TV Guidance Counselor

October 8-14, 1977 Today Ken welcomes actor, writer, director Ione Skye (Say Anything, River's Edge) to the show. Ken and Ione discuss horses, filming Italian style, why comedy doesn't work on music festivals, The Muppet Show, watching things you don't like, Donny and Marie, opinionated children, River's Edge, supportive family, being a pop locker, River's Edge, being a space cadet, costume dramas, Napoleon, Covington Cross, female 60s super spies, In Like Flint, Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Gary Marshall shows, Natasha Kinski, Looney Toons, Bosom Buddies, directing, being an auteur, shadowing on three camera sitcoms, Jon Cryer, Barney Miller, loving claymation, Mr. Bill, hanging with Frank Zappa, Say Anything, Prank Shows, All in the Family, Good Times, how the Muppets can star strike you more than Mick Jagger can, 60s Music, The Beach Boys, nostalgia, Phil Donahue, lying about seeing Human Centipede, Hollywood High School, the Crown, Against Me music videos, short films, paying your dues, and how sometimes things just work out right.

In this episode recorded LIVE! at the NYC Podfest Ken welcomes MC Comedic DJ Donwill to the show. Ken and Donwill discuss post nuke cinema, Chosen Survivors, Killers in Bear suits, Head of the Class, Cincinatti, Jerry Springer, Cosby, God's vision of the future, Growing Pains, Wonder Years, why Silver Spoons might be the greatest TV theme song ever, and a lot more.

September 11-18, 1970 FALL PREVIEW ALERT! Today Ken welcomes TV writer and author of the new book "Just the Funny Parts", Nell Scovell to the show. Ken and Nell discuss New England, The Marx Brothers, Newhart, Bill Fiends, perfume smelling from the head down, Mark Harmon, the first color show, Batman '66, Get Smart, When Things Were Rotten, Mary Tyler Moore, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Star Trek, My Man Godfrey, Warehouse 13, Murphy Brown, Outlander, Fringe, product placement, women in comedy, Designing Women, Carol Burnett, going through the looking glass, JFK Jr., Spy Magazine, the lagoon from Gilligan's Island, Joel Hodgson, TV Wheel, Mad Magazine, parody, Monty Python, Kate & Allie, loving Jane Curtain, SCTV, SNL, Albert Brooks, Obama as comedian, writing jokes for Hillary, the wonders of Caroline Rea, remaking McCloud with Brett Butler, saving up your TV time and dreading The Wire.

January 21-27, 1978 Today Ken welcomes BACK the show old friend and comedian Jenny Zigrino. Ken and Jenny discuss donut identity, looks, ditchens, BIG ELVIS, Family, John McEnroe, dead tennis players, Giggletits, Dante, honey, fun with carbon monoxide, The Exorcist, Prague, Amadeus, Ken's Cardi B ignorance, Camels, Beard Budgets, Huck Finn, the N word book, Dick Gregory, Al Pacino, Cruisin', The Cat from Outer Space, Deadly Eyes, dogs dressed as rats, C.H.U.D., good deals on heroin, Bumper Stickers, Rhoda, An American Hippie in Israel, fat Americans, RC Cola Diner Menus, songs Elvis could sing after he died, Uncle Hate, Dinah!, Lawrence Welk, Half and Half, Pomegranate myths, Harvey Korman, Munchies, tall people in chairs, Carol Burnett, My Three Sons, James at 15, Phyllis Diller, wig love, JoBeth Williams, and summoning Paul Lynde.

Always Meet Your Heroes. Today Ken welcomes writer, director, actor, Bonnie Hunt to the show. Ken and Bonnie discuss horse roommates, the huge deal of TV Guide, The Building, George Clooney, being a story teller, Bonnie's status as the first woman to write and star in her own show, ignorant innovation, Cheers, heart, the importance of Character, Don Lake, Bonnie, Life with Bonnie, refusing to recast, Chicago, Second City, improv, shooting in real time, Grand, Davis Rules, Jonathan Winters, taking three days off from being a cancer nurse to act in Rain Man, the writer's room, turning down Designing Women, Audrey Meadows, The Honeymooners, blue collar shows, coming from a big family, the pop culture shift from co-dependents to independents, Frankie, defense mechanisms, three camera sitcoms, SCTV, John Candy, Only the Lonely, Martin Short, the power of taking your second thought, the medicinal power of laughter, Mad Magazine, Fernwood 2 Night, believing in your crew, creating a good work environment, why dogs are the best, Don Lake, hiring a ghost writing staff, advice from Carl Reiner, Easter eggs, Topo's, late night movies with mom, setting a tone, making responsible entertainment, musicals, hate watching, lazy TV, Danse Macabre, It, Get Out, Carol O'Connor, keeping the old guys in, the sadness of the dog in Return to Me, Norman Lear, All in the Family, One Day at a Time, how life can change in a moment, respect and power of sincerity.

February 2-8, 1991 Today Ken welcomes Sundown actor Grayson Powell to the show. Ken and Grayson discuss in-law deaths, growing up in South Carolina, improv, comedy festivals, second tier cities, Fred Armison, the horrors of auditions, playing Sam Malone in Cheers live on Stage, Will Ferrel bars, James Bond bars that aren't actual James Bond bars, Perry Mason, Murder She Wrote, a love of procedurals, scrambled adult content, Golden Girls, Designing Women, Oprah, Soap Operas, kid actors, Columbo, murders, Get a Life, a life with five channels, The X-Files, Metallica, going to college in NYC, meeting Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie, Dawson's Creek, Rescue 911, bizarre sports team names, a love of nature documentaries, and the failure of the original Flash.

