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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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25:15

Hollywood a Go Go, Shebang, and other pop music TV shows

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/08/25

TVC 703.4: From August 2018: Chuck Harter and Ed continue their look at nationally syndicated pop music TV shows from the mid to late 1960s. In this segment, we focus on Shebang (hosted by Casey Kasem), Hollywood a Go Go (aka Ninth Street West), Shivaree, and Groovy.

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21:08

Joseph Wallenstein on Why Nothing Dies for Film

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/08/25

TVC 703.5: Ed welcomes back award-winning producer, director, and author Joseph Wallenstein (Knots Landing, Hotel, Seventh Heaven, Flynn vs. Miranda, Nothing Dies for Film), longtime director of physical production for the USC School of Cinematic Arts (where he helped oversee more than 15,000 student film projects without a single injury), and now host of the new podcast Whatcha Know Joe? Topics this segment include how Joe first became involved with USC. Whatcha Know Joe? is available on Apple

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13:30

Joseph Wallenstein, host of Whatcha Know Joe?

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/08/25

TVC 703.6: Award-winning producer, director, and author Joseph Wallenstein talks to Ed about how Knots Landing producer Michael Filerman helped him become a director. Joe’s podcast, Whatcha Know Joe?, is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever else you find podcasts.

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10:51

Groucho Marx and You Bet Your Life

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/08/20

We'll be back with a brand new edition of TV Confidential later this week. In the meantime, please enjoy this clip from August 2012 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the life and career of Groucho Marx and the broadcast history of You Bet Your Life.

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20:44

Pop Music TV Shows of the Mid to Late 1960s

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/08/18

TVC 702.1: From August 2018: Chuck Harter joins Ed for Part 1 of a three-part look at Shindig, Hullabaloo, Where the Action Is and other national and syndicated pop music TV shows of the mid to late 1960s—a genre that not only showcased such popular groups as The Kinks, The Righteous Brothers, Herman’s Hermits, Darlene Love, Paul Revere and The Raiders, and Ike and Tina Turner, but which broke ground insofar as many of these shows were produced specifically for young viewers.

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20:02

How Shindig Begat Hullabaloo

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/08/18

TVC 702.2: From August 2018: Chuck Harter and Ed continue their look at national, syndicated, and (in a few cases) locally produced pop music TV shows of the mid to late 1960s. Topics this segment include the back story of Hullabaloo, NBC’s answer to Shindig, which premiered in January 1965.

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15:33

Dick Clark and Where The Action Is

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/08/18

TVC 702.3: From August 2018: Chuck Harter and Ed discuss the on-air history of Where the Action Is (ABC, 1965-1967), a weekday afternoon music series, created by Dick Clark, that featured such artists as James Brown, Herman’s Hermits, and Paul Revere and The Raiders.

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25:05

Joi Lansing: The Scopitone Bombshell

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/08/18

TVC 702.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Joseph Dougherty, author of Comfort and Joi, and Alexis Hunter, author of Joi Lansing: A Body to Die For, about the life and career of singer/actress Joi Lansing. Topics this segment include how Joi’s third husband, producer Stan Todd, not only helped Joi launch her nightclub singing career, but stepped up for both Joi and Alexis, particularly during Joi’s battle with breast cancer. Comfort and Joi is available from Tucker DS

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19:09

Harry Dean Stanton: Hollywood's Zen Rebel

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/08/18

TVC 702.5: Ed welcomes Joseph Atkins, author of Harry Dean Stanton: Hollywood’s Zen Rebel, a deep dive into the life and times of the angular-faced character actor who not only became a leading man in the 1980s (most notably, with Paris, Texas and Repo Man), but was also an accomplished singer and musician. Joe’s book includes interviews with such Harry Dean Stanton contemporaries as Nehemiah Persoff, L.Q. Jones, Dabney Coleman, Dennis Quaid, directors Alex Cox and Wim Wenders, as well as many

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10:11

Harry Dean Stanton, Monte Hellman, and Alex Cox

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/08/18

TVC 702.6: Joseph Atkins, author of Harry Dean Stanton: Hollywood’s Zen Rebel, talks to Ed how director Monte Hellman cast Stanton frequently in his movies, yet never saw him as a lead; how Stanton and Alex Cox, director of Repo Man, did not always see eye to eye during the early production of that movie; and how the soundtrack of Repo Man kept the film in the public eye. Harry Dean Stanton: Hollywood’s Zen Rebel is available through University Press of Kentucky as well as Amazon.com.

