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

Posted on May 13, 2024 by admin

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 Sea Monsters, and Tom Sawyer in the classic Disney musical adaptation of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1973). Topics this segment include The Biscuit Eater (1972), one of several films that John made for Disney in the early 1970s, and the poignant story of how John learned, many years later, the significance of making that movie.

Sigmund and the Sea Monsters is among the many classic shows from Sid and Marty Krofft that are now available for streaming on demand on the new Sid and Marty Krofft Channel, which you can find on Midnight Pulp, Cineverse, The Dove Channel, and on your Roku device.

Johnny Whitaker y Paso por Paso
Original Airdates: May 10-13, 2024
TVC 647.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Johnny Whitaker, the actor known around the world as Jody Davis on Family Affair, Johnny Stuart on Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, and Tom Sawyer in Disney’s musical adaptation of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1973).Topics this segment include the role that John’s family played in helping him overcome his drug addiction; the work John does through his nonprofit organization, Paso por Paso, which helps monolingual Hispanics find treatment and recovery in their own language; and how John’s faith indirectly led to his landing his first TV commercial.  Sigmund and the Sea Monsters is among the many classic shows from Sid and Marty Krofft that are now available for streaming on demand on the Sid and Marty Krofft Channel, which you can find on Midnight Pulp, Cineverse, The Dove Channel, and on your Roku device.

Johnny Whitaker, Elizabeth Montgomery, and Eva Gabor
Original Airdates: May 10-13, 2024
TVC 647.5: Johnny Whitaker talks to Ed about his recent visit to the Mark Twain Cave Complex in Hannibal, Missouri, and how he was given the honor of being among the few people allowed to leave their mark in the caves; how thrilling it was to work with Elizabeth Montgomery on Bewitched; and the story of how Eva Gabor wanted to “adopt” John following his second appearance on Green Acres. Sigmund and the Sea Monsters is among the many classic shows from Sid and Marty Krofft that are now available for streaming on demand on the Sid and Marty Krofft Channel, which you can find on Midnight Pulp, Cineverse, The Dove Channel, and on your Roku device.

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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

Posted on May 13, 2024 by admin

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 to play a single working mom while also allowing her to stay at home and raise her real-life sons. Other topics include how Dabney Coleman made Shirley feel at home when she joined the cast of The Slap Maxwell Story; how Shirley landed the role of Lulu Baines in Elmer Gantry as a result of a live TV appearance; and her favorite episode of The Partridge Family. Shirley Jones: A Memoir is available wherever books are sold.

AXS TV celebrated Shirley Jones and The Partridge Family this past Mother’s Day weekend with a special two-day mini-marathon featuring sixteen fan-favorite episodes of The Partridge Family, including “M is for the Many Things,” the famous episode in which Women’s Journal names Shirley Partridge as Mother of the Year.

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

Posted on May 13, 2024 by admin


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 commentaries, Susan Says, to TV Confidential. This week: Susan shares a few thoughts about her relationship with her mom during this Mother’s Day weekend.

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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

Posted on May 13, 2024 by admin

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, Trippin’ with Terry Southern: What I Think I Remember, Ryan’s Hope: An Oral History of Daytime’s Groundbreaking Soap). Tom’s latest book, Carol Lynley: Her Film & TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy and Suspense, takes a deep dive into the film and television career of Carol Lynley, with a particular focus on her work in the fantasy, suspense, and thriller genres. Topics this segment include why Lynley never had the sort of career trajectory that many critics felt she should have had, simply because the actress often chose to put her film career on hold, for one reason or another.

Carol Lynley, Bunny Lake, and The Poseidon Adventure
Original Airdates: May 10-13, 2024
TVC 647.2: Sixties movie historian Tom Lisanti (Carol Lynley: Her Film & TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy and Suspense, Ryan’s Hope: An Oral History of Daytime’s Groundbreaking Soap) talks to Ed about how Carol Lynley always brought a depth to her characters that resonated with audiences; how Lynley did a lot of her own stunt work in The Poseidon Adventure, despite her fear of heights; why the character she played in the Night Stalker TV-movie from 1972 was not part of the original source material; and why Lynley turned down the opportunity to play Valene Ewing on Dallas in 1978.

Carol Lynley: Her Film & TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy and Suspense is available from Bear Manor Media. Ryan’s Hope: An Oral History of Daytime’s Groundbreaking Soap is available from Citadel Press.

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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

Posted on May 5, 2024 by admin

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 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 film reviews for Los Angeles magazine and KNBC-TV Los Angeles from the 1970s that also includes an ongoing, My Dinner with Andre-like conversation between John and Carol about how movies continue to shape and influence our culture. Topics this segment include John’s unlikely path to becoming a movie critic; why American movies are part of the culture that shaped the world at large; and the many instances in which the people whose films John criticized the most (including Burt Reynolds, Bob Hope, and Neil Simon) often became his greatest allies.

John Barbour on Why Movies are the Writer’s Medium
Original Airdates: Apr. 26-29, 2024
TVC 654.6: Five-time Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and cultural critic John Barbour (Real People) and Carol Hoenig, the collaborator on John’s memoir, Your Mother’s Not a Virgin talk to Ed about how John was the first critic to review movies on TV news, paving the way for Siskel and Ebert and many, many film critics on television; why John believes that movies are the writer’s medium, not the director’s; and why, when we learn something that impacts us emotionally, we will never forget what we learned. Carol’s latest book, The Greatest Reviews I’ve Ever Read, is a collection of some of John’s many film reviews for Los Angeles magazine and KNBC-TV Los Angeles from the 1970s that also includes an ongoing, My Dinner with Andre-like conversation between John and Carol about how movies continue to shape and influence our culture.

