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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 back at the week that was on Jeopardy!, in an analytical manner.
Episodes
Wednesday Feb 26, 2020
Wednesday Feb 26, 2020
Did you ever want to win a disco date or a dinner for 2? You could on the classic Canadian series The Mad Dash! In this episode, we look at this life-sized board game adaptation from the 1970s and 1980s.
Wednesday Feb 19, 2020
Wednesday Feb 19, 2020
The $50,000 Pyramid is the forgotten version of the Pyramid franchise and for good reason. We talk about the changes to the short-lived version and the celebrities on this version, including at least one whose only time playing the Pyramid was in this version.
Sunday Feb 16, 2020
Sunday Feb 16, 2020
February 18 marks the 100th birthday of The Dean of Game Shows, Bill Cullen. We look at three of his less successful shows--Winning Streak, The Love Experts, and Pass the Buck.
Sunday Feb 02, 2020
Sunday Feb 02, 2020
UK celebrity Noel Edmonds finished hosting their version of Deal or No Deal on Channel 4 in 2016, after over 11 years. In 2017, he return to Channel 4 with a game show/sitcom hybrid called Cheap Cheap Cheap, which was just weird weird weird. We look at this bizarre hybrid which has been compared to Twin Peaks.
Wednesday Jan 29, 2020
Wednesday Jan 29, 2020
"Banzai" was a British show which eventually aired on four different networks in the United States. Why would such a show be bounced around? Could it be the controversy that followed it? We look at this bizarre and offensive show.
Wednesday Jan 08, 2020
Wednesday Jan 08, 2020
After Who Wants to be a Millionaire became an overnight smash, every network tried to find a series to capture similar lightning in a bottle. We look at three of these shows--It's Your Chance of a Lifetime, Winning Lines, and Twenty One. Mike also shares details about his tryout for Twenty One in 1999, including the rules to the game at that time.
Sunday Jan 05, 2020
Sunday Jan 05, 2020
The Jeopardy! tournament to discover the greatest player of all time is not ABC's first foray into airing Jeopardy. We look at Super Jeopardy! from summer of 1990, including the times Chico and Mike played against Super Jeopardy! participants. The majority of this episode is devoted to its companion show, Monopoly. We hope you have patience for complex rules!
Saturday Oct 12, 2019
Saturday Oct 12, 2019
Mike and Greg take a look at Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour which, until recently, had not been seen on television in over 35 years.