Tv Guidance Counselor Podcast

October 30 - November 5, 1993 Today Ken welcomes comedian and television writer M. Dickson tothe show. Ken and M. discuss selling a show to Hollywood, writing a book,hair metal, New Jersey, coming from a Water Park family, meetingMichael Jackson, meeting a fake Michael Jackson, living a cablelatch key kid existence, Sesame Street. loving Jim Henson, MuppetTreasure Island, Dinosaurs, Rescue 911, Kiddie Pool birth,bloopers, The Olson Twins Halloween act outs, Halloween II, RichardMulligan, Empty Nest, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, PaulaPoundstone, Punky Brewster, Facts of Life, Aiding Designing Women,Kate & Allie, Instant Mom, Sister Act, fangs for the memories,The Simpsons, Fresh Prince, Ken's hatred of the Greek system,Telemovies, hating Baby Jessica, Blossom, The Coach Reboot, TheMayflower Madam, the forbidden fruit of Ren and Stimpy, The DelRubio Triplets, Hang Time, the superiority of Saved by the Bell TheNew Class, Kids Inc, California Dreams, Superstore, issues shows,John Larroquette Show, Action Jack

Because YOU the listener demanded it, Ken presents a special edition of the show focusing on game shows with his guest, Old School Game Show figurehead Mike D'Angelo. Ken and Mike discuss the best show in Boston, gameshow tape traders, making your own radio mix tapes, Long Distance Dedications, Sir Italian Newton, TV Broadcast Towers, The Gong Show, the three categories of celebrity game show, Natural Deodorant, The $10,000 Volcano, celebrities on the Dating Game, the infamous "in the butt", Chuck Barris, Buzzr, mesothelioma, "the weird factor", being home sick from school, Summer binges, luck gaves vs. skill games, being in the studio audience of The Price is Right, Press Your Luck, gameshow sounds, Savage Steve Holland, Blind Date's Roger Lodge, Win Lose or Draw, the best game show set, Burt Renyolds, Starting Over, Dolly Parton's sexual chemistry, Burt Convey, Chuck Woolery, Love Connection, being "happy to pay for it", Party Lines, 1-800 tricks, OK Soda, Scrabble, Helen Keller The Gameshow, STUDS, acapell

Today Ken welcomes singer, actress Jill Schoelen to theshow. Ken and Jill discuss growing up in the Valley, inexplicableaccents, growing up near Disney Studios, Encino, being discoveredin school, your kids hating your past work, Popcorn, recording inJamaica, inadvertent Scream Queen Status, Made-for-TV movies, Whena Stranger Calls Again, working with Ray Walston, The Stepfather,Mr. Ed, Emergency!, Julie London, commercials, Pizza Hut, Best ofTimes, Sarah, Little House on the Prairie, being directed byWilliam Shatner on TJ Hooker, Wes Craven's Chiller, the energy ofyouth, movies vs. music, Curse II: The Bite, Jamie Farr, having ahorror fan base when you're the opposite of horror, being toopretty for the Stepfather, Babes in Toyland, Robert England, ThePartridge Family, being fathered by Mannix, Robert Blake inHelltown, Pepper St., celebrity murder trials, Billionaire Boys'Club, and quitting acting during the OJ Simpson murder trial.

In this special true BONUS episode Ken digs into the Reid Archives and pulls out some interviews with his 16-19 year old selves during his "lost" years when he was in a punk rock band. There's surprisingly more TV content than there should be. Come for the bad Boston accents, stay for the bad Boston accents. 

June 12-18, 1999 Today Ken welcomes author and comedian Erin Judge to the show. Ken and Erin discuss Ken's pop culture "leakage", Ken's esoteric monster hunting knowledge, New England obsessions with scented candles, Brooklyn to Texas, Wellesley College, Freshman Dorm TV viewing, how 1999 was the Year of the Woman on Television, Ally McBeal, Felicity, "Hollywood 60", Buffy The Vampire Slayer, being ignored by footballers, Friday Night Lights, Texas Rape Culture, Comics Come Home, Comedy Central, Pulp Comics, writing packets, Gen X, Waking Life, Slacker culture, Sable, Lisa Loeb, Political Science, how being a music journalist can ruin your love of music, Xena, Lesbians, Evil Dead Hercules, The Simpsons, depressed people who watch depressing things, Designing Women AIDS, The Fashion Awards, Fashion Programming, Sex in the City, when your friends are your true family, eating Brie, class warfare, MTV Video Music Awards, Ken's crush on Alicia Witt, confusing Suddenly Susan with Cybill, Antiques Roadshow, Laura Pr

Today Ken welcomes husband and wife Rachel (writer, editorBoston Magazine) and Sean Slade (engineer & producer, Hole'sLive Through This, The Pixies, Radiohead's Creep) to the show. Ken, Rachel and Sean discuss the love of musty attic smells,lack of smokers owning TV Guides, growing up in New York City andPhiladelphia respectively, going into the city, The Bijou in TimesSquare, silent films, Downtown Crossing, The Combat Zone, Woodstockthe Movie, secret tunnels, rejecting the suburbs, 60s TV, Wild WildWest, Land of the Lost, Jethro's acid trip, Sesame Street enticingyou to the city, living in a re-runs world. Bewitched, The BradyBunch, I Dream of Jeanie, The Monkees, never being able to go backafter Star Wars, The Million Dollar Movie, cute teenage boys asYouTube stars, Rache's 6-year-old complaint letters, Childhood TVTrauma, the fear of Snuffy, 70s horror novels, Sunday Night TVinduced depression, punk rock scare TV, Merv Griffin, Mike Dougles'street cred, kids today and their sampling culture, the lack

On this special Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens edition of the show Ken welcomes musician and actor of face and voice Mr. Robbie Rist (The Brady Bunch, TMNT, Kidd Video) to the show. Ken and Robbie discuss The Cousin Oliver incident, Kidd Video, being a musical kid, twists of fate, growing up in Los Angeles, being a Mad Scientist, Monster Movies, B-Movie innovation, fantasies of murdering Cousin Oliver, The Brady Bunch, Big John Little John, the secrets of Vincent Price, latch key kids, punk rock lives, Lucas Tanner, renting lions, South Park Morality, The Monster Squad TV Series, identifying with the Wolfman, The Incredible Hulk, the dark times in a post Vietnam world, 90s Dark comedies, how 6 weeks of work can follow you forever, Renee Semard, Turn Me Up, Cutting off balls, Ami Dolenz, She's Out of Control, Mickey Rooney, playing Ted Baxter's son on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, how "Oh my nose!" may solve the world's problems, shared cultural experience, Post Apocalyptic Pop Culture, Sharknado, doing the music f

Today Ken welcomes writer, sometimes actor, producer David Fury(Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Lost, Fringe, 24, Dream On) to theshow. Ken and David discuss high school guidance counselors, SoapOperas, General Hospital, One Life to Live, living on or in LongIsland, assisting Elizabeth Taylor, Luke and Laura, Stand Up,sketch comedy, learning comedy through repetition, Bob Newhart,WPIX, being a Monster Kid, teaching your kids the wonders of oldmovies, the intersection of Horror and Comedy, It! The Terror fromBeyond Space, Fiend Without a Face, Cronenberg's The Fly, TheTwilight Zone, allegory, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Memptile, TheBig Story vs. the little story, 24, Doctor Who, Mad About You, TheJackie Thomas Show, Joss Whedon, Angel, Re-Animator, Roseanne,Brain Trust, Gary Kroeger, Comic Strip Live! on Fox Late night, newSCTV, HA!, The Newhart finale, Dream On, Tippy Top, John Landis'casting approach, HBO's First original program, Keifer Sutherland,Ball & Chain, Bryan Cranston, Fringe mysteries, thedemoralizing

