Honoring the Classics

While I suspect that many people, especially Americans, will be otherwise occupied tomorrow night, keeping track of Election Day returns, I want to alert you to a radio show of special interest to crime-fiction enthusiasts. It’s the latest edition of TV Confidential, with hosts Frankie Montiforte and Ed Robertson, and will be broadcast Tuesday night, November 4, at 10:30 p.m. ET, 7:30 p.m. PT on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org.

As Robertson explains in his blog:

We’ll begin with our regular features, including reviews of new DVD releases, including Season Two of Adam-12 and the long awaited release of The Donna Reed Show. Then, in an encore segment from 2006, Frankie and I, along with Dave White, will discuss the Top 25 film and TV detectives, as chosen by viewers of The Sleuth Channel. We’ll follow that with another conversation from 2006 in which Frankie, Dave and I talk about “literary detectives”--TV shows like Ellery Queen and Spenser: For Hire that were based on best-selling mystery novels, as well as shows like Rockford Files and Harry O that have literary elements to them. (Neither segment from 2006 is available on archive, so if you missed them before, here’s your chance to listen.) Speaking of Rockford, Gigi Garner, daughter of James Garner, will also stop by for a conversation about her dad, as well as her new book, Girl Talk. It’s a lively mix of old and new ...

Tune in the show, if you can break away from tomorrow night’s political coverage. And note that The Rap Sheet carried its own piece about the Sleuth Channel’s “America’s Top Sleuths” survey.