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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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16:11

Fran Tarkenton, Gerald Ford, and Howard Smith

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/10/13

TVC 709.3: Part 2 of the conversation that began last week with Howard Smith, author of My Friend Johnny, a memoir of Howard’s twenty-year friendship with Johnny Carson, which began in 1985 when Howard found himself living four doors down the street from Carson in Malibu, and which continued until the end of Carson’s life. Topics this segment include a look at some of the other celebrities from business, sports, politics, and entertainment that Howard came to know during his career as a tech

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18:10

The Last Supper with Johnny Carson

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/10/13

TVC 709.4: Howard Smith shares a poignant memory of the last time he and his wife had dinner with Johnny Carson, just before a few days before Carson’s death in January 2005. Also in this segment: Howard shares a few memories of his friendship with actor Lloyd Haynes, which began a few years before Haynes became a star on Room 222 (ABC, 1969-1974), and which continued until Haynes’ death in December 1986. Howard’s new book, My Friend Johnny, is now available at MyFriendJohnny.com.

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19:05

Mariette Hartley on working with her husband Jerry...

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/10/13

TVC 709.5: Ed welcomes Emmy Award-winning actress, producer, and author Mariette Hartley (The Incredible Hulk, Goodnight, Beantown, Breaking the Silence, Law and Order: SVU). Mariette stars, along with her husband Jerry Sroka (who we also hear from in this segment), in Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story, a romantic comedy about two people of a certain age who meet online, strike up an unlikely romance, and weather the storm when an untimely illness threatens to tear them apart. Mariette

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17:25

Mariette Hartley, James Garner, and the Polaroid...

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/10/13

TVC 709.6: Emmy Award-winning actress Mariette Hartley talks to Ed about some of her other movie and TV roles, including the back story of the long-running, highly successful series of commercials that she did with James Garner for Polaroid cameras—and how the chemistry between her and Garner was so natural, many viewers believed that they were actually married. Mariette co-stars, co-wrote, and co-produced, along with her husband Jerry Sroka, in Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story, a romantic

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15:18

65 Years of The Flintstones

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/10/07

TVC 708.1: From October 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of The Flintstones (ABC, 1960-1966), the first animated series development for prime time, along with the various spinoffs and reimaginings of The Flintstones over the ensuing decades.

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06:47

1st World Series Game Telecast in Color

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/10/07

TVC 708.2: From October 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back to Game 1 of the 1955 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, the first time that a World Series game was broadcast in color. Mel Allen and Vin Scully covered the game for NBC. Photo courtesy National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

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08:25

30 Years of Baywatch Nights

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/10/07

TVC 708.3: From October 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of Baywatch Nights (Synd., 1995-1997), the spinoff of Baywatch starring David Hasselhoff, Gregory Alan Williams, Angie Harmon, and Donna D’Errico, the premise of which was more or less “Mitch Buchannon, private detective.”

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05:24

How TV Covered The Death of Rock Hudson

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/10/06

TVC 708.4: From October 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at how the print and television media covered the death of Rock Hudson. The legendary actor and screen heartthrob died from complications on Oct. 2, 1985. Photo of Rock Hudson courtesy People magazine

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22:34

TV Confidential remembers Robert Redford

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/10/06

TVC 708.5: TV Confidential pays tribute to Academy Award winner Robert Redford by playing highlights from conservations we’ve had with actors who either co-starred with Redford or were directed by him, including Hank Garrett (Three Days of the Condor), Basil Hoffman (The Electric Horseman, Ordinary People, All the President’s Men, The Milagro Beanfield War), and Dinah Manoff (Ordinary People). Also in the segment: special tributes from Stefanie Powers and Joan Van Ark, courtesy of B. Harlan Boll

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06:44

Louise Sorel, Herb Edelman, and Robert Redford

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/10/06

As long as we're in a Robert Redford frame of mind... please enjoy this special preview of our upcoming conversation with Louise Sorel (Days of Our Lives, Santa Barbara). Louise's husband Herb Edelman starred with Redford in both the original 1963 Broadway production of Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park as well as the 1967 film adaptation. Louise's new book, If There Were No Dogs: Musings and Mutterings, is now available through Book Baby, Amazon.com, and wherever books are sold online. Our

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21:10

Howard Smith, author of My Friend Johnny

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/10/06

TVC 708.6: Ed welcomes Howard Smith, a retired tech mogul who not only found himself living four doors down the street from Johnny Carson in 1985, but became tennis buddies and, later, best friends with the legendary King of Late Night for the next twenty years. Howard shares many stories of the Johnny Carson he knew—a funny, kind, generous, modest, shy, yet deeply complex man that he knew simply as John—in My Friend Johnny: The Last 20 Years of a Beautiful Life with Johnny Carson and Friends,

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20:18

Johnny Carson and The 5 Traits of a Beautiful Life

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/10/06

TVC 708.6: Howard Smith talks to Ed about the five characteristics that Johnny Carson, Sidney Poitier, Clint Eastwood, Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda, and many other successful people from business, sports, politics, and entertainment have all embodied throughout their life and career. Howard’s new book, My Friend Johnny: The Last 20 Years of a Beautiful Life with Johnny Carson and Friends, is now available at MyFriendJohnny.com

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07:16

Mariette Hartley of Our (Almost Completely True) Love...

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/10/05

We've been away for a few days, but we'll have a brand new edition of TV Confidential ready for you later this week. In the meantime, please enjoy this special preview of our upcoming conversation with Emmy Award-winning actress Mariette Hartley (Goodnight, Beantown, Law and Order: SVU). Mariette stars, along with her husband Jerry Sroka, in Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story, a romantic comedy that also includes a cast of such other film and TV favorites as Tess Harper, Bernie Kopell, Morgan

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08:13

John Candy biographer Paul Myers on the "I like me"...

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/10/02

Paul Myers, author of John Candy: A Life in Comedy, talks to Ed about the famous "I like me" speech that John Candy delivered as Del Griffith in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987) and how director John Hughes understood the essence of Candy as few others did. John Candy: A Life in Comedy becomes available wherever books are sold Tuesday, Oct. 7 through House of Anansi Press, as well as Amazon.com. Listeners in the San Francisco Bay Area can meet Paul Myers at Mrs Dalloway's Literary and Garden

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15:30

60 Years of The Wild, Wild West

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/09/29

From September 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the broadcast history of The Wild, Wild West (CBS, 1965-1969), which originally premiered on CBS in September 1965.

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10:53

The Other Smothers Brothers Show

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/09/29

From September 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of The Smothers Brothers Show (CBS, 1965-1966), a short-lived sitcom starring Tom and Dick Smothers that is mostly remembered today for being part of Nick at Nite’s weekend lineup in the late 1980s. The failure of The Smothers Brothers Show spurred the Smothers (and Tom in particular) to take more creative control when CBS gave them a second chance in January 1967, with the premiere of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (CBS,

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24:45

Would You Believe?!? Get Smart is 60

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/09/22

TVC 707.1: From September 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the legacy of Get Smart (NBC/CBS, 1965-1970), which premiered on NBC on Sept. 18, 1965.

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18:04

60 Years of Hogan's Heroes

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/09/22

TVC 707.2: From September 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of Hogan’s Heroes (CBS, 1965-1971) on Sept. 17, 1965.

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17:33

75 Years of Truth or Consequences

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/09/22

TVC 707.3: From April 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of Truth or Consequences on television on Sept. 7, 1950, ten years after it had premiered on in 1940.

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18:30

The Casting of Texas

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/09/22

TVC 707.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with John McCafferty, the actor known around the world as Billy Joe Wright on Texas (NBC, 1980-1982), and Tom Lisanti, sixties movie historian and 1970s daytime TV historian. John is among the many actors, writers, directors, NBC executives, and other behind-the-scenes personnel that Tom interviewed for his latest book, Texas: An Oral History of Daytime’s Answer to Dallas. Topics this segment include how series producer Paul Rauch pushed

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