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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.
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Episode 567--Goodnight Beantown
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This time, we look at another anomaly that got cancelled despite good ratings like Bridget Loves Bernie. Maybe CBS cooked Goodnight Beantown because the network wanted to go a different route on Sunday nights. Maybe a single mother having relations with her neighbor/co-worker was a bit too much. Maybe it's because the penultimate episode ruined sexual tension between the two main characters. There is no definitive answer in our research.

Thursday Jun 26, 2025
Episode 566--The Popcorn Kid
Thursday Jun 26, 2025
Thursday Jun 26, 2025
Summer movie season is upon us. This installment, we look at a very short-lived comedy about an old time movie theater and its cast of high school-aged workers, specifically one employee who dreams of making it big in the movies one day. The show died a quick death, in part, because it aired, ironically, on a day when many people go to the movies.

Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Episode 565--Charles in Charge, Season 1
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
First-run syndication in the 1980s was a blessing for numerous sitcoms that might not have gotten a fair shake from the networks--Too Close for Comfort, Mama's Family, Out of This World. Charles in Charge had a similar fate. It didn't find enough eyes on CBS, but give it a year and a half, and it would become a comedy staple of the late 80s and early 90s. Alas, Jamie Widdoes did not make it to the successful syndicated run.

Thursday Jun 12, 2025
Episode 564--Temperatures Rising
Thursday Jun 12, 2025
Thursday Jun 12, 2025
We celebrate the 99th anniversary of Paul Lynde's birth with this effort from the early 70s. (Lynde didn't join the cast until season 2.) Hospital hijinks happen with a wacky staff of nurses and orderlies working under a no-nonsense chief of staff. ABC must have had faith in the show, despite getting beaten in the ratings by multiple top 10 shows in its run.

Thursday May 29, 2025
Episode 562--Good Morning, Miss Bliss (pilot)
Thursday May 29, 2025
Thursday May 29, 2025
Before it was a single season wonder on The Disney Channel and way before it became a stalwart on NBC Saturday mornings as Saved by the Bell, Good Morning, Miss Bliss had an aired pilot in summer 1987, with a different focus compared to the later series and an entirely different cast of students, which is a who's who of known actors. A little retooling, then a little more retooling after the Disney era, and you got a beloved part of the childhoods of most every current 40-something.

Thursday May 22, 2025
Live Show 53–Meet the Deedles
Thursday May 22, 2025
Thursday May 22, 2025
Back when we reviewed "Throb" last year, Greg and Chico were reminded of this movie a pre-Fast and the Furious Paul Walker did back in 1998. Two loser surf brothers from Hawaii are sent by their father to Yellowstone, where they are mistaken for park rangers and have to do battle with a paranoid Dennis Hopper doing weird Dennis Hopper things.
We probably think this is the first time in Disney+ history that more than one person watched this movie at one time.

Monday May 19, 2025
Episode 559--Herndon and Me
Monday May 19, 2025
Monday May 19, 2025
In 1983, as Laverne and Shirley came to an end and as Happy Days was wrapping up its run, Garry Marshall came up with this series about high school friends, one of whom became a computer millionaire and the other becoming his assistant. The show came across as more of a showcase of Michael Richards' brand of physical comedy than anything else. The best part of this pilot was the ads before and throughout the show.

Thursday May 08, 2025
Episode 556--Rex is Not Your Lawyer
Thursday May 08, 2025
Thursday May 08, 2025
Pilot month resumes with this entry about a lawyer who has a habit of having panic attacks while litigating cases. The cast was loaded. It had potential. Unfortunately, beyond panic attacks, this show had an identity crisis and did not make NBC's fall schedule in 2010.

Thursday May 01, 2025
Episode 554--In the Lion's Den (1987 pilot)
Thursday May 01, 2025
Thursday May 01, 2025
It's the start of our annual Pilot Month and we're starting off with a pilot two of the three of us didn't see much of, so one of us took one for the team. There's a kids show with a lion puppet and Marcia Gay Harden is involved. That's about all we cared for. It was a CBS Summer Playhouse entry, so it was earmarked for failure. We promise it gets better from here.

Monday Apr 14, 2025
Live Show 52–Dorf Da Bingo King
Monday Apr 14, 2025
Monday Apr 14, 2025
A couple of years ago, on a Live Show, we watched Tim Conway, in one of the many Dorf VHS tapes, play Baseball. Now, in our latest Live Show, we see him try to teach us how to play Bingo. Is this one of the most painful things we've ever had to sit through? Get your dabbers ready as we watch Dorf Da Bingo King!
Here's a link to download or watch the program if you want to follow along via archive.org - https://archive.org/details/vintage-vhs-dorf-da-bingo-king