TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

From October 2014: Bill Marx, son of Harpo Marx, talks to Ed about how all four Marx Brothers were good athletes as well as gifted comedians; how the Brothers "trained" every week for twenty years, honing their act in vaudeville and on Broadway before they made movies; and why Chico was such a great straight man for both Harpo and Groucho. An accomplished musician in his own right, Bill Marx is also executive producer of The Marx Brothers TV Collection, a DVD configuration featuring some of the Brothers’ many appearances on television, collectively and individually, throughout the 1950s and 1960s. 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 480.1: TV Confidential marks the passing of screen legend Kirk Douglas with an encore presentation of our December 2016 centennial tribute to the Academy Award-winning actor featuring audio highlights from some of Douglas’ appearances on television throughout the 1960s and ’70s. This segment includes a clip of Douglas on The Tonight Show in April 1962 in which he discusses the film Lonely Are the Brave, plus an excerpt from TV Confidential’s interview with William Schallert from July 2013 in which Schallert discusses the role that Douglas played in ending the blacklist by ensuring that Dalton Trumbo received screen credit for writing the screenplay for Spartacus. 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 480.2: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio plays highlights of a May 1963 radio interview with Kirk Douglas in which the actor discusses, among other topics, his often hectic daily schedule as an actor while in New York City. Kirk Douglas passed away on Feb. 5, 2020 at age 103. 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 480.3: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio plays a clip from the Oct. 28, 1963 of Tell Us More, a precursor to Biography that aired on WNBC-TV in New York in the early 1960s. In this segment, actress and Tell Us More correspondent Muriel Davidson shares a few anecdotes about her friendship with Kirk Douglas during the late 1940s, around the time of the actor’s first marriage. Kirk Douglas passed away on Feb. 5, 2020 at age 103. 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 480.4: TV Confidential pays tribute to TV icon Robert Conrad by playing highlights from our October 2013 conversation with Bob Herron, one of the five core stuntmen who worked with Conrad every week on The Wild, Wild West, and Susan Kesler, author of The Wild, Wild West: The Series. Robert Conrad passed away on Feb. 8, 2020 at age 84. 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 480.5: Ed welcomes back Michelle Danner, the legendary Hollywood acting coach whose students include such A-list actors as Jason Alexander, Chris Rock, Marcia Cross, Seth MacFarlane, Christian Slater, Selma Hayek, Gerald Butler, Norman Reedus, Zooey Deschanel, Gabrielle Union, and Penelope Cruz. Also an accomplished actress and director, Michelle recently completed principal filming of The Runner, an action thriller that marks her sixth effort as a director; The Runner stars Cameron Douglas and Edouard Phillipponnat and is slated for release later in 2020. Michelle is also preparing to direct actress Anne Archer in a stage production of A Ticket to the Circus, a one-woman show about Norris Church Mailer’s marriage to Norman Mailer. For our listeners in Southern California, Bad Impulse, a psychological thriller directed by Michelle Danner, will open this year’s Cinema at the Edge Film Festival, Feb. 21-23, 2020 in Santa Monica, California. For tickets and more information, CinemaattheEdge.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 480.6: From October 2013: Actor/stuntman Bob Herron (The Wild, Wild West) and author Susan Kesler (The Wild, Wild West: The Series) talk about the fight sequences that Robert Conrad choreographed each week on The Wild, Wild West, and how Conrad did his own stunts every week until early 1968, when CBS required him to have a double after the actor suffered a serious injury that shut down production of the series. Robert Conrad passed away on Feb. 8, 2020 at age 84. 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 480.7: A few final thoughts on the passing of Robert Conrad.  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

This special minisode edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL includes a bonus segment from our December 2016 tribute to Kirk Douglas. Phil Gries plays audio highlights of Douglas' February 1970 appearance on The Johnny Cash Show (ABC, 1969-1971) and the actor's musical duet with singer Tom Jones from the Special London Bridge Special (NBC, 1972). 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

Tony, Donna, and Ed remember The Wonder Years (ABC, 1988-1993), the coming of age dramedy that premiered on Jan. 31, 1988. Topics included how the series was an early example of a prime time network series with a cable TV sensibility. 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

Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of The Midnight Special (NBC, 1972-1981) and how the series paved the way for "late late" night TV programming as we know it today, both on a network level as well as on cable TV and local stations. Also in this segment: The premiere of Project UFO, the last network TV series produced by Jack Webb. 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 2018: Ed welcomes actor, director and screenwriter Lou Antonio (Cool Hand Luke, Splendor in the Grass, Star Trek, The Snoop Sisters, Dog and Cat, Makin’ It, Something for Joey). Topics this segment include "Roundabout," one of five episodes of The Rockford Files that Lou directed, and a show that includes an offbeat foot chase filmed on location at the Hoover Dam in Las Vegas. Lou’s memoir, Cool Hand Lou: My Fifty Years in Hollywood and on Broadway, not only provides a window into the ups and downs of an artist’s life, but shares many great stories of his work alongside some of the biggest names in stage, film and television, including Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, Eli Wallach, Julie Andrews, Julie Harris, Edward Albee, Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Carol Burnett, George C. Scott, Michael J. Fox, Dennis Weaver, Jaclyn Smith, Elizabeth Montgomery, Heath Ledger, Louis Gossett Jr., Candice Bergen, Renee Zellweger, Lee Remick, Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Laurence Olivier, David Janssen and James Garner. Cool Hand Lou is available in softcover and as an eBook through McFarland Books. You can also order it by calling (800) 253-2187. Autographed editions of Cool Hand Lou are available from Lou Antonio himself. 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 of Robert Conrad earlier today, we are posting a bonus minisode featuring an excerpt from our October 2013 conversation with actor and stuntman Bob Herron, Ross Martin's stunt double on The Wild, Wild West, and author Sue Kesler (The Wild, Wild West Book). In this clip, Bob talks about his early background in movie and TV Westerns at Warner Bros. (including a brief time working as Robert Conrad's stunt double on Hawaiian Eye) and how it was Conrad who recommended that Bob work on Wild West as Martin's double. .  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 March 2013: Kathleen Sharp, author of Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood: Edie and Lew Wasserman and Their Entertainment Empire, discusses the instrumental role that Universal Television, under Lew Wasserman's leadership, played in developing original full-length two-hour movies made expressly for television—and how the studio would've cornered the market by developing the 90-minute "Movie of the Week" format were if not for a strategic mistake. 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 479.1: Ed welcomes Ian Nathan, one of the best known film journalists in the UK, and the author of Quentin Tarantino: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work, an engaging new book that explores the entirety of Tarantino’s career—from his early writing on such screenplays as True Romance and Natural Born Killers to his break-out directorial debut, Reservoir Dogs, the career-defining Pulp Fiction, and such later efforts as Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Topics include what it means for a movie to be “Tarantinoesque”; how certain TV shows from the 1960s and 1970s helped shape the Tarantino style; and Tarantino’s belief that movies can right wrongs, if not change the world. 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