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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 604--Blacke's Magic

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2026/01/16

Continuing with the magic theme from the last installment, our birthday boy Chico has selected this show as his annual Money in the Bank. Instead of Bill Bixby as a master magician/crime solver, it is Hal Linden. The results were similar--one season and done, but this has a place in our hearts.

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100:05

The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 35 - TNA...

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2026/01/13

As we near a new era with TNA Impact about to debut on AMC, we go back 16 years to when TNA launched a new era to start the 2010's on the January 4th, 2010 episode of Impact on Spike TV.We have the debut's of Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff running the Impact Zone, Brother! Along with some great suprisements that Dixie Carter has in store for us. Also, why is the security for TNA so bad we ask throughout this episode?

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71:52

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

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2026/01/11

On the newest edition of Before the Show, Mike and Greg look at the controversy with the first week of the new CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil and how we aren't saluting it or him. They also look at some of the recent purchases they made on eBay and the ineptness of David Stearns running the New York Mets.Then Chico joins in during Segment 2 as they talk about Miami's win in the Fiesta Bowl and some of the seeding in the NFL Playoffs. Also, how exactly do Chip and Dale, along with Lisa Hartman,

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72:45

Episode 603--The Magician

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2026/01/09

To start 2026, we look at a show which many consider one of the best one-season wonders in television history. What happens when you get a playboy who lives in a plane and drives a white Corvette, performs magic, and solves crimes? You get The Magician, an enjoyable series from 1973-4.

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87:41

The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 34 - WWF...

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2026/01/02

With the bowl season going on in College Football, Greg and Dane look at this one-time event from the New Year's Day 1996 episode of Monday Night RAW featuring a Fatal Four-Way Tag Team match down with football-style rules known as the RAW Bowl. The winning team in this match is gonna receive the Lombardi trophy, but it's not what you think it is! Also, we see a preview of the upcoming Royal Rumble, hyping a big debut in the WWF!

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101:20

Episode 602--The 2025 Year in Review

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2025/12/31

Congratulations! We have successfully completed another orbit around the sun! As we have done for the last 5 years, we have summarized the year in television, this time in one part and in under 2 hours, spanning from Netflix buying everything to the disasterous year with CBS/Paramount. Thanks as always for listening in 2025. We have many more goodies in store for 2026!

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51:20

Episode 601--It Happened One Christmas

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2025/12/24

Happy holidays! Our gift to you this holiday season is a television movie from 1977, which was a carbon copy of the Christmastime favorite It's a Wonderful Life, but gender-swapped. Included in the cast is one of our favorite names, as well as the person Warren Beatty said is the best in Hollywood at something.

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101:31

The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 33 - WCW...

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2025/12/23

Greg and Dane head to the next-to-last chapter of The Masked Man arc on the SCTM as Hulk Hogan takes on his former best friend in the whole world Brutus "The Butcher/Barber/Booty Man/Disciple/Man With No Name or Face" Beefcake for the WCW Championship. We also have Macho Man Randy Savage making his WCW PPV Debut as he will either shake the Hulkster's hand or slap him in the face!Plus, we get a visit from Santa Claus, although he looks awfully familiar, HMMMMMMMMMMMM!

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Live Show 54--Bevo Home for the Holidays

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2025/12/21

A Longhorn Network tradition becomes an It Was a Thing on TV holiday tradition as we watch the University of Texas' live mascot, Bevo, in his natural habitat to muzak of songs from the holiday season. We also share some fun facts about Bevo and the University of Texas while watching Bevo.You can follow along with us at the following link from the Longhorn Network website. - https://watch.longhornnetwork.com/video/651299

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51:51

Episode 600--Joanie Loves Chachi

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2025/12/19

We did it! 600 episodes! As we do with milestone episodes, we cover a very special topic. No topic is more special or more appropriate for this podcast than one of television's biggest bombs ever. People thought the Happy Days magic would last via another spinoff. Audiences initially said yes, but that quickly changed to a no, and the storybook relationship between Joanie and Chachi would end just as it began.

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117:03

The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 32 - WWF...

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2025/12/15

Greg and Dane go all the way to the UK for this edition of the SCTM filled with "great surprisements" as we have a fatal four way match between Stone Cold, Mankind, Undertaker, and Kane with Vinnie Jones as a guest enforcer. We also got Vince at Oxford University, D'Lo Brown touring London, and Christian teaming up with Sable?Buckle up because it's gonna be emotional!

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Episode 599-The Little Rascals Christmas Special

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2025/12/12

The Little Rascals shorts were very popular in syndication during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, to the extent that NBC ordered an animated Christmas special based on the shorts in 1979. Spanky and Porky have to retrieve a coat that their mother sold with the help of the gang, but all sorts of hilarity ensue. Can the gang get Spanky and Porky's mother's coat back in time for Christmas?

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Episode 598--Big John, Little John

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2025/12/09

As we have done for years, we let you, the listeners, decide which of three series will be covered through our Viewer's Choice vote. You have spoken loud and clear that you want us to talk about a live action kid's show from 1976 where a science teacher has a little sip from The Fountain of Youth while visiting Florida. At that moment, he gained the ability to become a younger version of himself, but had no control over when the transformation happened. The trademark Sherwood Schwartz hilarity

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117:17

The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 31 - Pro...

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2025/12/06

In the latest edition of the SCTM, Greg and Dane look at the Thanksgiving 1986 Episode of the syndicated wrestling newsmagazine show "Pro Wrestling This Week" hosted by Gordon Solie and Joe Pedicino, looking at the various wrestling territories around the world.In this episode, we get reports on Ricky Steamboat's injury at the hands of Randy Savage, Bill Apter's thoughts on Starrcade '86, Jimmy Snuka in a neckbrace cutting a hilarious promo on Col. DeBeers, a $100K tag team battle royal in

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22:47

Episode 597--Shaping Up

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2025/12/05

Health clubs and aerobics were all the rage in the early 80s, thanks to Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons. Eventually, this trend was bound to hit scripted television. It did, in comedic form with Leslie Nielsen playing a former health show host turned health club owner. Alas, this show didn't pump up the viewership and its membership was cancelled after just 5 episodes.

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Episode 596--The Tortellis

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2025/12/02

With the enduring success of a TV series comes the inevitable spinoff. The first spinoff of Cheers was this entry about Carla's ex and his new trophy wife, and Carla's two kids. 13 episodes later, it was clear the spinoff went to the wrong character, something which would be righted years later.

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Episode 595--The 1989 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

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2025/11/27

You have had your Thanksgiving dinner. Now it's time for dessert, the final Thanksgiving parade of the 1980s. As always, highlights of pop culture from the year make appearances, as well as ads for the must-have items for the holiday season. In 1989, we also get a weird appearance from The Joker (no Cesar Romero and his orange wedges) plus a troupe of dancing chickens.

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Episode 594-The 1983 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade...

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2025/11/27

Way back when, in the first year of the Podcast back in 2019, we covered the 1983 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in Episode 9, and we've done the following year's edition every year since. Given we've now had a set formula for covering these parades since, we decided this year to do a "Revisited" for the 1983 edition.We got Shirt Tales, Jon Bauman, Yogi Bear, Charley Pride, the Superman balloon that hides in the corner depressed, Woody Woodpecker, a drunken Bullwinkle, Leonard Frey, and Mr

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113:48

The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 30 - WWF...

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2025/11/26

In honor of Thanksgiving, Greg and Dane go back to 1988 and look at the 2nd Annual WWF Survivor Series from the Richfield Coliseum in 1988. We got a confusing double turn between Demolition and the Powers of Pain, Akeem, Mr. Perfect, The Mega Powers, and so much more on this episode of The Squared Circle Time Machine!(Also, forgive Greg for working with a hoarse voice in this episode)

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Episode 593--The Next Line

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2025/11/21

A personal favorite show of Greg and Mike's is this spiritual successor to The New Liar's Club, but with various types of lines from movies, songs, and factual statements, and without even a single mention of Shoddy Laroux. The game is derivative, but the real reason we did the show is because someone wanted to bring up the end theme and its similarities to video games of the era.

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