TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 564.7: From the floor of the Hollywood Museum's recent Celebrity Authors Forum: Ed welcomes Michael Stern, author of I Had a Ball: My Friendship with Lucille Ball.

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TVC 563.1: Playwright and author Jordan Young joins Ed for a look at the television career of Spike Jones, the legendary bandleader and musical satirist whose influence in comedy and satire paved the way for the likes of Monty Python, Jimmy Buffett, George Carlin, Peter Sellers, and, arguably most notably, Weird Al Yankovic. Jordan Young's many books on entertainment history include Spike Jones, Off the Record: The Man Who Murdered Music, a comprehensive history and discography of Spike Jones that has been completely updated and reissued with a host of new material, including more than 260 never before published photographs, scripts, arrangements, memorabilia and more.

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TVC 563.2: Jordan Young, author of Spike Jones, Off the Record: The Man Who Murdered Music, talks to Ed about the many ideas that Jones for television programming (even though TV itself never quite figured out how to put his talents to use); Jones' skill for marketing himself and his band; and how Dr. Demento helped create two new generations of Spike Jones fans.

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TVC 563.3: From the floor of the Hollywood Museum's recent Celebrity Authors Forum: Ed welcomes Kelly Conway, the eldest of Tim Conway's six children (and his only daughter), and the author of My Dad's Funnier Than Your Dad: Growing Up with Tim Conway in the Funniest House in America, a poignant look at who Tim Conway was, as a father and as a person.

Kelly Conway will also join us in February on TV Confidential for a full-length conversation about growing up in the Conway household and the many indelible life lessons that her dad taught her and her brothers, even in such unlikely places as the Santa Anita race track.

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TVC 563.4: From the floor of the Hollywood Museum's recent Celebrity Authors Forum: Ed welcomes Carol Hoenig, author of The Greatest Reviews I've Ever Read, a collaboration with Emmy Award winner John Barbour that not only features some of John's many film reviews for Los Angeles magazine, but discusses how those movies impacted Carol's life.

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TVC 563.5: Ed welcomes Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes, the legendary stars of NBC's Days of Our Lives and daytime TV's first supercouple. Bill and Susan recently launched SoapOperaSecrets.com, a free website that not only reveals some of their many secrets for a happy, fulfilling, long lasting, and loving relationship, but features clips of Bill and Susan (as Doug and Julie) illustrating the principles of each of their secrets. Sign up for the email list at SoapOperaSecrets.com and you will receive an automatic update whenever a new secret is posted.

Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes can also be seen in World By the Tail: The Bill Hayes Story, an excellent documentary that you can enjoy for free at BillHayesMovie.com. World By The Tail provides a detailed look at Bill's life and career before he met Susan on Days of Our Lives (which includes starring on Your Show of Shows and other music variety shows in the days of live television; starring in many Broadway productions; and the story of his gold record, "The Ballad of Davy Crockett"), while the second half of the film is devoted to Bill's life with Susan on and off camera over the past fifty years, and the story of how their characters on Days on Our Lives changed during that time.

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TVC 563.6: Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes (Days of Our Lives) discuss some of their other work in television. For Bill, that includes starring on Your Show of Shows and appearing with Florence Henderson in a series of popular musical commercials for Oldsmobile automobiles; for Susan, that includes appearances in such popular series as Perry Mason, The Fugitive, The FBI, Matinee Theatre, 77 Sunset Strip, and Bonanza.

Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes recently launched SoapOperaSecrets.com, a free website that reveals some of their many secrets for a happy, fulfilling, long lasting, and loving relationship. Sign up for the email list at SoapOperaSecrets.com and you will receive an automatic update whenever a new secret is posted. Bill and Susan can also be seen in World By the Tail: The Bill Hayes Story, an excellent documentary that also features anecdotes and remembrances from Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Shirley Jones, Shirley MacLaine, Florence Henderson, Peter Marshall, and many, many others. You can enjoy World By The Tail for free at BillHayesMovie.com.

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TVC 563.7: From May 2021: New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Armstrong talks to Ed about the early television career of Betty White, including how, in many ways, White lived the life of Mary Richards long before The Mary Tyler Moore Show came into existence. Jennifer's book When Women Invented Television traces the history of the first decade of network television through the lives and accomplishments of Irna Phillips, Gertrude Berg, Hazel Scott and Betty White.

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TVC 563.8: From December 2017: Jim Colucci, deputy editor of CBS Watch magazine and author of Golden Girls Forever, talks to Ed and Greg Ehrbar about the circumstances that led Betty White to being cast as Rose on The Golden Girls after she had already been cast as Blanche.

We are putting together a formal program-length tribute to Betty White that will air later this month on TV Confidential.

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From December 2010: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the network premiere of A Charlie Brown Christmas, the very first Peanuts animated special, which aired on CBS on Dec. 9, 1965. Topics include why CBS was nervous about audience and sponsor reaction to the scene in which Linus explains the true meaning of Christmas by telling the Nativity story.

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