Today Ken welcomes actor and filmmaker James Lorinz to the show. Ken and James discuss the 1970s, growing up in Queens, Barney Miller, Gregory Ciera, killing hold up men, Valerie Harper's City, serious episodes, Good Times, Normal Lear, All in the Family, One Day at a Time, spending quality time with Talcum Powder, Mannix, being the Monster under the Castro Convertible, shooting on the lot, Tom Poston, Frankenhooker, Alan Young, Zsa Zsa Gabour, Unforgettable, testing pilots, Street Trash, parking spaces, your parents loving your dress, The Twilight Zone, pornographic aspirations, Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's sexual prowess, Mary Hartman, being perplexed by Dark Shadows, To Tell the Truth, SNL, Bill Boggs Midday Live, Price is Right, Room Service, the most awkward interview of James' life, Welcome Back Kotter, On the Rocks, Hogan's Heroes, Bing Crosby: Nazi Sympathizer, The San Pedro Beach Bums, Fish, collecting TV theme songs, film school, Richard Dawson, Bob Barker, Alice, One Day at a Time, Muhammad Ali, Mo

Today Ken welcomes actress Lisa Wilcox (Nightmare on Elm St. 4 +5) to the show. Ken and Lisa discuss the emotion of walking down memory lane,missing the simplicity of the TV Guide, catching up with the times,Twin Peaks, thirtysomething, Gilligan's Island, having two "goodTVs", Fantasy Island/Love Boat, odd family viewing, appointmenttelevision, Little House on the Prairie, growing up in Missouri,forsaking the medical field, high school M.A.S.H., Buddy Ebsen,being discovered by a Bowery Boys alum, The Beverly Hillbillies,being a flight attendant's daughter, having top notch packingskills, Wendy's commercials, UCLA, You Again, Hardcastle &McCormick, sharing a mailbox with JoAnn Willette, John Stamos, JackClugman, Mark Hamill, Watchers Reborn, meeting your heroes, Mr.Belvedere, acting style, Soap Opera acting, meeting Ed McMahon'scat, going to a Tonight Show taping, James Garner's truck, StarTrek, George Clooney, loving Dracula, Bela Lougosi: Pin-up,Nightmare on El St. 4, Ken's awkward discussion of Dean Koo

Today Ken welcomes the authors of the new book Fade Up: 26 The Movers and Shakers of Variety Television Steve Binder and Dr. Mary Beth Leidman. First up Ken speaks with producer/director Steve Binder. Ken and Steve discuss proper pronunciations, Col. Tom Parker, KABC TV LA, going from the mail room to the control room, Soupy Sales, Vampira, the timelessness of television, preserving the past, loving Lucy, the talent, Variety Shows, The T.A.M.I. show, music on TV, "Elvis" the 1968 special, happy accidents, breaking the color barrier with Harry Belafonte and Petula Clark, Ernie Kovaks, Edie Adams, The Rolling Stone 10th Anniversary Special, Patti LaBelle and Cyndi Lauper, knowing how to step back, Steve Alan, Pee Wee's Christmas Special and capturing an undiscovered generation and their worth ethic. Next up Ken speaks with broadcaster and educator Dr. Marty Beth Leidman. Ken and Mary Beth discuss academia vs. Hollywood, audience engagement, shared experience, loving television from birth, new technology, narrow

September 12-18, 1987 Today Ken welcomes comedian Guy Branum to the show. Ken and guy discuss the tease of the Fall Preview issue, Rags toRiches, TV Musicals, Cop Rock, mid-season replacements, ChickenSoup, Ted Harbert dating Chelsea Handler, Jamie Tarses, G4, MTV's IWant to be a VJ contest, childhood love of crossing over into theTV world, MTV's invention of modern reality TV, the fame drug, theHollywood Poor, being frozen in a successful year, the move from TVreflecting real life to being totally aspirational, Life Styles ofthe Rich and Famous, PM/Evening Magazine, Operah's trashy past,SNL's Silver Age Cast, the wonders of Ed Grimley, Prime TimeCartoon Preview Specials, Once a Hero, The Days and Nights of MollyDodd, Northern Exposure, prime time animated series, Frank's Place,Moonlighting, Clueless, My Two Dads, Living Dolls, Just the Ten ofUs, Growing Pains, Thicke of the Night, Family Ties very specialepisodes, Justine Bateman, burning off pilots, Dolly, pranksreplacing variety, live TV bloopers, Everythi

