TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 587.3: From 2015: Phil Gries plays more audio from the early broadcast career of Vin Scully, circa 1955 to 1965, as part of a special edition of the Sounds of Lost Television, including a clip of Scully emceeing the pre-game festivities on Aug. 28, 1957, the night when the Brooklyn Dodgers honored Carl Furillo before a game at Ebbets Field. Vin Scully passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 2 at the age of 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 587.4: From 2015: Phil Gries plays more audio highlights from the early broadcast career of Vin Scully as part of a special edition of the Sounds of Lost Television, including Scully’s sign-off on the last day of the 1957 baseball season, the Dodgers’ final year in Brooklyn before moving to Los Angeles. Vin Scully passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 2 at the age of 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 587.5: From 2015: Phil Gries plays more audio highlights from the early broadcast career of Vin Scully, including Scully’s call of the ninth inning of Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax’s perfect game on Sept. 9, 1965, plus a rarely heard celebrity softball game from November 1967 in which Scully shared the microphone with actor/comedian Jerry Lewis. Vin Scully passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 2 at the age of 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 587.6: Tony Figueroa talks to Ed about how Vin Scully was an integral part of the soundtrack of the lives of three generations of Dodgers fans in Los Angeles. Vin Scully passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 2 at the age of 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 586.1: Musician and historian Chuck Harter joins us for Part 2 of our special two-part tribute to the life and music of Elvis Presley. Chuck helped produced I, Elvis, a three-part look at the life and career of The King that originally aired in 1992 on the syndicated magazine series Hard Copy. As a result of that project, Chuck interviewed and got to know several members of the Memphis Mafia, including Charlie Hodge, Lamar Fike, Sonny West, Marty Lacker, Jerry Schilling, and Billy Smith. That gave him first-hand knowledge of Elvis from the people who knew him best. Chuck shares a few more of those stories in this segment, plus he performs “Love Me Tender.” 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 586.2: Chuck Harter and Ed discuss some of the many cover songs that Elvis Presley performed throughout his career, including “Love Letters (Straight from the Heart),” “Any Day Now,” “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Long Tall Sally,” and “Tomorrow is a Long Time.” 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 586.3: Musician and historian Chuck Harter discusses the differences between Elvis Presley: The Image and Elvis the man. Chuck helped produced I, Elvis, a three-part look at the life and career of The King that originally aired in 1992 on the syndicated magazine series Hard Copy. As a result of that project, Chuck interviewed and got to know several members of the Memphis Mafia, including Charlie Hodge, Lamar Fike, Sonny West, Marty Lacker, Jerry Schilling, and Billy Smith. 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 586.4: Musician and historian Chuck Harter shares a poignant memory of a scene he witnessed at a Washington, D.C. tavern on Aug. 16, 1977, the day that Elvis Presley died. Chuck also performs “For the Heart,” one of the last songs that Elvis recorded. 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 586.5: From December 2018: Ed welcomes game show legend Wink Martindale (Gambit, Debt, Tic Tac Dough, Winking at Life, “Deck of Cards”). Known for his long association with Elvis Presley, Wink was there at the very beginning: the night in July 1954 when Memphis, TN radio station WHBQ became the first station to play an Elvis record on the radio. Wink Martindale’s spoken word recording “Heavenly Child,” a tribute to Elvis Presley, is available through iTunes and wherever music is sold online. 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 586.6: From March 2017: Ed welcomes Emmy Award-winning producer and director Steve Binder (Elvis: The 1968 Comeback Special, Shindig, The T.A.M.I. Show, Fade UP: 26… The Movers and Shakers of Variety Television). 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 586.7: From March 2017: Emmy Award-winning producer and director Steve Binder (Elvis: The 1968 Comeback Special) shares with Ed the back story of “If I Can Dream,” the now-iconic closing number of the ’68 Comeback Special. 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 585.1: TV Confidential launches its fifteen season on the air with a return appearance by filmmaker, director, screenwriter, and novelist Julian David Stone. Julian’s latest novel, It's Alive!, is a page-turning work of historical fiction based on the actual events behind the scenes of the making of the original Frankenstein movie that Carl Laemmle Jr. produced for Universal Studios in 1931. It’s Alive is available in hardcover, as an eBook, and as an audiobook through Greenleaf Book Group and Amazon.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 585.2: Julian David Stone talks to Ed about the many ways in which wunderkind producer Carl Laemmle Jr. changed Universal Studios and the face of movies altogether in the 1930s. Julian’s latest novel, It's Alive!, captures the vibrant, exciting, and often chaotic days of 1930s Hollywood while also weaving in such actual figures as Bela Lugosi, director James Whale, legendary gossip columnist Louella Parsons, and Boris Karloff himself. It’s Alive is available in hardcover, as an eBook, and as an audiobook through Greenleaf Book Group and Amazon.com. Julian David Stone’s other books include No Cameras Allowed: My Career as an Outlaw Rock ’n’ Roll Photographer: 1981-1987, the amazing story of how Julian managed to sneak camera equipment into rock concerts over a six-year period during the mid 1980s (and, along the way, amassed a collection of more than 10,000 up-close-and-personal photographs of some of the biggest rock stars of the era), and The Strange Birth, Short life, and Sudden Death of Justice Girl, a historical novel based in the world of the 1950s live television that is currently being developed into a TV series. For more on Julian, visit JulianDavidStone.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 585.3: Greg Ehrbar discusses the recent DVD release of Dusty's Trail (Synd., 1973), the short-lived series starring Bob Denver and Forrest Tucker, and created by Sherwood Schwartz, that is best described as "Gilligan's Island Meets Wagon Train." 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 585.4: Greg and Ed discuss Kino Lorber’s Blu-ray release of The Outer Limits (ABC, 1963-1965). 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