
An epic 40-year journey into the history of Nickelodeon, the first cable channel for kids!
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Air Date: 2017-07-12
To know the history of Nickelodeon, we must first know the history of cable television, and of QUBE, Warner Communica...
Air Date: 2017-07-13
This is where it all started. Pinwheel, QUBE's popular puppet show that became Nickelodeon first flagship program. Jo...
Air Date: 2017-08-11
We kick off the Nickelodeon 1979 starting lineup with a tribute to film serials. Flash Gordon, Rin Tin Tinn and Gene ...
Air Date: 2017-08-12
There isn't a whole lot to say about this show, so instead we spend most of the time talking about Nickelodeon's weir...
Air Date: 2017-12-06
Sometimes things are forgotten. Sometimes forgotten things are found again. This is the story of Brad Williams, Pinwh...
Air Date: 2017-10-13
Today we look at a cheap filler show where a guy reads comic books to kids, and along the way, we explore the history...
Air Date: 2017-11-28
Today we look at Nickelodeon's first variety show, it's origins with QUBE, and what it meant for the future of the ch...
Air Date: 2017-12-06
Being a channel for children, Nickelodeon didn't have a reason to be on after bedtime. But what should we air in thos...
Air Date: 2018-01-26
It's Nickelodeon 1980! Warner Communications get bought by American Express, a guy in advertising becomes the new hea...
Air Date: 2018-01-27
Nickelodeon taps into the library of the Children's Film Foundation, or CFF, an attempt in British cinema to bring wh...
Air Date: 2018-02-22
Nickelodeon continues down its path of "PBS you pay for" by acquiring this Canadian technology program, What Will The...
Air Date: 2018-02-23
This is the story of PopClips, a half hour music video show that might have been the origin of MTV. Or it might not h...
Air Date: 2018-04-20
In order to flesh out their lineup, Nickelodeon picked up one of the sweetest, most charming and wholesome children's...
Air Date: 2018-04-21
America Goes Bananaz is out, Livewire is in. Just how did this children's talk show differ from its predecessor? What...
Air Date: 2018-05-23
Today we look at Nickelodeon's junk drawer, Special Delivery, a programming block that aired whatever the hell Nick f...
Air Date: 2018-06-16
Nickelodeon had a serious lack of narrative television in its first two years, but 1981 is here to correct that. Firs...
Air Date: 2018-06-17
We look at Matt and Jenny, the sister show of The Adventures in Rainbow Country, both shows about two kids having adv...
Air Date: 2018-07-06
Nickelodeon embraces its early "PBS You Pay For" idea by just airing old PBS shows. Studio See is a show for kids, ab...
Air Date: 2018-07-07
Nickelodeon gets its first celebrity endorsement with Mr. October himself, Reggie Jackson. Kids are playing all kinds...
Air Date: 2018-08-07
In 1975, a mere seven years after the Civil Rights Movement, PBS released a show about race, culture, and prejudice. ...
Air Date: 2018-08-15
Once upon a time, children would write stories and poems to Nickelodeon, and five acrobatic grown-ups would perform t...
Air Date: 2018-09-10
What do you get when you mix a children's comedy writer, a computer scientist, and David Bowie lyrics? Well, whatever...
Air Date: 2018-10-19
Well, it's the big one, You Can't Do That On Television. A show that's already loved by millions of 80s kids, a show ...
Air Date: 2018-11-02
With Star Channel gone, Nickelodeon needed something to fill their evening hours. Before Nick at Nite, though, they w...
Air Date: 2018-12-06
We kick off Nickelodeon 1982 with Spread Your Wings, a 26 episode Canadian production profiling kids from around the ...
Air Date: 2019-01-22
Based on the classic book (sort of), these are the adventures of Black Beauty, Vicky and the rest of the Gordon famil...
Air Date: 2019-02-04
And now we reach Against the Odds, the history show created by Cy Schneider himself. Is it really as boring and dread...
Air Date: 2019-02-14
Join Leonard Nimoy as we learn about the making of the coolest new movies, like Return of the Jedi or the Secret of N...
Air Date: 2019-03-21
It's after hours at the department store, and you know what that means? It's time for Jodie the display manager, Sam ...
Air Date: 2019-03-26
Nickelodeon picks up a Canadian show about young prodigies in the fields of music, sports and teddy bear collecting, ...
Air Date: 2019-04-08
Nickelodeon makes it's oldest pull ever by bringing back Don Herbert, aka Mr. Wizard, television's first "science guy...
Air Date: 2019-04-24
It seems Nickelodeon had some spooky foreign serials laying around, so why not put them together and make yourself a ...
Air Date: 2019-05-06
We've reached Nickelodeon 1984! Cy Schneider is out, Gerry Laybourne is in, and we see the introduction of the Nick S...
