Tv Guidance Counselor Podcast

April 10-16, 1976 This week Ken welcomes actor James Urbaniak. James and Ken discuss Lloyd Bridges: Policeman, 70s illustrations, Rhoda, cigarette ads, 70s High Fives, tar, just watching things because they are there, April Vacation, the evil nature of "Big Ski", free subscription gifts, the sheer class of a leather TV Guide Cover, having the option of Black and White, TV pliers, 8 Track Clubs, The New York Report, the Fall Preview excitement, Saturday Morning Premires, Jabberjaw, Holmes and Yoyo, cops and robots, the mythology of short lived shows, Pat Buchanan, Easter Specials, The Peanuts, the hierarchy of Charlie Brown specials, passive aggressive anger over the pre-preemption of Rhoda,  waking up early for Saturday Morning cartoons, Scooby Doo, Animated series based on live action series, The Ghost of Frankenstein, King Kong Thanksgiving,  the importance of buying brand name batteries, The Bowrey Boys, comedic spin offs from dramas, dramatic spin offs from comedies, Lawrence Welk, The Easter Resurrection

February 15-21, 1969 (sort of) This week Ken welcomes comedian, actor, author and smartest man in the world Greg Proops to the show. Ken and Greg discuss Fantasy on Television, The Avengers, The Adams Family, The Wild Wild West, Kids television, exactly when England got black people, The Black and White Minstrel Show, Star Trek, The psychedelic 60s, San Francisco, Star Trek, Dad movies, War, Zulu, speaking German, learning that sometimes there are no good guys, Chuck Connors, Branded, breaking a sword over your knee, The Prisoner: the original mindfuck, James Bond, questioning your government, Who's Line is it Anyway?, Punk, The Double Deckers, dystopia, the song that goes with every neighborhood in London, The 60s dream of peace love and nonviolence, Night Flight, the golden age of FM radio, KSAN, The UK vs US Top 40, The Intruder, Charles Beaumont, The Twilight Zone, realizing the rest of the United States is terrifying and different, buying into the media lie, hatred of memes, having the sum total of human

August 3-9, 1991   In this episode recorded LIVE! at ImprovBoston as part of the 2015 Women in Comedy Festival, Ken welcomes writer, musician, comedian and midwesterner Mary Mack to the show.    Ken and Mary discuss Mid-western attendance, central time, copious notes, realizing what you missed as a kid, roof mounted antennas, Punky Brewster, two beers as the cure for sadness, why Ken could never have been a Doctor, the physical nature of magazines, Choose Your Own Adventure books, cigarette ads, the original owner of the issues TV choices, Mary's cultural anthropological understanding of TV Guide, "Gerald", Janita, Madonna, 10 Years of MTV, horrorscopes, Gerald's crossword failure, Group Homes, working the night shift, Entertainment Tonight, Ken's invention of the Hold Button App, Uber for Jazz, traveling into town to see New Kids on the Block, Public TV, Benny Hill, Peoria, Morning Agriculture, John Candy, "Only The Lonely", The Twins, Sunday Football, Pickled Herring, Fresh Prince, Murphy Brown, Mark L. Wal

November 2-8, 1963 In this episode recorded at Musso & Frank's the legendary Hollywood dining establishment, Ken welcomes former comedian and current author Klph Nesteroff to the show. Ken and Kliph discuss prime rib, butter levels, direct connections to old Hollywood, classic TV and showbiz knowledge, Kliph's origin story, Hee Haw songs, the backwoods of rural Canada, CTV vs. City Television, Hockey night in Canada, David Letterman, A&E as educational vehicle, Mad Magazine, Cracked overcompensation, Looney Tunes, local TV Guide, early Hollywood films, 70s film books, the early days of modern film critics and historians, My Favorite Martian, Ray Walston fighting Tony Randal, laugh tracks, the "tween-ification" of television, Punky Brewster, cartoons based on live action shows, Little Clowns of Happytown, the educational and protective power of basements, the best time for afros, "Spinner" Spencer's father's gun totin' channel changer, not staying out of trouble, Degrassi, Nickelodeon, You Can't Do Tha

