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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 September 2025: What is a Podcast?: An Unofficial Jeopardy! Podcast. Mike Klauss and 4-time Jeopardy! champion Brian Henegar look back at the week that was on Jeopardy!, in an analytical manner. More podcasts may come in the future.
Episodes

Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Episode 131--"Mr. Food" Art Ginsburg
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Famous TV chefs include Julia Child, "The Galloping Gourmet" Graham Kerr, and "The Frugal Gourmet" Jeff Smith. One chef whose legacy is as good as the above people but wasn't as big of a name is Art Ginsburg, who went by the moniker "Mr. Food." We spend this installment looking at the career of this underrated icon, as well as some of the secrets to his 90-second cooking segments.

Monday Jan 25, 2021
Episode 130--It Was a Thing on TV with Trading Cards
Monday Jan 25, 2021
Monday Jan 25, 2021
I'll trade you my Fonzie for your Vinny Barbarino! We offer a primer to TV trading cards, a smattering of shows which made their way to cardboard, and what types of cards are available nowadays.

Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Episode 129–WBNB-TV
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
From 1961 to 1989, CBS affiliate WBNB-TV served TV audiences in the U.S. Virgin Islands with an eclectic mix of programming. Sadly the station went dark permanently due to Hurricane Hugo, but the station's legacy lives on YouTube thanks to an ex-employee who saved various clips from the station.
YouTube Channel of Ex-WBNB Employee Matt Locker
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw88tiXi8FAPoHMUagJfqsg

Monday Jan 18, 2021
Episode 128--Saturday Supercade
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Who didn't love cartoons and video games in the early 80s? Pac Man was successful. But the anthology with cartoons of Pitfall, Space Ace, and Kangaroo? Not as much. We talk about the cartoon cavalcade called Saturday Supercade in this installment.

Saturday Jan 16, 2021
Minisode 4–Don Johnson's Heartbeat Music Video
Saturday Jan 16, 2021
Saturday Jan 16, 2021
The 1980's was the age of MTV and Miami Vice. So naturally the star of Miami Vice, Don Johnson would try his hand at music with an album called Heartbeat.
The song from the album of the same name would be featured on MTV and it's one of the weirdest music videos we've ever seen.
Follow along to the video at this link as we do a live watch of it. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CR4lSORZ_Q

Thursday Jan 14, 2021
Episode 127--Trivia Trap
Thursday Jan 14, 2021
Thursday Jan 14, 2021
When is a right answer not a right answer? When it's a trap! That was the original premise of Trivia Trap. Once that format was viewed as flawed, most of the game changed. It didn't help; the show was gone in 6 months.

Monday Jan 11, 2021
Episode 126--Oh Madeline
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Oh Madeline had plenty of quality guests, the versatile and multi-talented Madeline Kahn, and had its moments. It also had three unique theme songs and was revamped in its sole season. It was Carsey-Werner's first TV series, before they hit it big a year later with The Cosby Show.

Sunday Jan 10, 2021
Live Show 4–Nickelodeon's Coverage of the 2021 NFL Wild Card
Sunday Jan 10, 2021
Sunday Jan 10, 2021
When we found out Nickelodeon was simulcasting the NFL Wild Card game between the Saints and the Bears, we knew this had future entry written all over it.
And the broadcast was everything we hoped it would be. Join us in a live watch of the second half as we see how many Nickelodeon shows Nate Burleson can punch on your bingo card.

Thursday Jan 07, 2021
Episode 125--Jeopardy, not the original run nor the current version
Thursday Jan 07, 2021
Thursday Jan 07, 2021
Everybody knows about the current version of Jeopardy! and some remember the original version. We're not talking about those shows. We talk about the nighttime version from 1974-5 and, to a great extent, the 1978-9 NBC version.
Also in this episode...
* The 1977 CBS Jeopardy! pilot
* Password Plus' frequently changing time slot
* Arte Johnson meets Bobby Riggs

Monday Jan 04, 2021
Episode 124--The Ropers
Monday Jan 04, 2021
Monday Jan 04, 2021
When the worst shows of all-time are mentioned, The Ropers makes that list with frequency. Is it justified? We state our cases that it was an average show and that there are many shows worse, and we have covered a lot of them.