TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 636.2: From January 2014: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio plays rarely heard audio highlights of how network TV news covered the arrival of The Beatles in the music scene, both in London and in America, in the months prior to The Fab Four’s historic first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on Feb. 9, 1964. This segment includes a clip from Mike Wallace’s report on the Feb. 7, 1964 edition of The CBS Morning News that covered the group’s arrival at JFK International Airport; Eric Severeid’s commentary on the Feb. 9, 1964 edition of The CBS Sunday Night Late News with Harry Reasoner; and a clip from WNPA Radio host Barry Gray that was originally broadcast on Feb. 10, 1964. The last two clips particularly illustrated the Generation Gap in terms of public reception of The Beatles at the time. Audio courtesy ATVAudio.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 636.3: Legendary record producer, music manager, author, journalist, and documentary filmmaker Simon Napier-Bell joins Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter for a look back at the music scene in London during the Swinging Sixties. Simon’s books on the music industry include Black Vinyl, White Powder, Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom, I’m Coming to Take You to Lunch, and You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, a rollicking look at Simon’s early career in the music industry that also bears the title of the international hit record that Simon and Vicki Wyckham wrote together in 1966 for Dusty Springfield. Simon’s latest film, The Real George Michael, is available now for viewing on demand on Amazon Prime and other platforms across the U.S. and Canada. 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 636.4: Legendary record producer, music manager, author, journalist, and documentary filmmaker Simon Napier-Bell talks to Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter about his years managing Diane & Nicky (the first interracial pop duo in music history) and John’s Children and the events that led to Wham!’s historic 10-day visit to China in 1985. You can read Simon’s Substack column for free at Substack.com/@simonnapierbell   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 636.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Barbara Feldon, the actress known around the world as Agent 99 on Get Smart. Barbara’s new book, Getting Smarter: A Memoir, is an intimate look at her life and her romance with Lucien Feldon Verdeaux, the charming European to whom she was married at the time she began filming Get Smart, but who turned out to be not quite the man he had claimed to be. Among other topics in this segment: Barbara answers email questions from listeners about her appearances on Cheers, Mad About You, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and the motion picture Fitzwilly. Both Getting Smarter: A Memoir and Barbara’s first book, Living Alone and Loving It, are available at BarbaraFeldon.com and at 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 636.6: Actress and author Barbara Feldon (Get Smart, Getting Smarter: A Memoir, Living Alone and Loving It) shares a few memories of her years co-starring with Don Adams on Get Smart. Also in this segment: A clip from our January 2013 conversation with Barbara in which she discusses her many appearances on the various Pyramid game shows and her friendship with Pyramid creator and producer Bob Stewart. Both Getting Smarter: A Memoir and Living Alone and Loving It are available at BarbaraFeldon.com and at 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 635.1: From January 2014: A special edition of This Week in TV History that was originally recorded on Jan. 16, 2014, a day that marked the passing of two television icons: Dave Madden (Reuben Kinkaid on The Partridge Family) and Russell Johnson (The Professor on Gilligan’s Island). In this segment, Tony, Donna, and Ed remember Russell Johnson, including a look at some of his other notable TV roles, such as his appearances on The Twilight Zone. 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 635.2: From January 2014: Tony and Donna join Ed for a fond remembrance of actor Dave Madden (Reuben Kinkaid on The Partridge Family), including a look at his voiceover career and his other contributions to television, such as his appearances on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In and The Hollywood Palace. 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 635.3: Greg Ehrbar joins Ed for a look at Get Smart (NBC/CBS, 1965-1970), the long-running spy satire starring Don Adams and Barbara Feldon and co-created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, including the excellent complete series DVD box set, produced by Paul Brownstein and Susan Kesler for Time-Life, that was designed specifically with Get Smart fans in mind. Greg describes the box set as “Barbara Feldon Presents Get Smart,” not only because she introduces every episode of every season (and provides many audio commentaries throughout), but because it makes you feel as if Barbara is watching the entire series with you. 