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- This date in MAVERICK TV History: Jane Darwell and Hans Conried guest star in “Black Fire,” airing on Mar. 16, 1958. MAVERICK: LEGEND OF THE WEST: Revised Third Edition is now available both as an eBook and in softcover paperback through Black Pawn Press
- This date in MAVERICK TV History: Connie Stevens and Adam West guest star in “Two Tickets to Ten Strike,” airing Mar. 15, 1959. MAVERICK: LEGEND OF THE WEST: Revised Third Edition is now available both as an eBook and in softcover paperback through Black Pawn Press
- This date in MAVERICK TV History: “Greenbacks, Unlimited” airs on Mar. 13, 1960. MAVERICK: LEGEND OF THE WEST: Revised Third Edition is now available both as an eBook and in softcover paperback through Black Pawn Press
- This Date in THE FBI History: Part 1 of “The Executioners,” the most ambitious episode that THE FBI ever made, airs on Mar. 12, 1967. Filmed in early 1967, “The Executioners” not only featured one of the largest casts in series history, but was re-edited into a 96-minute feature motion picture for theatrical release overseas. THE FBI DOSSIER is now available from Black Pawn Press
- This Date in THE FBI History: Claude Akins, Lindsay Wagner, William Schallert, and Vic Tayback star in “Dark Journey,” airing Mar. 12, 1972. THE FBI DOSSIER is now available from Black Pawn Press
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via Decades Network: DECADES will dedicate its July 11-12 Weekend Binge to Carl Reiner with classic episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show, plus it will air the original pilot episode, Head of the Family, and Reiner’s interview with Dick Cavett on Friday, July 10 as part of a special two-hour programming block
June 30, 2020 — The DECADES Network will celebrate legendary writer, director and actor Carl Reiner with a special weekend binge of 15-time Emmy award winning sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show. The tribute begins Friday, July 10 at 9p … Continue reading →
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Tagged 20th century comedic television, Admiral Broadway Revue, Alan Brady, Billy Crystal, Broadway, Caesar’s Hour, Calvin Trillin, Carl Reiner, Coast to Coast Big Mouth, comedic variety programming, Comedy Hall of Fame, comic trailblazer, Dick Van Dyke, Dick Van Dyke Show, Golden Age of Television, hairpiece, Imogene Coca, Jack Benny, Jamestown, Larry Gelbart, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Lucille Ball, Mel Brooks, Milton Berle, My Favorite Year, Nanette Fabray, NASCAR, National Comedy Center, Neil Simon, Paley Center, Saturday Night Live, Shout! Factory, Sid Caesar, Sid Caesar: Extra Portion, SID CAESAR: ON THE LANGUAGE OF COMEDY, Sid Caesar: The Works, Sid's groundbreaking series, social satirist, Studs Terkel, superstar comedian, Ten from Your Show of Shows, The Chevy Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, toupee, Woody Allen, Your Show of Shows
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Carl Reiner not only took to Twitter, but his frequent musings on all walks of daily life gave his followers glimpses of his brand of humor and an unfiltered window into his mind
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Tagged 20th century comedic television, Admiral Broadway Revue, Alan Brady, Billy Crystal, Broadway, Caesar’s Hour, Calvin Trillin, Carl Reiner, Coast to Coast Big Mouth, comedic variety programming, Comedy Hall of Fame, comic trailblazer, Dick Van Dyke, Dick Van Dyke Show, Golden Age of Television, hairpiece, Imogene Coca, Jack Benny, Jamestown, Larry Gelbart, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Lucille Ball, Mel Brooks, Milton Berle, My Favorite Year, Nanette Fabray, NASCAR, National Comedy Center, Neil Simon, Paley Center, Saturday Night Live, Shout! Factory, Sid Caesar, Sid Caesar: Extra Portion, SID CAESAR: ON THE LANGUAGE OF COMEDY, Sid Caesar: The Works, Sid's groundbreaking series, social satirist, Studs Terkel, superstar comedian, Ten from Your Show of Shows, The Chevy Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, toupee, Woody Allen, Your Show of Shows
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via Variety: Comedy legend Carl Reiner dies at age 98
via @Variety: Comedy legend @carlreiner dies, age 98 #TheDickVanDykeShow #YourShowofShows #OhGod #EnterLaughing #TheJerk #2000YearOldMan To quote @KPCC host @JGHorn @TheFrame his brand of humor was smart, sophisticated, layered yet also seemed effortless https://t.co/z2TkHyU5za — ed robertson (@tvconfidential) June 30, 2020
