Tuesday Night Titans

This show was kind of a rip on the old late night talk shows. Instead of interviewing Hollywood actors and actresses, they interviewed wrestlers. Vince McMahon was the main host, and his co-host was Lord Alfred Hayes. Occasionally they'd have some great features like "The Mating Game", which was just like the dating game, and a "This is Your Life" segment. Once they even had Big John Studd bench press 700lbs. This show was very clean by today's standard of professional wresting. There was always good humor involved, and it was true to the older style of wrestling. I really enjoyed this show while it lasted.

This was the best show ever on TV! It was full of deadpan delivery of great comedy. Lord Alfred Hayes rattled on about wrestling for some vague title in Barcelona in the 50s and Vince McMahon introduced various wrestling heroes and villains with no irony at all. All in the Tonight Show format.There was usually a cooking segment with a wrestler preparing ethnic delicacies. My Favorite Moment: Lord Alfred was demonstrating the proper technique of serving hight tea when Kabuki, a manager of some villainous Japanese wrestlers took offense. Kabuki wore a bowler hat, white gloves and tails and carried a cane. He took the cane and smashed Lord Alfred's tea table to bits. Lord Alfred exclaimed "oh my, what a breach of tea time etiquette."

Tuesday Night Titans was probably the most ingenious programming Vince McMahon ever attempted. These shows profile the wrestler's in a very non-athletic way, which I always enjoyed more than their actual in ring abilities. The skits and interview segments are priceless. I have recently had the chance to view some copies on disc recorded from WWE 24-7 which disappointed me greatly. To see such original programming cut and edited almost brought tears to my eyes. This prompted me to watch some of my old recordings of the original broadcasts. Thank God I had the vision to record and archive these shows as originally broadcast. I must congratulate Vince McMahon on this program but don't agree with his current philosophy when re-releasing the older content from the WWF archives. I own every video ever released by Coliseum Video as well and am glad I paid the price for each and every one of them. Vince your a genius indeed but why alter such great original programming as Tuesday Night Titans?