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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 September 2025: 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. More podcasts may come in the future.
Episodes

2 days ago
2 days ago
In honor of the 4th of July, we take a look at the go-home show for Georgia Championship Wrestling on SuperStation WTBS, before their big 4th of July show at the Omni in Atlanta. In this episode, we get to see Tommy Rich, Don Muraco. Paul Orndorff, Ole Anderson and Stan Hansen among others.
We also get to see Gordon Solie conduct a face-to-face interview with NWA Champion Ric Flair and WWWF Champion Bob Backlund before their big Champion vs. Champion match at the Omni show.
As if that wasn't enough, Greg and Dane also have fun watching all the 1982 commercials during the show. Just be sure you don't have to call a different number in New Jersey when ordering.
This episode of Georgia Championship Wrestling is available to watch on YouTube thanks to the Retro Wrestling Archive at this link. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnIVfvwQSB8

3 days ago
Episode 567--Goodnight Beantown
3 days ago
3 days ago
This time, we look at another anomaly that got cancelled despite good ratings like Bridget Loves Bernie. Maybe CBS cooked Goodnight Beantown because the network wanted to go a different route on Sunday nights. Maybe a single mother having relations with her neighbor/co-worker was a bit too much. Maybe it's because the penultimate episode ruined sexual tension between the two main characters. There is no definitive answer in our research.

6 days ago
6 days ago
In our newest edition of "Before the Show", we look at the Italian Bowl in Toledo and a hurdler having multiple wardrobe malfunctions in Segment 1.
Then, in Segment 2, we are joined by Chico as we discuss the lack of ticket sales of Hulk Hogan's Real American Wrestling at Cleveland State, along with an update on Greg's progress on "Knots Landing", before talking about the selection of movies on Bounce.

Thursday Jun 26, 2025
Episode 566--The Popcorn Kid
Thursday Jun 26, 2025
Thursday Jun 26, 2025
Summer movie season is upon us. This installment, we look at a very short-lived comedy about an old time movie theater and its cast of high school-aged workers, specifically one employee who dreams of making it big in the movies one day. The show died a quick death, in part, because it aired, ironically, on a day when many people go to the movies.

Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Episode 565--Charles in Charge, Season 1
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
First-run syndication in the 1980s was a blessing for numerous sitcoms that might not have gotten a fair shake from the networks--Too Close for Comfort, Mama's Family, Out of This World. Charles in Charge had a similar fate. It didn't find enough eyes on CBS, but give it a year and a half, and it would become a comedy staple of the late 80s and early 90s. Alas, Jamie Widdoes did not make it to the successful syndicated run.

Thursday Jun 12, 2025
Episode 564--Temperatures Rising
Thursday Jun 12, 2025
Thursday Jun 12, 2025
We celebrate the 99th anniversary of Paul Lynde's birth with this effort from the early 70s. (Lynde didn't join the cast until season 2.) Hospital hijinks happen with a wacky staff of nurses and orderlies working under a no-nonsense chief of staff. ABC must have had faith in the show, despite getting beaten in the ratings by multiple top 10 shows in its run.

Tuesday Jun 10, 2025
The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 14 - WCW Monday Nitro 10.02.95
Tuesday Jun 10, 2025
Tuesday Jun 10, 2025
In honor of the late Steve "Mongo" McMichael and since the official WCW YouTube channel has posted some of the early Nitro's, Greg and Dane look at the fifth episode of WCW Monday Nitro from October of 1995.
We go over Eddie Guerrero and Dean Malenko being so amazing, Kevin Sullivan dressed as a women, Randy Savage's colorful outfits and the Dungeon of Doom shaving off the Hulkster's mustache, brother!
Get on a wild ride on The Squared Circle Time Machine.

Thursday Jun 05, 2025
Episode 563--Shangri-La Plaza
Thursday Jun 05, 2025
Thursday Jun 05, 2025
Pilot Month 2025 comes to a conclusion with this entry about a shopping plaza whose occupants communicate primarily through song and dance. It sounds like Cop Rock (see Episode 450), but with significantly more singing and music. The open may give off a different sort of vibe. Regardless, this oddity is the perfect way to close up the pilot vault for a year.

Tuesday Jun 03, 2025
The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 13 - AAA/IWC When Worlds Collide 1994
Tuesday Jun 03, 2025
Tuesday Jun 03, 2025
With AAA and WWE's NXT brand presenting "Worlds Collide" this week, we look at the last time AAA presented a PPV/PLE with that title, as in 1994, they partnered with IWC and WCW to present this PPV event.
Greg and Dane in this episode of "The Squared Circle Time Machine", talk about Minis, La Parka, Tito Santana still in his El Matador get-up, the greatness of Eddie Guerrero and Art Barr, and Konnan being a Mexican soap opera star?!

Sunday Jun 01, 2025
Announcement about the future of It Was a Thing on TV
Sunday Jun 01, 2025
Sunday Jun 01, 2025
Mike has some announcements about the future of the podcast. (No, we're not ending, at least now.) We hope you embrace some of the forthcoming changes to the podcast.