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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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21:49

Flynn and Miranda: Your Right to Remain Silent

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2021/06/15

TVC 543.4: Ed welcomes Joseph Wallenstein, award-winning writer, producer, and director for film and television, and the director of physical production at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Joe’s latest book, Flynn and Miranda: Your Right to Remain Silent, is a historical novel that not only tells the back story of the historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling Miranda v. Arizona from June 1966, but puts a human face on the people involved—particularly, John Flynn, the

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23:36

Why TV Producers are Sometimes Like Baseball Managers

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2021/06/15

TVC 543.5: Joseph Wallenstein, author of Flynn and Miranda: Your Right to Remain Silent, discusses how the Miranda case addresses both Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment issues. He also shares a few stories about his career in television, including working with Julie Harris and producer Michael Filerman on Knots Landing, and with Oscar winner Jessica Tandy on the award-winning TV-movie The Story Lady. Flynn and Miranda: Your Right to Remain Silent is a historical novel that not only tells the back

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17:24

Why All Comedians are Tricksters

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2021/06/14

From June 2012: Ed welcomes David Misch, writer and producer for such shows as Mork & Mindy, Saturday Night Live, Late Night with David Letterman, and Police Squad! David's book Funny: The Book: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Comedy, is an entertaining look at the art of comedy from every conceivable angle: historical, musical, psychological, philosophical and everything in between. Topics this segment include a look at the comedic styles of George Carlin, Richard Pryor, and Redd Foxx;

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11:04

Gunsmoke: A Realistic, Yet Idealistic Western

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2021/06/13

From June 2011: Film and television historian Douglas Brode (Shooting Stars of the Small Screen) joins Ed for a tribute to James Arness and the legacy of Gunsmoke (CBS, 1975-1975). Topics this segment include how series creator Charles Marquis Warren originally sought to capture the essence of High Noon every week, and how the tone of Gunsmoke took on a more family-friendly, Andy Griffith Show-like vibe once the series moved to Monday nights in 1967. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV

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8:39

Why Gunsmoke Was Always a Character Show

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2021/06/12

From June 2011: Film and television historian Douglas Brode (Shooting Stars of the Small Screen) joins Ed for a look at the legacy of Gunsmoke. Topics this segment include how Gunsmoke changed in another fundamental way once the series expanded to an hour in 1961. Whereas the half-hour episodes focused primarily on Matt Dillon and the other core residents of Dodge City, the hour-long episodes focused mostly on the guest stars, such that Gunsmoke essentially became an anthology series with several

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8:48

Ed Sullivan: A Sunday Night Tradition

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2021/06/11

Sunday, June 6, 2021 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the final broadcast of The Ed Sullivan Show, a Sunday night tradition on CBS television for twenty-three years. With that in mind, we take you back to June 2011, when Tony, Donna and Ed remember the premiere of The Ed Sullivan Show, then known as Toast of the Town, on June 20, 1948. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our

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11:25

Embracing Our Inner George Carlin

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2021/06/10

From June 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the death of George Carlin on June 22, 2008. 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 click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices

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24:22

Norman Lloyd and the Most Difficult Columbo of All

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2021/06/09

TVC 541.1: Mark Dawidziak, longtime TV critic for the Cleveland Plain-Dealer and author of The Columbo Phile and many other books on American pop culture, joins Tony, Donna, and Ed for a roundtable discussion about Norman Lloyd, the legendary actor, producer, and director who passed away Tuesday, May 11 at age 106. Lloyd’s career not only spanned the history of 20th century entertainment, but encompassed the world of movies, television, radio, stage, and streaming. Topics this segment include the

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28:17

Norman Lloyd: The Sum is Greater Than the Parts

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2021/06/09

TVC 541.2: Tony, Donna, and Ed continue their discussion with Mark Dawidziak about the life and career of Norman Lloyd. Topics this segment include how Lloyd’s many contributions to both Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as producer and director (including the classic episodes “Man from the South” and “The Jar”); why Lloyd was among the leading interpreter of the works of Ray Bradbury; the innate curiosity Lloyd shared with both John Houseman and Orson Welles; and how, in many

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16:23

Norman Lloyd and the Blacklist

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2021/06/09

TVC 541.3: Tony, Donna, and Ed continue their discussion with Mark Dawidziak about the life of Norman Lloyd. Topics this segment included how the Red Scare of the early 1950s impacted Lloyd’s career. Norman Lloyd passed away Tuesday, May 11 at age 106. 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

