TV Guidance Counselor

September 3-9 , 1988 Today Ken welcomes comedian and host of TruTV's "Hack My Life" Brooke Van Poppelen to the show. Ken and Brooke discuss Ken's L.A. Air Bnb, being stuck in Brooklyn, PTSD, being terrified of open spaces, panic attacks, Bablo Island, Belle Isle, Detroit, Michigan, field trips, The Topsfield Fair, Stony Creek, board games, butter allergies, bulletproof coffee, the Olympics, a chil...

December 16 -22, 1989 Today Ken welcome returning guest and TV Guidance Counselor All-Star Lamont Price back to the show. Ken and Lamont discuss the questionable racism of old media, skywriters, screwballs, Looney Toons cloud fights, animated sketch shows, black people's cultural Stockholm syndrome, cultural norms, Blackula, Bernie Casey, John Hughes fear of black people, White White Christmases,...

FALL PREVIEW ALERT September 18-24, 1994 Today Ken welcomes writer Jilly Gagnon. Ken and Jilly discuss eldercare, annual news reports, not realizing how much TV you consumed as a kid, growing up sans cable, The Legend of Zelda, side quests, Goonies 2, NES, Tri-Force tattoos, Gannons, Friday the 13th, news paper TV week, breaking the toaster oven style, Minneapolis, the Dr. Quinn and Walker Texas R...

November 7-13, 1981 Today Ken welcomes actor, writer, director, artist, musician and all around dynamo Cady McClain to the show. Ken and Cady discuss how a Guinness Book Record for dancing can lead to a showbiz career, growing up in L.A., commercials, meeting the Kool-Aid man, Ann-Margaret, My Favorite Year, Pennies from Heaven, MGM's Musicals, having a grounding in reality, the business of make b...

October 31 - November 6, 1992 Today Ken welcomes rapper and comedian Rob Tanchum to the show. Ken and Rob discuss satellites, Fax Ma'zines, TTY Prank phone calls, Westchester New York, teenage Improv teams, TV as coping mechanism, Sabrina, Fleabag, Crashing, The Young Ones, Toast of London, Saturday Night Halloween, hating teenagers, pranks, stealing Bubble Tape, Home Movies, animation, Yo! MTV Ra...

September 26 - October 2, 1992 Today Ken welcomes comedian Selena Coppock. Ken and Selena discuss the weird numbering system of Ken's street, lawless New Hampshire, Weston MA, Polar Seltzer, Jan from Toyota, being related to Batman, a family history of performance, 80s Times Square, Sting on Broadway, Guns and Roses, Vince Neil, country music, Garth Brooks, 38 Special, Revenge of the Nerds, Wayne'...

Today Ken welcomes the director of the new documentary "United We Fan" Michael Sparaga, as well as the star of the doc, Dorothy Swanson. Ken Michael and Dorothy talk about grass roots movements, the importance of television, saving "Crime Story", Cagney and Lacey, hunting down TV contacts, watching things together alone, Niagara Falls Canada, The Story of Viewers For Quality Television, being a pr...

October 23-29, 1993 Today Ken welcomes comedian and man about town Kevin Harrington to the show. Ken and Kevin discuss bouncers, consequences, Kevin's grandkids, lying about having nieces and nephews, Ken's superman fortress of solitude, Dean Koontz, Tobe Hooper's Funhouse, St. Louis, central time, O'Boisie's, potatoes, regional candybars, Norwegian heritage, Ren & Stimpy, Aeon Flux, Are You Afrai...

This week Ken welcomes actor Yancy Butler (Witchblade, Hard Target, Dropzone, Brooklyn South) to the show. Ken and Yancy discuss Air BnBs, the land of the beautiful and rich, Sarah Lawrence College, Spring Break in Boston, growing up in Manhattan, navigating crazy people, Al Lewis, palming $100 bills, expensive real estate, Dick Wolf, peaking at 21, Mann and Machine, being up against Murder She Wr...

October 5 -11, 1985 Today Ken welcome promoter and man about town Clay Fernald to the show. Ken and Clay discuss Ken's trash pile, being three years in the making, Sullivan Square Somerville, older siblings, Benson, not being allowed to watch Soap, Eddie Murphy's stand up, comedy tapes, mis labeling shows, PBS shows, boxing nuns, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Ken's grandfather killing The Exorci...

Today Ken welcomes singer, actor, director Don Most (Happy Days, Dungeons & Dragons) to the show. Ken and Don discuss growing up in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bridge, Million Dollar Movie, Channel 9, a start in singing, commercials, seeing The Jazz Singer, when things feel right historically, The Summer of '42, The Wanderers, American Graffiti, Love American Style, auditioning for your own part, Room 222,...

Today Ken welcomes actor, singer, and author of the memoir "Growing Up Fisher", Joely Fisher to the show. Ken and Joely discuss her enormous group of children, TV wallpaper, the news, the way kids watch TV, how difficult it is the tell stories on social media, growing up with Connie Stevens, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, "Does TV Go Too Far?", Made for TV movies, "Someone I Touched", AIDS on TV,...