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Tagged 20th century comedic television, Admiral Broadway Revue, Alan Brady, Billy Crystal, Broadway, Caesar’s Hour, Calvin Trillin, Carl Reiner, Coast to Coast Big Mouth, comedic variety programming, Comedy Hall of Fame, comic trailblazer, Dick Van Dyke, Dick Van Dyke Show, Golden Age of Television, hairpiece, Imogene Coca, Jack Benny, Jamestown, Larry Gelbart, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Lucille Ball, Mel Brooks, Milton Berle, My Favorite Year, Nanette Fabray, NASCAR, National Comedy Center, Neil Simon, Paley Center, Saturday Night Live, Shout! Factory, Sid Caesar, Sid Caesar: Extra Portion, SID CAESAR: ON THE LANGUAGE OF COMEDY, Sid Caesar: The Works, Sid's groundbreaking series, social satirist, Studs Terkel, superstar comedian, Ten from Your Show of Shows, The Chevy Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, toupee, Woody Allen, Your Show of Shows
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via Comedy Hall of Fame: Premiering tonight on WNET Channel 13 in New York: SID CAESAR: ON THE LANGUAGE OF COMEDY, a new documentary featuring intimate, never-before-seen interviews with Caesar from the archives of the Comedy Hall of Fame. SID CAESAR: ON THE LANGUAGE OF COMEDY will also become available for viewing on demand on PBS Passport beginning Monday 7/22
New York, NY — For more than 50 years, public television has provided unsurpassed access to the performing arts, including the very best of theater, dance, opera, classical, jazz, popular music, and comedy. Now, New York metro-area public television station … Continue reading →
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Tagged 20th century comedic television, Admiral Broadway Revue, Billy Crystal, Broadway, Caesar’s Hour, Calvin Trillin, Carl Reiner, comedic variety programming, Comedy Hall of Fame, comic trailblazer, Golden Age of Television, Imogene Coca, Jack Benny, Larry Gelbart, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Mel Brooks, Milton Berle, My Favorite Year, Nanette Fabray, NASCAR, Neil Simon, Paley Center, Saturday Night Live, Shout! Factory, Sid Caesar, Sid Caesar: Extra Portion, SID CAESAR: ON THE LANGUAGE OF COMEDY, Sid Caesar: The Works, Sid's groundbreaking series, social satirist, Studs Terkel, superstar comedian, Ten from Your Show of Shows, The Chevy Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Woody Allen, Your Show of Shows
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 420 with guest Michael Learned is now available online for listening on demand
Show No. 420 with guest Michael Learned Original Airdates: Sept. 21-24, 2018 First hour: A tribute to film and television actor Burt Reynolds featuring highlights from previously broadcast conversations with people who knew and worked with him, including actors Richard … Continue reading →
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Tagged Admiral Broadway Revue, Adrienne Barbeau, All My Children, American Conservatory Theare, Arthur Price, B.L. Stryker, Barbara Eden, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Billy Crystal, Bob Hartley, Bob Newhart, Bob Newhart Show, Boogie Nights, Broadway, Caesar’s Hour, Calvin Trillin, Cannonball Run, Carl Reiner, comic trailblazer, Connie Stevens, Daisy Werthan, Dan August, Deliverance, Dinah Shore, Driving Miss Daisy, Earl Hamner, Emily Hartley, Evening Shade, Family Film Awards, Gator, General Hospital, Golden Age of Television, Gore Vidal, Gunsmoke, Hawk, Hayden Rorke, Hocus Pocus, Hoke, Honorable Judge Turner, Hooper, I Dream of Jeannie, Imogene Coca, Jackie Gleason, Jay Tarses, Jim Nabors, Lance Nichols, Larry Gelbart, Larry Hagman, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Legend Award, Lewis Black, Life Interrupted, Loni Anderson, Marcia Wallace, Mel Brooks, Michael Learned, MTM, My Favorite Year, Nanette Fabray, NASA, Neil Simon, Nita Talbot, Nurse, Olivia Walton, On Golden Pond, One Life to Live, One Slight Hitch, Paley Center, Peter Bonerz, QM Productions, Quinn Martin, Quint Asper, Ralph Waite, Riverboat, Roger Healey, Sally Field, Saturday Night Live, Second Acts, Shamus, Shout! Factory, Sid Caesar, Sid Caesar: Extra Portion, Sid Caesar: The Works, Sidney Sheldon, Smokey and the Bandit, Starting from Scratch, Starting Over, Steel Magnolias, Studs Terkel, Suzanne Pleshette, Ten from Your Show of Shows, The Best Man, The Chevy Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The End, The Longest Yard, The Outgoing Tide, The Sisters Rosenweig, The Twilight Zone, The Waltons, The Young & the Restless, Tony Nelson, Treme, TV moms, Wendy Wasserstein, White Lightning, Woody Allen, World Film Institute, Your Show of Shows
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via Shout! Factory: Sid Caesar: The Works, a new in-depth five-DVD set coming Tuesday 9/4 from Shout! Factory, hails the man who made sketch comedy what it is today while also paving the way for such shows as Saturday Night Live. Customers who order Sid Caesar: The Works directly from Shout! Factory will receive the bonus disc, Sid Caesar: Extra Portion
Los Angeles, CA – Shout! Factory commemorates the career of influential comic trailblazer Sid Caesar with its latest DVD package, Sid Caesar: The Works, a five-DVD set spanning 1950 to 2014. Sid Caesar: The Works contains more than eleven hours of fan favorites … Continue reading →
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Tagged Admiral Broadway Revue, Billy Crystal, Broadway, Caesar’s Hour, Calvin Trillin, Carl Reiner, comic trailblazer, Golden Age of Television, Imogene Coca, Larry Gelbart, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Mel Brooks, My Favorite Year, Nanette Fabray, Neil Simon, Paley Center, Saturday Night Live, Shout! Factory, Sid Caesar, Sid Caesar: Extra Portion, Sid Caesar: The Works, Studs Terkel, Ten from Your Show of Shows, The Chevy Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Woody Allen, Your Show of Shows
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 404 with guests Neil Sandilands, Lili Bordan and Lisa Hackett is now available online for listening on demand
Show No. 404 with guests Neil Sandilands, Lili Bordán and Lisa Hackett Original Airdate: May 11-14, 2018 First hour: Actress Lili Bordán (Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome, The River, Max’s Midnight Movies) talks to Ed about filming the crime thriller … Continue reading →
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The Thinker, The Dancer, and Buddy Hackett’s Daughter: Next on TVC
Actors Neil Sandilands and Lili Bordan will join us this weekend, along with Lisa Hackett, daughter of Buddy Hackett, on a brand new edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing May 11-14 at the following times and venues: Share-a-Vision Radio San Francisco … Continue reading →
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Tagged A Man for All Seasons, Academy Award-winning director, Afrikaans, American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success, apple jack's, Apple Jacks bar, arch villain, Autism, Ava Gardner, Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome, Becca Kelly, biopic, Book Club, Buddy Hackett, Buddy Hackett: Live and Uncensored, Cable Ace Award, cable television, Candice Bergen, Carol Burnett, Casablanca, Celia, certified Autism Movement Therapist, Clifford Devoe, comedy pioneer, Craig T. Nelson, Curtiz, Diane Keaton, Dick Gautier, Die Ballade van Robbie de Wee, Don Johnson, earliest TV appearances, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Elaine Joyce, Everybody Comes to Rick's, Falcon Lake, Fifty Shades of Grey, Frank and Ava, Frank Sinatra, Fred Zinnemann, Freestyle Digital Media, future stars, FX series, Golden Age of Television, Guidance Autism, Hackett Entertainment, Hannah Strauss, Hap and Leonard, HBO, High Noon, historic town, Hollywood Squares, Home Box Offie, House, Humphery Bogart, Impresario, independent films, indie movies, Ingrid Bergman, Iraqi War veteran, Irene Lee, Irene Lee Diamond, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Jack Paar, Jane Fonda, Johnny Carson, la honda, Lexa, Lili Bordan, Lisa Hackett, Live and Uncensored, live comedy specials, live or die in la honda, live sitcoms, Mary Steenburgen, Max Liebman, Max's Midnight Movies, Michael Curtiz, Neil Sandilands, network TV series, Norman Fell, Northern California, Paco, Paul Lynde, pescadero state beach, season finale The Flash, Shopoopi, South Africa, stand-up comics, Stanley, Stanley Peck, Sundance TV, Television Confidential, television pioneer, The 100, The Americans, The CW, The Flash, The Love Bug, The Music Man, The River, The Thinker, The Tonight Show, Titus, TV Confidential, Victoria Vic Taylor, Virginia Madsen, Warner Bros. story editor, Your Show of Shows
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