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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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14:34

The Missing Four Minutes, Part 2

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/11/13

TVC 627.3: From November 2013: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio plays audio of the first national news bulletin for NBC News, read by booth announcer Don Pardo at approximately 1:47pm ET on Nov. 22, 1963, announcing that President Kennedy had been “cut down by an assassin’s bullet.” Due to the technical limitations of TV broadcasting at the time, NBC had no tape of this bulletin or the first four minutes of its own news coverage. Those first four minutes were considered lost for more than

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25:24

The Honorable Ruta Lee

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/11/13

TVC 627.4: Ed welcomes back legendary singer, actress, and philanthropist Ruta Lee (High Rollers, Witness for the Prosecution, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Consider Your Ass Kissed). Earlier this year, the former president of Lithuania, Valdas Adamkus, presented Ruta with Lithuania's highest honor at a magnificent ceremony in the Vilnius Presidential Palace in Lithuania, while the current president of Lithuania, Gitanas Nauseda, presented Ruta with another high honor during a visit to Ruta’s

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25:28

Ruta Lee, Darren McGavin, and Casa Manana

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/11/13

TVC 627.5: Entertainment legend Ruta Lee shares a few memories from her life and career, including the epic story of how she helped her grandmother emigrate from Lithuania in 1963, and how Darren McGavin put down a deposit in Ruta’s name for a home in Palm Springs, early in Ruta’s career. Ruta’s memoir, Consider Your Ass Kissed, not only is the story of how a young girl—the daughter of Lithuanian immigrants—became one of the most legendary entertainers in Hollywood history through hard work and

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21:55

Don Pardo and The Chaos at NBC News on 11/22/63

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/11/13

TVC 627.6: From November 2013: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio plays excerpts from his May 1998 interview with longtime NBC announcer Don Pardo in which Pardo recalls the chaos that permeated the NBC newsroom on Nov. 22, 1963, in the moments immediately following the news that President John F. Kennedy had been shot, and how he was pressed into becoming an interim news anchor, reading AP news bulletins hot off the wire, until the usual network news team of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley was

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29:33

The Monkees Revisited

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/11/06

TVC 626.1: Music and television historian Chuck Harter joins Ed for an in-depth look at The Monkees television series (NBC, 1966-1968) and why it still holds up today. Chuck interviewed Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork, and many other key Monkees personnel for Hey, Hey, We’re The Monkees, the excellent Disney Channel documentary, written by Chuck, that explores the history of The Monkees and the ongoing impact of the Monkees phenomenon. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV

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21:07

The Three Phases of The Monkees

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/11/06

TVC 626.2: Chuck Harter, music historian and writer of the acclaimed documentary Hey, Hey, We’re The Monkees, talks to Ed about the three phases of The Monkees in 1967: television series, recording unit, and live performing ensemble. 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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15:07

Michael Connelly, creator of Harry Bosch, Renee...

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/11/06

TVC 626.3: Ed welcomes Michael Connelly, New York Times bestselling author; creator of the Harry Bosch, Renee Ballard, and Lincoln Lawyer novel series; and the executive producer of both Bosch and Bosch: Legacy, the two Amazon Prime series starring Titus Welliver that are based on the Harry Bosch novels, and The Lincoln Lawyer, the Netflix series starring Manual Garcia-Rulfo as Mickey Haller, the Lincoln Lawyer. Michael’s latest novel, Resurrection Walk, is a Lincoln Lawyer novel that also features

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22:02

The Different Tracks of Harry Bosch

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/11/06

TVC 626.4: Michael Connelly, creator of the Harry Bosch, Renee Ballard, and Lincoln Lawyer novel series, talks to Ed about collaborating with David E. Kelley on the Netflix series adaptation of The Lincoln Lawyer; how Harry Bosch, the book character, differs from the character that Titus Welliver plays on Bosch and Bosch: Legacy; and why the Musso and Frank Grill is one of his favorite restaurants in Hollywood. Michael’s latest novel, Resurrection Walk, is available in bookstores everywhere on

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21:00

The Golden Age of Music for Television

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/11/06

TVC 626.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Jon Burlingame, nationally renowned music journalist and the author of Music for Prime Time: A History of American Television and Scoring that not tells the back story of every great TV theme music or TV theme song, but gives readers a portraits of the many great composers who made those themes so memorable, including John Williams, Benny Carter, Duane Tatro, Irving Szathmary, and Oliver Nelson. Topics this segment include why some of the

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16:20

The Three Eras of TV Themes

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/11/06

TVC 626.6: Jon Burlingame, author of Music for Prime Time, talks to Ed about the three eras of music for television, and how the role of music supervisors on a television series has become particularly important today, when many shows use pre-existing songs to convey the theme and mood of a series. Music for Prime Time: A History of American Television Themes and Scoring is available in bookstores everywhere through Oxford University Press and Amazon.com. Jon Burlingame is also the producer, along

