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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And Here's to You, Buck Henry
Author Beverly Gray helps Ed pay tribute to iconic screenwriter, director, and satirist Buck Henry.
7 min
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Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb
TV Confidential remembers Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, television's first teenage heartthrob.
8 min
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Hats Off to Skipper Alan Hale
Hats Off to Skipper Alan Hale
22 min
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Steven Taibbi: The Man with the Grateful Heart
Steven Taibbi: The Man with the Grateful Heart
36 min
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June Foray, Gary Owens, and David Cummings
June Foray, Gary Owens, and David Cummings
15 min
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Michael Bell: The Flavor Says “Butter!”
Michael Bell: The Flavor Says “Butter!”
22 min
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Jonny Quest: The Blu-ray Adventures
Jonny Quest: The Blu-ray Adventures
21 min
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Anna Wilding and Celebrate Hope: The Book
Anna Wilding and Celebrate Hope: The Book
22 min
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Jonny Quest on Blu-ray
Jonny Quest on Blu-ray
20 min
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D.C. Fontana and Star Trek: The Animated Series
D.C. Fontana and Star Trek: The Animated Series
12 min
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Michael Bell on The Smurfs, The Snorks, "vocalb...
Michael Bell on The Smurfs, The Snorks, "vocalbating," and working on Quinn Martin shows
21 min
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Jarrad Hewett, Longtime Voice of The Disney Cha...
Jarrad Hewett, Longtime Voice of The Disney Channel
20 min
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Jarrad Hewett, Dee Wallace, and the “I’m So Exc...
Jarrad Hewett, Dee Wallace, and the “I’m So Excited” Exercise
16 min
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Remembering Arthur Marks of the original Perry ...
Remembering Arthur Marks of the original Perry Mason
22 min
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Remembering Shelley Morrison of The Flying Nun ...
Remembering Shelley Morrison of The Flying Nun and Will & Grace
6 min
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Roberta Levitow (Lost in the Stars) of Theatre ...
Roberta Levitow (Lost in the Stars) of Theatre Without Borders
31 min
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Michael Bell, the Artemus Gordon of Voice Actors
Michael Bell, the Artemus Gordon of Voice Actors
19 min
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How George Clooney Inspired a Real Life ER Phys...
How George Clooney Inspired a Real Life ER Physician
23 min
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Caroll Spinney, Big Bird, and Oscar the Grouch
Caroll Spinney, Big Bird, and Oscar the Grouch
13 min
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Television Pioneer and former NBA star Tommy Ha...
The Best of TVC: Ed interviews with Tommy Hawkins, the Emmy Award-nominated broadcaster, renaissance man and former NBA star who passed away in 2017 at the age of 80. Tommy Hawkins enjoyed a 10-year career in the NBA for both the Minneapolis Lakers,...
22 min
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How Regis Philbin Helped Tommy Hawkins Launch H...
The Best of TVC: Author, poet, and television pioneer Tommy Hawkins (Life’s Reflections: Poetry for the People) tells Ed the story about how Regis Philbin played a key role in one of Tommy's first breaks as a broadcaster. This segment originally aired...
16 min
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Chubby Checker, Ed Sullivan, and The Twist
TVC 473.1: Tony, Donna, and Ed turn back the clock to Oct. 21, 1962, the night when Chubby Checker performed his No. 1 hit “The Twist” on The Ed Sullivan Show.
10 min
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Happy Birthday to the Girl Next Door
TVC 473.2: From 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed commemorate the birthday of singer/actress Annette Funicello, the quintessential Girl Next Door, America’s original Queen of Teen, and one of the most, if not the most, popular members of the Mickey Mouse Club.
14 min
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James DuMont of Robert B. Parker’s Wonderland
TVC 473.3: Part 2 of our conversation with film and TV actor James DuMont (The Righteous Gemstones, Men of a Certain Age, Trumbo, Dallas Buyers Club, The Butler). James will soon be seen opposite Mark Wahlberg in Wonderland—the forthcoming Netflix...
35 min
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Donna Mills and 40 Years of Knots Landing
TVC 473.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Donna Mills (Knots Landing, General Hospital). Dec. 27, 2019 marks the fortieth anniversary of the premiere of Knots on CBS. Topics include the legacy of Knots (and how, in many ways, it...
22 min