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22:23

Nelson Riddle's Last Hurrah

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2021/06/08

TVC 541.4: Geoff Littlefield joins us for Part 2 of our celebration of the centennial birthday of Nelson Riddle. Topics this segment include Riddle’s collaborations in the early 1980s with Linda Ronstadt—a platinum-selling trilogy of albums of American pop standards that, in many respects, was the coda of Riddle’s illustrious career. Geoff’s latest book, Nelson Riddle: Music with a Heartbeat, was written with the consent of the Nelson Riddle estate and includes first-hand accounts from three of

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22:28

Alison Mills Newman and The Tree Widow

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2021/06/07

TVC 541.5: Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter welcome actress, filmmaker, songwriter, and minister Alison Mills Newman (Julia, The Leslie Uggams Show, Francisco). Alison’s latest project, The Tree Widow, is a series of faith-based films about a charismatic woman who helps young people (and, particularly, young women) make better choices in their lives. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast

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16:16

Alison Mills Newman and Mr. Novak

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2021/06/07

TVC 541.6: Alison Mills Newman discusses her early stage performances with the American Theater of Being, one of the first prominent L.A.-based stage companies to showcase African-American actors, and how that paved the way for her network TV debut in 1965, opposite James Franciscus and Lois Nettleton, in a well-received episode of Mr. Novak that opened the door to other opportunities in television. Chuck Harter, who arranged Alison’s appearance this week, co-hosts. Alison is the writer, director,

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10:48

Oprah Signs Off

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2021/06/06

From June 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the final broadcast of The Oprah Winfrey Show, which occurred during This Week in TV History. 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 click the link below to get

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9:48

Can You Teach Funny?

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2021/06/05

From June 2012: Ed welcomes David Misch, writer and producer for such shows as Mork & Mindy, Saturday Night Live, Late Night with David Letterman, and Police Squad! David's book Funny: The Book: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Comedy, is an entertaining look at the art of comedy from every conceivable angle: historical, musical, psychological, philosophical and everything in between. Topics this segment include why Leslie Nielsen excelled at playing deadpan comedy in Police Squad! and

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10:37

Why Are Ducks Funny?

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2021/06/05

From June 2012: Ed welcomes David Misch, writer and producer for such shows as Mork & Mindy, Saturday Night Live, Late Night with David Letterman, and Police Squad! David's book Funny: The Book: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Comedy, is an entertaining look at the art of comedy from conceivable angle: historical, musical, psychological, philosophical and everything in between. Topics this segment include why ducks are funny animals and why fart jokes have always been funny. Want to

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23:31

100 Years of Nelson Riddle

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2021/06/03

TVC 540.1: Ed welcomes Geoffrey Littlefield, author of Nelson Riddle: Music with a Heartbeat, a cradle to grave look at the complex, but often forlorn genius who was one of the chef architects of the Great American Songbook. Known for his many collaborations with Frank Sinatra, as well as such other music greats as Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, and Linda Ronstadt, Riddle had a tremendous influence on American popular music and the movie and TV soundtracks of our lives

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24:12

The Singular Sound of Nelson Riddle

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2021/06/03

TVC 540.2: Geoffrey Littlefield, author of Nelson Riddle: Music with a Heartbeat, talks to Ed about Riddle’s work during the golden era of movies and television, including the themes to Route 66 and The Blue Knight and the score for the 1966 Batman movie. Written with the consent of the Nelson Riddle estate, Nelson Riddle: Music with a Heartbeat includes first-hand accounts from three of Riddle’s children, including Christopher Riddle (current leader of the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, and the only

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19:31

Soul Lessons from The Wizard of Oz

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2021/06/02

TVC 540.3: Ed welcomes bestselling author and nationally known advertising writer Michael Shevack. Michael’s latest book, Soul Lessons from The Wizard of Oz: How to Follow Your Yellow Brick Road, makes the case that The Wizard of Oz is not just a great story, but a pathway to profound spiritual lessons that can help us move away from the dull, flat black-and-white existence that can hold us back and discover the vibrant, Technicolor, spiritually open “Oz state” that leads to our True Self. Soul

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22:43

The Inimitable Charles Grodin

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2021/06/01

TVC 540.4: An encore presentation of December 2012 conversation with Charles Grodin, the actor known around the world for his appearances in such films as Rosemary's Baby, Catch-22, Midnight Run, The Heartbreak Kid, Seems Like Old Times, and the Beethoven movies, as well as his popular CNBC talk show, his daily commentaries for CBS Radio, and his numerous appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, The Late Show with David Letterman, and other late-night talk shows. At the time he appeared

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