TV Guidance Counselor Episode 637: Tom Shubilla II
Release Date: 05/27/2024
TV Guidance Counselor Episode 721: TVGC 2025 Year in Review
TV Guidance Counselor Podcast
We made it through another year somehow. Ken flies solo to get through the ups and downs, and more downs, and a few more downs of 2025 week by week. Happy New Year and here's to a better 2026 for us all.
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TV Guidance Counselor Episode 720: Douglas Widick
TV Guidance Counselor Podcast
November 27 - December 3, 1999 Boston Edition + Feb 16 - March 1, 2009
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TV Guidance Counselor Episode 719: Rick Katschke
TV Guidance Counselor Podcast
August 27th - September 2, 1994 This week Ken welcomes wholesome, midwest superstar and host of the Catered Quiz Podcast Rick Katschke to the show. Ken and Rick discuss the Catered Quiz, The Monroeville Mall's imminent demise, working at Walmart, getting jacked in a warehouse, department stores, new shows airing after a Fall Preview, the weird TV landscape of the end of August, physically writing letters, channel flipping, Harvey Firestein, pre-out of the closet Ellen's bad fashion sense, Billy Bob Thornton, asking Tom Petty that, Letterman, making Letterman laugh, Staying at the Fister, what...
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TV Guidance Counselor Episode 718: Ben Katzner
TV Guidance Counselor Podcast
March 7-13, 1992 This week Ken welcomes comedian behind the must watch/must listen to comedy special "Supple Harlot", Ben Katzner. Ken and Ben discuss their mutual love of seltzer, local drinks, Galco's soda pop stop, pinpoint carbonation, hating Tim Allen, Detroit, hating Kid Rock, Prince, small towns, Minneapolis, moving from New York, how beer is Dad soda, co-headlining a seltzer brewery tour, sweeps week, the TV Guide secret decoder, Marlboro miles, Pepsi money contests, Pepsi Points, being shocked that Mark DeCarlo is 29, Studs, Tiny Toons, NBC cartoons, Smurfs, Fantasy...
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TV Guidance Counselor Episode 717: Jack Lawler
TV Guidance Counselor Podcast
March 11-16, 2013
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TV Guidance Counselor Episode 716: Jason Klamm II and Dan Gomiller
TV Guidance Counselor Podcast
July 3, 1953
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TV Guidance Counselor Episode 715: Myq Kaplan III
TV Guidance Counselor Podcast
February 15th - 21st, 1997
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TV Guidance Counselor Episode 714: Mary Houlihan
TV Guidance Counselor Podcast
TV Guide October 31 - November 6, 1987 This week Ken welcomes writer, comedian and artist Mary Houlihan to the show. Ken and Mary discuss new ways to greet people, how awful the world is, growing up in New Jersey, how New Jersey is actually nice, checking out the woods, Paramis, going into Manhattan, not getting the issue you wanted, Dolly Parton, the tattoos, variety shows, Mary, product placement, growing up without country music in the Northeast, how famous rich people should try to be good people, work life balance, wanting to be left alone, Family Ties, Courtney Cox, At This Moment, Billy...
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TV Guidance Counselor Episode 713: Eric Miller
TV Guidance Counselor Podcast
December 27, 1980 - January 2, 1981 This week Ken welcomes author, screenwriter, movie maker Eric Miller (ericmillerwrites.com) to the show. Ken and Eric discuss satellites, the creepy paying with your palm technology at Whole Foods, when Sci-Fi actually predicts the future, Dawn of the Dead, The Running Man, Hell House, The Haunting of Hell House vs The Haunting, story prompts, Shirly Jackson, Richard Matheson, Magnum PI, how prevalent Vietnam vets were in 80s pop culture, PTSDT, the importance of character, dark sense of humor, dealing with serious topics, how you need rules to kick...
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TV Guidance Counselor Episode 712: 2025 Halloween Special with David Weiner
TV Guidance Counselor Podcast
October 24-30, 1981 Happy Halloween! This week Ken welcomes producer/director behind the excellent documentaries "In Search of Darkness", David Weiner. Ken and David discuss playing Star Trek, TV watching with siblings, the three ages of horror, the video store age, making friends just to watch cable, not getting a VCR until much later in life, being the person in the household who brings in technology, missing four years of television due to attending boarding school, the power of the TV Guide movie section, seeing The Omen, the Exorcist, and Amnityville Horror for the first time on...
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This week Ken welcomes BACK to the show, author of the new book "James Bond and the Sixties Spy Craze", Tom Shubilla.
Ken and Tom discuss the cold war, spy culture, how we looked at spies different each decade after WWII, James Bond, Euro Spy, Japanese Spy flicks, surfing and spying, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Tupperware parties, Abe Lincoln, wrestling, Johnny Quest, The Saint, Lawrence Welk, Gilligan's Island, The Outer Limits, The Rolling Stones on Ed Sullivan, Halloween episodes, Bachelor Father, The Addams Family, Don Rickles, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Car 54, Where Are You?, Jack Benny, Children in Danger, Patty Duke, Shindig, computerized election coverage, Steve Allen, Rich Little, The Flintstones, Andy Williams, real world leaders in spy movies, The Finale Programme, Rob Hill, being a monster kid and a preview of Thom's next book.