It Was a Thing on TV: An Anthology on Forgotten Television

The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 3 - WWF St. Valentine's Day Massacre

With love having recently been in the air Greg and Dane go back to 1999 and head to MEMAPHIS TENANASEE! for WWF St. Valentine's Day Massacre as Stone Cold and Mr. McMahon battle in a steel cage match for the WrestleMania XV title shot.

Among some of the things discussed are Ken Shamrock's beef with Val Venis over his sister, the birth of Hardcore Holly, Corporation vs. Ministry shenanigans, and Ivory with that damn scarf.

Episode 541--When Things Were Rotten Revisited

We first talked about this series 472 episodes ago.  (Do the math.)  We felt it was worth a revisit since it can now be seen every Saturday night on Catchy Comedy.

In short, this show is the beta version of Robin Hood: Men in Tights, also from the brilliant mind of Mel Brooks.  It couldn't be too bad since it has rerun on A&E, TV Land, Decades, and now Catchy Comedy.  Thus, When Things Were Rotten is hardly a thing that is rotten.

Episode 540--On Our Own (1994)

In a podcast first, we found a premise so flimsy that it almost broke the three of us...and this was deemed as okay to air during the family hour (and later on TGIF) on ABC?!  This was a vehicle for the Smolletts, six kids in all, including that one.  The less said about this train wreck, the better.

Episode 539--Lime Street

As a belated tribute to Robert Wagner's 85th birthday, this installment covers a show which ran for a short period of time on ABC, and later shown in full on Lifetime.  Beyond the regular struggles involving viewership, Lime Street also suffered a tragedy involving one of the cast members before debuting, unrelated to the show itself.  

Episode 538--Me and the Boys

Steve Harvey’s a big deal nowadays, but even he had humble beginnings. Take this story of Steve as a widower balancing a 90s video store & three boys with the help of his mother-in-law. Entertaining as it was, time slots were not kind for “Me and the Boys”

The Squared Circle Time Machine: Episode 2 - The First NWA-TNA PPV from 2002

Greg and Dane return for Episode 2 of The Squared Circle Time Machine where they look back at the birth of TNA when it was part of the National Wrestling Alliance back in 2002 with their first weekly Pay-Per-View.

Among the topics discussed Jeff Jarrett, Scott Hall, Jackie Fargo, Don West, Flying Elvises and a pair of Wrestling Johnson's. But please make sure we don't forget about Konnan!

Episode 537--The New Odd Couple

As we have said time and time again, a good format for a TV show never really dies, it goes away for a time and returns with a new twist.  In this case, the timeless Neil Simon play The Odd Couple went from the Broadway stage to the big screen, then to the small screen with Tony Randall and Jack Klugman.  Less than a decade later, it returned in this form, with Ron Glass and Demond Wilson playing the lead roles.

Minisode 34–The Silent Minute at Super Bowl XX

Before you gear up to watch the seemingly twenty-hour pregame show on "Super Sunday" we look back to 1986 when NBC decided to kill some time during the pregame of Super Bowl XX by literally showing nothing but a black screen for an entire minute!

Episode 536--The World Football League

Our lead-up to "The Big Game" continues with this look at a mid-70s competitor to the NFL, a league which actually got big names to join its league.  Like start-up competitors from the past and the future, the league had a very short life for a number of reasons, one of which is not the dickerod.

Episode 535--The Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon

"The Big Game" is coming up this Sunday.  By coincidence, this installment is about a Disney made-for-TV movie centered around one of this year's "Big Game" participants, the Philadelphia Eagles.  What happens when Tony Danza goes from being a garbageman to the team's place kicker?  It's an ending only Hollywood could write in more ways than one.