Tv Guidance Counselor Podcast

June 27 - July 3, 1992

Ken flies solo this week as he goes week by week through 2016, and this year he absolutey, no argument peaked in comedy, and maybe in life. It's astounding. Join us for the journey. 

September 21 -27, 1991

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

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 p

  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

March 11-16, 2013

July 3, 1953

February 15th - 21st, 1997

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 Vera, Kool Milds, when political campaigns became reality TV, Grand Ole Opry, Halloween, Women in Prison, Joe Piscapo, the most famous person from your state, how it's incomprehensible that anyone in the 21st Century ever puts on black face, Nickelodeon, Nick News, Cartoon Network, Dexter's Lab, The Flying Karamatzoff Brothers, non-comedic Rhea Pearlman roles, murder, The Simpsons, the awful early days of the Fox networ

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 against, why having no problems to solve actually makes worse art, how amazing it is that anything produced in Hollywood is ever good, Full Moon Pictures, Crash and Burn, Bill Mosley, life long friends, directing Orson Wells, working with legends, Phantasm, being an intern, cigarettes, Umph in Triumph, being from Indiana, David Letterman, Breaking Away, learning there is a TV series based on your favorite movie, how everything

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 television, Fall Preview love, being able to see photos and images from television, the TV version of a movie, TV series based on movies, Logan's Run, Planet of the Apes, Land of the Lost, Valley of the Dinosaurs, being a 70s kid, Famous Monsters, where you have to grow up to associate King Kong with Thanksgiving, The Crawling Eye, Monster movies, WPIX, Chiller Theater, television images burned into your brain forever, having no

March 16-22, 1991 This week Ken welcomes comedian Fabrizio Copano. Ken and Fabrizio discuss Barbara Walters love of TMNT, inappropriate turtle love, Chile, El Chino, Ninjas, Hero Turtles, Peru, Dragon Ball Z, Japanese content, Ramna, why The Simpsons were so massive in South America, prime time animation, things that aren't just for kids, Bart is forever, Lucha Libre, El Santo, WWF, how things from inside Latin America don't travel that well, El Chavo de Ocho, El Chapulin Colorado, Sabado Gigante, making it world wide, Paul Simon, Batman, Superman, Comics, being a huge movie freak, Pretty Woman, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Jessica Rabbit rocketing you into puberty, hunting down obscure VHS tapes, traveling all over the country to go to video stores, hating 2010: The Year We Made Contact, being disappointed by Barry Lyndon, the 2009 film La Nana, Machuca, El Club, Catholicism, learning English ten years ago after you've already moved to the U.S.A., how there are no Spanish shows in L.A., doing comedy in a totally

March 2-8, 1996 This week Ken welcomes comedian behind the comedy special "Bougie on a Budget", Denise Winkelman. Ken and Denise discuss pouring rain in New England, growing up in Minnesota, Ken confusing Minnesota with Michigan, the coldest spot in the country in the Winter, growing up in a very rural town, the magic of cable bringing Pro Wrestling to your home, Wrestling magazines, local wrestling, mad scientists, how Wrestling is basically an improv group, NYPD Blue, nudity on television, Dennis Franz, CSI, David Caruso, Christine Baranski, the legend of The Marlboro Man, ads that work with any tag line, the 90s trend of "one of the guys" girl who smoke cigars, creepy mail order dolls, American Girl Dolls, Empty Nest, American shows CBC ran, The Kids in the Hall, WKRP, Walker Texas Ranger, wrestling alligators, Powers Booth and Peter Coyote, forbidden love, why everyone can't be the wacky neighbor, High Incident, when the whole neighborhood watches you, communist Russia, Eastern Europeans, comedians w

November 2-8, 1991 This week Ken welcomes writer, performer and Cleavland television stalwart Zachariah Durr to the show. Ken and Zachariah discuss bunkers, loving the smell of gasoline, BYOTVG, Jim Henson, owning only two copies of TV Guide, Michael Jackson, The Muppets, Ken spending the day with John Cleese, The Ten Commandments, true fame, how nobody has world wide fame anymore, Sherman Williams bloody world domination, TV Guide editorial directives, the premiere of Black Or White, TV snobs, never capturing the magic of Thriller again, Moonwalker, Sega Genesis, 4 Non Blondes, Ken's Lair of the White Worm derived lust for Amanda Donohoe, Wings Hauser not doing stunts, letters to the editor, trying to make it to the side of the lunch box, basic cable, Roger Corman's Poe Adaptations, The Terror, P.S. I Luv U, Shock Jocks, The Adventures of Mark and Brian, Eerie Indiana, Eerie Indiana The Other Side, Pan Am, America's Funniest Home Videos, Ken's teenager Comedy Central stand up debut, French Stewart, The NEW W