TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 614.6: From March 2012: Ed plays audio highlights of George Maharis' appearance on the May 18, 1962 edition of PM East, the New York-based late night television talk show hosted by Mike Wallace, in which Maharis discussed what he may have done with his life had he not pursued acting, and why he was thinking of leaving Route 66 at the end of the third season. (Though he did not know it at the time he spoke to Wallace, Maharis would end up leaving the series in the middle of the third season, following a near-fatal release of hepatitis.) Audio courtesy of Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio, ATVAudio.com. George Maharis passed away this past Wednesday, May 24 at age ninety-four.

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TVC 613.1: TV Confidential remembers Milt Larsen, founder of The Magic Castle and the patriarch of magic and illusion around the world, with an encore presentation of a conversation that originally aired in October 2016. Milt Larsen passed away this past Sunday, May 28 at age ninety-two. At the time we spoke to Milt, he was about to celebrate the 60th anniversary of It's Magic, the star-studded live stage show that Milt produced for more than sixty years. Topics this segment include the early days of The Magic Castle, why the Castle is "three times bigger on in the inside than it is on the outside," and why we continue to be enamored with magic.

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TVC 613.2: From October 2016: Milt Larsen, founder of The Magic Castle, talks to Ed about his background in television, which includes eighteen years as a writer for Ralph Edwards Productions, where he worked on both This is Your Life and Truth or Consequences and, in the case of the former show, often entertained such entertainment legends as Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, Ed Wynn, Mack Sennett, George Burns, and Jack Benny while Edwards' production team set up the surprise for those guests. Also in this segment: audio highlights from Milt's final public appearance (courtesy of both the Larsen family and B. Harlan Boll Public Relations), which took place at The Magic Castle in April 2023 at a special gathering that celebrated both the fiftieth anniversary of The Castle and Milt's ninety-second birthday. Milt Larsen passed away this past Sunday, May 28.

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TVC 613.3: From August 2015: TV Confidential continues its tribute to Milt Larsen, founder of The Magic Castle, with a look at Milt's songwriting career, which included several collaborations with Academy Award-winning composer Richard Sherman. At the time this conversation originally aired, Milt and Richard had just re-released their two cult comedy albums, Bon Voyage, Titanic: Smash Flops! and Banned Barbershop Ballads. Milt Larsen passed away this past Sunday, May 28 at age ninety-two.

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TVC 613.4: From August 2015: Academy Award-winning composer Richard Sherman and Milt Larsen, founder of The Magic Castle, talk to Ed about the re-release of their two cult comedy albums, Bon Voyage, Titanic: Smash Flops! and Banned Barbershop Ballads. Milt Larsen passed away this past Sunday, May 28 at age ninety-two.

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TVC 613.5: Ed welcomes back actress and author Dee Wallace (E.T: The Extraterrestrial, The Howling, Cujo, Critters, Rob Zombie's 3 from Hell, Born: Giving Birth to a New You). Dee currently guest stars in Fatal Attraction: The Series, the Paramount+ reimagining of the classic thriller of 1980s. She is also about to mark her 300th screen role as an actress.

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TVC 613.6: Actress and author Dee Wallace (E.T: The Extraterrestrial, The Howling, Born: Giving Birth to a New You) talks to Ed about how her naivete about the acting industry actually worked in her favor when she first came to New York; and how she left her mark with casting directors when she first came to Hollywood with the help of chocolate chip cookies. Dee currently guest stars in Fatal Attraction: The Series, now streaming on Paramount+

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TVC 612.3: Greg Ehrbar reviews the Archive of American Television DVD release of The Barbara Stanwyck Show (NBC, 1960-1961), the Emmy Award-winning anthology series that Stanwyck hosted and produced in conjunction with Desilu Studios. Stanwyck starred in all but four of the thirty-six episodes in the series, usually playing strong, independent women (not unlike who Stanwyck was in real life). The Barbara Stanwyck Show is available on DVD in two volumes; most episodes are also available for streaming on demand on various platforms.

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TVC 612.4: Greg Ehrbar discusses the recent DVD release of The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (CBS, 1971-1972), a spin-off of The Flintstones (featuring a pre-All in the Family Sally Struthers) that is best described as "The Archies Meets The Flintstones Meets I Love Lucy (and, to some degree, Bewitched and the "Beach Party" movies)." Other DVD/streaming titles discussed this segment include I, Yabba Dabba Doo, Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs, and Cave Kids

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TVC 612.5: Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Anne Archer (Fatal Attraction, Patriot Games, Short Cuts, Clear and Present Danger) talks to Ed about her approach to playing such larger-than-life characters and figures as Mrs. Robinson in the London stage production of The Graduate, Jane Fonda (in the one-woman show The Trial of Jane Fonda), and, most recently, Norris Church Mailer (the sixth and last wife of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Norman Mailer) in A Ticket to the Circus, and why Norris is probably the closest to Anne personally of all the characters she has played on stage, film, and television. Written by Bonnie Culver, produced and directed by Michelle Danner, and based on Mailer's memoir of the same name, A Ticket to the Circus runs Thursdays through Sundays as a virtual theatre performance through Sunday, June 25. For tickets and more information, go to eventbrite.com/e/ticket-to-the-circus-tickets-641606100117

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