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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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TVC 659.1: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the television legacy of Phil Donahue, creator and host of Donahue (Syndicated, 1967-1996), the long-running daytime talk show that not only was the first popular talk show to integrate audience participation into its format, but ushered in the modern era of syndicated daytime talk shows, including The Oprah W…
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TVC 659.2: Tony, Donna, and Ed continue their discussion of the television legacy of Phil Donahue, as seen from the eyes of a viewer. Phil Donahue passed away Sunday, Aug. 18 at age eighty-eight. Topics this segment include favorite episodes of Donahue, including the time when Donahue fell in love with Marlo Thomas during her first appearance on hi…
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TVC 659.3: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss some of the memorable segments that Phil Donahue did after moving production of Donahue to New York in 1984; Posner/Donahue (CNBC/Syndicated, 1991-1994), the issues-oriented talk show that Donahue co-hosted with Soviet journalist Vladmir Posner; and the controversy that led to the cancellation of Donahue’s CNB…
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TVC 659.4: Ed welcomes back Rich Little, America’s Master Mimic, and the dean of impressionists. Rich will bring his record-breaking one-man Las Vegas show to the Laugh Factory Covina, 104 North Citrus Avenue in Covina, California, on Sunday, Sept. 8 for one night only beginning at 7pm. Go to tixr.com/groups/laughfactorycovina for tickets and more …
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TVC 659.5: Rich Little, America’s Master Mimic and the dean of impressionists, talks to Ed about some of the many U.S. presidents whose voices he’s impersonated over the years, including Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Rich will bring his record-breaking one-man Las Vegas show to the Laugh Factory Covina on Sunday, Sept. 8 for one night only begin…
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TVC 658.1: From July 2016: Ed welcomes Peter Marshall, master of The Hollywood Squares, and a man whose eight-decade-long career in entertainment spans the worlds of big band music, Broadway musicals, comedy, movies, live performances, and radio. Peter Marshall passed Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024 at the age of ninety-eight. Learn more about your ad choi…
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TVC 658.2: From July 2016: Peter Marshall shares a few memories of working nightclubs with comedian Tommy Noonan (and, later, Tommy Farrell); his friendship with Wally Cox, which dated back long before they worked together on The Hollywood Squares; and sharing an onscreen kiss with Julie Newmar in The Rookie (1950). Peter Marshall passed Thursday, …
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TVC 658.3: From December 2017: Ed welcomes back Peter Marshall, the master of The Hollywood Squares and the narrator of Wait For Your Laugh, the excellent documentary on the life and career of Rose Marie. Peter Marshall passed Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024 at the age of ninety-eight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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TVC 658.4: From June 2018: Peter Marshall (The Hollywood Squares, Wait for Your Laugh, Perry Como Classics: 'Til the End of Time) joins Ed for a conversation about the music career of Perry Como. Topics this segment include why Como was such a perfect fit for television, why Peter believes there's not much difference between a "singer" and a "croon…
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TVC 658.5: From June 2018: Peter Marshall (The Hollywood Squares, Wait for Your Laugh, Perry Como Classics: 'Til the End of Time) shares a few more thoughts on the music legacy of Perry Como. Also in this segment: A clip from the Hollywood Museum's tribute to Barbara Eden in August 2019 in which Peter Marshall shares a few memories of working with …
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TVC 657.1: Ed welcomes Bill Taylor, author of Mike Connors: A Life of Integrity in Film and Television, an in-depth biography of actor Mike Connors, from his humble upbringing in Fresno, California to the circumstances that led him to be discovered by film director William Wellman while playing basketball at UCLA, to the drive and intensity that Co…
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TVC 657.2: Bill Taylor, author of Mike Connors: A Life of Integrity in Film and Television, talks to Ed about how closely Connors worked with stunt coordinators Charles Picerni and Dick Ziker on planning and performing the various stunts every week on Mannix, and how Connors performed as much as his own stunts as safety would allow so that it appea…
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TVC 675.3: Bill Taylor, author of Mike Connors: A Life of Integrity in Film and Television, talks to Ed about how both Mannix and Tightrope were canceled not because of ratings, but because of other factors decided by network executives; how Connors always made himself available to his fans; and the grace with which he always treated his fellow act…
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TVC 657.4. From May 2014: Ed welcomes Mike Connors, the actor known to three generations of television viewers as private eye Joe Mannix. Co-hosting this segment is David Breckman, writer, director, and co-executive producer of Monk, and a huge fan of Mannix. Mike Connors passed away in January 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastc…
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TVC 657.5: From May 2014: Ed and guest co-host David Breckman talk to Mike Connors about some of his early film roles, including working with John Wayne, William Wellman, and Roger Corman, John Wayne, as well as his short-lived but fondly remembered series Tightrope (CBS, 1959-1960). Mike Connors passed away in January 2017. Also in this segment: A…
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Ed welcomes multi-award-winning actress, writer and producer Charlotte Kirk (The Reckoning, The Lair, The Possession of Gladstone Manor). Charlotte plays the title role in Duchess, a new action thriller directed by Neil Marshall that Charlotte also co-wrote and co-produced. A rare gangster movie with a female crime boss, Duchess also stars Colm Mea…
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TVC 656.2: Ed welcomes Jim Hardy, longtime archivist for Bob Hope Enterprises, where he handles the licensing of the various film clips, TV clips, radio clips, photographs, and other archival materials the encompass the career of the legendary entertainer. Jim is also the curator of the Official Bob Hope YouTube Channel, a joint venture by The Bob …
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TVC 656.3: Jim Hardy, longtime archivist for Bob Hope Enterprises and the curator of the Official Bob Hope YouTube Channel, talks to Ed about how the legendary comedian endeared himself to audiences worldwide because he was the same off-camera as he was on-camera, and why Hope’s special connection with U.S. soldiers spanned from World War II to Des…
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TVC 655.1: A special program-length tribute to Bob Newhart, the Emmy Award-winning star of two long-running, iconic sitcoms, The Bob Newhart Show (CBS, 1972-1978) and Newhart (CBS, 1982-1990), but made a name for himself a stand-up comedian in the 1960s, particularly with his Grammy Award-winning album, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart. Bob Newh…
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TVC 655.2: From June 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed continue their look at Bob Newhart’s career in stand-up comedy and television, with a particular focus on The Bob Newhart Show (CBS, 1972-1978). Bob Newhart passed away on Thursday, July 18 at age ninety-four. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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TVC 655.2a: From November 2020: Emmy-nominated writer, producer, and author Billy Van Zandt (I Love Lucy: The Very First Show, Martin, Newhart, Get in the Car, Jane!) shares a few memories of working with Bob Newhart during the final season of Newhart (CBS, 1982-1990). Bob Newhart passed away on Thursday, July 18 at age ninety-four. Learn more abou…
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TVC 655.3: From January 2021: Moosie Drier shares a few memories of working with Bob Newhart, Bill Daily, and John Ritter on The Bob Newhart Show (CBS, 1972-1978). Bob Newhart passed away on Thursday, July 18 at age ninety-four. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices저자 ed robertson
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TVC 655.4: An encore presentation of our interview from June 2014 with Bill Daily, the actor known around the world as Roger Healey on I Dream of Jeannie and Howard Borden on The Bob Newhart Show. Bill Daily passed away Sept. 7, 2018. Bob Newhart passed away on Thursday, July 18 at age ninety-four. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastcho…
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TVC 655.5: From June 2014: Bill Daily shares more memories of working with Bob Newhart before, during, and after The Bob Newhart Show (CBS, 1972-1978). Bill Daily passed away Sept. 7, 2018. Bob Newhart passed away on Thursday, July 18 at age ninety-four. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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TVC 655.6: Pioneering television writer Susan Silver (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Maude, Hot Pants in Hollywood, Susan Says with Susan Silver) shares a few memories of writing for Bob Newhart and Suzanne Pleshette on The Bob Newhart Show. Bob Newhart passed away on Thursday, July 18 at age ninety-four. Learn more about your ad …
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Friday, July 19 marked the tenth anniversary of the passing of Emmy Award-winning actor and entertainment icon James Garner. TV Confidential marks this occasion by replaying our special program-length tribute to Jim that originally aired in August 2014, featuring highlights from some of our conversations with the people who knew and worked with him…
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Friday, July 19 marked the tenth anniversary of the passing of Emmy Award-winning actor and entertainment icon James Garner. TV Confidential marks this occasion by replaying our special program-length tribute to Jim that originally aired in August 2014. In this segment, we hear from Emmy winners Roy Huggins (creator of Maverick, co-creator of The R…
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Friday, July 19 marked the tenth anniversary of the passing of Emmy Award-winning actor and entertainment icon James Garner. TV Confidential marks this occasion by replaying our special program-length tribute to Jim that originally aired in August 2014. In this segment, Jon Winokur (co-author of The Garner Files, Jim’s memoirs of his career in film…
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Friday, July 19 marked the tenth anniversary of the passing of Emmy Award-winning actor and entertainment icon James Garner. TV Confidential marks this occasion by replaying our special program-length tribute to Jim that originally aired in August 2014. In this segment, we hear more from Jon Winokur, co-author of The Garner Files, Jim’s memoirs of …
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Friday, July 19 marked the tenth anniversary of the passing of Emmy Award-winning actor and entertainment icon James Garner. TV Confidential marks this occasion by replaying our special program-length tribute to Jim that originally aired in August 2014. In this segment, we hear from Garner himself, in the form of two rarely heard interviews: an app…
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TVC 654.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with music journalist and music historian Jon Burlingame (Music for Prime Time: A History of American Television Themes and Scoring). Jon’s latest book, Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir, is a combination history of Peter Gunn (NBC/ABC, 1958-1961) on television; bi…
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TVC 653.2: Music journalist Jon Burlingame (Music for Prime Time, Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir) talks to Ed about how Blake Edwards came to develop Mr. Lucky (CBS, 1959-1960) for television, including how Edwards originally wanted Ricardo Montalban to play the title character and how Ross Martin wasn’t signed to pla…