It's the 2018 TV Guidance Counselor Halloween Special! This year Ken reunites the Halloween TV Special Forces A-Team of Monsters are Good's Sam Furst and Ken's Wifes is Great's Rachel Reid to watch and discuss the 1986 Sunday Night Disney Made-for-TV Special Mr. Boogedy.   Happy Halloween!  

FALL PREVIEW EDITION October 1-7, 1988 Today Ken welcomes the multi-talented podcaster, actor, producer Megan Duffy to the show. Ken and Megan discuss the Hollywood Hills, what it takes to give an Uber drive one star, Midnight Caller, Almost Grown, Roseanne, Paradise, Murphy Brown, Boston Common, Boston Public, growing up in Springfield MA, the boring homogeneity of Suburbia, Two Guys A Girl and a...

October 7-13, 1989 This week Ken welcomes co-host of Throwing Shade and author of Feminasty Erin Gibson to the show. Ken and Erin discuss fancy hotel entitlement, hospitality industry jobs, why you should always rob criminals, Hollywoods One Chubby Girl at a time rule, Delta Burke, Gerald McRaney, the quest for judgement, how women are treated in Hollywood, Eating Disorders, why it's important to...

This week Ken welcomes musician Agnes Obel to the show. Ken and Agnes discuss the proper pronunciation of "Agnes", Danish, having a satellite dish, the life change that was MTV, being on the cutting edge of technology, Yo! MTV Raps, 120 Minutes, Alternative Nation, Tori Amos, Daniel Johnston, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, YouTube, being exposed to new things, the interaction between sound and vision, nati...

In this special TV Guidance Counselor Investigates edition of the show Ken explores the 1984 MTV contest "The Lost Weekend with Van Halen" by going right to the source, the man who would know best, the winner, Kurt Jefferis.

October 16 - 22, 199 Today Ken welcomes TV writer and creator of the new Vertigo comic "Hex Wives", Ben Blacker BACK to the show. Ken and Ben discuss the bizarre and insane level of Ken's guests, the Computer museum, weird AirBnBs, taking the bus to New York, being treated first class, San Diego Comic Con, the con formerly known as Boston Comic Con, Boston being unrecognizable, the rise of UPN and...

March 15-21, 1986 Today Ken welcomes writer, comedian, Anna Drezen to the show. Ken and Anna discuss Anna's dog's a-hole, duvet covers, fires, hand me downs, saucy buns, vomiting bright pink, the cultural bankruptcy of the second Reagan term, Madeline Stowe, If Tomorrow's Comes, having a "wig face", Saturday Night Live, CNN End of the world tape, John Wesley Ship, aerobics, titular lines in Broadw...

May 31 - June 6, 1997 Today Ken welcomes returning guest Alex Edelman to the show. Ken and Alex discuss shows at Laugh Boston, Alex's status as an international super star, Edinburgh, The Perrier Award, Steve Coogan, Eddie Izzard, Jimmy Carr, MSG, Alan Carr, Steward Lee, the day Mary Tyler Moore passed away, The Great Indoors, Ken's visit to Alex's job, NHL, Lois and Clark, The Dana Carvey Show, h...

Today Ken welcomes artist, writer and comic book legend Bob McLeod to the show. Ken and Bob discuss Comic Conventions, sketches, satirizing Westworld for Crazy magazine, parody,growing up in Florida, Westerns, Flipper, Mad Magazine, starting as an Inker, the Bronze age of marvel comics, pasting page numbers, Joe Orlando telling you you need to go back to school to learn how to draw, cartoons, cart...

June 1-7, 1991 Today Ken welcomes writer and musician Dessa to the show. Ken and Dessa discuss Jasmine Guy's seductive nonsense, sexy Ice Tea, people from Boston, not knowing who Molly Ringwald is, living in a pop culture desert, the blur of childhood, Minneapolis Minnesota, Darkwing Duck, Duck, Inspector Gadget, being a latch key kid, The Misfits, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, building your o...

March 28 - April 3, 1987 Today Ken welcomes Boston radio personality, long time friend and former WFNX co-worker "Big" Jim Murray to the show. Ken and Jim discuss the nostalgia overload of Ken's house, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, working in radio, podcasts that are too long, Ken's on air argument with Dane Cook, graduating from Melrose High, G4, Madden Challenge, e-sports, gamers, YouTube star...

Today Ken welcomes Charlie Benante of Anthrax to the show. Ken and Charlie discuss soundchecks, Fall Preview editions, Saturday Morning Cartoons, Wonderama, Spider-Man, The Laugh-a-lympics, Little House of the Prairie, pre-electricity, Grizzly Adams, growing up in the Bronx, Barney Miller, NYPD Blue, Good Times, Newhart, erased tapes, Spielberg, Jaws, Sid & Marty Kroft, Land of the Lost, The Brady...

Today Ken welcomes two of New Zealand's finest, Johnny Brugh (What We Do in the Shadows) and Daniel Logan (Star Wars) to the show. First up Ken chats with Johnny Brugh about New Zealand, vampires, The Six Million Dollar Man, Netflix, stand up, character comedy, Deacon, The Mighty Boosh, The Young Ones, Bad Taste, Peter Jackson, visiting America, aliens, seductive dances, and where the gold is. Nex...