TV CONFIDENTIAL Archives: Apr. 18, 2012

Show No. 135 Apr. 18, 2012

First hour: Ed welcomes actress, comedienne and activist Alison Arngrim (Little House on the Prairie, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated). Alison's upcoming appearances include the opening of Nellie Oleson's Trunk of Treasures in France on May 18, a performance of her one-woman show, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, at the Laurie Beecham Theatre in New York on June 15-16, plus appearances at the annual “Laura Palooza” in Mankato, MN on July 12-14, and the annual “Walnut Grove Days” festival in Walnut Grove, MN on July 20-22. Also in this hour: Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen remember the launch of the first Jane Fonda workout tapes, the first experimental coast-to-coast satellite broadcast, and other events that originally took place This Week in TV History. Second hour: Ed welcomes actor, director and screenwriter William B. Davis (The X Files). Bill’s memoir, Where There’s Smoke: Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man, is filled with great stories that take you behind the scenes of The X Files, as well as his experiences as an acting teacher and stage director in England and Canada, where he worked with such acting legends as Albert Finney, Donald Sutherland, Maggie Smith and Sir Laurence Olivier. Plus: an encore presentation of our June 2011 conversation with singer, lyricist and television writer Deborah Pearl (Head of the Class, Designing Women). Deborah’s CD, Souvenir of You: New Lyrics to Benny Carter Classics, not only pays tribute to the music of jazz legend Benny Carter, but features original lyrics written by Deborah herself.