Going Hollywood - Movies and Television from the Golden Age to Today

About Going Hollywood - Movies and Television from the Golden Age to Today

Will you side with the expert or the enthusiast? Film historian Tony Maietta and movie lover Brad Shreve dive into the best of cinema and TV, from Hollywood’s Golden Age to today’s biggest hits. They share insights, debate favorites, and occasionally clash—but always keep it entertaining. They’ll take you behind the scenes and in front of the camera, bringing back your favorite memories along the way.

Publisher

Brad Shreve & Tony Maietta

Category

arts · tv & film · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Apr 2024

Latest episode

22 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 93 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   22 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Laughter First, “Safety Last!” (1923)

   Everyone knows the image. A man dangling precariously from a clock on the side of a skyscraper, only a handgrip away from plunging to the busy streets below. It must be a scene from a terrifying dramatic thriller, right? Wrong! It's a thriller, alright, but it's from one of the most hilarious comedies every made. From 1923, it's Harold Lloyd in "Safety Last!" Long regarded as a masterpiece of silent film comedy, "Safety Last!" features one of the greatest of the greats, the maste...

2. 

   15 Apr 2026

   Star Entrances: "Stage Door" (1937)

   Katharine Hepburn. Ginger Rogers. Lucille Ball. Eve Arden. Ann Miller. Phyllis Kennedy. Constance Collier. Jack Carson. Is this the roster of an awards ceremony in the 1950s? No -- it's the call sheet for our movie today, featuring one of the most stacked line-ups of soon-to-be stars ever gathered on a single soundstage. From RKO in 1937, it's "Stage Door." At first glance, it's Hepburn v Rogers as the main event; two titans of the studio, one on the way up and one fighting to stay. Who...

3. 

   8 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   A Petrie Dish! Celebrating “The Dick Van Dyke Show”

   A classic sitcom can look effortless, but behind the scenes can tell a different story. A failed pilot. A total recast. A “Hail Mary” save from first season cancellation. All true events that happened to one of the benchmarks of classic situation comedy: "The Dick Van Dyke Show" . We follow the legendary sitcom back to its origin story: Carl Reiner’s original pilot, why it didn’t sell, and how Sheldon Leonard helps transform the exact same core idea into one of the most respected comedies in ...

Inside a recent episode

Laughter First, “Safety Last!” (1923)

Published 22 Apr 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Okay. You got it. One other thing I love about Safety Last is that it is a visual metaphor for the 1920s. I mean, not only does it capture the sights of the 1920s and you being a LA aficionado, history aficionado, you have to love that. You have to love to see Los Angeles in the 20s and how different it was than it is now. When you see those little tiny palm trees before they've grown and you realize now they're hundreds of feet tall. And in this movie, they look like bushes. They're so tiny, but they had just been planted. Loving the history of LA, this was like totally an homage to LA. Oh, it is. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

47 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

25 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 72 / 100

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Quality

98

Social presence

90

YouTube

0

Engagement

71

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