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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The Life and Times of Norman Lear
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TVC 672.1: Ed welcomes entertainment journalist and comedy historian Tripp Whetsell. Tripp’s latest book, Norman Lear: His Life and Times, is the first comprehensive biography of the legendary, Emmy Award-winning producer of All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, The Fact of Life, and many other series that helped elevate the America…
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The Many Fathers of All in the Family
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TVC 672.2: Tripp Whetsell, author of Norman Lear: His Life and Times, talks to Ed about how the latitude that Norman Lear often gave his actors and his writers on his television shows was often a double-edged sword; Lear’s years as a motion picture producer in the 1960s; and the events that led to the premiere on All in the Family on CBS in January…
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Penny Singleton, Harry Cohn, and Rod Serling
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TVC 672.3: Part 2 of a conversation that began just before the holidays with Steve Randisi, author of Penny Singleton: A Biography, a comprehensive look at the life and career of the actress who not only achieved worldwide fame in the 1930s and ’40s as the star of the Blondie movie series from Columbia Pictures (and, later, to TV audiences as the v…
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We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past clip from January 2015 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the premiere of A.M. America, the precursor to Good Morning, America, on Jan. 6, 1975. An offshoot of Ralp…
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We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past clip from January 2015 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed celebrate the life and legacy of Alan Hale, the actor known around the world as The Skipper on Gilligan’s Island. Alan …
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We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past clip from January 2015 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the premiere of Hullabaloo, NBC's answer to Shindig, on Jan. 12, 1965.…
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We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past clip from January 2012 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the tragic death of Alias Smith and Jones star Pete Duel on Dec. 30, 1971.…
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We're taking a few days off this week, but we'll be back with a brand new edition of TV Confidential next week. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past, featuring an excerpt from our October 2010 conversation with Emmy and Grammy Award-winning composer Charles Fox. Charles' book, Killing Me Softly: My Life in Music, not only walks re…
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Regis Philbin and The Disney Christmas Parade
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We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past, featuring an excerpt from our August 2020 tribute to Regis Philbin in which our colleague Greg Ehrbar shares some memories of working with Regis, Joan Lunden, and Mayim B…
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We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past clip from December 2013 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss "The Big Little Jesus," the second of two Christmas episodes that Jack Webb produced for Dragnet, which aired …
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We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past clip from October 2020 in which Ed, Tony, and Donna ask eight-time Emmy Award winner Ed Asner how he approached playing both Santa Claus and God.…
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We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past clip from December 2010 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of the Rankin-Bass animated special Frosty the Snowman (CBS, 1969).…
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How Rankin-Bass Helped Create the Legend of Santa
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We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past clip from December 2018 in which Greg Ehrbar and Ed discuss the then-new DVD release of Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town; how the various mythologies that screenwriter Romeo …
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We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past clip from December 2013 in which Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss "The Big .22 Rifle for Christmas," an episode of Dragnet that originally aired on Dec. 18, 1952. An adaptation…
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We're taking a few days off for the holidays, but we'll be back with brand new editions of TV Confidential in the new year. In the meantime (and in light of Dick Van Dyke's 99th birthday last week), please enjoy this Blast from the Past featuring an excerpt from our September 2016 conversation with Vince Waldron, author of The Official Dick Van Dyk…
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Knight Rider: A Show About a Character That Happened to Be a Car
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TVC 670.1: Ed welcomes Nick Nugent, author of The Knight Rider Companion: Abridged Edition, everything you wanted to know about the classic TV series starring David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, and the voice of William Daniels. Topics this segment include how series creator Glen Larson’s original concept for Knight Rider was much different from what…
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Steve Randisi, author of Penny Singleton: A Biography
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TVC 670.2: Ed welcomes back film and television historian Steve Randisi (The Merv Griffin Show: The Inside Story, Behind the Crimson Cape: The Cinema of George Reeves). Steve’s latest book, Penny Singleton: A Biography, chronicles the life and career of the actress who not only achieved worldwide fame in the 1930s and ’40s at the star of the Blondi…
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How Dorothy McNulty Became Penny Singleton
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TVC 670.3: Steve Randisi, author of Penny Singleton: A Biography, talks to Ed how about Singleton came to adopt her screen name; why Singleton had a lot of the Blondie character as a person; and why the Blondie movies continue to endure after ninety years. Penny Singleton: A Biography is available from Bear Manor Media.…
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Stefanie Powers: Rebel, Visionary, and An Agent of Change
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TVC 670.4: Ed welcomes back Stefanie Powers, the actress known around the world as Jennifer Hart on Hart to Hart (ABC, 1979-1984), and the founder and president of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation, a nonprofit organization that Stefanie established in 1982 in memory of her longtime life partner that continues and furthers the conservation wor…
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Stefanie Powers, Harold Gould, and St. Pope John Paul II
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TVC 671.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Stefanie Powers, the actress known around the world as Jennifer Hart on Hart to Hart (ABC, 1979-1984) and the founder and president of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation (WHWF.org). Topics this segment include Stefanie’s work as chair of the Seasoned Performers Committee for both the…
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Why The Sopranos is a Work of Art
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TVC 670.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Ray Richmond, author of The Sopranos: The Complete Visual History, a twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of the multi-Emmy Award-winning drama that not only broke new ground in television when it premiered in 1999, but launched the current Golden Age of dramatic television on cable and …
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What James Gandolfini Brought to The Sopranos
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TVC 670.6: From June 2013: Jennifer Armstrong, former staff writer for Entertainment Weekly and the author of many books on popular television, joins Ed, Tony, and Donna for a roundtable discussion on the career of James Gandolfini and the impact of The Sopranos on popular culture. This segment with Jennifer was recorded on June 20, 2013, one day a…
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Rod Serling, Mike Wallace, and Dick Cavett
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TVC 669.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began on our last program with Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and author Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriters Companion: Instruction, Opinion, Encouragement). Joe’s latest book, Rod Serling at 100: One Writer’s Acknowledgment, takes a deep dive into the lega…
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Rod Serling and the Night Gallery Conundrum
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TVC 669.2: Joseph Dougherty, author of Rod Serling at 100, talks to Ed about “They’re Tearing Down Tim Riley’s Bar,” the first-season episode of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery that is widely considered to be among the very best pieces of writing that Serling ever did, and why Joe believes the episode itself “exists somewhere in a space between The Twi…
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Rod Serling: An Author of Television
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TVC 669.3: Joseph Dougherty, author of Rod Serling at 100, talks about the opportunity he once had to adapt Rod Serling’s live television drama The Velvet Alley into a film, and how surprised he was to learn just how sparsely Serling wrote when Joe studied Serling’s script for “The Purple Testament” for style purposes as part of the Velvet Alley pr…
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