Category Archives: Film Stars

TV CONFIDENTIAL Show Nos. 646 and 647 with guest Johnny Whitaker is now available for listening on demand as a free podcast

On the Road with Johnny Whitaker Original Airdates: May 3-6, 2024 TVC 646.4: Part 1 of a two-part conversation with Johnny Whitaker, the actor known around the world as Jody Davis on Family Affair, Johnny Stuart on Sigmund and the … Continue reading

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TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 647.4 with guest Shirley Jones is now available for listening on demand as a free podcast

Why Shirley Jones Became Shirley Partridge Original Airdates: May 10-13, 2024 TVC 647.4: From August 2013: Oscar winner and TV icon Shirley Jones tells Ed that playing Shirley Partridge on The Partridge Family appealed to her because it allowed her … Continue reading

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TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 647.7: Introducing “Susan Says” is now available for listening on demand as a free podcast

Introducing “Susan Says” Original Airdates: May 10-13, 2024 TVC 647.7: Susan Silver, one of the first female television comedy writers and the author of Hot Pants in Hollywood: Sex, Secrets, and Sitcoms, brings her popular series of three-minute reviews and … Continue reading

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TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 647.1 with guest Tom Lisanti is now available for listening on demand as a free podcast

Why Carol Lynley was “always making a comeback” Original Airdates: May 10-13, 2024 TVC 647.1: Ed welcomes back sixties movie historian Tom Lisanti (Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies, Dueling Harlows: The Race to Bring the Actress’s Life to the Silver Screen, … Continue reading

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TV CONFIDENTIAL Show Nos. 645 and 646 with guests John Barbour and Carol Hoenig is now available for listening on demand as a free podcast

The Greatest Reviews I’ve Ever Read Original Airdates: Apr. 26-29, 2024 TVC 645.5: Ed welcomes back 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 … Continue reading

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This date in MAVERICK TV History: Jack Kelly stars as Bart Maverick in “The Hidalgo Thing,” the final episode of BRET MAVERICK, airing May 4, 1982. MAVERICK: LEGEND OF THE WEST: Revised Third Edition is now available both as an eBook and in softcover paperback through Black Pawn Press

THE HIDALGO THING Original Airdate: May 4, 1982 Synopsis. An unscrupulous accountant withholds a grant naming a Spanish noblewoman as owner of the Arizona territory so that he can purchase the land himself. Maverick decides to trip up the crook … Continue reading

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This Date in THE FBI History: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. dies on May 2, 2014 at age ninety-five. THE FBI DOSSIER is now available through Black Pawn Press

LEARN MORE about the life and career of Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. in THE FBI DOSSIER, everything you wanted to know—and more—about the long-running ABC-TV series produced by Quinn Martin and starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. THE FBI DOSSIER is available through Black … Continue reading

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This Date in THE FBI History: Andrew Duggan, Robert Drivas, and Charlotte Stewart star in “The Bomb That Went Off Like a Man,” airing May 1, 1966. THE FBI DOSSIER is now available from Black Pawn Press

THE BOMB THAT WENT OFF LIKE A MAN Original Airdate: May 1, 1966 Synopsis. In Wilmington, Delaware, Erskine investigates the kidnapping and brutal murder of Cheryl Stanford (played by Charlotte Stewart), the daughter of police chief John Stanford (played by … Continue reading

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TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 645.1 with guest Dinah Manoff is now available for listening on demand as a free podcast

Dinah Manoff and The Real True Hollywood Story of Jackie Gold Original Airdates: Apr. 26-29, 2024 TVC 645.1: Ed welcomes Tony Award-winning actress, director, and novelist Dinah Manoff (I Ought to Be in Pictures, Grease, Soap, Ordinary People, Empty Nest). … Continue reading

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TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 645.2: How TV News Covered the L.A. Riots of 1992 is now available for listening on demand as a free podcast

How TV News Covered the L.A. Riots of 1992 Original Airdates: Apr. 26-29, 2024 TVC 645.2: From April 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at how television covered the riots that broke out in Los Angeles on Apr. 29, … Continue reading

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