John Barbour, Neil Simon, and Deep Throat
Original Airdates: May 3-6, 2024
TVC 646.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with five-time Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, 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 film reviews for Los Angeles magazine and KNBC-TV Los Angeles from the 1970s that also includes an ongoing, My Dinner with Andre-like conversation between John and Carol about how movies continue to shape and influence our culture. Topics this segment include why most movie adaptations of stage musicals do not succeed at the box office; how Neil Simon became one of John’s staunchest allies, even after John had panned the movie version of The Sunshine Boys; and why Deep Throat was the most difficult movie that John ever had to review.

John Barbour, Oscar Wilde, and Bob Hope
Original Airdates: May 3-6, 2024
TVC 646.6: Five-time Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and cultural critic John Barbour (Real People, Your Mother’s Not a Virgin) recalls the circumstances that led to Bob Hope’s appearance on John’s talk show John Barbour’s Half-Hour in December 1972, including the touching story of how Hope came to the studio that day by himself and applied his own makeup.

Carol Hoenig’s latest book, The Greatest Reviews I’ve Ever Read, is a collection of some of John’s many film reviews for Los Angeles magazine and KNBC-TV Los Angeles from the 1970s that also includes an ongoing conversation between John and Carol about how movies continue to shape and influence our culture.

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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

Posted on May 4, 2024 by admin
  1. 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 by passing off Kate Hanrahan as the noblewoman and “selling” the land for $2 million.  

The third of three attempts to resurrect Maverick in the late ’70s and early ’80s, Bret Maverick (NBC, 1981-1982) saw James Garner reprise the role that originally made him a star. This episode reunited Garner and Jack Kelly as part of an effort to retool Bret Maverick in the event that NBC renewed the series for a second season.

LEARN MORE about this episode in the revised third edition of Maverick: Legend of the West, featuring more than 100 pages of new information about the show that made James Garner a star. 25 percent of the net proceeds from the sales of the third edition will be donated to The James Garner Animal Rescue Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising funds to help rescue organizations, shelters, individuals, fosters, and veterans with emergencies, evacuations, medical care, adoptions, training, pet supplies, shelter, rehabilitation, boarding, transportation, food, and other pressing needs. JGARF is one way for Garner fans to honor Jim’s memory and extend his legacy. The revised third edition of Maverick: Legend of the West is available both in softcover and, very soon, as an eBook through Black Pawn Press, Amazon.com, and wherever books are sold online.

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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

Posted on May 2, 2024 by admin

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 Pawn Press, Amazon.com, and wherever books are sold online.

 



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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

Posted on May 1, 2024 by admin

  1. 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 Andrew Duggan). Forensic evidence reveals handcuff marks around the victim’s wrists—a clue that suggests that the murderer may have once been a police officer. As it happens, the culprit, Dale Hillman (Robert Drivas), was rejected by the police (and, later, the navy) because of a defective eye. When Erskine learns that Hillman has joined a radical neo-Nazi paramilitary organization, he poses as a recruit to find evidence that will link Hillman to the crime. When Stanford conducts his own surveillance, however, the inspector must make the arrest before Stanford kills Hillman.

LEARN MORE about “The Bomb That Went Off Like a Man” 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 Pawn Press, Amazon.com, and wherever books are sold online.



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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

Posted on April 29, 2024 by admin

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). Dinah’s new novel, The Real True Hollywood Story of Jackie Gold, gives readers a fast-paced, authentic look at life behind the red carpet while also asking the eternal question, “Does fame really matter?” Topics this segment include how Dinah based Jackie Gold on some of her own experiences dealing with paparazzi (as well as how the novel echoes the experiences of Britney Spear and Lindsay Lohan); why it was imperative that actors in a Neil Simon production perform his words, verbatim; and why Dinah felt at home performing in Empty Nest because the series was filmed before a live audience. The Real True Hollywood Story of Jackie Gold is available through Star Alley Press, Amazon.com, Bookshop.com, and DinahManoff.org. The audiobook edition of Jackie Gold is available through Audible.com.

Dinah Manoff, Robert Redford, and Lee Grant
Original Airdates: Apr. 26-29, 2024
TVC 645.4: Tony Award-winning actress, director, and novelist Dinah Manoff chats with Ed about being directed by Robert Redford in the Oscar-winning movie Ordinary People (and how she dramatized some of that experience in her novel, The Real True Hollywood Story of Jackie Gold); how Dinah herself became a director while starring in Empty Nest; and why Dinah’s mother, Oscar-winning actress and pioneering director Lee Grant, often faced an uphill battle as a film director until she found the world of documentary filmmaking. The Real True Hollywood Story of Jackie Gold is available through Star Alley Press, Amazon.com, Bookshop.com, and DinahManoff.org.

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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

Posted on April 29, 2024 by admin

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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, 1992. Because Tony and Donna did not live far from the flashpoint of the riots (the intersection of Florence and Normandy in Los Angeles), they had a first-hand view of the chaos that broke out, as it happened.

How the L.A. Riots of 1992 Changed TV News
Original Airdates: Apr. 26-29, 2024
TVC 645.3: From April 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss how TV news in Los Angeles has never been the same since coverage of the riots that broke out in Los Angeles on Apr. 29, 1992. Topics this segment include Rodney King’s famous “Can we all get along?” speech, calling for peace; why then-L.A. mayor Tom Bradley insisted that KNBC Channel 4, the NBC-TV affiliate in Los Angeles, pause its coverage at 8pm PT on the night of Apr. 30, 1992 to air the final episode of The Cosby Show; and how Bill Cosby himself made an appeal for peace at the end of the broadcast.

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