April 30 - May 3, 1983   In this episode recorded LIVE! at the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival in at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, MA, Ken welcomes John Glaser and Eugene Mirman himself to the show.   Ken, Jon and Eugene Discuss what's worrying TV's Sexiest Detective, Jerry Orbauch's sex appeal, Boston edition TV Guides, artists' renditions of the famous, Chicago as a Detroit suburb, why Detroit is Boston in 2024, the future of video tapes, Virginia Slims as Women's rights, being the youngest vs being the oldest, color vs. black and white, Buck Rogers, That's The Incredible! Hulk, if Bruce is a more gay name than David, Deaf Hulk, Hockey Playoffs, TJ Hooker, Southern Comfort, The Golden Age of Satellite, Dirtbag cousins, Love Boat, musical highlights, being plagued by orphans, the Chicago Mall, Brendan Tartikoff's edicts, TV's "Cowboy", "Oater" Themes, The Oater Varmints first album, kickboxing with only four toes, Steven Spielberg's 1941, TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes, Censored Bloopers, the invention

This week Ken welcomes actress Heather Elizabeth Parkhurst. Ken and Elizabeth discuss Sherman Oaks, the unavailability of your favorite shows, the precursor of Arrested Development, Showtime, networks vs. cable, The Fox network, classic Hollywood discovery stories, Married...with Children, the terror of performing in front of a live audience, holding for the laughs, ABC's Gary Marshall Tuesday Night Line up, Charlie's Angels, Fantasy Island, Love Boat, Happy Days, when less commercials meant better TV,  being hell bent on acting, Ginger on Gilligan's Island, the niceness of people in LA, the flashy 90s, Dr. Pepper, political cancellations, Cult Hits, Reality Shows vs. Sitcoms, Modern Family, being star struck by William Shatner, Perversions of Science, Kevin Pollak, sex androids, being the object Pauly Shore's Video adoration, being naturally funny without your awareness, Get a Life, having a cousin writing for Letterman, Teri Garr, Judd Nelson's terrifying humor, "Conflict of Interest", The George Carlin Sho

October 6-12, 1984 The Boston Marathon Marathon concludes! In this episode Ken welcomes writer, comedian, actor and international man's man Chris Coxen to the show. Ken and Chris discuss Transformers major appliances, the TV "sweet spot", Morgan Fairchild vs. Lynda Carter, Airwolf, TJ Hooker, Jan Michael Vincent, Evil Twins, Chris' constant name dropping, Big Wednesday, When the Saints Go Marching In, Love Boat, Boxing Dick Butkus, Knight Rider, undercover monk, why Diamond Thieves were huge in the 80s, Pick Up Trucks, The Presidential Debate, Shirley Bassey, Reagan's hair, TNN's You Can Be a Star, Portrait of a Stripper, TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes, Charlie's Angels, Dirk Benedict, not giving a damn about Kate & Allie, Barry Tattle, singing the Love Boat Theme, Three's a Crowd, Hawaii Five-O, Ken's Hawaiian bathroom,  Paperdolls, Dack Rambo, Freedome 90, Ken's love of models, how Ken and Chris are complete opposites, The Fall Guy, the popularity of stunts, Sybill Danning, Charles in Charge, Moonlig

April 11-17, 1992 The Boston Marathon Monday Continues In this episode Ken welcomes master musician and comedian Kelly Roberge to the show. Ken and Kelly discuss whether or not Jay Leno is up to it, Golden Girls, Kelly's favorite Starship songs, hoping your grandparents are not sexual people, The Pope, Bubba Smith, finding someone who knows less about sports than Ken, Baywatch meeting Gilligan's Island, never once dreaming you were on Gilligan's Island, Dawn Wells' marijuana use, COPS in Boston, watching Cops and Judge Judy with grandma, Ken's meeting with Judge Judy, Perfect Strangers, why happy relationships are boring, Kelly's history with flying airplanes, Albert Brooks Defending Your Life, The Wonderful World of Disney, The Bloom Brothers (Scott and Brian), bikini girl based lies, Zsa Zsa Gabor on The Fresh Prince, Kelly's grandmother's verbal assault on police, warning old men about making mistakes, Ken's mother forcing beach visits, Whale Watch, Killer Whales, Jaws 3-D, Murphy Brown, "Mirror, Mirror",

