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TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

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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07:55

How Kathleen Bradley Became Mrs. Parker in Friday

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/07/15

A special preview of our upcoming conversation with actress, supermodel, author, and speaker Kathleen Bradley (The Price is Right, Friday, Backstage at The Price is Right). Our complete interview with Kathleen will air coast to coast on our AM/FM stations during the weekend of July 25, then will become available for listening on demand as a podcast beginning Monday, July 28.

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06:39

Morgan White Jr. on his incredible gift of memory

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/07/14

Via remote from Las Vegas: A special preview of our upcoming conversation with Morgan White Jr., longtime late night radio personality for WBZ AM-FM/Boston, author of many books, and the Undisputed King of Trivia. Besides his deep roots in radio, Morgan has hosted live trivia shows, both in Boston and in other parts of the country, for more forty-five years---and, as you're able to hear, no one else approaches trivia like he does. Our complete conversation with Morgan will air coast to coast during

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07:22

Taylor Blackwell on capturing the voice of Judy Tenuta

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/07/10

A special preview of our upcoming conversation with Taylor Blackwell, the writer, director, and star of It Happened, the award-winning short biopic about legendary comedienne Judy Tenuta. Our complete conversation with Taylor will air during the weekend of July 18, then becomes available as a podcast on Monday, July 21. If you run a film festival, or know someone who does, and may be interested in including It Happened: The Judy Tenuta Story, contact Taylor Blackwell at tayblackwell@gmail.com

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23:46

Rich Manley, adventure illusionist and host of...

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/07/07

TVC 697.1: Ed welcomes back Rich Manley, world-renowned “adventure illusionist” and the writer, producer, director, and host of Culture Shock: Bridging Cultures Through Magic, the popular series on Tubi that communicates the energy, humility, and compassion of people coming together through the shared experience of magic. The first season of Culture Shock is available for viewing on demand on Tubi, while the series was also recently renewed for a second season. Rich’s live stage show, Journal of

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15:01

Tribute to Bobby Sherman

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/07/05

From June 2023: Ed and Greg Ehrbar look back at the music and television career of Bobby Sherman as part of a conversation about the home entertainment release of Here Come the Brides (ABC, 1968-1970). Though Sherman first came into prominence as the house singer on Shindig (ABC, 1964-1966), the success of Here Come the Brides made him a teen idol, not to mention a gold-selling recording artist. Bobby Sherman passed away on Tuesday, June 24 at the age of eighty-one.

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06:43

The Birth of the CBS Bicentennial Minutes

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/07/04

We'll be back with a brand new edition of TV Confidential later in July. In the meantime, please enjoy this clip from June 2011 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed remember The Bicentennial Minutes (CBS, 1974-1976), a series of one-minute educational television segments, produced by CBS News, that every night aired in prime time (usually at the end of the 8pm hour) to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the American Revolution. The series premiered on July 4, 1974 and was originally scheduled to end on

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22:57

The Heart of John Candy

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/06/30

TVC 696.4: Via remote from Davenport’s Restaurant in Encino, California: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Robert Crane, co-author, along with Christopher Fryer, of Three-Cornered Circle, is a screen play released in book form that is also an adaptation of one of the most poignant stories of Bob and Chris’ book Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father’s Unsolved Murder: the period in Bob’s life when he had to juggle the biggest break of his career at the time—being hired

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21:08

John Candy and "The Chongos"

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/06/30

TVC 696.5: Via remote from the back patio of Davenport’s Restaurant in Encino, California: Robert Crane, John Cerney, and Meagan Bejar talk to Ed about Bob’s experience with dealing with tragedy and loss; why “closure” is a media term; how John Candy came from a humble background, after losing his father when he was five; and how Candy once lobbied NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana to play for the Toronto Argonauts in the CFL when Candy co-owned that team. Bob’s latest book,

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17:28

Why John Candy was beloved by all

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/06/30

TVC 696.6: Christopher Fryer, co-author, along with Robert Crane, of Three-Cornered Circle, shares a few of his favorite stories about his encounters with John Candy, including the time when he, Bob, Candy, and then-NBC broadcaster Bob Costas were all stuck in the same car together along the Garden State Parkway while heading for a concert in New Jersey. Three-Cornered Circle is available through Kill Fee Publishing.

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10:04

Kiki Ebsen on her upcoming show at The G Spot in Los...

