On Screen & Beyond

Episode #557 of On Screen & Beyond has singer/songwriter, Emmy winner Melanie as our guest!  Melanie performed at the original Woodstock festival and gave us the hit songs "Ruby Tuesday", "Lay Down (Candles In the Rain", 'What Have They Done To My Song Ma", "Brand New Key" and so many others!  Melanie shares her memories of Woodstock, several of her songs and we also talk about her live-streamed concert on Saturday, June 26, 2021.  

Episode #556 of On Screen & Beyond has actor Chris Mulkey joining us to talk about his many roles over the years.  Chris has been on "M.A.S.H.", "The Waltons", "Twin Peaks", "Justified", "Behind Enemy Lines", "Broken Arrow", "The John Gotti Story", "Scandal", "Boardwalk Empire" and many, many other shows and movies.  Chris shares some interesting stories with us in this episode. 

Episode #555 of On Screen & Beyond takes us into the acting journey of actress Dana Sparks!  Dana has been on several Soaps including "Passions" and most recently on "The Young and The Restless".  She is also known for many of her other roles such as on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and who can forget her as Vickie Gioberti on "Falcon Crest"!  She shares many stories including working for Blake Edwards and Julie Andrews!

Episode 554 of On Screen & Beyond takes us back to 1971 and the hit song "Chick-a-boom (Don't Ya Jes’ Love It)" by Daddy Dewdrop!  His real name was Richard Monda and he joins us this week to talk about that hit and he was also a child actor!  Richard talks about working with Tony Curtis in "The Midnight Story", James Dean and acting and singing in "The Eddie Cantor Story" at the age of 13!  Richard is a great guest!

Episode #553 of On Screen & Beyond has Mika Boorem as our guest this week.  Mika is known for her role's on "Mighty Joe Young", "Blue Crush", "The Tom Show", "Hearts In Atlantis", "Along Came A Spider" and so much more!  Mika's latest film is called "Hollywood.con" which she stars in...and directs...and wrote...and you don't want to miss it!  

Episode #552 of On Screen & Beyond  - Brian sits down and chats with director/producer/author Kenneth Johnson who brought us "The Bionic Woman", "The Incredible Hulk", "V" the mini-series", "The Six Million Dollar Man", "Short Circuit 2", "Alien Nation: the TV Series" and so much more!  Ken shares some great stories and takes us behind the scenes of making shows that people remember!

Episode #551 of On Screen & Beyond brings actress Linda Purl to our mic!  Linda is known for many roles, including as Fonzie's long term girlfriend on "Happy Days", as Charlene the daughter of Matlock and Pam's Mom on "The Office" as well as many other roles in movies, TV and on stage!  Linda shares memories with us as well as her upcoming performance online with Viral Vignettes, to help raise money for The Actors Fund along with many other celebrities.

Episode #550 of On Screen & Beyond has Part 2 of our conversation with singer songwriter Henry Gross.  We continue our interview as Henry is heading to Nashville.  He has been making music since a young age and still going strong!

Episode #549 of On Screen & Beyond takes us into the music world with singer songwriter Henry Gross who gave us the hit song "Shannon" in the 70's.  Henry also was a founding member of the oldies group Sha Na Na, as well as bring the youngest person to perform at Woodstock! In Part 1 of our interview with Henry we talk about all this and more!

Episode #548 of On Screen & Beyond has the amazing Ruta Lee joining us!  Ruta was in "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers" and "Funny Face", as well as numerous guest star rolls of TV shows and she was the co-host with Alex Trebek on the gameshow "High Rollers" and she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!  Ruta is a ton go fun and you don't want to miss her stories!  She has a book out that you don't wan to miss called "Consider Your Ass Kissed".