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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 RobertsonJohnny Carson and The 5 Traits of a Beautiful Life
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…
TV Confidential with Ed Robertson60 Years of The Wild, Wild West
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonThe Other Smothers Brothers Show
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonWould You Believe?!? Get Smart is 60
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.
TV Confidential with Ed Robertson60 Years of Hogan's Heroes
TVC 707.2: From September 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of Hogan's Heroes (CBS, 1965-1971) on Sept. 17, 1965.
TV Confidential with Ed Robertson75 Years of Truth or Consequences
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonThe Casting of Texas
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)…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonWhy Texas Still Endures
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonWhat Do Green Acres and Xena Have in Common?
TVC 706.1: From September 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed commemorate the milestone broadcast anniversaries for Green Acres (CBS, 1965-1970) and Xena: Warrior…
TV Confidential with Ed Robertson60 Years of The Dean Martin Show
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonDean Martin and The Alberici Sisters
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonRuta Lee, Clint Eastwood, and Lucille Ball
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonTexas: Daytime TV's Answer to Dallas
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonPaul Green on Frank Price and Roy Huggins
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonHappy Birthday, June Lockhart
TVC 705.1: TV Confidential celebrates the recent centennial birthday of actress June Lockhart by bringing you an encore presentation of our conversation with…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonMalibu U, Happening '68, and other pop music TV shows from the 1960s
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonLily Tomlin, David Steinberg, and The Music Scene
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonRuta Lee on the back story of the "Mr. Wonderful" Award
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonRuta Lee on the power of live theatre
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonJoseph Wallenstein, The Godfather, and American Hot Wax
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonBarry Todd, author of Stand Your Ground
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonHow Barry Morse approached playing Lt. Philip Gerard
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonRichard Anderson, Gary Cooper, and Rock Hudson
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonJacqueline Scott on playing Donna Taft on The Fugitive
TVC 704.5: TV Confidential commemorates August 29, The Day The Running Stopped, with an encore presentation of our January 2012 conversation with actress…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonDiane Baker on The Fugitive and other Quinn Martin series
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonHarry Dean Stanton, Paris, Texas, and Big Love
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonA look back at The Lloyd Thaxton Show
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonHollywood a Go Go, Shebang, and other pop music TV shows
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonJoseph Wallenstein on Why Nothing Dies for Film
TVC 703.5: Ed welcomes back award-winning producer, director, and author Joseph Wallenstein (Knots Landing, Hotel, Seventh Heaven, Flynn vs. Miranda, Nothing…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonJoseph Wallenstein, host of Whatcha Know Joe?
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonGroucho Marx and You Bet Your Life
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonPop Music TV Shows of the Mid to Late 1960s
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonHow Shindig Begat Hullabaloo
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonDick Clark and Where The Action Is
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonJoi Lansing: The Scopitone Bombshell
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonHarry Dean Stanton: Hollywood's Zen Rebel
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonHarry Dean Stanton, Monte Hellman, and Alex Cox
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonThe "effortless attractiveness" of Joi Lansing
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonThe Aura of Joi Lansing
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonHow Ed Sullivan and The Smothers Brothers shaped variety television
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonLaurence Luckinbill, Mart Crowley, and Charles Laughton
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonLaurence Luckinbill, Sam Rolfe, and The Delphi Bureau
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonLaurence Luckinbill with a reflection on St. Thomas More
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonHow the World Reacted to the Death of Elvis Presley
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonThe Movers and Shakers of Variety Television
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonSteve Binder, Dwight Hemion, and Hullabaloo
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonMorgan White, Jr. and his trademark hat
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonKathleen Bradley on being a pioneer
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonLaurence Luckinbill on the legacy of The Boys in the Band
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonLaurence Luckinbill on the role of providence in his life
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonRemembering Loni Anderson
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonRemembering Mick Martin
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonMick Martin on John Mitchum and other character actors
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonMorgan White, Jr.: The Undisputed King of Trivia
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonMorgan White, Jr., Daws Butler, and David McCallum
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonKathleen Bradley, Ice Cube, and "Hi, Mrs. Parker"
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonKathleen Bradley with more memories of Friday
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonTaylor Blackwell of It Happened: The Judy Tenuta Story
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonKiki Ebsen on the lifelong journey of an artist
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…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonKiki Ebsen on the songs of The Great American Songbook
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…