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 635.4: Greg and Ed continue their look at the various home entertainment releases of Get Smart (NBC/CBS, 1965-1970), including the made-for-TV reunion movie Get Smart, Again! (ABC, 1989, available on Amazon Prime), the 2008 reimagining starring Steve Carell, and the ill-fated 1979 feature motion picture The Nude Bomb. Other topics this segment include a look at some of Don Adams’ television work before and after Get Smart, including his appearances on The Bill Dana Show, his starring roles in the animated series Inspector Gadget and Tennessee Tuxedo, his short-lived series The Partners (NBC, 1971), and his special A Couple of Dons (also starring Don Rickles). Each season of the original Get Smart is available both on both DVD and streaming on demand, while the excellent complete series DVD box set is available at Amazon. 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 635.5: Ed welcomes back Barbara Feldon, the actress known around the world as Agent 99 on Get Smart. Barbara’s new book, Getting Smarter: A Memoir, is an intimate look at her life and her romance with Lucien Feldon Verdeaux, the charming European to whom she was married at the time she began filming Get Smart, but who turned out to be not quite the man he had claimed to be. Topics this segment include what first sparked Barbara’s attraction to Lucien, and how her relationship with Lucien paved the way for her appearances on The $64,000 Question. Both Getting Smarter: A Memoir and Barbara’s first book, Living Alone and Loving It, are available at BarbaraFeldon.com and at 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 635.6: Actress and author Barbara Feldon (Get Smart, Getting Smarter: A Memoir, Living Alone and Loving It) talks to Ed about how the energy of New York City compares to the “slow metabolism” of L.A., the excitement of being a model in New York in the early 1960s, and how models like her were aware of the power and influence that advertising agencies on Madison Avenue had at the time. Both Getting Smarter: A Memoir and Living Alone and Loving It are available at BarbaraFeldon.com and at 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 634.4: Greg and Ed continue their conversation about The FBI (ABC, 1965-1974), the long-running Sunday night drama starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. that was also Quinn Martin’s longest-running network TV series. Topics this segment include the controversial casting change in the ninth season (Shelly Novack replacing William Reynolds), as well as the how formula of the series more or less stayed the same, despite changing mores and fashions. All nine seasons of The FBI are available on DVD through Warner Bros. Archive and are available for streaming on demand through Tubi, while The FBI is shown weekdays on The Warner Bros. Live Channel on Tubi. The FBI Dossier, a behind the scenes history of The FBI on television, is available from Black Pawn Press. 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 634.5: Ed welcomes back Alison Arngrim, the award-winning actress known around the world as Nellie Oleson, “the No. 1 bitch in TV history” (according to Vanity Fair) and the bane of Laura Ingalls’ existence for seven years on Little House on the Prairie (NBC, 1974-1983). Alison will bring her world-renowned one-woman show, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch,to the historic Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W. Sierre Madre Blvd., in Sierra Madre, CA for six performances only, Friday 1/19 through Sunday 1/28. Go to SierraMadrePlayhouse.org for tickets and more information. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcastedition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com orclick the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 634.6: Actress, author, comedienne, and radio host Alison Arngrim (Little House on the Prairie, Fifty for 50: The Little House Podcast) talks to Ed about how she landed the role of Nellie Oleson on Little House; why Little House continues to have something for everyone; and working with Michael Landon, both as an actor and as a director Alison will bring her world-renowned one-woman show, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, to the historic Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W. Sierre Madre Blvd., in Sierra Madre, CA for six performances only, Friday 1/19 through Sunday 1/28. Go to SierraMadrePlayhouse.org for tickets and more information. 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 633.2: Greg Ehrbar joins Ed for a look at The FBI (ABC, 1965-1974), the long-running Sunday night drama starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. that was also Quinn Martin’s longest-running network TV series. Topics this segment include a look at the many famous guest stars that appeared on The FBI and how director Quentin Tarantino helped regenerate public interest in The FBI by incorporating footage of the first-season episode “All the Streets are Silent” into his Oscar-winning movie Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019). All nine seasons of The FBI are available on DVD through Warner Bros. Archive and are available for streaming on demand through Tubi, while The FBI is shown weekdays on The Warner Bros. Live Channel on Tubi. The FBI Dossier, a behind the scenes history of The FBI on television, is available from Black Pawn Press. 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