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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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01:12:18

Episode 347--”The Big Game” XLVII (aka The HarBowl or...

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

2023/02/06

In this year's "big game," for the first time, we have a set of brothers playing against each other for a title. Ten years earlier, we had a set of brothers coaching against each other for a title. What was a great battle that came down to the end was overshadowed by a lengthy power outage.

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02:03:32

Episode 217--The 1985 Macy‘s Thanksgiving Day Parade...

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2023/02/04

Originally recorded back in Thanksgiving of 2021, it's the final edition of our Director's Cuts that we released over at the Place to be Nation POP Experience with over 20 minutes of new material not in the original cut. We bring you this special Director's Cut of the 1985 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade which features Mike ranting about Your Numbers Up being preempted, a Cabbage Patch Kids commercial with Estelle Harris and a poster involving former New York Jets QB Ken O'Brien? OH NEAT!

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01:24:49

Episode 346--Superdome

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2023/02/02

We're nearing The Big Game and we're talking about a made-for-TV movie about a serial killer who takes out people associated with the two teams playing for it all. A star-studded cast struggles to make it to Super Sunday in the 1978 flick Superdome.

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01:16:59

Episode 345--Good Sports

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2023/01/30

Imagine you were on a show with your ex, playing anchors on a sports program. It happened here with Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal. They were truly Good Sports about this short-lived entry from 1991.

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56:09

Episode 344--Free Spirit

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2023/01/26

Free Spirit got its first exposure on the premiere of the TGIF block. It was then placed on another night, where it was replaced by a show which has been on for over 30 years. Was this show with a witch cursed? Possibly. But it gave us one of our favorites, Alyson Hannigan.

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01:15:09

Episode 343--Lotsa Luck!

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2023/01/23

A comedy starring Dom DeLuise and created, in part, by Carl Reiner? Sounds like a winner to us! But it's going up against a strong police procedural and a stalwart from the early days of television? All we say is Lotsa Luck!

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02:04:46

Live Show 35–The 49ers/Cowboys 2023 NFC Divisional...

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2023/01/23

Last year we covered the 49ers and Cowboys in the Nickelodeon Wild Card game with an ending that had us all like WTF? This year we came back to watch the rematch as both teams faced off with a trip to the NFC Championship Game on the line.

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55:20

Episode 342--Tic Tac Dough without Wink Martindale

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2023/01/19

One of the most beloved games of the late 70s through the mid-80s was Tic Tac Dough. The show had lives before and after that halcyon period. Unfortunately, it was rigged, hosted by an imbecile, then hosted by a bigger imbecile, and recently went to pilot, but did not get picked up.

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01:54:31

Live Show 34–Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

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2023/01/16

After the highs of Star Trek IV, Harve Bennett turned to another member of the Star Trek cast to try his hand at the directing chair. Surely with Captain Kirk at the helm, Star Trek V would reach even higher profits at the box office right? Yeah, about that .......... Greg and Chico try to take a look at went wrong and try to answer what does God need with a starship?

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08:56

Minisode 24--The Morgan and Morgan Metaverse Commercial

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2023/01/14

Greg saw this commercial one day and felt it was deserving of a minisode. Did you ever feel the Metaverse deserved it's own law firm? We didn't either. You can view the commercial at this link. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmDaT1hnDlw

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59:34

Episode 341--Double Trouble

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2023/01/12

Chico's birthday is coming up and he's playing his Money in the Bank on this gem from the 1980s with twins. One is good and the other is troublesome...at least in the first season. Also, Greg comes up with an idea for a prequel for Jake and the Fatman.

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01:51:26

It Was a Thing on TV Presents (01.11.23)

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

2023/01/11

Recorded on Monday on Stream Lounge, Greg records this special live episode of It Was a Thing on TV Presents discussing big things in his life over the last week while watching an old WWF Boston Garden House Show from 1986 on Peacock. Link to the episode of WWE Old School on Peacock to follow along with Greg. - https://www.peacocktv.com/watch/playback/vod/GMO_00000000381023_01/78d1563a-8edf-34ca-87ae-0fb0182a6c32

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50:39

Episode 340--Sirota’s Court

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2023/01/09

Later this month, a long awaited reboot of Night Court will debut. In honor of the event, we are going back to a show which could be considered the inspiration for the original Night Court. Sirota's Court has a similar feel, but it only lasted several months in 1976 and 1977. There were reasons, including a controversial plot line and going up against the biggest miniseries ever.

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Episode 339--Scorch

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2023/01/07

There have been a variety of shows with puppets which have been successful--The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, ALF, Thunderbirds, and Fraggle Rock, to name a few. CBS tried their hand with a puppet-centric show with Scorch, about a dragon who slept for 100 years before waking up in 1992 Connecticut.

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Episode 338--Hey! Spring of Trivia

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2023/01/05

January 4 was National Trivia Day. In honor of the event, we look at a Japanese show which made the translation to American television about weird and wonderful trivia. Give a listen to Hey! Spring of Trivia and there may be some melon bread in it for you, and the melon bread is shaped like a brain.

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02:55:11

Live Show 33–WCW Starrcade 1995

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2023/01/04

Today, New Japan Pro Wrestling has its annual January 4th supershow at the Tokyo Dome in Wrestle Kingdom 17. In celebration, Greg and Chico record their first live show with Peacock as they look at WCW Starrcade 1995, which features New Japan taking on World Championship Wrestling in the World Cup of Wrestling! Also, Sting, Lex Luger and Ric Flair battle in a triangle match, with the winner meeting the Macho Man for the WCW championship in the main event! This show is, so action-packed you may need

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01:23:17

Episode 337--January 3, 1983 in game shows

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2023/01/03

40 years ago today (the day this episode became available), there were four landmark events on daytime television in a two-hour span. Three game shows (Sale of the Century, Hit Man, and Just Men!) premiered and what is undoubtedly The Price is Right's most famous pricing game, Plinko, debuted.

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01:17:57

Episode 336--The 2022 Year in Review, Part 2

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2022/12/31

In the second part of our year-end special, we start with shows which ended in 2022, then wrap up the year with the people we lost over the course of the year, starting at the 9:05 mark.

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02:14:50

Episode 336--The 2022 Year in Review, Part 1

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2022/12/30

Another annual end-of-year tradition for this podcast is to look at the happenings on television for the year. It's such a big review that it's broken up into 2 parts. 1:55 The worst of 2022 1:09:59 The top TV stories of 2022 1:52:11 Our favorite shows of 2022

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01:01:08

Episode 335–Santabear’s High Flying Adventure

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2022/12/25

What started in 1985 as a popular Christmas toy tradition at a midwest department store, Santabear became so popular that two years later, CBS gave him his own primetime special on Christmas Eve 1987. Santabear must help the residents of the South Pole discover the magic of Christmas while facing off with Santa's former helper Bullybear. With the help of a lady bear named Missy, Santabear goes on a high flying adventure to save Christmas for everyone before Bullybear can destroy all the

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