TV PRODUCER,ACTOR & WRITER Herbie J Pilato

As a writer, producer, actor/performer, and TV personality, I love all things nostalgic, particularly having to do with classic television programming.

I began my career in the 1980s as an NBC Page at the network’s facility in Burbank, CA. I went on to bit roles on daytime soaps like General Hospital, and The Bold and the Beautiful, as well as nighttime fare like Highway to Heaven, and The Golden Girls. For a time, I was a stand-in dancer on TV’s music-variety series, Solid Gold, and acted and sang in clubs along the Sunset Strip.

By the early ’90s, I switched gears to writing, with the publication of my book, The Bewitched Book, about the classic 1960s TV series. From there, I published other classic TV literary companions and began producing and appearing on classic TV documentaries for Bravo, A&E, TLC, and most recently the Reelz Channel. I also consulted on and appeared in a number of DVD and Blu-ray packages of classic TV shows for Sony, and Warner Bros.

In 2013, I established the Classic TV Preservation Society (CTVPS), a formal 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that celebrates and advocates for the positive social effect of classic TV shows (which I am in the process of rebooting).

In 2019, I hosted, co-created, and co-executive-produced my own TV talk show, Then Again with Herbie J Pilato, which began streaming on Shout! TV and Amazon Prime. In early 2023, I published Retro Active Television: An In-Depth Perspective of Classic TV’s Social Circuitry, which explores the positive impact of classic TV. The Los Angeles Book Festival recently named Retro “Book of the Year,” and subsequently, myself, “Author of the Year.” With a Foreword by actor Eric Scott, of The Waltons, Retro Active Television has received additional high praise, including endorsements from those like Marc Wade of the Television Academy, and Emmys.com.

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