Doing a Rewatch Project

[iamthedoctor]

What is the best way on doing a rewatch project for say during the Golden Era?

 

In the past couple of years I started on the year 1995 and started with Raw and then watched each subsquent PPV until I got to Sept 95 and started adding Nitro and the WCW PPVs. I continued this throughout until I got to late 99 by which time I was watching Raw, Heat, Smackdown, WWF PPVS, Nitro, Thunder & WCW PPVs.

 

However I feel before I go too far into that era I really should go back to the golden era first as some people who live with me havent seen any of that stuff. Well it was handy getting them to know the characters for when the game WWE 13 came out.

 

Now I want to start with a golden er project watching as much right up to 1994.

 

Obviously the best time is to start at the beginning of 1984 so you can see Hogan, Piper come in and relive the Hulk's era and I do plan on going to eventually Superstars, Challenge & Prime Time eventually but what would I do for the house shows? Obviously Hogan wasent on tv every week then but I want to get some sort of feel of seeing regular title defenses but not overload it too much where we are seeing Hogan defend against the same guy each time.

 

MSG seems like a good one to watch each time they do a show because they are promoting it on Championship Wrestling and the card but would you go and watch other house shows or not in the project?

 

Not a clue what to do about rewatching NWA/WCW yet as they were sharing with Georgia around this time so any ideas to help me out would be most appreciated.

[Grimmas]

For WWE you have regular MSG, Boston Gardens, Spectrum and Maple Leaf Gardens to look at. The problem is, they often repeat matches move for move from one show to the other. However, sometimes, they were completely different programs.

[JerryvonKramer]

Naturally, disappointed you're starting in 1984 and not beforehand, but leaving that aside ...

 

My advice would be that if you watched all Prime Times, SNMEs and supercards you wouldn't be missing much.

 

Reason?

 

Prime Time showed clips from Superstars of most of the major angles that took place, and some from Challenge. And they showed matches from MSG, Philly, Meadowlands and Maple Leaf Gardens.

 

It's a pretty good "one stop shop". And will save you sitting through all the jobber matches on Superstars and elsewhere. You get a nice cross section of everything that was going on, for the most part Bobby and Gorilla as your hosts, but plenty of Vince and Jesse on commentary for the matches and clips.

 

If you sit through every single TV show and house show, I guarantee you will go out of your mind mental by the 3rd week of viewing. Do you like Johnny Rodz?

 

And you'll get more than your fair share of Rodz on PTW anyway.

 

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For JCP, I don't know what you mean about "sharing with Georgia". Mid Atlantic and GCW had separate TV up until GCW was bought out (by Vince -- this is when Jack and Jerry Brisco join WWF), he gets the TV slot too and then ends up selling it to Crockett for $1 million famously which helped fund the first Wrestlemania.

 

Then JCP starting taping in Atlanta (Techwood). So if you want to "follow" Crockett, you start with Mid-Atlantic TV -- I believe there are sporadic episodes of 81 and 82 and then more from 83 onwards.

 

However, cheaper and quicker way to do things would be to go on youtube and search for:

 

1. Final Conflict: The Road to Greensboro. This gives you a lot of the build of Steamboat and Youngblood vs. Slaughter and Kernodle.

 

2. "1984 a year of transition" -- this gives you a lot of cool stuff.

 

Then ...

 

3. Seek out a mysterious character who may or may not post here, hold four fingers in the air and say "Horsemen". Interact with that figure. Money may or may not change hands. Many hours of wrestling may or may not be yours.

 

That'll see you good until 1988 and the Turner buyout.

[iamthedoctor]

I suppose I started with 84 is because this is when Hogan came back as a face as im not sure what was happening in 83 apart from Backlund as the World Champion.

 

Jobber matches are always essential viewing because you get to see the characters week after week to familiarise with fans, I wouldnt really say id be bored by week 3 because I thought id go crazy watching late 99 when you had 3 hr Nitros, 2 hr Thunders, Smackdowns, Raw & 1 hr Heat in one week.

 

84 seems like a luxury seeing 1 weekly show.

 

Im not too good with NWA from this era so no idea what shows were airing then. I know Worldwide was but Sat Night wasent called that yet was it?

 

Im basically trying to find a way of making sure I see regular WWF title defenses by Hogan during his first run but not to the extent where they are repeating the same match on different house shows. In a kind of way with current era you know where you see the world champ on tv defending each month.