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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
Thursday Jan 14, 2021
Thursday Jan 14, 2021
When is a right answer not a right answer? When it's a trap! That was the original premise of Trivia Trap. Once that format was viewed as flawed, most of the game changed. It didn't help; the show was gone in 6 months.
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Oh Madeline had plenty of quality guests, the versatile and multi-talented Madeline Kahn, and had its moments. It also had three unique theme songs and was revamped in its sole season. It was Carsey-Werner's first TV series, before they hit it big a year later with The Cosby Show.
Sunday Jan 10, 2021
Sunday Jan 10, 2021
When we found out Nickelodeon was simulcasting the NFL Wild Card game between the Saints and the Bears, we knew this had future entry written all over it.
And the broadcast was everything we hoped it would be. Join us in a live watch of the second half as we see how many Nickelodeon shows Nate Burleson can punch on your bingo card.
Thursday Jan 07, 2021
Thursday Jan 07, 2021
Everybody knows about the current version of Jeopardy! and some remember the original version. We're not talking about those shows. We talk about the nighttime version from 1974-5 and, to a great extent, the 1978-9 NBC version.
Also in this episode...
* The 1977 CBS Jeopardy! pilot
* Password Plus' frequently changing time slot
* Arte Johnson meets Bobby Riggs
Monday Jan 04, 2021
Monday Jan 04, 2021
When the worst shows of all-time are mentioned, The Ropers makes that list with frequency. Is it justified? We state our cases that it was an average show and that there are many shows worse, and we have covered a lot of them.
Saturday Jan 02, 2021
Saturday Jan 02, 2021
On this off-topic episode here on Podbean, Greg and Chico do a recap on the second season of The Mandalorian which recently finished on Disney+.
They discuss their favorite moments from Season 2 along with The Child's ..... let's just say taste in food.
Afterwards the duo then turns to recent developments in Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with WandaVision launching later this month.
Friday Jan 01, 2021
Friday Jan 01, 2021
Happy New Year! We're releasing the second of our two Director's Cut versions from Place to be Nation POP to start 2021 with a bang!
The SNL Doumanian Season Episode is presented with extended bits from the season to add proper context to the episode including the legendary Al Franken "Limo for the Lame-o" sketch.
Thursday Dec 31, 2020
Thursday Dec 31, 2020
We ring out what has been an absolute disaster of a year with a look at what was on TV in 2020, changes due to COVID, shows that ended in 2020, and those we lost in 2020, among other things. Here's to a great 2021!
Monday Dec 28, 2020
Monday Dec 28, 2020
Over two years, The Morton Downey Jr. Show took the nation by storm. It was all over by Fall 1989, maybe because it was too controversial but also because the new late night show on the block at the time also took the nation by storm, The Arsenio Hall Show.
Friday Dec 25, 2020
Friday Dec 25, 2020
For Christmas/New Year's we're releasing as our present to you the Director's Cut versions of two of our more popular episodes originally released on the Place to be Nation POP version for the first time on our regular feed.
We start with Herb Abrams' Universal Wrestling Federation as we look at a time when old Herb tried to insert himself into an angle along with a special eBay Price is Right in the Director's Cut segments.