TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 639.1: Ed welcomes Harvey Lisberg, the legendary music manager who not only shaped the careers of such iconic artists as Herman's Hermits, 10cc, and Tony Christie, but paved the way for Neil Sedaka's comeback as a songwriter and recording artist in the mid 1970s, and was one of the first people in the music industry to recognize the talent and potential of the songwriting duo of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Harvey's memoir, I'm Into Something Good, a captivating journey through the golden era of music, is available wherever books are sold.

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TVC 639.2: Music legend Harvey Lisberg talks to Ed about his gift for recognizing the hit potential of any given song; the art of matching a song to a particular artist; and the great compliment that music impresario Don Kirshner once paid him. Harvey's memoir, I'm Into Something Good, is available wherever books are sold.

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TVC 639.3: Greg Ehrbar talks to Ed about the Kino Lorber Blu-ray release of The Quatermass Xperiment (1955), the British horror movie starring Brian Donlevy that is also known to U.S. audiences as The Creeping Unknown. An important title in British film history, The Quatermass Xperiment is the movie that put Hammer Studios on the map.

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TVC 639.3a: Greg and Ed discuss the Kino Lorber special edition Blu-ray release of The Questor Tapes (1974), the made-for-TV movie starring Robert Foxworth, Mike Farrell, John Vernon, Walter Koenig, and Dana Wynter that is also known among Gene Roddenberry aficionados as one of the best pilots that Roddenberry ever made, but which never went to series. Topics this segment include how the Questor character served as a prototype for Data, the android that Brent Spiner eventually played on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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TVC 639.3b: Greg and Ed discuss the Kino Lorber special edition Blu-ray release of House of the Long Shadows (1983), the remake of Seven Keys to Baldpate starring Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, John Carradine, and Desi Arnaz Jr. that Greg describes as "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, done for horror."

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TVC 639.4: Ed welcomes Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, and music icon Melissa Manchester. Melissa's new album, RE:VIEW, not only celebrates Melissa's fifty-year career as a solo artist, but revisits several of her charted hits with such guest artists as Kenny Loggins, Gerald Albright, Dave Koz, and Dolly Parton. RE:VIEW is available wherever music is sold, while three of the tracks on the album—"Whenever I Call You Friend" (featuring Kenny Loggins and Dave Koz), "Midnight Blue" (a duet with Dolly Parton), and "Confide in Me," a song that Melissa originally wrote for Diana Ross—are also available as digital singles.

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TVC 639.5: Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, and music icon Melissa Manchester talks to Ed about why Ella Fitzgerald is one of her musical godmothers; "They Never Met," the duet that Melissa recorded with Martin Mull around the time that she and Mull toured together; and why every artist needs to learn how to listen slowly. Melissa's new album, RE:VIEW, is available wherever music is sold.

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TVC 638.1: From February 2018: Phil Gries joins us to discuss Harlem School 1970, an original documentary that provides an inside look at a typical day at Community School No. 30M in Harlem, New York, where Phil taught for three years before embarking on his long career as an award-winning cinematographer for film and television. Filmed, produced and directed by Phil Gries, Harlem School 1970 is an early example of "direct cinema," a form of documentary storytelling that allows viewers to watch the narrative unfold and shape their own meaning without narration or outside interviews.

For our listeners on the East Coast, Harlem School 1970 will be shown at the Maysles Documentary Center in New York City on Thursday, Mar. 14 beginning at 7pm. For tickets and more information, go to Maysles.org

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TVC 638.2: From February 2018: Phil Gries and Ed continue their discussion about Harlem School 1970, Phil's acclaimed "direct cinema" documentary that is also the only known feature-length documentary that was filmed inside an actual inner city public elementary school in the U.S. during the 1960s, 1970s, or 1980s. For our listeners on the East Coast, Harlem School 1970 will be shown at the Maysles Documentary Center in New York City on Thursday, Mar. 14 beginning at 7pm. For tickets and more information, go to Maysles.org

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TVC 638.3: Greg Ehrbar and Ed discuss the recent Kino Lorber Blu-ray releases of The Edge of the World (1937) and Scarlet Street (1945).

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