Best Streamingondemand Podcasts (2024)

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A Fish in the Bathtub on Blu-ray 18:09

1h ago18:09

18:09

TVC 644.2: Greg Ehrbar discusses the Kino Lorber Blu-ray release of A Fish in the Bathtub (1998), an offbeat comedy starring Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Phyllis Newman, Bob Dishy, and Judy Graubart that also marks one of the few times that Stiller and Meara performed together on film (other than their series of commercials for Blue Nun wines). Want …

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1st Sound Version of Alice in Wonderland 8:37

2h ago8:37

8:37

TVC 644.2a: Greg Ehrbar discusses the Kino Lorber Blu-ray release of Alice in Wonderland (1933), the first sound-movie adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, featuring an all-star cast that includes Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, W.C. Fields, Edward Everett Horton, Charles Ruggles, Charlotte Henry, S…

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The Effervescence of Shirley Temple 16:51

10m ago16:51

16:51

TVC 644.3: Greg Ehrbar reviews the Shirley Temple Storybook Collection, a six-DVD set featuring some of the best episodes of her popular Sunday night series, Shirley Temple’s Storybook (NBC, 1958-1959, 1960-1961). The DVD collection includes adaptations of such beloved children’s classics as The Little Mermaid, Winnie the Pooh, Babes in Toyland, Pi…

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Jim MacKrell on "doing what came next" 24:40

1h ago24:40

24:40

TVC 644.4: Ed welcomes game show legend, radio host, actor, and novelist Jim MacKrell (Celebrity Sweepstakes, The Game Game, Run Maggie Run, Falen: Semper Fi, Down from the Mountain, Last Call with Jim MacKrell). Topics this segment includes Jim’s early career in radio (including being an on-air personality at KXOL/Fort Worth, Texas at the birth of…

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Jim MacKrell, Jim Murray, and Vin Scully 24:28

4h ago24:28

24:28

TVC 644.5: Game show legend and novelist Jim MacKrell talks to Ed about some of the people in the music industry whom he met when he worked for Henry Mancini, including Gordon Jenkins, Lou Rawls, Joe Saraceno, and Anita Kerr; why legendary Los Angeles Times sports columnist Jim Murray was the print equivalent to broadcast legend Vin Scully, in that…

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Jim MacKrell on the power of curiosity 12:31

1h ago12:31

12:31

TVC 644.6: Game show legend and novelist Jim MacKrell talks to Ed about what makes the dog characters in his novels Down from the Mountain, Falen: Semper Fi, and Run Maggie Run such unusual protagonists. All three of Jim’s novels are available at Amazon.com and JMacKrell.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with Ad…

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The Daydreamer on Blu-ray 8:53

20m ago8:53

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TVC 644.6a: Greg Ehrbar discusses the Kino Lorber Blu-ray release of The Daydreamer (1966), a feature-length live-action and Animagic-animated adaptation of some of the most famous fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen that was produced by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass, and which featured the talents of Hayley Mills, Tallulah Bankhead, Jack Guil…

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Juanita Bartlett, James Garner, and The Rockford Files 22:58

11d ago22:58

22:58

We continue our celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of The Rockford Files on television by bringing you an encore presentation of our August 2012 conversation with Emmy-nominated writer/producer Juanita Bartlett, one of the driving forces behind the success of The Rockford Files. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered…

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Juanita Bartlett, James Garner, and Stephen J. Cannell 20:53

11d ago20:53

20:53

From August 2012: Emmy-nominated writer/producer Juanita Bartlett (The Rockford Files, The Greatest American Hero, Spenser: For Hire) discusses her career in television, including her collaborations with Frank Pierson, Stephen J. Cannell and James Garner. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle…

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Nicole Arlyn of Til Death Do Us Part 24:59

18d ago24:59

24:59

TVC 643.4: Ed welcome actress, producer, and novelist Nicole Arlyn. Nicole currently stars as a retired killer in the Tarantinoesque action thriller Til Death Do Us Part, which is available now for viewing on demand on many streaming platforms. She has also written twenty-six novels, including the popular youth fantasy novel series The Sugarspear C…

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Roslyn Kind's New Medley 22:23

18d ago22:23

22:23

TVC 643.5: Ed welcomes back singer, actress, and producer Roslyn Kind. Earlier this year, Roslyn realized one of her dreams by combining two classic hits, “The Look of Love” and “The Island,” into a brand new medley that not only celebrates love in all its forms, but reinforces the belief that all of us can find love, no matter what our age. Roslyn…

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More with Roslyn Kind 14:50

18d ago14:50

14:50

TVC 643.6: Singer/actress Roslyn Kind talks to Ed about how her "mission statement" as an artist is to perform songs that make people feel good and bring people's hearts together. Roslyn’s new medley, “The Look of Love/The Island,” is available now both as a digital single and as a six-minute video. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidenti…

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Julie Rogers Pomilia, granddaughter of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans 20:14

25d ago20:14

20:14

TVC 642.3: Ed welcomes Julie Rogers Pomilia, the youngest daughter of Tom Fox (the only biological son of Dale Evans by her first marriage), and the granddaughter of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, the Royal Western Couple of American pop culture, and the “Brad and Angelina” of their era. Julie’s book, Your Heroes, My Grandparents: A Granddaughter’s Lov…

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Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, and "Happy Trails" 23:43

25d ago23:43

23:43

TVC 642.4: Julie Rogers Pomilia, author of Your Heroes, My Grandparents: A Granddaughter’s Love, the first book ever written by a Roy Rogers and Dale Evans family member, talks to Ed about the enduring legacy of “Happy Trails,” Roy and Dale’s theme song (which Dale wrote); the Roy Rogers restaurant chain; and how Dale’s decision to raise Julie’s fa…

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Shelley Herman on her early career as a page at NBC Burbank in the mid 1970s 23:08

25d ago23:08

23:08

TVC 642.5: Ed welcomes Emmy nominated writer Shelley Herman. Shelley’s memoir, My Peacock Tale : Secrets Of An NBC Page, is a funny, provocative, and often poignant look at her two-year career as a page at NBC Burbank in the mid 1970s, where she not only had VIP access every day to just about every major NBC personality at the time, but sometimes h…

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Shelley Herman, Harry Chapin, and Adam West 19:13

25d ago19:13

19:13

TVC 642.6: Emmy nominated writer Shelley Herman talks to Ed about meeting singer Harry Chapin backstage at The Tonight Show, one night after seeing him perform live at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles; the time when she was a “life line” to Adam West when he appeared in a “celebrity week” version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire; and some of the cr…

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Ernie Kovacs, Zoomar, and Take a Good Look 28:17

1M ago28:17

28:17

TVC 641.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Josh Mills, son of Edie Adams and the curator of the estates of Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams, and Pat Thomas, author of Invitation to Openness: the Jazz & Soul Photography of Les McCann, Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg, and Did It! Jerry Rubin: An American R…

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Ernie Kovacs, Jack Lemmon, and Soupy Sales 25:11

1M ago25:11

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TVC 641.2: Josh Mills and Pat Thomas talk to Ed about Ernie Kovacs’ many collaborations and longtime friendship with Jack Lemmon; how the format for Ernie’s successful morning show in Philadelphia inspired NBC to develop The Today Show; how Kovacs was the first to understand that television was an intimate form; and how Ernie’s influence can be see…

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How Ernie Kovacs Helped Inspire the Counter Culture 24:26

1M ago24:26

24:26

TVC 640.1: Ed welcomes Josh Mills, son of Edie Adams and the curator of the estates of Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams, and author Pat Thomas (Invitation to Openness: the Jazz & Soul Photography of Les McCann, Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg, Did It! Jerry Rubin: An American Revolutionary). Josh and Pat are two of the co-…

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Ernie Kovacs and “The Silent Show” 26:29

1M ago26:29

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TVC 640.2: Josh Mills and Pat Thomas talk to Ed about The Silent Show, the iconic NBC special from January 1957 that is the only Ernie Kovacs television show to be broadcast in color. Other topics this segment include how Kovacs was a constant presence on television from 1950 until his death in January 1962 (even though he never had a “long-running…

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Michael Learned of The Waltons and Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story 25:16

1M ago25:16

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TVC 640.3: Ed welcomes back Michael Learned, the four-time Emmy Award-winning actress known around the world as Olivia Walton on The Waltons and, more recently, Catherine Dahmer on the popular Netflix series Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. Michael shares a few memories of working with James Arness on Gunsmoke, Robert Reed on Nurse, and Paul Sorv…

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Charles Agron on working with Lance Henriksen and Ed Asner in Altered Reality 24:59

1M ago24:59

24:59

TVC 640.4: Ed welcomes Charles Agron, the writer, producer, and star of Altered Reality, a supernatural thriller that explores greed, family, and redemption, while also putting a modern take on the old adage “Be careful what you wish for.” Altered Reality not only pays homage to Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone (two of Charles’ influences as a sto…

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John Barbour on The Academy Awards 19:58

1M ago19:58

19:58

TVC 640.5: A special preview of our upcoming conversation with five-time Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, talk show host, and cultural critic John Barbour (Real People) and Carol Hoenig, the collaborator on John’s memoir, Your Mother’s Not a Virgin. Carol’s latest book, The Greatest Reviews I’ve Ever Read, is a collection of some of John’s many…

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Harvey Lisberg: I'm Into Something Good 23:58

2M ago23:58

23:58

TVC 639.1: Ed welcomes Harvey Lisberg, the legendary music manager who not only shaped the careers of such iconic artists as Herman’s Hermits, 10cc, and Tony Christie, but paved the way for Neil Sedaka’s comeback as a songwriter and recording artist in the mid 1970s, and was one of the first people in the music industry to recognize the talent and …

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Harvey Lisberg's Ear for Music 15:33

2M ago15:33

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TVC 639.2: Music legend Harvey Lisberg talks to Ed about his gift for recognizing the hit potential of any given song; the art of matching a song to a particular artist; and the great compliment that music impresario Don Kirshner once paid him. Harvey’s memoir, I’m Into Something Good, is available wherever books are sold. Want to advertise/sponsor…

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The Quatermass Xperiment on Blu-ray 10:46

2M ago10:46

10:46

TVC 639.3: Greg Ehrbar talks to Ed about the Kino Lorber Blu-ray release of The Quatermass Xperiment (1955), the British horror movie starring Brian Donlevy that is also known to U.S. audiences as The Creeping Unknown. An important title in British film history, The Quatermass Xperiment is the movie that put Hammer Studios on the map. Want to adver…

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The Questor Tapes: Gene Roddenberry’s Most Famous Unsuccessful Pilot 12:24

2M ago12:24

12:24

TVC 639.3a: Greg and Ed discuss the Kino Lorber special edition Blu-ray release of The Questor Tapes (1974), the made-for-TV movie starring Robert Foxworth, Mike Farrell, John Vernon, Walter Koenig, and Dana Wynter that is also known among Gene Roddenberry aficionados as one of the best pilots that Roddenberry ever made, but which never went to ser…

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House of The Long Shadows on Blu-ray 10:21

2M ago10:21

10:21

TVC 639.3b: Greg and Ed discuss the Kino Lorber special edition Blu-ray release of House of the Long Shadows (1983), the remake of Seven Keys to Baldpate starring Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, John Carradine, and Desi Arnaz Jr. that Greg describes as “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, done for horror.” Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confiden…

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Melissa Manchester on her new album, Re:View 23:16

2M ago23:16

23:16

TVC 639.4: Ed welcomes Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, and music icon Melissa Manchester. Melissa’s new album, RE:VIEW, not only celebrates Melissa’s fifty-year career as a solo artist, but revisits several of her charted hits with such guest artists as Kenny Loggins, Gerald Albright, Dave Koz, and Dolly Parton. RE:VIEW is availab…

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Melissa Manchester, Ella Fitzgerald, and Martin Mull 19:25

2M ago19:25

19:25

TVC 639.5: Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, and music icon Melissa Manchester talks to Ed about why Ella Fitzgerald is one of her musical godmothers; “They Never Met,” the duet that Melissa recorded with Martin Mull around the time that she and Mull toured together; and why every artist needs to learn how to listen slowly. Melissa’…

