TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

From May 2011: Phil Gries joins Ed in the studio for a special edition of The Sounds of Lost Television featuring rarely heard audio highlights from Johnny Carson’s first ten years as host of The Tonight Show, including a clip from the first anniversary program of Oct. 1, 1963. Most of the tapes from the first decade of the Tonight Show broadcasts were erased by NBC, so this is a rare opportunity to hear the King of Late Night in his early days. 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 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember May 22, 1992, the night of Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of The Tonight 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

TVC 493.8: From April 2011: Phil Gries remembers Here’s Hollywood, an NBC daytime talk show from the early 1960s, as part of The Sounds of Lost 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 493.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with three-time Emmy nominated writer/producer Phil Savenick, curator of TheHistoryofTV.com, a virtual museum devoted to television that not only celebrates the life and career of Philo T. Farnsworth, the man who invented television when he was age fourteen, but includes such authentic artifacts as Farnsworth’s original chalk drawing for the first television camera and the most impressive collection of vintage TV sets you will ever see. In many respects, these early model sets serve as a window into the formative years of television itself. This segment was recorded on location in January 2020, before the national lockdown.  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 493.2: Via remote from TheHistoryofTV.com: Phil Savenick provides Ed with a guided tour of his collection of vintage television sets, which includes the very first TV set sold by RCA, an early French model (with wings), and a rarely seen Pilot radio canopy TV—the set whose screen was so small, mothers across America warned their children not to sit too close to it “or else you’ll burn your eyes out.” This segment was recorded in January 2020, before the national lockdown. 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 493.3: Via remote from TheHistoryofTV.com: Phil Savenick shares the back stories of some of the mementos from the Golden Age of Television that are on display at his virtual museum, including the first remote control clicker, an autographed cigar butt from Milton Berle, a silver dollar from Jack Benny, and an authentic replica of the hat that Mary Tyler Moore tossed in the air at the end of the opening sequence of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. This segment was recorded in January 2020, before the national lockdown. 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 493.4: From May 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the tragic murder of actor/comedian Phil Hartman (Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, NewsRadio) in May 1998 as part of This Week in TV History. 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 493.5: From May 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed revisit May 20, 2007, the night on which The Simpsons aired its 400th episode. Topics include how The Simpsons was originally considered controversial when it premiered in 1989, only to be seen as mainstream with age, as well as how the show’s number of episodes ranks with other long-running series.  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 493.6: Ed welcomes film and TV Western actor Don Collier (The High Chaparral, The Outlaws) and radio host, documentary film maker, and pioneer TV casting director Susan McCray. Susan produced Don Collier: Confessions of an Acting Cowboy, a new DVD based on Don’s popular one-man show, and Kent McCray: Laughter, Love and Television, an excellent documentary about the life and career of the widely respected and much deloved producer and unit production manager personal story arc in television parallels the history of the first forty years of TV itself. You can order Don Collier: Confessions of an Acting Cowboy directly by emailing discmasters.fulfullment@gmail.com or through his website, DonCollierActingCowboy.com. Kent McCray: Laughter, Love and Television is included in The High Chaparral: The Final Season, the DVD collection available through Shout Factory. However, you can also order the Kent McCray documentary separately through select retailers. 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 493.7: Actor Don Collier (The High Chaparral, The Outlaws) and pioneer TV casting director Susan McCray (Little House on the Prairie) share some more memories about their mutual love for Kent McCray. Plus: Don talks about playing cards with John Wayne and golfing with Dean Martin, while Susan shares the latest developments of her popular radio magazine show, Kaleidoscope—including a new segment featuring Don Collier. You can order Don Collier: Confessions of an Acting Cowboy directly by emailing discmasters.fulfullment@gmail.com or through his website, DonCollierActingCowboy.com. Kent McCray: Laughter, Love and Television is included in The High Chaparral: The Final Season, the DVD collection available through Shout Factory. However, you can also order the Kent McCray documentary separately through select retailers. 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

In light of the passing earlier this week of comedian Jerry Stiller, we thought we'd post this clip from a conversation that Greg Ehrbar and Ed had in June 2015 about the career of Anne Meara, including her years performing stand-up alongside her husband as the landmark comedy team Stiller and Meara, as well as her solo effects on television, including The Corner Bar and the short-lived legal drama Kate McShane. 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: Tony, Donna, and Ed take us back to May 13, 1999, when Susan Lucci (All My Children) won her first Emmy Award after nineteen Emmy nominations. 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 492.1: From May 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the death of Moe Howard of The Three Stooges on May 4, 1975 as part of This Week in TV History. Topics include why Curly Howard was the Stooge that seemed to resonate the most with fans. 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 492.2: From May 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed go back to May 9, 1971, when the final segment of The Honeymooners was broadcast as part of The Jackie Gleason Show (CBS, 1962-1970). Though CBS had canceled Gleason at the end of the 1969-1970 season, it aired reruns of the show on Sunday nights from January 1971 through May 1971. 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 492.3: Ed welcomes three-time Emmy nominated writer/producer Phil Savenick. After thirty-five years in TV production, during which time he created many highly regarded compilation documentaries concerning TV and its history, Phil decided to devote the third act of his life to expressing the impact that the medium of television continues to have all over the world. That expression takes several forms, including a virtual museum devoted to television, which originates from the living room of Phil’s home in Los Angeles. This interview was recorded via remote in January 2020, before the national lockdown. 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