Today Ken welcomes actress, singer, songwriter, Olivia d'Abo to the show. Ken and Olivia discuss the origins of the show's title, Bolero, French as a first language, TV Guide, The Wonder Years, being in Mad Magazine, Electric Boogaloo, New Mexico, being the eternal outsider, having an ear for accents, dirty little gypsies, Bo Derek, the disappointment of cornrows, biblical floods, Conan: The Destroyer, Grace Jones, Wilt Chamberlain, The Coreys, Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, experiencing old Hollywood, Simon & Simon, Sarah Douglas. Tracey Walter, Land of the Lost, Greedy, Wendy Richard, Essex. Growing Pains, working at the World of Burgers, SCTV, Really Weird Tales, Martin Short, Karen on the Wonder Years, studying the 60s, method acting, Hollywood Premieres, The Boston vs. Australian accent, bittersweet sitcoms, The Wonder Years' final episode, Robotic Playboy Bunnies, Joe Flaherty, Spin City, Michael J. Fox, Bob Balaban, "The Last Good Time", The Single Guy, Kirk Douglas, Spirit of '76, David Cassidy,

Today Ken welcomes writer/director/producer and former actressCheryl Pollak (Pump Up the Volume, The Heights, Hull High, My BestFriend's a Vampire)to the show. Ken and Cheryl discuss Cheryl's surprise at Ken's fandom, HullHigh, being ahead of the times, The Heights, Cop Rock, My BestFriend's a Vampire, What's Alan Watching?, Live Shot, Alien Nation,wanting to be fired, Roomies, Jordache Jeans, Mama's Family,growing up in Texas, being the youngest, lawless households, TVsign offs, Davey and Goliath, modeling, the difficulty of comedy,Head of the Class, losing your accent, Night Life, working withJohn Astin, not watching yourself, CHiPs, Cross and theSwitchblade, pickle danger, The Hardy Boys, crushing ParkerStevenson, Sanford and Son, The Rockford Files, replacing castmembers, death on TV, Gilligan's Island as Cheryl's all timefavorite TV show, being creeped out by Alf, Back to the Beach, theSkipper's real name, RuPaul's Drag Race, Hogan's Heroes, RichardDawson, James Kirk and James West's odd similarities, Gr

November 23-29, 1991 Today Ken welcomes Save Ferris front woman and occasionalactress Monique Powell to the show. Ken and Monique discuss the worst weather Los Angeles has everhad, MTV, Remote Control, Orange County, The Golden Girls, SaturdayNight Live, The Go-Go's, Save Ferris, The World is New video, KROQ,Oingo Boingo, punk rock stabbing, Hepcat on the Flash, Dance HallCrashers, 10 Things I Hate About You, going to the Pretty in Pinkprom, how growing up in LA can sometimes ruin movies, Maps to theStars Homes, Brady Bunch house stake out, the theory of whyeveryone in Hollywood is hot, how fashion has changed, New WaveTheater, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Mama's Family, the fascination ofJewish youth with Jerry Falwell, Tammy Faye Baker, Christian punkrock, The Day My Kid Went Punk, The Young Ones, college radio, TheQueers, Roseanne, American Bandstand, Perfect Strangers, how we'reall Cousin Larry Appleton, the power of theme songs, Alan Thicke:Master Songwriter, living in a post-Richard Marx world, how Moniqueis Ke