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22:02

The "effortless attractiveness" of Joi Lansing

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/08/11

TVC 700.1: Emmy Award-winning writer, director, and producer Joseph Dougherty and author and artist Alexis Hunter join Ed for the first of a special two-part look at the life and career of Joi Lansing, the legendary Blonde Bombshell best known for her pin-up photos, her frequent work in movies and television throughout the '50s and '60s, and her successful nightclub singing act. Joe’s latest book, Comfort and Joi, is a part-biography, part-filmography, and part-appreciation of Joi Lansing that

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21:51

The Aura of Joi Lansing

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/08/11

TVC 701.2: Joseph Dougherty, author of Comfort and Joi, and Alexis Hunter, author of Joi Lansing: A Body to Die For, talk to Ed about the many times in which producer Al Simon and actress Nancy Kulp crossed paths with Joi Lansing; Joi’s notable television appearances, including her recurring role as Gladys Flatt in The Beverly Hillbillies; and Hot Cars (1956), a film noir thriller that, in many respects, marked Joi’s most prominent appearance on the big screen other than Touch of Evil. Comfort

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13:33

How Ed Sullivan and The Smothers Brothers shaped...

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/08/11

TVC 701.3: From August 2016: Steve Binder, Emmy Award-winning producer and director and the co-author, along with Mary Beth Leidman, of Fade Up 26: The Movers and Shakers of Variety Television, talks to Ed about the controversy involving Petula Clark and Harry Belafonte behind the scenes of Clark’s 1968 special for NBC, and why both The Ed Sullivan Show and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour really shaped the genre of variety television as we know it today.

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21:08

Laurence Luckinbill, Mart Crowley, and Charles Laughton

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/08/11

TVC 701.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with actor, author, playwright, and Emmy Award-winning producer Laurence Luckinbill (The Boys in the Band, The Delphi Bureau, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Lyndon, Hemingway, Teddy Tonight!, Clarence Darrow Tonight!). Topics this segment include how Larry and Mart Crowley, author of The Boys in the Band, had more in common with each other than either had realized; and the night when Larry saw actor Charles Laughton perform passages

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19:55

Laurence Luckinbill, Sam Rolfe, and The Delphi Bureau

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/08/11

TVC 701.5: Actor and author Laurence Luckinbill (The Boys in the Band, The Delphi Bureau, Star Trek V, Affective Memories: How Chance and The Theater Saved My Life) talks to Ed about working with writer/producer Sam Rolfe on The Delphi Bureau (ABC, 1972-1973); how Larry’s portrayal of Glenn Garth Gregory as a “reluctant hero” was a first for American dramatic television (beating out James Garner’s reluctant hero Jim Rockford by two years); and the invaluable lesson about blocking that Larry

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07:47

Laurence Luckinbill with a reflection on St. Thomas More

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/08/11

TVC 701.6: Actor and author Laurence Luckinbill talks to Ed about why St. Thomas More, the protagonist of Robert Bolt’s award-winning play A Man for All Seasons, was one of the true disciples of Christ. Larry's autobiography, Affective Memories: How Chance and The Theater Saved My Life, is available wherever books are sold through Sunbury Press. Larry Luckinbill’s A History and a Quest is a mini documentary that provides a primary lesson in fundamental civics and a history of why America

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09:28

How the World Reacted to the Death of Elvis Presley

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/08/11

TVC 701.7: From August 2022: Chuck Harter shares a poignant memory of a scene that he witnessed at a Washington, D.C. tavern on Aug. 16, 1977, the day that Elvis Presley died.

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25:22

The Movers and Shakers of Variety Television

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/08/04

TVC 700.1: From August 2016: Ed welcomes Steve Binder, Emmy Award-winning producer and director (Diana Ross: Live in Central Park, Elvis: The 1968 Comeback Special, The T.A.M.I. Show) and the co-author, along with Mary Beth Liedman, of Fade Up 26: The Movers and Shakers of Variety Television, an oral history of variety television, as told through the voices of the men and women who were and are responsible for bringing these shows into our homes for the past sixty-five years.

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16:20

Steve Binder, Dwight Hemion, and Hullabaloo

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/08/04

TVC 700.2: From August 2016: Steve Binder, Emmy Award-winning producer and director and the co-author, along with Mary Beth Leidman, of Fade Up 26: The Movers and Shakers of Variety Television, talks to Ed about working with Dwight Hemion on the pop music series Hullabaloo (NBC, 1965-1966). Gary Smith, Hemion’s longtime producing partner, passed away on Saturday, July 19 at the age of ninety.

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10:34

Morgan White, Jr. and his trademark hat

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2025/08/04

TVC 700.3: Via remote from Las Vegas: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Morgan White, Jr., longtime late night radio personality for WBZ AM-FM/Boston, author of many books on a variety of subjects, and the Undisputed King of Trivia. Topics this segment include the back story of Morgan came to wear his trademark black leather cowboy hat; how he came to be immortalized in two of the works of artist John Wilson, including the statue Father and Child Reading on the campus of

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