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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. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ60f__Fycs

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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!

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.

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.

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.