While at the University of Baltimore, Robbins was the features and radio editor of The Baloo (the official campus news weekly), and he was also a member of the tennis team and dramatic club.

He was briefly the host of The Talent Shop[citation needed] and Cavalcade of Bands for the DuMont TV network.

[5] Beginning in 1960, Robbins was host of Assignment Hollywood, a five-minute program on the ABC radio network.

On October 29, 1966, he interviewed John Lennon on the set of the movie How I Won the War in Carboneras, Spain.

[citation needed] Robbins died of lymphoma on June 23, 1992, at the Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.