TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 655.6: Pioneering television writer Susan Silver (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Maude, Hot Pants in Hollywood, Susan Says with Susan Silver) shares a few memories of writing for Bob Newhart and Suzanne Pleshette on The Bob Newhart Show. Bob Newhart passed away on Thursday, July 18 at age ninety-four.

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Friday, July 19 marked the tenth anniversary of the passing of Emmy Award-winning actor and entertainment icon James Garner. TV Confidential marks this occasion by replaying our special program-length tribute to Jim that originally aired in August 2014, featuring highlights from some of our conversations with the people who knew and worked with him.

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Friday, July 19 marked the tenth anniversary of the passing of Emmy Award-winning actor and entertainment icon James Garner. TV Confidential marks this occasion by replaying our special program-length tribute to Jim that originally aired in August 2014. In this segment, we hear from Emmy winners Roy Huggins (creator of Maverick, co-creator of The Rockford Files) and Stephen J. Cannell (co-creator of The Rockford Files) and legendary film director Budd Boetticher.

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Friday, July 19 marked the tenth anniversary of the passing of Emmy Award-winning actor and entertainment icon James Garner. TV Confidential marks this occasion by replaying our special program-length tribute to Jim that originally aired in August 2014. In this segment, Jon Winokur (co-author of The Garner Files, Jim's memoirs of his career in film and television) talks to Ed about Jim's lifelong passion for racing, and how Garner uses his chapter on racing to open up about other topics that he is passionate about.

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Friday, July 19 marked the tenth anniversary of the passing of Emmy Award-winning actor and entertainment icon James Garner. TV Confidential marks this occasion by replaying our special program-length tribute to Jim that originally aired in August 2014. In this segment, we hear more from Jon Winokur, co-author of The Garner Files, Jim's memoirs of his career in film and television.

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Friday, July 19 marked the tenth anniversary of the passing of Emmy Award-winning actor and entertainment icon James Garner. TV Confidential marks this occasion by replaying our special program-length tribute to Jim that originally aired in August 2014. In this segment, we hear from Garner himself, in the form of two rarely heard interviews: an appearance on Here's Hollywood (NBC, 1960-1962) and a 1996 radio appearance on The Ronn Owens Program (KGO-AM, San Francisco).

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TVC 654.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with music journalist and music historian Jon Burlingame (Music for Prime Time: A History of American Television Themes and Scoring). Jon's latest book, Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir, is a combination history of Peter Gunn (NBC/ABC, 1958-1961) on television; biography of Grammy Award-winning and Academy Award-winning composer Henry Mancini; and discography of all of the original music that Henry Mancini composed for both Peter Gunn and Mr. Lucky (CBS, 1959-1960) and the soundtrack albums that accompanied both series. Topics this segment include the pivotal role that Alan Livingston, then head of programming for NBC, played in releasing Mancini's music for Peter Gunn as a soundtrack album, how Mancini handpicked many of the musicians who recorded with him on both Peter Gunn and Mr. Lucky, including John Williams and Bob Bain. Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir is available from BearManor Media.

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TVC 653.2: Music journalist Jon Burlingame (Music for Prime Time, Dreamsville: Henry

Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir) talks to Ed about how Blake Edwards came to develop Mr. Lucky (CBS, 1959-1960) for television, including how Edwards originally wanted Ricardo Montalban to play the title character and how Ross Martin wasn't signed to play Andamo just before production began. Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir is available from BearManor Media.

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TVC 654.3: Music journalist Jon Burlingame (Music for Prime Time, Dreamsville: Henry

Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir) talks to Ed about the strange, but true broadcast history of Mr. Lucky (CBS, 1959-1960), including how the ill-conceived mandate from the show's sponsor, Lever Brothers, to change the concept of Mr. Lucky midseason ultimately drove producer Blake Edwards to remove his name from the series. Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir is available from BearManor Media.

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TVC 654.4: Music journalist Jon Burlingame (Music for Prime Time, Dreamsville: Henry

Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir) talks about Henry Mancini's work in motion pictures, including how Mancini proved that a great composer could also be a great songwriter (which he did, with "Moon River"). Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir is available from BearManor Media.

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