The Staying Power of Real People

TVC 498.6: John Barbour, creator, producer, principal writer, and one of the original co-hosts of Real People (NBC, 1979-1984), talks to Ed about the impact that Real People continues to have on our culture, including the role it played in establishing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the platform of future America's Most Wanted host John Walsh.

John Barbour's memoir, Your Mother's Not a Virgin: The Bumpy Life and Times of the Canadian Dropout Who Changed the Face of American TV, is available wherever books are sold online, while select videos of John reading chapters from Your Mother's Not a Virgin are available for free viewing on his YouTube channel and at JohnBarboursWorld.com. John's film The American Media and the Second Assassination of John F. Kennedy is available at Amazon.com for $1.99 to watch and $4.99 to own. His documentaries The Garrison Tapes and Ernie Kovacs: TV's Original Genius are both available for free on his YouTube channel and at JohnBarboursWorld.com.

Want to advertise/sponsor our show?

TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They're great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started:

https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices