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- This Date in MAVERICK TV History: “The Long Hunt” airs on Oct. 20, 1957 – Ed Robertson on Now available from Black Pawn Press: MAVERICK: Legend of the West, back in the saddle and fully updated as a Revised Third Edition with more than 100 pages of new information about the show that made James Garner a star. 25 percent of the net proceeds from the sales of the third edition will be donated to The James Garner Animal Rescue Fund. Available both in softcover and, very soon, as an eBook through Black Pawn Press, Amazon.com, and wherever books are sold online
- This Date in MAVERICK TV History: Efrem Zimbalist Jr. stars as Dandy Jim Buckley in “High Card Hangs,” airing Oct. 19, 1958 – Ed Robertson on Now available from Black Pawn Press: MAVERICK: Legend of the West, back in the saddle and fully updated as a Revised Third Edition with more than 100 pages of new information about the show that made James Garner a star. 25 percent of the net proceeds from the sales of the third edition will be donated to The James Garner Animal Rescue Fund. Available both in softcover and, very soon, as an eBook through Black Pawn Press, Amazon.com, and wherever books are sold online
- This Date in MAVERICK TV History: Patricia Crowley guest stars in “A Tale of Three Cities,” airing Oct. 18, 1959 – Ed Robertson on Now available from Black Pawn Press: MAVERICK: Legend of the West, back in the saddle and fully updated as a Revised Third Edition with more than 100 pages of new information about the show that made James Garner a star. 25 percent of the net proceeds from the sales of the third edition will be donated to The James Garner Animal Rescue Fund. Available both in softcover and, very soon, as an eBook through Black Pawn Press, Amazon.com, and wherever books are sold online
- This Date in MAVERICK TV History: “Last Wire from Stop Gap” airs on Oct. 16, 1960 – Ed Robertson on Now available from Black Pawn Press: MAVERICK: Legend of the West, back in the saddle and fully updated as a Revised Third Edition with more than 100 pages of new information about the show that made James Garner a star. 25 percent of the net proceeds from the sales of the third edition will be donated to The James Garner Animal Rescue Fund. Available both in softcover and, very soon, as an eBook through Black Pawn Press, Amazon.com, and wherever books are sold online
- This Date in MAVERICK TV History: Edd Byrnes and Joanna Barnes star in “Ghost Rider,” airing Oct. 13, 1957 – Ed Robertson on Now available from Black Pawn Press: MAVERICK: Legend of the West, back in the saddle and fully updated as a Revised Third Edition with more than 100 pages of new information about the show that made James Garner a star. 25 percent of the net proceeds from the sales of the third edition will be donated to The James Garner Animal Rescue Fund. Available both in softcover and, very soon, as an eBook through Black Pawn Press, Amazon.com, and wherever books are sold online
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 493 with guest Phil Savenick is available for listening on demand
The Most Impressive Collection of TV Sets You Will Ever See Original Airdates: May 15-17, 2020 TVC 493.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with three-time Emmy nominated writer/producer Phil Savenick, curator of TheHistoryofTV.com, a virtual museum … Continue reading
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 492.3 with guest Phil Savenick is now available for listening for demand
Televisionary Phil Savenick Original Airdates: May 8-10, 2020 TVC 492.3: Ed welcomes three-time Emmy nominated writer/producer Phil Savenick. After thirty-five years in TV production, during which time he created many highly regarded compilation documentaries concerning TV and its history, Phil … Continue reading
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via It’s Alive Media: Omnivore Recordings to reissue The Ernie Kovacs Album, the Grammy-nominated album from 1977, this summer with six bonus tracks
On Friday, July 5, Omnivore Recordings will reissue the 1977 Grammy-nominated The Ernie Kovacs Album as The Ernie Kovacs Album: Centennial Edition with six bonus tracks! Available on CD and digitally for the first time. To learn more about on this upcoming reissue, visit … Continue reading
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via It’s Alive Media: Attention, Kovacs Fans on the East Coast: May 2019 will bring three more events to celebrate Ernie’s centennial birthday, including a program honoring Ernie and Edie at the Library of Congress on Friday 5/10 and Saturday 5/11, and an Ernie Kovacs tribute at the New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission on Wednesday 5/22
Announced today, Tuesday 4/16 (Edie Adams’ birthday) — May 2019 will be a big month for the Ernie Kovacs centennial (and for Edie Adams fans, too) as the estates for Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams have confirmed the following three … Continue reading
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Tagged AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, Alec Guinness, Algernon Gerard, American Cinematheque, Baseball Film, Bell Book and Candle, Ben Model, Burl Ives, Buster Keaton of television, Charlie Clod In Brazil, Chevy Chase, Clues, Coloratura Mimi Cosnowski, David Letterman, doodles, Dutch Masters, Dutch Masters Commercials, Edie Adams, Ernie in Kovacsland, Ernie Kovacs, Ernie Kovacs Centennial, ERNIE KOVACS CENTENNIAL EDITION, Eugene, film and television commission, Fingers Under Weskit, Five Golden Hours, George Schlatter, Golden Age of TV, Golf With Edie And Ernie, Here's Edie!, Howard, Illustrated Profuselies, Irving Wong, It Happened To Ernie, J. Burlington Gearshift, John Magee, Jolene Brand, Josh Mills, Kovacsland, Kovacsland Forever, Library of Congress, Long Beach Museum of Art, Mack the Knife, Martin Krutch, Matzoh Hepplewhite, Maureen O’Hara, Miklos Molnar, Monty Python, motion picture commission, Muriel Cigars Commercials, Museum of the Moving Image, Nairobi Trio, New Jersey State Museum Auditorium, Ode To A Housefly, Ode To Electricity, Ode To Stanley's Pussycat, Olivia Scilloscope, Operation Mad Ball, Our Man In Havana, Packard Campus Theatre, Paley Center for Media, Percy Dovetonsils, Profuselies, Rock Mississippi, Sales Film, Saturday Night Live, Shout! Factory, Silents Please, sketch artist, Skodney Silsky, Solfeggio, Strangely Believe It, Superclod Test, Susan King, Take a Good Look, TCM, Television's Original Genius, Television's Orignal Genius, The Edie Adams Show, The Ernie Kovacs Show, The Kapusta Kid, the Kovacs ABC specials, The Mysterious Knockwurst, the National Gallery, The Tonight Show, The World At Your Doorstep, The World's Strongest Ant, Turner Classic Movies, visual improv, Wake Me When It's Over, Writers To Blame
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