TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 586.5: From December 2018: Ed welcomes game show legend Wink Martindale (Gambit, Debt, Tic Tac Dough, Winking at Life, "Deck of Cards"). Known for his long association with Elvis Presley, Wink was there at the very beginning: the night in July 1954 when Memphis, TN radio station WHBQ became the first station to play an Elvis record on the radio. Wink Martindale's spoken word recording "Heavenly Child," a tribute to Elvis Presley, is available through iTunes and wherever music is sold online.

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TVC 586.6: From March 2017: Ed welcomes Emmy Award-winning producer and director Steve Binder (Elvis: The 1968 Comeback Special, Shindig, The T.A.M.I. Show, Fade UP: 26… The Movers and Shakers of Variety Television).

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TVC 586.7: From March 2017: Emmy Award-winning producer and director Steve Binder (Elvis: The 1968 Comeback Special) shares with Ed the back story of "If I Can Dream," the now-iconic closing number of the '68 Comeback Special.

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TVC 585.1: TV Confidential launches its fifteen season on the air with a return appearance by filmmaker, director, screenwriter, and novelist Julian David Stone. Julian's latest novel, It's Alive!, is a page-turning work of historical fiction based on the actual events behind the scenes of the making of the original Frankenstein movie that Carl Laemmle Jr. produced for Universal Studios in 1931.

It's Alive is available in hardcover, as an eBook, and as an audiobook through Greenleaf Book Group and Amazon.com.

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TVC 585.2: Julian David Stone talks to Ed about the many ways in which wunderkind producer Carl Laemmle Jr. changed Universal Studios and the face of movies altogether in the 1930s. Julian's latest novel, It's Alive!, captures the vibrant, exciting, and often chaotic days of 1930s Hollywood while also weaving in such actual figures as Bela Lugosi, director James Whale, legendary gossip columnist Louella Parsons, and Boris Karloff himself. It's Alive is available in hardcover, as an eBook, and as an audiobook through Greenleaf Book Group and Amazon.com.

Julian David Stone's other books include No Cameras Allowed: My Career as an Outlaw Rock 'n' Roll Photographer: 1981-1987, the amazing story of how Julian managed to sneak camera equipment into rock concerts over a six-year period during the mid 1980s (and, along the way, amassed a collection of more than 10,000 up-close-and-personal photographs of some of the biggest rock stars of the era), and The Strange Birth, Short life, and Sudden Death of Justice Girl, a historical novel based in the world of the 1950s live television that is currently being developed into a TV series. For more on Julian, visit JulianDavidStone.com.

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TVC 585.3: Greg Ehrbar discusses the recent DVD release of Dusty's Trail (Synd., 1973), the short-lived series starring Bob Denver and Forrest Tucker, and created by Sherwood Schwartz, that is best described as "Gilligan's Island Meets Wagon Train."

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TVC 585.4: Greg and Ed discuss Kino Lorber's Blu-ray release of The Outer Limits (ABC, 1963-1965).

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TVC 585.5: Rich Little, America's Master Mimic, talks to Ed about about performing before live audiences again, after a two-year hiatus brought on by the pandemic. Rich can be seen every Thursday thru Sunday at the Tropicana/Laugh Factory, 3801 S. Las Vegas Blvd in Las Vegas. For tickets and more information, call 702-739-2411 or visit TropLV.com or TheRichLittle.com.

Rich Little is also the author of People I've Known and Been: Little By Little, a collection of stories and anecdotes of some of the many notable showbiz figures and politicians that he has impersonated over the years. Now available online, and recently updated with more than 200 pages of new material, Little by Little also features more than 100 photographs (many of which are in color) plus some of Rich's favorite original charcoal sketches. All proceeds from sales of Little by Little will support U.S. veterans, by way of the Gary Sinise Foundation.

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TVC 585.6: Rich Little, America's Master Mimic, talks to Ed about his encounters with Don Rickles, Paul Lynde, and Elvis Presley. Rich can be seen every Thursday thru Sunday at the Tropicana/Laugh Factory, 3801 S. Las Vegas Blvd in Las Vegas. For tickets and more information, call 702-739-2411 or visit TropLV.com or TheRichLittle.com.

Rich Little is also the author of People I've Known and Been: Little By Little, a collection of stories and anecdotes of some of the many notable showbiz figures and politicians that he has impersonated over the years. Now available online, and recently updated with more than 200 pages of new material, Little by Little also features more than 100 photographs (many of which are in color) plus some of Rich's favorite original charcoal sketches. All proceeds from sales of Little by Little will support U.S. veterans, by way of the Gary Sinise Foundation.

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TVC 584.1: An encore presentation of our September 2014 conversation with Larry Storch, the actor known around the world as Corporal Agarn on the classic comedy series F Troop (ABC, 1965-1967). Among other topics, Larry talked about his early career as a stand-up comedian (and how Lucille Ball gave him his first break), plus he shared some memories of working alongside Tony Curtis, Peter Falk, Don Adams, and, of course, Forrest Tucker. Larry Storch passed away this past Friday, July 8 at the age of ninety-nine.

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