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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.
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"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.
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Greg and Dane are back with the first episode of their new wrestling podcast "The Squared Circle Time Machine" here on the IWATOTV Podcast feed. Greg and Dane look back at the first five Royal Rumble's and share some of their favorite memories including Ric Flair's epic title win in '92, Demolition going one-on-one to start the '89 Rumble, and lots and lots of stalling at the early Rumble's!
Just don't forget to put that cigarette out!
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It's hard to keep a good format down. A decade after the Robin Ward-helmed version of To Tell the Truth (see episode 139 for more), the show returned with a mix of old and new panelists, the tried-and-true format, but also a total of five hosts, including the pilots. A formidable reboot lasted 3/4 of a year in a time when game shows as a whole were a dying breed.
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Arcade games exploded onto the scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with several shows, animated or otherwise, airing on TV. Jump ahead to the 1990s and video games left the arcade, going to living rooms everywhere. One popular franchise, still popular to this day, was and is Mega Man, which had an animated show from the masters of adapting video games to television, Ruby-Spears, the minds behind cartoons like Pac-Man, Saturday Supercade, and Dragon's Lair.
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The show covered in this episode shares many of the same traits as episode 531, Bridget Loves Bernie--the trials and tribulations of an interfaith couple, the good ratings, but also the swift cancellation. Social mores changed quite a bit from 1972 to 1989, meaning this show didn't get the criticism from religious leaders. What happened? You'll have to dive into this heaping serving of Chicken Soup to find out.
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Falling in love and becoming a couple have long been a staple of television series. In 1972, CBS, after the overwhelming success of a controversial sitcom in All in the Family, added this show, another controversial entry which was about an interfaith relationship. Despite superb ratings, the series lasted one year due to said controversy.
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Chico's birthday is coming up and he chose this as his Money in the Bank. In 1982, NBC had an upstart sci-fi drama starring David Hasselhoff and a talking car. Fast forward 15 years and the franchise now had quintuple the vehicles, with quintuple the drivers. Do more talking cars mean more success? (We're covering it. There's your answer.)
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In our previous episode, episode 528, we covered one of the first shows on a new network, The WB. This time, we're covering one of the first shows on PAX in 1998, an adaptation of a Canadian board game about movies. The whole production had one major issue, one which led to the show's demise just over a month after its premiere.
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There were a lot of things happening with the wrestling on TV that Greg wanted to do an It Was a Thing on TV Presents to discuss them. But for this edition of presents, Greg brought along a guest as his pal Dane Woychuk comes on to talk about RAW on Netflix, NJPW Wrestle Kingdom, TNA's improved TV coverage in Canada, and AEW being AEW.
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When The WB started out, it had two hours on Wednesday night with three funny favorites, but there was a need for a fourth comedy. It needed something the pushed boundaries but also felt familiar. It needed something with gags and a storyline. The WB muscled up to the plate with this 13 episode and done wonder.
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Once upon a time, a television network aired a show about Snow White and Prince Charming living in comtemporary times, complete with a family and a magic mirror. Alas, the enemy in this fairy tale come true was the counter-programming and the absurd premise. After about a year, the show bit the poison apple and was sent to television heaven. The end.
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The military has long been a staple of comedic television, see The Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy, and M*A*S*H. In late 1976, NBC joined the fray with an insulting, caustic chief petty officer running the ship, portrayed by the most insulting and most caustic comedian playing the role.
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The 2nd Annual Pop-Tarts Bowl saw Iowa State defeat Miami in the last few moments but the real fun was just beginning. Game MVP Rocco Becht had to choose which three of the Pop-Tarts Bowl mascots would be cooked to be eaten. Mike and Greg came on following the game to give their live reaction to the cooking along with providing play-by-play to the end of the Bengals/Broncos game. Remember "FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS!"
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For the first time on the podcast, we look at a Hallmark Christmas movie. In this 2013 TV movie, Alicia Witt plays an NYC store owner who gets proposed to by the man of her dreams but when she's sent to the airport by herself to meet her family a series of accidents happen and hilarity ensues. Will she find love with the man she believes is her brother or will she stay with the snooty rich fiancee? I think you already know the answer to that question. Merry Christmas everybody!
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We're a few days away from Christmas and we thought it would be appropriate and timely to look at commercials for the must-have gift of 1989, an item celebrating its 35th birthday this year--the Nintendo Game Boy.Here are the commercials in this episode, with links:
Original GameBoy with Tetris - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-ej_8XBwmISuper GameBoy - https://youtu.be/50qlX1kF2VcDonkey Kong - https://youtu.be/s4dinHwO2nUSuper Mario Land - https://youtu.be/yyZ65k3vpSUTetris/Qix - https://youtu.be/VeLixGKaij4F1 Race with 4-Player Adapter (1991) - https://youtu.be/_PJZ6HipNxgOriginal GameBoy Commercial from Japan, Part 1 - https://youtu.be/Pe6tW69QAeQPart 2 - https://youtu.be/UkOk_E_3J0ESuper Mario Land/F1 Race/Tetris/Dr. Mario - https://youtu.be/6CgGwNJxhHsHave You Had Your Fun Today? - https://youtu.be/dDXJCf29cSEKirby’s Dream Land - https://youtu.be/_Z8ECstDtQgSuper Mario Land 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZm5cXRShO4Game Genie - https://youtu.be/osJkdIWgBFIYoshi - https://youtu.be/4ezEh-GP8doSpot/7up - https://youtu.be/HldFL4445WIZelda: Link’s Awakening - https://youtu.be/w4mdmeMuYo4Super Game Boy with The Wu-Tang Clan - https://youtu.be/9sfiTMybZTsDr. Mario - https://youtu.be/vS4RIOFhyL4Japanese Kirby Pinball Land - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzi9rWVo4soMario’s Picross - https://youtu.be/9DXjZ6UJpKkKirby Block Ball - https://youtu.be/xuK7xLJW--kPocket Monsters Red & Green - https://youtu.be/z4JeRKo3Rr4Pokemon Red & Blue - https://youtu.be/qzAo9HzOgtQGame Boy Camera - https://youtu.be/gYjU5nE9SbECastlevania Adventure - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjrFq2z9PXE
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