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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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Join Disney's Ike Eisenman, and author Jonathan Rosen, as they chat with former child star Moosie Drier! In this episode, Ike and Moosie discuss their careers as child stars in the 70s and 80s. Roles they auditioned for, how they met, their relationships with other child stars from the time, and a big announcement from Pop Culture Retro!…
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Join former child star, Moosie Drier, and author, Jonathan Rosen, as they chat with Greg Mullavey from Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman! Greg discusses his time on the iconic show, having his dad work in the Brooklyn Dodgers organization, his role in the mini-series Centennial, appearring as a grandfather in iCarly, and much more!…
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Ed welcomes multi-award-winning actress, writer and producer Charlotte Kirk (The Reckoning, The Lair, The Possession of Gladstone Manor). Charlotte plays the title role in Duchess, a new action thriller directed by Neil Marshall that Charlotte also co-wrote and co-produced. A rare gangster movie with a female crime boss, Duchess also stars Colm Mea…
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TVC 656.2: Ed welcomes Jim Hardy, longtime archivist for Bob Hope Enterprises, where he handles the licensing of the various film clips, TV clips, radio clips, photographs, and other archival materials the encompass the career of the legendary entertainer. Jim is also the curator of the Official Bob Hope YouTube Channel, a joint venture by The Bob …
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TVC 656.3: Jim Hardy, longtime archivist for Bob Hope Enterprises and the curator of the Official Bob Hope YouTube Channel, talks to Ed about how the legendary comedian endeared himself to audiences worldwide because he was the same off-camera as he was on-camera, and why Hope’s special connection with U.S. soldiers spanned from World War II to Des…
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TVC 655.1: A special program-length tribute to Bob Newhart, the Emmy Award-winning star of two long-running, iconic sitcoms, The Bob Newhart Show (CBS, 1972-1978) and Newhart (CBS, 1982-1990), but made a name for himself a stand-up comedian in the 1960s, particularly with his Grammy Award-winning album, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart. Bob Newh…
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TVC 655.2a: From November 2020: Emmy-nominated writer, producer, and author Billy Van Zandt (I Love Lucy: The Very First Show, Martin, Newhart, Get in the Car, Jane!) shares a few memories of working with Bob Newhart during the final season of Newhart (CBS, 1982-1990). Bob Newhart passed away on Thursday, July 18 at age ninety-four. Learn more abou…
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TVC 655.4: An encore presentation of our interview from June 2014 with Bill Daily, the actor known around the world as Roger Healey on I Dream of Jeannie and Howard Borden on The Bob Newhart Show. Bill Daily passed away Sept. 7, 2018. Bob Newhart passed away on Thursday, July 18 at age ninety-four. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastcho…
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TVC 655.5: From June 2014: Bill Daily shares more memories of working with Bob Newhart before, during, and after The Bob Newhart Show (CBS, 1972-1978). Bill Daily passed away Sept. 7, 2018. Bob Newhart passed away on Thursday, July 18 at age ninety-four. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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TVC 655.6: Pioneering television writer Susan Silver (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Maude, Hot Pants in Hollywood, Susan Says with Susan Silver) shares a few memories of writing for Bob Newhart and Suzanne Pleshette on The Bob Newhart Show. Bob Newhart passed away on Thursday, July 18 at age ninety-four. Learn more about your ad …
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Join former child star, Moosie Drier, and author, Jonathan Rosen, as they take a look back at the 2002 fil Auto Focus! This week, we look back at the film Auto Focus which details the bizarre events surrounding the murder of actor Bob Crane from Hogan's Heroes. Starring Greg Kinnear, William Dafoe, Maria Bello, & Rita Wilson!…
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Friday, July 19 marked the tenth anniversary of the passing of Emmy Award-winning actor and entertainment icon James Garner. TV Confidential marks this occasion by replaying our special program-length tribute to Jim that originally aired in August 2014, featuring highlights from some of our conversations with the people who knew and worked with him…
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Friday, July 19 marked the tenth anniversary of the passing of Emmy Award-winning actor and entertainment icon James Garner. TV Confidential marks this occasion by replaying our special program-length tribute to Jim that originally aired in August 2014. In this segment, we hear from Emmy winners Roy Huggins (creator of Maverick, co-creator of The R…
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Friday, July 19 marked the tenth anniversary of the passing of Emmy Award-winning actor and entertainment icon James Garner. TV Confidential marks this occasion by replaying our special program-length tribute to Jim that originally aired in August 2014. In this segment, Jon Winokur (co-author of The Garner Files, Jim’s memoirs of his career in film…
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Friday, July 19 marked the tenth anniversary of the passing of Emmy Award-winning actor and entertainment icon James Garner. TV Confidential marks this occasion by replaying our special program-length tribute to Jim that originally aired in August 2014. In this segment, we hear more from Jon Winokur, co-author of The Garner Files, Jim’s memoirs of …
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Friday, July 19 marked the tenth anniversary of the passing of Emmy Award-winning actor and entertainment icon James Garner. TV Confidential marks this occasion by replaying our special program-length tribute to Jim that originally aired in August 2014. In this segment, we hear from Garner himself, in the form of two rarely heard interviews: an app…
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TVC 654.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with music journalist and music historian Jon Burlingame (Music for Prime Time: A History of American Television Themes and Scoring). Jon’s latest book, Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir, is a combination history of Peter Gunn (NBC/ABC, 1958-1961) on television; bi…
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TVC 653.2: Music journalist Jon Burlingame (Music for Prime Time, Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir) talks to Ed about how Blake Edwards came to develop Mr. Lucky (CBS, 1959-1960) for television, including how Edwards originally wanted Ricardo Montalban to play the title character and how Ross Martin wasn’t signed to pla…
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TVC 654.3: Music journalist Jon Burlingame (Music for Prime Time, Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir) talks to Ed about the strange, but true broadcast history of Mr. Lucky (CBS, 1959-1960), including how the ill-conceived mandate from the show’s sponsor, Lever Brothers, to change the concept of Mr. Lucky midseason ultima…
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TVC 654.4: Music journalist Jon Burlingame (Music for Prime Time, Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir) talks about Henry Mancini’s work in motion pictures, including how Mancini proved that a great composer could also be a great songwriter (which he did, with “Moon River”). Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music…
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TVC 654.4: Music journalist Jon Burlingame (Music for Prime Time, Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir) talks about Henry Mancini’s work in motion pictures, including how Mancini proved that a great composer could also be a great songwriter (which he did, with “Moon River”). Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music…
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Join Disney's Ike Eisenmann, and author Jonathan Rosen, as they chat with Lisa Whelchel and Richard Bakewell from the independent sci/fi film Roswell Delirium! Lisa and Richard discuss the making of the movie, working with other 80s icons Anthony Michael Hall, Reginald Vel Johnson, Dee Wallace, and Reb Brown, their thoughts on aliens, and much more…
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TVC 653.1: Bruce Dern biographers Robert Crane and Christopher Fryer talk to Ed about Dern’s famous appearance in The Cowboys (in which he played the man who kills Wayne’s character halfway through the picture) and the actor had to navigate a schedule conflict over production of another movie, Silent Running, so that he could film that pivotal scen…
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TVC 653.2: Bruce Dern biographers Robert Crane and Christopher Fryer talk to Ed about why Dern worked frequently in television in the 1960s—even when he was making movies like The War Wagon with John Wayne—because casting directors from both industries always knew to keep an eye on him. Other topics this segment include the nearly fatal lung injury…
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