TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 613.2: From October 2016: Milt Larsen, founder of The Magic Castle, talks to Ed about his background in television, which includes eighteen years as a writer for Ralph Edwards Productions, where he worked on both This is Your Life and Truth or Consequences and, in the case of the former show, often entertained such entertainment legends as Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, Ed Wynn, Mack Sennett, George Burns, and Jack Benny while Edwards’ production team set up the surprise for those guests. Also in this segment: audio highlights from Milt’s final public appearance (courtesy of both the Larsen family and B. Harlan Boll Public Relations), which took place at The Magic Castle in April 2023 at a special gathering that celebrated both the fiftieth anniversary of The Castle and Milt’s ninety-second birthday. Milt Larsen passed away this past Sunday, May 28. 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 613.3: From August 2015: TV Confidential continues its tribute to Milt Larsen, founder of The Magic Castle, with a look at Milt’s songwriting career, which included several collaborations with Academy Award-winning composer Richard Sherman. At the time this conversation originally aired, Milt and Richard had just re-released their two cult comedy albums, Bon Voyage, Titanic: Smash Flops! and Banned Barbershop Ballads. Milt Larsen passed away this past Sunday, May 28 at age ninety-two. 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 613.4: From August 2015: Academy Award-winning composer Richard Sherman and Milt Larsen, founder of The Magic Castle, talk to Ed about the re-release of their two cult comedy albums, Bon Voyage, Titanic: Smash Flops! and Banned Barbershop Ballads. Milt Larsen passed away this past Sunday, May 28 at age ninety-two. 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 613.5: Ed welcomes back actress and author Dee Wallace (E.T: The Extraterrestrial, The Howling, Cujo, Critters, Rob Zombie’s 3 from Hell, Born: Giving Birth to a New You). Dee currently guest stars in Fatal Attraction: The Series, the Paramount+ reimagining of the classic thriller of 1980s. She is also about to mark her 300th screen role as an actress. 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 613.6: Actress and author Dee Wallace (E.T: The Extraterrestrial, The Howling, Born: Giving Birth to a New You) talks to Ed about how her naivete about the acting industry actually worked in her favor when she first came to New York; and how she left her mark with casting directors when she first came to Hollywood with the help of chocolate chip cookies. Dee currently guest stars in Fatal Attraction: The Series, now streaming on Paramount+ 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 612.3: Greg Ehrbar reviews the Archive of American Television DVD release of The Barbara Stanwyck Show (NBC, 1960-1961), the Emmy Award-winning anthology series that Stanwyck hosted and produced in conjunction with Desilu Studios. Stanwyck starred in all but four of the thirty-six episodes in the series, usually playing strong, independent women (not unlike who Stanwyck was in real life). The Barbara Stanwyck Show is available on DVD in two volumes; most episodes are also available for streaming on demand on various platforms.  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 612.4: Greg Ehrbar discusses the recent DVD release of The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (CBS, 1971-1972), a spin-off of The Flintstones (featuring a pre-All in the Family Sally Struthers) that is best described as “The Archies Meets The Flintstones Meets I Love Lucy (and, to some degree, Bewitched and the “Beach Party” movies).” Other DVD/streaming titles discussed this segment include I, Yabba Dabba Doo, Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs, and Cave Kids 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 612.5: Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Anne Archer (Fatal Attraction, Patriot Games, Short Cuts, Clear and Present Danger) talks to Ed about her approach to playing such larger-than-life characters and figures as Mrs. Robinson in the London stage production of The Graduate, Jane Fonda (in the one-woman show The Trial of Jane Fonda), and, most recently, Norris Church Mailer (the sixth and last wife of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Norman Mailer) in A Ticket to the Circus, and why Norris is probably the closest to Anne personally of all the characters she has played on stage, film, and television. Written by Bonnie Culver, produced and directed by Michelle Danner, and based on Mailer’s memoir of the same name, A Ticket to the Circus runs Thursdays through Sundays as a virtual theatre performance through Sunday, June 25. For tickets and more information, go to eventbrite.com/e/ticket-to-the-circus-tickets-641606100117 