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Phil Gries on the making of Harlem School 1970 23:21

2M ago23:21

23:21

TVC 638.1: From February 2018: Phil Gries joins us to discuss Harlem School 1970, an original documentary that provides an inside look at a typical day at Community School No. 30M in Harlem, New York, where Phil taught for three years before embarking on his long career as an award-winning cinematographer for film and television. Filmed, produced a…

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Phil Gries on the importance of Harlem School 1970 21:55

2M ago21:55

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TVC 638.2: From February 2018: Phil Gries and Ed continue their discussion about Harlem School 1970, Phil’s acclaimed “direct cinema” documentary that is also the only known feature-length documentary that was filmed inside an actual inner city public elementary school in the U.S. during the 1960s, 1970s, or 1980s. For our listeners on the East Coa…

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Scarlet Street and The Edge of the World on Blu-ray 19:29

2M ago19:29

19:29

TVC 638.3: Greg Ehrbar and Ed discuss the recent Kino Lorber Blu-ray releases of The Edge of the World (1937) and Scarlet Street (1945). 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 …

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Entertainment legend Pat Boone 25:15

2M ago25:15

25:15

TVC 638.4: Ed welcomes Pat Boone, the trailblazing singer, entertainer, humanitarian, and philanthropist who recently marked his seventieth year in show business and who will celebrate his ninetieth birthday this coming June 1. One of the first white artists to record rhythm and blues songs to mainstream audiences, Pat discusses his longstanding ac…

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Pat Boone, Elvis Presley, and Harry Belafonte 27:11

2M ago27:11

27:11

TVC 638.5: Legendary entertainer Pat Boone shares a few memories from his career, including early encounters with Elvis Presley; the stance that Pat took against the government of South Africa in 1960 that resulted in South Africa suspending apartheid during the ten days that Pat performed in that country that year; and Pat’s efforts to book Harry …

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Dan Curtis: Master of Dark Shadows 18:50

2M ago18:50

18:50

TVC 638.6: Greg Ehrbar and Ed discuss the recent MPI Home Video release of Master of Dark Shadows (2019), a comprehensive documentary about the life and career of Emmy Award-winning producer and director Dan Curtis (Dark Shadows, The Night Stalker, Winds of War, War and Remembrance, Trilogy of Terror). Master of Dark Shadows is available on DVD and…

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Rabbi Ben: A Modern-Day “Traveling Angel” 23:24

2M ago23:24

23:24

From November 2018: A return appearance from author, journalist, screenwriter, raconteur, and novelist Marvin J. Wolf (For Whom the Shofar Blows, A Scribe Dies in Brooklyn). Marv’s latest effort, A Tale of Two Rabbis, is the third in a series of mystery novels featuring Rabbi Ben, a crime-solving rabbi who was inspired, in part, by Paladin, the “tr…

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Rabbi Ben and “The Reluctant Hero” 20:35

2M ago20:35

20:35

From November 2018: Screenwriter Marvin J. Wolf, creator of the Rabbi Ben mystery novel series, talks some more with Ed about the development of the Rabbi Ben character, including how Ben shares attributes of such television characters as Dr. Richard Kimble (The Fugitive), Buz Murdock and Tod Stiles (Route 66), and, in one important respect, Jim Ro…

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Rabbi Ben: The “Jewish 007” 17:26

2M ago17:26

17:26

From November 2018: Our final segment with Marvin J. Wolf, screenwriter, journalist, and the creator of a series of mystery novels featuring Rabbi Ben, a master of the Torah, Talmud and Tae Kwon Do that one reader once described as a “Jewish 007.” In the latest Rabbi Ben novel, A Tale of Two Rabbis, Ben reluctantly probes the disappearance of a rab…

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The Evolution of "Beatlemania" 26:26

2M ago26:26

26:26

TVC 637.1: From February 2014: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio brings us a special edition of The Sounds of Television that looks back at The Beatles’ historic first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on Feb. 9, 1964, and the evolution of “Beatlemania” in the months that followed. This segment includes clips from Beatlemania, an ABC News sp…

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Simon Napier-Bell, Vicki Wickham, and "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" 22:17

2M ago22:17

22:17

TVC 637.2: Legendary record producer, music manager, author, journalist, and documentary filmmaker Simon Napier-Bell joins Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter for Part 2 of a conversation that began last week about the music scene in London during the Swinging Sixties. Simon’s books on the music industry include Black Vinyl, White Powder, Sour Mouth,…

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Simon Napier-Bell, Burt Bacharach, and Tom Jones 18:03

2M ago18:03

18:03

TVC 637.3: Legendary record producer, music manager, author, journalist, and documentary filmmaker Simon Napier-Bell talks to Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter about how Tom Jones came to record the title song for What’s New Pussycat (1965) and how Simon convinced Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni to cast The Yardbirds in Blow-Up (1966). You …

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Simon Napier-Bell on what the music industry is really about 22:27

2M ago22:27

22:27

TVC 637.4: Legendary record producer, music manager, author, journalist, and documentary filmmaker Simon Napier-Bell talks to Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter about The Scotch at St. James, one of the most elite clubs in London in the Swinging Sixties. Simon’s books on the music industry include Black Vinyl, White Powder, Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom,…

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Lee Goldberg, author of Malibu Burning and Dream Town 21:31

2M ago21:31

21:31

TVC 637.5: Ed welcomes back New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-nominated writer and producer Lee Goldberg (Spenser: For Hire, Monk, Sliders, Diagnosis Murder). Lee’s latest crime novels include Dream Town, the latest edition of the Eve Ronin mystery series, and Malibu Burning, a “dual track” novel about a con artist who uses a massiv…

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Lee Goldberg, Mike Connors, and Dick Van Dyke 23:55

2M ago23:55

23:55

TVC 637.6: New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-nominated writer and producer Lee Goldberg (Spenser: For Hire, Monk, Sliders, Diagnosis Murder) shares the back story of “Hard Boiled Murder,” the famous episode of Diagnosis Murder that brought legendary TV detective Joe Mannix into the Mark Sloan universe (and vice versa). Lee’s three n…

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How Network TV News Covered the Arrival of The Beatles in February 1964 25:05

3M ago25:05

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TVC 636.1: From January 2014: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio brings us a special edition of The Sounds of Lost Television that looks back at the build-up to The Beatles' historic first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on Feb. 9, 1964, including rarely heard audio highlights of network TV news coverage from November1963 on The Fab Four's …

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How TV News Covered the Arrival of The Beatles, Part 2 22:11

3M ago22:11

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TVC 636.2: From January 2014: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio plays rarely heard audio highlights of how network TV news covered the arrival of The Beatles in the music scene, both in London and in America, in the months prior to The Fab Four’s historic first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on Feb. 9, 1964. This segment includes a clip f…

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Simon Napier-Bell: The Guv'nor 16:28

3M ago16:28

16:28

TVC 636.3: Legendary record producer, music manager, author, journalist, and documentary filmmaker Simon Napier-Bell joins Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter for a look back at the music scene in London during the Swinging Sixties. Simon’s books on the music industry include Black Vinyl, White Powder, Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom, I’m Coming to Take You…

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Simon Napier-Bell on Diane & Nicky and Wham!'s Historic Tour of China 26:55

3M ago26:55

26:55

TVC 636.4: Legendary record producer, music manager, author, journalist, and documentary filmmaker Simon Napier-Bell talks to Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter about his years managing Diane & Nicky (the first interracial pop duo in music history) and John’s Children and the events that led to Wham!’s historic 10-day visit to China in 1985. You can…

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Barbara Feldon, David McCallum, and Dick Van Dyke 22:43

3M ago22:43

22:43

TVC 636.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Barbara Feldon, the actress known around the world as Agent 99 on Get Smart. Barbara’s new book, Getting Smarter: A Memoir, is an intimate look at her life and her romance with Lucien Feldon Verdeaux, the charming European to whom she was married at the time she began filming Get Smart, …

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