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.
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As always, the further we go back in Hollywood history, the more that fact and legend become intertwined. It's hard to say where the truth really lies.
May 15, 1970
Get Smart's last
episode airs.
I Am Curiously Yellow:The Whip has a special gong
that places people under his control after they hear it ring. Max gets
hypnotized and steals the NARCO 512 for the Whip. Cured of his hypnotism by a
pill, Max, Larabee, and the Chief capture the Whip. As the final episode of the
series ends, Larabee hits the gong, placing the Chief and CONTROL in his power.
The original series, developed by Mel Brooks and starring Don Adams, aired from
1965 to 1970.
To quote the Bicentennial Minute, "And that's the way it was".
Here is another "Mental Sorbet"a little spark of madnessthat we could use to momentarily forget about those things that leave a bad taste in our mouths.
Jimmy & Jack do a shot-for-shot remake of Extreme's "More Than Words" music video.
Authors Mark Bennett and A.S. Berman will join us on a special encore edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing May 6-11 at the following times and venues:
WROM Radio
Detroit, MI
Wednesday 5/6
8pm ET, 5pm PT
2am ET, 11pm PT
Sunday 5/10
8pm ET, 5pm PT
2am ET, 11pm PT
Click on the Listen Live button at WROMRadio.net
Share-a-Vision Radio
San Francisco Bay Area
Friday 5/8
7pm ET, 4pm PT
10pm ET, 7pm PT
Click on the Listen Live button at KSAV.org
Use the TuneIn app on your smartphone and type in KSAV
or hear us on the KSAV channel on CX Radio Brazil
Indiana Talks
Marion, IN
Saturday 5/9
8pm ET, 5pm PT
Sunday 5/10
6pm ET, 3pm PT
Click on the player at IndianaTalks.com
or use the TuneIn app on your smartphone and type in Indiana Talks
KSCO-AM 1080
San Jose, Santa Cruz and Salinas, CA KOMY-AM 1340
La Selva Beach and Watsonville, CA
Sunday 5/10
10am ET, 7am PT
Also streaming at KSCO.com
KHMB-AM and FM
Half Moon Bay, CA
Sunday 5/10
9pm PT
Monday 5/11
Midnight ET
Click on the Listen Live button at KHMBRadio.com
or use the Live365 app on your smartphone and type in KHMB
RadioSlot.com
San Francisco, CA
Monday 5/11
10pm ET, 7pm PT
with replays Tuesday thru Friday at 10pm ET, 7pm PT
Click on the Talk Slot button at RadioSlot.com
In the early 1990s, Fred de Cordova— the legendary producer and director of such classic television series as The Jack Benny Program, Burns and Allen, The George Gobel Show, My Three Sons, The Bob Cummings Show and The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson — was more or less winding down his career when he happened to meet Mark Bennett, a young actor and producer who at the time had recently relocated to Los Angeles from his native Colorado. In an unlikely twist, Fred not only became Mark’s friend and mentor, but would lead Mark on a journey that would change both their lives.
That story is at the heart of The Big Show, a memoir of Mark’s years working with Fred de Cordova. Though set in the world of set business, The Big Show is, at its heart, a story about mentorship that readers will enjoy no matter what their profession. The book includes a very heartfelt foreword by comedian Bob Newhart. Mark Bennett will join us in our first hour.
This week’s program will also include a replay of our conversation from May 2014 about Soap, the long-running ABC comedy series that was as passionate and controversial as the era in which it was made (1977-1981). Though often dismissed as a mere parody of daytime soap operas, Soap tackled sex, death, depression, infidelity, homosexuality, transsexuality and other taboo subjects with a wit and gentleness that had never been seen on American television. It was also a show that both ad-hoc groups and the mainstream media universally hated ― albeit for different reasons ― long before a single episode ever actually aired. But Soap not only survived all the controversy, it thrived, launching the careers of Billy Crystal, Robert Guillaume, and Katherine Helmond, while also establishing Susan Harris as one of television’s premier writer/producers.
