During the 1960s and early 1970s, the All-Star Wrestling television series was essentially a one-hour paid advertisement for the AWA's house shows.
They would wrestle jobbers (wrestlers who constantly lose) in squash matches (one-sided victories) that seldom lasted for more than a few minutes each.
In the meantime, editors would splice together the appropriate interview and wrestling footage for each individual house show and send the canned one-hour production to the TV stations in the respective market.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the AWA's television production was headquartered at Minneapolis independent station WTCN-TV, then owned by Metromedia.
Every Tuesday, 20-30 wrestlers would be flown into Minneapolis to tape market specific interviews promoting the upcoming live events in various areas: