Tomorrow is Valentine's Day and we're talking about a real-life finder of lost loves, who became the main character in this drama from 1984-5. The series is loaded with guest stars, which is unsurprising since this was an Aaron Spelling production.
Valentine's Day is around the corner and we know all the single ladies out there want to know the secrets of finding that dream date. This VHS tape from 1984, How to Pick Up Men, has all the answers to getting the man of your dreams. It involves a dog named Boaz, not knowing where the post office is, and asking supermarket cashiers when the most single men shop. Plus flirt, flirt, flirt! Full video on YouTube courtesy of the Oddity Archive. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWIO8d31E4M...
In this year's "big game," for the first time, we have a set of brothers playing against each other for a title. Ten years earlier, we had a set of brothers coaching against each other for a title. What was a great battle that came down to the end was overshadowed by a lengthy power outage.
Originally recorded back in Thanksgiving of 2021, it's the final edition of our Director's Cuts that we released over at the Place to be Nation POP Experience with over 20 minutes of new material not in the original cut. We bring you this special Director's Cut of the 1985 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade which features Mike ranting about Your Numbers Up being preempted, a Cabbage Patch Kids commercial with Estelle Harris and a poster involving former New York Jets QB Ken O'Brien? OH NEAT!...
We're nearing The Big Game and we're talking about a made-for-TV movie about a serial killer who takes out people associated with the two teams playing for it all. A star-studded cast struggles to make it to Super Sunday in the 1978 flick Superdome.
Imagine you were on a show with your ex, playing anchors on a sports program. It happened here with Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal. They were truly Good Sports about this short-lived entry from 1991.
Free Spirit got its first exposure on the premiere of the TGIF block. It was then placed on another night, where it was replaced by a show which has been on for over 30 years. Was this show with a witch cursed? Possibly. But it gave us one of our favorites, Alyson Hannigan.
A comedy starring Dom DeLuise and created, in part, by Carl Reiner? Sounds like a winner to us! But it's going up against a strong police procedural and a stalwart from the early days of television? All we say is Lotsa Luck!
Last year we covered the 49ers and Cowboys in the Nickelodeon Wild Card game with an ending that had us all like WTF? This year we came back to watch the rematch as both teams faced off with a trip to the NFC Championship Game on the line.
One of the most beloved games of the late 70s through the mid-80s was Tic Tac Dough. The show had lives before and after that halcyon period. Unfortunately, it was rigged, hosted by an imbecile, then hosted by a bigger imbecile, and recently went to pilot, but did not get picked up.
After the highs of Star Trek IV, Harve Bennett turned to another member of the Star Trek cast to try his hand at the directing chair. Surely with Captain Kirk at the helm, Star Trek V would reach even higher profits at the box office right? Yeah, about that .......... Greg and Chico try to take a look at went wrong and try to answer what does God need with a starship?
Greg saw this commercial one day and felt it was deserving of a minisode. Did you ever feel the Metaverse deserved it's own law firm? We didn't either. You can view the commercial at this link. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmDaT1hnDlw
Chico's birthday is coming up and he's playing his Money in the Bank on this gem from the 1980s with twins. One is good and the other is troublesome...at least in the first season. Also, Greg comes up with an idea for a prequel for Jake and the Fatman.
Recorded on Monday on Stream Lounge, Greg records this special live episode of It Was a Thing on TV Presents discussing big things in his life over the last week while watching an old WWF Boston Garden House Show from 1986 on Peacock. Link to the episode of WWE Old School on Peacock to follow along with Greg. - https://www.peacocktv.com/watch/playback/vod/GMO_00000000381023_01/78d1563a-8edf-34ca-87ae-0fb0182a6c32
Later this month, a long awaited reboot of Night Court will debut. In honor of the event, we are going back to a show which could be considered the inspiration for the original Night Court. Sirota's Court has a similar feel, but it only lasted several months in 1976 and 1977. There were reasons, including a controversial plot line and going up against the biggest miniseries ever.
There have been a variety of shows with puppets which have been successful--The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, ALF, Thunderbirds, and Fraggle Rock, to name a few. CBS tried their hand with a puppet-centric show with Scorch, about a dragon who slept for 100 years before waking up in 1992 Connecticut.
