When I was about 8 or so, the cast of Roundhouse came to our local library so I was able to get autographs and take pictures! I was such a huge fan of the show- it was a big deal for me!
I personally loved Clarissa Explains it All, Pete & Pete, Are you Afraid of the Dark? My favorite gameshow was Legends of the Hidden Temple.
I vaguely remember the show Welcome Freshmen. Can anyone elaborate on the plot of this show to jog my memory?
Being born in 1974 and first getting cable right around 1980 Nick and I really grew up together. I still remember the really early days when it was commercial-free. For some reason I still have a strong memory of a particular episode of the mostly forgotten Spread Your Wings, a “what are kids in other countries like?” show, which featured Fez, Morocco. I remember a show about a bush pilot in northern Canada (I think) but I’ve never been able to track down the name of the show. Nick had about fifty shows just like Black Beauty…slow, boring, non-violent, and non-American. A big plate of spinach.
Naturally, YCDTOTV was the absolute best show ever for an eight to ten year old. God bless Canada. I remember Out of Control very fondly as well. As I recall, it was aired only on Thursday and Friday afternoons so when it was on, it meant the school week was over, or nearly so.
I remember trying really hard to “break out” as a Tomorrow Person. That show more than any other fueled my boyhood fantasy life. That and The Third Eye, which fueled many of my nightmares.
>e-hem<
Pinwheel, pinwheel, spinning around
Look at the pinwheel and see what I found
For some reason that’s been stuck in my brain for over a decade. Also the station ID singers standing in the wrong order and trying several times before they corrected the error and sang “NICKELODEON” correctly.
And the bit in Dangermouse when all the musical instruments went away, and Dangermouse, Penfold, and the Chief had to sing the end theme. (Narrator: “I take no responsibility…for THIS”) (weren’t the baby bagpipes cute?)
“GROVEL!” “I’m sorry sir, I’m sorry sir, I’m sorry sir --” “GET UP!”
Really old school!
One potato, two potato, three potato four.
When you watch Calliope there’s a whole world to explore.
Five potato, six potato, seven potato, eight.
Calliope’s for kids like you. It’s neat. It’s fun. It’s great.
Wasn’t Calliope the name of the network before they changed it to Nickelodeon.
Did anyone mention the great commercials they used to have?
Nick El O Deon
"Sheep in the Big City "was Cartoon Network.
Loved “You can’t do that on Television”
“The Adventures of Pete and Pete”
“As the Schoolbus Turns”
“The Mysterious Cities of Gold” was great. I watched it again recently. It helped a whole hell of a lot that I was a kid when it was on. But they do desperately need to make a new movie. The way it ended just sucked.
“Rocko’s Modern Life”
“Ren & Stimpy” very funny. I even bought the comic books. I think my scratch and smell still stinks.
“Clarissa Explains It All” the only ‘girl’ show I could ever stand.
Can I toss out “Rugrats” since it’s way old and the early ones were so funny. “The Hora. The Hora” Right up until they decided to bring in Dil. Man when Chuckie lost Melville, that was sooo sad.
Huh, there Schedule from, 81 till today
:smack:
Umm … certainly you’ll believe me when I say I meant to type “There’s a schedule …”
Reading thru this thread has been quite a chuckle for me. I used to work at Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, as a grip/electric (doing lighting). I also worked at the scene shop building sets. At the time, those of us who worked at Nick were proud of the work we did, and proud of the shows that the network aired. It’s kind of cool to hear first hand from people who enjoyed them.
I can’t remember all the titles of all the shows we did, mainly because we did so dang many of them. I worked on virtually every live action show that was new from 1993-1996 because they were shot in Orlando. A typical season of a drama (which was anything now a game show) would shoot in less than 6 weeks. The game shows took a couple of months. The game shows were the most fun to work on because the kids who participated were just frikkin’ thrilled to be there.
I’m gonna email this thread to a couple of my buddies who also worked on the shows (we also built all the props and gags that were in use at Universal Studios in Orlando, if any of you ever went there). They’ll get a kick out of this thread, as I did. Those of us who are perenially backstage sometimes get to hear the applause faintly through the curtain, but we rarely get the chance to say: “Thanks for watching! We’re glad you liked our show(s)!”
Thanks! 
I must be remembering that, then. Maybe I’m thinking of early episodes of “Pinwheel,” because that seems consistent with the description on IMDB. I do distrinctly remember there being two characters, “Gene and Calliope,” and Calliope was his dog. Weird!
You may have been right. I got the link to the complete Nick schedule from an article talking about Nickelodeon’s 25th Anniversary. First it was part of something like QUBE which was an interactive cable channel. Then it was spun-off to it’s own network called The Pinwheel Network because they showed Pinwheel. Then it turned into Nickelodeon.
Working from the schedule I linked (check it out, every show they’ve ever had!) I can’t find Calliope as a show. Maybe it was the name of a block, or a bit on Pinwheel. Damned if I can recall. I only remember that song. And an old man and his house. But vaguely.
Remembered another song that cracked me and my dad up.
“Oh, my three sons.
Yes, my three sons.
They’ve got a dad.
He’s really tall.”
Huh … looks like Christine McGlade has recently rolled her own Website. I like her even more.
That’s really cool, man. I’m 23 and I really came up on that stuff. Very cool.
Props to those who mentioned Cities of Gold and Spartacus! I used to wake up HOURS before anyone just to catch those cartoons.
And Diosa, I recall the Elephant Show working in a full-costumed elephant several times. I could be wrong about that…but I don’t believe so right now.
“Where does the school board find them? And why do they keep sending them to me?”
I lked the game show hosted by Peaches, a demon. He gives the telephone number for Heffer to call, “Just dial one, eight hundred, and THEN A BUNCH OF SIXES!!”
Wow! I totally thought about starting this, but I’m lazy.
The Tomorrow People! I loved that freakin’ show! There was that weird Australian kid who lived in the spaceship on the beach and that American girl from Chicago I believe and that whinny pre-pubscent British kid and his friend Megabyte. I sooo wanted to be able to teleport. Heck, still do.
Rocko’s Modern Life and Zim can be seen on N-Toons and Pete and Pete used to be on Noggin so if you have cable, rock on.
No love for old school Doug? I enjoyed Disney’s Doug too but Nick’s Doug totally beats it. How about Rugrats? That show was great when it started, then it went downhill, then it got good again.
Legends of the Hidden Temple is on GAS as is Guts. The former show was so hard. The latter, easy.
I’m 22.
I liked Doug, too. He was like a grownup Charlie Brown, but without the crippling emotional problems.
I wonder how many people picked up on the name of the local amusement park - Funkytown.
They also had a little game where they put a kid up against an adult to CUT holes into a pair of jeans along a marked pattern the fastest. I also still remembered being embarressed for a kid I saw on that show. They were walking around in the audience asking kids to tell something that their parents do they think think is really really dumb. The kids said “My mom washes the dishes before she puts them in the dishwasher” I still remember a silent audience and the hosts just moving on.
It’s I hope we never part, now get it right or pay the price.
Camp Anawanna, we hold you in our hearts and when we think about you…this thing came apart.
Of course not! I am a vegetarian vampire. That is tomato juice I am drinking.
They did. Frequently.
Was Belle and Sebastian on Nickelodeon? I don’t remember where I watched it, but I sure dug that show.
How about The Little Prince? It was badass how he had that planet to himself.
If I remembered any, right about now’s the time I’d break out with a Von Goosewing quote.
I have failed.
