TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 496.3: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the many incarnations of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, both as a comedy duo as well as their individual acting careers. Jerry Stiller passed away on Monday, May 11 at age 92. 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...

TVC 496.6: Greg and Ed discuss the DVD release of Big John, Little John (NBC, 1976), the short-lived Saturday morning fantasy series starring Herb Edelman, Robbie Rist, and Joyce Bulifant that also marked the fulfillment of a promise that creator/producer Sherwood Schwartz had once made to Bulifant. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential  has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle adv...

TVC 496.7: Greg and Ed discuss the DVD release of Bosom Buddies (ABC, 1980-1982), starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari. 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 c...

TVC 495.1: Ed welcomes back author, screenwriter, novelist and raconteur Marvin J. Wolf . A veteran of the U.S. Army, Marv served more than thirteen years active duty, including a combat tour in Vietnam, before returning to the States in 1974 to embark on a very successful career as a freelance writer and photojournalist that has continued for more than four decades. Marv's latest book, They Were...

TVC 495.2: Part 2 of our conversation with Marvin J. Wolf , co-author of They Were Soldiers: The Sacrifices and Contributions of Our Vietnam Veterans , a collaboration with New York Times bestselling author Joseph L. Galloway ( We Were Soldiers ) that profiles fifty men and women from various walks of life who served in Vietnam in one capacity or another. Among the veterans profiled in They Were S...

TVC 495.3: Part 3 of our conversation with Marvin J. Wolf , co-author of They Were Soldiers: The Sacrifices and Contributions of Our Vietnam Veterans , a collaboration with New York Times bestselling author Joseph L. Galloway ( We Were Soldiers ) that profiles fifty men and women who served in Vietnam in one capacity or another. Among the veterans profiled in They Were Soldiers is elder care activ...

TVC 495.4: From May 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the launch of CNN on June 1, 1980 as part of This Week in TV History and the many ways in which the cable news network helped spur the rise of the Internet as we know it today.  Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential  has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program....

TVC 495.5: An encore presentation of our October 2014 conversation with Ken Osmond , the actor known around the world as Eddie Haskell on Leave It to Beaver . Ken Osmond passed away on Monday, May 18 at age 76. Our chat with Ken was a well-rounded conversation that covered not only his show business life before and after Leave It to Beaver (including his early career as a child actor working with...

TVC 495.6: From June 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the final episode of Mad Men , which originally aired on May 17, 2015 as part of This Week in TV History, as well as the show's final season in general and the ways in which Mad Men influenced the landscape of television during its run on AMC.  Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential  has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle adve...

TVC 495.7: Part 4 of our conversation with Marvin J. Wolf , co-author of They Were Soldiers: The Sacrifices and Contributions of Our Vietnam Veterans , a collaboration with New York Times bestselling author Joseph L. Galloway ( We Were Soldiers ) that profiles fifty men and women who served in Vietnam in one capacity or another. Among the veterans profiled in They Were Soldiers are Diane Carlson E...

TVC 495.1: A return appearance by author Steven Taibbi ( Grateful Guilt: Living in the Shadow of My Heart ). Born with a cyanotic heart and three birth defects, Steven has spent much of his life in and out of hospitals receiving treatment for these and other medical conditions, including two open heart surgeries and two heart transplants. Since his last visit to our program , Steven had a chance t...

TVC 495.2: Part 2 of our conversation with Steven Taibbi , author of Grateful Guilt: Living in the Shadow of My Heart . Born with a cyanotic heart and three birth defects, Steven has spent much of his life in and out of hospitals receiving treatment for these and other medical conditions, including two open heart surgeries and two heart transplants. In this segment Steven talks about the differenc...

TVC 495.3: Steven Taibbi , author of Grateful Guilt: Living in the Shadow of My Heart , talks to Ed about his experience working in television, which includes producing daytime talk shows hosted Joan Lunden and Dr. Ruth Westheimer and the personal power exhibited by both Dr. Ruth and former President Richard Nixon. Other topics in this segment include coping strategies for living with serious illn...

TVC 495.4: Greg and Ed discuss the DVD release of The New Adventures of Superman (CBS, 1966-1967), the first animated series produced by Filmation Associates. Topics include the voice work of Bud Collier, the contemporary theme music by John Gart, and the long relationship between Ted Knight and Filmation before The Mary Tyler Moore Show . Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential  has p...

TVC 495.5: Greg and Ed discuss the DVD releases of Monster Squad (NBC, 1976-1977) and Drak Pack (CBS, 1980), two Saturday morning series about that reimagined Dracula, the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's Monster as intrepid crime fighters. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential  has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our prog...

TVC 495.6: Ed welcomes Oscar nominee and three-time Golden Globe Award nominee Eric Roberts ( King of the Gypsies , Star 80 , Runaway Train, Less Than Perfect, Heroes ). One of the most prolific, highly sought-after actors in the industry today, with more than 500 film and TV credits under his belt— including a staggering 150 movie or television roles between 2013 and 2015 alone —Eric talks about...

TVC 495.7: Legendary actor Eric Roberts ( King of the Gypsies , Star 80 , Runaway Train, Less Than Perfect, Heroes ) talks to Ed about the perception of fame, his lifelong love of animals, and why the actors and crew members on daytime soap operas are the hardest-working people in the film and TV industry.  Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential  has partnered with AdvertiseCast to ha...

From May 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember May 25, 1992, the night of Jay Leno's first appearance as host of The Tonight Show and the controversy that went on behind the scenes as to whether Leno or David Letterman would succeed Johnny Carson as host. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential  has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast ed...

From May 2011: Phil Gries joins Ed in the studio for more highlights from the first ten years of Johnny Carson's reign as host of The Tonight Show, including a surprise appearance by Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, on Sept. 16, 1965 (one night after Carson made a flip remark in his monologue about the then-upcoming fight between Clay and Floyd Patterson). Most of the tapes from the first...

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...

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@advertisec...

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...

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 t...

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 ey...

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...