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Marta Kristen spent three seasons drifting through the stars as Judy Robinson on Lost in Space, but her real story started years earlier in a hidden wartime orphanage in Norway. In this conversation, …

Marta Kristen spent …

Marta Kristen spent three seasons drifting through the stars as Judy Robinson on Lost in Space, but her real story started years earlier in a hidden wartime orphanage in Norway. In this conversation, she traces her adoption into a Michigan Family, the chance encounter in a Santa Monica deli that launched her Hollywood career, and the wild shift her most famous show took once a certain caped crusader hit the airwaves. She also opens up about a devastating wildfire that took her home and her nearly finished memoir, and the unexpected new chapter of Love she's found in the years since. Show Highl…

Before there were influencers, before comment sections, before anyone thought to scroll through customer letters for content, there was Wendy Kaufman, doing it all from a desk at a small drinks compan…

Before there were in…

Before there were influencers, before comment sections, before anyone thought to scroll through customer letters for content, there was Wendy Kaufman, doing it all from a desk at a small drinks company in New York. The woman who became the face of one of the most beloved ad campaigns of the 90s as The Snapple Lady shares what it really took to get there, and what nobody knew about her at the time. Show Highlights: The near-decade she spent in the dark before the Snapple commercials ever happened is a story most people have never heard There's a moment in this conversation where she descri…

Jim Meskimen is one of those rare performers who can disappear into a thousand different voices while somehow remaining completely himself. In this return visit to Classic Conversations, Jim breaks do…

Jim Meskimen is one …

Jim Meskimen is one of those rare performers who can disappear into a thousand different voices while somehow remaining completely himself. In this return visit to Classic Conversations, Jim breaks down his current wave of on-screen work, from trading blows with Billy Bob Thornton on Landman to surviving a hippo attack in the upcoming thriller Hungry. He also opens up about the craft of impression, what it really takes to hear a voice the way he does, and what it was like spending a week working alongside the legendary William Shatner. Show Highlights: Something caught Jim completely off gu…

Author Samuel Garza Bernstein returns to dig into his new book, Roddy McDowell: An Actor's Life, How Green Was My Valley to Lassie to Planet of the Apes, the first full biography of the legendary acto…

Author Samuel Garza …

Author Samuel Garza Bernstein returns to dig into his new book, Roddy McDowell: An Actor's Life, How Green Was My Valley to Lassie to Planet of the Apes, the first full biography of the legendary actor. Drawing on newly opened archives at Boston University, Samuel traces Roddy's path from child star to Hollywood institution, and unpacks the work that made him a household name across generations of film and television. Show Highlights: How Roddy McDowell went from stepping off a refugee ship from England to starring in 20th Century Fox's biggest film of 1941, How Green Was My Valley, just si…

Clay Aiken is back. After 18 years away from recording, the American Idol Season 2 fan favorite has released "Rewind," a high-energy comeback single that proves every year of the wait was worth it. In…

Clay Aiken is back. …

Clay Aiken is back. After 18 years away from recording, the American Idol Season 2 fan favorite has released "Rewind," a high-energy comeback single that proves every year of the wait was worth it. In this conversation, Clay pulls back the curtain on what it was really like to be on Idol before anyone knew how massive it was going to become, shares the behind-the-scenes stories behind his most iconic performances, and talks about navigating a music industry that has changed completely since he last released an album. From Broadway to Sharknado to SNL, this is a career that has never stopped be…

Kathy Garver has spent 60 years as one of television's most beloved figures, and she shows no signs of slowing down. Best known as Sissy Davis on Family Affair, Kathy reflects on why the show has neve…

Kathy Garver has spe…

Kathy Garver has spent 60 years as one of television's most beloved figures, and she shows no signs of slowing down. Best known as Sissy Davis on Family Affair, Kathy reflects on why the show has never truly left the cultural conversation, what it was like to nearly lose the role to The Brady Bunch, and how she went from child actress to Grammy-nominated audiobook narrator. She also reveals the details on her upcoming hosting gig, a new book about Hollywood love stories, and a Pollyanna film she is producing in Australia. Show Highlights: Family Affair is celebrating its 60th anniversary wi…

Kathy Garver has spent 60 years as one of television's most beloved figures, and she shows no signs of slowing down. Best known as Sissy Davis on Family Affair, Kathy reflects on why the show has neve…

Kathy Garver has spe…

Kathy Garver has spent 60 years as one of television's most beloved figures, and she shows no signs of slowing down. Best known as Sissy Davis on Family Affair, Kathy reflects on why the show has never truly left the cultural conversation, what it was like to nearly lose the role to The Brady Bunch, and how she went from child actress to Grammy-nominated audiobook narrator. She also reveals the details on her upcoming hosting gig, a new book about Hollywood love stories, and a Pollyanna film she is producing in Australia. Show Highlights: Family Affair is celebrating its 60th anniversary wi…

Jennifer Elise Cox didn't just play Jan Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie, she became her. From landing the role on her very first film audition to sharing a wig with RuPaul, Jennifer brings the same inf…

Jennifer Elise Cox d…

Jennifer Elise Cox didn't just play Jan Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie, she became her. From landing the role on her very first film audition to sharing a wig with RuPaul, Jennifer brings the same infectious energy and razor-sharp comedic timing to this conversation that made her an icon. She talks about being directed by Betty Thomas, keeping a straight face across from Christine Taylor, guest starring on Will and Grace with a retainer in her mouth, and improvising alongside Lisa Kudrow on Web Therapy. Show Highlights: Jennifer lied about her age to land the Jan Brady role -- and the whole…

Rich Little has done impressions of presidents, Rat Pack legends, and Hollywood royalty for decades, but the stories behind those performances are even more entertaining than the impressions themselve…

Rich Little has done…

Rich Little has done impressions of presidents, Rat Pack legends, and Hollywood royalty for decades, but the stories behind those performances are even more entertaining than the impressions themselves. The man of a thousand voices sits down to share what it was really like performing in front of the very people he was imitating, the moments that went sideways, and what keeps him performing in Las Vegas to this day. Show Highlights: What happened when Frank Sinatra quietly appeared onstage while Rich was in the middle of doing Frank Sinatra. The very specific Coaching George Burns and Jac…

From a gapped-tooth kid who dreamed of Hollywood to the woman who gave Kim Kardashian her first TV appearance and generated over a million dollars a day on home shopping, Dr. Forbes Riley has built on…

From a gapped-tooth …

From a gapped-tooth kid who dreamed of Hollywood to the woman who gave Kim Kardashian her first TV appearance and generated over a million dollars a day on home shopping, Dr. Forbes Riley has built one of the most extraordinary careers in Entertainment and sales history. In this conversation, Forbes opens up about the acting career that took her from Splatter University to Broadway opposite Christopher Reeve, the pitching philosophy that turned her into a $2.5 billion force in infomercial history, and why her brand new book, Pitch Secrets A to Z, is really a life skills manual disguised as a b…

Marc Sotkin has written and produced some of the most beloved sitcoms in television history, and the stories behind those shows are even better than the episodes themselves. From selling underwear in …

Marc Sotkin has writ…

Marc Sotkin has written and produced some of the most beloved sitcoms in television history, and the stories behind those shows are even better than the episodes themselves. From selling underwear in Houston to running the writers room on Golden Girls, Sotkin's career is a masterclass in persistence, instinct, and surviving chaos with a sense of humor. Show Highlights: How an underwear salesman from Texas talked his wife into moving to Hollywood and somehow made it work. The $15 quiz show question that was rewritten before it ever aired, and why it still bothers him. The secret comedy d…

Greg Evigan has lived one of the most colorful careers in Hollywood, and this conversation brings all of it rushing back. From the stages of Broadway to the cab of a big rig, from a home recording stu…

Greg Evigan has live…

Greg Evigan has lived one of the most colorful careers in Hollywood, and this conversation brings all of it rushing back. From the stages of Broadway to the cab of a big rig, from a home recording studio he built himself to Abbey Road in London, Greg sits down to revisit the stories, the shows, and the music that have defined his remarkable life. Along the way, he reveals that he has never stopped chasing the thing that started it all: the music. Show Highlights: Greg wrote the iconic My Two Dads theme song in just 20 minutes with writing partner Lenny Macaluso, then had to play it for prod…