In the television landscape of 1998, there was a need for late night programming on FOX and other channels not part of The Big Three networks, something to fill the…
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In Your House Rewind #13
Welcome to this episode of In Your House, where we will be taking a weekly look at the classic In Your House PPV’s this week we cover In Your House…
It Was a Thing on TV: Episode 485 – The Dream Team vs. Angola at the 1992 Olympics
In 1988, the U.S. Men’s basketball team finished with a disappointing bronze medal, after having won the gold in almost every other previous Olympiad. For that reason or because some…
It Was a Thing on TV: Episode 484 – Oddities at the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
As the Olympic Games are ready to start in Paris, the podcast will devote the next two episodes to happenings in previous years. We start where each Olympics start–the opening…
It Was a Thing on TV: Episode 483 – Viva Laughlin
We put closure on this installment of Marvel month celebrating the release of “Deadpool & Wolverine” with a show that has been described not only as one of the worst…
It Was a Thing on TV: Episode 482 – Don’t
As we continue our Deadpool and Wolverine month, we cover a recent show which rewarded participants for not doing stuff, though they really were doing stuff in a backwards way. Despite a…
It Was a Thing on TV: Episode 481 – We The People 200: The Constitution Parade
Every year when we celebrate the United States’ birthday, we offer up a patriotic show. This Independence Day is no different, except the event covered in this episode happened in…
It Was a Thing on TV: Episode 480 – Two Guys, A Girl, and a Pizza Place, the two seasons with the titular pizza place
Under normal circumstances, a popular show which lasted 4 seasons would not be fodder for this podcast. For our Marvel shows leading up to the release of Deadpool & Wolverine, we’re…
It Was a Thing on TV: Episode 479 – Fifteen
We begin our salute to the upcoming release of Deadpool & Wolverine with a show so bad it almost made Deadpool quit acting altogether. Imagine a run of the mill…
It Was a Thing on TV: Episodes 477 & 478 – The Girl With Something Extra/That Puppet Game Show
This week on It Was a Thing on TV First, in the past, we have talked about the ESP fad in the 60s through the early 80s. A 1973 comedy…
