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Title
Broadcast Date
Program Information
Show
No. 76
Hour 1
Feb. 7,
2011
Ed’s
guests this hour include Peggy Sweeney-McDonald, creator and
producer of
Meanwhile, Back At Café Du Monde,
and Kevin Martin,
co-owner of the Hollywood Show.
Guests include Douglas Brode, author of
Shooting Stars of the Small Screen.
Plus: excerpts from Ed’s 1993 interview with iconic Western film
director Budd Boetticher.
Ed welcomes film and TV historian
Charles Tranberg,
author of
I Love The Illusion,
a comprehensive biography of Emmy Award-winning actress Agnes
Moorehead.
Music journalist, historian and author
Jon Burlingame
(TV’s
Biggest Hits: The Story of Television Themes from Dragnet to
Friends)
with a tribute to the music of Oscar- and Emmy-winning
composer Jerry Goldsmith.
Television historian Stephen Bowie with a look at some of the
many character actors who came into prominence as a result of
their appearances on Naked City.
Phil
Gries remembers the 1967 television production of Annie,
Get
Your Gun. Plus: Part 1 of Ed’s interview with Stephen
Battaglio, author of
David Susskind: A Televised Life.
Part 2
of Ed’s interview with Stephen Battaglio about the life and
career of television producer David Susskind. Plus: a look at
the 25th anniversary
of the network premiere of
Return to Mayberry.
Tony
Figueroa, Donna Allen and
Ed discuss the cancellations of
One
Life to Live
and All My Children.
Plus: Phil Gries remembers the NBC daytime talk show Here's
Hollywood.
Rob Howe
shares some memories with Ed of his
friendship with show business
legend
George Burns.
Plus: Phil Gries with a birthday tribute to Ann-Margret, and
Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen with a look at entertainment
headlines.
Ed's guest this hour is
actor, singer, songwriter, musician, stand-up comedian and stage
magician
Dan Frischman (Head
of the Class,
Kenan & Kel).
Plus: This Week in TV History.
Ed's guests this hour
include award-winning independent film actress Tanna Frederick (Hollywood
Dreams, Queen of the Lot) and author Stephen Battaglio (David
Susskind: A Televised Life). Plus: Phil Gries remembers the
pioneering TV documentary series Project 20.
Ed welcomes Emmy
Award-winning talk show host and former game show emcee
Jim Peck
(The Big ShowDown, Second Chance, I Remember). Plus: This
Week in TV History.
TV
critic Mark Dawidziak with some thoughts on the network TV
upfronts. Plus: Phil Gries pays tribute to Johnny Carsonon the 19th anniversary of his final appearance as
host of The Tonight Show.
Ed's
guest this hour is actor, artist, filmmaker and novelist Peter Mark Richman (Dynasty,
Three’s Company,
Longstreet, Cain’s Hundred, Four Faces,
The Rebirth of Ira Masters,
Hollander’s Deal)
Television historian
Wesley Hyatt
(Television's Top 100) joins
Ed for a look at Oprah Winfrey’s impact on daytime television.
Plus: Part
2 of our tribute to
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny
Carson.
Stephen Bowie
(The Classic TV History Blog)
discusses some of the notable
early live television dramas directed
by
Sidney Lumet. Plus:
This Week in TV History.
Tony
Figueroa, Donna Allen and Ed discuss
such topics as Oprah Winfrey’s final broadcast
and the cancellations of Outsourced and Law and Order: Los
Angeles.
Filmmakers Jim Pasternak
and Richard Marshall join Ed for a conversation about the genius
of comedy legend Jonathan Winters.
Plus:
highlights from a 2008 interview that Winters gave to Phil Gries.
Film and television
historian
Douglas Brode (Shooting
Stars of the Small Screen)
helps Ed pay tribute to James Arness and the legacy of Gunsmoke.
Plus: Tony Figueroa with thoughts on the reaction to Tracy Morgan’s rant
among members of the entertainment industry and the GLBT
community.
Ed welcomes singer,
lyricist, producer and writer
Deborah Pearl
(Head
of the Class,
Designing Women,
Souvenir of You: New Lyrics to Benny
Carter Classics).
Radio host, television
historian and producer
Jim Benson joins
Ed for a look at the life and career of Emmy Award-winning
writer, producer and director Leonard Stern (Get
Smart, He and She,
I’m Dickens, He’s Fenster,
The Snoop Sisters,
McMillan and Wife). Plus: This Week in
TV History.
Ed, Tony and Donna welcome
actor, comedian and voiceover artist
Hank Garrett
(Car
54, Where Are You?,
The Producers,
Serpico,
Three Days of the Condor,
The Boys Next Door,
Paris).
Ed
welcomes music
journalist Jason Draper, author of
Prince: Chaos, Disorder and Revolution.
Plus: Phil Gries remembers Person to Person with
Charles Collingwood.
Ed welcomes actress,
director and acting coach
Michelle Danner,
artistic director of the Edgemar Center of the Arts in Santa
Monica, CA.
Plus: This Week in TV History.
Ed welcomes
Richard and Esther Shapiro,
co-creators and co-executive producers of
Dynasty,
The Colbys, Emerald Point, NAS and many acclaimed
made-for-TV movies and miniseries, including Minstrel Man,
Friendly Fire,
East of Eden,
Intimate
Strangers and
Sarah T: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic.
Ed's guest this hour is Keith Elliot Greenberg, producer of
America's Most Wanted and author of such books as December 8, 1980: The Day John Lennon
Died.
Ed's guest this hour is
Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Aviva Kempner (Yoo-Hoo, Mrs.
Goldberg). Plus: Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen comment on
the proposed plans to continue broadcasting All My Children
and One Life to Live online, while Phil Gries remembers
Playboy's Penthouse, an early television effort by Hugh
Hefner.
Ed
welcomes actress, author and radio host Dee Wallace (E.T.: The
Extraterrestrial, Cujo, The Howling, Bright Light: Spiritual Lessons from a
Life in Acting).
Television historian and
author
Wesley Hyatt
(Television’s Top 100) joins
Ed, Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen for a round-table discussion on
the careers of writer/producers Sam Denoff (That Girl, The
Dick Van Dyke Show) and Sherwood Schwartz (Gilligan’s
Island, The Brady Bunch).
Mark Dawidziak, author of
The Columbo Phile and other books on film and television,
joins Ed this hour as TV Confidential remembers the life
and career of Peter Falk.
Tony Figueroa, Donna Allen
and Ed remember the 30th anniversary of the premiere of
MTV, the 40th anniversary of the debut of The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour
and the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lucille Ball.
Ed and Tony welcome Edgar
Award-nominated writer, producer and novelist
Lee Goldberg (Diagnosis
Murder,
Monk,
Spenser: For Hire,
Remaindered,
Successful Television Writing, Watch Me Die, Mr.
Monk on the Couch).
