TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 644.2: Greg Ehrbar discusses the Kino Lorber Blu-ray release of A Fish in the Bathtub (1998), an offbeat comedy starring Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Phyllis Newman, Bob Dishy, and Judy Graubart that also marks one of the few times that Stiller and Meara performed together on film (other than their series of commercials for Blue Nun wines). Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV

TVC 644.2a: Greg Ehrbar discusses the Kino Lorber Blu-ray release of Alice in Wonderland (1933), the first sound-movie adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, featuring an all-star cast that includes Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, W.C. Fields, Edward Everett Horton, Charles Ruggles, Charlotte Henry, Sterling Holloway, and Jack Oak

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, 1960-1961). The DVD collection includes adaptations of such beloved children’s classics as The Little Mermaid, Winnie the Pooh, Babes in Toyland, Pippi Longstocking, Kim, The Rel

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 Mountain, Last Call with Jim MacKrell). Topics this segment includes Jim’s early career in radio (including being an on-air personality at KXOL/Fort Worth, Texas at the birth of “Top 40” radio); how our ab

TVC 644.5: Game show legend and novelist Jim MacKrell talks to Ed about some of the people in the music industry whom he met when he worked for Henry Mancini, including Gordon Jenkins, Lou Rawls, Joe Saraceno, and Anita Kerr; why legendary Los Angeles Times sports columnist Jim Murray was the print equivalent to broadcast legend Vin Scully, in that both had an ability to connect wi

TVC 644.6: Game show legend and novelist Jim MacKrell talks to Ed about what makes the dog characters in his novels Down from the Mountain, Falen: Semper Fi, and Run Maggie Run such unusual protagonists. All three of Jim’s novels are available at Amazon.com and JMacKrell.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertisin

TVC 644.6a: Greg Ehrbar discusses the Kino Lorber Blu-ray release of The Daydreamer (1966), a feature-length live-action and Animagic-animated adaptation of some of the most famous fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen that was produced by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass, and which featured the talents of Hayley Mills, Tallulah Bankhead, Jack Guilford, Margaret Hamilton, Ray Bolge

We continue our celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of The Rockford Files on television by bringing you an encore presentation of our August 2012 conversation with Emmy-nominated writer/producer Juanita Bartlett, one of the driving forces behind the success of The Rockford Files. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle adve

From August 2012: Emmy-nominated writer/producer Juanita Bartlett (The Rockford Files, The Greatest American Hero, Spenser: For Hire) discusses her career in television, including her collaborations with Frank Pierson, Stephen J. Cannell and James Garner. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests

TVC 643.4: Ed welcome actress, producer, and novelist Nicole Arlyn. Nicole currently stars as a retired killer in the Tarantinoesque action thriller Til Death Do Us Part, which is available now for viewing on demand on many streaming platforms. She has also written twenty-six novels, including the popular youth fantasy novel series The Sugarspear Chronicles. Want to advertise/spons