TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 619.2: Ed welcomes back Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, comedian, and writer Fritz Coleman . Fritz's new one-man show, Unassisted Living , is an hour of stand-up, recorded at the El Portal Theatre in Los Angeles, in which Fritz sounds off on COVID, the aging process, and other slice-of-life issues that we've all experienced lately, but cannot always control. Unassisted Living is available righ...

TVC 619.3: Legendary broadcaster and comedian Fritz Coleman talks to Ed about working with Bob Hope; his recent interview with Jerry Mathers on Media Path , the podcast that Fritz co-hosts with Louise Palanker; and the events that led to Fritz's first appearance on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show . Fritz's new one-man show, Unassisted Living , is available now for streaming on demand on the Tubi ch...

TVC 619.4: Fritz Coleman talks to Ed about some of the other "single topic" monologues that he has written and performed, including It's Me, Dad , a poignant hour that was produced as a special by KCET in Los Angeles—and which resulted in Fritz speaking with Marlon Brando after the show's first broadcast. Fritz's latest one-man show, Unassisted Living , is available now for streaming on demand on...

TVC 618:1: Part 2 of our roundtable discussion with Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and novelist Joseph Dougherty ( thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriter's Companion ) about obscure science fiction television series from the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. Joe's new sci-fi novel, The First Cylinder , draws inspiration from Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, and War of the Worlds by...

TVC 618.2: Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and novelist Joseph Dougherty ( thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriter's Companion ) talks to Ed, Tony Figueroa, and Dan Farren about Cliffhangers, Space Academy, Quark, Project UFO, My Living Doll , and other obscure science fiction series from the 1960s and '70s. Joe's new novel, The First Cylinder , is available from Fayett...

TVC 618.3: Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and novelist Joseph Dougherty ( thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriter's Companion ) talks to Ed, Tony Figueroa, and Dan Farren about the appeal of The Time Tunnel , Doctor Who , and other series that revolve around the concept of time travel. Joe's new novel, The First Cylinder , is available from Fayetteville Mafia Press and...

TVC 618.4: Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and novelist Joseph Dougherty ( thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriter's Companion ) talks to Ed, Tony Figueroa, and Dan Farren about the appeal of such series as The Invaders, Stephen King's The Golden Years , and Fantastic Journey . Joe's new novel, The First Cylinder , is available from Fayetteville Mafia Press and Amazon.c...

TVC 618.5: From June 2015: Ed welcomes back actor Robert Colbert ( The Time Tunnel, Maverick, The Young and the Restless ). 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...

TVC 617.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Jim Benson, host of Jim Benson's TV Time Machine and the co-author, along with Scott Skelton, of Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour , everything you wanted to know about the other famous TV series created by Rod Serling. Topics this segment include how Night Gallery was both a director's show as well as a producer's show,...

TVC 617.2: Jim Benson, co-author of Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour , talks to Ed about some of many misconceptions about Night Gallery, many of which stem from the truncated versions of many episodes as they appeared in the show's syndication package. Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour has been recently updated and reissued as a marvelous 50th anniversary second edition that incl...

TVC 617.3: Jim Benson, co-author of Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour , talks to Ed about "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar," the first-season episode starring William Windom, Diane Baker, and Bert Convy that is universally recognized as one of the best, among the most personal, scripts that Rod Serling ever wrote. Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour has been updated and reissued...

TVC 617:4: Ed welcomes back Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and novelist Joseph Dougherty ( thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriter's Companion ). Joe has just published The First Cylinder , a breakout science fiction novel that draws inspiration from War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, only it tells the story of the invasion of Mars from the perspective of the Martians. T...

TVC 617.5: Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and novelist Joseph Dougherty ( thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriter's Companion ) talks to Ed, Tony Figueroa, and Dan Farren about why The Outer Limits is more lyrical and visually stylistic than The Twilight Zone , even though the network run of Outer Limits lasted just fifteen months. Joe's new novel, The First Cylinder ,...

