TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 595.2: Actor, author, and comedian Nick Santa Maria (The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster) joins Greg Ehrbar for the first of two DVD and streaming reports that focuses on recent Blu-ray titles featuring Abbott and Costello, including the digitally remastered limited edition 70th anniversary re-release of Jack and the Beanstalk (1952). Nick is the co-author of The Annotated Abbott and Costello: A Complete Viewer’s Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films, a new book that becomes available in December from McFarland Books. 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 595.3: Joyce Bulifant joins Ed to help us pay tribute to Ron Masak, the actor best known to TV audiences for playing Sheriff Mort Metzger on Murder, She Wrote (CBS, 1984-1996). Ron Masak passed away last Thursday, Oct. 20 at the age of eighty-six. Joyce co-starred with Ron on Love Thy Neighbor (ABC, 1973), plus they worked together on many charitable functions in the years after that show. 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 595.4: From October 2010: Actor Ron Masak (Murder, She Wrote, Ice Station Zebra, Harper Valley PTA, Second Effort) talks to Ed about the one-man show about Mark Twain that he wrote and starred in; his passion for baseball, including how Ron was offered a contract to play for the Chicago White Sox after being scouted by Major League Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby; and working with Patrick McGoohan in both Ice Station Zebra and Columbo. At the time we spoke to Ron, he had just released his memoirs, I've Met All My Heroes from A to Z, a heartfelt tribute to some of the many people from all walks of life that Ron met in his career who had an impact not only on his life, but the world in general—people such as Neil Armstrong, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Roy Campanella, Joe DiMaggio, Rock Hudson, Cary Grant, Audie Murphy, Angela Lansbury, Elvis Presley, Alan Shepard, John Wayne, NFL Hall of Fame coach Vince Lombardi, legendary Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda, country western artist Garth Brooks, and General Norman Schwartzkopf. Ron Masak passed away last Thursday, Oct. 20 at the age of eighty-six. 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 596.5: From October 2010: Actor and author Ron Masak talks to Ed about working with NFL Hall of Fame coach Vince Lombardi in Second Effort, the acclaimed motivational film about salesmanship that is reportedly the most-watched non-theatrical film in history, and some of the lessons that Ron learned from Coach Lombardi that continued to guide his life. Ron’s memoir, I've Met All My Heroes from A to Z, pays tribute to some of the many people from all walks of life that Ron met in his career and who continued to impact his life. Ron Masak passed away last Thursday, Oct. 20 at the age of eighty-six. Also in this segment: A brief tribute to Tony Award winner and Disney Legend Angela Lansbury (Murder She Wrote, Mame, Bednobs and Broomsticks, Beauty and the Beast). Angela Lansbury and Ron Masak starred together on Murder She Wrote; Ron pays tribute to her in his memoirs. 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 596.6: Actress, author, and philanthropist Joyce Bulifant (Match Game, The Happiest Millionaire, Love Thy Neighbor, My Four Hollywood Husbands) shares a few more memories of working with Ron Masak, plus she talks about the tribute to stage legend Helen Hayes, her onetime mother-in-law, that she performed in October in Nyack, New York. 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 594.1: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome David Van Deusen, writer and producer of The Dick Van Dyke Show: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary, a fully authorized, feature length documentary that provides an oral history of The Dick Van Dyke Show, as told by both the original cast and crew of Van Dyke show, as well as members of the second generation Van Dyke show family, notable guest stars, and many others. David’s primary goal for making the documentary is to introduce The Dick Van Dyke Show to a new generation of viewers while also raising funds for St. Jude Children’s Hospital. The Dick Van Dyke Show: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary is available for viewing on demand, for free, on the David Van Deusen YouTube channel. If you enjoyed the documentary, and are so inclined, please consider making a donation to St. Jude’s Hospital. #DVDS60th 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 594.2: David Van Deusen, writer and producer of The Dick Van Dyke Show: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary, discusses the new exhibit dedicated to Carl Reiner that recently opened at the National Comedy Center, including the role that David played in donating the “Alan Brady” desk