TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

From February 2012: Television director Michael Preece (Dallas, The Streets of San Francisco, Barnaby Jones, The Young Riders, Walker: Texas Ranger) shares some memories of working with Barbara Bel Geddes on Dallas, and particularly the famous episode from 1982 in which Miss Ellie finally accepts that Jock has died.  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

TV Confidential wishes Willie Mays a happy 90th birthday by sharing this clip from a May 4, 1963 interview between New York Mets broadcaster Ralph Kiner and the Hall of Fame outfielder of the New York Giants and San Francisco Giants. Audio courtesy Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio. Mays’ memoir, 24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid, was released in 2020. 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

From May 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss Raymond Burr's first Emmy win for playing Perry Mason, which occurred on May 6, 1959, and the many ways in which Perry Mason set the standard for legal dramas on television.Practice, and L.A. Law. 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 537.1: Ed welcomes back David Hofstede, founder and publisher of the popular blog Comfort TV. David’s latest book, When Television Brought Us Together, is an often whimsical, but always thought-provoking look at Father Knows Best, The Brady Bunch, That Girl, The Andy Griffith Show and other favorite shows from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s and whether the values reflected by those shows still hold up in our ever-changing world today.  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 537.2: David Hofstede, founder and publisher of the popular blog Comfort TV, talks to Ed about the final episode of That Girl, the “Moo goo gai pan” episode of The Bob Newhart Show, and other favorites from the Comfort TV era. David’s latest book, When Television Brought Us Together, 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 537.3: Tony Figueroa talks to Ed about some of the experiences that he and Donna have had while going out on auditions as a couple. 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 537.4: Ed welcomes Martha Bolton, the first and only fulltime female staff writer that Hope ever hired, and the co-author, along with Linda Hope, Bob Hope’s daughter, of Dear Bob: Bob Hope's Wartime Correspondence with the G.I.s of World War II, a selection of some of the thousands of letters, postcards, and packages that Bob Hope received every day from 1941-1945 from the fighting soldiers of World War II. A time capsule that reveals just how important Hope's service was to our fighting men and women, Dear Bob also provides a window into the heart of Bob Hope, the person. 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 537.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with award-winning television writer/producer Jay Moriarty. Jay’s memoir, Honky in the House: Writing & Producing The Jeffersons, not only takes you inside the writing room of The Jeffersons (CBS, 1975-1985), but provides a capsule history of the so-called Golden Age of TV Sitcoms, as well as insight into why Norman Lear was, and is, one of the shrewdest and most courageous producers television will ever know. In this segment, Jay debunks some of the myths surrounding The Jeffersons (including the reason why Mike Evans left the series after the first season), plus he pays tribute to each of the various cast members. 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 537.6: Jay Moriarty, longtime writer and producer of The Jeffersons (CBS, 1975-1985), talks to Ed about why it is a disservice to describe the character of George Jefferson as a “black Archie Bunker.” Jay’s memoir, Honky in the House: Writing & Producing The Jeffersons, is available through 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

From June 2011: Music journalist Jason Draper, author of Prince: Chaos, Disorder and Revolution, joins Ed for a look at the life, career and music of Prince, as well as the artist's impact on MTV.  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

From June 2011: Music journalist Jason Draper, author of Prince: Chaos, Disorder and Revolution, talks to Ed about how the movie Purple Rain came to be developed. 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

From June 2011: Music journalist Jason Draper, author of Prince: Chaos, Disorder and Revolution, tells Ed how the iconic music artist came to adapt his famous stage name. 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 536.1: From October 2018: An encore presentation of our special ten-question Bob Crane TV Trivia Quiz featuring special guest emcee Robert Crane—the eldest son of Bob Crane, and an accomplished screenwriter, journalist, and author in his own right. Every question in the quiz touches on Bob Crane’s career, one way or another. 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 536.2: From October 2018: The final question of the Bob Crane TV Trivia Quiz with special guest emcee Robert Crane , plus Ed, Tony, and Donna talk to Bob about his latest book, Hollywood Plateau, a collection of candid interviews with the likes of Jimmy Kimmel, Bruce Dern, John Wayne, Teri Garr, Jack Nicholson, Cheech and Chong, Karen Black, Oscar de la Hoya, and other celebrities and newsmakers that Bob originally conducted circa 1974 to 2013, before the era of political correctness—a time when industry people still spoke their minds without self and organizational censorship. In many cases, Bob interviewed these celebrities before they became as famous as they are today. 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 536.3: From March 2019: Legendary Hollywood agent and talent manager Budd Burton Moss (Hollywood: Sometimes Reality is Better Than the Dream) and longtime television director Howard Storm (The Imperfect Storm: From Henry Street to Hollywood) join Ed for a roundtable discussion about All in the Family, The Bob Newhart Show, the “sneaky comedy” of Harold Gould, and the genius of Norman Lear.  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