Week 4 of the Cure sees the WWF simultaneously build to two big shows with In Your House: Final Four and the ridiculously titled Thursday Raw Thursday Live, both announced for Week 7. With these two shows ready to set the table for Wrestlemania 13, we see the World Title scene muddled with all six people in the title hunt featured in a mass interview on Raw. Shotgun emanates from the Webster Hall, featuring Bret Hart v Mankind. And it all coincides with that evening's Super Bowl Superstars and four teams compete for the first (and last) annual Superstars Bowl.

The Cure for the Common Podcast makes its way to Texas for the 1997 Royal Rumble. Marvel at the neon cacti of Denim and Diamonds on Shotgun, be wowed by Stone Cold Steve Austin's amazing performance during the Royal Rumble match, and be shocked at just how quickly they set up February's In Your House PPV on Raw.

This week's episode of Shotgun may be one of the worst hours of wrestling ever televised. It includes a Todd Pettengill / Honky Tonk Man duet, and a fake sex tape that may out Sunny as a furry. (You can't make this stuff up.) Superstars and Raw fare better thanks to the first interview of the year from one of the greatest mic masters in the history of professional wrestling: the one and only Ahmed Johnson.

In the first of a 52-part series, Kellen Scrivens and Tom Hemmings review Week 1 of 1997 in the WWF. This episode features the debut of Shotgun Saturday Night from New York's Mirage Nightclub, along with coverage of Superstars and Monday Night Raw.