TV Guidance Counselor

October 18-24, 1984 Today Ken welcomes writer and comedian Andrea Henry. Ken and Andrea discuss Brocton's weather related fights, colds, Dallas, Family Ties, crushing on Skippy, Marc Price's full frontal nudity in Trick or Treat, writing in character as Alex P. Keaton, American Graffiti, The New Gidget, The New Leave it to Beaver, first run syndication, Dracula, Pyschophobia, Life with Lucy, Stone Pillow, The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile, Sunday Newspaper Comic Strips, Holiday Specials, Indiana Jones, being let down by your own youth, Poltergeist, Puttin' on the Kids, having never carved a pumpkin, Frat Brothers taking you in a sports car to see Halloween in theaters, no weakness allowed with Andrea's brother, FAME, Nia Pepples Party Machine, Mike Hammer, It's a Living, The Bonaventure Hotel, Ann Jillian, Mama's Family, wigs, Ken's hateful spite fueled life, Star Search, Hate Watching, Sons of Anarchy, Fight Back!, Kate & Allie, CBS Monday Nights, MacGuyver, My Sister Sam, stalking, kids parties, the original Parenthood TV series, An Officer and a Gentleman, Designing Women, Who's the Boss, Growing Pains, Kirk Cameron's film career, Jami Gertz, Norma Rae, Moonlighting, Perfect Strangers, Head of the Class, Community College Counselors, Women's Bodybuilding, "The River", Facts of Life, Good Times, Terror Train, The Demon Murder Case, 20/20, The Girl Most Likely To, Joan Rivers screenwriter, Webster, very special episodes, growing up Greek, Greektown, Detroit, Garfield Halloween Special, The Great Pumpkin, local weatherman Dick Albert's use of smarts against drugs and alcohol, Mr. Belvedere, loss of virginity, Punky Brewster, Sledge Hammer, Sidekicks, Ernie Reyes Jr., WKRP, The Mayflower Madam, James Bond, and the horrors of colorization.

July 22 -27, 1978 This week Ken welcomes writer, comedian and master storyteller Kevin Allison to the show. Ken and Kevin discuss crazy things in your home leading to murderous theories, living in Pee Wee's Playhouse, Jesuit High School leading to a lack of television watching, falling asleep with Citizen Kane, pyromania, watching classics on TV, Night of the Living Dead, Leonard Maltin's books, Understanding Movies, Cincinnati, OH, The Boys in the Band, Catholicism, William Friedkin into gay stuff, stumbling onto life changing media, Marilu Henner, Dukes of Hazard, hatred of sports, going to the Opera, being introduced to television and culture by your father, being terrified of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, PBS and Monty Python, scary music, The Muppet Show, The Electric Company, MTV, Liquid Television, watching TV at school, New Zoo Review, Catholic TV, ABC Sunday Night Movie, Roots, The Thorne Birds, Pulp Novels, The Exorcist, 70s obsession with the supernatural, Satanism, hypnotism, The Bionic Man, buying a Betamax VCR in 1980, Playboy on TV, Three's Company, "The Jiggle Factor", banning Love American Style, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, The Love Boat, early fan fiction, grindhouse movies, Basket Case, Dawn of the Dead, Choir camp in NYC, Paul Lynde, Soap, The Jeffersons, jewel thieves, Bigfoot, brain washing, 70s obsession with the 50s, House of Style, 90s MTV, Ken Marino, The Brady Bunch, Bobby Brady teaching you you are gay, The State, Love Sydney, You Wrote It You Watch It, Who Bob Dylan is, Taco Man, Squirt TV, The Gong Show, Dick Cavet, Amy Schumer, outrage culture, when great art falls through the cracks, and the horror of the Sleestacks.

January 21-27, 1984 This week Ken welcomes DJ, improver and former co-worker Greg Wymer to the show. Ken and Greg discuss Greg's excitement, the disappointment of laser light shows, game show hosts, evening editions of day time game shows, Diff'rent Strokes, twins, Dixie Carter, unsold pilots, Ken's wife's hatred of Claire Grogan, Love Boat, Harlem Globetrotters, Bill Cullen: Favorite Game Show Host, Dolph Lundgren's MIT lie, Mama's Family, Sneak Previews, Dack Rambo, WFNX, Ken as Brian Benben, Superbowl Sunday, Gary Coleman's 200 IQ, gambling, Life Styles of the Rich and Famous, the early days of VCRs, James Bond, playing your own son, Airwolf, Iron Eagle, The Meatballs series, Mazes & Monsters, Washington D.C., MTV's Remote Control, Susan Stafford, PBS's Think Twice, a taste of real fame, Greg's Pee Wee's Big Adventure related mortifying moment, That's Incredible, Danny Cooksey, Bloopers and Practical Jokes, Made for TV Movies, Burt Renoylds' dark period, Spaghetti Westerns, The A-Team, Kim Richards, Three's Company, Remington Steele, Madeline Khan's short lived sitcom, Real People, WKRP, SCTV's final season, The State of the Union, Reagan's ruining of television, Automan, Gimme a Break, giving away your kids upon your death, Tom Hanks as Uncle Ned the drunk, Family Ties, hosting karaoke at the real Cheers, laserdisc, sciolists, Mike Hammer, Buffalo Bill, Dabney Coleman, the Beast Within, Benson, Ken's undying love for Barbara Stock, Legmen, Dukes of Hazard, and the long strange history of the Master.

June 9-15, 1990 This week Ken welcomes Boston comedian and bear enthusiast Andrew Mayer to the show. Ken and Andrew discuss mermaids, The New Mission Impossible, writing strikes, re-using old scripts, Andrew's insane father, living in a valley in the middle of nowhere with no cable, civil salt peter, USA Saturday Nightmares, Zombie Nightmare, not fearing the reaper enough, Janet Jackson, just going with the titles, Beauty and the Beast, America's Funniest Most Wanted, model planes, Nick at Nite but never Bewitched, weird mid-Atlantic accents, the Tin Man's classic Boston accent, Championship Ballroom Dancing, MacGuyver, Locker Posters, burning off pilots, the problems or murder, liking strange sports, foam, roller skating, the best Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, Star Trek, home-made Halloween costumes, Rescue 911, Ken's obsession with the accordion, cheating at Skip-It, corny laugh track sitcoms, Spin City, Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place, Nickelodeon's Fifteen, thinking the Wonder Years is boring, NBA Finals, Beyond 2000, The NBA, 80s lady stand up comedians, Jake and the Fatman, Growing Pains, What a Dummy!, Circus of the Stars, Cosby Show, Eagle and the Bear, The Mystery of choosing Mystery! over Cheers, Perfect Strangers, Just the Ten of Us, and having never seen "The Bear".

This week Ken welcomes musician, artist and fellow podcaster Cris Kirkwood of the legendary Meat Puppets to the show. Ken and Cris discuss Portlandia, TV Guides place in the home, watching the debut of Sesame Street, leaders vs. followers, the "Torment of the Older Sibling", bed wetting, growing up in Phoenix Arizona, the legacy of Omahanians, the horses, Alice, The Wallace and Ladmo Show, Pat McMahon, Steven Spielberg, the cultural make up of Arizona, Spanish Language TV, Sabado Gigante, local TV scenes as local punk rock scenes, how Mr. Peppermint begat the Butthole Surfers, Nirvana Unplugged, home made music videos, stealing people's souls, The Big Boys, Flipper, MTV, touching ex-girlfriends via the cathode ray tube, Steve Jones, Bill Cody, the Haden Triplets, Fred Armisen, stand up vs. music, The Harlem Globetrotters, the golden age of TV contortionists, punk rock trips to LA, Night Flight, New Wave Theater, the importance of flyers, hippies vs. punks, jazz fusion, how seeing Deliverance leads to a desire to be a musician, cool Moms, owning a monkey, the sad death of Abner, mutual Taegu adoration, the salvation of Wallace and Ladlow on a daily basis, 70s Variety Shows, The Johnny Cash Show, The yearly airing of the Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful World of Disney, The Andy Griffith show as perfection, pre-stroke Floyd the Barber vs. post-stroke Floyd the Barber, SCTV, SNL, Robin Williams, Belushi, Andy Kaufman, Acid Head Comedy, Doc Martin, the magic of the Smart Phone, cartoons, 60s Comix, Robert Crumb, Midnight Movies, El Topo, The Grateful Dead, Zappa, The Beatles, The Monkees, Too High to Die, No Commercial Potential, and shutting down Lollapalooza.

March 3-9, 1979. This week Ken welcomes comedian and author Heather McDonald to the show. Ken and Heather discuss worrying about the elderly being easily influenced by television, cigarette ads, Andy Griffith's 70s BDSM, after school specials, why the youngest of five has no rules, Victoria Principal, High Class Hookers, Eve Plumb in Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, living "the Valley", Lace, All Girls Catholic High Schools, Heidi Fleiss, The Mayflower Madam, SportsClub LA, creepy solo fixers, Valley Girl, Patty Hearst, parents taking you to inappropriate movies, knowing when you were straight, forced make out sessions up against a wall, Traci Lords, how a criminal act can add meaning to your life, The Osmonds Circus, Mary Tyler Moore Hour, "Singles" apartment buildings, the one time per lifetime women have to try and make it on their own, Stockard Channing: The Star of Grease, being terrified of New York, Good Times, sharing a room with your siblings, Love Boat vs. Fantasy Island, Julie's eternal Maid of Honor status, Billy Crystal: Kissing Bandit, learning legal arguments about international waters via Love Boat, Cruises, drunken teenage boat debauchery, puking while watching "Overboard", dealing with Sammy Hagar in Cabo, buffet culture, Trilogy of Terror, Twilight Zone, Wishing someone into the cornfield, why Kick the Can is the worst, fear of alien abduction, Celebrity Ghost Stories, personal encounters with ghosts, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Suicides among Family Feud Hosts, Gary Coleman, Facts of Life, after school special putting the fear of god in children, "Someone I Touched", being wise beyond your years leading to not being invited to things, Reality TV, training your son with "The Bachelor", calling your kid a dick, Dancing with the Stars, asking your husband to die to help your own career, ignoring the industry, impressions, going to tapings of Growing Pains, playing ball with Shamu's Baby before Shamu ate it, Farrah Fawcett, drama, Sorority Life, college worship of Ronald Reagan, dreaming of being a famous actress/movie star/tv star/author, staying grounded, trying to stay in touch with former co-workers, The Groundlings, Chelsea Lately, and the future of stardom.

In this episode recorded LIVE! at the NorthEast Comic Con and Pop Culture Expo on Saturday June 20, 2015 Ken welcomes writer/producer Jeff Kline and actor/comedian Julie McCullough to the show. First up Ken welcomes Jeff Kline. Jeff looks at a TV Guide from the week March 18-24, 1978. Ken and Jeff discuss producing cartoons, Jumanji, finding out you got a job in the papers, the life and death of Saturday Morning Cartoons, UPN, That was Then, being 30 and getting to be 16 again twice, The Starland Vocal Band, generational record business, The Monkees, The Banana Splits, Sid & Marty Kroft, Johnny Carson, KTLA, The Legend of Cougar Canyon, Lawrence Welk, Lechmere, Andy Williams, Wayland Flowers & Madam, the pasts' refusal to admit gayness, dialing is a commitment, Ken's aluminium foil based conspiracy theory, Saturday Night family TV, Wonder Woman, replacing Cathy Lee Crosby with Linda Carter, Eletra Woman and Dynagirl, spending 10 minutes in a hot tub with Pink Lady & Jeff, the Sid and Marty Kroft Amusement park, suing McDonald's, Land of the Lost, Hanna-Barbera formal wear, being starstruck, telling The Rock to sound more dead, exactly what an "executive" does, Party of Five, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Frank Lupo, Werewolf, Matt Helm, re-inventing your youth, GI Joe, Transformers, The 7 Stages of Fandom, Twilight Zone, Star Trek, The Jackie Chan Animated Series, R-Rated movies becoming G-Rated Toys, CG Cartoons, Eddie Albert, Love American Style, The Cowsills, the disgusting nature of Afternoon Delight, Summer Replacement Series, The Kids from C.A.P.E.R., The New Monkees, Don Kirshner, Szysznyk, Mr. President, Kolchak, Richard Matheson, The Outer Limits, Art Carney: World's Most Prolific TV Santa, Paul Shaffer and Greg Evigan's deal with Satan, local kids' shows, the golden age of the variety show, Dolly, Hey Vern! It's Ernest, Ernest Saves Christmas, Prime Time Saturday Morning Preview Specials, favorite Christmas Specials, Police Woman, Battle of the Network Stars, Gabe Kaplan's fury, Busting Loose, and the strange TV career of Don Rickles. Ken then welcomes actress/comedian Julie McCullough. Ken and Julie discuss Game of Thrones, Grizzly Adams, the wonders of color TV, moving around as a Military kid, touring the South, Dark Shadows, ghosts, love of the Munsters leading to a role on The Munsters Today, The Flying Nun, Sally Field, Sid & Marty Kroft, Star Trek, locking into all your interests by age 10, Max Headroom, kissing Superboy, Relic Hunter, playing an Evil Magician, being a Magician's assistant, living with Tia Carerre, Dick Clark, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Hee Haw, Carol Burnett, Drive-Ins, Big Bad Mama, a scoop on Big Bad Mama III, Angie Dickinson, when stunts go wrong, Circus of the Stars, Karen Black: Elephant Trainer, Julie's Carnival roots, Monkey Mazes, Carnival based Reality TV Series, the social implications of Freak Shows, "The Scat", Sleepy Hollow, We Are the Millers, shooting in North Carolina, Growing Pains connection to Abbot and Costello, and loving dying on screen.

September 12 - 18, 1998 In this episode Ken welcomes actor, improviser and comedian Micah Sherman. Ken and Micah discuss e-cigarettes, the connection between fog machines and intestinal distress, outside vs. inside, blowin' it up, lack of cable, pillow case induced weekend TV watching, North Carolina Wolves, singing jocks, Jam Bands, Beard Fishin', the secret to loving High School, Squirrel Nut Zippers, interning at Mammoth Records, pulling your pork, low channels coming in more clear, the entertainment value of discussions of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, College Sports, Cops, National Lampoon's Golf Punks, America's Most Wanted, Alan Alda, Burlesque Youth, Video Store Educations, Stand Up on TV, The Simpsons, loving the Fly Girls, being in the pop culture closet, Ken's hatred of Goodfellas, That 70s Show, not being excited by premieres, The Higgins Boys, The Army Show, The KGB, The X-Files, The Emmys, Seth Green, Can't Hardly Wait, Cosby Show that's not the Cosby Show, Old Gay Softball, Mr. Bean, SNL Best Of Videos, WWF violence, Antiques Roadshow, WGBH: World's Greatest PBS station, Everybody Loves Raymond, Home Improvement, Costello, setting shows in Boston, Walker Texas Ranger, loving Hobie on Baywatch, Hasselhoff money, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Ken's favorite Python sketch, OK Soda's Generation X conspiracy, Surge, Third Eye Blind, Election Coverage, Bryant Gumbel, Guinness Records, Whisper 2000, The Fat Twins, The Nanny, A&E's Biography, Hitler, Hank Williams, Country Music, Tailgate Rock, liberal North Carolina, Ken's hatred of Fraternities, rage induced accents, Meter Maids, Star Wars vs. Star Trek, Conan O'Brien's 5th Anniversary, Drew Carey Show, Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place, when Must See TV isn't on, Friends, Helen Baxendale, Frasier, TGIF, Alaska's Whales and Wildlife, Millenium, Homicide: Life on the Street, seeing someone hit by a train, and love of three camera sitcoms.

In a first for the show, Ken presents you with two "mini-sodes" recorded before the guests' shows in the green room. First up Ken welcomes the amazing singer, songwriter, actress, reality TV star, author and voice over artist Lisa Loeb to the show. In this lighting fast pre-show chat Ken and Lisa discuss October 1974, 70s pop hits, the lack of choice, Dallas during "Dallas", false sense of mainstream culture avoidance, the resentment of TV portrayals of professions, The Monkees, Wings, Chico and the Man, Sesame Street, Robert Urich, Serial Killing for Dummies, $25,000 Pyramid, Donnie Osmond, The Newlywed Game, Whoopie, bed time, Variety Shows, Muppet Shows, Fernwood Tonight, Cher, Carol Burnett, all around talent, all singing all dancing all acting celebrities, Florence Henderson: Pretty Lady, humor going over your head, The Love Boat, watching TV when you're sick, sexual bikinis, Adam 12, TV Crushes, why Don Knotts is kind of handsome, the inexplicable popularity of Little House on the Prairie, Fantasy Island, Central Time, The Odd Couple, Welcome Back Kotter, being tempted to have a musical alter ego, the theme to M.A.S.H., One Day at a Time, Schneider, picking up the Bounty torch from Nancy Walker, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Nova, Lisa's impression of Alfred Hitchcock, meeting John Denver, Six Million Dollar Man's sound fx, and loving Paul Lynde. Ken then welcomes comedian Beth Stelling to the show. Ken and Beth discuss Norse Hall, tween crushes, being the tallest kid in the class, growing pains, TV's Top 10 Stars in 1994, Tim Allen, loving JTT, the mystery of children having money, little girls love of containers, Dr. Fad, Children's inventions, mortifying Home Ec issues, Chicken Yakatory, peeing your pants, cocktail onions as vomit inducer, Caveman survival skills, throwing things at Tim, The Cloak Room, David Hasselhoff, Baywatch, "innies", Jane Seymour, Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, Touched by an Angel, childhood religion, Sisters, Sela Ward, Picket Fences, the progressive discussions on Beverly Hills 90210, Mark Curry, the "Loveability Index", Patrick Duffy, Boy Band Reunion tours, NKOTB, the number of times New Kids on the Block say "Girl" in "Step by Step", how there's nothing Joey Lawrence's love can't fix for your baby, Billy Zane's look, Kelly Martin, Heather Locklear, Tim Allen, Wilson as artistic muse, why Jay Leno is 98% Loveable, Why Angela Lansbury will always be #1, SNICK, Clarissa Explains it All, Empty Nest, Richard Mulligan's fantastic voice, The Forbidden Fruit of Cops, America's Most Wanted, Problem Child 2, Gladiators, Nitro's book, and the horrors of Japanese Game Shows.

This week Ken welcomes writer, TV personality, former MTV VJ and all around great human being Karen "Duff" Duffy to the show. Ken and Duff discuss the heat of NYC, the road to MTV via nursing homes, New Jersey, Modeling, selling Skippy Peanut Butter, Saturday Night Live, Frank Sinatra, studying up, dressing for success, the multi-disciplined approach of classic TV presenters, broadcasting vs. narrowcasting, Firehouse vs. Firehose, the end of the hair bands, researching, photogenic memories, Whit Crane of Ugly Kid Joe, the fun of dating someone with a drinking problem, staying tight with the crew, Tabitha Soren, taking over for Martha Quinn, Rods & Cones, V66, The Basement Tapes, bands on railroad tracks, Ted Demme, Fade to Black, Fab 5 Freddy, Jermaine Jackson's Jermagesty, soul music, Herb Alpert, performers figuring out the business, George Clooney, Bill Murray and Duff's Wedding Present of the gift of performance, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Bill Murray's musical prowess, buying horns off Ebay, Michael O'Donohue, owning a baseball team with your friends, Brockton, MA, sports, free vasectomy, The Rat, when sporting events became high priced bars, Rock and Jock, The Real World, Anna Nicole Smith, House of Style, Cindy Crawford, burkinis, Who Do You Think You Are?, the loser table, drinking tequila for the betterment of Africa, small Irish Catholic Families, ABC's Wide World of Sports, ABC After School Specials, The House Without a Christmas Tree, Jason Robards, becoming a wiseass to counteract the weakness of emotion, 42nd St, being starstruck, Colin Quinn, 24 Hours in America, not taking credit for videos you didn't make, making Mariah Carey angry, Paul Abdul's opposite, Karen's early life as a Video Vixen in Special K, NKOTB, Keith Sweat and Heavy D Videos, Dwight Yoakam, Karen's wooden acting style, being in a terrible movie, Dumb and Dumber, Chris Farley, TV Nation, going back to MTV 20 years later, Jim Carrey's Gallstones, Lauren Holly: Slutty Sexy Nurse, Karen's dream of owning a museum of celebrity used parts, The National Endowment for the Arts, Michael Moore, TV Nation Day: August 18th, Viaticals, Devout Catholicism, being a devout trained hospice chaplain, writing tough questions on a cake, love night for hate groups, winning an Emmy the day before you get canceled, The Awful Truth, Bravo TV, Jon Stewart, loyalty, the difficulties of being George Clooney's sister, seeing good people get rewarded, why talking about the charity you do doesn't count, Stoic Philosophy, the immodesty of social media, growing up with James Gandolfini, Sarcoidosis saving the world from awful Disney Movies, Blank Check, Revlon, old people smell, Kurt Loder, doing red carpet for MTV, going to a really ugly high school, living within 10 miles of where you grew up despite your best efforts, The Real Housewives of New York, America Family, avoiding quality TV, Debi Mazar, living for the New York Rangers, introducing your son to The Little Rascals, undercover make up artists, Museum of Broadcasting traditions, Zoom, The Funny Face rival of Kool Aid, racist snacks, and when your children show no interest in your fame.