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.
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How Bob Crane Left His Mark in Radio
From June 2020: Ed welcomes back Carol Ford and Linda Groundwater, two of the co-authors of Bob Crane: The Definitive Biography
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The Other Bob Crane Show
From June 2020: Bob Crane biographers Carol Ford and Linda Groundwater discuss Crane's short-lived sitcom, The Bob Crane Show (NBC, 1975)
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Josie and The Pussycats on Blu-ray
A review of the Josie and The Pussycats Blu-ray release
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Josie and The Pussycats: Fun, Groovy Stuff
A review of the Josie and The Pussycats in Outer Space Blu-ray release
12 min
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Ruta Lee, Perry Mason, and The Lineup
Part 2 of our conversation with entertainment legend Ruta Lee
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Ruta Lee, High Rollers, and Talk of the Town
Ruta Lee shares some memories of working with Alex Trebek on High Rollers
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L.A.’s Next Great Stage Star’s Barbara van Orde...
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...
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Ugly Dolls composer Christopher Lennertz on the...
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...
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Part 2 with Ugly Dolls composer Christopher Len...
Ugly Dolls composer Christopher Lennertz on the movie’s uplifting message
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Screen Villain Patrick Kilpatrick on Escaping D...
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...
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How Longtime Movie Villain Patrick Kilpatrick A...
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...
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Richard Pryor Jr.: Live from The Hollywood Museum
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).
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Chuck Harter pays tribute to comedian Richard P...
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.
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The Bob Crane TV Trivia Quiz (preview)
From July 2018: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome back journalist Robert Crane, eldest son of actor Bob Crane
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Revival: The Experience’s Kirk Taylor on his ow...
From April 2019: Ed welcomes actor Kirk Taylor (Revival! The Experience)
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James Garner, John Frankenheimer, and The Makin...
From April 2012: Jon Winokur, co-author of The Garner Files, discusses James Garner's lifelong passion for race cars
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Jim Rockford's Firebird and other "star cars"
From January 2011: Ed welcomes “star car” researcher Jim Suva (Pioneers of Television).
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Revival’s Kirk Taylor on the humanity of Jesus ...
Part 2 of our April 2019 conversation with actor Kirk Taylor (Revival: The Experience)
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CBS Fires Tom and Dick Smothers on Apr. 4, 1969
A special minisode edition of This Week in TV History in which Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the demise of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in April 1969
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The Multigenerational Appeal of Doris Day
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.
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The Amazing Range of Doris Day
From June 2019: Our tribute to Doris Day continues with more memories from her friend and ours, Geoffrey Mark
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Why East Side/West Side was "Too Good" for TV
From March 2011: Ed welcomes Stephen Bowie, television historian and publisher of The Classic TV History Blog
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The Backstory of East Side/West Side
From April 2011: David Susskind biographer Stephen Battaglio discusses the events that led to the development and short demise of East Side/West Side
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Cicely Tyson: A Stellar Example of What an Acto...
Tony, Donna, and Ed celebrate the life and career of Cicely Tyson
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Raymond J. Barry of Free Byrd
Ed welcomes back award-winning film, stage and TV actor Raymond J. Barry
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