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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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21:09

Charles Fox and the Power of Live Music

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/08/28

TVC 620.5: Ed welcomes back Grammy Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning composer Charles Fox, the man behind "Killing Me Softly with His Song," "Ready to Take a Chance Again," "I Got a Name," and many other classic songs from the 1970s, and the composer of some of the most iconic theme songs in TV history, including Happy Days, Wonder Woman, and The Love Boat. Charles is the subject of Killing Me Softly with His Songs, a forthcoming documentary that not only chronicles Charles’ life and career in

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18:24

Jack Warner's Reluctant Entry into Television

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/08/28

TVC 620.3: Gregory Orr, son of William T. Orr, the original head of television production at Warner Bros. Studios, and the grandson of Warner Bros. co-founder Jack L. Warner, talks to Ed about the some of the many film stars and television stars that Warner Bros. developed during the era of the studio system, and how Jack Warner took little interest in the development of his television division beyond seeing it as a source of revenue. The director’s cut of Greg’s 1993 documentary Jack L. Warner:

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24:17

Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/08/22

TVC 619:1: Ed welcomes filmmaker Gregory Orr, son of William T. Orr, the original head of television production at Warner Bros. Studios, and the grandson of Warner Bros. co-founder Jack L. Warner. Calendar year 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of Warner Bros.; to mark the occasion, Greg has just released the director’s cut of his 1993 documentary Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul, an unvarnished look at one of the founding fathers of the American film industry, all told through Warner

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21:42

Fritz Coleman: Unassisted Living

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/08/21

TVC 619.2: Ed welcomes back Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, comedian, and writer Fritz Coleman. Fritz’s new one-man show, Unassisted Living, is an hour of stand-up, recorded at the El Portal Theatre in Los Angeles, in which Fritz sounds off on COVID, the aging process, and other slice-of-life issues that we’ve all experienced lately, but cannot always control. Unassisted Living is available right now for streaming on demand on the Tubi channel. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential

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16:14

Fritz Coleman, Bob Hope, and The Tonight Show

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/08/21

TVC 619.3: Legendary broadcaster and comedian Fritz Coleman talks to Ed about working with Bob Hope; his recent interview with Jerry Mathers on Media Path, the podcast that Fritz co-hosts with Louise Palanker; and the events that led to Fritz’s first appearance on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show. Fritz’s new one-man show, Unassisted Living, is available now for streaming on demand on the Tubi channel. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle

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17:12

Fritz Coleman, Marlon Brando, and "Single Topic"...

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/08/21

TVC 619.4: Fritz Coleman talks to Ed about some of the other “single topic” monologues that he has written and performed, including It’s Me, Dad, a poignant hour that was produced as a special by KCET in Los Angeles—and which resulted in Fritz speaking with Marlon Brando after the show’s first broadcast. Fritz’s latest one-man show, Unassisted Living, is available now for streaming on demand on the Tubi channel. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to

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25:46

Why Time Travel is a Core Element of Science Fiction

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/08/07

TVC 618:1: Part 2 of our roundtable discussion with Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and novelist Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriter’s Companion) about obscure science fiction television series from the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. Joe’s new sci-fi novel, The First Cylinder, draws inspiration from Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, and War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, only it tells the story of the invasion of Mars from the perspective of the Martians. Tony

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23:18

Obscure Sci-Fi Shows of the 1970s

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/08/07

TVC 618.2: Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and novelist Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriter’s Companion) talks to Ed, Tony Figueroa, and Dan Farren about Cliffhangers, Space Academy, Quark, Project UFO, My Living Doll, and other obscure science fiction series from the 1960s and ’70s. Joe’s new novel, The First Cylinder, is available from Fayetteville Mafia Press and Amazon.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with

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16:31

Obscure Sci-Fi Shows of the 1960s

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/08/07

TVC 618.3: Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and novelist Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriter’s Companion) talks to Ed, Tony Figueroa, and Dan Farren about the appeal of The Time Tunnel, Doctor Who, and other series that revolve around the concept of time travel. Joe’s new novel, The First Cylinder, is available from Fayetteville Mafia Press and Amazon.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle

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22:48

Larry Cohen, Stephen King, and Nicholas Meyer

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/08/07

TVC 618.4: Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and novelist Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriter’s Companion) talks to Ed, Tony Figueroa, and Dan Farren about the appeal of such series as The Invaders, Stephen King’s The Golden Years, and Fantastic Journey. Joe’s new novel, The First Cylinder, is available from Fayetteville Mafia Press and Amazon.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle

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26:34

Robert Colbert of The Time Tunnel

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/08/07

TVC 618.5: From June 2015: Ed welcomes back actor Robert Colbert (The Time Tunnel, Maverick, The Young and the Restless). 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:

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24:07

The Iconoclastic Nature of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/08/01

TVC 617.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Jim Benson, host of Jim Benson's TV Time Machine and the co-author, along with Scott Skelton, of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour, everything you wanted to know about the other famous TV series created by Rod Serling. Topics this segment include how Night Gallery was both a director’s show as well as a producer’s show, and how series creator Rod Serling took away his own leverage by not insisting on having creative control

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21:30

Writing the Historical Wrongs of Rod Serling’s Night...

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/08/01

TVC 617.2: Jim Benson, co-author of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour, talks to Ed about some of many misconceptions about Night Gallery, many of which stem from the truncated versions of many episodes as they appeared in the show’s syndication package. Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour has been recently updated and reissued as a marvelous 50th anniversary second edition that includes a host of new material, including more than four hundred pages of new information, plus a brand new

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14:45

The Back Story of "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar"

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/08/01

TVC 617.3: Jim Benson, co-author of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour, talks to Ed about “They’re Tearing Down Tim Riley’s Bar,” the first-season episode starring William Windom, Diane Baker, and Bert Convy that is universally recognized as one of the best, among the most personal, scripts that Rod Serling ever wrote. Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour has been updated and reissued as a 50th anniversary second edition that includes a brand new foreword by Oscar and Emmy winning

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26:01

Early Science Fiction Television

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/08/01

TVC 617:4: Ed welcomes back Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and novelist Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriter’s Companion). Joe has just published The First Cylinder, a breakout science fiction novel that draws inspiration from War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, only it tells the story of the invasion of Mars from the perspective of the Martians. Tony Figueroa and Dan Farren join Joe and Ed for a roundtable discussion of such early science fiction TV

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23:32

Science Fiction: A Genre Filled with Hope

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/08/01

TVC 617.5: Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and novelist Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriter’s Companion) talks to Ed, Tony Figueroa, and Dan Farren about why The Outer Limits is more lyrical and visually stylistic than The Twilight Zone, even though the network run of Outer Limits lasted just fifteen months. Joe’s new novel, The First Cylinder, is available from Fayetteville Mafia Press and Amazon.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV

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16:52

In Through the Out Door: Time Travel with a Twist

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/08/01

TVC 618.6: Ed welcomes Dale Pederson, the writer, director, and producer of In Through the Out Door, an upcoming time travel/suspense/thriller series that not only draws inspiration from H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, but blends elements of the true crime genre by thrusting its two protagonists back to 1893 Chicago, where they find themselves terrorized by notorious serial killer H.H. Holmes. Topics this segment include how the premise of In Through the Out Door is also somewhat reminiscent of that

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23:03

A Deep Dive into Rod Serling's Night Gallery

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/07/25

TVC 616.1: Ed welcomes back Jim Benson, host of Jim Benson's TV Time Machine and the co-author, along with Scott Skelton, of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour, everything you wanted to know about the other famous TV series created by Rod Serling. Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour has been recently updated and reissued as a marvelous 50th anniversary second edition that includes a host of new material, including more than four hundred pages of new information, plus a brand new

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22:34

Why Night Gallery Was Very Much a Directors Show

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/07/25

TVC 616.2: Jim Benson, co-author of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour, talks to Ed about how Night Gallery helped launch the career of many directors, including John Badham, John Astin, Jeannot Szwarc, and, most famously, Steven Spielberg. Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour has been updated and reissued as a marvelous 50th anniversary second edition that includes a host of new material, including more than four hundred pages of new information, plus a brand new foreword by Oscar and

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22:35

Television Pioneer Jimmy Weldon

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2023/07/25

TVC 616.3: From June 2016: Ed welcomes actor and motivational speaker Jimmy Weldon, the voice of Yakky Doodle on Yogi Bear, and the author of Go Get ’Em Tiger, a part autobiographical, part motivational book that shows that the real definition of success is becoming the person you want to be and doing what you really want to do. Jimmy Weldon passed away Thursday, July 6 at age ninety-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle

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