TV CONFIDENTIAL: A radio talk show about television brings you lively conversations every week with the stars, writers, directors and other creative people behind the scenes of some of America's most popular shows. An engaging blend of talk and entertainment, TV Confidential often compares today’s programs with those of the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.
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How Rankin-Bass Helped Create the Legend of Santa
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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 …
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Dragnet and "The Big .22 Rifle for Christmas"
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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…
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Why Dick Van Dyke Embodied Everything About Rob Petrie
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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 Dyk…
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Knight Rider: A Show About a Character That Happened to Be a Car
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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…
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Steve Randisi, author of Penny Singleton: A Biography
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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 Blondi…
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How Dorothy McNulty Became Penny Singleton
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TVC 670.3: Steve Randisi, author of Penny Singleton: A Biography, talks to Ed how about Singleton came to adopt her screen name; why Singleton had a lot of the Blondie character as a person; and why the Blondie movies continue to endure after ninety years. Penny Singleton: A Biography is available from Bear Manor Media.…
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Stefanie Powers: Rebel, Visionary, and An Agent of Change
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TVC 670.4: Ed welcomes back Stefanie Powers, the actress known around the world as Jennifer Hart on Hart to Hart (ABC, 1979-1984), and the founder and president of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation, a nonprofit organization that Stefanie established in 1982 in memory of her longtime life partner that continues and furthers the conservation wor…
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Stefanie Powers, Harold Gould, and St. Pope John Paul II
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TVC 671.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Stefanie Powers, the actress known around the world as Jennifer Hart on Hart to Hart (ABC, 1979-1984) and the founder and president of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation (WHWF.org). Topics this segment include Stefanie’s work as chair of the Seasoned Performers Committee for both the…
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Why The Sopranos is a Work of Art
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TVC 670.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Ray Richmond, author of The Sopranos: The Complete Visual History, a twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of the multi-Emmy Award-winning drama that not only broke new ground in television when it premiered in 1999, but launched the current Golden Age of dramatic television on cable and …
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What James Gandolfini Brought to The Sopranos
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TVC 670.6: From June 2013: Jennifer Armstrong, former staff writer for Entertainment Weekly and the author of many books on popular television, joins Ed, Tony, and Donna for a roundtable discussion on the career of James Gandolfini and the impact of The Sopranos on popular culture. This segment with Jennifer was recorded on June 20, 2013, one day a…
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Rod Serling, Mike Wallace, and Dick Cavett
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TVC 669.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began on our last program with Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and author Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriters Companion: Instruction, Opinion, Encouragement). Joe’s latest book, Rod Serling at 100: One Writer’s Acknowledgment, takes a deep dive into the lega…
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Rod Serling and the Night Gallery Conundrum
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TVC 669.2: Joseph Dougherty, author of Rod Serling at 100, talks to Ed about “They’re Tearing Down Tim Riley’s Bar,” the first-season episode of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery that is widely considered to be among the very best pieces of writing that Serling ever did, and why Joe believes the episode itself “exists somewhere in a space between The Twi…
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Rod Serling: An Author of Television
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TVC 669.3: Joseph Dougherty, author of Rod Serling at 100, talks about the opportunity he once had to adapt Rod Serling’s live television drama The Velvet Alley into a film, and how surprised he was to learn just how sparsely Serling wrote when Joe studied Serling’s script for “The Purple Testament” for style purposes as part of the Velvet Alley pr…
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The Sopranos: A Cultural Phenomenon
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TVC 669.4: Ed welcomes back Ray Richmond, longtime television critic and entertainment reporter for such trade publications as The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety. Ray’s latest book, The Sopranos: The Complete Visual History, celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the premiere of The Sopranos, the multi-Emmy Award-winning drama created by …
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The Lives and Legacy of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
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TVC 669.5: Via remote from The Hollywood Museum: TV Confidential brings you special audio highlights of the opening night ceremony for Happy Trails, a new exhibit at the Hollywood Museum that celebrates the lives and legacy of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, the legendary King of the Cowboys and Queen of the Westerns. The Happy Trails exhibit features a…
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Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, and The Lone Ranger
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TVC 669.6: Via remote from The Hollywood Museum: TV Confidential brings you more highlights of the opening night ceremony for Happy Trails, the new exhibit at the Hollywood Museum that celebrates the lives and legacy of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. This segment includes comments from Dawn Moore, daughter of actor Clayton Moore (Roy and Dale’s co-star…
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Why CBS was originally nervous about A Charlie Brown Christmas
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We're taking a few days off this week, but we'll be back with a brand new edition of TV Confidential on Monday. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past, featuring this clip from December 2010 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the network premiere of A Charlie Brown Christmas, the very first Peanuts animated special, on CBS on Dec…
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Norman Lear and "The Draft Dodger"
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Thursday, Dec. 5 marks the one-year anniversary of the death of television icon Norman Lear. TV Confidential marks the occasion by bringing you this "Blast from the Past" clip from July 2022 in which Ed, Tony, Donna, and writer, producer, and author Jay Moriarty (The Jeffersons, All in the Family, Honky in the House) discuss how “The Draft Dodger,”…
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A Blast from the Past: Barbara Feldon
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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 January 2013 conversation with Barbara Feldon (Get Smart, Getting Smarter, Living Alone and Loving It).…
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Television is one of the few things that we have in common. Just about all of us has a favorite show that we either grew up watching or binge-watch today, or a favorite star whose career we continue to follow. That’s the premise behind TV CONFIDENTIAL, an engaging blend of talk and entertainment featuring lively conversations with the stars and oth…
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A Blast from the Past: Norma Maldonado
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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 December 2022 conversation with Norma Maldonado (Jane the Virgin, Sweet Navidad).De către Ed Robertson
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A Blast from the Past: Julie Newmar
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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 September 2011 conversation with Julie Newmar (Batman, Li’l Abner, Silk Stockings, The Marriage-Go-Round, My Living Doll, The Conscious Catwoman Explain…
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A Blast from the Past: Charles Grodin
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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 December 2012 conversation with actor, author and CBS Radio commentator Charles Grodin (Rosemary’s Baby, Catch-22, Midnight Run, The Heartbreak Kid, S…
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TVC 668.1: Ed welcomes actress, producer, and comedienne Kat Kramer, author Jimmy Byrge, and actress and producer Patricia Riley. Jimmy is the author of The Evergreen Christmas Tree, a new children’s book, based on a true story, about a family in the mountains of Tennessee who, despite not having a lot of money, set off to find the perfect Christma…
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TVC 668.2: From November 2019: Tony Figueroa remembers Ric Ocasek, the front man of The Cars, with a particular focus on the iconic video “You Might Think,” the first music video to use computer graphics. Ric Ocasek passed away on Sept. 15, 2019.De către Ed Robertson
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