The Great TV Podcast with Jim Harold
Where we talk about the best shows ever made, current & classic!
This week’s show is all about Seinfeld. Our guest is author Jennifer Keishin Armstrong.
NOTE: We are changing the name of the show, so episode 30 with be under the new GREAT TV PODCAST banner!
You can find her book on the “show about nothing” at Amazon.com: Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything
Thanks!
You may know him as the iconic villain Victor Newman from The Young and the Restless, but you probably don’t know the amazing journey Eric Braeden took to become a soap opera legend. He shares some of that journey with us on this edition of TV You Grew Up With.
You can find his book at Amazon.com: I’ll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me to America’s #1 Daytime Drama
Thanks Eric!
P.S. Eric is one of those guests I could have talked with for hours…an amazing man!
Charlotte Stewart was Miss Beadle on Little House On The Prarie, Betty Briggs on Twin Peaks and has many stories of rubbing elbows with Hollywood legends. We had a great talk on this episode of TV You Grew Up With.
You can find her autobiography at Amazon.com: Little House in the Hollywood Hills: A Bad Girl’s Guide to Becoming Miss Beadle, Mary X, and Me
Thanks Charlotte!
We talk to Home Improvement’s Taran Noah Smith and his Mom Candy Bennici about the rewards and challenges of child stardom.
You can find their book on the subject at Amazon.com: Stardom Happens: Nurturing Your Child in the Entertainment Business
Thanks Taran & Cindy!
We talk with Mike Pipher who is in charge of the Rod Serling Archive at the Bundy Museum in Binghamton, NY (Serling’s hometown). We discuss the master of mystery, and his career before, during and after The Twilight Zone.
Submitted for your consideration on TV You Grew Up With…
Serling’s most celebrated TV series at Amazon.com: The Twilight Zone: The Complete Series [Blu-ray]
The Twilight Zone: The Complete Definitive Collection (DVD)
This program was recorded in October 2015.
Thanks Mike!
Images: Wikipedia/CBS Entertainment
The Andy Griffith Show is one of the iconic series in the history of television. Pulitzer prize winning author Daniel de Visé joins us to talk about the relationship that created it. . .that between Andy Griffith and Don Knotts. A great guest and book.
You can find Daniel’s must-read book at Amazon.com:
Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American
Thanks Daniel!
We talk to Alan Stevens and Dr. Fiona Moore about this iconic, mind bending 60s TV series, The Prisoner. They have written the ultimate guide book to the program. We also discuss their books on Battlestar Galactica.
Here are Amazon links to some of the books we discussed:
Fall Out: The Unofficial and Unathorised Guide to The Prisoner
Thanks Alan and Dr. Moore!
Ken Osmond and his co-author Christopher J. Lynch join us to talk about Ken’s life and the experience of playing an iconic character like Eddie Haskell.
Chris and the Leave It To Beaver star have written a book on the subject:
Eddie: The Life and Times of America’s Preeminent Bad Boy
Thanks Ken & Chris!
Comedian and host of The Carson Podcast, Mark Malkoff guests on TV You Grew Up With to talk about the all-time King of Late Night, Johnny Carson.
Check out his fantastic podcast at CarsonPodcast.com
Thanks Mark!
Photo Credit: Wikipedia.org
Cindy Williams joins us to talk about her new book, American Graffiti and, of course, her legendary TV series Laverne & Shirley.
You can find her new book at Amazon.com:
Shirley, I Jest!: A Storied Life
You can find Laverne & Shirley on DVD at Amazon.com:
Laverne & Shirley: Complete Series Pack
Thanks Cindy!
