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Topic Started: Oct 25 2011, 05:12 PM (68,286 Views)
Mad Dog
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I keep telling myself I should include Primetime in my current watching. But I just can't make myself do it. The better matches would be nice but that show can just be a total chore some weeks.
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Mad Dog,May 29 2017
08:26 AM
The Ban the DDT angle was a fun romp while it lasted.

I don't remember this

Figure it must be Jale he snake, but who was trying to get it banned
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Mad Dog
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Honky Tonk Man was trying to get in banned after Wrestlemania 3 and the Jake match. Jimmy Hart would carry a sign around and they had fans write in to vote to ban it or not. The first weekend of June, the week before he won the IC belt, Jack Tunney announced it would not be banned.
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Now that you described it, I do remember Jimmy Hart with the sign

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Scrooge McSuck,May 31 2017
07:01 PM
As a follow-up to the Wrestling Challenge recap... I like Prime Time, but I'm not in love with it. The studio segments are, of course, the meat of the entertainment, but for most of the time (at least the first few years), it seemed like it belonged in a different universe, only occasionally promoting storylines.


Then we got the era where they mostly recycled the syndication shows with an occasional exclusive, and then we got to the live studio era which was just TNT without the serious talk-show host set-up, and finally, the table discussion, but the last 2 years are not fondly remembered for lack of Heenan/Monsoon. I personally enjoyed the campy nature and off-the-wall shenanigans of the live studio (Feb-October '91). Shows that Vince has a sense of humor.

I liked the round table discussion format. They'd advance angles and the "panelists" were usually allowed to let loose a bit. When they first switched to this format, it was unannounced and seemed like it was a last minute episode. Took me a few weeks to realize it was the new format.

The earlier "live" shows of 1991....meh. It was a little better than TNT, but it seemed there were quite a few embarrassing segments. I'm looking at the show-long plot of "How Do We Get This Pumpkin Off of Jamison's Head"? I remember my dad turning to me and saying: "this is stone stupid" (his ultimate put-down) and "why are we watching this?" Or when the Rockers were tasked with making Lord Alfred Hayes "Cool".

Fun stuff: LOD working as parking lot attendants, with Animal moving a car on his own. I recall a Mr. Perfect segment, circa May 1991, where he and Heenan kinda' took things over.

I preferred Sean Mooney as the "live" host, rather than Vince... in his jumpsuits and constant over-selling and over-announcing. I hated Mooney, back then, but he really had a better grasp for live hosting with his deadpan demeanor. Very good straight man for the situation.

But yeah...the 1986 stuff? Torture, at times. When they re-run the same Lanny Poffo match within a month, then dust off random crap (and I mean CRAP) from 2 years ago... bleh.
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As much as I love PTW, I gotta admit 85&86 were rough years to say the least (Jack Reynolds anyone?) 87 onward though the show was for the most part watchable to me.
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The 1988 post-SummerSlam to Survivor Series PTW episodes were pretty awful, too. That's a period I absolutely dread. They replayed 7 of the 9 matches from SummerSlam as their "feature" for, yeah, almost two months.

I was a huge mark, at the time, and would get so excited to see (potentially) 3 "exclusive" non-jobber matches, per week. But all I'd see was maybe one match per week--- stuff like Jim Brunzell vs. Bad News Brown or Hillbilly Jim vs. King Haku. I remember a LOT of Dino Bravo matches, too.
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Speaking of putting PPV matches on TV immediately afterwards, I can only think of two other situations where it was done: the undercard matches from Tuesday in Texas were featured on episodes of Prime-Time, and then two of the matches from IYH December '95 were featured on Raw in slightly edited form (Bret/Bulldog and HOG/Hunter).


To pull a Tim McCarver, as good as the weekly TV for the WWF was in the first half of '88, it was almost as bad in the second half. Seemed like a lot of coasting, lack of direction, and then Prime-Time was in a weak streak of giving fresh content, unless you loved watching Dino Bravo or Ken Patera matches.
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Scrooge McSuck
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I'm still combing through episodes of Superstars from 1995, and this particular nugget is from the December 2nd episode: Vince McMahon, out of character, does a lengthy commentary on Phil Mushnick, and his "journalistic stalking" seeking a story rather than looking for the truth. It only runs 5:00, but that seems like an eternity when you factor in at the time, all the live event segments timed in at 2 1/2 minutes, and that includes not only the studio host, but promo time from multiple performers.


It's still cheesy, but the "Tell Me a Lie" music video for Shawn was a pretty solid attempt for sympathy... too bad they neutered his character once he got the belt (see also: Diesel).
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Mad Dog
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FYI everyone, the USWA is on Amazon Prime. Like 100s of hours of footage.
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Gotta love Texas, where beating up women is a weekly event on TV.
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Mad Dog,Jun 5 2017
01:18 PM
FYI everyone, the USWA is on Amazon Prime. Like 100s of hours of footage.

I'm surprised Vince hasn't bought that library yet.
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I think the ownership mess is what prevents it. Lawler owns some of it, but not all of it.
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I think Cornette just by virtue of having tapes owns some of it by now. You can actually get almost all of Memphis from 79-95 on DVD from a website.
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The USWA stuff on Amazon is a little confusing. It's almost like they're jumping between the Memphis and Texas stuff depending on the week. What makes it really tough is several guys are working both promotions.
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