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WWF Tuesday Night Titans

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Back in the mid 80's there was a show on the usa network

called tuesday night titans produced by the WWF.

It was hosted by Vince McMahon and Lord Alfred Hayes.

It was on tuesdays until 1986 when it moved to Fridays

and hosted by Gene Okerlund.

I was too young to see it myself

but what was the whole point of it anyway ?

Was it McMahon trying to auditon to be the new host of

The Tonight show at the time ?
 
I didn't have cable at that time but it seems to have been better than that in-studio crap they pulled with "Prime Time Wrestling" around 1991. Speaking of which, did WWE ever put out a DVD of this stuff? Better yet, do they ever run any of it on their WWE 24/7 channel? (My cable system here in New Britain, CT doesn't carry it.)
 
Basically it was a talk show format kind of show that was hosted by VKM and Lord Alfred Hayes. It would feature a couple of wrestlers coming on, doing a skit (like the hillbillies doing some hill billy kind of thing), and then have on a side show kind of guest. Even back in the mid-80's, VKM was trying to put the E (entertainment) in the WWF. Don't get me wrong, it was a great show. It would put the wrestlers in odd positions and I suppose in the long run it made them work on there skills behind the mic. My favorites from the show was:

Fuji Vice
Bobby Heenan Fan Club
Jamison


Oddly enough Fuji Vice is offered on the WWE Jukebox this month, bunch of other good stuff

http://www.wwe.com/subscriptions/jukebox/the1980s/

Plus this month has a match featuring Canada's greatest athlete, Iron Mike Sharpe. Seems like a gold mine this month on the jukebox




> Back in the mid 80's there was a show on the usa network
>
> called tuesday night titans produced by the WWF.
>
> It was hosted by Vince McMahon and Lord Alfred Hayes.
>
> It was on tuesdays until 1986 when it moved to Fridays
>
> and hosted by Gene Okerlund.
>
> I was too young to see it myself
>
> but what was the whole point of it anyway ?
>
> Was it McMahon trying to auditon to be the new host of
>
> The Tonight show at the time ?
>
 
...of course, it was basically revived a few years later when "The Bobby Heenan Show" popped up at the end of "Prime Time Wrestling" cablecasts circa '89. Problem (for McMahon) was, Heenan did the format better than McMahon did, and started getting consistently bigger audiences than the main part of the show did (with McMahon doing hold-by-hold commentary on the matches). The ratings actually spiked upward for that last half hour of the package. McMahon cancelled the thing after about six or seven weeks purely to save himself the embarrassment of having created his own Frankenstein's Monster...<P ID="signature">______________
King Daevid MacKenzie
WLSU Wisconsin Public Radio, La Crosse
heard weekly on http://whiterosesociety.org
"Kill Ugly Radio." FRANK ZAPPA</P>
 
Bobby Heenan rules! Although I hated Gorilla Monsoon's on-air style of only liking "babyface" (good guy) wrestlers, looking back on it, now that he's no longer with us, Heenan and Robert "Gorilla Monsoon" Marella (his son was referee Joey Marella) were undoubtedly the best on-air broadcast team the WWF/E has ever had. Jesse Ventura made things interesting for sure, but I still think they were the best. I still have a few old pay-per-views and episodes of "WWF Wrestling Challenge" from the early 1990s in my collection (kept on tape because I was at said TV taping). Watching Bobby Heenan's recent recovery from throat cancer makes you appreciate their work even more.

(R.I.P. Gorilla Monsoon)
 
> I didn't have cable at that time but it seems to have been
> better than that in-studio crap they pulled with "Prime Time
> Wrestling" around 1991. Speaking of which, did WWE ever put
> out a DVD of this stuff? Better yet, do they ever run any of
> it on their WWE 24/7 channel? (My cable system here in New
> Britain, CT doesn't carry it.)
>

Some segments from Tuesday Night Titans and The Bobby Heenan Show are on the DVD re-releases of the old Coliseum Video VHS compilations, but they were never released (and probably never will be due to royalty issues) in their full form.
 
> Bobby Heenan rules! Although I hated Gorilla Monsoon's
> on-air style of only liking "babyface" (good guy) wrestlers,
> looking back on it, now that he's no longer with us, Heenan
> and Robert "Gorilla Monsoon" Marella (his son was referee
> Joey Marella) were undoubtedly the best on-air broadcast
> team the WWF/E has ever had. Jesse Ventura made things
> interesting for sure, but I still think they were the best.
> I still have a few old pay-per-views and episodes of "WWF
> Wrestling Challenge" from the early 1990s in my collection
> (kept on tape because I was at said TV taping). Watching
> Bobby Heenan's recent recovery from throat cancer makes you
> appreciate their work even more.
>
> (R.I.P. Gorilla Monsoon)
>


I've always loved the pairing of Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler (adding Jonathan Coachman has proven to be a great annoyance, IMO), but even they come in second to Heenan and Monsoon. How Gorilla was able to keep his composure and a straight face whenever Heenan would say something totally outrageous is beyond me.
 
> Some segments from Tuesday Night Titans and The Bobby Heenan
> Show are on the DVD re-releases of the old Coliseum Video
> VHS compilations, but they were never released (and probably
> never will be due to royalty issues) in their full form.


I had forgotten just how funny and silly (in a good way) that stuff could be until recently when WWE paid tribute to Lord Alfred Hayes. They aired a segment from TNT with Lanny Poffo (in his "The Genius" gimmick) reading a tribute poem about Hayes. Classic stuff indeed.
 
> Bobby Heenan rules! Although I hated Gorilla Monsoon's
> on-air style of only liking "babyface" (good guy) wrestlers,
> looking back on it, now that he's no longer with us, Heenan
> and Robert "Gorilla Monsoon" Marella (his son was referee
> Joey Marella) were undoubtedly the best on-air broadcast
> team the WWF/E has ever had.
>
Oh man! You couldn't be more right on! Monsoon/Heenan were a great combo! When Monsoon would call Heenan, "A walking advertisement for birth control", that kind of stuff was classic! I particularly remember once when Heenan stormed off the set and Monsoon said, "Fine! get outa here! And don't slam the door on your way out!" So Monsoon goes on to call the match as Heenan leaves, and in the background you hear a door slamming. Stupid, but brilliant at the same time.

Oh, and about TNT, Fuji Vice was hilarious.
 
The purpose of "Tuesday Night Titans" was to promote upcoming WWF (now WWE) live cards and television programs (I think back then, they had only started doing pay-per-veiws, and did only three a year).

I always thought the interviews were the best part of televised rassling! They were often far more entertaining than the matches themselves.
 
Well far more exciting then the matches back then, which usually was Star against lowly guy, over and over for an hour or 2. Miss those matches at time



> The purpose of "Tuesday Night Titans" was to promote
> upcoming WWF (now WWE) live cards and television programs (I
> think back then, they had only started doing pay-per-veiws,
> and did only three a year).
>
> I always thought the interviews were the best part of
> televised rassling! They were often far more entertaining
> than the matches themselves.
>
 
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