First hour: TV Confidential remembers the life and career of Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Stephen J. Cannell (The Greatest American Hero, Baa Baa Black Sheep, The A Team, Hunter, Wiseguy, 21 Jump Street, The Rockford Files) along with author Robert J. Thompson, whose books on television include Adventures on Prime Time: The Television Programs of Stephen J. Cannell. The hour also includes excerpts from our January 2009 conversation with actress Stepfanie Kramer, who co-starred with Fred Dryer on Hunter, Cannell's longest running television series.
Second hour: TV Confidential continues its tribute to Stephen J. Cannell this hour along with guests writer/producer William Link (Columbo, Mannix, Ellery Queen, Murder, She Wrote) and television journalist Mark Dawidziak. The hour also features excerpts from Ed Robertson's interviews with Cannell and Roy Huggins on the origins of The Rockford Files.
I represent the first generation who, when we were born, the television was now a permanent fixture in our homes. When I was born people had breakfast with Barbara Walters, dinner with Walter Cronkite, and slept with Johnny Carson. Read the full "Pre-ramble"
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