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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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01:18:28

Episode 295--Shasta McNasty

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

2022/08/08

UPN tried throwing almost anything on their schedule in the late 90s. Shasta McNasty is no exception. It was so bad that the title was cut in half to just Shasta during the show's run. Even cross-promotions with WWF Smackdown couldn't lure viewers. This was basically the most 1999 TV show that ever 1999'd.

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01:13:22

Episode 294--Marblehead Manor

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

2022/08/04

In episode 61, we talked about the season when NBC owned and operated stations had primetime starting at 7:30. We talked about one of those 5 shows, We Got it Made, in episode 66. Another show from that experiment is this show's focus. Marblehead Manor follows the antics of a wealthy family and their staff at their palatial residence.

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Episode 293--A League of Their Own (1993 series)

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2022/08/01

In anticipation of the upcoming Amazon Prime series, this episode takes a look at the "blink and you'll miss it" television version of one of the breakout movie hits of 1992. A League of Their Own had a handful of characters reprising their roles in one-off appearances and its TV fate may have been set in stone by a certain organization.

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54:24

Episode 292--A Year at the Top

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2022/07/28

Norman Lear's 100th birthday celebration continues with possibly his most obscure series, airing for just 5 episodes in 1977. A Year at the Top followed the Faustian formula of selling one's soul to the devil for instant success. Audiences gave it a month at the bottom of the ratings.

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48:03

Episode 291--Hot l Baltimore

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2022/07/25

This week, we're celebrating Norman Lear's 100th birthday by looking at two of his less successful shows. We start with Lear's adaptation of a play about a seedy hotel with even seedier residents, Hot l Baltimore. Most of the players were relative newcomers, and three went on to much greater success in the decades that followed.

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Episode 290--Stumpers! and 50 Grand Slam

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2022/07/21

We're giving you two shows for the price of one this episode. These shows premiered on the same day, the shows aired consecutively on NBC, and both looked technologically amazing for late 1976. Alas, technology couldn't save the pair, as their final shows aired on the last day of the year.

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01:13:45

Episode 289--Mr. Merlin

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2022/07/18

What if Merlin the Magician lived in the 20th Century instead of during Arthurian times? In 1981, CBS gave us an answer to that question when Merlin lived in San Francisco and owned an auto repair shop. It appears CBS had faith in the series, but it went up against difficult competition from the start.

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47:16

Episode 288--The episode of Rescue 911 that aired...

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2022/07/14

We previously talked about the 1990 MLB All-Star Game, with its long rain delay. Now, we're talking about what happened during that delay. CBS fired up an episode of its freshman hit Rescue 911. It was a bit of an odd selection, maybe more so because this episode had a gruesome event, during a jovial event (The All-Star Game.)

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01:23:54

Episode 287--The 1990 MLB All-Star Game

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2022/07/11

Our journey to this year's All-Star festivities continues with the 1990 edition, one with great pitching, first appearances by several baseball legends, and a lengthy rain delay. We'll continue talking about the rain delay on Thursday.

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01:45:44

Episode 286--The 1st Annual Cracker Jack Old Timers...

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2022/07/07

We're rounding the halfway mark in the baseball season and we have three special episodes lined up for the occasion. First, we watch dozens of legends participate in an old timers game whose participants span almost 50 years of Major League Baseball, the oldest of whom pulls off the highly improbable.

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01:33:42

Episode 285--The Return of The Incredible Hulk (aka...

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

2022/07/04

In our second of two entries related to the upcoming Thor movie release, this episode looks at a TV movie from 1988 where Thor appears in the same universe as The Incredible Hulk...but that's not the Thor we know or remember. Listener discretion is advised, as this was treated like a live watch.

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01:01:41

Episode 284--”The Gang Wrestles for the Troops”

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2022/06/30

The Fourth of July is coming early next week. To celebrate, we look at one of our favorite episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, where the gang puts on a wrestling event with a little support from Rowdy Roddy Piper's character.

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01:20:54

Episode 283--Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

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2022/06/27

Another Marvel movie will be released soon as we celebrate the return of Thor, so it's time for more entries related to actors and actresses in the MCU. We go back to 1980 for Stephen J. Cannell's first series, with Jeff Goldblum and Ben Vereen playing detectives in the short-lived but fondly remembered Tenspeed and Brown Shoe.

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29:56

Live Show 18--Personal Injury Court - Nugent v....

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2022/06/25

We're sticking with the courtroom theme in this surprise live show where we go back to a show covered in Episode 117 as we look at a special episode of Personal Injury Court. In this episode, Gino gives us the legal sauce in a case where a lady gets blinded in an eye by a bag of peanuts at a baseball game thrown by the team mascot. Let's just say that the costume of the mascot is something that has been seen to be appreciated. You can watch the episode and follow along at the official YouTube

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Episode 282--Gary Busey: Pet Judge

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2022/06/23

Early in COVID times, a lot of odd shows came down the pipe to entertain audiences stuck at home. Gary Busey, Pet Judge was one of them. Take fake court cases, presided by a fake judge, complete with fake plaintiffs and defendants, and throw in an obviously fake court reporter and...hilarity ensues?

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01:35:30

Live Show 17--Obi-Wan Kenobi - Episodes 1 & 2

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2022/06/21

Greg and Chico watch the first two episodes of "Obi-Wan Kenobi" the latest Star Wars series on Disney+. In Ewan McGreggor's epic return to the role of our favorite Jedi master, Obi-Wan has to deal with failing in his training of Anakin back in "Revenge of the Sith". Meanwhile, a certain Princess from Alderaan is kidnapped and it's up to Obi-Wan to save her from the clutches of the Empire and his former Padawan turned Sith Lord. Here are the timecodes on when to play Episodes 1 & 2 to sync up with us

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01:05:35

Episode 281--Lady Blue

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2022/06/20

It's another police procedural from the 80s, but this one's different; it has a female lead. And a very big gun. And she wasn't afraid to use it. Lady Blue was one of the most violent shows on TV at that time. Alas, it ran for 14 episodes amongst tough competition.

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01:06:26

Episode 280--Women in Prison

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2022/06/16

FOX was the newcomer on the block in 1987, specifically when it came to primetime programming. They threw a lot of stuff against the wall, to see if much stuck. Women in Prison was one such program that just didn't click. But that theme song!

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01:11:51

Episode 279--Street Hawk

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2022/06/13

It's 1985. NBC has a little show called Knight Rider and CBS has Airwolf, while ABC has neither. Give an LAPD cop a high-powered motorcycle during his time off-the-clock and he's ABC's response--Street Hawk, another show that was more popular overseas than domestically.

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01:58:31

Episode 278--Poison Ivy (1985 TV movie)

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2022/06/09

It's viewer request time again! You wanted us to watch this sort-of spiritual successor to High School U.S.A. (Episode 158) and we did! Why did this movie about a summer camp originally air in the not-so summer month of February 1985? We know why it reran in July 1985, besides it was summer.

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