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 612.6: Oscar-nominated actress Anne Archer (Fatal Attraction, Patriot Games) talks to Ed about how her mother, actress Marjorie Lord (Make Room for Daddy), taught her the importance of balancing family and career. She also shares a few memories about some of her early work in television, and tells us what her friend Howard Cosell said on the day of her wedding to producer Terry Jastrow. Anne stars as Norris Church Mailer, the sixth and last wife of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Norman Mailer, in A Ticket to the Circus, a one-woman show based on Mailer’s memoir of the same name. A Ticket to the Circus runs Thursdays through Sundays as a virtual theatre performance through Sunday, June 25. For tickets and more information, go to eventbrite.com/e/ticket-to-the-circus-tickets-641606100117 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 611.1: Ed welcomes singer/actress Gisela Adisa (Kaleidoscope, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Ridley Jones, Lights Out: Nat King Cole). Gisela currently stars as John Adams in the national tour of 1776, a reimagined production of the Tony Award-winning musical that features an all-female cast that also reflects multiple representations of race, gender, and ethnicity. 1776 will be coming to Seattle, Houston, Nashville, Washington, D.C. and several other cities throughout the summer, with more cities and dates to come. For tickets and more information, go to 1776Musical.com. 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 611.2: Gisela Adisa, the actress who stars as John Adams in the national tour of 1776, talks to Ed about playing Eartha Kitt in the stage production of Lights Out: Nat King Cole and how the ritual Gisela did as a young girl before watching The Muppet Show every week with her family helped fuel her desire to pursue a career in musical theatre. 1776 will be coming to Seattle, Houston, Nashville, Washington, D.C. and several other cities throughout the summer, with more cities and dates to come. For tickets and more information, go to 1776Musical.com. 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 611.3: Tony and Donna join Ed for a remembrance of Jerry Springer, the award-winning television personality who passed away Thursday, Apr. 27 at age seventy-nine. Though known to national TV audiences as the Ringmaster of his raucus, controversial, and often confrontational syndicated show, if you have roots in Cincinnati—as Donna and her family do—the Jerry Springer you’ll remember is quite different, given his roots in Cincinnati politics and his distinguished, multi-Emmy Award-winning career as a local TV newscaster. 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 611.4: Ed welcomes television icons Patrick Duffy (Dallas, Step by Step, The Bold and the Beautiful) and Linda Purl (Happy Days, Matlock, The Office). Patrick and Linda are co-founders of Duffy’s Dough, a company that shows you how to make your own sourdough bread, sourdough pizza dough, sourdough cinnamon rolls, and many other homemade goodies, all from scratch—and all with the help of a dehydrated sourdough starter kit that originated with Patrick’s family more than seventy years ago. Topics this segment include how the story of Duffy's Dough begins with how Linda and Patrick first became a couple—and the role that actor Richard Thomas played in bringing them both together. The Duffy’s Dough Sourdough Starter and Essentials Kit is available for a limited time and includes dehydrated starter, flour, sugar, measuring spoons and cups, apron, potholder, scraper, a French rolling pin, and a recipe book, while the Solo Dehydrated Sourdough Starter Kit includes dehydrated starter and a recipe book. All net proceeds from sales of Duffy’s Dough starter kits will support Patrick and Linda’s various charitable causes (which include food scarcity, education, and the environment), while Patrick personally made each flake of dehydrated starter that went into the first 1,000 kits made. For more details, go to DuffysDough.com.   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 611.5: Tony, Donna, and Ed continue their remembrance of Jerry Springer, the Emmy Award-winning television personality who passed away Thursday, Apr. 27 at age seventy-nine. Topics this segment include a discussion of how Springer, off-camera, was a genuinely honest person who was also genuinely flawed. 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 610.1: Ed welcomes actress, model, singer, and bass guitarist Natasha Blasick (Paul T. Goldman, All-Star Weekend, Moms Rising, Karaganda, Immortality). Originally from Odesa, Ukraine, Natasha also performs with her husband, Martin Blasick, in a band called Snowflakes; their single "Ukraine Will Prevail," featuring a driving bass solo by Natasha, hopes to serve as an anthem for Natasha’s home country. 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