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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
Science Fiction: A Genre Filled with Hope
TVC 617.5: Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and novelist Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriter's Companion)…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
In Through the Out Door: Time Travel with a Twist
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
A Deep Dive into Rod Serling's Night Gallery
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Why Night Gallery Was Very Much a Directors Show
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Television Pioneer Jimmy Weldon
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Jimmy Weldon and Go Get 'Em, Tiger
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Jimmy Weldon, James Garner, and The Rockford Files
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Kevin Spirtas on blazing his own trail in Hollywood
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Kevin Spirtas on why watching horror movies is like going on a carnival ride
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
The Bob Crane Murder Case
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Robert Crane, co-author of Crane: Sex, Celebrity and My Father's Unsolved Murder
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Robert Crane, Part 2
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Robert Crane, Part 3
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Robert Crane, Part 4
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Tribute to George Maharis
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
George Maharis, Cary Grant, and Route 66
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Here Comes the Brides on DVD
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
The Back Story of Here Come The Brides
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
George Maharis of Route 66
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
George Maharis on Why He Left Route 66
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
George Maharis, Mike Wallace, and The Sounds of Lost Television
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Milt Larsen and the origins of The Magic Castle
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Milt Larsen, Ralph Edwards, and Truth or Consequences
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
The Songwriting Career of Milt Larsen
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
The Smash Flops of Sherman and Larsen
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Dee Wallace of Fatal Attraction: The Series
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Dee Wallace, Hal Prince, and Chocolate Chip Cookies
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Barbara Stanwyck: A True Professional
TVC 612.3: Greg Ehrbar reviews the Archive of American Television DVD release of The Barbara Stanwyck Show (NBC, 1960-1961), the Emmy Award-winning anthology…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm and all of the gang
TVC 612.4: Greg Ehrbar discusses the recent DVD release of The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (CBS, 1971-1972), a spin-off of The Flintstones (featuring a pre-All…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Anne Archer on playing Norris Church Mailer in A Ticket to the Circus
TVC 612.5: Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Anne Archer (Fatal Attraction, Patriot Games, Short Cuts, Clear and Present Danger) talks to…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Anne Archer, Marjorie Lord, and Howard Cosell
TVC 612.6: Oscar-nominated actress Anne Archer (Fatal Attraction, Patriot Games) talks to Ed about how her mother, actress Marjorie Lord (Make Room for Daddy)…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Gisela Adisa of 1776
TVC 611.1: Ed welcomes singer/actress Gisela Adisa (Kaleidoscope, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Ridley Jones, Lights Out: Nat King Cole). Gisela currently…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Gisela Adisa, Eartha Kitt, and The Muppet Show
TVC 611.2: Gisela Adisa, the actress who stars as John Adams in the national tour of 1776, talks to Ed about playing Eartha Kitt in the stage production of…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
The Jerry Springer That Cincinnatians Knew
TVC 611.3: Tony and Donna join Ed for a remembrance of Jerry Springer, the award-winning television personality who passed away Thursday, Apr. 27 at age…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Patrick Duffy, Linda Purl, and Duffy's Dough
TVC 611.4: Ed welcomes television icons Patrick Duffy (Dallas, Step by Step, The Bold and the Beautiful) and Linda Purl (Happy Days, Matlock, The Office)…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Jerry Springer: He Owned His Past
TVC 611.5: Tony, Donna, and Ed continue their remembrance of Jerry Springer, the Emmy Award-winning television personality who passed away Thursday, Apr. 27 at…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Natasha Blasick on working with Jamie Foxx and playing the bass guitar
TVC 610.1: Ed welcomes actress, model, singer, and bass guitarist Natasha Blasick (Paul T. Goldman, All-Star Weekend, Moms Rising, Karaganda, Immortality)…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Natasha Blasick of Paul T. Goldman
TVC 610.2: Actress Natasha Blasick talks to Ed about meeting Florence Henderson in the early 2000s, when Natalie was a contestant in the Mrs. World beauty…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Steve Binder, Harry Belafonte, and "The Touch"
TVC 610.3: From August 2016: Emmy Award winning director Steve Binder (Elvis: The 1968 Comeback Special, The T.A.M.I. Show) with the back story of "The Touch,"…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Titus Welliver of Bosch
TVC 609.1: From January 2019: Ed welcomes Titus Welliver, the actor who plays Harry Bosch on both Amazon Prime's Bosch and the Amazon Freevee follow-up series…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Titus Welliver on Warding Off Colds and BingeWatching Sixties TV
TVC 609.2: From January 2019: Titus Welliver, the actor who plays Harry Bosch on Amazon Prime's Bosch and the Amazon Freevee follow-up series Bosch: Legacy…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
James Moses Black of Renfield
TVC 609.3: Ed welcomes back James Moses Black, one of the busiest and most versatile actors in film and television today. James can be currently seen as…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
James Moses Black on Robin Williams, ACT, and Robert Guillaume
TVC 609.4: James Moses Black talks to Ed about some of the performers who inspired him to become an actor, which include Robin Williams, James Brown, and Sammy…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
The Smith Family on DVD
TVC 609.5: Greg Ehrbar and Ed discuss The Smith Family (ABC, 1971-1972), the offbeat comedy-drama starring Henry Fonda, Ron Howard, and Darleen Carr that also…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Paul Sidhu of Repeater
TVC 609.6: Ed welcomes actor, screenwriter, and producer Paul Sidhu (Repeater, Uppercut, Aakhari Decision). After beginning his career as a dermatologist, Paul…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Birth of The Blues Brothers on SNL
TVC 608.1: From April 2018: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the 40th anniversary of The Blues Brothers, and how Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi kept the rights…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Judy Norton on the Making of Inclusion Criteria
TVC 608.2: From April 2018: Judy Norton, the actress known around the world as Mary Ellen Walton on The Waltons, talks to Ed about Inclusion Criteria, a…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Judy Norton, The Disorganized Zone, and Tammy Grimes
TVC 608.3: Judy Norton (Mary Ellen Walton on The Waltons) talks to Ed about her offbeat web series Disorganized Zone; the decade she spent as a writer…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
How Jose Iturbi Made Classical Music Accessible
TVC 608.4: A return appearance by Donelle Dadigan, founder and president of The Hollywood Museum, and the goddaughter of Jose Iturbi, the first classical…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Jose Iturbi: The First Rock Star of Classical Music
TVC 608.5: Donelle Dadigan, founder and president of The Hollywood Museum, gives us a glimpse of who her godfather, classical pianist and conductor Jose…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
The Good Boss on DVD
TVC 608.6: Greg Ehrbar discusses the recent Kino Lorber DVD release of The Good Boss (2021), a satire of the corporate world, starring Javier Bardem, that is…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Rita Lakin: The Only Woman in the Room
TVC 607.1: An encore presentation of our October 2015 conversation with Rita Lakin, the Edgar nominated screenwriter and television pioneer who not only…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Rita Lakin, Aaron Spelling, and The Seat of Power
TVC 607.2: From October 2015: Rita Lakin, Edgar nominated screenwriter and author of The Only Woman in the Room: Episodes from My Life and Career as a…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
The Automat on DVD
TVC 607.3: Greg Ehrbar discusses The Automat, a charming documentary featuring Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Elliott Gould, Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Billy Flanigan on DVD
TVC 607.3a: Greg Ehrbar discusses Billy Flanigan: The Happiest Man on the Earth, a documentary about the life and career of the longest continually contracted…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Rita Lakin: The Original Peggy Olson
TVC 607.4: Rita Lakin, Edgar nominated screenwriter and author of The Only Woman in the Room: Episodes from My Life and Career as a Television Writer, talks to…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Thomas Haden Church of Acidman
TVC 607.5: Ed welcomes Emmy Award-winning and Oscar nominated actor Thomas Haden Church (Wings, Sideways, Ned and Stacey, Divorce, Broken Trail, and the…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Thomas Haden Church on the collaborative process
TVC 607.6: Emmy Award-winning and Oscar nominated actor Thomas Haden Church talks to Ed about working with director Alex Lehmann on the development of his…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Donzaleigh Abernathy and Partners to History
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…
- TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Donzaleigh Abernathy, Part 2
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…
