Taylor helped Geoff find his own signature as an entertainer. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 469.3: Ed welcomes Cathy Fitzgibbon-Rudolph, author of Paul Lynde: A Biography: His Life, His Loves & His Laughter, an intimate portrait of actor/comedian Paul Lynde that walks you through the many highlights of Lynde’s career on stage, film and television, while also exploring the many tragedies that befell him and fears that gripped him throughout his life. Cathy knew Lynde for the last five years of his life, so she writes with authority. But she also includes memories from many of Lynde’s family members, friends, and peers, including Peter Marshall, Chita Rivera, Woody Woodbury, the late Kaye Ballard and Florence Henderson, Hollywood Squares writer/producer Les Roberts and many others Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 469.1: From the floor of the Hollywood Museum: Ed interviews Randy West, longtime announcer of The Price is Right and the author of Johnny Olsen: A Voice in Time, prior to the Sept. 25 ceremony honoring Dawn Wells and the legacy of Gilligan’s Island. The Gilligan’s Island lobby exhibit features the original gingham dress and blue “short shorts” that Dawn Wells wore as Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island, plus other memorabilia Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 469.7: From the Sept. 25 ceremony at the Hollywood Museum ceremony honoring Dawn Wells and the legacy of Gilligan’s Island: Ed catches up with Bill Funt, son of Candid Camera creator Allen Funt, and a longtime friend of Sherwood Schwartz and many Gilligan’s Island cast members. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 469.6: Tony, Donna, and Ed with a look at the broadcast history of ABC’s Nightline and how that program changed the landscape of late night television. Nightline, which originally began as a nightly update of the Iran hostage crisis, premiered on Nov. 8, 1979. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 469.5: Tony, Donna, and Ed wish legendary actor Ed Asner a Happy Birthday as part of This Week in TV History. Ed Asner is currently touring both God Help Us and A Man and His Prostate in various cities across the U.S. and Canada. Click here for a list of dates and venues. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 469.4: Actor and screenwriter James Moses Black (Reverend Hawley on This is Us, rogue cop Deacon Brown in the new Screen Gems crime thriller Black and Blue) talks to Ed about why This is Us continues to resonate with viewers; his approach to playing morally complex characters; and how his experience as an actor helps him as a writer. Black and Blue is now playing in theaters everywhere. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 468.1: A return appearance by Will Ryan, Nick Santa Maria, and Michael Schlesinger. Will and Nick are the stars—and Mike, the writer, producer and director—of The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster, the Rondo Award-nominated collection of original, authentically-made 1930s-style short features starring the greatest comedy team, Benny Biffle and Sammy Shooster, that never actually existed. In this segment, Ed and Greg ask Will and Nick about their respective careers before Biffle and Shooster, including Nick’s early TV appearance in the “Jerry Lewis Week” episode of Buffalo Bill (and, later, working for Mel Brooks in The Producers) and Will’s long list of credits for Disney. The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster is now available on DVD, while the Biffle and Shooster book, The Biffle and Shooster Portable Guide to Etiquette, and Biffle and Shooster comic book are also available for purchase. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 468.2: James Rosin, author of People, Places & Me, shares a few stories about his life as a working actor and working writer (both in L.A. and New York), including his encounters with Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Albert Finney, Tony Randall, Woody Allen, and Bruce Willis; the six months Jim spent working on a kibbutz in Israel in the early 1970s (and learning how popular Hawaii Five-O was in that country at the time); and his experience working alongside Jack Klugman, both as an actor and as a writer, on Quincy. James Rosin is scheduled to appear at the Williamsburg Nostalgia Fest, Nov. 7 through Nov. 9 in Williamsburg, VA. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 468.3: Part 1 of a two-part conversation with actress, singer, dancer, philanthropist, and showbiz legend Ruta Lee (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Witness for the Prosecution, Sergeants Three, Perry Mason, High Rollers). Ruta’s memoirs, Consider Your Ass Kissed, are targeted for publication in 2020. For more information on The Thalians, the charitable organization that Ruta co-founded with Debbie Reynolds that is committed to good mental health, visit Thalians.org. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 468.4: Ed plays highlights from the Sept. 25 ceremony at the Hollywood Museum that unveiled the new lobby exhibit honoring Dawn Wells and the legacy of Gilligan’s Island, including comments from Ruta Lee that pay tribute to series creator Sherwood Schwartz. The Gilligan’s Island exhibit features the original gingham dress and blue “short shorts” that Dawn Wells wore as Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island, along with Bob Denver’s original costume as Gilligan, plus other memorabilia commemorating both the original Gilligan’s Island and its other incarnations. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 468.5: From the Sept. 25 ceremony at the Hollywood Museum ceremony honoring Dawn Wells and the legacy of Gilligan’s Island: Producer Lloyd Schwartz (The Brady Bunch, A Very Brady Renovation) on how Dawn Wells shared two important traits with the Mary Ann character, while Museum president Donelle Dadigan reads a letter from actor Dwayne Hickman that pays homage to Bob Denver. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 468.6: Greg Ehrbar interviews Roberta Levitow, daughter of legendary animator and director Abe Levitow (Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, Gay Purr-ee), and an accomplished director, performer, and teacher in her own right. Roberta’s current album, Lost in the Stars, features her interpretations of songs from some of the animated musicals that her father directed, plus other classics. Calendar year 2019 marks the seventieth anniversary of the debut of Mr. Magoo. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 468.7: TV Confidential remembers Robert Forster, the venerable film and TV actor who passed away Friday, Oct. 11. Forster’s Oscar nomination for his performance in Jackie Brown (1998), and the success he enjoyed in the two decades after that film’s release, remains one of Hollywood’s greatest comeback stories. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 467.2: Ed welcomes Gary Hahn, director of marketing for both The National Comedy Center and the Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum, both of which are based in Jamestown, New York—the birthplace of Lucille Ball. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 467.1: Tony and Ed continue our celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of The Brady Bunch series and franchise with a look at the latest Brady reincarnation, A Very Brady Renovation. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 467.3: Ed welcomes actor Robert Clohessy (Oz, Boardwalk Empire, Blue Bloods). Topics include working alongside Tom Selleck on Blue Bloods and why the family dinner sequences play a major role in the show’s appeal and longevity. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 467.4: Part 1 of a conversation with noted film and TV character James DuMont (Treme, The Butler, Dallas Buyers Club, Stranger Things 2, Men of a Certain Age). Currently seen, along with Danny McBride and John Goodman, in the Sunday night HBO series The Righteous Gemstones, James also has a direct line to the history of television: His great-uncle Allen DuMont created the cathode ray tube, the picture tube that not only made television sets possible, but ushered in the entire industry of television itself—including the short-lived DuMont television network, the often forgotten “fourth network” that first made Jackie Gleason a star during the Golden Age of Television. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 467.6: Tony and Ed with a few final thoughts on HGTV’s A Very Brady Renovation, and how the various actors who have played the Bradys have returned to the Brady Bunch franchise, one way or another. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 467.5: TV Confidential remembers Diahann Carroll (Julia, Dynasty, Claudine, No Strings) by replaying a clip from her appearance on Merv Griffin’s short-lived NBC daytime show in February 1963, a few months before Carroll won the Tony Award that year for her performance opposite Richard Kiley in No Strings. Audio courtesy ATVAudio.com. Diahann Carroll passed away on Friday, Oct. 4 at age 84. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 466.1: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the Loma Prieta earthquake that occurred in Northern California on Oct. 17, 1989. The 6.9-magnitude quake caused sixty-three deaths; injured 3,757 people; damaged or destroyed homes, buildings, and major thoroughfares throughout the San Francisco Bay Area; and halted the 1989 World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland A’s for ten days. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 466.2: Ed and Tony welcome Jeff Abraham, comedy historian and co-author, along with Burt Kearns, of The Show Won’t Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage, the first book to explore an aspect of show business that not too many people talk about: performers who died onstage in the middle of their act. Despite its morbid-sounding premise, The Show Won’t On is an absorbing read that gives readers a sense of who each performer was as a person, so that, by the time you learn the details of their inevitable demise, you can’t help but feel a sense of genuine loss. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 466.3: Jeff Abraham, comedy historian and co-author, along with Burt Kearns, of The Show Won’t Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage, discusses what appears to be the most dangerous profession in show business (and no, it’s not what you’d think). Listeners in Southern California can meet Jeff and Burt at the Dearly Departed Artifact Museum in Hollywood on Saturday, Oct. 19 and at Stories Books & Café in Echo Park, CA on Tuesday, Oct. 22. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 466.4: Ed welcomes back Peter Onorati (This Is Us, West End, Cop Rock, S.W.A.T.). Topics include Peter’s upcoming return appearance this season on This Is Us; his many collaborations with his mentor, Steven Bochco; and his approach to playing such morally complex characters as New Jersey mob boss John Trevi in West End, a feature motion picture by Joe Basile that Peter describes West End as “Hamlet, set on the Jersey shore.” West End is available for viewing on demand on Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play and Vudu. For more about the movie, go to WestEndtheMovie.com Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 466.5: Ed welcomes back eight-time Emmy Award winner Ed Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant, God Help Us, A Man and His Prostate). Topics include Ed’s upcoming USA Network series Briarpatch; working with David Janssen on The Fugitive; and how his beloved Los Angeles Dodgers will fare in the Major League Baseball postseason. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 466.6: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember how both network and local television covered the Loma Prieta earthquake of Oct. 17, 1989, including how then-ABC Sports broadcaster Al Michaels found himself playing news anchor in the hours immediately following the quake. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 465.1: Ed welcomes back actor and author James Rosin. Jim’s latest book, People Places & Me, reflects on his life as a working actor (both in L.A. and New York), his experiences working on stage and on television on both coasts (both as a writer and as an actor), and the many moments of encouragement that he received along the way from people famous and otherwise. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 465.2: Part 2 of the conversation that began last week with Will Beinbrink, the actor who plays Tom Rogan in the worldwide box office hit It: Chapter Two. Topics include Will’s recent collaboration with actor/director Campbell Scott in the film noir-like thriller Manhattan Nocturne, and why he looks for roles that “scare” him, but in a good way. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 465.3: Greg and Ed remember The Invaders (ABC, 1967-1968), the classic series created by Larry Cohen and produced by Quinn Martin about a mild-mannered architect who tries to convince an unbelieving world that aliens from another planet are trying to take over the Earth. Topics include how The Invaders is more about paranoia than science fiction. Both seasons of The Invaders are available on DVD through CBS Paramount. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 465.4: An excerpt from Ed’s two-part conversation with Roy Thinnes (The Invaders, The X Files, General Hospital, Dark Shadows) from February 2016. In this segment, Roy discusses his meeting with Quinn Martin that led to him being cast as David Vincent on The Invaders; the stellar writing on the series; and how Roy’s own interest in extraterrestrial life forms stems from the writings of George Adamski. Our complete two-part interview with Roy Thinnes is available online for listening on demand. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 465.5: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the legacy of the Scooby-Doo franchise. Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (CBS, 1969-1970) premiered fifty years ago This Week in TV History. (Greg Ehrbar’s review of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo is available online for listening on demand.) Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 465.6: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the career of Michael Landon and how the Little House on the Prairie series (NBC, 1974-1983) differed considerably from the books of Laura Ingalls. Little House on the Prairie premiered forty-five years ago This Week in TV History. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 464.2: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember H.R. Pufnstuf (NBC, 1969-1970), which premiered fifty years ago This Week in TV History. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 464.1: Tony, Donna, and Ed celebrate the ninetieth birthday of Emmy Award winner Bob Newhart by looking back at Newhart’s career in stand-up comedy and television, with a particular focus on The Bob Newhart Show (CBS, 1972-1978). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 464.3: Ed welcomes Will Beinbrink, the actor who plays Tom Rogan in the box office hit It: Chapter Two, the No. 1 movie both worldwide and in the U.S. as of this recording. Will has also recently completed production of the independent film The Exorcism of God, while his other film and TV credits include I Saw the Light, Carter & June, Manhattan Nocturne, Queen of the South, Numb3rs, Related, ER, Medium, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Unit, Castle, NCIS, Jane the Virgin, and the new Dallas on TNT Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 464.5: Part 1 of a brand new interview with longtime stage and television actor David Starzyk (Veronica Mars). David Starzyk currently stars as Saul Kimmer in the VS. Theatre Company production of Sam Shepard’s True West, which runs through Saturday, Sept. 28. For tickets and more information, VSTrueWest.BrownPaperTickets.com. All four seasons of Veronica Mars air on Hulu. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 464.4: From November 2018: Iconic television producer Marty Krofft talks to Ed about how both The Banana Splits and the musical puppet show Les Poupées de Paris helped launch Sid & Marty Krofft Productions; the Krofft brothers’ many collaborations with Charles Fox, including H.R. Pufnstuf and Lidsville; and the appeal of Sigmund and the Sea Monsters. Calendar year 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Sid & Marty Krofft Productions. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 464.7: Greg Ehrbar reviews the DVD release of The Brady Kids (1972-1973), the animated spinoff of The Brady Bunch that was produced by Filmation Associates. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 464.6: We continue to commemorate notable TV milestones this week with a clip from our June 2018 conversation with actor, producer, voice artist and teacher Jerry Houser (Summer of ’42, Slap Shot, The Brady Brides). September 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the premiere of The Brady Bunch. Television writer Paul Robert Coyle co-hosts. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 463.1: Ed welcomes Laura Niemi, the actress who plays Milo Ventimiglia’s mom, Marilyn Pearson, on the hit NBC series This Is Us—the No. 1 show on any broadcast or cable network in the all-important 18-49 demo, and the No. 2-ranked dramatic series in total viewership. Season Four of This Is Us begins Tuesday, Sept. 24 on NBC, while the network announced earlier this year that it has renewed This is Us for an additional two seasons. Laura will also soon be seen opposite Oscar winner Anne Hathaway in the upcoming Netflix movie The Last Thing He Wanted. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 463.3: Lynette Rice, editor at large for Entertainment Weekly, joins Ed for some recommendations on which shows to watch this fall season on network TV, cable, and the various streaming platforms, including The Unicorn and Carol’s Second Act on CBS and Pose on FX. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 463.2: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the thirtieth anniversary of Saved by the Bell (NBC, 1989-1993), the popular Saturday morning teen sitcom that premiered Aug. 20, 1989 as part of This Week in TV History. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 463.5: Ed and Greg remember The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (ABC, 1969-1972), the warmly remembered family comedy-drama starring Bill Bixby and Brandon Cruz and produced by James Komack that cemented Bixby as a leading man and director in television, while also paving the way for Komack’s other hit series, Chico and the Man and Welcome Back, Kotter. All three seasons of The Courtship of Eddie’s Father are available on DVD through the Warner Bros. Archive. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 463.4: Ed welcome actor and former Top 25 tennis pro Vince Van Patten, the youngest son of Eight is Enough star Dick Van Patten and the longtime host of The World Poker Tour on Fox Sports 1. Vince is the co-writer, producer, and one of the stars of 7 Days to Vegas, a new comedy about the world of professional poker players that is also based on a true story: the time that Vince found himself having to walk to Las Vegas from his home in the San Fernando Valley as a result of losing a bet. 7 Days to Vegas premiered earlier this year to rave reviews at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. RiotMaterial.com calls the movie “pure comic genius,” while Vince himself describes 7 Days to Vegas as “The Hangover Meets The Sting.” Vince Van Patten will join us in our second hour. 7 Days to Vegas will be released in select theaters beginning Friday, Sept. 20. The movie will then become available for viewing on demand on iTunes and Amazon beginning Tuesday, Sept. 24. For more information, go to 7DaystoVegas.com or ClubWPT.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 463.6: This Week in TV History: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the first televised Major League Baseball game, which was broadcast on Aug. 26, 1939 on New York station W2XBS, which later became WNBC-TV. Red Barber called the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From March 2014: Kimberly Johnson, daughter of Russell Johnson, joins Ed, Tony, Donna, and guest co-host Bill Funt as TV Confidential remembers the life and career of the actor known around the world as The Professor on Gilligan's Island. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 462.1: Tony Figueroa, Donna Allen, and Ed remember Valerie Harper, the Emmy Award-winning star of Rhoda, Valerie, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show who passed away Friday, Aug. 30, one week after her eightieth birthday. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 462.2: Ed welcomes Michael Irby, the actor plays Obispo “Bishop” Losa, the head of Mayans MC’s Santo Padre charter, on the FX drama Mayans MC, and gang leader Cristobal Sifuentes, the “Bolivian Sammy Hagar” who abides by The Four Agreements, on the hit HBO series Barry. Season Two of Mayans MC airs Tuesday nights on FX, while Season One is available for viewing on demand. Seasons One and Two of Barry are also available on demand. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 462.5: Via remote from the Hollywood Museum’s recent tribute to Barbara Eden and the legacy of I Dream of Jeannie: Michael Stern, author of I Had a Ball: My Friendship with Lucille Ball, talks to Ed about Lucy mentored Barbara Eden and other young actresses early in their careers. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 462.6: Ed plays more highlights from the Aug. 21 unveiling of the Hollywood Museum’s new lobby exhibit honoring Barbara Eden and the legacy of I Dream of Jeannie, including tributes from Anson Williams, Loni Anderson, and Peter Marshall. Plus: Barbara Eden tells the story of how she was cast as Jeannie. The Hollywood Museum lobby exhibit honoring I Dream of Jeannie is now open to the public and includes the original Jeannie costume that Ms. Eden wore in the pilot for I Dream of Jeannie, the hat that Larry Hagman wore in the Jeannie pilot, plus other memorabilia. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 462.4: Ed welcomes back Dawn Wells, the actress known around the world as Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island. The Hollywood Museum will honor Dawn Wells and Gilligan’s Island with a new lobby exhibit that will commemorate the fifty-fifth anniversary of the premiere of Gilligan’s Island. The exhibit will become available to the public on Thursday, Sept. 26 and will include the iconic gingham dress and blue short shorts that Dawn wore when she played Mary Ann, plus other Gilligan’s memorabilia. Dawn’s book What Would Mary Ann Do? A Guide to Life has been re-issued and is now available through Bear Manor Media. In addition, Dawn Wells is scheduled to appear at the Senior Health Expo in Lancaster, California on Thursday, Oct. 17. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 462.3: Via remote from the Hollywood Museum’s recent tribute to the career of Barbara Eden: Ed catches up with Herbie J Pilato, host of Then Again with Herbie J Pilato and the author of such books as Bewitched Forever and Mary: The Mary Tyler Moore Story. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 461.1: Ed welcomes Lynette Rice, editor at large for Entertainment Weekly, and author of “His Dark Places,” a new article that takes a fresh look at the circumstances surrounding the murder of Hogan’s Heroes star Bob Crane on June 29, 1978, a still unsolved mystery that has spawned five books, three investigations, the 2002 movie Auto Focus, and four decades of speculation. “His Dark Places” appears in the September issue of Entertainment Weekly and particularly focuses on how the aftermath of the case continues to impact Crane’s family and the community of Scottsdale, Arizona. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 461.2: Greg Ehrbar and Ed take a look at the various DVD configurations of The Smurfs, The Snorks, and The Monchhicchis as part as “Hanna-Barbera: The Adorable Saturday Morning Cartoon Edition.” Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 461.3: Ed, Tony, and Donna remember the premiere of The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour (CBS, 1971-1974), one of the last great TV variety hours, as part of This Week in TV History. I Got You Babe: The Best of Sonny & Cher is now available on DVD exclusively through Time-Life. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 461.4: Grammy nominated singer/actress Ilene Graff (Mr. Belvedere) talks to Ed about Making the Song Your Own, a vocal performance workshop that offers students an opportunity to sing every week in a stress-free atmosphere while also learning important techniques that they can apply whether they want to pursue a career in musical theater, cabaret, jazz, pop, or just sing for the fun of it. The next workshop will likely take place in the spring of 2020. Students of all ages and experiences are welcome. To sign up or learn more about it, go to IleneGraff.com or the Making the Song Your Own page on Facebook. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 461.5: Ilene Graff (Mr. Belvedere) talks to Ed about the first time she performed “The Star-Spangled Banner” before a packed house at Angel Stadium; being directed by Penny Marshall in the classic episode of Laverne & Shirley in which Lenny and Squiggy go on The Dating Game; and how her experience as an understudy in the Broadway production of Promises, Promises was not unlike that of a pitcher sitting in the bullpen at a baseball game. Ilene Graff will be performing at Feinstein’s at Vitello’s in Studio City, CA on Saturday, Dec. 21. To learn more about Making the Song Your Own, go to IleneGraff.com or the Making the Song Your Own page on Facebook Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 461.6: Greg Ehrbar continues “Hanna-Barbera: The Adorable Saturday Morning Cartoon Edition” with a look at the DVD releases of The Biskitts and The Paw Paws that are available through the HB Classic Collection and the Warner Archive Collection. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 461.7: Ed, Tony, and Donna remember the premiere of MTV: Music Television on Aug. 1, 1981 as part of This Week in TV History. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 460.1: Ed welcomes back Adam Sharp, president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, aka the Daytime Emmy Awards. The News and Documentary Emmy Awards, which will be broadcast Tuesday, Sept. 24 at EmmyOnline.TV and other streaming platforms, honors news and documentary programming distributed during calendar year 2018. This year’s Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to longtime NBC News foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 460.3: Greg Ehrbar continues “Hanna-Barbera: The Prime Time Edition” with a look at the DVD release of Where’s Huddles? (CBS, 1970), the animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera that originally aired in prime in the summer of 1970. Written for an adult audience, Where’s Huddles? featured the voices of Cliff Norton, Paul Lynde, Marie Wilson, Herb Jeffries, Don Messick, plus three of the voices from The Flintstones: Mel Blanc, Alan Reed, and Jean Vander Pyl. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 460.2: Adam Sharp, president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, talks to Ed about his six-year tenure as head of News, Government and Elections at Twitter, and how a lot of journalists from all media often use Twitter as it was intended. The 40th News and Documentary Emmy Awards will be broadcast Tuesday, Sept. 24 at EmmyOnline.TV and other streaming platforms. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 460.4: Actor, author, and voice artist David Frankham (101 Dalmations, Master of the World, Return of the Fly, Tales of Terror, Which One Was David?) returns for Part 2 of a conversation that began earlier this year about his career in film, television, and radio. Actor Jonathan David Dixon co-hosts. David provides the voice of The Storyteller in Ben Wickey’s stop-motion puppet animation version of The House of the Seven Gables, which is available now on DVD through ArkhamBazaar.com as part of the HP Lovecraft Film Festival Best of 2018 collection. David Frankham is also profiled in the May-August 2019 issue of Filmfax, which you can find wherever magazines are sold. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 460.5: David Frankham shares memories of working with comic legends Jack Benny and Ernie Kovacs, and his penchant for playing characters who have nervous breakdowns onscreen (which he did famously in King Rat, as well as in the “Is There No Truth in Beauty” episode of the original Star Trek). Jonathan David Dixon co-hosts. David Frankham provides the voice of The Storyteller in Ben Wickey’s stop-motion puppet animation version of The House of the Seven Gables, which is available now on DVD through ArkhamBazaar.com as part of the HP Lovecraft Film Festival Best of 2018 collection. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 460.6: Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen join Ed via Skype as This Week in TV History commemorates the 95th birthday of actor Carroll O’Connor (All in the Family, In the Heat of the Night). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 459.1: Tony Figueroa, Donna Allen, and Ed remember how network TV news covered the resignation of President Richard Nixon on Aug. 8, 1974, his departure from the White House, and the swearing-in of President Gerald Ford the following day. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 459.4: Screen legend Dee Wallace talks to Ed about being directed by her daughter, Gabrielle Stone, in the upcoming short film After Emma. Dee Wallace can also seen in Critters Attack, a reimagining of the 1986 horror classic Critters that is now available on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital on demand; Red Christmas (now available on Netflix), a horror movie that Dee also produced, and which will remind you somewhat of Cujo; and Rob Zombie’s 3 from Hell. The unrated version of 3 From Hell will be released in more than 900 theaters across the country on Sept. 16-17-18. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 459.3: Ed welcomes back actress, author, teacher, radio host, and legendary “scream queen” Dee Wallace (E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, Cujo, The Howling, The Frighteners, Critters). Topics include playing the mom in Red Christmas, a character that posed a lot of challenges for Dee as an actress; Eat, Pray, #FML, the new book by Dee’s daughter, Gabrielle Stone; and the phenomenon of “channeling,” a subject that sometimes comes up on Dee’s radio show, Conscious Creation. Dee Wallace can also be seen in Critters Attack, Rob Zombie’s 3 from Hell, and the Amazon kids series Just Add Magic. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 459.2: Ed welcomes Susan McCray, one of the first female casting directors in network television, and a longtime collaborator of iconic actor and producer Michael Landon (Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie). Susan is also the anchor of Kaleidoscope, a Sunday morning radio show, heard on Share-a-Vision Radio: KSAV.org, that provides listeners with the latest in the worlds of music, Hollywood, makeup, fashion, and more. Susan’s new documentary, Kent McCray: Love, Life and Television, is scheduled for release in December 2019, as part of the Season Four DVD package of The High Chapparal. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 459.6: Greg and Ed continue their look at “Hanna-Barbera: The Prime Time Edition” with a look at the DVD release of The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (NBC, 1968-1969), a blend of live action and animation that was also the most expensive weekly television series of its time. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 459.5: Greg Ehrbar talks to Ed about the DVD release of Jack and the Beanstalk (NBC, 1967), the Emmy Award-winning musical collaboration between Gene Kelly and Hanna-Barbera that blended live action with animation. The special also included the voices of Ted Cassidy and Janet Waldo, plus an original score by Sammy Cahn and James VanHeusen. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 458.4: Ed plays highlights from the recent unveiling of The Hollywood Museum’s new lobby exhibit that honors screen legends Ida Lupino and Olivia de Havilland. Mary Anderson, Lupino’s personal assistant and confidante and the author of three books on Ida’s life and career, shared a few memories that evening of the long friendship between the two stars. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 458.3: Greg and Ed review the various DVD configurations of The Real McCoys (ABC/CBS, 1957-1963), the long-running sitcom starring Walter Brennan and Richard Crenna that also spawned the era of bucolic comedies on network TV. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 458.5: Darby Hinton, the actor known around the world as Israel Boone on Daniel Boone, talks to Ed about the approach he took to playing Cole Younger in Bill Tilghman and the Outlaws, a movie that he also produced, and filming the family drama Wild Faith on location in Michigan. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 458.6: Darby Hinton (Daniel Boone, Wild Faith, Bill Tilghman and the Outlaws) talks to Ed about the upcoming special benefit screening of Bill Tilghman and the Outlaws that will take place Saturday, Sept. 7 at the Joel McCrea Ranch in Thousand Oaks, California. All proceeds from this event will benefit actor Johnny Crawford in his fight against Alzheimer’s disease. For tickets and more information, visit DarbyHinton.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 457.1: A continuation of last week’s conversation with Marc Cushman about Volume 1 of These Are The Voyages: Star Trek The Original Series, the three-volume biography of Star Trek: The Original Series that transports readers back in time to the era in which the original series was made as much as any book possibly can. Volume 1 of These Are The Voyages: Star Trek The Original Series was recently updated and expanded to include an additional eighty pages of information, including new comments from Leonard Nimoy just before his passing in 2015. Not only that, it is also available as an audiobook. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 457.2: Marc Cushman, author of These Are The Voyages: Star Trek The Original Series, talks to Ed about what a visionary Gene Roddenberry was early in his career, above and beyond Star Trek (including ideas for series that were, essentially, prototypes of The Love Boat and MAS*H), as well as the integral role that Lucille Ball played in getting Star Trek on the air. Volume 1 of These Are The Voyages: Star Trek The Original Series was recently updated and expanded with new information, plus it is available as an audiobook. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 457.3: Ed welcomes back actress, author, and voice artist Kathy Garver (Family Affair, X Child Stars, Surviving Cissy: My Family Affair of Life in Hollywood). Kathy is about to start production on Aunt Cissy, a new TV series that not only brings viewers up to date on Cissy’s life after Family Affair, but has elements of such modern shows as Modern Family. Kathy Garver will be taking part in a Child Stars Cruise to Ensenada in December 2019. Her latest book, Holiday Recipes for a Family Affair, is now available through Bear Manor Media. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 457.4: Ed welcomes film and TV actor Jason Stuart (My Wife and Kids, Gia, Kindergarten Cop, Birth of a Nation), one of the first openly gay stand-up comedians. Jason has been performing stand-up for more than thirty years, but he did not find his piece of ground as a comedian until he started doing stand-up material about being gay. Jason Stuart will be signing copies of his memoir, Shut Up! I’m Talking: Coming Out in Hollywood and Making It to the Middle, at Book Soup in Hollywood on Friday, Aug. 2 along with special guest Alexandra Paul (Alexandra Paul wrote the foreword to the book), and at Comedy Central Stage Sit and Spin at the Hudson Theatre in Hollywood on Tuesday, Aug. 15. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 457.5: Actor, comedian, and author Jason Stuart (Shut Up! I’m Talking: Coming Out in Hollywood and Making It to the Middle) talks to Ed about his appearance on The Dating Game in the late 1970s (and why Jim Lange was the perfect host for that show); his first national TV appearance as a comic, which occurred on The Merv Griffin Show; and the impact that the 1972 made-for-TV movie That Certain Summer had on Jason’s life. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 456.3: Ed welcomes award-winning actress and director Gabrielle Stone (It Happened Again Last Night, After Emma). Gabrielle’s new book, Eat, Pray, #FML, asks the question “What do you do when you find your life has fallen apart and your heart has been ripped out and stepped on twice in two months?” In Gabrielle’s case, the answer included getting out of her comfort zone, doing a lot of soul searching, and ultimately learning how to love and accept herself with the help of two tools: A Thought Onion and something she calls a “self-love” cocktail. Gabrielle’s story will resonate with anyone who has ever experienced an emotional gut punch—whether you’re male or female, and no matter what your age. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 456.2: Greg Ehrbar and Ed discusses the recent DVD release of Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles (CBS, 1966), the Hanna-Barbera animated series about a Beatles-like rock group that morphed into crime-fighting superheroes whenever trouble arose. Topics include the short-lived Hanna-Barbera record label of the late 1960s, which often featured the work of The Ron Hicklin Singers, and how the Frankenstein Jr. segment enjoyed a second life in 1976 when NBC paired it with Space Ghost. Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles is now available on DVD through Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 456.1: Marc Cushman, author of These Are The Voyages: Star Trek The Original Series, helps Ed take a deep dive into the development of the first season of Star Trek and the early career of Gene Roddenberry, including how Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner mentored The Great Bird when he began his career in television. Other topics include the acrimonious relationship between Harlan Ellison and Roddenberry over the development of “City on the Edge of Forever.” Volume 1 of These Are The Voyages: Star Trek The Original Series was recently updated and expanded to include an additional eighty pages of information. Not only that, it is also available as an audiobook Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 456.4: Tony, Donna, and Ed go back to July 18, 1989 as part of This Week in TV History, and how the tragic death of My Sister Sam actress Rebecca Schaeffer at the hands of a deranged fan ultimately led to changes in stalking laws. Plus: How TMZ emerged as a news source as a results of its coverage of the death of Michael Jackson in June 2009. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 456.2: Greg and Ed discusses the recent DVD release of Devlin (ABC, 1974), the Hanna-Barbera animated series about a traveling motorcycle daredevil not unlike Evel Knievel. Featuring the voices of Micky Dolenz and Michael Bell, Devlin was a rare example of a Saturday morning network cartoon series that told dramatic stories. Now available on DVD through Warner Bros. Archive. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 455.3: Greg Ehrbar joins Ed for a look at the various configurations of The Partridge Family on DVD and streaming on demand. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 455.1: Steve Randisi, author of The Merv Griffin Show: The Inside Story, joins Phil Gries for Part 3 of our Sounds of Lost Television tribute to the critically acclaimed NBC daytime talk show that Merv Griffin hosted between October 1962 and March 1963. Highlights include a clip from Merv’s interviews with Montgomery Clift—one of the actor’s few appearances on a daytime talk/variety show—and Jack Benny. The latter segment reveals why the iconic comedian chose for his onscreen persona to remain age thirty-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 455.2: As long as we’re in a Merv Griffin frame of mind, Ed plays a clip from longtime radio personality Sam Yates’ interview with Merv from the 1990s in which the talk show icon reveals why he left television in 1986 after twenty-four years. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 455.4: Greg Ehrbar discusses the important roles that the Ron Hickland singers and songwriter and record producer Wes Farrell played in the success of the Partridge Family albums that were released in conjunction with the Partridge Family TV series. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 455.5: Actress and former Playboy Bunny and Playboy Playmate Dolly Read Martin (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Match Game, Tattletales) talks about how the loose, free-flowing vibe behind the scenes of Match Game was an integral part of the appeal of the show; why working as a Bunny at the Playboy Clubs was not always as glamorous at it would seem; and the secret greeting that she shared with her friend Harvey Korman for more than thirty years. Chris Korman co-hosts this segment. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 454.3: Ed welcomes Rick Hawkins, Emmy Award-winning staff writer for The Carol Burnett Show and the co-writer of “Went with the Wind,” the famous Burnett show parody of Gone With the Wind that generated the longest sustained laugh in television history. Topics include the sketch almost never made it on the air, as well as how Carol Burnett’s performance as Scarlett during the famous “curtain rod dress” sequence had as much to do with the audience reaction to that moment as the outlandish outfit itself. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Celebrate Hope and the Humanity of Barack Obama TVC 454.2: Award-winning actress, director, filmmaker and former White House press corps member Anna Wilding shares some of the back stories behind Celebrate Hope, a collection of photographs that Anna took during her stint as a White House press photographer during the last two years of the Obama Administration. Celebrate Hope not only offers the public a rare opportunity to experience the “People’s House” through up-close-and-personal images of President and First Lady Obama as they inhabit the West and East Wings, but, in many ways, reveals the humanity behind these two highly scrutinized public figures. Celebrate Hope will be on display at The Palos Verdes Art Center Museum in Rancho Palos Verdes, California through Sunday, July 7. For more information, call (310) 541-2479 or visit AnnaWilding.world. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 454.4: Rick Hawkins, Emmy Award-winning writer/producer of The Carol Burnett Show, Punky Brewster, Major Dad, and Sister, Sister, talks to Ed about the three years that Rick spent in Russia in the early 2000s, during which time he adapted such popular American shows as Married with Children, Everybody Loves Raymond, and I Dream of Jeannie to Russian audiences on behalf of Sony International. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 453.1: Emmy Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated writer, producer, and showbiz raconteur Geoffrey Mark joins Ed for a remembrance of Tim Conway, the beloved star of McHale’s Navy and The Carol Burnett Show who passed away on Tuesday, May 14. Geoff not only knew Conway personally, but has insight into Conway’s unique improvisational genius. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 453.3: From June 2017: An encore presentation of our conversation with actor and author Jonathan Goldsmith (Stay Interesting: I Don't Always Tell Stories About My Life, But When I Do They're True and Amazing), the actor best known for playing The Most Interesting Man in the World in a wildly popular ad campaign for Dos Equis beer for more than ten years. The Most Interesting Man in the World not only catapulted Jonathan from obscurity, but came to him at a time and place in his life when he needed it the most. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 453.5: From our tribute to Adam West in June 2017: Ed, Tony, and Donna play highlights from our conversations with actresses Julie Newmar, who played The Catwoman during the first two seasons on Batman (ABC, 1966-1968), and Lee Meriwether, who played The Catwoman in the 1966 Batman movie. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 453.4: Donelle Dadigan, founder and president of The Hollywood Museum, joins Ed for a look at some of the exhibits that will be on display this summer, including Remembering Lucy, the Six Million Dollar Man/Bionic Woman exhibit, the fabulous tribute to the six actresses who have played The Catwoman, and Real to Reel, an entertaining and informative look at the milestones and influence that LGBTQ characters and plot lines have had in Hollywood over the past century. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 453.2: From September 2012: Ed plays a clip from Rose Marie’s appearance on TV Confidential in which she recalls discovering Tim Conway in Cleveland around 1961, bringing him to Hollywood, and managing his career for about five years in the early 1960s. Also in this segment: Vicki Lawrence (The Carol Burnett Show) with the back story of the famous “elephant story” blooper on the Burnett show, plus author Wesley Hyatt (The Carol Burnett Show Companion) with more insight into Conway’s penchant for breaking up cast members (most notably, Harvey Korman). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 453.6: Ed plays highlights from the remarks that Kitt Shapiro, Eartha Kitt’s daughter, made at the unveiling of the Catwoman exhibit at The Hollywood Museum about the quiet way in which her mother broke ground when she played The Catwoman during the third season of Batman. Also in this segment: Ed, Tony, and Donna remember comedian George Carlin. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices