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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 600 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.
* The 506 Game--Mike Klauss and Greg Diener look at the announcer pairings on 506-sports.com for the upcoming weekend.
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.
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Mar 14, 2022
Mar 14, 2022
1 hr 7 min
It's the early 70s. Gene Roddenberry hit it big with Star Trek and is looking to create the next big thing. He pitches Genesis II to CBS in 1973, who is not interested. He tinkers with the format a bit, pitches it to ABC as Planet Earth in 1974, and is shut out again. There was a third pilot with this format pitched a year later and guess what? Three strikes and you're out.
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