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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
Nov 4, 2022
Nov 4, 2022
1hr 23 min
In October, we asked you to vote on which of three candidates you wanted us to cover as our Election Day episode. Your winner was Fish, the spin-off of Barney Miller about Phil Fish's home life with his wife and five precocious scamps.
Nov 1, 2022
Nov 1, 2022
56 min
It's the start of November and election time is around the corner. We felt it was appropriate to visit this relevant dramedy turned comedy with George C. Scott from FOX's early days.
Oct 31, 2022
Oct 31, 2022
57 min
For Halloween, we present this It Was a Thing on TV "special presentation." Greg and Chico take a look at the Marvel Studios Disney+ special "Werewolf by Night."
Ted suggests that you give this a listen.
Oct 29, 2022
Oct 29, 2022
12 min
Wrestling fans tuned into the WCW Halloween Havoc 1993 Pay-Per-View expecting a night of exciting wrestling and what happened in the first four minutes was so weird that it's been on Greg's mind for the last 29 years.
Find out if a bunch of trick-or-treaters from Atlanta can be scared by Tony Schiavone.
Oct 27, 2022
Oct 27, 2022
1hr 17 min
Our final Halloween episode for this year is about a show which could be considered Twin Peaks for kids. Originally, it lasted a season but found life after its demise on several networks, including a follow-up series and a series of young adult books. Prepare yourself for the bizarre world of Eerie, Indiana.
Oct 24, 2022
Oct 24, 2022
1hr 24 min
In 1986, NBC expected to air Saturday Night Live in its usual post-news time slot. The New York Mets had other plans, forcing SNL's hand to record that night's show in the dead of night, and causing the episode to air weeks later.
Oct 22, 2022
Oct 22, 2022
57 min
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
Oct 20, 2022
Oct 20, 2022
1hr 12 min
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.
Oct 17, 2022
Oct 17, 2022
1hr 5 min
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.
Oct 15, 2022
Oct 15, 2022
1hr 58 min
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.