TV CONFIDENTIAL Archives: Feb. 29, 2012

Show No. 128 Feb. 29, 2012

First hour: Emmy Award-winning actress Barbara Bain (Mission: Impossible, Space: 1999, Nothing Special) talks to Ed about working with Barry Morse, Dick Van Dyke and Bruce Geller, as well as her early experience under the tutelage of Martha Graham and Lee Strasberg. Barbara is currently co-starring with Tanna Frederick in the stage production of Why We Have a Body, now playing at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica through Sunday, Apr. 29. Also in this hour: Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen join Ed for a recap of this year's Oscar telecast hosted by Billy Crystal. Second hour: Ed welcomes actor, screenwriter and television historian James Rosin. Jim’s latest book, Adventures in Paradise: The Television Series, is an oral history of the popular ABC series from the early 1960s starring Gardner McKay that was also based on a concept by bestselling novelist James Michener.