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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 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.

Saturday Oct 01, 2022
Live Show 25–Mac and Me
Saturday Oct 01, 2022
Saturday Oct 01, 2022
For the 25th Live Show, Greg and Mike look at the 1988 ET ripoff "Mac and Me". A little alien is stranded on Earth away from his family where he befriends a little boy (does this look like anything?). Also, he and his family need Coke to live for some reason.
But yes, folks nothing about this movie would be complete without talking about Paul Rudd's favorite scene. Grab a Big Mac and listen to Greg and Mike watch the cinematic masterpiece that is "Mac and Me".

Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Episode 310--Whew! Revisited
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Our 4th show revisited is a show that was beloved among fans for decades, which unexpectedly turned up on BUZZR in 2021. Before then, roughly 15 episodes were available. We felt we needed to revisit this classic since we now know much more about Whew!

Monday Sep 26, 2022
Episode 309--Half Nelson
Monday Sep 26, 2022
Monday Sep 26, 2022
NBC might have made a big comeback in the mid-1980s, but there was one huge weakness for them--Friday nights at 9 PM against shows like Benson and Dallas. Half Nelson was another Friday at 9 victim, succumbing after a month and a half. But it had a lot of big names!
