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In honor of Presidents' Day we at It Was a Thing on TV present another example of someone trying to make fetch happen.

When the US Treasury Department launched the new golden dollar coin in the year 2000, they commissioned the father of our country to help promote the new coin along with getting Batman himself Michael Keaton to voice him.

We've reached another milestone, with the release of episode 350!  The Slap isn't known for much more than the titular slap, delivered by Spock?! What the hell Zachary Quinto?

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day and we're talking about a real-life finder of lost loves, who became the main character in this drama from 1984-5.  The series is loaded with guest stars, which is unsurprising since this was an Aaron Spelling production.

Valentine's Day is around the corner and we know all the single ladies out there want to know the secrets of finding that dream date.  This VHS tape from 1984, How to Pick Up Men, has all the answers to getting the man of your dreams.  It involves a dog named Boaz, not knowing where the post office is, and asking supermarket cashiers when the most single men shop.  Plus flirt, flirt, flirt!

Full video on YouTube courtesy of the Oddity Archive. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWIO8d31E4M

In this year's "big game," for the first time, we have a set of brothers playing against each other for a title.  Ten years earlier, we had a set of brothers coaching against each other for a title.  What was a great battle that came down to the end was overshadowed by a lengthy power outage.

Originally recorded back in Thanksgiving of 2021, it's the final edition of our Director's Cuts that we released over at the Place to be Nation POP Experience with over 20 minutes of new material not in the original cut.

We bring you this special Director's Cut of the 1985 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade which features Mike ranting about Your Numbers Up being preempted, a Cabbage Patch Kids commercial with Estelle Harris and a poster involving former New York Jets QB Ken O'Brien?

OH NEAT!

We're nearing The Big Game and we're talking about a made-for-TV movie about a serial killer who takes out people associated with the two teams playing for it all.  A star-studded cast struggles to make it to Super Sunday in the 1978 flick Superdome.

Imagine you were on a show with your ex, playing anchors on a sports program.  It happened here with Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal.  They were truly Good Sports about this short-lived entry from 1991.

Free Spirit got its first exposure on the premiere of the TGIF block.  It was then placed on another night, where it was replaced by a show which has been on for over 30 years.  Was this show with a witch cursed?  Possibly.  But it gave us one of our favorites, Alyson Hannigan.

A comedy starring Dom DeLuise and created, in part, by Carl Reiner?  Sounds like a winner to us!  But it's going up against a strong police procedural and a stalwart from the early days of television?  All we say is Lotsa Luck!