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Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. The James Bond movie franchise has so many great theme songs, so all of the songs this week are from one of the many films. On today’s episode, Scott Criscuolo is watching, “Skyfall” by Adele from 2012.

The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeumyOzKqgI

This week on It Was a Thing on TV we’re going 20 minutes into the future!

First, before this week’s episodes, we discuss the future of the podcast here on Place to be Nation POP and then discuss what’s to come in the coming year.

Then, we start by talking about one of the biggest pop culture sensations in the 1980s who was an omnipresent personality for the computer generation named Max Headroom.  Not only was Max Headroom a talk show host, a soda pitchman, and visible on different mediums in the latter half of the 80s, but this phenomenon even got a scripted television show which ran over two seasons, a show about a post-apocalyptic dystopia reminiscent of 1984.

Finally, in 1987, the signals of both WGN and WTTV in Chicago were overtaken by two brief unknown signals, both showing an unknown figure wearing a Max Headroom mask.  To this day, there are more answers than questions about these incidents:  Who did this?  How did they do it?  Why did they do it?  To this day, these brief interruptions remain one of the biggest mysteries to occur on U.S. broadcast television.

WMAQ Max Headroom Prank on Mark Giangreco - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KePTSntPRtM

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Timestamps

0:11 - Announcement

3:30 - Max Headroom (The TV Series)

1:06:00 - Max Headroom (The Piracy Incident)

Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. The James Bond movie franchise has so many great theme songs, so all of the songs this week are from one of the many films. On today’s episode, Steve Riddle is watching, “Diamonds Are Forever” by Shirley Bassey from 1971.

The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jboEolwHIIA 

Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. The James Bond movie franchise has so many great theme songs, so all of the songs this week are from one of the many films. On today’s episode, Andy Atherton is watching, “A View To A Kill” by Duran Duran from 1985.

The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp4CR2HcHLQ

As listeners may know, we love our Quinn Martin-produced shows.  In this episode, we go back to one of his earliest crime drama efforts, with a lead who would be the biggest movie star by the end of the 1970s.  Dan August had all the hallmarks of a great series, but there was one key item missing--viewership.  Come for Burt Reynolds and non-comedic Norman Fell, stay for an astounding number of quality guest stars.

Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. On today’s episode, Andy Atherton is watching “I’m Free” by Soup Dragons from 1990.

The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yljbcRu3tiU

On the ninth episode of Cartoons Of Our Youth, Andy Atherton welcomes Scott Shifflett to talk about one of his favorite cartoons, Rugrats. The guys talk about how the Rugrats characters are connected to each other; the great, but not-household name, voice actors; Angelica the mean girl; getting handcuffed together; the similarities it has with the Muppet Babies cartoon; Repter Bars; dark Rugrats theories; their favorite cereals and extravagant kid’s birthday parties before moving on to live watch the two episodes that Scott selected for them. The ones picked are S3 E12 “Cuffed/The Blizzard” & S3 E13 “Destination: Moon/Angelica’s Birthday”.

So grab a bowl of your favorite cereal, park yourself in front of the TV and join us for some great cartoons!

Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. On today’s episode, Steve Riddle is watching “Shake It Off” by Taylor Swift from 2014.

The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM

Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. On today’s episode, Andy Atherton is watching “Down By The Water” by PJ Harvey from 1995.

The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbq4G1TjKYg

Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. On today’s episode, Steve Riddle is watching “You Sang To Me” by Marc Anthony from 2000.

The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!

Marc Anthony - You Sang To Me (Video)