TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 619.4: Fritz Coleman talks to Ed about some of the other "single topic" monologues that he has written and performed, including It's Me, Dad, a poignant hour that was produced as a special by KCET in Los Angeles—and which resulted in Fritz speaking with Marlon Brando after the show's first broadcast. Fritz's latest one-man show, Unassisted Living, is available now for streaming on demand on the Tubi channel.

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TVC 618:1: Part 2 of our roundtable discussion with Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and novelist Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriter's Companion) about obscure science fiction television series from the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. Joe's new sci-fi novel, The First Cylinder, draws inspiration from Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, and War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, only it tells the story of the invasion of Mars from the perspective of the Martians. Tony Figueroa and Dan Farren are also with us. Topics this segment include why the concept of time travel is a popular theme in all forms of science fiction.

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TVC 618.2: Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and novelist Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriter's Companion) talks to Ed, Tony Figueroa, and Dan Farren about Cliffhangers, Space Academy, Quark, Project UFO, My Living Doll, and other obscure science fiction series from the 1960s and '70s. Joe's new novel, The First Cylinder, is available from Fayetteville Mafia Press and Amazon.com.

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TVC 618.3: Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and novelist Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriter's Companion) talks to Ed, Tony Figueroa, and Dan Farren about the appeal of The Time Tunnel, Doctor Who, and other series that revolve around the concept of time travel. Joe's new novel, The First Cylinder, is available from Fayetteville Mafia Press and Amazon.com.

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TVC 618.4: Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and novelist Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriter's Companion) talks to Ed, Tony Figueroa, and Dan Farren about the appeal of such series as The Invaders, Stephen King's The Golden Years, and Fantastic Journey. Joe's new novel, The First Cylinder, is available from Fayetteville Mafia Press and Amazon.com.

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TVC 618.5: From June 2015: Ed welcomes back actor Robert Colbert (The Time Tunnel, Maverick, The Young and the Restless).

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TVC 617.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Jim Benson, host of Jim Benson's TV Time Machine and the co-author, along with Scott Skelton, of Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour, everything you wanted to know about the other famous TV series created by Rod Serling. Topics this segment include how Night Gallery was both a director's show as well as a producer's show, and how series creator Rod Serling took away his own leverage by not insisting on having creative control of the series once Night Gallery went into production. Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour has been recently updated and reissued as a marvelous 50th anniversary second edition that includes a host of new material, including more than four hundred pages of new information, plus a brand new foreword by Oscar and Emmy winning director Guillermo del Toro.

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TVC 617.2: Jim Benson, co-author of Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour, talks to Ed about some of many misconceptions about Night Gallery, many of which stem from the truncated versions of many episodes as they appeared in the show's syndication package. Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour has been recently updated and reissued as a marvelous 50th anniversary second edition that includes a host of new material, including more than four hundred pages of new information, plus a brand new foreword by Oscar and Emmy winning director Guillermo del Toro.

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TVC 617.3: Jim Benson, co-author of Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour, talks to Ed about "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar," the first-season episode starring William Windom, Diane Baker, and Bert Convy that is universally recognized as one of the best, among the most personal, scripts that Rod Serling ever wrote. Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour has been updated and reissued as a 50th anniversary second edition that includes a brand new foreword by Oscar and Emmy winning director Guillermo del Toro.

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TVC 617:4: Ed welcomes back Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and novelist Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriter's Companion). Joe has just published The First Cylinder, a breakout science fiction novel that draws inspiration from War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, only it tells the story of the invasion of Mars from the perspective of the Martians. Tony Figueroa and Dan Farren join Joe and Ed for a roundtable discussion of such early science fiction TV shows as Tales of Tomorrow, Science Fiction Theater, Space Patrol, and Fireball-XL5.

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