that Reiner used on The Dick Van Dyke Show. David’s documentary, The Dick Van Dyke Show: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary, includes archival audio from Sheldon Leonard, Carl Reiner, Lucas Reiner, Christian Van Dyke, Dick Van Dyke, Robert Levine (Mary Tyler Moore’s widower), Mary Tyler Moore, Larry Mathews, Rose Marie, Georgiana “Noopy” Rodriguez (Rose Marie’s daughter), Gregory Amsterdam, Morey Amsterdam, Nora Epstein (daughter of Ann Morgan Guilbert), Frank Adaimo, John Rich, Bill Persky, Ernest Chambers, Earle Hagen, and many others, plus brand-new interviews from such notable Dick Van Dyke Show guest stars as Barbara Bain, Barry Livingston, Bernie Kopell, Gloria Roberts, Larrs Jackson, Jackie Joseph, Jamie Farr, and Jeremy Clyde of Chad and Jeremy. 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 594.3: David Van Deusen, writer and producer of The Dick Van Dyke Show: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary, talks to Ed, Tony, and Donna about why “It May Look Like a Walnut” is as close to a “perfect episode” as The Dick Van Dyke Show can be, and how Carl Reiner overcame a mild objection from Sheldon Leonard to get the episode made.  The Dick Van Dyke Show: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary is available for viewing on demand, for free, on the David Van Deusen YouTube channel. If you enjoyed the documentary, and are so inclined, please consider making a donation to St. Jude’s Hospital. #DVDS60th 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 594.4: David Van Deusen, writer and producer of The Dick Van Dyke Show: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary, talks to Ed, Tony, and Donna about why every episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show is a “half-hour show crammed full of little moments.” The Dick Van Dyke Show: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary is available for viewing on demand, for free, on the David Van Deusen YouTube channel. If you enjoyed the documentary, and are so inclined, please consider making a donation to St. Jude’s Hospital. #DVDS60th 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 594.5: From September 2012: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome Rose Marie, the singer/actress known to three generations of television viewers as Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show and for her many appearances on the original Hollywood Squares. 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 594.6: From September 2012: Rose Marie talks to Ed, Tony, and Donna about how she discovered actor/comedian Tim Conway in the early 1960s and how she came to join the cast of Hollywood Squares in 1966. 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 593.1: Ed welcomes Martin Harris, one of the cast members of Amsterdam, the star-studded 1930s murder mystery that also features Christian Bale, Timothy Olyphant, Chris Rock, and Robert DeNiro. Martin discusses his experience of sharing screen time in Amsterdam with his longtime idol, DeNiro, plus he tells Ed the story of how NBA superstar Kobe Bryant encouraged him to move to Hollywood and pursue an acting career. Amsterdam is now playing in theaters everywhere. 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 568.6: From February 2022: Grammy-nominated comedienne, actress, Love Goddess, and Aphrodite of the Accordion Judy Tenuta talks to Ed about her successful battle against stage 4 ovarian cancer; her latest video, Kicking Cancer’s Ass, which you can enjoy for free on the Judy Tenuta YouTube channel; and the resurgence of interest in Desperation Boulevard, the comedy/satire from 1998 in which Judy plays a former child star who will do anything get her name back in the spotlight. Judy Tenuta passed away on Thursday, Oct. 6 at age seventy-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 568.7: From February 2022: Grammy-nominated comedienne and actress Judy Tenuta discusses some of her comic influences, which include George Carlin and Joan Rivers, as well as who makes her laugh today. Judy’s latest video, Kicking Cancer’s Ass, has become a battle cry for those who are battling cancer, COVID, and other serious health issues, as well as feelings of isolation. Judy Tenuta passed away on Thursday, Oct. 6 at the age of seventy-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 593.4: A return appearance by Michael Learned, the four-time Emmy Award-winning actress known around the world as Olivia Walton, the matriarch of the Walton family. Calendar year 2022 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the premiere of The Waltons on CBS. Michael is also one of the stars of Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, the new Netflix series by Ryan Murphy that is reportedly one of Netflix’s most watched shows ever, with nearly 300 viewing hours in its second week alone. 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