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Herbie J Pilato
5 min readOct 5, 2023

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[Photography by Kat Goduco]

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…

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Herbie J Pilato
Herbie J Pilato

Written by Herbie J Pilato

Herbie J Pilato is a writer, producer, and TV personality whose books about life and pop culture include THE 12 BEST SECRETS OF CHRISTMAS.

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