September 17-23, 1994 Boston Marathon Monday Continues! In this episode Ken welcomes comedian Chris Dimitrakopoulos, professionally known as "Chris D". Ken and Chris discuss UK Lion Bars, never using TV Guide, Greek immigrants, Teen Wolf, public nudity, John Ritter's short shorts, van surfing, Cops, Back to the Beach, Team Reid outdoor movie nights, Kenny Rogers, Baywatch, SNICK, The Simpsons, a rare Superbowl Themed episode, Unsolved Mysteries,  Chris' belief in UFOs, Greek Programming, Teri Hatcher crushes, Lois and Clark, Superman the Animated Series, Hardball, Joe Flaherty, The Real World, dance crazes,  talk show madness, Fresh Prince, Tatianna Ali's music career, Jennifer Love Hewitt's "Let's Go Bang", Dave's World, I Love Lucy, ER, Captain Kangaroo on Murphy Brown, Annie Potts, WWF, black boxes, Foxy Boxing, Wings, Tim Daly, The Omen IV: The Awakening, Def Comedy, ranking the hosts of Family Feud, Home Improvement, John Larroquette vs Korean News,  Meatballs II, Real Genius, the greatest comedy of all

BOSTON MARATHON MONDAY July 27 - August 2, 1985 This week Ken welcomes comedian and promoter Rob Crean. Ken and Rob discuss dangerous travel conditions, Pitch Black Dark, Miami Vice, Don Johnson's music career, The Return of Bruno, Michael Mann, Airwolf, Summer reruns, TJ Hooker via SNL, Baby Boomer music, Where the Boys Are, 9 hours and 5 minutes of Dana Hersey's all night party, It's Your Move, Tripods, Gimme a Break, Falling asleep when Catherine Oxenberg is in her underwear, The Lair of the White Worm, The Prisoner, Mama's Family, Martin Mull's History of White People in America, Michael Nesmith's Television Parts, Murder She Wrote, Kevin McCarthy, Bob's Burgers, TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes, The Hogan Family's twins, Danny Ponce, The Twilight Zone: The Movie, Ken's Albert Brooks impression, local TV Horror Hosts, the original E/R, Kate & Allie, Ken's 144 copies of Kate & Allie Season 1, Newhart, Three's a Crowd, emptying The Milky Way, Muppets Take Manhattan, Growing Pains, Hail to the Chief

May 28-June 3, 1988 Boston Marathon Monday! Ken welcomes comedian Danielle Soto to the show. Ken and Danielle discuss being drawn to a time before you were born, 1988 births, Family Ties, repressed memories of ever having used a TV Guide, Ken's TV Week/Toaster Oven TV Guide/Toaster Theory (again), Facts of Life, Back-door pilots, Empty Nest, Tumpy's marijuana addiction leading to bad gift giving, The Cosby Show binge drinking episode, 227, Golden Girls, living the Stan Episodes, Mama's Family, Doctor Who, the role of ledges in sitcoms, Throb, Dream On, Wendy Malik,  Hot in Cleveland, Say Anything, being held hostage, why you never want to ride an elevator with a pregnant lady, Spenser for Hire, Family Ties, TV Land's First and Last Marathon, Nick's forgotton spin-off, My Demon Lover, hair metal, Mother Goose's Rock N Rhyme, Fairy Tale Theater, Married...with Children, Day by Day, The Terrible Revenge of the Nerds Pilot, Ted McGinnley, It's Your Move, David Garrison, not censoring children, the banned Married.

December 19-25, 1992 The Boston Marathon Monday Marathon Begins! Ken welcomes comedian Will Smalley to the show. Ken and Will discuss Ken's credentials, military recruitment, the best kinds of glue, Christmas week, MTV's Rock N Jock Softball, Cops, Roundhouse: World's Worst Show, Ren And Stimpy, SNICK, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, The Edge, Julie Brown vs. Downtown Julie Brown, The Young Comedians Special, A&E, In Living Color, America's Funniest Home Videos, Roc, Married...with Children, Herman's Head, Walking with Jesus, Fresh Prince, Evening Shade, Blossom, Joey Lawrence, quantifying the number of girls and gay men Will Smalley knows, Clarissa vs. Blossom, Bob, Wrestling Roundtable, Will's TV Debut on a WWF taping, Doink Dink, Monday Night Football vs WWF Primetime, Full House, Rescue 911, Petticoat Junction, Comicview, Roseanne, A Smokey Mountain Christmas, Dolly Parton, America's love/hate relationship with the shopping mall. Forever Knight, Beverly Hills 90210, The Wonder Years, Unsolved Mysteries,

September 10-16, 1978 Record Store Day Special! This week Ken welcomes comedian and Weirdo Records impresario Angela Sawyer to the show. Ken and Angela discuss dogs having accident, virtual reality, unexpected pets, having never seen Black people, racist names for animals, regional racism, Colorado, UMass Lowell, Odyssey of the Mind, Colorado: The Nexus of Pop Culture in the Beige Age, Aspen poor camps, central time, Us Against The World II, Cloris Leacheman's athletic prowess, Love Boat, Uncle tom Foolery, Scatman Crothers, Ghost Riders in the Sky, Gorgo, Roots, Event Television, Lavar Burton, Sword of Justice, Dack Rambo, Office Batman, Tennis Pros, Scott Walker (the singer not the evil governor), Igmar Bergman, Welcome Back Kotter, watching movies on laserdisc in the library, The Jeffersons, old war buddies hitting on your wife, the 70s locker famine, Ken's literal prison of a high school, Monday Night Football, fighting over custody of the Broncos, M.A.S.H., the made for TV 70s Live Action Spider-Man, Thr

June 28-July 4, 1997 This week Ken welcomes comedian and poet Wes Hazard. Ken and Wes discuss Ken's hoodie collection, shared celebrity birthdays, Ken's 17th birthday, Agent Orange, the you now and the you at 17 having different tastes, Cops, America's Most Wanted, the scariest Unsolved Mysteries Ken ever saw, learning gay pick up spots from Farley Bros movies, Fashion Bug, Dress Barn, Snick, Robin Williams, Ernest's career, Krull, Beastmasters of the Universe, Early Edition, being introduced to 70s Green Arrow by your doctor, The DC Animated Universe, Isabella Rosellini, Kablam!, Charles Burns' Black Hole, Oddville, Ken's punk rock teenage band days, banning the Simpsons, Ken's arguments with the dude from Dashboard Confessional, Real World vs. Road Rules, King of the Hill, Seinfeld, Paul Reiser, Big Top vs. Big Adventure, Fargo, Unhappily Ever After, The Wayans Bros, rare diseases, the over lap of Kids Inc and Children of the Corn, UPN shows, L.L. Cool J's unplugged comeback, Broken Arrow, John Woo's US car

This week Ken welcomes actor/comedian Allan Havey to the show. Ken and Allan discuss the beauty of Santa Monica, growing up in Miami, working blue, Catholic Families, watching the Tonight Show with Dad, playing a priest at 5 years old, the magic of hearing your own voice for the first time, kids being seen and not heard, The Three Stooges, the early silent comedies, The Twilight Zone, watching anything and everything on TV, 57 Channels and nothing on, the cornucopia of choice in the 21st Century, Louie, marathoning shows, Sunday Night Family viewing, watching football at double speed, Mad Men, not rewatching your own stuff, starting stand up in New York City, Lorne Michaels' "The New Show", SNL replacements, Letterman, having the same joke as several other people, the validation of being on TV in the eyes of the public, other people defining your success, buying into the 60s counter culture, meeting JFK and the shock of the Kennedy Assassination, the power of prayer, the generation gap, National Lampoon Magaz

May 15-21, 1993 This week Ken welcomes comedian, TV host and author Max Silvestri to the show. Ken and Max discuss Cheers, having your own wing of the house, sneaking wrestling, waiting to get the good cable channels, Sci Fi Channel, living in the 'boro, being an early adopter of the internet fandom age, TiVo, being a Nielsen Family, saving genre shows single handedly, being an only child, Prodigy vs. Compuserve vs. AOL, Ken's major award of a custom Mr. Show Bowling Shirt, Ken's collector mentality, cast and crew jackets, being burdened by your interests, Bloopers, practical jokes vs. flubs, Cops, Max's visceral aversion to the underclasses, Empty Nest, being wise beyond your years, Jerk offs, Code 3, Mad About You, Newsradio, Murder She Wrote, Wild Palms, Max's love of British child murder, Virtual Reality taking over the world in 2007, Epic Made for TV Events, Humanity as a bummer, Championship Skating, Evening Shade's series finale, Murphy Brown, why there are no great young movie stars anymore, 1-900 num

This week Ken welcomes comedian and actress Mary Lynn Rajskub to the show. Ken and Mary Lynn discuss technical spring, Detroit, odd parental choices, punk rock, being shaken to your core, Ken's unusual positivity and not Jesus complex, Gone Baby Gone's accuracy, stand up comedy road work and it's relation to your family, early bed times, central time privilege, Lou Grant, Cagney and Lacy, art school brains, being moved to tears by the Rockford Files, The Love Boat, Gold Rush, HGTV, Spider-Man, Cupcake Wars, Donut Pride, ignoring the death of a parent, 24, The Walking Dead, childhood fears of adult good times that happen after you fall asleep, the excitement of the early days of MTV, HBO's monthly catalog, Mr. Show. The Larry Sanders Show, Veronica's Closet, being outed as famous, Simon & Garfunkel live in Central Park, renting out room in your brain, hypnotism, moving to San Francisco, Tic Tac Dough, how Netflix spoils children, weird daytime PBS, Slim Goodbody, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, the odd pur

In this week's episode Ken welcomes comedian Paula Poundstone to the show. Ken and Paula discuss the 60s Batman and it's death traps, Liberace, TMZ, Jennifer Aniston's possible pregnancies, America's desire to see celebrities fail, idolizing the wrong people, how actors are able to continue to work with bad material, awards shows, Roasts, Alex Trebek's hidden humor, Betty White's unauthorized backstory, Lost in Space, The Twilight Zone, Billy Mumy, banning television for children, going through life without an immunity to advertising, programming your children's tastes, The Three Stooges, experiencing comedy as a collective experience, technical failures increasing comedy, cartoon adaptations of live action sitcoms, Wacky Races, Boston's WSBK TV38 and it's phenomenal afternoon line up, the sanctity of a girl's underwear drawer,  Gilligan's Island, taking credit for Sherwood Schwartz's work, re-enacting the story of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups for the stage, OCD leading to marathoning shows, M.A.S.H., forsaking

In this episode Ken welcomes Irish comedian and television personality Maeve Higgins to the show.   Ken and Maeve discuss theater basements, Tuba based misunderstandings, RTE 1 and 2: Ireland's only television, TV in Zimbabwe, The Tracy Ullman Show, seeing the Simpsons for the first time, 7 Brides for 7 Blues Brothers, books as dick fuel, Home & Away, Australian soaps, parental hypocrisy, hidden camera shows, why the Irish are uniquely positions to be willing victims on hidden camera shows, Airplane, slapstick humor, Only Fools and Horses, not being able to identify with all male comedy shows, Irish Babysitters, living in the suburbs as a nanny, Kathy Griffin, Margaret Cho, Two Fat Ladies, Fancy Vittles, My So-Called Life, capturing teenagers spirit, American feelings, awful first kisses, not revisiting your childhood favorites, NYC on TV, Friends, Seinfeld, The Late Late Show: The Longest Running Chat Show in the world, Terry Wogan, leaving Ireland for fame and fortune in the UK, Graham Norton, Father Te

June 3-9, 1989 This week ken welcomes former Boston, current LA Comedian Laura Crawford. Ken and Laura talk about Ken's technology paranoia, Oprah, Richard Bey and the other trashy talk shows, Rickie Lake's Urban fanbase, Living Single, how Ken might have been a young black woman, MTV Dating shows, picking the mom over the daughter, remaking geeks into chic, mean high school nicknames, the "boy with A.I.D.S", Donut burns, lobbying congress for better sexual education, the Robot Revolution, Real Genius, Night of the Creeps on USA's Saturday Nightmares, the Horny Hot Dog the Movie, edited teen movies, Arye Gross is not Ari Meyers, COPS, being falsely accused of being a child prostitute, living Beyond Tomorrow, why It's Gary Shandling's Show is better than Larry Sanders, how great hair is the single deciding factor in how attractive a woman finds a man,being a fashion innovator.Star Search, Whitey Herzog, Ed McMahon filled donut shops, Ken's sweet on booze, insulting drag queens, Night Court, Big Trouble in Litt