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TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 688: Special program-length tribute to Wink Martindale, featuring Steve Beverly and Randy West, is now available for listening on demand for free wherever you find podcasts. Please enjoy!
Why Wink Martindale was a “never give up” guy Original Airdates: May 2-5, 2025 TVC 688.1: TV Confidential remembers longtime radio host, author, recording artist, and game show legend Wink Martindale (Gambit, Debt, Tic Tac Dough, Winking at Life, “Deck … Continue reading →
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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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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 546.2 with guest Suzanne deLaurentiis is available for listening on demand
Suzanne’s Saturday Night Scares with Suzanne deLaurentiis Original Airdates: July 16-18, 2021 TVC 546.2: Ed welcomes Suzanne de Laurentiis, host of Suzanne’s Saturday Night Scares, a fun, new homage to drive-in-type horror movies from the early 1970s that you can … Continue reading →
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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Award-winning producer, director, and philanthropist SUZANNE deLAURENTIIS on why we love horror movies and how her own love of the genre began when she was a young girl, watching Dark Shadows every afternoon on ABC. Suzanne is the host and producer of SUZANNE’S SATURDAY NIGHT SCARES, a new series that pays homage to classic horror/thriller drive-in-type movies from the 1970s, while also featuring behind-the-scenes factoids plus original interviews with such stars as Morgan Fairchild, Lara Parker, and Barbara Steele. SUZANNE’S SATURDAY NIGHT SCARES is available now for streaming on demand on both Apple TV and Amazon Prime
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 499.4: This Week in TV History: Divorce and The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour is now available for listening on demand
Divorce and The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour Original Airdates: June 26-28, 2020 TVC 499.4: From June 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the finalization of Sonny & Cher’s divorce on June 27, 1975, and how the couple’s separation impacted … Continue reading →
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via TimeLife: The Beat Goes On and on and on as I GOT YOU BABE: THE BEST OF SONNY & CHER becomes available at retail for the very first time beginning Tuesday 2/11. Not only that, but ten episodes of The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour will become available on demand on Amazon, iTunes, and Google Play for the first time, also on Tuesday 2/11
Fairfax, VA (January 6, 2020) — When Salvatore “Sonny” Bono and Cherilyn “Cher” Sarkisian came together it was undeniably magical. America first knew them as the duo behind the classic hit “I Got You Babe,” and their popularity exploded with the … Continue reading →
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via Time Life: ATTENTION Classic TV and Classic Music Fans: On both Black Friday and Cyber Monday, get 10 percent off EVERY music and TV DVD purchase at TimeLife.com
FAIRFAX, VA (November 27, 2019) — This holiday season, give family and friends the gift of classic music and landmark TV from Time Life® with an exclusive discount taking place on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. For the very first time, … Continue reading →
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 473.2: Happy Birthday to The Girl Next Door is now available online for listening on demand
Happy Birthday to the Girl Next Door Original Airdates: Nov. 22-24, 2019 TVC 473.2: From 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed commemorate the birthday of singer/actress Annette Funicello, the quintessential Girl Next Door, America’s original Queen of Teen, and one of … Continue reading →
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via Time Life: The Beat Goes On with the release of I GOT YOU BABE: THE BEST OF SONNY & CHER, a two-volume, ten-DVD collection now available exclusively at TimeLife.com
Our friends at Time Life have just released I Got You Babe: The Best of Sonny & Cher, a two-volume, ten-DVD collectors edition that includes ten episodes of The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour (including the premiere episode on Aug. 1, 1971 featuring … Continue reading →
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 430 with guests Wink Martindale and Marc Cushman is now available online for listening on demand
Show No. 430 with guests Wink Martindale and Marc Cushman Original Airdates: Dec. 14-17, 2018 First hour: Part 2 of our conversation with Marc Cushman, author of Long Distance Voyagers: The Story of The Moody Blues, Volume 1: 1965-1979, an … Continue reading →
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