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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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52:08

Episode 549--Bay City Blues

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

2025/04/03

We are a week into the 2025 baseball season. We chose this very short-lived series from 1983 about minor league baseball as our tribute to America's Pastime. This series featured an amazing 20 people who appeared on every episode, covering all the bases from the players, the coaches, their partners, and even the mascot. As one might guess with an entry on this podcast, the series got benched after a brief period of time.

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02:09:29

Live Show 51–The UFL 2025 Season Opener

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2025/03/30

The United Football League kicked off the 2025 season in Houston on Friday as the Houston Roughnecks hosted the St. Louis Battlehawks. In this live show we look at what notable names are in the UFL this season along with some discussion about NCAA March Madness and Opening Day in MLB.

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01:04:38

The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 6 - GCW...

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2025/03/28

Thanks to the WWE Vault YouTube Channel, Greg and Dane look at this early 1984 Georgia Championship Wrestling House Show from The Omni in Atlanta that was recently unearthed.Among some of the discussion, differences in wrestling crowds then compared to now, Tommy Rich in a mask, Referee Gary Ewing, the greatness of Brad Armstrong and King Kong Bundy as a babyface? You can watch the full show on YouTube at this link. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B-jsn9tXGg

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52:05

Episode 548--Eisenhower & Lutz

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2025/03/27

Some shows age like a fine wine. Others age like bad milk. This show falls under the latter, a show which would never see the light of day in 2025 but did get 13 episodes in 1988. Scott Bakula stars in this series as a new hotshot lawyer who has a way with the ladies, a year before Bakula would hit it real big. In true 1988 "don't give a darn" fashion, there was enough misogyny and quasi-racism to go around.

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Episode 547--$h*! My Dad Says

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2025/03/20

The 21st century has brought new forms of inspiration for TV shows. This show is an example of that, taking one social media user's rants about his father as the basis of a comedy series. In what we believe is beautiful casting, the father is played by William Shatner, whose 94th birthday is coming this Saturday. With the Shat, you never know what $h*! he may say.

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01:41:41

The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 5 - The...

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2025/03/15

Greg and Dane, in Episode 5 of The Squared Circle Time Machine, do a deep psychological dive into their favorite maniac, Mr. Bob Backlund, who has never eaten Mary Jane!They go back to 1982 when Superstar Billy Graham destroyed his WWF championship belt to his loss to Sheiky Baby in '83 to him holding a cardboard championship belt to cope with his loss and finally to the events after he snapped when he lost to Bret Hart in 1994. Enjoy as we explore The Twisted Mind of Mr. Bob Backlund!

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Episode 546--All American Ultra Quiz

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2025/03/13

Our second and last entry into our annual foray into shows that were lost in translation takes us to this Japanese import, where a show that started with almost 1000 competitors whittled the competition until one person survived, all while traveling around the world. Sounds sort of like contemporary shows Beast Games or Squid Game? Nope. Over 4 decades ago, Ultra Quiz was the biggest game in Japan. Naturally, an American version followed. After one attempt and two shows, the extravagant

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38:49

Episode 545--Amanda's (by the Sea)

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2025/03/10

It's Lost in Translation time on the podcast! To start, we look at the second attempt to Americanize the classic British comedy Fawlty Towers, but with Bea Arthur as the lead. It followed a stinker of a show. (Condo, see episode 79.) However, it also was up against one of the most popular series of the 1980s. Despite being evicted after 13 episodes, that number is still more than the number of episodes of Fawlty Towers.

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01:16:46

It Was a Thing on TV Presents: Before the Show VII

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2025/03/09

In the newest edition of Before the Show, Greg and Mike discuss the shocking heel turn of an invisible man at the WWE Elimination Chamber PLE last week in Toronto. Mike also talks about the recently released Cheers trading card set from Rittenhouse. Then Chico joins us for Segment 2 where they discuss the Sun Belt Gauntlet, Doug Gottlieb's Reign of Error in Green Bay, and the recent passing of George Lowe the voice of Space Ghost before they preview what's to come this week on the podcast. Download

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01:18:09

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

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

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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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Episode 543--The Episode of Airwolf with Bryan Cranston

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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!

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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....

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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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Episode 540--On Our Own (1994)

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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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Episode 539--Lime Street

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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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Episode 538--Me and the Boys

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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...

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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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Episode 537--The New Odd Couple

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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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