Air Date: 2019-05-09
Borrowed from ESPN and sponsored by Honeycomb cereal, Vic's Vacant Lot was Nickelodeon's next attempted at bringing s...
Air Date: 2019-05-17
Hey, who doesn't love music videos? With Nickelodeon now part of the MTV Networks, it might as well start looking a b...
Air Date: 2019-06-11
In 1984, Nickelodeon started airing reruns of Lassie, the story of a boy and his faithful collie dog. Lassie is argu...
Air Date: 2019-06-16
Dave Coulier tries to get a band of misfits to make a television show with him, with very obnoxious results. The last...
Air Date: 2019-07-21
Finally, it's time to talk about animation on Nickelodeon! A Japanese anime adaptation of a French actress's tv show ...
Air Date: 2019-07-21
He's the greatest! He's fantastic! He's the first animated show to air on Nickelodeon, and one that would prove popul...
Air Date: 2019-08-21
We begin Nickelodeon 1985 with Bananaman, a silly superhero cartoon Nick picked up to fill a hole in certain episodes...
Air Date: 2019-08-25
Between April and May of 1985, Nickelodeon aired a Canadian sitcom that, at first glance, didn't seem to have any bus...
Air Date: 2019-09-18
Just when you thought Nickelodeon might have been leaving the educational, green vegetable image behind, here comes a...
Air Date: 2019-10-11
After the success of Belle & Sebastian, Nickelodeon went looking for another Japanese anime adaptation of French lite...
Air Date: 2019-10-23
In 1973, Gene Roddenberry and Filmation teamed up to make an animated sequel to Star Trek. What followed was a story ...
Air Date: 2019-11-16
In 1959, CBS looked to comic strips to come up with a competitor to Leave it to Beaver. There, they found Hank Ketcha...
Air Date: 2019-11-19
Nickelodeon's biggest original show of 1985, Turkey Television saw original shorts from the cast and crew of You Can'...
Air Date: 2019-12-09
Nickelodeon needed to find something to air during their late night/early morning hours, when the little ones were in...
Air Date: 2020-01-08
Welcome to 1986! With Nickelodeon now a twenty-four hour channel, there were going to be time slots that just needed ...
Air Date: 2020-01-24
Straight from Australia, it's Zoo Family, a good-but-not-great show about the inner workings of the very real Royal M...
Air Date: 2020-02-07
For episode FIFTY of Nick Knacks, we look at Rated K, a young person's film review show. Thirteen year old children g...
Air Date: 2020-02-25
For eight weeks in the summer of 1986, Nick aired Nickelodeon Summer Camp, a ninety minute weekday block consisting o...
Air Date: 2020-03-11
We continue our look into Nickelodeon Summer Camp, Nick's summer programming block to entice parents to get more inte...
Air Date: 2020-03-26
And now we look at the third and final show for Nickelodeon Summer Camp, Mister Ed. A show about a talking horse has ...
Air Date: 2020-04-15
A band from the 60s finding a second wave of popularity in the 80s wasn't weird, the nostalgia market for baby boomer...
Air Date: 2020-04-23
Nickelodeon continues its trend of introducing two animated shows to their lineup. 1986's theme? French Weirdness! It...
Air Date: 2020-05-08
From the "was that real, or did I just make it all up" part of your brain comes Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea...
Air Date: 2020-05-31
The year was 1986, and Gerry Laybourne had done a lot to clean up Nickelodeon's image, making it a fun place for kids...
Air Date: 2020-06-11
Can a movie about a foul-mouthed little league baseball team and their alcoholic coach work as a family sitcom? Only ...
Air Date: 2020-06-20
Shari Lewis was one of the most versatile and creative people in children's entertainment in the 20th century. Today,...
Air Date: 2020-07-17
The year was 1987, and Nickelodeon was in the mood for cute anime shows about anthropomorphic animal children. The fi...
Air Date: 2020-08-15
In the late 70s and early 80s, Japan went through a bit of a koala craze, which resulted in two koala-themed anime sh...
Air Date: 2020-08-28
It seems somebody got the rights to a few too many afterschool specials. Well, only thing to do is to give them their...
Air Date: 2020-09-20
In the 80s, fitness tapes and television programs were all the rage, so it only made since that Nickelodeon would tap...
Air Date: 2020-11-12
Just a few months shy of the premiere of Nick Jr, Nickelodeon imported their best preschool program yet. Join Sharon,...
Air Date: 2020-12-20
Nickelodeon used to be very careful about what animated shows they added to their schedule. It had to be cartoons you...
Air Date: 2020-12-31
We close out 1987 with a look at Finders Keepers, Nickelodeon's attempt to make lightning strike twice with a childre...
Air Date: 2021-01-28
We kick of 1988 with a look at Nick Jr, what it meant for the channel, as well as explore one of its earliest program...
Air Date: 2021-02-22
What's better than one Japanese cartoon about the adventures of an anthropomorphic koala and his little sister to cas...