TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 513.4: Music and TV historian Geoffrey Mark talks to Ed about why Tom Kennedy, Jack Narz and Bill Cullen were all great communicators as broadcasters and game show hosts. Geoff knew Tom Kennedy and Jack Narz for more than twenty years. Tom Kennedy passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 7 at age 93. 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 513.5: Ed welcomes actor, author, magician, and adventurer Rich Manley. Rich is the host, producer, writer and director of Culture Shock: Bridging Cultures Through Magic, a new series on Tubi that attempts to communicate the energy, humility, and compassion of people coming together through the shared experience of magic. Each edition of Culture Shock not only features dangerous stunts, exploration, tests of will, and illusions, but draws on Rich’s love of travel and his diverse background, which includes tutelage in the martial arts under Shaolin Monks; his interest in the films and career of Bruce Lee; and the wisdom of his grandfather, a world traveler who instilled in Rich his innate curiosity, his drive for excellence, and his skills in sleight of hand. 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 513.6: Actor and magician Rich Manley talks to Ed about the upcoming occult thriller Angel One Eye; working with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in the movie Night and Day; and the eternal appeal of illusionist Harry Houdini. Rich is the host, producer, writer and director of Culture Shock: Bridging Cultures Through Magic, a new series on Tubi that attempts to communicate the energy, humility, and compassion of people coming together through the shared experience of magic. 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 February 2014: Actor and author Michael Dante (Star Trek, Custer, Westbound, Winterhawk, Winterhawk's Land, The Naked Kiss, Somebody Up There Likes Me, From Hollywood to Michael Dante Way) talks to Ed about working with Elvis Presley in Kid Galahad (and why that movie was among The King's all-time favorites); how producer David Weisbart cast Michael as Chief Crazy Horse in The Legend of Custer as a result of his performance in Kid Galahad; and how producer Charles B. Pierce cast Michael in the title role of Winterhawk as a result of his performance in Custer.  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: Marion Ross, the actress known around the world as Mrs. C on Happy Days, talks to Ed, Tony, and Donna about how the cast of Happy Days bonded together by playing softball, and how the Happy Days softball team toured to such places as Okinawa and East Germany. 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 December 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember Tiny Tim's wedding to Victoria Budinger (a.k.a. Miss Vicki), which was nationally televised on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on Dec. 17, 1969. More than 21.1 million viewers tuned in that night, making it the highest-rated Tonight Show broadcast at the time. (Carson's highest-rated broadcast, of course, was the May 22, 1992 edition of The Tonight Show, his final night as host, when an estimated 55 million U.S. viewers tuned in.) 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 2011: TV Confidential celebrates what would have been Johnny Carson's 95th birthday with this clip from a special edition of The Sounds of Lost Television featuring rarely heard audio from The King of Late Night's first ten years as host of The Tonight Show. This segment includes a clip from the Oct. 1, 1963 edition of The Tonight Show, Carson's first anniversary show. Guests that night included singer/actress Abbe Lane and then-New York mayor Robert Wagner.  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 512.1: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome back Stan Goldman, tenured professor of criminal law and evidence law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, and a longtime legal analyst for such national TV, radio and print venues as CNBC, CBS, King World, Fox News Channel, and the New York Daily News. Given the recent confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, many questions remain as to how the realities of replacing the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court may affect the 2020 presidential election and the landscape of our country in the years to come. Stan helps us sort through these issues (including some surprising options that have yet to be addressed), as well as whether Ginsburg’s death may have overshadowed her many accomplishments on the court. 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 512.2: Stan Goldman, tenured professor of criminal law and evidence law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, provides analysis of some of the various issues following the death of Supreme Court Justice Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, including the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill Ginsburg’s seat, and the implications that could have on both the 2020 presidential election and the landscape of our country in the years to come. Also the founding director of the Loyola Center for the Study of Law and Genocide, Stan is the author of Left to the Mercy of a Rude Stream: The Bargain That Broke Adolf Hitler and Saved My Mother and the legal article “Breaking in Announcement Statutes,” the latter of which is recognized by both West and Deering’s as reference authority for the analysis of the U.S. and California knock and announce statutes. 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 512.3: From May 2013: Ed welcomes Jennifer Armstrong, television historian and author of such books as Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted and All The Brilliant Minds Who Helped Make The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic.  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 512.4: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome back Ed Asner, the eight-time Emmy Award-winning actor known around the world as Lou Grant both on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and his own hour-long spinoff series, Lou Grant. The 2020-2021 television marks the fiftieth anniversary of the premiere of the Moore show and, by extension, the Lou Grant character. Ed Asner’s memoir, Son of a Junkman: My Life from the West Bottoms of Kansas City to the Bright Lights of Hollywood, not only pays tribute to each of his cast members on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, but reveals the persons on whom he based his portrayal of Lou Grant. 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 512.5: Actor and author Ed Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant, Son of a Junkman) talks to Ed, Tony, and Donna about “Chuckles Bites the Dust,” arguably the most famous episode of the Moore show; how Lou Grant brought many viewers into the world of print journalism; and who Ed would like to see cast as himself, if a movie were made about his life. Son of a Junkman includes many stories about Ed’s sixty-year career, including the challenges that he faced as president of the Screen Actors Guild; the backlash he faced from the El Salvador controversy in 1982, and the effect that had not only on Lou Grant, but his acting career in general; and the influence that Ed’s father continues to have on his life. 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

Part 3 of our discussion with Stan Goldman, tenured professor of criminal law and evidence law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, and the founding director of the Loyola Center for the Study of Law and Genocide.  The son of a Holocaust survivor, Stan Goldman is also the author of Left to the Mercy of a Rude Stream: The Bargain That Broke Adolf Hitler and Saved My Mother, the remarkable but true story of how Nazi interior minister Heimrich Himmler spared the life of Stan’s mother, Malka Repstein, along with one thousand other Jewish women, in 1945—and how the saving of those lives ultimately led to the demise of Adolf Hitler. A page-turning narrative about a previously untold moment in world history, Stan’s book is also incredibly timely, given the political climate of 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

From February 2013: Actor and author James McEachin (Tenafly, First Monday, Tell Me a Tale) talks to Ed about some of his many TV guest appearances in the 1970s, including working with Jack Webb, James Garner and David Janssen. 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 October 2010: Actor and author Frank Bank (Leave It to Beaver, Call Me Lumpy) shares a few thoughts on the eternal appeal of Leave It to Beaver. This conversation was recorded on Oct. 16, 2010, a few hours after Barbara Billingsley passed away that day at age 94. Stu Shostak of Stu's Show co-hosts this segment.  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