TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 615.1: Emmy Award-winning actor, writer, and producer Kevin Spirtas (After Forever, Days of Our Lives) talks to Ed about what it means to receive the Hollywood Museum Trailblazer Award at this year’s 10th annual Real to Reel exhibit. He also gives us a sneak preview of Season 3 of After Forever, which will feature Linda Purl in the role of Brian’s therapist. One of the Hollywood Museum’s most popular attractions, the Real to Reel exhibit offers a historic perspective of monumental LBGTQ+ contributions in film and television over the past 100 years, spanning the eras of silent movies, pre-Code Hollywood, the Golden Ages of Film and Television, and cable and digital platforms. For more about Real to Reel, and other exhibits on display this summer, go to TheHollywoodMuseum.com. Both Seasons 1 and 2 of After Forever are available for streaming on demand on AmazonPrime, while Season 3 is scheduled for release later in 2023 Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 615.2: Kevin Spirtas (After Forever, The Hills Have Eyes) talks to Ed about the importance of costuming in any project, whether for film, stage or television; his recent appearance in Subspecies V: Blood Rise, the upcoming sequel to the 1981 vampire slasher film Subspecies; and why watching a horror movie is like going on a carnival ride. Kevin donated some of his costumes for After Forever to the Hollywood Museum as part of this year’s 10th annual Real to Reel exhibit. For more about Real to Reel, and other exhibits on display this summer, go to TheHollywoodMuseum.com. Both Seasons 1 and 2 of After Forever are available for streaming on demand on Amazon Prime, while Season 3 is scheduled for release later in 2023 Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 615.3: From June 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the fallout surrounding the murder of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane on June 29, 1978. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 615.4: From June 2015: Ed, Tony and Donna welcome Robert Crane, eldest son of Bob Crane, and the co-author, along with Christopher Fryer, of CRANE: Sex, Celebrity and My Father’s Unsolved Murder, a memoir of growing up with Bob Crane as a father before, during and after Hogan’s Heroes that also provides a first-person account and commentary of the investigation and prosecution of the Bob Crane murder case, from the perspective of the Crane family. Among other topics, Bob takes us back to the afternoon of Thursday, June 29, 1978, when he was summoned to the crime scene in Scottsdale, Arizona to identify his father’s body. He also shares memories of growing with Bob Crane as a father, including his formative years in Connecticut before his dad moved his family to Los Angeles in 1956 so that he could join KNX Radio and, of course, launch his acting career and eventually star in Hogan’s Heroes.  Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 615.5: From June 2015: Ed, Tony and Donna welcome Robert Crane, co-author of CRANE: Sex, Celebrity and My Father’s Unsolved Murder, a memoir of growing up with Bob Crane as a father before, during and after Hogan’s Heroes that also provides a first-person account and commentary of the investigation and prosecution of the Bob Crane murder case, from the perspective of the Crane family. Among other topics, Bob takes us back to the afternoon of Thursday, June 29, 1978, when he was summoned to the crime scene in Scottsdale, Arizona to identify his father’s body. He also shares memories of growing with Bob Crane as a father, including his formative years in Connecticut before Bob Crane moved to Los Angeles in 1956 to join KNX Radio and, of course, launch his acting career and eventually star in Hogan’s Heroes.  Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 615.5: From June 2015: Ed, Tony and Donna welcome Robert Crane, co-author of CRANE: Sex, Celebrity and My Father’s Unsolved Murder, a memoir of growing up with Bob Crane as a father before, during and after Hogan’s Heroes that also provides a first-person account and commentary of the investigation and prosecution of the Bob Crane murder case, from the perspective of the Crane family. Among other topics, Bob takes us back to the afternoon of Thursday, June 29, 1978, when he was summoned to the crime scene in Scottsdale, Arizona to identify his father’s body. He also shares memories of growing with Bob Crane as a father, including his formative years in Connecticut before Bob Crane moved to Los Angeles in 1956 to join KNX Radio and, of course, launch his acting career and eventually star in Hogan’s Heroes.  Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 615.7: From June 2015: Ed, Tony and Donna welcome Robert Crane, co-author of CRANE: Sex, Celebrity and My Father’s Unsolved Murder, a memoir of growing up with Bob Crane as a father before, during and after Hogan’s Heroes that also provides a first-person account and commentary of the investigation and prosecution of the Bob Crane murder case, from the perspective of the Crane family. Among other topics, Bob takes us back to the afternoon of Thursday, June 29, 1978, when he was summoned to the crime scene in Scottsdale, Arizona to identify his father’s body. He also shares memories of growing with Bob Crane as a father, including his formative years in Connecticut before Bob Crane moved to Los Angeles in 1956 to join KNX Radio and, of course, launch his acting career and eventually star in Hogan’s Heroes.  Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 614.1: Actor and author James Rosin joins Ed as TV Confidential pays tribute to George Maharis, the Brandoesque actor known around the world as Buz Murdock on Route 66 (CBS, 1960-1964). George Maharis passed away this past Wednesday, May 24 at age ninety-four. Jim interviewed Maharis for his book Route 66: The Television Series; he not only remained friends with the actor for the rest of his life, but spoke to Maharis just a few weeks before his death. Among other topics this segment, Jim clarifies some of the misinformation and innuendo surrounding Maharis’ departure from Route 66 in the middle of the third season. (Maharis himself addressed this subject when he appeared on TV Confidential in March 2012; we replay that interview in our second hour of this week’s program.) Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 614.2: James Rosin, author of Route 66: The Television Series and other books on popular culture, talks to Ed about the advice that Cary Grant gave George Maharis shorte before Maharis left Route 66 in the middle of the third season, after the actor had a near-fatal relapse of hepatitis. George Maharis passed away this past Wednesday, May 24 at age ninety-four. Jim not only interviewed Maharis for Route 66: The Television Series, but remained friends with the actor right up to his death. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 614.2a: Greg Ehrbar talks to Ed about the recent DVD release of Here Come the Brides (ABC, 1968-1970), the first hour-long comedy-drama Western from Screen Gems that put both David Soul and Bobby Sherman on the map. Topics this segment include why Here Come the Brides is often overlooked by such other Screen Gems shows of the 1960s and ’70s as Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Flying Nun, The Partridge Family, and The Monkees. Season 1 of Here Come the Brides is available on DVD through Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 614.3: Greg and Ed talk about the recording career of Bobby Sherman and how Here Comes the Brides (ABC, 1968-1970) is actually based on a true story. Season 2 of Here Come the Brides is available on DVD through Shout! Factory. Gangway, Lord: The Here Come the Brides Book is available through Bear Manor Media.  Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 614.4: From March 2012: Ed welcomes actor, singer, and painter George Maharis (Route 66, Exodus, The Most Deadly Game). George Maharis passed away this past Wednesday, May 24 at age ninety-four.  Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 614.5: From March 2012: George Maharis, in his own words, clarifies some of the misinformation surrounding his departure from Route 66 in the middle of the third season. George Maharis passed away this past Wednesday, May 24 at age ninety-four. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 614.6: From March 2012: Ed plays audio highlights of George Maharis’ appearance on the May 18, 1962 edition of PM East, the New York-based late night television talk show hosted by Mike Wallace, in which Maharis discussed what he may have done with his life had he not pursued acting, and why he was thinking of leaving Route 66 at the end of the third season. (Though he did not know it at the time he spoke to Wallace, Maharis would end up leaving the series in the middle of the third season, following a near-fatal release of hepatitis.) Audio courtesy of Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio, ATVAudio.com. George Maharis passed away this past Wednesday, May 24 at age ninety-four.   Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 613.1: TV Confidential remembers Milt Larsen, founder of The Magic Castle and the patriarch of magic and illusion around the world, with an encore presentation of a conversation that originally aired in October 2016. Milt Larsen passed away this past Sunday, May 28 at age ninety-two. At the time we spoke to Milt, he was about to celebrate the 60th anniversary of It's Magic, the star-studded live stage show that Milt produced for more than sixty years. Topics this segment include the early days of The Magic Castle, why the Castle is “three times bigger on in the inside than it is on the outside,” and why we continue to be enamored with magic. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices