24 APR 2024 · The Best Indie Podcast nomination IS the award! Susan and Sharon thank ALL the listeners who came out to support “80’s TV Ladies” as Best Indie Podcast for the WEBBY AWARDS. A big welcome to all our new listeners! And a sincere thank you to all who voted and to our listeners who reached out.   BIG THANKS to our friends who shouted us out, including: - Chris Stachiw from Weirding Way Media Network and the Kulturecast Podcast. - Scott Philbrook and Forrest Burgess of the Astonishing Legends podcast. - Richard Hatem of Richard Hatem’s Paranormal Bookshelf podcast. - And an extra special thank you to TikTok superstar and creator of Phineas and Ferb, Dan Povenmire, and all his fans.   All of you went the extra mile to support us and bring new listeners to the show, so THANK YOU! And of course, the biggest thank you of all -- TO OUR LOYAL FANS! And listen in on the first official 8TL Mailbag, where we get feedback and answer questions and get feedback from you, our fans! PLUS --  an April 2024 “In Memorium Salute”. AUDIOGRAPHY  Check out the https://www.webbyawards.com/press/press-releases/28th-annual-webby-award-nominees-and-host-revealed/ with our names and Michelle Obama. We’re 26 lines ABOVE Michelle Obama. Just saying. Watch Matt Baume’s YOUTUBE Channel episode “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1it8-y4gWwg” Listen in on the new podcast, https://www.richardhatemsparanormalbookshelf.com/ And Chris Stachiw’s movie review podcast, https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-kulturecast--2883470. Explore the world of Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess’shttps://astonishinglegends.com/ Find Dan Povenmire on https://www.tiktok.com/@danpovenmire And https://twitter.com/DanPovenmire. Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSyxZkHtkj0 and https://disneynow.com/shows/phineas-and-ferb. Abortion access in America is severely limited – if you need help go to https://www.abortionfinder.org/. CONNECT - Read transcripts and more at https://www.80stvladies.com/. - Tell us what shows we should cover at https://www.facebook.com/80sTVLadies/ or via https://www.80stvladies.com/#connect. - Get ad-free episodes and exclusive videos on https://www.patreon.com/80sTVLadies Find more cool podcasts at our host sight, https://www.spreaker.com/user/cstachiw.

17 APR 2024 · Help us win a Webby Award - Vote at https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2024/podcasts/features/best-indie-podcast. Vote for 80’s TV Ladies for Best Indie Podcast at the Webby Awards Now! Voting ends Thursday, April 18th, 2024. Vote: tinyurl.com/vote80tvl Thanks to our dear friends, https://www.spreaker.com/user/weirding-way-media--8439451 and https://astonishinglegends.com for all their support! Cheers and welcome to any https://www.richardhatemsparanormalbookshelf.com fans.  One Day More!

10 APR 2024 · BREAKING: 80s TV Ladies has been nominated for a Webby Award! Help us win. VOTE https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2024/podcasts/features/best-indie-podcast   Back to our episode: Sharon and Susan burst into the Blue Moon Detective Agency and hire Maddie and David to help them answer ONE BURNING QUESTION: What are their Top 8 favorite episodes of the entire series? Maddie: “Eight? Eight? Why not ten?” David: “Can’t do it. It would make them too tens.”  In the words of Miss Dipesto: “We’re never late, we won’t make you wait, but if you want favorite episodes -- you only get eight!” 1) The Pilot (S1; EP 1) 2) The Next Murder You Hear (S1; EP 4) 3) The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice (S2; EP 4) 4) My Fair David (S2; EP 5) 5) ‘Twas The Episode Before Christmas (S2; EP 10) 6) Big Man on Mulberry Street (S3; EP 6) 7) Atomic Shakespeare (but only for one of them!) (S3; EP 7) 8) It’s A Wonderful Job (but only for one of them!) (S3; EP 8) 9) The Straight Poop (S3; EP 9) THE CONVERSATION - WHAT WAS HE THINKING? Glen Gordon Caron had a secret plan for what he wanted Moonlighting to do to network television: he wanted to kill the detective genre once and for all! - Why were the seasons so short? Well, there was a little problem with getting episodes done on time... - If Maddie was the “parent” and David was the “child” -- did David ever grow up? - Is the show feminist? Or progressive? Susan and Sharon have thoughts! - Why is the agency always broke? Maybe it’s all those people in the office who don’t do anything! - That time when Susan got thrown off the set of The A-Team by George Peppard! - Which Season of Moonlighting is the Moonlighting-est? - What the hell happened with Season 4?? Warring stars, a missing showrunner -- and Die Hard! So join Susan and Sharon as they talk Dirk Benedict, Cybill Shepherd, Bruce Willis, Melissa’s candy, The Princess Bride -- and the challenges of producing a show AND a baby at the same time! AUDIOGRAPHY What are YOUR favorite Moonlighting episodes?  Let us know!! Watch Moonlighting https://www.hulu.com/series/5ad18eaf-f049-4fa8-8970-44d81773fba0 On https://tv.apple.com/us/show/moonlighting/umc.cmc.5ddb6oejygxagecvw13z8ycfn or at https://www.amazon.com/Pilot/dp/B0CN3XVRQ3/ref=sr_1_3.  Check out https://moonlightingthepodcast.com/ Read https://www.tuckerdspress.com/product-page/moonlighting-an-episode-guide and https://www.tuckerdspress.com/product-page/moonlighting-an-oral-history. Both ON SALE at https://www.tuckerdspress.com/.   80s TV LADIES NEWS Catch 90s TV Baby Serita Fontanesi’s “Not Ugly” podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/not-ugly-pod/id1680202070. 80s TV Ladies is nominated for a Webby Award! Help us win. VOTE https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2024/podcasts/features/best-indie-podcast   CONNECT - Read transcripts and more at https://www.80stvladies.com/. - Tell us your fav Moonlighting episodes at https://www.facebook.com/80sTVLadies/ or via https://www.80stvladies.com/#connect. - Get ad-free episodes and exclusive videos on https://www.patreon.com/80sTVLadies Find more cool podcasts at our host sight, https://www.spreaker.com/user/cstachiw.

27 MAR 2024 · Encore! Encore! In celebration of the premiere of Cagney & Lacey 42nd years ago this week, here is a look back at the special Sharon Gless interview we dropped one year ago today!  Sharon and Susan are at Podcast Movement Evolutions and The Ambies this week! So here's a look back to when they go to sit down with show business legend Sharon Gless. Multi-Emmy and Golden Globe winner, Sharon Gless has appeared in dozens of television shows such as “Nip/Tuck”, “Rizzoli & Isles”, “The Rockford Files”, “House Calls,”The Bob Newhart Show”, “Station 19” and “The Exorcist.” She has created iconic and ground-breaking characters in the shows “Burn Notice”, “Queer as Folk”, “The Trials of Rosie O’Neill” and of course “Cagney & Lacey”. In 2021 she published her bestselling, no-holds-barred autobiography “Apparently There Were Complaints”. In this in-depth interview, Sharon Gless talks frankly about feminism, her ongoing friendship with Tyne Daly, her affair, marriage and almost-divorce from Barney Rosenzweig, her struggles with substance abuse and recovery -- and the lasting legacy of the characters she’s played. THE CONVERSATION - The moment Sharon Gless knew she wanted to be an actress – and knew she would not fail - “The first feminist I ever met…” -- Barney Rosenzweig?? - How Cagney and Lacey we’re NEVER friends. - How Sharon was actually the VERY FIRST person approached to play Christine Cagney – and why she turned it down. - Earning $186 a week as the last contract player at Universal. - “The Woman Behind the Woman”: how talent manager Monique James left her position as VP at MCA/Universal to become Sharon’s personal manager – and changed her life. - Being forced to watch herself on film to learn what she was doing right -- and wrong. - Hashing out billing, and rehearsing her first table read as Cagney, with Tyne Daly over a bottle of champagne. - Why Christine Cagney wanted to be first through the door with a gun. - Improvising and window shopping for the Cagney & Lacey main titles. - Participating with Tyne Daly and Gloria Steinem in the 2004 Women’s March on Washington –- and seeing the true impact of “Cagney & Lacey” for the first time. - Being Stephen J. Cannell’s “good luck charm!” - Falling in love with Debbie Novotny on “Queer as Folk”. So join Susan, Sharon – and Sharon Gless -- as they talk poker nights with Tyne, the “C”-word, the other “C”-word -- and what did she really say to that flasher?? AUDIOGRAPHY Official website: https://www.sharongless.com/ Sharon Gless https://www.facebook.com/OfficialSharonGless/ Sharon Gless’ autobiography “Apparently There Were Complaints” at https://bookshop.org/p/books/apparently-there-were-complaints-a-memoir-sharon-gless/16220661?ean=9781501125959. Watch the trailer for Sharon’s Award-winning documentary - https://youtu.be/prkRc-Yoeyo WHERE TO WATCH Cagney & Lacey on https://therokuchannel.roku.com/details/ad336151b4b45ec2bdc282aaabc29ed9/cagney-and-lacey. On https://pluto.tv/en/on-demand/series/cagney-and-lacey-ptv3/details/season/1 On https://tv.apple.com/us/show/cagney--lacey/umc.cmc.525s9ap7h99xqwvvkowgai5it Trials of Rosie O’Neill on https://therokuchannel.roku.com/details/80ed1a43d53b5b65bf453409998b13b9/the-trials-of-rosie-oneill. On https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.fabb786f-c6f2-3119-2850-659f6633a708. Queer as Folk on https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00KN632QK. On https://tv.apple.com/us/show/queer-as-folk/umc.cmc.3hogry52iszgna09nlfcp9dgm. Burn Notice on https://www.hulu.com/series/1beecd6b-45e4-410f-be84-. On https://194789bbbf8ehttps//tv.apple.com/us/show/burn-notice/umc.cmc.2dvjshaz7w865fk56136zsw6u. Visit https://www.80stvladies.com/ for podcast episode transcripts. Help us AND get ad-free audio, video and other goodies: We're https://www.patreon.com/80sTVLadies!

13 MAR 2024 · The 90’s TV Babies return: Serita Fontanesi, Sergio Perez and Megan Ruble are back to do a little Moonlighting! Do you agree with the 90s Kids about Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis' hit show? Susan and Sharon served up five key episodes for the Babies' viewing pleasure: S1: E1 – “Pilot” S2: E3 – “Money Talks, Maddie Walks” S2: E4 – “The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice” S2: E18 – “Camille” Bonus Episode: S3: E6 “Big Man on Mulberry Street” Plus -- YouTube scenes and snippets…. So, did the Babies ask for seconds – or send their meal back? Do bears bear? Do bees bee? Do wah diddie diddie dum diddie do? We’re going to find out!  THE CONVERSATION - DON’T FIGHT HIM ON THIS: Sergio, on his mom and the recipes of Pampanga, the culinary capital of the Philippines. - Megan struggles with translating her personal worth into a dollar amount! - Serita’s dog gets sent to reform school! - Wait?!? Sergio has never seen “Die Hard” or “The Sixth Sense” – or any other Bruce Willis movie! What?!? - ACCORDING TO THE BABIES: Moonlighting feels like Bruce’s show – Cybill feels like a secondary character. - 90’s BABY ADVANTAGE: Megan just skipped ahead to the “good parts” episode – where David and Maddie finally get together! No fair! - Which Baby thought the show was too… SLOW?!?! - And which Baby thinks the show isn’t feminist but “femin-ish”? - When Serita’s mother was a baby, she was quieted from crying by… ORSON WELLS?!?!  So join Susan and Sharon – and Megan, Sergio and Serita – as they talk civil rights, shoulder pads, “throwing vases”, Judd Nelson, Whoopi Goldberg – and “Muppet-level nonsense”! AUDIOGRAPHY Watch the special Moonlighting playlist clips at https://www.youtube.com/@80stvladies/playlists. Check out the book Sergio raved about: https://www.philippinebooks.com/products/atching-lillians-heirloom-recipes. Watch Megan in Bardic Inspiration’s Twelfth Night’s https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2087292656. Catch Serita’s “Not Ugly” podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/not-ugly-pod/id1680202070. Watch Moonlighting https://www.hulu.com/series/5ad18eaf-f049-4fa8-8970-44d81773fba0 See more great Moonlighting content at http://moonlighting21.com/. WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH History - and Herstory - is happening right now. Abortion access in America is severely limited – if you want to help or need help go to http://abortionfinder.org/https://www.abortionfinder.org/ 80s TV LADIES NEWS March 26 - 29: The 80s TV Ladies will be at https://evolutions.podcastmovement.com/. Come say hello!  CONNECT - Read transcripts and more at https://www.80stvladies.com/. - Sign up for the 80s TV Ladies http://eepurl.com/h1YPWH - Get ad-free episodes and exclusive videos on https://www.patreon.com/80sTVLadies Find more cool podcasts at our host sight, https://www.spreaker.com/user/cstachiw.

28 FEB 2024 · “I was never so tightly wound as the night we transmitted the show directly from ABC in Los Angeles to New York. We basically went live.”– Sheryl Main, post-production supervisor, Moonlighting Susan and Sharon take you “behind the scenes” with Moonlighting post-production supervisor – and legendary publicity strategist Sheryl Main. As a Unit Publicist, she’s worked on such films as Creed 3, Judas and the Black Messiah, The Expendables, Terminator 3, The Perks of Being A Wallflower and collaborated with hundreds of celebrities including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Clint Eastwood, Emma Watson – and everyone in between! But she "cut her teeth" with Moonlighting. Sheryl talks about the “insanely creative” atmosphere created by Glenn Gordon Caron, the long hours and crazy good times – and the lifelong friends she “met on the way.” THE CONVERSATION - Experiencing sexism and harassment in the movie industry: The Pope of Greenwich Village director “Stuart Rosenberg sent me home for wearing pink jeans. So Mickey Rourke said: “$*@! him. Work with me. Be my assistant.” - When she interviewed to be Bruce Willis’s assistant, she recognized him – as “Bruno Radolini” – his musical alter ego from New York! - Moonlighting on Moonlighting: “The editors pulled all-nighters. They slept there. But we had fun.” - On Glen Gordon Caron: “He changed TV when you think about it. Everything we did from ‘Atomic Shakespeare’ to the black and white episode to… well, we thought we killed Orson Wells.” - ARNOLD AND SLY AND BRUCE AND ME: “They all impacted my career and my life in different ways." - On Arnold the Governor: “We went up there thinking ‘Woo-Hoo! We’re gonna change the world! But the mechanism in place doesn’t want you to change the world.” - On Bruce Willis: “He was a craftsman with words. He could memorize a scene in a minute. What’s happening with him… it’s heartbreaking. I wouldn’t have a career without him.” So, join Susan and Sharon – and Sheryl – as they talk crisis-managing Rust, partying in Cybil’s trailer, Dennis Dugan, The Expendables, Jed the Fish on KROQ -- and the “Curtis Armstrong Day” parade! AUDIOGRAPHY Check out Moonlighting: The Podcast:https://moonlightingthepodcast.com/ Watch Moonlighting https://www.hulu.com/series/5ad18eaf-f049-4fa8-8970-44d81773fba0 Stream it on https://tv.apple.com/us/show/moonlighting/umc.cmc.5ddb6oejygxagecvw13z8ycfn or at https://www.amazon.com/Pilot/dp/B0CN3XVRQ3/ref=sr_1_3. Follow Glenn Gordon Caron on https://twitter.com/GlennGCaron. 80s TV LADIES NEWS Susan’s new play https://confidenceandthespeech.com/ has been published!Now available for purchase and licensing at https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=6386 CONNECT - Read transcripts and more at https://www.80stvladies.com/. - Tell us your fav Moonlighting episodes at https://www.facebook.com/80sTVLadies/ or via https://www.80stvladies.com/#connect. - Sign up for the 80s TV Ladies http://eepurl.com/h1YPWH - Get ad-free episodes and exclusive videos on https://www.patreon.com/80sTVLadies Find more cool podcasts at our host sight, https://www.spreaker.com/user/cstachiw.

14 FEB 2024 · “I said to Cybill Shepherd, ‘You are a Prima Donna!’ And she said, ‘Yes. I am. Do you know what ‘Prima Donna’ means, Glenn? It means First Woman. And don’t you forget it.” – Glenn Gordon Caron In the second of our two-part conversation with Moonlighting and Medium creator Glenn Gordon Caron, we cover everything from Al Jarreau’s iconic theme song to sparring with Cybill Shepherd, to a forty-year career spent working with “audacious people”… Moonlighting, which ran from 1985-1989 starred Cybill Shepherd, a then-unknown Bruce Willis, Allyce Beasley and Curtis Armstrong, and become a landmark classic of 1980s television. Glenn also directed movies such as Clean and Sober, Picture Perfect and Love Affair. THE CONVERSATION - Getting invited to the horse races by Cary Grant – who then dies before they could go! - How dinner with Stanley Donen led to Glenn asking him to direct the dance sequence from “Big Man on Mulberry Street” as a favor. But what did Donen ask in return? That Glenn co-write that year’s Academy Award show with Larry Gelbart! - How a chance meeting with Rona Barrett resulted in one of the weirdest -- and most talked-about -- episodes of Moonlighting ever! - On Cybill Shepherd: “The topography of her life fit the topography of the story. She was a model. She became a huge movie star. And then she lost everything.” - On Bruce Willis: “He was like thirty guys I grew up with. And I understood, underneath all that bravura, and all that jazz, there’s a genuineness that’s hard to resist." - WHEN LES IS MORE: How Now and Again was born when Les Moonves told Glenn: “Write me a pilot, and if I don’t make it, I’ll give you one million dollars.” - How for Glenn, the TV show Medium is less the story of a mystic – and more the story of a marriage. So, join Susan and Sharon – and Glenn – as they talk Pierce Brosnan, Love Affair, Jennifer Aniston, Clean and Sober, -- and Susan’s Vicodin mood swings! AUDIOGRAPHY Watch Moonlighting https://www.hulu.com/series/5ad18eaf-f049-4fa8-8970-44d81773fba0 Stream it on https://tv.apple.com/us/show/moonlighting/umc.cmc.5ddb6oejygxagecvw13z8ycfn or at https://www.amazon.com/Pilot/dp/B0CN3XVRQ3/ref=sr_1_3. Follow Glenn Gordon Caron on https://twitter.com/GlennGCaron. 80s TV LADIES NEWS Susan’s new play https://confidenceandthespeech.com/ has been published! Now available for purchase and licensing at https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=6386 CONNECT - Read transcripts and more at https://www.80stvladies.com/. - Tell us your fav Moonlighting episodes at https://www.facebook.com/80sTVLadies/ or via https://www.80stvladies.com/#connect. - Sign up for the 80s TV Ladies http://eepurl.com/h1YPWH - Get ad-free episodes and exclusive videos on https://www.patreon.com/80sTVLadies Find more cool podcasts at our host sight, https://www.spreaker.com/user/cstachiw.

31 JAN 2024 · “They said I could do whatever I want. So I thought, I’ll write a boy-girl detective show that kills this stupid genre.” – Glenn Gordon Caron, creator of Moonlighting Some walk by night, some fly by day… Susan and Sharon cross paths with legendary writer, director, producer and creator of the classic 80’s series Moonlighting for a rollicking conversation about David, Maddie, Ms. DiPesto – and everything in between! Moonlighting ran from 1985-1989. It starred Cybill Shepherd and a then-unknown Bruce Willis and would become a landmark classic of 80s television. Tasked with making “one of those boy-girl detective shows” Caron agreed on the condition that he could do whatever he wanted. What he – and as it turns out, we – wanted, was Moonlighting. Glenn Gordon Caron has been a force in television for over four decades, since his first job on Taxi – followed by a stint on Remington Steele -- before going on to create the seminal 80s romantic comedy/detective series Moonlighting. Caron later went on to create the long-running Patricia Arquette show, Medium. Moonlighting is now streaming on Hulu. THE CONVERSATION - 300 SONGS in 66 episodes – the MANY hurdles of getting the music rights for Moonlighting for the Hulu broadcasts. - Glenn’s first pilot turned out to be for a little actor named… James Stewart. - Steven Bochco asked Glenn to come work on his new show, then called Hill Street Station: “I said no – this is never gonna go.” - On the crazy tone of Moonlighting: “I’m showing the episodes to my youngest child, who’s fourteen. He’s come to believe that I’m mentally ill.” - Cybill Shepherd signed on to Moonlighting -- after reading only half the pilot! - On casting the role of David Addison: “I brought Bruce Willis in to audition eleven times. They rejected him ten times.” - The role of David Addison’s brother was originally written for… David Lee Roth?! - GETTING PAST THE CENSORS: ABC censors wouldn’t allow David & Maddie to say “frig”. But “fig”? Um, Okay. - On being a maverick: “I was young and arrogant and didn’t care about my reputation. I would live to regret that.” So, join Susan and Sharon – and Glenn – as they talk Aaron Spelling, Pierce Brosnan, Peter Peter Bogdanovich, 100-page scripts, directing Orson Wells – and getting kicked by nuns! AUDIOGRAPHY Watch Moonlighting https://www.hulu.com/series/5ad18eaf-f049-4fa8-8970-44d81773fba0 Check out the Moonlighting fan website, http://www.davidandmaddie.com Susan’s new play https://confidenceandthespeech.com/ has just been published! Now available for purchase and licensing at https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=6386 8TL EXCLUSIVE OFFERS! Special 80s TV Ladies offer! Invest in yourself at https://www.thenextish.com/ - Get 10% off an already 30% off promotion on their newest online course that will help you chart a course forward: "Be The Disruptor" - Use code "8TL24" at checkout at https://www.thenextish.com/. Act now. Offer expires: Feb 15. CONNECT - Read transcripts and more at https://www.80stvladies.com/. - Sign up for the 80s TV Ladies http://eepurl.com/h1YPWH - Follow 8TL onhttps://www.facebook.com/80sTVLadies/. - Check out 8TL on https://www.linkedin.com/company/80214648. - Get ad-free episodes and exclusive videos on https://www.patreon.com/80sTVLadies - Find more cool podcasts at our host sight, https://www.spreaker.com/user/cstachiw. The 80s TV Ladies traveled to https://www.shepodcasts.com/spl/ and https://podfestexpo.com/! We were thrilled to be learning from and meeting many wonderful fellow podcasters.

17 JAN 2024 · Susan and Sharon sit down with actor, director, and writer Elayne Heilveil. Elayne has worked with Mike Nichols and Mark Rydell in the classic 70s television series Family and has guested on such shows as The Rockford Files, The Waltons, Emergency!, Hawaii 5-0, Hill Street Blues and The Mary Tyler More Show. She has appeared opposite such legendary stars such as James Garner, Rip Torn, Ben Vereen, Jeff Goldblum, Valerie Bertinelli, David Jansen, Robert Culp and Dame Judith Anderson. In this layered conversation, Elayne discusses standing up for yourself on set, learning to trust your instincts, navigating dicey auditions -- and discovering the joy and artistic rewards of writing. THE CONVERSATION - How a “mystical” experience reading https://poets.org/poem/creation by James Weldon Johnson at eleven years old led to Elayne’s start in show business. - Going to the Fame school –the movie and TV show barely scratched the surface! - Topless go-go dancers and drunk bodies in the streets: living and acting in 70’s New York. - What do you say when an agent wants you to change your name – to Daisy Astor? - On being asked to take her top off at an audition: “I broke out laughing and said, ‘Are women buying this bullshit?’ ” - On casting quirks: “I’ve played three nuns. It’s every Jewish girl’s dream to be a nun.”Being “beyond nervous” auditioning for Mike Nichols. - Doing the TV movie, A Cry For Help – and wearing Columbo’s trench coat the whole time! - What do you do when your lines aren’t quite right on The Waltons? Give them to Richard Thomas’ John-Boy! - LIVING WITH AN ‘ANGEL’ – what’s it like secretly living with Stuart Margolin, and then getting “married” on-screen? - What’s the best therapy after an abusive moment on set? Try throwing drinking glasses at a brick wall. So join Susan and Sharon – and Elayne – as they talk nude photos, James Garner, reverse nepotism, finding your sweet spot – and getting tear-gassed by Rip Torn! AUDIOGRAPHY The Rockford Files is streaming FREE https://therokuchannel.roku.com/details/05563706a56153f6b5875d438940f68c/backlash-of-the-hunter. So Fetch, The Making of Mean Girls (and Why We’re Still Obsessed with It) by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong. Get it at https://bookshop.org/p/books/so-fetch-the-making-of-mean-girls-and-why-we-re-still-so-obsessed-with-it-jennifer-keishin-armstrong/20282290 or your favorite bookstore. Pre-order the book: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-girls-stan-zimmerman/1144024910 by Stan Zimmerman. Will ship Feb. 13. Read The Creation by https://poets.org/poem/creation. 8TL EXCLUSIVE OFFERS! Invest in yourself at https://www.thenextish.com/ - Special 80s TV Ladies offer! Get 10% off an already 30% off promotion on their newest online course that will help you chart a course forward: "Be The Disruptor" - Use code "8TL24" at checkout at https://www.thenextish.com/. CONNECT - Read transcripts and more at https://www.80stvladies.com/. - Sign up for the 80s TV Ladies http://eepurl.com/h1YPWH - Follow 8TL onhttps://www.facebook.com/80sTVLadies/. - Check out 8TL on https://www.linkedin.com/company/80214648. - Get ad-free episodes and exclusive videos on https://www.patreon.com/80sTVLadies - Find more cool podcasts at our host sight, https://www.spreaker.com/user/cstachiw. The 80s TV Ladies travel to https://podfestexpo.com! If you'll be there, find us and say hello to Sharon and Susan.

10 JAN 2024 · “Every new Star Trek show ‘ruins’ Star Trek.” – Nana Visitor In the second episode of their two-part conversation, Susan and Sharon open a channel into Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with Nana Visitor who starred as “Kira Nerys” on the classic television series. Nana reflects on the differences between working in television then vs. now, balancing work and personal life -- and what it’s like to forever be a part of the singular Star Trek family. THE CONVERSATION - GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS: Auditioning for L.A. Law – casting director Junie Lowry told her, “You’re not getting it. But there is a show you’d be great for…” Yes - It was DS:9 - On the demands of a Star Trek television show: "Deep Space Nine was forty-nine of the best years of my life. I know it was just seven. But it felt like forty-nine.” - On Star Trek - Discovery: “Women are writing, women are directing, women are executive producing... Women being in the room changes the dynamic.” - On the set: David Hasselhoff or Andy Griffith? Daniel Hugh Kelley or Brian Keith? Who was “lovely”? And who definitely was not? - On attending a Star Trek convention: “It was like a flock of exotic birds had descended. It was fascinating.” - Being a role-model: What was it like talking to astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti while she was in orbit on the International Space Station as Cristoforetti told Nana she followed her dreams into space because of Kira Nerys? - On Sci-Fi fandom: “A percentage of (the fans) are weirdos, but if you take any apartment building in New York – it’s the same percentage. And it’s wonderful.” - Doing Cameos for parents who named their daughters “Kira”. - On being a working actress and a mother: “I was in labor on the set. And I went behind the set to get through the worst of it… I tried to have my baby and have it bother no one. And I said to myself, ‘If anyone has to suffer because I’m working and I have an infant, it’s gonna be me’. And that’s not sustainable.” So join Susan and Sharon – and Nana – as they talk Avery Brooks, podcasting with your son, managing fear -- and “Opening A Channel” to greater opportunities for women! AUDIOGRAPHY Visit the “Nana Visitor Library” https://www.youtube.com/@thenanavisitorlibrary3765. Listen to Nana Visitor’s podcast, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sunday-dinner-with-nana-visitor-and-django-el-siddig/id1590966548. Find Nana Visitor on https://www.instagram.com/visitornana/ and https://twitter.com/NanaVisitor. Pre-order Nana Visitor's book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Star-Trek-Open-a-Channel-A-Womans-Trek/Nana-Visitor/Star-Trek/9798886633016 Where to begin? How to Watch Star Trek in chronological and release order https://www.toynk.com/blogs/news/how-to-watch-star-trek-in-order. 8TL EXCLUSIVE OFFERS! Invest in yourself at TheNextish.com - Special 80s TV Ladies offer! Get 10% off an already 30% off promotion on their newest online course: "Be The Disruptor" - Use code "8TL24" at checkout at https://www.thenextish.com. CONNECT - Read transcripts and more at https://www.80stvladies.com/. - Sign up for the 80s TV Ladies http://eepurl.com/h1YPWH - Follow 8TL onhttps://www.facebook.com/80sTVLadies/. - Check out 8TL on https://www.linkedin.com/company/80214648. - Get ad-free episodes and exclusive videos on https://www.patreon.com/80sTVLadies - Find more cool podcasts at our host sight, https://www.spreaker.com/user/cstachiw. LISTENER FEEDBACK Send us a message on ourhttps://www.80stvladies.com/#connect - What Star Trek Lady should we cover next? - Who is your favorite Star Trek Lady? - What show should we cover at 80s TV Ladies? HAPPY NEW YEAR! Let’s get more out of 2024.