Today Ken welcomes actor, fellow New Englander and Ken's favorite Wonder Woman Susan Eisenberg to the show. Ken and Susan discuss growing up in Providence in the discount store business, doing radio ads, Walmart, Apex, growing up in a house with four sisters, Soap Operas, Soap Opera actors, John Wesley Ship, the unique fandom of soaps, major character recasts, Made for TV Movies, living in a television fantasy world, watching TVs with your mind, David Letterman, late night TV, The Tonight Show, Dick Cavett, Rhoda, Valerie Harper, Jewish characters on TV, the divorce of Rhoda on TV, receiving compliments, Lauren Bacall, The Kennedy Center Honors, voice over, stumbling on your favorite things, The Hollywood Hills, Wonder Woman, Class of 96, Lynda Carter, old show biz, Gal Gadot, Elizabeth Montgomery, hating the Darrens, Agnes Moorehead, Cher naturally flirting with Kermit the Frog, Brandon Tartikof, being a romantic, Family, A Year in the Life with Sarah Jessica Parker, Bridget Loves Bernie, hating being on camera, Fancy Feast, Lincoln Financial ads, St. Elsewhere and the weird loneliness of Los Angeles.

Today Ken welcomes BACK to the show Hallelujah the Hills frontman and author of the new book "Astral Weeks: The Secret History of 1968", Ryan Walsh to the show. Ken and Ryan discuss going with it, Van Morrison, mobbed up record execs, Astral Weeks, Cambridge MA, Boston, Charley, The Thomas Crown Affair, Zabriskie Point, Mark Frechette, cat impressions, iRobot, Tampon ads, cats who can do 11 tricks, Racial tensions, James Brown, Kevin White, WGBH, The Newlywed Game, in the butt, makin' Whoopie, Shane MacGowan's Nips, pay offs, The Boston Tea Party, Don Rickles, The Cryptkeeper, X The Man with X-Ray Eyes, Star Search, Hollywood Palace, Bluebird, the birth of the ACLU, Variety Shows, America's first Elephant, the death of America's first elephant, Folk Guitar, Rat Patrol, tough choices for Roddy McDowell fans, LSD, Chicago Festival, the sounds of '68, Bill Cosby, Celebrity Billiards, Scottish Games, sponges, Dom DeLuise, The Flying Nun, Brookline Tennis, the strange history of Salem, MA, problems for married women, That Girl, sound FX CDs, fart machines, Halloween Sound FX tapes, Mexico, BUTTS, screwing, qware, Up With People and the sandwich police.

February 16-22, 1974 Today Ken welcomes actor Steven Weber (Wings, Single White Female, The Shining) to the show. Ken and Steven discuss growing up in Long Island City with all the Tonys, L.A. supermarkets, growing up around the Borscht Belt, Sinatra, The Love God, Car 54 Where Are You?, Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm, how Hollywood can sometimes make people a better person, Wings, dropping acid, the Hollywood hustle, combative stand up comedians, performing in Mama Mia at the Hollywood Bowl, Streets of San Francisco, Kirk and Michael Douglas, The Flamingo Kid, soap opera acting, serialized books, Stephen King, The Shining, Warren Magazines, Famous Monsters, Creepy, Eerie, Bernie Wrightson, playing JFK, being directed by Dario Argento, dubbing movies with Peter Fernandez, Q The Winged Serpent, Shampoo, Dragnet, old radio serials, the wonders of Roy on Wings, Jordan Marsh, Mick Garris, The Librarians, John Larroquette, The Marx Brothers, the Three Stooges, thanking someone for their work, Beatrice Straight from Network, the curse of The Steven Weber Show, celebrity viruses, Deep Space Nine, Blackula, William Marshall, Watchmen, Banachek, why George Peppard isn't a nice man, remaking the Brady Bunch as a Western Heist movie and Steven's connection to Toma's Tony Musante.

Today Ken welcomes actor Amanda Wyss (Nightmare on Elm St., Better Off Dead, Fast Times at Ridgemont High) to the show. Ken and Amanda discuss growing up in Manhattan (beach), sea side towns, a childhood of commercials, getting rides into Hollywood for auditions, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, working with Loni Anderson, Made for-TV movies, Better Off Dead, how great Curtis Armstrong's book is, being a film or a TV actor, Westerns, Silverado, watching old movies, The Brady Bunch, Shaun and David Cassidy, This House Possessed, Otherworld, Buck Rogers, Erin Gray, Star Trek, variety shows, watching a TV placed on top of a broken TV, Streets of San Francisco, Yvonne DeCarlo, John Wayne, Great Scott and Cathouse Thursday, the comprehensive credits in TV Guide, Planet of the Insects, the pace of television, playing Sharon Gless's niece of Cagney and Lacey, Eva Marie Saint, being a stage actor, the importance of rehearsal, the double edged sword of digital cinema, Wes Craven, Nightmare on Elm St, losing memorabilia when you sell a car, and the mystery of the "Beth" coat hangers from Better off Dead.