TV Guidance Counselor Episode 218: Juliana Hatfield
Release Date: 04/07/2017
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March 16, 2026 After a week off in tribute to the late great Petey, we're back with a brand new episode. This week Ken welcomes Hay Beacon, the comedian behind the excellent No Contact Podcast.
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January 26-February 1, 1980 KY Edition This week Ken welcomes Seattle comedian and kindred spirit and the man behind the great new comedy special Unreliable (streaming now on YouTube from Blonde Medicine here: Derek Sheen to the show to discuss everything from Soap, to dirty things and horror flicks.
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January 1-7, 2000 New Hampshire Edition After 12 long years Ken welcomes old friend and fellow Boston comic Dan Boulger back to the show. Dan will be taping his first full length comedy special on October 11th at Deep Cuts in Medford, MA. You should go.
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This week we have TWO epsidoes as on this BONUS! Episode of TV Guidance Counselor Ken chats with author of the great new book Did All My Friends Have Fun At Play? An Oral History of Romper Room
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September 21-28, 2001 Radio Times UK 25 Years to the day, this week Ken welcomes his old friend and fellow Goldsmith's Univerity of London Alum Dr. Jon Shaw to the show to discuss this very week 25 years ago, the week they first met.
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January 2-9, 1999 Boston Edition This week I travel back to 1999 with the man behind the ESSENTIAL YouTube Channel Pop Culture Hyper Fixations, Ben Pasco. Be sure to subscribe to Ben's YouTube page. You must.
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August 30-September 5, 1986 Boston Edition This week returning to the show after 12 (!) years Ken welcomes old friend, former stand up and now author Ryan Staples back to the show to talk all things "just a dream..." Buy Ryan's new book of memoir/essays "Breakfast for Dinner" at ryanstaples.com
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January 19- 25, 2002 This week Ken welcomes comedian Sally Ann Hall to the show. Ken and Sally Ann discuss everything from purity classes to lusting after Harrison Ford, earring and all. Go to funnysallyann.com and watch her comedy special "Dead Wife Pretty" wherever video is streamed.
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August 30 - September 5, 1997 Houston TX Edition This week Ken welcomes comedian (new album "Mid-Range"), podcaster (Sorry We Love Football) and all around great dude Jamel Johnson to the show. Ken and Jamel discuss everything from 90s football to the hot gos on favorite salad dressings.
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December 31, 1955 This week Ken welcomes ventriloquist, actor, and author April Brucker to the show. Ken, April and a special guest discuss the history of ventriloquism in America as well as her new, must buy book, 250 Years of American Ventriloquism: How Ventriloquism Influenced American Culture.
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Today Ken welcomes singer/songwriter Juliana Hatfield to the show.
Ken and Juliana discuss suburban potholes, garbage collection, the TV room, Six Million Dollar Cliff Hangers, James at 15, market research, Lance Kerwin, After School Specials, Dukes of Hazard, "Southern" TV, Love Boat, Mary Tyler Moore, The Comforting ritual of television, the revelation of the sexy librarian, Vietnam, Law and Order, Iraq War vets, loving Donny & Marie, Coma, The Rockford Files, Father/Son relationships, different actors playing the same character, soap opera understudies, Dirk Benedict, Battlestar Gallactica, dreamy Richard Hatch, In Search Of, Starsky & Hutch, goofy pimps, why the Six Million Dollar man is infinitely boring, The Bionic Woman's superiority, revisiting your childhood, McMillan and Wife, Rock Hudson, real couples on camera, the Night Stalker, why TV is better when pretty people aren't on it, Miami Vice, store brand generic music on TV, Bugsy Malone, Foxes, Over the Edge, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, One Day at a Time, the wonders of television hair, Eight is Enough, the Facts of Life theme, The Jeffersons, Farah Fawcett, Charlie's Angels, Mork & Mindy, Jonathan Winters, Quincy M.E., mustache free Dads, Magnum P.I., The Day My Kid Went Punk, Donna Reed, The Incredible Hulk, shredded indestructible pants, Dallas, aspirational television, and the ritual of Dr. Phil.