January 4 was National Trivia Day. In honor of the event, we look at a Japanese show which made the translation to American television about weird and wonderful trivia. Give a listen to Hey! Spring of Trivia and there may be some melon bread in it for you, and the melon bread is shaped like a brain.
Today, New Japan Pro Wrestling has its annual January 4th supershow at the Tokyo Dome in Wrestle Kingdom 17. In celebration, Greg and Chico record their first live show with Peacock as they look at WCW Starrcade 1995, which features New Japan taking on World Championship Wrestling in the World Cup of Wrestling! Also, Sting, Lex Luger and Ric Flair battle in a triangle match, with the winner meeting the Macho Man for the WCW championship in the main event! This show is, so action-packed you may n...
40 years ago today (the day this episode became available), there were four landmark events on daytime television in a two-hour span. Three game shows (Sale of the Century, Hit Man, and Just Men!) premiered and what is undoubtedly The Price is Right's most famous pricing game, Plinko, debuted.
In the second part of our year-end special, we start with shows which ended in 2022, then wrap up the year with the people we lost over the course of the year, starting at the 9:05 mark.
Another annual end-of-year tradition for this podcast is to look at the happenings on television for the year. It's such a big review that it's broken up into 2 parts. 1:55 The worst of 2022 1:09:59 The top TV stories of 2022 1:52:11 Our favorite shows of 2022
What started in 1985 as a popular Christmas toy tradition at a midwest department store, Santabear became so popular that two years later, CBS gave him his own primetime special on Christmas Eve 1987. Santabear must help the residents of the South Pole discover the magic of Christmas while facing off with Santa's former helper Bullybear. With the help of a lady bear named Missy, Santabear goes on a high flying adventure to save Christmas for everyone before Bullybear can destroy all the presents...
In 2019, we introduced you to Charles Stiles and his show Mystery Diners. As an early Christmas gift to you, we're revisiting the world of Mystery Diners by looking at 15 more installments of one of our favorite series. Sorry, no more drones. We have a roller cam this time!
We have brought you shows on Hulk Hogan commercials, Ric Flair commercials, and three separate installments of Hometown Commercials. Our early Christmas present to you is a look at ads for something everybody wanted under the tree from 1979 to 1982--the Atari 2600 VCS, and games for the system. Atari 2600 Commercial (December, 1977) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJNbhekKShI Atari VCS Commercial with Pete Rose, Pele and Don Knotts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs34_7_kC64 Atari VCS Commer...
When a character in a series is popular, networks want to ride that character's popularity as long as possible. When ABC canceled Three's Company, the network retained Jack Tripper, but placed him in a new series with a new love...and her father. Hilarity tried to ensue.
Traditional daytime TV shows were on the decline in the early 1990s, in an era ushered by Maury Povich, Jerry Springer, and Jenny Jones. The Joker's Wild in 1990 tried to rejuvenate a show which showed its age in the mid-80s, in an era where it was handily beaten by Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! The core of the game drastically changed but kind of reverted to its original format, but it was too late.
The Facts of Life is one of NBC's big hits from the 1980s and a true sitcom classic. But there was a time where not only was it unbelievably different, it was in danger of being canceled after the first four episodes! Join the guys as they talk about the first season and how & why half of the cast were forced out of Eastland Academy.
Discussed back in Episode 16, Greg and Chico give The Star Wars Holiday Special it's due by revisiting it in a special live show. We cover everything from Itchy's holographic boner to Art Carney to Jefferson Starship to the Boba Fett cartoon. We even cover that Flying High commercial where Pam had that great layover with Bobby Sherman! May the Force be with you and Happy Life Day! Video to follow along (sync to 0:48 and pause before Greg gives the five second countdown) - https://www.youtube.com...
It's 1985 and ABC wants to capitalize on Cagney & Lacey and Hill Street Blues, which were big hits on other networks...but let's make them married! MacGruder and Loud premiered after "The Big Game" in 1985, but barely made it to Spring 1985.
Reg Grundy was on a hot streak in the mid-1980s with Sale of the Century and Scrabble. (See what we did there?) NBC took a chance on a third Grundy show, which was a blatant ripoff of The Price is Right with history. After 16 weeks, 2 different formats, and 3 versions of the final round, this show, like its subject matter, became history. But we did get John Davidson's first game show hosting gig.
