Interview: Tim Conway Talks To Nads

Hey Gasmii, I got to talk to Tim Conway in support of his upcoming special The Age of Believing: The Disney Live-Action Classics on TCM.

About The Age of Believing: The Disney Live-Action Classics (from the press release):

The special will feature interviews with a number of people who have contributed to the studio’s live-action oeuvre, including Kurt Russell, Dick Van Dyke, Dean Jones, Tim Conway, Lesley Ann Warren and Michele Lee; former child stars Karen Dotrice and Kim Richards; director Ken Annakin; and songwriter Richard M. Sherman. The special will also feature interviews with Walt Disney Company Board Director Emeritus Roy E. Disney, film critic and film expert Leonard Maltin, film historian Les Perkins, film writer Richard Schickel, author and film expert Paul Sigman-Lowery and author Bill Cotter.

Check out The Age of Believing: The Disney Live-Action Classics on tonight, Sunday, December 14th at 7PM PT/ET.

Here’s the interview (click on the image below to listen):

(read the TCM schedule of Family classics after the jump):

Sunday, Dec. 7

Noon Treasure Island (1950) – starring Robert Newton and Bobby Driscoll.

1:45 p.m. Swiss Family Robinson (1960) – starring John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, Sessue Hayakawa and Tommy Kirk.

4 p.m. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) – starring Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas and Peter Lorre.

6:15 p.m. Old Yeller (1958) – starring Tommy Kirk, Dorothy McGuire and Fess Parker.

8 p.m. The Parent Trap (1961) – starring Hayley Mills, Maureen O’Hara and Brian Keith.

10:15 p.m. Pollyanna (1960) – starring Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, Adolphe Menjou and Agnes Moorehead.

12:30 a.m. The Barefoot Executive (1971) – starring Kurt Russell, Harry Morgan, Wally Cox and John Ritter.

Sunday, Dec. 14

Noon The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1970) – starring Kurt Russell and Cesar Romero.

1:45 p.m. The Strongest Man in the World (1975) – starring Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Phil Silvers and Dick Van

Patten.

3:30 p.m. The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) – starring Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn and Tommy Kirk.

5:15 p.m. Son of Flubber (1963) – starring Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk20and Ed Wynn.

7 p.m. THE AGE OF BELIEVING: THE DISNEY LIVE-ACTION CLASSICS – narrated by Angela Lansbury.

8:30 p.m. The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975) – starring Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Bill Bixby and Susan Clark.

10:15 p.m. The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979) – starring Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Tim Matheson, Kenneth Mars and Jack Elam.

Sunday, Dec. 21

Noon The Black Hole (1979) – starring Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Yvette Mimieux, Robert Forster and Ernest Borgnine.

2 p.m. Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) – starring Eddie Albert, Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann, Ray Milland and Donald Pleasance.

4 p.m. Return from Witch Mountain (1978) – starring Bette Davis, Christopher Lee, Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann.

6 p.m. Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) – starring Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall and Sam Jaffe.

8 p.m. Candleshoe (1977) – starring Jodie Foster, David Niven and Helen Hayes.

10 p.m. Freaky Friday (1976) – starring Jodie Foster, Barbara Harris and John Astin.

11:45 p.m. THE AGE OF BELIEVING: THE DISNEY LIVE-ACTION CLASSICS – narrated by Angela Lansbury.

Sunday, Dec. 28

Noon The Shaggy Dog (1959) – starring Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen and Tommy Kirk.

2 p.m. The Shaggy D.A. (1976) – starring Dean Jones, Tim Conway and Suzanne Pleshette.

4 p.m. The Love Bug (1968) – starring Dean Jones, Michelle Lee and Buddy Hackett.

6 p.m. Herbie Rides Again (1974) – starring Helen Hayes, Ken Berry and Stefanie Powers.

8 p.m. Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977) – starring Dean Jones and Don Knotts.

9:45 p.m. Herbie Goes Bananas (1980) – starring Cloris Leachman and Harvey Korman.

11:30 p.m. The World’s Greatest Athlete (1973) – starring Tim Conway, Jan Michael Vincent, John Amos and Nancy Walker.