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23:28

The Healing Nature of Abbott and Costello

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/10/30

TVC 625.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began on our last program with actor, author, and comedian Nick Santa Maria (The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster). Nick's new book, The Annotated Abbott and Costello: A Complete Viewer’s Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films (a collaboration with Matthew Coniam), not only provides a film by film, scene by scene look at all thirty-eight movies starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, but makes the case for why Abbott and Costello rightfully belong

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22:48

The Many Co-Stars of Abbott and Costello

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/10/30

TVC 625.2: Nick Santa Maria, co-author of The Annotated Abbott and Costello: A Complete Viewer’s Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films, talks to Greg and Ed about the many famous character actors who co-starred with Abbott and Costello in the movies and on television, including Shemp Howard, Errol Flynn, Martha Raye, Dick Powell, Charles Lane, Joey Faye, and Gale Gordon. Available from McFarland and Company, The Annotated Abbott and Costello also features new research, surprising revelations,

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11:50

The Ultimate Abbott and Costello Top Ten

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/10/30

TVC 625.2b: Nick Santa Maria, co-author of The Annotated Abbott and Costello: A Complete Viewer’s Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films, talks to Greg and Ed about the "Ultimate Abbott and Costello Top Ten," one of the extra features of The Annotated Abbott and Costello, and a scientifically put-together Top Ten that includes input from such luminaries as Leonard Maltin, Joe Dante, John Landis, Chris Costello, and Michael Schlessinger. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has

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15:18

Shelly Clark of Honey Cone

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/10/30

TVC 625.3: Ed welcomes singer and dancer Shelly Clark, one of the founding members of Honey Cone, the legendary R&B and soul girl group from the late 1960s and early 1970s that was also the premier female group for Hot Wax Records, the label operated by the famed writing team Holland-Dozier-Holland. Honey Cone was also the very first act to appear on the debut episode of Soul Train in 1971, performing two of their hits, "Want Ads" and "Stick Up." Shelly talks to Ed about the significance of

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21:44

Honey Cone's Message of Empowerment

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/10/30

TVC 625.4: Shelly Clark, one of the founding members of the legendary R&B and soul girl group Honey Cone, talks to Ed about how the empowering lyrics of Honey Cone's songs help usher in a new mindset for female groups and solo female artists. She also shares a few memories of performing as an Ikette with the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in the 1960s, including how she bonded with Tina Turner immediately because of astrology, and the story of the near tragic bus accident that nearly ended Shelly's

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19:29

The Craft of Music Composed for Television

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/10/30

TVC 625.5: Ed welcomes back Jon Burlingame, longtime music journalist and our nation’s leading writer on the subject of music for films and television. Jon’s latest book, Music for Prime Time: A History of American Television and Scoring, not only includes more than 450 interviews with composers, orchestrators, producers, editors, and musicians who are or who were active in the field of music for television, but tells the back story of every great TV theme music or TV theme song while also examining

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14:32

Jon Burlingame on Jerry Goldsmith and Patrick Williams

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/10/30

TVC 625.6: Jon Burlingame, author of Music for Prime Time, talks to Ed about the television work of renowned composers Jerry Goldsmith (Barnaby Jones, Police Story, The Loner) and Patrick Williams (The Streets of San Francisco, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Lou Grant, The Magician). Topics this segment include why Goldsmith was reluctant to score the pilot for Barnaby Jones (and how his theme for Barnaby, ironically, ended up being one of his best known TV compositions) and why no

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12:26

Tina Turner: A Force of Nature Live

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/10/30

TVC 625.7: Music historian Chuck Harter joins Ed for a remembrance of music legend Tina Turner, a force of nature as a live performer (both as a solo artist and when she performed with her husband Ike Turner as part of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue) who went on to become a darling of the MTV generation. Tina Turner passed away May 24, 2023 at age eighty-three. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast

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25:31

Arielle Raycene of Confidential Informant

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/10/09

TVC 624.1: Ed welcomes Arielle Raycene, actress, entrepreneur, social media influencer, and co-founder of Real A F, a platform that connects social media with spatial media and a 3-D walk-around application. Arielle also can be seen in the action thriller Confidential Informant (with Mel Gibson and Kate Bosworth), the Peacock series Bupkis (starring Pete Davidson), and the 1980s horror movie spoof Kill Her Goats. Bupkis is available for on demand viewing on Peacock TV, while Kill Her Goats and

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21:50

The Annotated Abbott and Costello

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/10/09

TVC 624.2: Ed and Greg Ehrbar welcome back actor, author, and comedian Nick Santa Maria (The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster). Nick's new book, The Annotated Abbott and Costello: A Complete Viewer’s Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films (a collaboration with Matthew Coniam), not only provides a film by film, scene by scene look at all thirty-eight movies starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, but makes the case for why Abbott and Costello rightfully belong among the top tier of comedy

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