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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”

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!

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.

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!

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.

"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.

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!

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.

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.

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.