TVC 618.6: Ed welcomes Dale Pederson, the writer, director, and producer of In Through the Out Door , an upcoming time travel/suspense/thriller series that not only draws inspiration from H.G. Wells' The Time Machine , but blends elements of the true crime genre by thrusting its two protagonists back to 1893 Chicago, where they find themselves terrorized by notorious serial killer H.H. Holmes. Top...

TVC 616.1: Ed welcomes back Jim Benson, host of Jim Benson's TV Time Machine and the co-author, along with Scott Skelton, of Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour , everything you wanted to know about the other famous TV series created by Rod Serling. Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour has been recently updated and reissued as a marvelous 50th anniversary second edition that includes a...

TVC 616.2: Jim Benson, co-author of Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour , talks to Ed about how Night Gallery helped launch the career of many directors, including John Badham, John Astin, Jeannot Szwarc, and, most famously, Steven Spielberg. Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour has been updated and reissued as a marvelous 50th anniversary second edition that includes a host of new mate...

TVC 616.3: From June 2016: Ed welcomes actor and motivational speaker Jimmy Weldon, the voice of Yakky Doodle on Yogi Bear , and the author of Go Get 'Em Tiger , a part autobiographical, part motivational book that shows that the real definition of success is becoming the person you want to be and doing what you really want to do. Jimmy Weldon passed away Thursday, July 6 at age ninety-nine. Want...

TVC 616.4: From June 2016: Ed welcomes actor and motivational speaker Jimmy Weldon, the voice of Yakky Doodle on Yogi Bear , and the author of Go Get 'Em Tiger , a part autobiographical, part motivational book that shows that the real definition of success is becoming the person you want to be and doing what you really want to do. Jimmy Weldon passed away Thursday, July 6 at age ninety-nine. Want...

TVC 616.5: From June 2016: Ed welcomes actor and motivational speaker Jimmy Weldon, the voice of Yakky Doodle on Yogi Bear , and the author of Go Get 'Em Tiger , a part autobiographical, part motivational book that shows that the real definition of success is becoming the person you want to be and doing what you really want to do. In this segment, Jimmy talks to Ed about some of his other TV roles...

TVC 615.1: Emmy Award-winning actor, writer, and producer Kevin Spirtas ( After Forever, Days of Our Lives ) talks to Ed about what it means to receive the Hollywood Museum Trailblazer Award at this year's 10th annual Real to Reel exhibit. He also gives us a sneak preview of Season 3 of After Forever , which will feature Linda Purl in the role of Brian's therapist. One of the Hollywood Museum's mo...

TVC 615.2: Kevin Spirtas ( After Forever, The Hills Have Eyes ) talks to Ed about the importance of costuming in any project, whether for film, stage or television; his recent appearance in Subspecies V: Blood Rise , the upcoming sequel to the 1981 vampire slasher film Subspecies ; and why watching a horror movie is like going on a carnival ride. Kevin donated some of his costumes for After Foreve...

TVC 615.3: From June 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the fallout surrounding the murder of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane on June 29, 1978. 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@adve...

TVC 615.4: From June 2015: Ed, Tony and Donna welcome Robert Crane, eldest son of Bob Crane, and the co-author, along with Christopher Fryer, of CRANE: Sex, Celebrity and My Father's Unsolved Murder , a memoir of growing up with Bob Crane as a father before, during and after Hogan's Heroes that also provides a first-person account and commentary of the investigation and prosecution of the Bob Cran...

TVC 615.5: From June 2015: Ed, Tony and Donna welcome Robert Crane, co-author of CRANE: Sex, Celebrity and My Father's Unsolved Murder , a memoir of growing up with Bob Crane as a father before, during and after Hogan's Heroes that also provides a first-person account and commentary of the investigation and prosecution of the Bob Crane murder case, from the perspective of the Crane family. Among o...

TVC 615.5: From June 2015: Ed, Tony and Donna welcome Robert Crane, co-author of CRANE: Sex, Celebrity and My Father's Unsolved Murde r, a memoir of growing up with Bob Crane as a father before, during and after Hogan's Heroes that also provides a first-person account and commentary of the investigation and prosecution of the Bob Crane murder case, from the perspective of the Crane family. Among o...