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Partially an oral history of obscure TV shows, partially an oral version of MST3K, and partially a thorough episode guide, It Was a Thing on TV is an anthology podcast about obscure, forgotten, and odd TV shows, commercials, televised events, and almost anyone and anything else that was on television. For the most part, the subjects we cover are from the United States and Canada. We’re just three guys with a love for television. New episodes are generally every Monday and Thursday, sometimes more often.
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Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
It Was a Thing on TV Instant Reaction--Doctor Who: The Star Beast
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
The first of the three Doctor Who specials for the 60th Anniversary aired on the BBC and Disney+ this past weekend. Chico watched the first of the specials and pops on in this Instant Reaction about the return of David Tennant and Catherine Tate to the TARDIS. Did RTD's first episode back as Executive Producer of Doctor Who recapture the magic from his first stint? You'll have to listen to find out. Meep, Meep.

Monday Nov 27, 2023
Episode 431--Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Monday Nov 27, 2023
We cap our celebration of the Doctor Who 60th anniversary with a look at “The Curse of Fatal Death”, a Red Nose Day special from 1999. The Doctor’s looking to settle down but can’t stop regenerating, the Master is rebuilt with Dalek spare parts, and it’s all going down on a planet with a special form of communication. The BBC got some amazing talent for this one-off that foresaw a lot of things.

Thursday Nov 23, 2023
Minisode 29--Leon Lett’s Thanksgiving ’93 blunder
Thursday Nov 23, 2023
Thursday Nov 23, 2023
We hope you have enjoyed your Thanksgiving as you prepare to watch some Thanksgiving night football. Thirty Thanksgivings ago, Leon Lett committed one of the most boneheaded plays in NFL history. Oddly enough, less than a year earlier, Lett previously committed another one of the most boneheaded plays in NFL history, on the biggest stage of them all.

Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Episode 430--The 1982 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
The holiday tradition at the podcast now starts its trek going back in time, starting with the 1982 edition of The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. How does it compare to what we have seen from later in the 80s and why are so many kids expressing their emotions?

Monday Nov 20, 2023
Episode 429–The 1987 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Monday Nov 20, 2023
It's an It Was a Thing on TV tradition like no other. Every year since 2019, we have looked at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in chronological order, starting with the 1983 parade. We're up to the 1987 parade. What characters will star in this parade? What products will advertisers shove down our throats? And did Charlie Brown ever get a growth spurt!

Thursday Nov 16, 2023
Episode 428--The missing episodes of Doctor Who
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
"Doctor Who" has had a storied history these past 60 years, but thanks to the economics of television at the time, it - much like that of any TV show at the time - is sketchy at best. But recently, the BBC has ramped up efforts to find and restore episodes long lost to tape wiping by any means necessary. We look at how this piece of TV history is being preserved and what is still missing media.

Monday Nov 13, 2023
Episode 427--Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Monday Nov 13, 2023
By the mid 1980s, Doctor Who had emerged as one of the BBC’s longest-running brands, but even then it was getting long in the tooth. In 1986, they tried something big - a season-long arc, resulting in “The Trial of a Time Lord”. Will the Doctor be brought to justice? Will audiences be brought to watch?

Thursday Nov 09, 2023
Episode 426--Time Express
Thursday Nov 09, 2023
Thursday Nov 09, 2023
Vincent Price wanted to bring Doctor Who to the States, with an American version. When that failed, he decided to make his own version aboard a train. Time Express was a limited series, starting while Supertrain was still airing. Both shows got derailed in May 1979.

Monday Nov 06, 2023
Episode 425--The Stranger
Monday Nov 06, 2023
Monday Nov 06, 2023
Doctor Who was an instantaneous sensation that, in 1964, the ABC in Australia commissioned a show similar to yet different from The Doctor. Thought to be lost for decades, The Stranger found its way to the Internet in 2019. Judge for yourself as we continue our tribute to the Doctor's 60th anniversary.

Thursday Nov 02, 2023
Episode 424–Class
Thursday Nov 02, 2023
Thursday Nov 02, 2023
Our tribute to Doctor Who continues with an entry that picks up where it all began. Join the students of Coal Hill Academy as they team up with an alien prince and the teacher/warlord he’s psychically tethered to as they protect the school from otherworldly threats for all of 8 episodes. “Class” is in session.