Oh how I remember the day when Clock Man/About Dressy Sally got found, that was awesome

Speaking of Jimmy Carter, he lived to 100, RIP legend

The anticipation i feel as this channel creeps closer and closer to the golden age of nick is immense

When the Australian version of Nickelodeon launched in the 90s, it broadcast The Curiosity Show - a locally made science education program from the 70s and 80s. I expect it was a cheap schedule filler while rights were sorted out, but I loved it. I taped multiple episodes of it from those Nickelodeon broadcasts and damn near wore the tape out. Child me was super disappointed when Nickelodeon finally ditched the last oddball edutainment programs from its Australian lineup. That's a memory that comes back every time I watch these "green vegetable" era Nick Knacks videos. Clearly I was the demographic early Nickelodeon was made for, if only I was American...or had been born yet. 😅

3:05-3:25 You heard the guy! He's not going to cover a Nick at Nite show that he already covered on his main Nick Knacks series and he's not going to accept requests for Nick at Nite shows for Sample Platter videos. Now, with that being said, Greg, thank you for telling me in advance what the next eight shows are that you'll be covering in your Nick Knacks at Nite series and for telling me that it's your "when I have spare time" project. I'm more concerned with regular Nickelodeon shows anyway and I look forward on what you have to say about those yet-to-be-covered shows.

36:00 the Oscar diss tho 😭😭😭😭

I refer to Route 66 as 'wandering anthology' show. You have one or two main characters who go from place to place from week to week. Others would include Wagon Train, The Fugitive, The Incredible Hulk, Branded, Here's Boomer, even Quantum Leap.

Oh wow, I did not expect Hanako Games to show up at the end there! Long Live the Queen is good.

41 years old here, these Nick in the Afternoon shows are what I grew up on. Love them <3

I’m so invested in this series!!! Just want to share the love and offer encouragement to keep up the good work! I can only imagine how big of a project it is but I’m obsessed. Binged it all and now impatiently await the new uploads!

Trees are living creatures, so if you think about it, the gnomes didn't really die.

This is a masterpiece essay :)

Oh that New England Christmas hits *hard.* I'm a born and bred Mainer, and I miss what our state was back in the 70s-90s. The southern part of the state is so overdeveloped that it feels more like New Jersey now. The town I grew up in is no longer the quaint little fishing village, but an outlet center for tourists, its very sad.

Somehow I feel like the Willie's Whistle special would be akin to Whizzo's Christmas. Although hopefully without a consumptive child hacking in the background

Try atheism.

As soon as Hal warrens name dropped I knew what was coming but was still shocked.

Im glad i saw this at the very end of Hanukkah

Was not expecting a MANOS connection!

I grew up in the 70s and I feel lucky and grateful for it. I watched the Bugs Bunny show every Saturday morning whichever network it would be on, it was my dependable standard year after year while other cartoons came and went it was always there.

Happy New Year, Greggifer! Hopefully 2025 isn't as personally awful for you as 2024 was. I was looking for a new show to watch while stationary biking, and it seems like Route 66 could be a good fit! It might be interesting to talk about some of the later shows that have a bit of the Route 66 DNA in them, like the original Scooby-Doo, Poker Face (basically, "What if Route 66 starred female Columbo on the run from the mob?"), or the first few seasons of Supernatural.

I ship Andy Lane and Jim Mortimore.

Manos hands of fate out of damn nowhere.. thank you as always for the wonderful work you do!

Happy new year, Greg! Been waiting a long time for this one. And you mentioned the tie-in with Manos! Awesome. Wishing you the best in 2025

While I missed this show when they aired it, I easily transitioned from daytime Nickelodeon to Nick at Nite because all those goofy slapstick sitcoms easily appealed to preteen me. I was later disappointed that our cable provider would swap to A&E, enabling me to understand MST3K's Jack Perkins jokes, but disappointing me expecting those network interstitials promising Mr. Ed coming up to not be a lie. And a later provider instead swapped to a Spanish only network GEMS apparently aimed at women and I only remember seeing talk shows as the channel switched itself, which is even farther away from a talking horse. Looking forward to seeing episodes about stuff I remember like Laugh-In, Smothers Brothers, Car 54, and Hi Honey, I'm Home (which I understand is probably years away).

I’ll admit, I wasn’t really pining for “Nick Knacks at Nite” but I really liked this! I was 2 at the launch of Nick at Nite but by age 3 or 4 I was a regular Nickelodeon viewer. Most of the shows outside of Mr Ed, Dennis the Menace, and later on Munsters didn’t appeal to me. I’m 41 now and would be more receptive to some though. This show sounds fun. TBH, I would really love to see episodes of “On the Television” and “Hi Honey I’m Home”, any of the originals would be great but I understand the purpose of this series and the tiers to help get something like this to happen. Congrats on start of this series and Happy New Year!

I hope you cover the rerun countdowns. The 1992 countdown was the first time I ever stayed up until midnight on NYE, and always remains special to me. Plus, I haven't been able to dig up any information on what the various placeholders were for the countdowns year by year, and your expertise might turn up something 🙂

"PLEASE, STAY IN YOUR SEATS!!" will always one of my favorite P+P line! lol

I know this has nothing to do with Get the Picture but it would be so kind of Nickelodeon to release Double Dare 2000 on Dvd or stream it because the 2018 version is complete garbage no doubt!

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When i first saw the intro, I thought Penfold looked like Simon the chipmunk, particularly the 60s design.

This if my first KZbin video of 2025 🎉

In case anyone didn’t mention it but Siliphant was an early student of Bruce Lee and gave Bruce one of his earliest US appearances in his PI show Longstreet

Never saw this show, but it seems like it might have more going for it than I thought.

Nickelodeon: We have Tom Hanks at home…

At least the spinoff is underway.

Artie leaving is an underrated sad piece of tv history

I can’t believe that Route 66 & Manos had that connection! It’s amazing how many impacts all those connections can have!

Wow, I would not have thought Buster Keaton, MST3K and the friggin’ JBS (glad a show of this era was mocking them) would all have been referenced in a Nick Knacks.

Finally found this again! I watched the episode where the girl sold lemonade as a kid. I watched it alone and got really scared. But it also taught me not to be greedy. Those were the days 😅

The Birth of Nick at Nite: July 1, 1985, featuring lots of classic sitcoms a LOT funnier and better than Hangin' In! I can't believe it's been close to 40 years since Nick at Nite debuted!

I rarely comment, but I was so happy to see this, your nick at night episodes are some of my favorite videos of yours. Thank you.

I'm sorry to hear about all the Patreon shenanigans. But I'm so excited about this spinoff series! Nick at Nite was HUGE for me as a kid. There was a time from about 1992-1994 when I left the TV in my room permanently tuned to cable channel 17, because Nick was all I ever wanted to watch. I remember watching Mister Ed with my nostalgic Boomer parents in the early days, but I didn't get really hooked until they started airing 1970s shows like Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, and Welcome Back Kotter. I'm still kind of obsessed with the 1970s to this day. Route 66 stopped airing on the network before I was even old enough to see it; in fact, I'd never heard of the show until I saw this video. Definitely didn't expect the Manos connection! Two guys traveling and having adventures is a good premise for a show, but it seems like scripted 'road trip' shows like that have more or less been replaced by travelogue shows, where they go to whole other countries and talk to real people. But from a historical perspective, the show still seems worth checking out. The early 60s sort of get glossed over in the cultural conversation, maybe because it was mostly just an extension of the 50s.

I am so absolutely hype for this. I loved watching the old Nick at Nite shows nobody has heard of since... Route 66 foremost among them!

4:10 “But she left me.” Erm Doctor I think you mean you left Susan 😅

This was so engaging. You continue to amaze with the threads and stories you pull from TV history.

Oh man, those Cosmic Christmas wise men are sparking some deep-down memory of mine.

I've actually heard that specific Route 66 episode with Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Lon Chaney Jr. get talked about on podcasts by Gen Xers/elder millennials who grew up with this era of Nick at Night. Probably the only cultural legacy this show might have had before this video.

Hell yeah, nothing like some retro TV right before the new years!

The moment he mentioned El Paso, I had a feeling what he was going to talk about next. ✋️🤚

I waited since 2022 for this