TV Guidance Counselor

February 7-13, 1970

July 30 - August 5, 1983

September 24-30, 1994 This week Ken welcomes the deep diver from the Treehouse Detectives and the Deep Cuts podcast Andrew Price to the show. Ken and Andrew discuss the secret origin of Blast from the Past's TV Guide collection, Andrew WK.. Deep Dives podcast, how one can buy celebrity touched TV Guides, how wives keep us in check, Andy Kaufman, becoming part of your mythology, AI is awful, not having respect for craft anymore, Fraiser, skullets, 1994, Murder She Wrote, the Murder She Wrote contest, Renegade, step dad shows, how young people took "adult swim" too seriously, Growing Pains, how Ken made a poor decision moderating a reunion panel once, the best Growing Pains theme song version, depressing TV Guides, Ricardo Montalban, Luthor Vandross chilling on the couch with Price is Right, Charles Nelson Reiley, the golden age of awkward late night talk show appearances, the second season of the John Larroquette Show, hating My So-Called Life, Wizard Magazine, Ken's comic book past, They Live, James Bond Jr, fathers and sons, Sisters, Golden Girls vs Desinging Women, how Duckman is one of the greatest things ever, Tim Curry, Total Recall, made for TV movies, Baywatch, Newhart, Nick at Nite, Captain Janeway, Kate Mulgrew, AOC's love of Star Trek, the romantic ideal of discovering things on TV in a pre-internet world, Beyond 2000, mis-IDing Anthony Kiedis, forgetting Ed Asner's name, Margaret Cho in All American Girl, Dream On, Paul Reiser, TGIF, Family Matters, X-files, Ashlyn Gere and her mainstream acting career, Picket Fences, Ren and Stimpy and the outrageous lack of research people do when they post "this was a real ad/tv show in the 70s/80/90s" on social media.

This week Ken welcomes fellow podcaster (Inside Late Night) and author of the new book "Love Johnny Carson", Mark Malkoff.

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.

November 27 - December 3, 1999 Boston Edition + Feb 16 - March 1, 2009

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 the hell is the Wisconsin Dells, water slides, what the Step by Step roller coaster is, arcades, Water Country's Geronimo, the bizarre HBO travel prize, exactly how much a lifetime of free HBO is worth, how creepy it was that a 14 year old Claire Danes was starring opposite a 22 year old Jared Leto, My So-Called Life, Jeanie vs. Samantha, TNN's Club Dance, being in the audience for The Chew, refusing to be an audience plants, TV tapings, Rick's parents' murder mystery theater business, when WWE wrestlers steal your props, SNICK, TGIF, riding your bike to the gas station to buy junk food, generic Dr. Pepper, Super America Gas, missing WWF Superstar ice cream bars, how Ken is going to track down that stolen prop and get it back, Bob Hope, Dana Gould on Bob Hope's special, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, made for TV movies, terrifying all porcelain dolls, The Dolls Award of Excellence, Coach, when Rick attended Super Slam 94 and go on television (again), Leslie Neilson, being name checked on Breaking Bad, how Ken made with with She-Hulk in Official MCU canon, unexplained encounters with angels, SCUBA diving disappearances, one star sequels, Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II, Phantasm II, Freaks and Geeks, the early days of TV on DVD, Warlock II The Armageddon getting two stars, Summer School, Chainsaw and Dave, looking like Dean Cameron, the short lived European football league, celebrity voice overs, retooled shows, and how watching Baywatch can help you give mouth to mouth to bunnies.

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 Factory, how TMNT is too violent, how math and sex are difficult, Macaulay Culkin, when Ringo Star was replaced by George Carlin, Captain Planet, the Where's Waldo? cartoon, 3.2.1 Contact, the sleaze of Step by Step, NOT!, True Colors, MTV, Roc, Mr. Rogers, rich kids, Scorch, all the work in TV Guide, how long it takes Ken to scan a TV Guide, Comic Strip Live, basketball, What a Dummy?, The Gate, Rick Patino, Pat Reiley, America's Funniest Home Videos, Eerie Indiana, Designing Women, Northern Exposure, how TV gave us personality at school, candlepin bowling, Soul Train, the ghost of Frederick Douglas' knowledge of the natural, Rescue 911, Wonder Years, Night Court, Quantum Leap, Seinfeld, field trips, Ken's love of Winona Ryder, The Crucible, Big Brother Jake, Morton Downey Jr., hormonal viewing of Beverly Hills 90210, Family Matters, after school specials, THE BAG, how to save the Earth's natural resources, beardless Kris Kristopherson, and the "hit her" episode of Married...with Children.

March 11-16, 2013

July 3, 1953