On this very special birthday edition of the show Ken welcomes actor and Boston legend Ted Danson to the show. Ken and Ted discuss Ted's lack of childhood television access, the mythical TV Guide use at Ted's cousins' house, Creepshow, Basketball, getting into acting for the sake of a date, Cheers, Taxi, Best of the West, getting that Lone Ranger look, being bilked by comic book ads, Dick Van Dyke, Leslie Nielsen, MTM Productions, Your Show of Shows, Carnegie Mellon, Jimmy Burrows, NBC's The Good Place, the practical genius of Brandon Tartifkof, Cheers little watched first season, the train wreck that was The Cheers Live finale post show in Boston, Magnum P.I., acting with The Muppets, being on the cover of TV Guide, why Sam Malone is a perfect character, being a life long basketball fan, Ink, Jonathan Katz, Becker, three camera sitcoms vs. single camera sitcoms, Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm, how hard it is to watch yourself, Becker's 9/11 episode, why the best humor is sad and the best drama is funny, t

May 19-25, 2001 Today Ken welcomes comedian Casey Malone to the show. Ken and Casey discuss gangsters, forgetting 9/11, The West Wing,miserable jerk Doctors, 19th Birthdays, the wonders of being overage 18, buying pornography, comic book stores of ill repute, StarTrek, Marvel Cards, Comedy Central, a life without cable, SNL,gamers, Mortal Kombat, Dan Ackroyd, Neighbors, Cops, Columbo, classwarfare, Sheena, screen used/worn items, The Simpsons, Submarines,The Phantom Gourmet, the post-Simpsons Annimation boom, Malcom inthe Middle, Clerks: The Animated Series, Home Movies, Se7en vs.Anne Frank, X-Files, Jessica Biel, Biography, Cheers film careers,finding Roswell, Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Facts of Life, sexyteens, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Dark Angel, Jessica Alba, TheInvisible Man, Nowhere Man, Ed and the $10 bet, Drew Carey, Jesusshows, celebrating your birthday with the Gilmore Girls, newsbloopers, Charmed, Comedy Central Presents..., Little Monsters, andhating Sting.

Summer Scare-A-Con Special! Today Ken speaks with legendary Exploitation movie scholar Joe Bob Briggs and the Mads of MST3k Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff. First up Ken talks to Joe Bob Briggs (TNT's Monstervision, Joe Bob's Drive In Theater). Ken and Joe Bob talk about the horrors of Springfield, classic sleazy neighborhoods, Help Reviews, being introduced to The Howling 7, anonymous oddities, Samurai Cop, Robert Z'Dar, Joe Bob's Media Blssters commentary tracks, the missteps of modern social media movie promotion, growing up in Texas/Tex-Arcana, Little Rock, going to a Drive-in as a family, Saturday Night at the Movies, The Three Stooges, terrifying children's TV show Slam Bang Theater, Ghoulardi's pyromania, Ernie Anderson, Zacherly, becoming a scholar of the un-scholarly, Roger Corman, the secret origin of the Drive In Totals, how The Intruder actually truly never lost money, mining talent, Angie Dickinson, putting TV actors in movies, little Ronny Howard, The Movie Channel, Robert Osborne, sitting on t

Today Ken welcomes former actor, current lawyer Troy Slaten tothe show.Ken and Troy discuss Troy's work clothes, legal issues,stenographer tidbits, being a talking head on 24 news channels,Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Melanie Chartoff, Cagney & Lacey, the"lost" Cagney, learning on the set, growing up in Calabasas, Beta,The Revell Funster Funbird, Reese's Pieces, commercials, Grandma'scard came leading to Hollywood success, Diff'rent Strokes, Who'sthe Boss, Greatest American Hero, My Sister Sam, Simon & Simon,Roseanne, The Wonder Years, Step by Step, Superhuman SamuraiCyber-Squad, Saturday Morning TV, Sid & Marty Kroft, ElectraWoman and Dyna-Girl, no Sleestack fear, The A-Team, Netflixnepotism, Billy Jayne/Jacoby, Brian Spicer, Rob Bowman, being thenerd, method acting Swatch Synchronization, Jerry's Jacket, 90210,hearing yourself in German, the Ferris Bueller issue, Three O'ClockHigh, Tim Stack's Night Stand, Harry Anderson, the 90s Talk showboom, the late great John Pinette, on set teachers, The Cruci