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Monthly Archives: January 2024
TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 635.3: Get Smart on Home Entertainment is now available for listening on demand as a free podcast
Get Smart on Home Entertainment Original Airdates: Jan. 26-29, 2024 TVC 635.3: Greg Ehrbar joins Ed for a look at Get Smart (NBC/CBS, 1965-1970), the long-running spy satire starring Don Adams and Barbara Feldon and co-created by Mel Brooks and … Continue reading →
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TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 635.1: Remembering Dave Madden and Russell Johnson is available now for listening on demand as a free podcast
Remembering Russell Johnson Original Airdates: Jan. 26-29, 2024 TVC 635.1: From January 2014: A special edition of This Week in TV History that was originally recorded on Jan. 16, 2014, a day that marked the passing of two television icons: … Continue reading →
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TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 634.5 with guest Alison Arngrim is now available for listening on demand as a free podcast
Alison Arngrim: Confessions of a Prairie Bitch Original Airdates: Jan. 19-22, 2024 TVC 634.5: Ed welcomes back Alison Arngrim, the award-winning actress known around the world as Nellie Oleson, “the No. 1 bitch in TV history” (according to Vanity Fair) … Continue reading →
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In case you missed it, the podcast of my interview last night with Morgan White Jr. on NightSide with Dan Rea about The FBI Dossier and more is available for listening on demand as a free podcast:
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Tagged an important look at an unheralded chapter of television history, Anne Archer, based on actual cases from the files of the FBI, Beau Bridges, Dawn Wells, Donna Mills, Ed Asner, Efrem Zimbalist, Eric Braeden, FBI book, Henry Darrow, Jack Garner, Jerry Houser, Joan van Ark, Jr., Ketty Lester, Lindsay Wagner, Michael Bell, one of the most popular shows of the late 1960s, Peter Mark Richman, Philip Abbott, Quinn Martins longest running television series, Richard Anderson, robert hooks, Roy Thinnes, Stefanie Powers, Stephen Brooks, Suzanne Pleshette, The FBI, The FBI A QM Production, The FBI A Quinn Martin Production, The FBI Bill Sullivan, The FBI Dossier, The FBI Ed Robertson, The FBI Efrem Zimbalist Jr., The FBI Quinn Martin, The FBI Sunday nights ABC, The FBI television series, The FBI TV series, The FBI William Reynolds, the mission of the FBI is to protect the innocent and identify the enemies of the Government of the United States, Walter Grauman, William Reynolds
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Part 2 of last night’s interview with Morgan White Jr. about The FBI Dossier and more is also available now for listening on demand as a free podcast
The second hour of last night’s conversation with @MorganWBZ and @TVConfidential on @WBZNightside about #TheFBIDossier and more is now available for listening on demand as a free podcast. Please enjoy:https://t.co/iIz9b4z8Q1 — ed robertson (@tvconfidential) January 16, 2024
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Tagged an important look at an unheralded chapter of television history, Anne Archer, based on actual cases from the files of the FBI, Beau Bridges, Dawn Wells, Donna Mills, Ed Asner, Efrem Zimbalist, Eric Braeden, FBI book, Henry Darrow, Jack Garner, Jerry Houser, Joan van Ark, Jr., Ketty Lester, Lindsay Wagner, Michael Bell, one of the most popular shows of the late 1960s, Peter Mark Richman, Philip Abbott, Quinn Martins longest running television series, Richard Anderson, robert hooks, Roy Thinnes, Stefanie Powers, Stephen Brooks, Suzanne Pleshette, The FBI, The FBI A QM Production, The FBI A Quinn Martin Production, The FBI Bill Sullivan, The FBI Dossier, The FBI Ed Robertson, The FBI Efrem Zimbalist Jr., The FBI Quinn Martin, The FBI Sunday nights ABC, The FBI television series, The FBI TV series, The FBI William Reynolds, the mission of the FBI is to protect the innocent and identify the enemies of the Government of the United States, Walter Grauman, William Reynolds
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TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 633.4: Tribute to Tom Smothers with guest David Bianculli is now available for listening on demand as a free podcast
Tribute to Tom Smothers Original Airdates: Jan. 12-15, 2024 TVC 633.4: David Bianculli, longtime television critic and longtime contributor to NPR’s Fresh Air, and the author of Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, joins Ed … Continue reading →
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Tagged Dangerously Funny, Dangerously Funny The Uncensored Story of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, David Bianculli, David Bianculli Dangerously Funny, David Bianculli Fresh Air, David Bianculli Smothers Brothers, Dick Smothers, Smothers Brothers, Smothers Brothers CBS, Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Smothers Brothers Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Tom Smothers, Tommy Smothers
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TV CONFIDENTIAL Show Nos. 633 and 634: THE FBI on Home Entertainment is now available for listening on demand as a free podcast
The FBI on Home Entertainment Original Airdates: Jan. 12-15, 2024 TVC 633.2: Greg Ehrbar joins Ed for a look at The FBI (ABC, 1965-1974), the long-running Sunday night drama starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. that was also Quinn Martin’s longest-running network … Continue reading →
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Tagged an important look at an unheralded chapter of television history, Anne Archer, based on actual cases from the files of the FBI, Beau Bridges, Dawn Wells, Donna Mills, Ed Asner, Efrem Zimbalist, Eric Braeden, FBI book, Henry Darrow, Jack Garner, Jerry Houser, Joan van Ark, Jr., Ketty Lester, Lindsay Wagner, Michael Bell, one of the most popular shows of the late 1960s, Peter Mark Richman, Philip Abbott, Quinn Martins longest running television series, Richard Anderson, robert hooks, Roy Thinnes, Stefanie Powers, Stephen Brooks, Suzanne Pleshette, The FBI, The FBI A QM Production, The FBI A Quinn Martin Production, The FBI Bill Sullivan, The FBI Dossier, The FBI Ed Robertson, The FBI Efrem Zimbalist Jr., The FBI Quinn Martin, The FBI Sunday nights ABC, The FBI television series, The FBI TV series, The FBI William Reynolds, the mission of the FBI is to protect the innocent and identify the enemies of the Government of the United States, Walter Grauman, William Reynolds
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TV CONFIDENTIAL Special Edition: How Would You Define a Classic TV Show? is now available for listening on demand as a free podcast
From March 2018: A special roundtable discussion in which Tony, Donna, and Ed tackle the question What Exactly Constitutes a Classic TV Series? How would you define it? What are the markers: Is it the era in which the show … Continue reading →
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