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In their second episode, Bob admits that he literally begged his way into grad school...which proved to be a stroke of brilliance as it led to his first showbiz job as an NBC "page" in beautiful downtown Burbank. From ushering old ladies into "Let's Make A Deal" to gigs on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson and "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In", Suzanne gets Bob to talk about first encounters with stars like Goldie Hawn, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, and Kirk Douglas. Suzanne reacts to Bob's obnoxious career moves as he jumped a long line of others waiting for a dream job at Paramount Studios and wound up on the set of "Mission: Impossible" working with Bruce Geller, Peter Graves, Martin Landau, Leonard Nimoy and got his first taste of the writer's life with the help of producer Bruce Lansbury. Suzanne takes Bob from "Mission: Impossible" to "Six Million Dollar Man" and "Bionic Woman" where he sells his first script without having the common sense to get an agent. Suzanne describes how she got her first gig

This debut episode starts with Bob's FBI-agent birthright and takes us through a childhood spent in Sunset Strip nightclubs where he hung out with Nat  "King" Cole, sang duets with Sophie Tucker and Johnny Ray, and was introduced to the joys of Parliament cigarettes...at age six! Raised with gun-toting West Coast Jewish mobsters as family role models, Bob reveals the details of youthful encounters with naked movie stars like Carol Baker and Rock Hudson...and describes his celebrity-filled school years living just down the street from the movie-star mansions of Beverly Hills. Life at Beverly Hills High--where Bob did a good job of "passing" as Jewish-- led to an eye-opening experience with anti-semitism which colors his attitudes even to this day. Suzanne gets Bob to reveal how Vietnam-era draft evasion caused him to change his name...and how repeated appearances on a handful of TV quiz shows propelled him toward an unusual career choice. Although he whimped out when he won a date with a Hollywood stripper,  B

At Suzanne's prodding, Bob McCullough details his first "on the lot" gig at Paramount Studios and confesses his never-before-revealed secrets of life on the set of the original "Mission: Impossible". They talk about the unique production values, Bruce Geller's perspective on character develpoment, and how Bob befriended the writer who had killed his wife with a pair of scissors. It's a revealing conversation about network-studio conflicts making early caeer moves, all with the ground-level view of an up-and-coming Hollywood "gopher".  

Bob & Suzanne set the direction for future podcasts with the high points of Bob’s writing and producing career from his years with Aaron Spelling to his gig with Jerry Bruckheimer. Bob shares the secret to longevity in the TV game while recalling those shows that took his family on extended overseas adventures. From turning another failed pilot into an 88-episode hit (and finding the world’s most expensive hot dogs), to selling a network pilot based on a 3-year-old’s show idea, to scouting the South Pacific looking for perfect surf...Bob touches upon the high points of his long career. and discusses the value of building credits and generating relationships in what is really a very “small business”. Bob and Suzanne also dish about the state of series television today while foreshadowing great things to come in future podcasts.  

Suzanne plays the “Latina Power” card, gives her review of today’s Hollywood Reporter Magazine, does a bit of name-dropping about their Santa Barbara neighbors, touches upon the years of the Hollywood Blacklist, and Bob opines about how The Academy Awards seem to overlook the obvious. Suzanne then takes Bob into the heart of his writing-producing-directing career, touching upon being laid off from his location manager job at Universal and then paying dues as “the writer in the closet” with a startup production company which led him to his first “real” agent. They discuss early breaks on shows like “BJ & The Bear” and “Sheriff Lobo” which put Bob’s spec slasher scripts in front of CBS execs who hired him to add some “spice” to their failed “Vintage Years” pilot.  The concept of nepotism is touched upon as Suzanne gets the credit for ghost-writing the first season’s series bible for what became “Falcon Crest” which later propelled Bob into the waiting arms of Aaron Spelling Productions.  Suzanne