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TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
TV CONFIDENTIAL: A radio talk show about television brings you lively conversations every week with 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.
Episodes
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Robert Crane, Christopher Fryer, and Jack Nicholson
TVC 652.4: Ed welcomes back Robert Crane and Christopher Fryer, co-authors of Jack Nicholson: The Early Years (the first authorized filmography of Oscar winner…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Robert Crane, Christopher Fryer, and Bruce Dern
TVC 652.5: Film historians Robert Crane and Christopher Fryer talk to Ed about how they first connected with Bruce Dern while researching Jack Nicholson: The…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Bruce Dern, Jack Nicholson, and "Dernseys"
TVC 652.6: Bruce Dern biographers Robert Crane and Christopher Fryer talk to Ed about "Dernseys," a phrase that Jack Nicholson coined to describe Dern's…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
The Moody Blues, The Beatles, and The Mellotron
TVC 651.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Marc Cushman, author of Long Distance Voyagers: The Story of The Moody Blues, a two-volume…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Ray Thomas: The Veteran Cosmic Rocker
TVC 651.2: Marc Cushman, author of Long Distance Voyagers: The Story of The Moody Blues, talks to Ed about the many contributions of Ray Thomas to the sound of…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
The Moody Blues and Keys to the Kingdom
TVC 651.3: Marc Cushman, author of Long Distance Voyagers: The Story of The Moody Blues, talks to Ed about some of the many parallels between Ray Thomas of The…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
The Story Arc of The Moody Blues
TVC 650.1: Ed welcomes award-winning screenwriter, director, producer, and documentary maker Marc Cushman, author of These Are the Voyages, a three-volume…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
The Night of the White Bronco Chase
TVC 650.2: From June 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at June 17, 1994, the night of the famous low-speed white Bronco police chase that captivated…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
How TV Covered The O.J. Simpson Murder Case
TVC 650.2: From June 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at June 17, 1994, the night of the famous low-speed white Bronco police chase that captivated…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
The Spiritual Side of Irene Tsu
TVC 650.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with trailblazing actress, author, and designed Irene Tsu (Flower Drum Song, Paradise Hawaiian Style…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Irene Tsu, Raymond Burr, and James Garner
TVC 650.5: Actress and author Irene Tsu shares a few memories of working with Raymond Burr on both Perry Mason and Ironside and with James Garner on "Irving…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
How FM Radio Changed the Trajectory of The Moody Blues
TVC 650.6: Marc Cushman, author of Long Distance Voyagers: The Story of The Moody Blues, talks to Ed about the emergence of FM radio circa 1972 helped the…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
The Life and Music of Richard Sherman
TVC 649.1: From November 2011: Greg Ehrbar discusses the Sherman Brothers' many contributions to Walt Disney Records (above and beyond their Oscar-winning…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Flower Drum Song on Blu-ray
TVC 649.2: Greg Ehrbar discusses the recent Kino Lorber Blu-ray release of Flower Drum Song, the 1961 film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical by…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
The Many Lives of Irene Tsu
TVC 649.3: Ed welcomes trailblazing actress, author, and designed Irene Tsu (Flower Drum Song, Paradise Hawaiian Style, Take Her She's Mine, The Green Berets…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Irene Tsu, Bronislaw Kaper, and Frank Sinatra
TVC 649.4: Actress and author Irene Tsu talks to Ed about how composer Oscar-winning Bronislaw Kaper (Lili, The FBI) became a lifelong father figure when she…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Celebrating the Life of Dabney Coleman
TVC 649.5: From January 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the life and career of film and television icon Dabney Coleman (9 to 5, Tootsie, Buffalo Bill, The…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
85 Years of Batman
TVC 648.1: May 1939 marks the eighty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Issue 27 of Detective Comics, the issue that marked the debut appearance of the…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
The Abbott and Costello Show: Season 2 on Blu-ray
TVC 648.2: Nick Santa Maria, co-author of The Annotated Abbott and Costello: A Complete Viewer's Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films, joins Greg and Ed…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Abbott and Costello Meet Joe Franklin
