TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 510.4: Ed welcomes Bruce Morrow , the legendary radio personality known around the world as Cousin Brucie . As Cousin Brucie, Morrow introduced millions of listeners across the U.S. to The Beatles, Motown, 1960s soul, surf music, and other musical artists simply by playing their songs on his top-rated radio show . After a successful fifteen-year run on SiriusXM satellite radio, Morrow returned...

TVC 510.5: National Radio Hall of Famer Bruce Morrow , aka Cousin Brucie , talks to Ed about his friendships with such music legends as The Beatles and Harry Chapin; the time he taught Bob Hope and Jackie Gleason how to become disc jockeys—live on the air; and why music is the food of love, especially in times such as these. Cousin Brucie's Saturday Night Rock 'n' Roll Party airs Saturdays 6pm ET...

TVC 510.6: From February 2014: Phil Gries plays audio highlights of a CBS Evening News report from Nov. 21, 1963 about the growing sensation over The Beatles, and a CBS Morning News segment with Mike Wallace that aired on Feb. 7, 1964, two days before their iconic appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show . Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential  has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle a...

From January 2018: Ken Berry talks to Ed about the circumstances that led him to join the cast of The Andy Griffith Sho w in 1968 and eventually take over as the series lead when the Griffith show morphed into Mayberry, RFD the following year. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential  has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of...

From July 2013: Tony, Donna and Ed commemorate the one-year anniversary of the death of Andy Griffith. Topics include Griffith's work in A Face in the Crowd, No Time for Sergeants, The Headmaster and, of course, The Andy Griffith Show , as well as how Griffith fought hard to establish and protect the integrity of each of the characters on the Griffith show.  Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV...

From May 2011: A special edition of The Sounds of Lost Television featuring rarely heard audio from Johnny Carson's first few years as host of The Tonight Show , including a clip from an interview with Marlon Brando on May 15, 1963, and the first appearance of Carson as Carnac the Magnificent on May 19, 1964. The audio for this segment comes from the private collection of Phil Gries.  Want to adve...

From May 2011: A special edition of The Sounds of Lost Television featuring rarely heard highlights from Johnny Carson's first few years on The Tonight Show , including audio from Johnny's debut broadcast of Oct. 1, 1962. Most of the tapes from the first decade of the Tonight Sho w broadcasts were erased by NBC, so this is a rare opportunity to hear the King of Late Night in his early days. The au...

TVC 509.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Emmy nominated writer, producer, and author Ted Bergman , Emmy nominated writer/producer and author of , Confessions of a Rogue TV Comedy Writer: Forty Years of Fame, Fear and Combat Inside the Writers Room . Topics this segment include working with Redd Foxx on Sanford and Son , as well as how Ted's experience on The Smothers Brothers...

TVC 509.2: An impromptu roundtable discussion with Tony, Donna, and Ed that celebrates the recent birthday of iconic producer Norman Lear. Topics include how All in the Family, Maude and other Lear-produced shows fared when slotted in the so-called "family viewing hour" (8pm to 9pm) of the mid-1970s. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential  has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle a...

TVC 509.3: Tony, Donna, and Ed take a look at how Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Trevor Noah and other late night TV hosts have adjusted the formats and content of their shows in the months following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential  has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast e...

TVC 509.4: Ed welcomes radio and TV host, producer, and novelist Tara Newley Arkle . Tara draws on her background in radio and music with her first novel, Radio Honey , a coming of age story about the simmering sexual tensions of an all-female radio station in London that also asks the eternal question "Is there a formula for love?" Radio Honey is available in paperback and as an eBook through Bla...

TVC 509.5: Ed welcomes back actor, comedian, and impressionist Rich Little . Rich is getting ready for his very first virtual concert performance , Rich Little... Virtually Speaking, which will be streamed live from a socially distant location on Thursday, Oct. 15 beginning at 8:30pm ET 5:30pm PT. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased by visiting StageIt.com or TheRichLittle.com . Want to advertise...

