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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.
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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.

Monday Oct 30, 2023
Episode 423–Gracepoint
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Monday Oct 30, 2023
We start our celebration of the 60th Anniversary of Doctor Who by looking at this American adaptation of "Broadchurch". Adapted from the ITV drama created by future Doctor Who EP Chris Chibnall the American version brought back the Tenth Doctor himself David Tennant in the lead role. Did this limited event series find an audience on FOX in 2014 or was it another victim of Lost in Translation?