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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 626--Puzzlers

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2026/04/24

The antepenulatimate entry in Pilot Month 2026 (that's 3rd to last entry) is one of the first national endeavors done by a weatherman at KNBC. If you're a fan of a variety of games, this is the show for you. Despite technical glitches, one can see a glimpse of what would become a very fruitful career from this weatherman-turned-host.

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Episode 625--Pie in the Sky

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2026/04/21

A beloved show to people of a certain age is Whew! The format was brought back in pilot form, with elements of an immensely popular board game of the era, the one with wedges and pies. With a combination of knowledge, luck, and guts, someone could win the Pie in the Sky.

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107:06

The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 50 - WWF...

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2026/04/20

In honor of WrestleMania 42 having just ended, Greg and Dane for Episode 50 look at WrestleMania 30 years ago with WrestleMania XII from Anaheim at the Pond. We have the Iron Man match for the WWF Title between Bret and Shawn, a Hollywood Backlot Brawl between Goldust and Roddy Piper, and The Undertaker facing Diesel. Also, we get a weird case of deja vu while watching the PPV for some reason.NOTE: We obviously taped this two days before Night 1 of Mania so enjoy how right or wrong we were with our

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29:55

Episode 624--She's With Me

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2026/04/17

It's not The Odd Couple, but the minds behind Married...with Children created this pilot which had an odd couple--an outgoing door-to-door saleswoman and a top-tier international model who has everything but a friend. Was this the beginning of a beautiful friendship? It didn't get past pilot stage, so it's fair to say no.

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The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 49 - TNA...

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2026/04/15

Greg and Dane head to St. Louis for TNA Lockdown 2010 as Team Hogan takes on Team Flair in Lethal Lockdown. We also have the TNA World Title on the line between AJ Styles and the Pope while Kurt Angle and Mr. Anderson have the epic conclusion to their feud. Also, we talk about the Icelandic Volcano wreaking havoc on the card and a 20-inning game between the Mets and Cardinals.

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30:55

Episode 623--Snavely

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2026/04/14

The time has finally come to answer a question this podcast has posed for some time--What's a Snavely? First, it's the first attempt to bring Fawlty Towers to this side of the Atlantic. Second, it's a hotel. Third, it's the surname of the owners. Fourth, it's the seventh installment for Pilot Month 2026 and the 623rd episode of this podcast.

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100:06

The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 48 - TNA...

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2026/04/11

Greg and Dane continue their look into 2010 TNA with this episode of Impact during the middle of the Monday Night War with WWE. We got Team Hogan and Team Flair budding heads before the upcoming Lockdown PPV, Kurt Angle and Mr. Anderson battling for a key in a Ladder Match and the Knockouts Lockbox Challenge where one of the Knockouts has to do a striptease. OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

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35:58

Episode 622--Bubsy

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2026/04/10

It's 1993. Video games are the newest form of entertainment. The landscape already has cartoons of Super Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog, and the Mega Man cartoon will bow in the following year. What other video game characters have the popularity to drive a cartoon? Bubsy?! A pilot aired around Thanksgiving 1993. What could possibly go wrong? What COULDN'T go wrong?

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56:58

The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 47 - GCW...

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2026/04/08

Greg and Dane return to Georgia Championship Wrestling on this edition of the SCTM as they watch an Omni House Show from August of 1983 via the WWE Vault channel on YouTube.We get to see the beginnings of Arn Anderson and Rick Rude in the lower-card, while we get a U.S. title match between Greg Valentine and Pistol Pez Whatley. It's all capped off with a dynamite main event chain match between Roddy Piper and Buzz Sawyer. You can watch the full show on the WWE Vault channel at this link. -

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Episode 621--Heat Vision and Jack

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2026/04/07

We venture into the absurd with this pilot, where one character gets his abilities due to solar radiation, while his partner is half motorcycle and half human. This project had two future stars, as well as a third coming off his big movie a year earlier. (Coming. IYKYK.) ABC passed on it, and apparently FOX had to decide between this and a classic FOX sitcom as a 1999-2000 midseason replacement. FOX made the right choice.

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Episode 620--It

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2026/04/03

What's up next for Pilot Month 2026? It. What is It? It is simply the linking word in a Before and After like you would see on Wheel of Fortune. It had an amazing set, but It was also a mess, with many technical issues and goofs. It was a work in progress. And what's the deal with the gruesome animated character which was clearly a blatant ripoff of the Whammy? All this use of the word 'it' is giving me a headache, just like when I first saw It.

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The Best of It Was a Thing on TV: Episode 142 - The...

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2026/04/01

In honor of "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie" being released in theaters, along with "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!" coming to MeTV Toons, we decided to release this "Best of" from 2021, covering The SMB Super Show! in honor of MAR10 Day. Just be sure to keep Hot Rod's bagpipes away from Mario and Luigi.

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Episode 619--The Match Game pilots of 1973

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2026/03/31

We usually don't include pilots of series which make it to television, but apparently someone made an exception. Two pilots of the beloved series from the early 70s through the early 80s were done with the question format from the original series. (The humorous questions would arrive about a year later.) The first pilot can easily be found. A word of warning about the second pilot: There is at least one answer which doesn't fly in 2026, and probably shouldn't have flown in 1973.

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Live Show 55--UFL Week 1 (2026) - Columbus v. Orlando

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2026/03/30

It's time for the annual tradition at It Was a Thing on TV as we watch a game from Week 1 of the new UFL season. Greg and Mike in this episode go over some of the changes in the UFL with the new coaches, players and teams. We also go over why does the UFL have a betting expert on these games?

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48:39

The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 46 - WCW...

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2026/03/29

In a segment so epic, we had to shine a spotlight on it's very own episode, Greg and Dane conclude their look at WCW Uncensored 1996 with the Doomsday Cage Match! It's the Mega Powers against the Alliance to end Hulkamania! Can the Four Horsemen and the Dungeon of Doom rid the world of Hulkamania once and for all? Of course not, but that doesn't mean they're gonna try in one of the most confusing and entertaingly bad matches of all-time!

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Episode 618--Puppetman

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2026/03/27

Pilot Month 2026 rolls on with this Jim Henson entry, which aired during the 1987 installment of CBS Summer Playhouse. Like at least one other pilot we have previously covered, this pilot dealt with the happenings at a children's TV show, as well as the personal lives off-camera. Like at least that one other pilot, it became a footnote in TV history.

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The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 45 - WCW...

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2026/03/25

Last year on the SCTM, Greg and Dane covered WCW Uncensored 1995; now, a year later, they watch the 1996 edition. This year, we get Konnan and Eddie in a banger opener, Regal and Finlay brawling, The Giant going up against ..... The Lochness Monster? Plus, we also have BOOTYBOOTYBOOTYBOOTYMAN!Part 2, covering the Doomsday Cage Match between The Mega Powers and The Alliance to end Hulkamania, will come out sometime within the next seven days.

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54:29

Episode 617--W*A*L*T*E*R

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2026/03/24

It's the beginning of an annual tradition on this podcast--Pilot Month. We are giving you 12 pilots over the next 6 weeks. We begin Pilot Month 2026 with yet another spinoff of M*A*S*H, but this one didn't make it. Was it due to going to the well once too often, or was it possibly due to a good percentage of the country not seeing it due to political convention coverage? Maybe it's because the main character left the parent show 5 years earlier.

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Episode 616--Shannon (1981)

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2026/03/20

In the second of our two birthday honorings this week, we celebrate what would have been Kevin Dobson's 83rd Birthday by looking at this short-lived 1981 CBS cop show. Kevin Dobson plays a widowed single father who moves from the NYPD to San Francisco. The ratings for this wouldn't be good, but better things would come for Kevin in the following year thanks to a cast opening on another CBS drama.

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The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 44 - Smoky...

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2026/03/18

Greg and Dane take a trip to Jim Cornette's Smoky Mountain Wrestling on the SCTM. They look at the April 30th, 1994 episode of SMW as they took a look at some of the various wrestlers in the territory including a young Chris Jericho and Lance Storm as The Thrillseekers! They also look at the big monster heel in SMW known as Brusier Bedlam who's taking on Randy Savage at an upcoming show. Plus, we get to see an awesome taped promo from Jake Roberts.

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