I loved AFraid of the Dark. The stories weren’t just stupid ones, a lot of them were really good, like the one about the soup where the main ingredient was fear.
And remember, Doctor Vink? With a VVEEEE VEEE , not with an F!
Does anyone remember Legend of the lost Temple? The gameshow,where a giant talking statue would give you historicle question and at the end you had to climb through the temple and solve puzzles. I liked that show a lot,but my friend likes it even more.
Oh yeah, the Legend of the Lost Temple! They made that maze way too long and hard; I don’t think I remember seeing anyone complete it.
Anyone else like Ren and Stimpy?
He completely rocked! 
And wasn’t that Neve Campbell, before she was famous, in that episode? That is what I heard somewhere. The one with the creepy vampire (yep, with Dr. Vink), and the one with the werewolf, those scared me the most.
And Alex Mack, she was great. I longed for powers like hers…to make things move around, and especially the water thing. 
Ahh. Saturday nights really were fun when I was a child. Of course, you see the new Snick, and it’s just horrible. 
That show where a couple of kids travled under the crust of the earth and hung out with these human-type people who didn’t have legs? They had a big old stump growing where their legs should go and they hopped around. There was a white-haired chick who had legs, but couldn’t talk because her tounge was cut out. The kids and the bouncey people travled around under the earth finding other civilizations and trying to get the kids home. Eventually they did. I loved that show. Does anyone else remember it? It’s driving me crazy.
Could it be Land of the Lost? That was kind of different…but it sort of has a similar premise. Kids going to another civilization. Land of the Lost had dinosaurs though. I don’t remember anything about a chick who couldn’t speak, and stumpy things. I don’t remember if they ever made it home in Land of the Lost, though.
Yeah, thats it. 85 or 86? I was only 3-4 years old then, so it was probably still on a few years after that.
I had forgotten about “Welcome Freshman”. There is a little song from that show that a quote sometimes, I had forgotten what it was from. “Mortis, the safety tortoise, he always plays it safe”
Don’t forget Mortis’s girlfriend, Myrtle the Safety Turtle. Welcome Freshman was pretty funny for the first season. Lots of talent at Nick during the eighties and early nineties. Now it’s all Spongebob Squarepants and other crap.
Little Bird, I believe the show you are referring to is called “Spartacus and the Sun Beneath the Sea.” That’s waaaay old Nick. But it sure was good back then. YCDTOTV was awesome. Check out http://www.ycdtotv.com
Hey Dude was great too, I always watched it. “The Mysterious Cities of Gold” was also very well done but it was only on realllly early in the morning when I watched Nick. I really think there’d be a major market available if Nickelodeon were to bring back the old shows and put them on a companion cable channel…Nick Sr perhaps? “You Can’t Do That on TV” alone would bring in ratings, IMO.
Anyone remember Mr. Wizard? That guy was awesome.
Just my first post here, but I grew up along with Nick…
Ooooh…Just remembered another one.
Finders Keepers It was a game show in which the contestants would trash a house looking for stuff that they got clues for. It was way better than Double Dare (REAL double dare, not that family crap), even though Marc and Harvey were the best game show team ever.
I just remembered another one. it was later than most of the shows mentioned so far. The Secret World of Alex Mack. It was a show about a girl who got telekenetic powers when she was in a chemical spill. Just as it got interesting the show disapeared, I think.
sigh These kids today…
I don’t suppose anybody remembers the REALLY old Nickelodeon shows - the ones that were on before they were bought by MTV Networks or whoever owns them now. I’m talking like “The Tomorrow People”, “The Third Eye”…
I remember as an early teenager watching Nickelodeon (NEVER referred to as ‘Nick’ back then) and catching their early-morning kiddie show “Pinwheel”. Look, if y’all think Teletubbies is thinly-veiled drug culture, “Pinwheel” would’a blown yer mind - three or four hours of stream-of-consciousness stuff, much of it imported from Europe.
Did anyone ever see “Kids Writes”? Kids wrote and sent in stories, plays, poems and the people (adults) on the show would act them out. Seemed like a fantastic premise for a show.
And, of course, there’s “Dangermouse” - IMHO, one of the best series cartoons ever.
PINWHEEL! That big green Ebeneezer guy scared the bejeezus out of me, but Plus and Minus stole the show. Got you last!
How could I forget, my most favorite show. The thing that got me out of bed in the morning, Belle and Sebastian.
Soooooooooooo gooooooooooood…
Here are all the wonderful Nick shows I can remember that I never see anymore:
Roundhouse
Salute Your Shorts
Hey Dude
Pete & Pete
Clarissa Explains it All
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Welcome, Freshmen
Ren & Stimpy
Rocko’s Modern Life
Doug
Weinerville
Alex Mack SUCKED!
Oh shit, PINWHEEL! I didn’t get Nick until I was about 11, but I’d watch it at my gramma’s, and I HATED Pinwheel. It freaked me out.
Dangermouse was the best.
BTW, did you know Alanis Morissette was on YCDTOT?
There’s one problem I remember seeing on Mr. Wizard that never saw the answer for. It still bugs me bit
Okay, on Pete and Pete, who remembers who played the girl[with the arm that was broken for most of a season] next door’s father? IGGY POP!! And the “Strongest Man in the World” was named Artie.
I swear up and down that my mom actually tried to get me hopme in time to watch YCDTOTV, she liked the show almost as much as I did. Guin, I’ve heard the Alanis Morissette thing before, but have no idea if it’s true. It wouldn’t surprise me if it was.
Anyone else remember Count Duckula? He was a vampire duck who drank only vegetable juice? It came on right after Dangermouse.
Doug moved to ABC, or CBS, or something, and half the freakin voices changed. :mad:
Can someone remind me what Weinerville was? The same seems familiar, but I can’t place it.
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It’s not just a rumor-she was on the show-and if you follow the link that was given, you can read about it.
I remember her-she was a small kid with short dark hair and all the boys were supposed to have crushes on her.
hey, finally a place to share one of my worthless statistics!
on Legends of the Lost Temple, the maze completions statistics were as such:
three out of seven teams manage to reach the special artifact.
only four teams ever took the correct path in the history of the show and avoided all of the guys who came out and took your little amulet or made you lose.
only two out of fifteen teams manage to get all of the way back out with the amulet, winning the big prize.
please excuse any mistakes. i don’t remember where i got this and therefore lack a cite.
A fairly good Mysterious Cities of Gold web page is here:
http://www.whimsy.demon.co.uk/gold/
Nick now sucks, pretty much. My kids like Blue’s Clues and Bob the Builder (which is a British show) and that’s it. Though as a child of the 70’s, I am happy to veg out in front of the Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes…
–tygre