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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 RobertsonWalter Cronkite, Danny Kaye, and Beverly Sills
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonWalter Cronkite, Johnny Cash, and Thomas Jefferson
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonHow NBC and ABC Covered the Bicentennial
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonSing, America, Sing and The Bicentennial Minutes
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)…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonThe Sounds of the Bicentennial
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonNetwork TV and the Spirit of '76
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonLife in America in 1976
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonBaseball, Cronkite, and Jazz in America
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonThe "motion picture" quality of Movin' On
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonWhy Movin' On lasted only two seasons
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonMartha Reeves on why her new album, Searching, is an answered prayer
Please enjoy this special preview of our upcoming conversation with Martha Reeves, the legendary Motown powerhouse who is also one of the most influential…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonThe back story of Movin' On
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonWhat made Movin' On an unusual TV series
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonWhy Movin' On could not be made today
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonA Centennial Celebration for Marilyn Monroe
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonRuta Lee, Morgan Fairchild, and Marilyn Monroe
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonDon Sainte-Johnn on how KFRC became Magic 61
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonJim Meskimen of Landman and Hungry
TVC 738.4: Ed welcomes back actor, comedian, voice artist, and impressionist Jim Meskimen (Landman, Gaslit, Welcome to Chippendales, The Big Door Prize)…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonJim Meskimen on his gift for mimicry
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonDavid Spencer, The Novelizers, and The Rockford Files
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonDavid Spencer, The Novelizers, and Passing Fancy
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonDon Sainte-Johnn, author of San Francisco's Last Top 40 Disc Jockey
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonHow Wilber Johnson became Don Sainte-Johnn
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonDon Sainte-Johnn on some crazy moments behind the scenes at KFRC
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonThe bond between Robert and John Mitchum
Please enjoy this special preview of our upcoming conversation with Cindy Mitchum, youngest daughter of legendary character actor John Mitchum and the niece of…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonHow John Barbour became known as The Godfather of Reality TV
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonDavid Spencer, author of The Novelizers
TVC 736.1: Ed welcomes David Spencer, award-winning musical dramatist, author, critic, musical theatre teacher, and the author of The Novelizers: An…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonDavid Spencer on the art of adaptation
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonDavid Spencer on the joy of reading aloud
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonLee Goldberg on his series of tie-in novels based on Monk
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonLee Goldberg on his original novels based on Monk and Diagnosis Murder
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonRaymond Burr wins his first Emmy for Perry Mason
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonEmmy Award-winning producer Charles Floyd Johnson on his path to becoming a writer
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonCharles Floyd Johnson on learning how to become vulnerable on the page
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonCharles Floyd Johnson, John Lewis, and Red Tails
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonWhy Quincy Jones was "the people groover"
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…
TV Confidential with Ed Robertson50 Years of Wonder Woman on TV
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonKathleen Bradley takes us backstage at The Price is Right
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonKathleen Bradley and The Love Machine
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonRemembering Kimberly Johnson
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonMore with Kimberly Johnson and Bill Funt
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonThe "sound hooks" of Quincy Jones
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonQuincy Jones, Oliver Nelson, and Michael Jackson
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonDenise Nicholas, author of Finding Home
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonDenise Nicholas on "finding a way in" as a writer
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonNick Leisure, director of the new action thriller Golden
TVC 732.6: Ed welcomes director and producer Nick Leisure. Known for crafting grounded, character-driven thrillers with strong visual language with…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonActor and director Wayne Péré
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonHow Wayne Péré approaches playing villainous characters
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonMore with Wayne Péré
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonSheree J. Wilson on making a sequel (and prequel) to Easy Rider
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonSheree J. Wilson, Chuck Norris, and Walker: Texas Ranger
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonSheree J. Wilson, Larry Hagman, and Dallas
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonMichael Preece on directing Dallas and Walker: Texas Ranger
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonRobert Illes, Sanford and Son, and Fernwood Tonight
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonRobert Illes, Carol Burnett, and Captain and Tennille
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonRobert Illes, Sister Sister, and Funny is Money
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonRobert Illes, author of Funny is Money
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonRobert Illes, Bill Cosby, and Stanley Ralph Ross
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonHow George Burns Influenced Many TV Comedy Writers
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonStefanie Powers on sharing her passion for conservationism
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…