Category Archives: Podcasts

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 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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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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This Date in THE FBI History: Jon Cypher and Dabney Coleman star in “Survival,” the final broadcast episode of THE FBI, airing Apr. 28, 1974. THE FBI DOSSIER is now available from Black Pawn Press

SURVIVAL Original Airdate: Apr. 28, 1974 Synopsis. In Arizona, Erskine apprehends Sam Belson (played by Jon Cypher), a fugitive from a federal prison, but faces three challenges in returning him to the authorities. First, after falling from a high perch … Continue reading

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This Date in THE FBI History: Suzanne Pleshette, Fritz Weaver, Richard Anderson, and Norman Fell star in “The Mercenary,” airing Apr. 28, 1968. THE FBI DOSSIER is now available from Black Pawn Press

THE MERCENARY Original Airdate: Apr. 28, 1968 Synopsis. A 1928 photograph found in a San Francisco hotel room puts Erskine on the trail of John Thomas Whiting (played by Fritz Weaver), an aristocratic spy who sells plans for top-secret U.S … Continue reading

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TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 644.4 with guest Jim MacKrell is now available for listening on demand as a free podcast

Jim MacKrell on “doing what came next” Original Airdates: Apr. 19-22, 2024 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 … Continue reading

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TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 644.3: The Effervescence of Shirley Temple is now available for listening on demand as a free podcast

The Effervescence of Shirley Temple Original Airdates: Apr. 19-22, 2024 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, … Continue reading

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