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TVC 654.3: Music journalist Jon Burlingame (Music for Prime Time, Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir) talks to Ed about the strange, but true broadcast history of Mr. Lucky (CBS, 1959-1960), including how the ill-conceived mandate from the show’s sponsor, Lever Brothers, to change the concept of Mr. Lucky midseason ultima…
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TVC 654.4: Music journalist Jon Burlingame (Music for Prime Time, Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir) talks about Henry Mancini’s work in motion pictures, including how Mancini proved that a great composer could also be a great songwriter (which he did, with “Moon River”). Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music…
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TVC 654.4: Music journalist Jon Burlingame (Music for Prime Time, Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir) talks about Henry Mancini’s work in motion pictures, including how Mancini proved that a great composer could also be a great songwriter (which he did, with “Moon River”). Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music…
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TVC 653.1: Bruce Dern biographers Robert Crane and Christopher Fryer talk to Ed about Dern’s famous appearance in The Cowboys (in which he played the man who kills Wayne’s character halfway through the picture) and the actor had to navigate a schedule conflict over production of another movie, Silent Running, so that he could film that pivotal scen…
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TVC 653.2: Bruce Dern biographers Robert Crane and Christopher Fryer talk to Ed about why Dern worked frequently in television in the 1960s—even when he was making movies like The War Wagon with John Wayne—because casting directors from both industries always knew to keep an eye on him. Other topics this segment include the nearly fatal lung injury…
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TVC 653.3: Robert Crane and Christopher Fryer tell Ed how Bob’s experience working with director Paul Schrader on Auto Focus (Schrader’s depiction of the Bob Crane murder case) spurred Bob to work with Chris in telling his own account of what happened in their book Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father’s Unsolved Murder. Other topics this segment in…
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TVC 654.5: Ed welcomes back esteemed music journalist and music historian Jon Burlingame (Music for Prime Time: A History of American Television Themes and Scoring). Jon’s latest book, Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir, is a combination history of Peter Gunn (NBC/ABC, 1958-1961) on television; biography of Grammy Award-w…
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TVC 654.6: Music journalist Jon Burlingame (Music for Prime Time, Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir) discusses some of the many innovations that Blake Edwards and Peter Gunn brought to network television (including “night for night” shooting, one year before Quinn Martin would make that into an art form), and how the rom…
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TVC 652.1: Ed welcomes Joel Thurm, former Vice President of Talent and Casting for both Paramount Television and NBC, and one of the most accomplished and most respected casting directors in the film and TV industry. Joel’s memoir, Sex, Drugs, and Pilot Season: Confessions of a Casting Director, provides both a backstage look at the boardrooms of N…
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TVC 652.2: Legendary casting director Joel Thurm shares a few stories about his experience working with CBS executive Ethel Winant in the early 1970s, including how he discovered Georgia Engel for The Mary Tyler Moore Show; how he lobbied both CBS and MTM to cast Farrah Fawcett-Majors to play Bill Daily’s girlfriend on The Bob Newhart Show; and how…
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TVC 652.4: Ed welcomes back Robert Crane and Christopher Fryer, co-authors of Jack Nicholson: The Early Years (the first authorized filmography of Oscar winner Jack Nicholson, covering Nicholson’s early film career through 1974), Bruce Dern: Things I’ve Said, But Probably Shouldn’t Have: An Unrepentant Memoir (a three-way collaboration between Dern…
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TVC 652.5: Film historians Robert Crane and Christopher Fryer talk to Ed about how they first connected with Bruce Dern while researching Jack Nicholson: The Early Years and how that led to a series of subsequent interviews with Dern for various publications over the ensuing thirty years, culminating with their collaborating with Dern on his memoir…
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TVC 652.6: Bruce Dern biographers Robert Crane and Christopher Fryer talk to Ed about “Dernseys,” a phrase that Jack Nicholson coined to describe Dern’s unerring knack for knowing what a character might say, or might think, in any given scene, regardless of whether it’s in the pages of the script. Jack Nicholson: The Early Years and Bruce Dern: Thi…
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TVC 651.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Marc Cushman, author of Long Distance Voyagers: The Story of The Moody Blues, a two-volume, total-immersion experience into the six-decade career of The Moody Blues, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group that not only was the first rock group to champion the “concept album,” but influence…
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TVC 651.2: Marc Cushman, author of Long Distance Voyagers: The Story of The Moody Blues, talks to Ed about the many contributions of Ray Thomas to the sound of the Moody Blues (including his trilogy of songs at the end of the Long Distance Voyager album), and why the Moody Blues took a hiatus from each other around 1974. Volumes 1 and 2 of Long Dis…
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TVC 651.3: Marc Cushman, author of Long Distance Voyagers: The Story of The Moody Blues, talks to Ed about some of the many parallels between Ray Thomas of The Moody Blues and George Harrison of The Beatles (particularly with regard to the albums of their respective bands) and how Keys to the Kingdom, the Moody Blues album released in 1991, both ma…
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