TVC 648.3: Nick Santa Maria, co-author of The Annotated Abbott and Costello: A Complete Viewer's Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films, talks to Greg and…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Dee Wallace on the power of creating ourselves consciously
TVC 648.4: Ed welcomes back actress, author, and teacher Dee Wallace (E.T: The Extraterrestrial, The Howling, Born: Giving Birth to a New You). Topics this…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Dee Wallace on Charles Conrad and some of her other acting mentors
TVC 648.5: Actress and author Dee Wallace (E.T: The Extraterrestrial, The Howling, Born: Giving Birth to a New You) talks to Ed about some of her acting…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Abbott and Costello: The Cartoon Series
TVC 648.6: Nick Santa Maria, co-author of The Annotated Abbott and Costello: A Complete Viewer's Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films, talks to Greg and…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Why Carol Lynley was "always making a comeback"
TVC 647.1: Ed welcomes back sixties movie historian Tom Lisanti (Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies, Dueling Harlows: The Race to Bring the Actress's Life to the…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Carol Lynley, Bunny Lake, and The Poseidon Adventure
TVC 647.2: Sixties movie historian Tom Lisanti (Carol Lynley: Her Film & TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy and Suspense, Ryan's Hope: An Oral History of…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Johnny Whitaker y Paso por Paso
TVC 647.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Johnny Whitaker, the actor known around the world as Jody Davis on Family Affair, Johnny Stuart…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Johnny Whitaker, Elizabeth Montgomery, and Eva Gabor
TVC 647.6: Johnny Whitaker talks to Ed about his recent visit to the Mark Twain Cave Complex in Hannibal, Missouri, and how he was given the honor of being…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Introducing "Susan Says"
TVC 647.7: Susan Silver, one of the first female television comedy writers and the author of Hot Pants in Hollywood: Sex, Secrets, and Sitcoms, brings her…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
On the Road with Johnny Whitaker
TVC 646.4: Ed welcomes Johnny Whitaker, the actor known around the world as Jody Davis on Family Affair, Johnny Stuart on Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, and Tom…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
John Barbour, Neil Simon, and Deep Throat
TVC 646.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with five-time Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and cultural critic John Barbour (Real People) and…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
John Barbour, Bob Hope, and Oscar Wilde
TVC 646.6: Five-time Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and cultural critic John Barbour (Real People, Your Mother's Not a Virgin) recalls the circumstances…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Dinah Manoff and The Story of Jackie Gold
TVC 645.1: Ed welcomes Tony Award-winning actress, director, and novelist Dinah Manoff (I Ought to Be in Pictures, Grease, Soap, Ordinary People, Empty Nest)…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
How TV News Covered the L.A. Riots of 1992
TVC 645.3: From April 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at how television covered the riots that broke out in Los Angeles on Apr. 29, 1992. Because Tony and…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
How the L.A. Riots of 1992 Changed TV News Coverage
TVC 645.3: From April 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss how TV news in Los Angeles has never been the same since coverage of the riots that broke out in Los…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Dinah Manoff, Robert Redford, and Lee Grant
TVC 645.4: Tony Award-winning actress, director, and novelist Dinah Manoff chats with Ed about being directed by Robert Redford in the Oscar-winning movie…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
The Greatest Reviews I've Ever Read
TVC 645.5: Ed welcomes back five-time Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, talk show host, and cultural critic John Barbour (Real People) and Carol Hoenig, the…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
John Barbour on Why Movies are the Writer's Medium
TVC 654.6: Five-time Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and cultural critic John Barbour (Real People) and Carol Hoenig, the collaborator on John's memoir…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
A Fish in the Bathtub on Blu-ray
TVC 644.2: Greg Ehrbar discusses the Kino Lorber Blu-ray release of A Fish in the Bathtub (1998), an offbeat comedy starring Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Phyllis…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
1st Sound Version of Alice in Wonderland
TVC 644.2a: Greg Ehrbar discusses the Kino Lorber Blu-ray release of Alice in Wonderland (1933), the first sound-movie adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
The Effervescence of Shirley Temple
TVC 644.3: Greg Ehrbar reviews the Shirley Temple Storybook Collection, a six-DVD set featuring some of the best episodes of her popular Sunday night series…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Jim MacKrell on "doing what came next"
TVC 644.4: Ed welcomes game show legend, radio host, actor, and novelist Jim MacKrell (Celebrity Sweepstakes, The Game Game, Run Maggie Run, Falen: Semper Fi…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Jim MacKrell, Jim Murray, and Vin Scully
TVC 644.5: Game show legend and novelist Jim MacKrell talks to Ed about some of the people in the music industry whom he met when he worked for Henry Mancini…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Jim MacKrell on the power of curiosity
TVC 644.6: Game show legend and novelist Jim MacKrell talks to Ed about what makes the dog characters in his novels Down from the Mountain, Falen: Semper Fi…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
The Daydreamer on Blu-ray
TVC 644.6a: Greg Ehrbar discusses the Kino Lorber Blu-ray release of The Daydreamer (1966), a feature-length live-action and Animagic-animated adaptation of…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Juanita Bartlett, James Garner, and The Rockford Files
We continue our celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of The Rockford Files on television by bringing you an encore presentation of our August 2012…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Juanita Bartlett, James Garner, and Stephen J. Cannell
From August 2012: Emmy-nominated writer/producer Juanita Bartlett (The Rockford Files, The Greatest American Hero, Spenser: For Hire) discusses her career in…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Nicole Arlyn of Til Death Do Us Part
TVC 643.4: Ed welcome actress, producer, and novelist Nicole Arlyn. Nicole currently stars as a retired killer in the Tarantinoesque action thriller Til Death…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Roslyn Kind's New Medley
TVC 643.5: Ed welcomes back singer, actress, and producer Roslyn Kind. Earlier this year, Roslyn realized one of her dreams by combining two classic hits, "The…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
More with Roslyn Kind
TVC 643.6: Singer/actress Roslyn Kind talks to Ed about how her "mission statement" as an artist is to perform songs that make people feel good and bring…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Julie Rogers Pomilia, granddaughter of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
TVC 642.3: Ed welcomes Julie Rogers Pomilia, the youngest daughter of Tom Fox (the only biological son of Dale Evans by her first marriage), and the…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, and "Happy Trails"
TVC 642.4: Julie Rogers Pomilia, author of Your Heroes, My Grandparents: A Granddaughter's Love, the first book ever written by a Roy Rogers and Dale Evans…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Shelley Herman on her early career as a page at NBC Burbank in the mid 1970s
TVC 642.5: Ed welcomes Emmy nominated writer Shelley Herman. Shelley's memoir, My Peacock Tale : Secrets Of An NBC Page, is a funny, provocative, and often…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Shelley Herman, Harry Chapin, and Adam West
TVC 642.6: Emmy nominated writer Shelley Herman talks to Ed about meeting singer Harry Chapin backstage at The Tonight Show, one night after seeing him perform…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Ernie Kovacs, Zoomar, and Take a Good Look
TVC 641.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Josh Mills, son of Edie Adams and the curator of the estates of Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams, and…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Ernie Kovacs, Jack Lemmon, and Soupy Sales
TVC 641.2: Josh Mills and Pat Thomas talk to Ed about Ernie Kovacs' many collaborations and longtime friendship with Jack Lemmon; how the format for Ernie's…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
How Ernie Kovacs Helped Inspire the Counter Culture
TVC 640.1: Ed welcomes Josh Mills, son of Edie Adams and the curator of the estates of Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams, and author Pat Thomas (Invitation to…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Ernie Kovacs and "The Silent Show"
TVC 640.2: Josh Mills and Pat Thomas talk to Ed about The Silent Show, the iconic NBC special from January 1957 that is the only Ernie Kovacs television show…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Michael Learned of The Waltons and Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
TVC 640.3: Ed welcomes back Michael Learned, the four-time Emmy Award-winning actress known around the world as Olivia Walton on The Waltons and, more…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Charles Agron on working with Lance Henriksen and Ed Asner in Altered Reality
TVC 640.4: Ed welcomes Charles Agron, the writer, producer, and star of Altered Reality, a supernatural thriller that explores greed, family, and redemption…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
John Barbour on The Academy Awards
TVC 640.5: A special preview of our upcoming conversation with five-time Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, talk show host, and cultural critic John Barbour…
