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In the twentith episode of Making Mt. Rushmore, panelists Greg Diener, Steve Riddle & Calvin Crowell join moderator/panelist Andy Atherton to discuss which TV Dads deserve a place as on their respective lists. Is Mike Brady a no-brainer? What about Danny Tanner? Will Carl Winslow grab a spot? Does Uncle Phil or Homer Simpson deserve a place? After that, they discuss which Movie Dads will be part of that grouping. Can you argue that the Clark Griswold shouldn’t get a spot? Will Jim’s Dad be included? Is Mufasa in the conversation? What about Bryan Mills & Daniel Hillard?

Welcome to PTBN Trivia Night, Place To Be Nation Pop’s first ever trivia game show! In our third of three semi-final matchups, Greg Diener, Ashley Cruse & J Arsenio D'Amato face off to see which one of them will earn a spot in our championship game.
Settle in and play along to see if you have what it takes to be a contestant on a future episode of PTBN Trivia Night!

This week on It Was a Thing on TV every answer to every question is right here before your eyes brother.
 
First, Now You See It is another beloved Goodson-Todman classic that doesn't get enough credit, partially due to a year run, then a 15-week return fourteen years later.  But OMG, those sets, those hosts, and that music.  We also talk about the 1985 pilot hosted by Jack Clark.
 
Then, put Hulkamania in a Baywatch setting with a boat like KITT but also like the TARDIS and it will bring the viewers!  But it didn't.  Thunder in Paradise lasted one season, but it ran long enough or was popular enough to justify a CD-i game.  If you listen to nothing else, listen to the last 15 minutes  about what happened to the boat.
 
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The NBA Playoffs are in the 2nd Round and Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation’s NBA-Team, will preview each of the four second-round matchups. So suit up and take it out with the NBA-Team!

On the 12th episode of Blockbuster Rewind, cohosts Eric Eells and Scott Shifflett are joined by Scott Criscuolo and Jennifer Smith as they discuss the first 4 films of the long running Friday the 13th franchise. They go through each of the films and go over their own history with the series, the first films origins, the greatness of makeup artist Tom Savini; The cliché teen characters and their level of horniness; the sequels & their odd continuity; every kill and then rank their favorite for each film covered.

It Was a Thing on TV brings you a special pair of live shows here on the PTBN Pop Experience.
 
First, Press Your Luck is back for another season and just like last year we're doing a special live show for the start of Season 3. Enjoy as we finally learn just what the heck a Flokati Rug is, what we'd do with a hot dog cart and figure out why Dan O'Toole did an awkward run-in on our live show thanks to Greg hitting the wrong button on his phone.
 
Then, a week and a half before the official series premiere of The Cube, all three of us watched a sneak peek episode after TNT's coverage of the NBA playoffs.  Going in, at least one of us had high expectations for this much anticipated series.  Were we left fulfilled after the show?  Enjoy the first episode of this long-running UK series.

On episode 9 of Battlestar in the 25th Century, Shawn and Scott live watch Battlestar Galactica episode 6, “The Lost Warrior”. Topics include Adama’s continued lack of concern for family and alcoholism, Shawn’s ridiculous 70s & 80s actors call outs, Space Boss Hogg, Space Tombstone, Apollo’s need to be needed by widows with children, Space Poker, smoking in front of children, a “Red Eye” with a Concussion and more!

On the fifteenth installment of the Pop Goes The Classics series looking at the Disney animated features, Andy Atherton, Steve Riddle & Mirandia Berthold look at 1967’s The Jungle Book. They discuss the many aspects of the film including: new and different setting of India; the fear Shere Kahn instills in the animals of the jungle; the secondary villain Kaa; Col. Haithi’s ranks; the relationship between Bagheera & Baloo; King Louis going from friend to foe; “The Bare Necessities” & the brave and selfless acts of the protagonists do to keep Mowgli safe.

This week on It Was a Thing on TV we have a man who turns into a dog and Simon MacCorkindale and no it does not involve Manimal!
 
First, Greg uses his Money in the Bank pick on this sequel to The Shaggy Dog, which aired on ABC in 1987 as part of The Disney Sunday Movie. In this sequel to the Disney classic we learn some things like can dogs wear pajamas?
 
Then, usually we do not cover shows that ran as long as this one.  (Hello, Charles Stiles Mystery Diners.)  We could not avoid this show because of its two leads--the legendary Christopher Plummer and It Was a Thing on TV favorite Simon MacCorkindale.
 
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Pop Goes To The Couch concludes their coverage of the streaming series, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers. In the tenth and final installment, James Gruenberg, J Arsenio D’Amato & Greg Diener review and break down Season 1 Episode 10 “State Of Play”. In this spoiler-filled discussion they go over the plot elements, favorite moments and predict what they think may happen if there is a second season.

The second half of our end of season post-mortum on this season's most downtrodden teams (for their own reasons of course). In this half, we finish off Cleveland, Detroit, Oklahoma City, and Orlando. Each team, although not as bad as our two friends in the first half of this episode (MIN/HOU) they're all in different stages of their respective rebuilds.

In the nineteenth episode of Making Mt. Rushmore, panelists Steve Bennett & Calvin Crowell join moderator/panelist Andy Atherton to discuss which Summertime Songs deserve a place as on their respective lists. Is “Summertime” by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince a no-brainer? What about “Cruel Summer” by Bananarama? Will “Night Moves” by Bob Seger grab a spot? Does “School’s Out” by Alice Cooper or “Summer Girls” by LFO deserve a place? After that, they discuss which Road Trip Songs will be part of that grouping. Can you argue that the “Born To Be Wild” by Steppenwolf shouldn’t get a spot? Will “Go Your Own Way” by Fleetwood Mac be included? Is “Slow Ride” by Foghat the conversation? What about “Send Me On A Way” by Rusted Root & “Panama” By Van Halen?

Welcome to PTBN Trivia Night, Place To Be Nation Pop’s first ever trivia game show! In our second of three semi-final matchups, Calum McDougall, Robert Hawkins & Scott Criscuolo face off to see which one of them will earn a spot in our championship game.Settle in and play along to see if you have what it takes to be a contestant on a future episode of PTBN Trivia Night!

On this very special one year anniversary episode of Piece of the Action, Matt welcomes Shawn Kidd, Ben Locke, Jennifer Smith, and Logan Crosland to the show to live watch Die Hard with a Vengeance! Listen to Matt and the crew discuss Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Irons, Sting (the music one), garages, cicadas, The Lion King, bad mustaches, lemonade, cult leaders, and so much more! So be prepared to listen to the newest edition of Piece of the Action!  

This week on It Was a Thing on TV we are bringing you a variety of games from the roller rink to your touchtone phone at $4.95 a call.
 
First, it's the late 80s and action sports are big, like wrestling and American Gladiators.  Take roller derby and combine it with certain aspects of wrestling, then add a dash of rock and roll flair.  The result is 13 glorious episodes of the late 80s favorite RollerGames. 
 
Next, the mid-90s were a big period for game shows on cable, between Game Show Network's start, a possible Game Show Channel, and a foundation for that Game Show Channel--interactive game shows from Wink Martindale et al.  We look at the quartet of games which could be played at home on a telephone keypad.  Mike also shares his story about how he almost won some big prizes from one of those games.
 
Finally, everybody knows about the timeless Wheel of Fortune, but there was a show with that same title in the early 50s which had to do with rewarding good samaritans.
 
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