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/06/29

A special preview of our upcoming interview with Kiki Ebsen, youngest daughter of Buddy Ebsen, and an accomplished singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist in her own right. Kiki will perform an evening of jazz standards at the G Spot jazz venue in Los Angeles on Sunday, July 6 beginning at 7pm. Our complete conversation with Kiki will air during the weekend of July 18 on TV Confidential, then will become available for listening on demand as a podcast on Monday, July 21. Photo of Kiki

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22:02

Bill Kroyer, Chuck Jones, and Glen Larson

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/06/23

TVC 695.1: Ed welcomes Academy Award-nominated director and animator Bill Kroyer (FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Tron, Technological Threat). The title of Bill’s memoir, Mr. In-Between: My Life in the Middle of the Animation Revolution, is a play on words: He began his career in animation drawing something known as “in-betweens,” while the story arc of his career in animation happens to coincide with the many changes in the landscape of animation that have occurred over the past five

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21:38

Bill Kroyer, June Foray, and Mick Jagger

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/06/23

TVC 695.2: Academy Award-nominated director and animator Bill Kroyer talks to Ed about what an “in-between” is in animation; why it took more than the success of Tron, the first feature motion picture to integrate computer-generated imagery, for CGI to take off; what led Bill into directing; and how he came to work with Mick Jagger on the music video for “Hard Woman,” one of the first videos to use CGI software that implemented movement. Bill’s memoir, Mr. In-Between: My Life in the Middle of the

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24:04

Robert Crane, John Cerney, Meagan Bejar, and...

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/06/23

TVC 695.4: Via remote from the back patio of Davenport’s Restaurant in Encino, California: Ed welcomes back Robert Crane, eldest son of Hogan’s Heroes star Bob Crane, and the author or co-author of several books on movies and television, including My UnHollywood Family, Hollywood Plateau, Jack Nicholson: The Early Years, Bruce Dern: Things I’ve Said, But Probably Shouldn’t Have: An Unrepentant Memoir, and Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father’s Unsolved Murder (the last three of which were

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18:07

Christopher Fryer, co-author of Three-Cornered Circle

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/06/23

TVC 695.5: Ed welcomes back Christopher Fryer, co-author, along with Robert Crane, of Three-Cornered Circle and other books on movies and television. Topics this segment include how Chris and Bob worked together on Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father’s Unsolved Murder (and, to some degree, on Three-Cornered Circle); the importance of using dialogue to conveying the emotion necessary to drive the story when writing for the screen; and why there can never any “closure” when someone you truly love

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23:13

Carol Lynley, Carroll Baker, and the dueling Jean...

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/06/16

TVC 694.1: Ed welcomes back Tom Lisanti, renowned historian of sixties cinema, and the author of such books as Carol Lynley: Her Film & TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy and Suspense and Ryan’s Hope: An Oral History of Daytime’s Groundbreaking Soap. Tom’s recent books include Dueling Harlows: The Race to Bring the Actress’s Life to the Silver Screen, everything you wanted to know about the two major motion pictures released in 1965 about screen legend Jean Harlow—both of which happened to be named

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08:34

Dueling Harlows by Tom Lisanti

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/06/16

TVC 694.2: Tom Lisanti, author of Dueling Harlows: The Race to Bring the Actress’s Life to the Silver Screen, talks to Ed about his forthcoming oral history of the brief period in which the daytime soap Another World (NBC, 1964-1999) expanded from sixty minutes in length to ninety minutes.

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22:13

Harry O in San Diego

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/06/16

TVC 694.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began two programs ago with Steve Aldous and Gary Gillies, co-authors of The Harry O Viewing Companion: History and Episodes of the Classic Detective Series, a deep dive into the making of Harry O (ABC, 1974-1976), the short-lived but fondly remembered private eye series starring David Janssen, Henry Darrow, and Anthony Zerbe, that also offers insight into what made Harry O so special. Topics this segment include Janssen’s mounting

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14:02

The Allure of Harry O

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/06/16

TVC 694.6: Steve Aldous and Gary Gillies, co-authors of The Harry O Viewing Companion: History and Episodes of the Classic Detective Series, talk to Ed about the various reasons why Harry O was canceled in the spring of 1976, despite holding its own in the ratings; the contributions of producer Jerry Thorpe and director Richard Lang; and why part of the allure of Harry O stems from the fact that it only ran for two seasons. The Harry O Viewing Companion is available wherever books

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25:05

The Watercolour Artistry of Loretta Swit

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/06/09

TVC 693.1: From January 2017: Emmy Award-winning actress Loretta Swit joins Ed for a conversation about her lifelong interest in watercolor painting, her “proprietary relationship” with wildlife, her vast stage career (including her then-recent portrayal of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt), and, of course, a few questions about M*A*S*H. Loretta Swit passed away on Friday, May 30 at the age of eighty-seven. At the time we spoke to Loretta in 2017, she had just released SwitHeart: The

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22:22

Loretta Swit's "Proprietary Relationship" with Wildlife

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/06/09

TVC 693.2: Part 2 of our January 2017 conversation with Loretta Swit about her lifelong interest in watercolor painting, her “proprietary relationship” with wildlife, her vast stage career (including her then-recent portrayal of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt), and a few questions about M*A*S*H, including Loretta's deep respect for real-life nurses; "The Nurses," the famous episode, written by Linda Bloodworth-Thompson and directed by Joan Darling, that forever changed the trajectory of the

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