TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

From August 2012: Dan Farren joins Tony, Donna, and Ed for a look back at Jack Paar's five-year tenure as host of The Tonight Show, which began on July 29, 1957, and why his legacy should not be limited to the "water closet joke" controversy of February 1960. 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 November 2011: Ed welcomes James Rosin, author of The Streets of San Francisco: A Quinn Martin TV Series, everything you wanted to know about the long-running ABC police drama starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas. Quinn Martin himself believed that The Streets of San Francisco was the best show that he ever produced. Topics this segment include the chemistry and harmony between series stars Karl Malden and Michael Douglas; the extent to which series producer John Wilder worked every week to humanize the guest characters (even those who were villains); and why the Q in “Quinn Martin Productions” always stood for “quality.” 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 November 2011: James Rosin, author of The Streets of San Francisco: A Quinn Martin TV Series, talks to Ed about how Karl Malden immersed himself in every aspect of production; how Malden took a theatre actor’s approach to playing Mike Stone; and the difference in Malden’s on-screen rapport with Michael Douglas and Richard Hatch. 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 November 2011: James Rosin, author of The Streets of San Francisco: A Quinn Martin TV Series, tells Ed the back story of “Mask of Death,” the controversial episode starring John Davidson; how The Streets of San Francisco differed from Poor, Poor Ophelia, the novel on which the series was based; and why the city of San Francisco was the “third star” of the 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

From November 2011: Ed welcomes James Rosin, author of The Streets of San Francisco: A Quinn Martin TV Series, everything you wanted to know about the long-running ABC police drama starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas. 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 August 2012: Ed welcomes actor and author Barry Livingston (My Three Sons, The Importance of Being Ernie). Topics this segment include what it was like for Barry to work with his brother, Stanley Livingston, every day on the set on My Three Sons, plus he shares a few memories of series star Don Grady. 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 August 2012: Actor and author Barry Livingston (My Three Sons, The Importance of Being Ernie) discusses some of his film and stage roles before and after My Three Sons, including working with Paul Newman, Martin Landau, John Cassavetes, and (indirectly) Peter Falk. 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 August 2012: Actor and author Barry Livingston (My Three Sons, The Importance of Being Ernie) talks to Ed about working with Charlie Sheen and Robert Downey Jr., as well as learning how to drive a stick shift on the fly while filming an episode of The Streets of San Francisco.  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 April 2019: Barry Livingston (My Three Sons, The Importance of Being Ernie) shares a few memories of his encounters with Lucille Ball on the Desilu backlot in between production of My Three Sons, including the time when Lucy saved Barry from the wrath of her then-husband, Desilu executive Gary Morton. 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 July 2013: Bob Mills, longtime writer for comedian Bob Hope, takes listeners inside the writers room of a typical Bob Hope special (including how many jokes it took to put together a typical Hope monologue), and how closely Hope worked with the director and editor in post-production of the monologue. Bob's book, The Laugh Makers, not only provides great insight into Bob Hope (the comic and the person), but takes you behind the series of the final decade of the network TV variety show, while also paying tribute to the “gag men” and “gag women” who made it happen. 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 July 2013: Comedy writer Bob Mills talks to Ed about how his experience writing for The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts taught him the art of putting words in the mouths of famous people. Bob’s book, The Laugh Makers, provides great insight into Bob Hope while also paying homage to the last decades of network variety shows.  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 July 2013: Comedy writer Bob Mills joins Ed for Part 2 of our conversation about Bob Hope. Bob’s book, The Laugh Makers, not only provides great insight into Bob Hope, but takes you behind the scenes of the last decades of the network variety show while also paying tribute to the “Gag Men” and “Gag Women” who made it happen.  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 August 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the film career of Bugs Bunny. The iconic Warner Bros. character made his first official screen appearance on July 27, 1940 in the Tex Avery cartoon A Wild Hare. 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 502.1: Tony and Donna join Ed as TV Confidential dedicates its two-hour program this week to the life and career of Carl Reiner, the Grammy Award-winning and multiple Emmy Award-winning actor, writer, producer, director, author, philanthropist and humanitarian who passed away on Monday, June 29 at age 98. Topics include Reiner’s humanity, his service in the Pacific as a member of the Army Entertainment section during World War II, and the many ways in which The Dick Van Dyke Show set the standard for the modern-day sitcom. 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 502.2: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss Carl Reiner’s lifelong friendship with Mel Brooks, which began when they wrote for and performed with Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows (NBC, 1950-1954) and continued for the next seventy years.  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