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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Devlin: Hanna-Barbera’s Foray into Saturday Mor...
TVC 456.2: Greg and Ed discusses the recent DVD release of Devlin (ABC, 1974), the Hanna-Barbera animated series about a traveling motorcycle daredevil not unlike Evel Knievel. Featuring the voices of Micky Dolenz and Michael Bell, Devlin was a rare...
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Why Merv Ended His Long-Running Daytime Show
TVC 455.2: As long as we’re in a Merv Griffin frame of mind, Ed plays a clip from longtime radio personality Sam Yates’ interview with Merv from the 1990s in which the talk show icon reveals why he left television in 1986 after twenty-four years.
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The Sounds of Lost Merv with Jack Benny and Mon...
TVC 455.1: Steve Randisi, author of The Merv Griffin Show: The Inside Story, joins Phil Gries for Part 3 of our Sounds of Lost Television tribute to the critically acclaimed NBC daytime talk show that Merv Griffin hosted between October 1962 and March...
36 min
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Behind the Music of The Partridge Family
TVC 455.4: Greg Ehrbar discusses the important roles that the Ron Hickland singers and songwriter and record producer Wes Farrell played in the success of the Partridge Family albums that were released in conjunction with the Partridge Family TV series.
24 min
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C’mon Get Happy: The Partridge Family on DVD
TVC 455.3: Greg Ehrbar joins Ed for a look at the various configurations of The Partridge Family on DVD and streaming on demand.
16 min
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Dolly Read Martin on Match Game and more
TVC 455.5: Actress and former Playboy Bunny and Playboy Playmate Dolly Read Martin (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Match Game, Tattletales) talks about how the loose, free-flowing vibe behind the scenes of Match Game was an integral part of the...
37 min
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Celebrate Hope and the Humanity of Barack Obama
Celebrate Hope and the Humanity of Barack ObamaTVC 454.2: Award-winning actress, director, filmmaker and former White House press corps member Anna Wilding shares some of the back stories behind Celebrate Hope, a collection of photographs that Anna...
30 min
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How TV’s Longest Sustained Laugh Almost Never H...
TVC 454.3: Ed welcomes Rick Hawkins, Emmy Award-winning staff writer for The Carol Burnett Show and the co-writer of “Went with the Wind,” the famous Burnett show parody of Gone With the Wind that generated the longest sustained laugh in television...
44 min
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How to Adapt Classic TV Favorites to Russian TV...
TVC 454.4: Rick Hawkins, Emmy Award-winning writer/producer of The Carol Burnett Show, Punky Brewster, Major Dad, and Sister, Sister, talks to Ed about the three years that Rick spent in Russia in the early 2000s, during which time he adapted such...
14 min
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The Genius of Tim Conway
TVC 453.1: Emmy Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated writer, producer, and showbiz raconteur Geoffrey Mark joins Ed for a remembrance of Tim Conway, the beloved star of McHale’s Navy and The Carol Burnett Show who passed away on Tuesday, May 14....
23 min
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How Dick Van Dyke Show star Rose Marie discover...
TVC 453.2: From September 2012: Ed plays a clip from Rose Marie’s appearance on TV Confidential in which she recalls discovering Tim Conway in Cleveland around 1961, bringing him to Hollywood, and managing his career for about five years in the early...
19 min
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Jonathan Goldsmith: The Man Behind Dos Equis’ M...
TVC 453.3: From June 2017: An encore presentation of our conversation with actor and author Jonathan Goldsmith (Stay Interesting: I Don't Always Tell Stories About My Life, But When I Do They're True and Amazing), the actor best known for playing The...
16 min
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Donelle Dadigan, Hollywood’s Most Influential W...
TVC 453.4: Donelle Dadigan, founder and president of The Hollywood Museum, joins Ed for a look at some of the exhibits that will be on display this summer, including Remembering Lucy, the Six Million Dollar Man/Bionic Woman exhibit, the fabulous...
24 min
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Julie Newmar and Lee Meriwether on playing The ...
TVC 453.5: From our tribute to Adam West in June 2017: Ed, Tony, and Donna play highlights from our conversations with actresses Julie Newmar, who played The Catwoman during the first two seasons on Batman (ABC, 1966-1968), and Lee Meriwether, who...
21 min
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How Eartha Kitt Broke Ground on TV When She Pla...
TVC 453.6: Ed plays highlights from the remarks that Kitt Shapiro, Eartha Kitt’s daughter, made at the unveiling of the Catwoman exhibit at The Hollywood Museum about the quiet way in which her mother broke ground when she played The Catwoman during...
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