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The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network

Podcasts within The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network include:* It Was a Thing on TV--the original podcast, well over 500 episodes strong, covering the short-lived and forgotten events in television history.* The Squared Circle Time Machine--Greg Diener and Dane Woychuk take you on a journey about some of the more memorable events in the history of pro wrestling.Coming in the future: What is a Podcast?: An Unofficial Jeopardy! Podcast. Mike Klauss and 4-time Jeopardy! champion Brian Henegar look

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18:37

Minisode 34–The Silent Minute at Super Bowl XX

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2025/02/09

Before you gear up to watch the seemingly twenty-hour pregame show on "Super Sunday" we look back to 1986 when NBC decided to kill some time during the pregame of Super Bowl XX by literally showing nothing but a black screen for an entire minute!

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41:13

Episode 536--The World Football League

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2025/02/06

Our lead-up to "The Big Game" continues with this look at a mid-70s competitor to the NFL, a league which actually got big names to join its league. Like start-up competitors from the past and the future, the league had a very short life for a number of reasons, one of which is not the dickerod.

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46:52

Episode 535--The Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking...

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2025/02/03

"The Big Game" is coming up this Sunday. By coincidence, this installment is about a Disney made-for-TV movie centered around one of this year's "Big Game" participants, the Philadelphia Eagles. What happens when Tony Danza goes from being a garbageman to the team's place kicker? It's an ending only Hollywood could write in more ways than one.

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02:09:26

The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 1 - The...

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2025/02/01

Greg and Dane are back with the first episode of their new wrestling podcast "The Squared Circle Time Machine" here on the IWATOTV Podcast feed. Greg and Dane look back at the first five Royal Rumble's and share some of their favorite memories including Ric Flair's epic title win in '92, Demolition going one-on-one to start the '89 Rumble, and lots and lots of stalling at the early Rumble's!Just don't forget to put that cigarette out!

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01:00:48

Episode 534--To Tell the Truth, 1990 version

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2025/01/30

It's hard to keep a good format down. A decade after the Robin Ward-helmed version of To Tell the Truth (see episode 139 for more), the show returned with a mix of old and new panelists, the tried-and-true format, but also a total of five hosts, including the pilots. A formidable reboot lasted 3/4 of a year in a time when game shows as a whole were a dying breed.

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35:34

Episode 533--Mega Man: The Animated Series

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2025/01/27

Arcade games exploded onto the scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with several shows, animated or otherwise, airing on TV. Jump ahead to the 1990s and video games left the arcade, going to living rooms everywhere. One popular franchise, still popular to this day, was and is Mega Man, which had an animated show from the masters of adapting video games to television, Ruby-Spears, the minds behind cartoons like Pac-Man, Saturday Supercade, and Dragon's Lair.

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32:10

Episode 532--Chicken Soup

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2025/01/23

The show covered in this episode shares many of the same traits as episode 531, Bridget Loves Bernie--the trials and tribulations of an interfaith couple, the good ratings, but also the swift cancellation. Social mores changed quite a bit from 1972 to 1989, meaning this show didn't get the criticism from religious leaders. What happened? You'll have to dive into this heaping serving of Chicken Soup to find out.

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41:14

Episode 531--Bridget Loves Bernie

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2025/01/19

Falling in love and becoming a couple have long been a staple of television series. In 1972, CBS, after the overwhelming success of a controversial sitcom in All in the Family, added this show, another controversial entry which was about an interfaith relationship. Despite superb ratings, the series lasted one year due to said controversy.

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33:53

Episode 530--Team Knight Rider

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2025/01/16

Chico's birthday is coming up and he chose this as his Money in the Bank. In 1982, NBC had an upstart sci-fi drama starring David Hasselhoff and a talking car. Fast forward 15 years and the franchise now had quintuple the vehicles, with quintuple the drivers. Do more talking cars mean more success? (We're covering it. There's your answer.)

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14:44

Minisode 33--The Many Formats of the Chain Reaction...

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2025/01/14

Today, January 14, marks 45 years since the premiere of the original Chain Reaction on NBC. In honor of this anniversary, we look at the many (three) bonus rounds from this series which ran 5 months, where Fred Grandy once declared, "Ten bucks!"

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31:07

Episode 529--The Reel to Reel Picture Show

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2025/01/13

In our previous episode, episode 528, we covered one of the first shows on a new network, The WB. This time, we're covering one of the first shows on PAX in 1998, an adaptation of a Canadian board game about movies. The whole production had one major issue, one which led to the show's demise just over a month after its premiere.

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01:29:34

It Was a Thing on TV Presents (01.12.25)

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2025/01/12

There were a lot of things happening with the wrestling on TV that Greg wanted to do an It Was a Thing on TV Presents to discuss them. But for this edition of presents, Greg brought along a guest as his pal Dane Woychuk comes on to talk about RAW on Netflix, NJPW Wrestle Kingdom, TNA's improved TV coverage in Canada, and AEW being AEW.

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35:00

Episode 528--Muscle

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2025/01/09

When The WB started out, it had two hours on Wednesday night with three funny favorites, but there was a need for a fourth comedy. It needed something the pushed boundaries but also felt familiar. It needed something with gags and a storyline. The WB muscled up to the plate with this 13 episode and done wonder.

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42:04

Episode 527--The Charmings

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2025/01/06

Once upon a time, a television network aired a show about Snow White and Prince Charming living in comtemporary times, complete with a family and a magic mirror. Alas, the enemy in this fairy tale come true was the counter-programming and the absurd premise. After about a year, the show bit the poison apple and was sent to television heaven. The end.

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02:51

It Was a Thing on TV Outtakes: The Gang Looks at...

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2025/01/05

Since we'll briefly mention Adam West in our upcoming episode on Thursday, we figured we'd post this outtake from when we covered Lookwell in Episode 55. Needless to say, Greg struggles to try and figure out what the hell FOX was airing in 1991.

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56:08

Episode 526--C.P.O. Sharkey

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2025/01/03

The military has long been a staple of comedic television, see The Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy, and M*A*S*H. In late 1976, NBC joined the fray with an insulting, caustic chief petty officer running the ship, portrayed by the most insulting and most caustic comedian playing the role.

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01:03:44

Episode 525--The 2024 Year in Review, Part 2

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2024/12/31

We put a bow on the year 2024 with a look back at the shows which ended this year, as well as those we lost in 2024. Party on and have a great 2025!

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51:27

Episode 525--The 2024 Year in Review, Part 1

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2024/12/30

As we do every year between Christmas and New Year's, the three of us look at the news and happenings of the previous 12 months. This first installment covers The Worst of 2024, the big television happenings over the last 12 months, and our favorite programs which debuted in the past year.

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47:16

It Was a Thing on TV Instant Reaction--The 2024...

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2024/12/29

The 2nd Annual Pop-Tarts Bowl saw Iowa State defeat Miami in the last few moments but the real fun was just beginning. Game MVP Rocco Becht had to choose which three of the Pop-Tarts Bowl mascots would be cooked to be eaten. Mike and Greg came on following the game to give their live reaction to the cooking along with providing play-by-play to the end of the Bengals/Broncos game. Remember "FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS!"

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53:23

Episode 524–A Very Merry Mix-Up

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2024/12/25

For the first time on the podcast, we look at a Hallmark Christmas movie. In this 2013 TV movie, Alicia Witt plays an NYC store owner who gets proposed to by the man of her dreams but when she's sent to the airport by herself to meet her family a series of accidents happen and hilarity ensues. Will she find love with the man she believes is her brother or will she stay with the snooty rich fiancee? I think you already know the answer to that question. Merry Christmas everybody!

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