TVC 509.6: Rich Little , America's master mimic, talks to Ed about his work on such Screen Gems favorites as Love on a Rooftop and The Flying Nun ; his friendships with David Janssen and Barry Morse of The Fugitive ; and the unusual offer that David Niven made after Rich dubbed Niven's voice in Curse of the Pink Panther and Trail of the Pink Panther . Rich Little... Virtually Speaking will be stre...

From July 2013: Tony, Donna, and Ed have an impromptu discussion about rediscovering The Odd Couple (ABC, 1970-1975) on MeTV and how the show is still consistently laugh-out-loud funny after more than four decades. 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...

From June 2013: Monty Hall gives Ed the backstory of the famous episode of The Odd Couple in which Felix and Oscar play Let's Make a Deal (and a great deal of the "game" portion was ad-libbed), as well as Monty's encore appearance the following season in which he displayed his musical prowess. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential  has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertisi...

From January 2014: Tony, Donna and Ed remember actor, comedian and voice artist Dave Madden (Reuben Kinkaid on The Partridge Family). 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@advertise...

From August 2013: Oscar winner and TV icon Shirley Jones tells Ed that playing Shirley Partridge on The Partridge Family appealed to her because it allowed her to play a single working mom while also allowing her to stay at home and raise her real-life sons. Other topics include how Dabney Coleman made Shirley feel at home when she joined the cast of Slap Maxwell ; how Shirley landed the role of L...

TVC 508.1: Part 1 of a two-part conversation with Emmy nominated writer, producer, and author Ted Bergman . Ted spent four decades writing and producing such TV comedy and variety shows as The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (where he was the youngest staff writer at the time, and the show for which he received his Emmy nomination), All in the Family, The Hollywood Squares, The Jonathan Winters Show...

TVC 508.2: Emmy nominated writer/producer Ted Bergman talks to Ed about his experience as a staff writer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (CBS, 1967-1969), and how that series was unusual because it was one of the few network shows in production at the time that welcomed younger writers. Ted's memoir, Confessions of a Rogue TV Comedy Writer: Forty Years of Fame, Fear and Combat Inside the Writ...

TVC 508.3: From 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of Truth or Consequences on CBS-TV on Sept. 7, 1950, ten years after the series originated on NBC radio in March 1940. 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 adve...

TVC 508.4: Ed welcomes back Gigi Garner , daughter of beloved film and TV actor James Garner , and founder of the James Garner Animal Rescue Fund (JGARF), the nonprofit organization that is dedicated to raising funds to help rescue organizations, shelters, individuals, fosters, and veterans with emergencies, evacuations, medical care, adoptions, training, pet supplies, shelter, rehabilitation, boa...

TVC 508.5: Gigi Garner , daughter of James Garner and founder of the James Garner Animal Rescue Fund (JGARF), talks to Ed about the classic film Grand Prix, her dad's passion for auto racing, and her brief stint as a private investigator. A nonprofit organization that raises money for animal rescue organizations, JGARF is one way for Garner fans to honor Jim's memory and extend his legacy. Gigi Ga...

TVC 508.6: Part 3 of a conversation that began last month with Union University journalism professor and television historian Steve Beverly . When he isn't teaching , Steve hosts Steve Beverly's TV Classics , a weekly three-hour TCM-like festival of classic shows from the 1950s and '60s that originates from EPlusTV Channel 6 in Jackson, TN, and which streams several times a week at EPlusTV6.com ....

TVC 508.7: TV host Steve Beverly gives Ed an idea of what's on tap for over the next few weeks on Steve Beverly's TV Classics , his weekly three-hour TCM-like festival of classic shows from the 1950s and '60s that originates from EPlusTV Channel 6 in Jackson, TN, and which streams several times a week at EPlusTV6.com . Steve Beverly is also a member of the National Association on Mental Illness. A...

From June 2013: Jennifer Armstrong, author of Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted, talks to Ed, Tony and Donna about the famous "Chuckles Bites the Dust" episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and why Mary Tyler Moore initially had reservations about making it.  Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential  has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast...