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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

Saturday Oct 22, 2022
Live Show 27–Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction - Season 3, Episode 9
Saturday Oct 22, 2022
Saturday Oct 22, 2022
The gang returns to the world of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction for this episode which has a Halloween theme in one of the segments.
Is one man actually being haunted by a meddling trick or treater who's pretending to be the grim reaper on Halloween night?
Can a mysterious drifter help Roy from The Office find love with his wife?
Is it possible that two people who are about to be married can turn out to be seperated at birth?
These mysteries will be answered as we once again go Beyond Belief!
"Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction - Season 3, Episode 9" (Full Episode) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erlZFCBEL3Y

Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Episode 316--She-Wolf of London/Love and Curses
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
We start Halloween off looking at an obscurity from the early 90s which apparently has a small cult following. Originally, this was called She-Wolf of London but due to budget cuts and production moving from London to Los Angeles, the show underwent a format change and went by Love and Curses.

Monday Oct 17, 2022
Episode 315--Camp Wilder
Monday Oct 17, 2022
Monday Oct 17, 2022
ABC went against the grain with some of their TGIF offerings. First, Dinosaurs aired during TGIF. Second, it was followed by Camp Wilder, an untraditional family sitcom loaded with future star power.

Saturday Oct 15, 2022
Live Show 26–The Kissing Booth
Saturday Oct 15, 2022
Saturday Oct 15, 2022
This past summer we encountered through IMDB in one of our episodes this Netflix teen romantic comedy based on a YA book.
Greg and Chico sit through the movie that started an era that both of them had no idea even was an era.
Can young Elle end up with her best friend Lee's hot brother? Can Greg and Chico make it through this movie in one piece?
Follow the rulebook as Greg and Chico enter the The Kissing Booth.

Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Episode 314--Beyond Westworld
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
After Westworld, the movie but before Westworld, the HBO series, there was a very brief TV series titled Beyond Westworld. In 1980, CBS attempted to continue the story of robots gone amok, the agents hired to stop them, and their creator from taking over the world.

Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Episode 198–Fall TV Campaigns (Director’s Cut)
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Since the new fall TV season has gotten underway, we thought it was time to release the Director's Cut version of our Fall TV Campaigns episode from last year.
We have about 45 minutes of new material added from the original version that we released over on the Place to Be Nation last year.
So let's all be there for this look back at one of our best episodes as we give you the touch.

Monday Oct 10, 2022
Episode 313--The Brady Brides
Monday Oct 10, 2022
Monday Oct 10, 2022
It's the early 1980s and the Brady kids have grown up and are ready to begin adulthood. Two of the Brady daughters got married, the couples moved in together, and Alice joined them for some reason. Typical Sherwood Schwartz hilarity ensued...briefly.

Saturday Oct 08, 2022
Minisode 22--Ball, Get Out of My Nachos
Saturday Oct 08, 2022
Saturday Oct 08, 2022
Before baseball season began in 1999, during a viewer mail segment, a viewer asked David Letterman how Letterman prepared for opening day. The response was the first of three appearances of this segment, Ball, Get Out of My Nachos.

Thursday Oct 06, 2022
Episode 312--The Introduction of the Compact Disc, on ABC Australia’s Towards 2000
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
In this installment, we mark the 40th anniversary of the compact disc by going down under and all around the world for ABC Australia's coverage of the breakthrough technology. Someone should have warned people in 1982 to not touch the bottoms of CDs.
"Towards 2000: Introducing the Compact Disc" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tx6TYnPat8

Monday Oct 03, 2022
Episode 311--The Baseball Network
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Monday Oct 03, 2022
In 1994 and 1995, both ABC and NBC had a joint venture where they'd air primetime baseball. It went sideways after some markets did not get regional coverage. It didn't help there was a strike which cut short both seasons, including no World Series in 1994.