TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 674.3: Pat Boone talks to Ed about working with Shirley Jones in April Love , with Ann-Margret in State Fair , and with Barbara Eden in All Hands on Deck . Pat can currently be seen in Reagan and Miracle in the Valley , both of which are available now for viewing on demand through Amazon Prime, while Pat's latest movies, Our Crossroads and The American Miracle , are both scheduled for release...

We'll be back with a brand new edition of TV Confidential later this week. In the meantime, please enjoy this clip from January 2015 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the legacy of The Simpsons on television and on pop culture in general. The first regular episode of The Simpsons originally aired on Jan. 14, 1990.

TVC 673.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began just before the holidays with Nick Nugent , author of The Knight Rider Companion: Abridged Edition , everything you wanted to know about the classic TV series starring David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, and the voice of William Daniels. Topics this segment include how series creator Glen Larson originally saw Knight Rider as a contemporary rendering of...

TVC 673.2: Nick Nugent , author of The Knight Rider Companion: Abridged Edition , discusses some of the new material available in his book. The Knight Rider Companion Abridged Edition is available from Black Pawn Press .

TVC 673.3: Ed welcomes back Pat Boone , the legendary singer, actor, and all-around entertainer who not only celebrated his ninetieth birthday a few months back, but also recently marked his seventieth year in show business. Pat Boone and Michael Learned star as Bob and Barbara Fraley in the biopic Our Crossroads , a true story of family and faith that also features Kevin Sorbo, Tom Wopat, and Dea...

TVC 673.4: Ed welcomes Dawn Moore , one of the top marketing and branding professionals in the luxury retail industry, and the daughter of Clayton Moore , the actor known to three generations of television viewers as The Lone Ranger . The 2024-2025 television season marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the premiere of The Lone Ranger (ABC, 1949-1957) on TV. Topics this segment include the throug...

TVC 673.5: Dawn Moore , daughter of Clayton Moore , talks to Ed about the origins of the Lone Ranger Creed; how her dad embodied the words of the Creed every day for the last fifty years of his life; and how Dawn displayed quotes from some of the tenets of the Creed on the window of the Harry Winston jewelry store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills to help calm her neighborhood on the day after of th...

We'll be back with a brand new edition of T V Confidential later this week. In the meantime, please enjoy this clip from January 2015 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the circumstances that led to James Garner to end The Rockford Files (NBC, 1974-1980)in the middle of the show's sixth season. The final episode of The Rockford Files aired on Jan. 10, 1980 during This Week in TV History.

TVC 672.1: Ed welcomes entertainment journalist and comedy historian Tripp Whetsell . Tripp's latest book, Norman Lear: His Life and Times , is the first comprehensive biography of the legendary, Emmy Award-winning producer of All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, The Fact of Life , and many other series that helped elevate the American network sitcom. While much has been written a...

TVC 672.2: Tripp Whetsell , author of Norman Lear: His Life and Times , talks to Ed about how the latitude that Norman Lear often gave his actors and his writers on his television shows was often a double-edged sword; Lear's years as a motion picture producer in the 1960s; and the events that led to the premiere on All in the Family on CBS in January 1971. Norman Lear: His Life and Times is availa...

TVC 672.3: Part 2 of a conversation that began just before the holidays with Steve Randisi , author of Penny Singleton: A Biography , a comprehensive look at the life and career of the actress who not only achieved worldwide fame in the 1930s and '40s as the star of the Blondie movie series from Columbia Pictures (and, later, to TV audiences as the voice of Jane Jetson on the original Jetsons TV s...

We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past clip from January 2015 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the premiere of A.M. America , the precursor to Good Morning, America , on Jan. 6, 1975. An offshoot of Ralph Story's A.M ., a local program produced by KAB...

We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past clip from January 2015 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed celebrate the life and legacy of Alan Hale, the actor known around the world as The Skipper on Gilligan's Island . Alan Hale passed away on Jan. 2. 1990, thirty-five yea...

We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past clip from January 2015 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the premiere of Hullabaloo , NBC's answer to Shindig , on Jan. 12, 1965.

We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past clip from January 2012 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the tragic death of Alias Smith and Jones star Pete Duel on Dec. 30, 1971.

We're taking a few days off this week, but we'll be back with a brand new edition of TV Confidential next week. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past, featuring an excerpt from our October 2010 conversation with Emmy and Grammy Award-winning composer Charles Fox. Charles' book, Killing Me Softly: My Life in Music , not only walks readers through his journey in music and television...

We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past, featuring an excerpt from our August 2020 tribute to Regis Philbin in which our colleague Greg Ehrbar shares some memories of working with Regis, Joan Lunden, and Mayim Bialik behind the scenes of the annual Disney Chris...

We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past clip from December 2013 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss "The Big Little Jesus," the second of two Christmas episodes that Jack Webb produced for Dragnet, which aired on Dec. 24, 1953, both on television as well as fo...

We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past clip from October 2020 in which Ed, Tony, and Donna ask eight-time Emmy Award winner Ed Asner how he approached playing both Santa Claus and God.

We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past clip from December 2010 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of the Rankin-Bass animated special Frosty the Snowman (CBS, 1969).

We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past clip from December 2018 in which Greg Ehrbar and Ed discuss the then-new DVD release of Santa Claus is Comin' to Town; how the various mythologies that screenwriter Romeo Muller created specifically for Santa Claus is Com...

We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past clip from December 2013 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss "The Big .22 Rifle for Christmas," an episode of Dragnet that originally aired on Dec. 18, 1952. An adaptation of an episode of the Dragnet radio series that or...

We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime (and in light of Dick Van Dyke's 99th birthday last week), please enjoy this Blast from the Past featuring an excerpt from our September 2016 conversation with Vince Waldron, author of The Official Dick Van Dyke Show Book . In this segment Vince talks about wh...

TVC 670.1: Ed welcomes Nick Nugent , author of The Knight Rider Companion: Abridged Edition , everything you wanted to know about the classic TV series starring David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, and the voice of William Daniels . Topics this segment include how series creator Glen Larson's original concept for Knight Rider was much different from what we eventually saw portrayed in the NBC series;...

TVC 670.2: Ed welcomes back film and television historian Steve Randisi ( The Merv Griffin Show: The Inside Story , Behind the Crimson Cape: The Cinema of George Reeves ). Steve's latest book, Penny Singleton: A Biography , chronicles the life and career of the actress who not only achieved worldwide fame in the 1930s and '40s at the star of the Blondie movie series from Columbia Pictures (and, la...