TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 635.3: Greg Ehrbar joins Ed for a look at Get Smart (NBC/CBS, 1965-1970), the long-running spy satire starring Don Adams and Barbara Feldon and co-created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, including the excellent complete series DVD box set, produced by Paul Brownstein and Susan Kesler for Time-Life, that was designed specifically with Get Smart fans in mind. Greg describes the box set as "Barbara Feldon Presents Get Smart," not only because she introduces every episode of every season (and provides many audio commentaries throughout), but because it makes you feel as if Barbara is watching the entire series with you.

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TVC 635.4: Greg and Ed continue their look at the various home entertainment releases of Get Smart (NBC/CBS, 1965-1970), including the made-for-TV reunion movie Get Smart, Again! (ABC, 1989, available on Amazon Prime), the 2008 reimagining starring Steve Carell, and the ill-fated 1979 feature motion picture The Nude Bomb. Other topics this segment include a look at some of Don Adams' television work before and after Get Smart, including his appearances on The Bill Dana Show, his starring roles in the animated series Inspector Gadget and Tennessee Tuxedo, his short-lived series The Partners (NBC, 1971), and his special A Couple of Dons (also starring Don Rickles). Each season of the original Get Smart is available both on both DVD and streaming on demand, while the excellent complete series DVD box set is available at Amazon.

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TVC 635.5: Ed welcomes back Barbara Feldon, the actress known around the world as Agent 99 on Get Smart. Barbara's new book, Getting Smarter: A Memoir, is an intimate look at her life and her romance with Lucien Feldon Verdeaux, the charming European to whom she was married at the time she began filming Get Smart, but who turned out to be not quite the man he had claimed to be. Topics this segment include what first sparked Barbara's attraction to Lucien, and how her relationship with Lucien paved the way for her appearances on The $64,000 Question. Both Getting Smarter: A Memoir and Barbara's first book, Living Alone and Loving It, are available at BarbaraFeldon.com and at Amazon.com.

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TVC 635.6: Actress and author Barbara Feldon (Get Smart, Getting Smarter: A Memoir, Living Alone and Loving It) talks to Ed about how the energy of New York City compares to the "slow metabolism" of L.A., the excitement of being a model in New York in the early 1960s, and how models like her were aware of the power and influence that advertising agencies on Madison Avenue had at the time. Both Getting Smarter: A Memoir and Living Alone and Loving It are available at BarbaraFeldon.com and at Amazon.com.

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TVC 634.4: Greg and Ed continue their conversation about The FBI (ABC, 1965-1974), the long-running Sunday night drama starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. that was also Quinn Martin's longest-running network TV series. Topics this segment include the controversial casting change in the ninth season (Shelly Novack replacing William Reynolds), as well as the how formula of the series more or less stayed the same, despite changing mores and fashions. All nine seasons of The FBI are available on DVD through Warner Bros. Archive and are available for streaming on demand through Tubi, while The FBI is shown weekdays on The Warner Bros. Live Channel on Tubi. The FBI Dossier, a behind the scenes history of The FBI on television, is available from Black Pawn Press.

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TVC 634.5: Ed welcomes back Alison Arngrim, the award-winning actress known around the world as Nellie Oleson, "the No. 1 bitch in TV history" (according to Vanity Fair) and the bane of Laura Ingalls' existence for seven years on Little House on the Prairie (NBC, 1974-1983). Alison will bring her world-renowned one-woman show, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch,to the historic Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W. Sierre Madre Blvd., in Sierra Madre, CA for six performances only, Friday 1/19 through Sunday 1/28. Go to SierraMadrePlayhouse.org for tickets and more information.

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TVC 634.6: Actress, author, comedienne, and radio host Alison Arngrim (Little House on the Prairie, Fifty for 50: The Little House Podcast) talks to Ed about how she landed the role of Nellie Oleson on Little House; why Little House continues to have something for everyone; and working with Michael Landon, both as an actor and as a director Alison will bring her world-renowned one-woman show, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, to the historic Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W. Sierre Madre Blvd., in Sierra Madre, CA for six performances only, Friday 1/19 through Sunday 1/28. Go to SierraMadrePlayhouse.org for tickets and more information.

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TVC 633.2: Greg Ehrbar joins Ed for a look at The FBI (ABC, 1965-1974), the

long-running Sunday night drama starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. that was also

Quinn Martin's longest-running network TV series. Topics this segment include a

look at the many famous guest stars that appeared on The FBI and how director Quentin Tarantino helped regenerate public interest in The FBI by incorporating

footage of the first-season episode "All the Streets are Silent" into his Oscar-winning movie Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019). All nine seasons of The FBI are available on DVD through Warner Bros. Archive and are available for streaming on demand through Tubi, while The FBI is shown weekdays on The Warner Bros. Live Channel on Tubi. The FBI Dossier, a behind the scenes history of The FBI on television, is available from Black Pawn Press.

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TVC 633.3: Greg and Ed talk about how some of the various tropes of The FBI (ABC, 1965-1974) changed once William Reynolds replaced Stephen Brooks as Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.'s field partner; the show's relationship with the Ford Motor Company; and such notable episodes as "Ordeal," "Breakthrough," "The Executioners," and "The Hiding Place." All nine seasons of The FBI are available on DVD through Warner Bros. Archive and are available for streaming on demand through Tubi, while The FBI is shown weekdays on The Warner Bros. Live Channel on Tubi. The FBI Dossier, a behind the scenes history of The FBI on television, is available from Black Pawn Press.

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TVC 633.4: David Bianculli, longtime television critic and longtime contributor to NPR's Fresh Air, and the author of Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, joins Ed as TV Confidential pays tribute to comedian Tom Smothers, the comic half of the Smothers Brothers stage act who was also the driving force behind The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (CBS, 1967-1969). Tom Smothers passed away Tuesday, Dec. 26 at age eighty-six. Topics this segment include the many way in which The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was a pivot point in the landscape of network television comedy, paving the way for such other topical shows as Laugh-in, All in the Family, M*A*S*H, and Saturday Night Live; how the Smothers Brothers did not necessarily set out to become a comic act when they began their nightclub career; and the many ways in which Tom was an impresario, much like Ed Sullivan was in the 1950s and Lorne Michaels was in the 1970s.

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