TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 581.3: Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Joseph Dougherty, author David Koenig (Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV's Rumpled Detective), Dan Farren, and Tony Figueroa discuss the important role that the first clue plays in a given Columbo episode, and why Columbo has discovered new viewers of late, for reasons that go beyond the pandemic. Shooting Columbo is available in hardcover, as an eBook, and as an audiobook through Amazon.com. Joseph Dougherty's new book, A Screenwriter's Companion, is available for pre-order through Amazon.com and Fayetteville Mafia Press.

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TVC 580.1: Ed welcomes film historian Andrew Erish, author of Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio, a comprehensive history of The Vitagraph Company, the first major motion picture studio in the United States, yet a company that is virtually forgotten, despite establishing many of the norms of movie making as we know it today. Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio is available wherever books are sold.

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TVC 580.2: Film historian Andrew Erish, author of Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio, discusses the vital role that businessman William T. "Pop" Rock played in stabilizing the fortunes of The Vitagraph Company, as well as the studio's often contentious relationship with inventor Thomas Edison. Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio is available wherever books are sold.

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TVC 580.3: Film historian Andrew Erish, author of Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio, talks to Ed about how The Vitagraph Company not only made movies that appealed to every aspect of society, but was one of the first to make "socially responsible" films (such as An Easter Lily, an entry in the popular Sonny Jim comedy series that addressed racial prejudice). Other topics include how Moe Howard got his start by appearing in several Vitagraph movies before becoming a star with The Three Stooges. Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio is available wherever books are sold.

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TVC 580.4: A special roundtable discussion devoted to Columbo, including the original NBC series (1971-1978); Prescription: Murder, the play by Richard Levinson and William Link that begat Columbo (and which eventually led to the two Columbo pilots, Prescription: Murder and Ransom for a Dead Man); and how the ABC revival (1989-2003) holds up, compared to the original series. Joining us on the panel are Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, playwright, and author Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, Saving Grace, Chester Bailey); David Koenig, author of Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV's Rumpled Detective; writer/producer Dan Farren (Story Salon); and Tony Figueroa of This Week in TV History.

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TVC 580.5: Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars), author David Koenig (Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV's Rumpled Detective), writer/producer Dan Farren (Story Salon), and Tony Figueroa of This Week in TV History discuss the often unheralded contributions of mystery writer Jackson Gillis to Columbo; why the episodes shepherded by Richard Alan Simmons and Patrick McGoohan were more character-driven than mystery-driven; and why shoes were important to Columbo. Shooting Columbo is available through Amazon.com. Joseph Dougherty's latest book, A Screenwriter's Companion, is available for pre-order through Fayetteville Mafia Press.

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TVC 580.6: Our special roundtable discussion devoted to Columbo, featuring Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, Saving Grace, Chester Bailey), David Koenig, author of Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV's Rumpled Detective, writer/producer Dan Farren (Story Salon), and Tony Figueroa of This Week in TV History continues. Joseph Dougherty's latest book, A Screenwriter's Companion, is available for pre-order through Fayetteville Mafia Press.

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TVC 579.1: A conversation recorded in February 2020 with John Cerney, a commercial artist who specializes in creating 16-foot-high, billboard-size cut-out art murals that dot the landscape of some twenty-eight states across the U.S. (and, particularly, the highways of California and the Midwest). John's pieces include a portrait of James Dean that welcomes visitors to the SPCA in Monterey County, California; a mural of George Harrison in Benton, Illinois; a mural of Amelia Earhart in her hometown of Atchison, Kansas; flying saucers in Roswell, New Mexico; and, arguably his most famous mural, "Giant Marfa," the multimedia tribute to George Stevens' epic motion picture Giant that appears on Highway 90 in Marfa, Texas. Topics this segment include how out former Monkee Michael Nesmith became involved in Giant Marfa, and including helping John turn the mural into a multimedia experience.

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TVC 579.2: Commercial artist John Cerney talks to Ed about some of the logistics involved in putting together Giant Marfa and the various other 16-foot-high, billboard-size cut-out art murals that dot the landscape of some twenty-eight states across the U.S. The Giant Marfa mural includes a giant 1951 Ford Deluxe (the car that Rock Hudson drove in Giant), plus music by Michael Nesmith and the First National Band. To learn more about John's work, visit JohnCerneyMurals.com.

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TVC 579.2a: Greg Ehrbar discusses Broadside (ABC, 1964-1965), the short-lived spin-off of McHale's Navy starring Kathleen Nolan, Dick Sargent, and Edward Andrews that is best remembered today as the show that prevented William Asher and Elizabeth Montgomery from casting Sargent as Darrin on Bewitched when that series began production in 1964. (Sargent, of course, later joined the cast of Bewitched in 1969 as the replacement for Dick York.) Select episodes of Broadside are available for screening on YouTube.

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