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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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Episode 590--Babes

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

2025/10/31

Over the years, overweight people were ridiculed on television and in the movies as slow, messy, dumb, lazy, and were often the butt of jokes. One show avoided those stereotypes, showing a trio of overweight sisters trying to improve themselves health-wise and career-wise, and being empathetic souls looking out for their fellow men. Credit Babes for attempting to dispel the outdated stereotypes, though the series only lasted a single season.

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The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 27 - WCW...

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

2025/10/28

The newest edition of the SCTM sees a big reveal in the Masked Man storyline as Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair's careers are on the line in a Steel Cage for the WCW title.Greg and Dane discuss Terry Funk being awesome, Big Boss Man Behaving Badly five years early, and Dave Sullivan's new theme song, among others. Don't *BUTCHER* listening to this episode!

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46:23

Episode 589--Hell Town

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2025/10/24

As happens in the TV business, having a successful TV movie equates to a run as a series. This is no different, holding its own versus some huge 1985 competition. The later series? Not so much, against that same competition. Robert Blake starred as a tough but fair priest in a tough and not-so-fair portion of Los Angeles, trying to make Hell Town not so hellish.

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The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 26 - WWF...

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

2025/10/21

It's October of 1993 in the newest episode of The Squared Circle Time Machine as Greg and Dane look at an episode of Monday Night RAW where Randy Savage and Crush meet head-on to try and settle their issues. Meanwhile, the good folks at the WWF are making us call a 1-900 line to ask us if Shawn Michaels should be reinstated.Plus, we got a rare Joe Fowler in the WWF sighting on the Podcast! How about that?

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60:37

Episode 588--Hometown Commercials, Volume 6

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2025/10/17

We have returned with another batch of those wacky commercials from all parts of the U.S. Ladies (and guys), let's have a Hometown Commercial party.Here is a list of links to the ads featured in this installment: We Are the Spitzer Shuffling Crew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxx-v2S7YRA Another Spitzer ad, with bad CGI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP9yVuD38Ac Little John’s Derby Jewelry - Super Gold Man Returns - https://youtu.be/HXYmeeijUJM?si=h-upU0j-rlNRTGAO Neil’s Finance Plaza -

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100:04

The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 25 - TNA...

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2025/10/12

With TNA Bound for Glory 2025 happening tonight, as of the posting of this episode, we look back on the 15th Anniversary this week of a date that only comes once a Century! 10.10.10! Greg and Dane look at TNA Bound for Glory 2010!Greg and Dane look at various things on this show, including a Lethal Lockdown match between EV 2.0 and Fortune, Mickie James' TNA debut, RVD and Abyss in a Monsters Ball match, and the three-way match for the vacant TNA World Title between Kurt Angle, Jeff Hardy, and Mr

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106:12

Episode 587--Fridays

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

2025/10/10

Our SNL 50th birthday celebration wraps up with a contender to the throne which was a direct rip-off of SNL; the head of ABC admitted as much! Fridays had its moments, but it sorely missed making recurring characters who would be remembered nowadays. It also had thrilling guest hosts like Henny Youngman! Grab a bite to eat, as this is one of our longest shows to date.

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Episode 586--Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell

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2025/10/07

In Fall 1975, two different shows named Saturday Night Live premiered--the one we know, albeit without the Live moniker, and this show, a variety/talk show hosted by arguably ABC's biggest personality (and definitely ABC's biggest mouth) at the time. Despite its deserving role as one of the worst shows in television history, very little footage of this series exists...which may be a good thing.

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74:02

The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 24 - WCW...

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

2025/10/05

The Masked Man arc continues on the SCTM as Greg and Dane go to Center Stage in Atlanta for a special live episode of the WCW Main Event as Hulk Hogan and Dave Sullivan team up against Ric Flair and a mystery partner.We also react to Ric Flair putting his career on the line against Hogan's at the upcoming Halloween Havoc PPV, along with discussion regarding the Honky Tonk Man, the Sega 32X, and a young Road Dogg as a jobber for Double A.

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Episode 585--Saturday Night Live Season 20

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2025/10/03

The 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live's premiere is happening next week, on October 11th. As the 51st season of SNL starts tomorrow night, we decided to look at another disastrous SNL season, having covered Season 6 (episode 97) and Season 11 (episode 265) previously. SNL was at a time of weakness, having lost key contributors in the previous year. The show lost even more contributors in S20. To add insult to injury, there would be a new kid on the block on another network.

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The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 23 - WCW...

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2025/09/27

The Squared Circle Time Machine gets ready for war as Dusty and Dustin Rhodes team up with The Nasty Boys to do battle with Col. Parker and his Stud Stable in the War Games Match at Fall Brawl 1994.We also continue the arc with The Masked Man from Episode 18 and see if he enters into the picture as Hulk Hogan tries his best to get Ric Flair back into the ring for a rematch at Halloween Havoc, brother!

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42:44

Episode 584--Work It

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2025/09/26

Last year, Greg put this show up in the annual Viewer's Choice vote. It did not win. As always, we cover the shows that didn't win the vote in the following year. After seeing this, Greg regretted ever picking this. We all make mistakes, just like ABC did in 2012 after picking up this show which was like Bosom Buddies, but that's where the comparisons end. The complete series aired, but not domestically, for some reason. Suffer along with us, won't you?

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Episode 583--It's Your Move Revisited

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

2025/09/23

In episode 34, we first talked about the Jason Bateman classic sitcom, It's Your Move, with very little video of the show at that time. Fast forward five and a half years where some intrepid individual(s) uploaded all the episodes. We felt it was time to give this show a proper revisiting.

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47:41

Episode 582--Roll Out!

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2025/09/19

CBS had a slew of hits in the early 70s, including a wartime comedy called M*A*S*H. CBS went to the wartime well again in 1973 with this comedy about a battalion of primarily African-American soldiers in France during World War II. As bad as the ratings were, that may not have been what got the show cancelled so quickly. It's not good when your lead and a supporting cast member were arrested during the show's brief run.

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Episode 581--It's Not Easy

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2025/09/16

The title of this series unintentionally goes deeper than the premise of the show. It's not easy to keep the kids together after a divorce. It wasn't necessarily easy to replace two actors who starred in this show's pilot, one of whom passed away to tragic circumstances. It also wasn't easy for this show going up against two relatively new shows on TV, two favorites from the 1980s. Certainly, it wasn't easy for one of the show's stars to balance this show with another gig he had at the

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The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 22 - TNA...

The It Was a Thing on TV Podcast Network ·

2025/09/13

We had ECW One Night Stand from WWE in 2005, and then WWE did it again in 2006, followed by the blah revival of ECW, so when most of the OG ECW roster jumps from WWE to TNA by 2010, what happens? Dixie Carter decides she'll have her own One Night Stand! WITH BLACKJACK! AND HOOKERS!Greg and Dane look at TNA Hardcore Justice 2010, where they go over dance-offs with the Full Blooded Italians, Raven and Tommy Dreamer having the most cringe hardcore match ever, a lightsaber fight and RVD facing Sabu in

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Episode 580–Paper Dolls

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2025/09/08

In honor of our annual Star Trek Day, we have that moment when Jadzia Dax was an up-and-coming model working for someone whose assistant was Will Riker. Because it’s the 80s, it’ll be a melodramatic rise to the top. Lucky for her, she’s got the world’s top teenage fashion model in her corner. We go inside the world of two “Paper Dolls” and why they managed to… fold… so quickly.

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58:56

Episode 579--The 2005 Miami/Florida State Game

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2025/09/05

College football officially kicked off last week. Years ago, we looked at what might be the worst Monday Night Football game ever. 20 years ago today (September 5), what might have been the worst college football game between two true collegiate football powerhouses occurred. Get used to the phrase "three and out." It is used with frequency this episode."The game that killed the Golden Era of Miami-Florida State" (Worst Game Ever) (Colton Denning) -

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The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 21 - WWF...

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2025/09/04

In honor of the Eagles' start of the defense of their Super Bowl title, Greg and Dane on the SCTM go back to February of 1983 for a big WWF House Show at the Philadelphia Spectrum on PRISM. We got a big 10-Man Tag Team Match featuring Andre the Giant, Superstar Billy Graham, Pedro Morales, Jimmy Snuka, Don Muraco, and others. We also got Bob Backlund defending the WWF title against Big John Studd, along with a fun brawl between The Wild Samoans and the Strongbows for the Tag Team titles! Plus, we

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38:24

Episode 578--3-South

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2025/08/29

Over the last 30 plus years, MTV has had some decent cartoons, most notably Beavis and Butthead and Daria. 3-South isn't on that list, but it holds a place in the heart of at least one of us. Goofy and stupid but with some notable contemporary voice talents, this show might be best known as one of the gigs Brian Dunkleman took after the first season of American Idol.

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