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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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01:18:09

The Squared Circle Time Machine - Episode 4 - WCW...

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

2025/03/07

To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of this PPV, Greg and Dane are bringing you an unauthorized, unsanctioned, and UNCENSORED episode! WCW Uncensored 1995 is a show that has it all! It has a King of the Road match that transcends space and time! A Martial Arts Match! A Boxer vs. Wrestler Match! A Concession Stand Brawl! And most importantly Ric Flair in drag!Get the leather strap ready and prepare for an episode of The Squared Circle Time Machine like no other!

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39:51

Episode 544--The Episode of Murder, She Wrote with...

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

2025/03/06

Our celebration of Bryan Cranston’s nice birthday continues with a tennis match gone wrong, Linda Hamilton with a frank & vivid illustration of the state of mental health in the mid-1980s, and in the middle of it all? Mystery writer and reluctant true-crime aficionado Jessica Fletcher. It’s one of his three appearances on Murder, She Wrote. Can she solve the mystery before another car blows?

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54:31

Episode 543--The Episode of Airwolf with Bryan Cranston

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

2025/03/03

In honor of a very nice birthday coming up for Bryan Cranston we honor two guest appearances this week that he did early in his acting career. The first is a 1986 episode of "Airwolf" in a villain of the week turn in which he confronts his ex-girlfriend at a sorority reunion on the Queen Mary! Can the Airwolf crew manage to save the day? In this and the next episode with Mike away, Greg and Chico are joined by an alternate this week in Aaron Sica as he shares his reaction to watching an episode of

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01:25:44

Episode 542--Sledge Hammer!

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

2025/02/27

This coming Monday, Mike is celebrating his birthday (the big 5-0) and he chose this as his Money in the Bank pick, a cult classic about a police inspector with a hair trigger temper, as well as a hair trigger on his very large Magnum gun. It was good enough to squeak by for two seasons. As for this selection, trust Mike. He knows what he's doing.

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01:27:49

The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 3 - WWF St....

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

2025/02/26

With love having recently been in the air Greg and Dane go back to 1999 and head to MEMAPHIS TENANASEE! for WWF St. Valentine's Day Massacre as Stone Cold and Mr. McMahon battle in a steel cage match for the WrestleMania XV title shot.Among some of the things discussed are Ken Shamrock's beef with Val Venis over his sister, the birth of Hardcore Holly, Corporation vs. Ministry shenanigans, and Ivory with that damn scarf.

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01:05:14

Episode 541--When Things Were Rotten Revisited

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2025/02/24

We first talked about this series 472 episodes ago. (Do the math.) We felt it was worth a revisit since it can now be seen every Saturday night on Catchy Comedy. In short, this show is the beta version of Robin Hood: Men in Tights, also from the brilliant mind of Mel Brooks. It couldn't be too bad since it has rerun on A&E, TV Land, Decades, and now Catchy Comedy. Thus, When Things Were Rotten is hardly a thing that is rotten.

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39:39

Episode 540--On Our Own (1994)

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

2025/02/20

In a podcast first, we found a premise so flimsy that it almost broke the three of us...and this was deemed as okay to air during the family hour (and later on TGIF) on ABC?! This was a vehicle for the Smolletts, six kids in all, including that one. The less said about this train wreck, the better.

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46:45

Episode 539--Lime Street

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

2025/02/17

As a belated tribute to Robert Wagner's 85th birthday, this installment covers a show which ran for a short period of time on ABC, and later shown in full on Lifetime. Beyond the regular struggles involving viewership, Lime Street also suffered a tragedy involving one of the cast members before debuting, unrelated to the show itself.

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33:48

Episode 538--Me and the Boys

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

2025/02/13

Steve Harvey’s a big deal nowadays, but even he had humble beginnings. Take this story of Steve as a widower balancing a 90s video store & three boys with the help of his mother-in-law. Entertaining as it was, time slots were not kind for “Me and the Boys”

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01:39:01

The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 2 - The...

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

2025/02/12

Greg and Dane return for Episode 2 of The Squared Circle Time Machine where they look back at the birth of TNA when it was part of the National Wrestling Alliance back in 2002 with their first weekly Pay-Per-View.Among the topics discussed Jeff Jarrett, Scott Hall, Jackie Fargo, Don West, Flying Elvises and a pair of Wrestling Johnson's. But please make sure we don't forget about Konnan!

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43:15

Episode 537--The New Odd Couple

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

2025/02/10

As we have said time and time again, a good format for a TV show never really dies, it goes away for a time and returns with a new twist. In this case, the timeless Neil Simon play The Odd Couple went from the Broadway stage to the big screen, then to the small screen with Tony Randall and Jack Klugman. Less than a decade later, it returned in this form, with Ron Glass and Demond Wilson playing the lead roles.

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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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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...

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

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...

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

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

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

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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Episode 533--Mega Man: The Animated Series

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

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

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

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

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

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

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

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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