10 Notable Changes Made To WWE Raw In 1997

Image if you will sitting through four straight episodes of Raw in a row. That was the reality if you attended Raw TV tapings from May 1995 through January 1997, as monthly PPVs dictated the need to tape an entire month's worth of episodes in one sitting.

The go-home shows at the end of the cycle would need the fiercest of crowd sweetening to appear the least bit lively.

For most of Raw is War's first six months, the show would air live weekly, with only a few taped episodes scattered in the mix.

That fall, they would save on travel costs by taping every other episode, a pattern that WWF would follow into August 1999, when those Tuesday tapings were handed over to the new SmackDown show.