Lassie - Nick Knacks Episode

[@mattamiller2002]

The work that goes into these is just incredible

[@beipiaosaurus]

Great job as always. What a stupidly cruel way to get rid of the hawk though. "Can't we just drive an hour away and let it go?" "No! We have to have our child feed it poisoned meat so that he's killing his own pet." "Or we could pull out the phone book and find the nearest wildlife rescue..." "No! The boy will know death!"

[@Eryncerise]

Massively impressive work as always! I've always been curious about the history of Lassie as a media icon but never been motivated enough to watch the show or do any particularly deep reading. This satisfied my curiosity and then some. Thanks so much for this! I was wondering how a show this old could possibly be so important to Nick. Once you brought up selling cable packages again, though, it clicked. Like, of course -- it makes perfect sense. Parents who grew up in the 80s and 90s share stuff like Pokemon, Ninja Turtles, and Transformers with their kids today, and so it follows that people who grew up in the 50s and 60s would want to share favourites of theirs like Lassie as well, or even just watch it nostalgically themselves. Time is a flat circle and all that.

[@jeffemerson60]

I finally caught up with the series! This is probably my favorite hidden gem on youtube and I just wanna say thank you for creating something so interesting yet entertaining (Which for some of these shows/blocks must be VERY HARD)

[@Jamessmith-xk3fh]

I love watching all these videos so far. I'm learning a lot about Nickelodeon before I was born or not old enough to remember

[@Snakie747]

This is the first show on this channel that I have vivid and specific memories of watching on Nick. This is a major moment for me in this series.

[@mediaplane-excag]

Lassie was even aired on the Nick Jr. Block in the mid 90s. There are videos showing a 1995 airing on KZbin.

[@jbanks979]

NEW KNICK KNACKS (Checks length) WORTH IT As per always, absolutely fascinating. I was never the biggest fan of this show, but as per always the stories behind it are more interesting than I ever could have imagined.

[@chrisjt86]

Weatherwax was referenced in an episode of Ren and Stimpy. His name was a password to get into the annual Dog Lodge meeting in season 5 episode 4b.

[@adamlane6453]

Funny you say that. Same password aa the all male bath house I frequented in Laramie, Wyoming 2005-2007.

[@MattyHervey]

Lassie had the distinction of being the one Nick show I found unwatchable when we first got cable. Dennis the Menace may have been similarly old, but it was a comedy which made a big difference.

[@GreenFlash1790]

Yeah while I did watch Lassie, I found Denis the Menace more enjoyable because he was subversive (relatively speaking!)

[@janedoe3043]

Lassie was the absolute worst.

[@ryanlemay6296]

I cannot lie... Lassie always depressed me as a child watching Nickelodeon... It still does. All the drama of Lassie getting lost, or hurt, or people saying good bye to her.... it was all too much for my little kid heart lol

[@thepantweaver]

Ah Dr. Zeus. I always loved his classic book “One Fish, Two Fish, I Transformed Into A Fish to Have Sex With A Mortal”.

[@jordanromesburg6819]

Two years late, but this comment is severely underrated

[@trailersfromhell2539]

The ranger years with forest Ranger Corey Stuart was my favorite part of the series. Robert Bray brought a sense of maturity, intelligence and common sense to the part, while allowing Lassie unprecedented independence. The connection between Lassie and Corey was stronger than any other owner during the series. During the ranger era, Lassie went from being a co-star to the lead and the stories became more adventurous than ever before. Many, if not most of Lassie's most courageous and heroic moments came with Corey Stuart.

[@mewdreamer]

This was a really interesting look into the history of Lassie. I watched these reruns when I was little. I thought it was on Animal Planet because they had the then newest Lassie series, but I probably watched some of them on Nickelodeon too. Some of those old Lassie commercials felt really familiar. I'm also really surprised that the Lassie series lasted that long. I just assumed that those eras were all different shows due to how different they were, so learning that it was all just one long show was a pretty big surprise.

[@TheItachiIshtar]

After watching this episode, I can see a possible Lassie influence on the later Nickelodeon series, 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd. But with the twist that a bully gets turned into a dog, and can talk, but only to the last kid he terrorized.

[@bradyanderson6311]

And the drifter, and the animal world.

[@estherastudillo8647]

Seth Green.

[@Cadency]

God lassies story is extremely sad. She had every single owner leave her in one way or another. She is given away 3 times, has her owner injured and then somehow end up alone in the middle of nowhere

[@CrowRider1999]

Wait, so Nick used Lassie to light the fuse for Nick at Nite? Huh...that’s an interesting thing to know. I was never around when Lassie aired, but I did see a few pop culture references- most notably Family Guy. Plus, I’m a crazy dog guy! Anything with a good dog helping out and being someone’s best friend hits me hard!

[@CartoonsAndGameShows]

Now we're getting to a show I actually remember on Nick. I think Nick is the reason I've always loved old TV shows. I'm a 90s kid, and think we were probably the last generation that could sit through a black and white show.

[@drinkinglotsofsoda]

Probably

[@JamesLewis2]

Although "Holocaust" *had* occasionally been used in Anglophone media to describe Hitler's atrocities by 1968 (when the "Holocaust" episodes of Lassie were released), this name was not popularized in the US until a decade later, when NBC ran a mini-series called "Holocaust" about the Shoah; just two years after the Lassie episodes, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops approved of a new English translation of the Bible, the New American Bible (created in response to Vatican II), which freely used the term "holocaust" (along with other close-to-Vulgate terms like "supersubstantial") where most translations would use "burnt offering" (the etymology is basically "whole-burnt offering"), and that translation choice was not considered questionable at the time.

[@pronkb000]

Interesting. I just did a VERY cursory search through newspapers.com looking at the '50s, '60s, and '70s. In the '70s pretty much every reference to "Holocaust" refers specifically to what we know it as today, though sometimes it seems to refer to WWII in general. But a number of headlines put 'Holocaust' in scare quotes and one mid-'70s article says that the events of Auschwitz et al "have come to be known as the Holocaust," which to me implies it's a recent term of the time. It's still in use in the 1960s but not exclusively to the Final Solution, and of course "Nuclear Holocaust" is common terminology. Oh, and it was the name of a...power boat. With no apparent controversy. In the '50s...nope. Not saying it wasn't used, but a cursory glance doesn't seem to show it has any specific meaning besides something on fire. There are more articles near the top of the results referring to the "school holocaust" of the 12/1/58 Our Lady of the Angels school fire that killed 92 students than there is anything referring to the Shoah.

[@PersephoneDarling28]

That's very interesting

[@daniexists6]

Love it as always. And honestly, Jack was a bizarre, fascinating dude. Owner of the first hotel connected to Disneyland, a former Wild West Park called Corriganville which, itself, was used in filming, and now this. Had no idea he was friends with Reagan and Nixon, though. Yikes.

[@LikaLaruku]

Man, I haven't seen these movies in like 31 years. Remember renting em on VHS. Damn, there was 600 episodes? Wonder how many people actually saw all of them.

[@bobbyshaddoe3004]

Holy crap... The Timmy Martin era was the epitome of motherhood, apple pie and the flag.

[@richardranke3158]

The Timmy Martin era is what most people remember about Lassie. They tend to forget when Jeff owned Lassie-or the forest rangers or when Lassie was wandering around the country or the final season on the ranch.

[@bobbyshaddoe3004]

@@richardranke3158 i think the Timmy Martin era really emphasized that wholesome quality even if it was at the detriment to realism.

[@kos500]

Lassie Come Home also had Edmund Gwenn, who would be Kris Kringle in the original "Miracle on 34th Street."

[@janedoe3043]

Lassie was the one show that always got me off of Nickelodeon. I just never could get into it. When Lassie was the only thing on, I was going for the NES. Mind you I loved Nick at Nite.

[@theotakux5959]

I didn't watch a lot of the vintage programming on Nick (Vintage at the time, I mean). But I remember around 1992-1994 My parents both went to work early in the morning, around 6AM. My mom would take me to a babysitter and I'd usually go to sleep for another hour or so before school. And the main thing I remember about that was that I'd either fall asleep, or get interested and stay awake, while watching Lassie on Nickelodeon.

[@MaxineLunaZorua]

Yay! A show about a dog! I love it when people talk about these kind of shows!

[@crawdkenny]

Lassie vs the Nazis sounds like a Family Guy cutaway gag

[@chrisnutt2135]

I remember watching this in the early 90s. Amazing!

[@Musicradio77Network]

Before “Lassie” ran on Nickelodeon, it was usually distributed by Sandy Frank Program Sales Inc. which was the distributor of such shows as “Name That Tune”, “Face the Music” and “Battle of the Planets”, but “Lassie” was one example which was part of Sandy Frank at the time. And in addition, Sandy Frank distributed the “Gamera” film series back in the 1960’s as well as English dubbed versions of Japanese films and anime.

[@PersephoneDarling28]

That probably explains how MST3K got their hands on a Lassie movie. Sandy Frank gave them a lot of material

[@bakomusha]

The Lassie 90s movie is, along with Hook, the reason I was enamored by earnings as a kid! I thought guys with ear rings where the coolest, and finally got both my ears pieced at 15. ( need to get them redone sometime... )

[@Musicradio77Network]

There was also a 2005 reboot of “Lassie” which was absolutely worst than the 1994 version. The 2005 reboot that featured Peter O’Toole. I have not seen any of the “Lassie” films outside of TV along with the 2005 film.

[@robertkirby8685]

Cousin of mine as a rough collie, he's a sweetheart though my cats hated him, they weren't use to seeing big dogs.

[@jonathanstern5537]

It's surprising seeing Cloris Leachman in that role. I always saw her as a skilled comedic actress, and Lassie was always light on the laughs.

[@tannith_toyart]

This was a great episode. Despite the fact that I've never seen an episode of Lassie, I feel very fond of it. I might need to check it out since it's on youtube.

[@Musicradio77Network]

There are a bunch of “Lassie” episodes exists on KZbin if you want to see it. These weren’t available on DVD and on Hulu and Netflix as well. In addition, you can get the “Lassie” movies on DVD in including “Lassie Come Home”, “Son of Lassie” and many others from the MGM years, except “The Painted Hills”, the only “Lassie” movie in the Public Domain, but the rest of the MGM “Lassie” films are under copyright by WB, and also the 1994 movie adaptation of “Lassie” and the 2005 reboot on DVD where you have to avoid them. And don’t forget the TV spinoffs of “Lassie” and two TV movies “The Magic Of Lassie” which wasn’t available on DVD in the US, it was only released in the UK along with “Lassie: A New Beginning” is on KZbin. “The Magic Of Lassie” was only released on VHS in the 1980’s by MGM/UA Home Video, and it’s still out of print. But you can get them on eBay and Amazon.

[@zachadams4310]

You outdid yourself this time, an excellent video here. I had no idea Jeff's Collie had aired, I only remembered seeing the original 200 ep run and the color Ranger stuff.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I only remember the Timmy episodes too.

[@TheEman590]

I do remember the Jeff's Collie era on Nick, and I remember one Lassie movie aired on Nick at least once. With Lassie so fresh in my mind, I would crack up at the beginning of the Mindy and Buttons segments of Animaniacs

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@TheEman590 Mindy and Buttons was certainly a great spoof of Lassie and it's premise!

[@TheEman590]

@@ChristopherSobieniak It was indeed. If there was nothing on Nickelodeon, I was watching Fox kids so Animaniacs was one cartoon i watched plenty of along with X-MEN, Tiny toons, Batman and Power rangers. But Nickelodeon was still number one to me and I'm glad I found these Nick knack videos.

[@darktetsuya]

not one I was into personally, but still interesting to see the history of that series. hat tip to the 'regeneration' joke I guess you could think of the recasting that way, haha.

[@GoingRampant]

I vaguely remember watching this on Nick. I didn't care for it, but my family had a pet collie that kind of looked like Lassie, so that was reason enough to watch it. Most of what I knew of it before watching this came from pop cultural osmosis. It's nice to get a rundown on it, for cultural literacy if nothing else. It's a little too super duper wholesome for me but seems decent enough. By far the best part of this review is when you warmly express affection for dogs, like "He was a good boy who tried his best!" and the various references to Lassie's relationship with "her boy".

[@MissAshley42]

I _super_ didn't care about Lassie when I was little. It was boring, old, and old-fashioned. As far as I was concerned, it got in the way of cool stuff like cartoons. I'm surprised to learn that "Jeff's Collie" was an actual title, though. I always thought that promo was a joke. (I suppose it kinda was since it has an air of "C'mon, we all know this is just Lassie.")

[@simplyjuannie5128]

For people who claimed to love that dog, they sure did dump her off on a lot people. Like, "We love you, Lassie. But, yeah. You can't come with us. Life's ruff. Hey, Mr. Edwards, want a mangy Collie?"

[@NickDalzell]

This and the 1950s Dennis the Menace would chew through quite the summer afternoon as a child

[@jimmymelendez1836]

"Next on Nickelodeon is awwwww, Lassie." I can still remember the guy announcing that show.

[@newstarcadefan]

I grew up watching this series when it was on Nick back in the day. Not Surprisingly Special Delivery did air a couple of the Lassie Movies. Also I'm going to be looking forward to the Outta Control Episodes that were in reruns until about 1991.

[@ChuckD79]

Another great episode...definitely remember watching Lassie on Nick back in the day, but until they started the Jeff-era eps in the early 90s, my only awareness of it was a tie-in storybook from said era that my mom had when she was young, nor did I know just how many sequels there were to the original Lassie Come Home film, or its origins as a book. Also had no idea that Nick ever aired any eps from the "forest ranger" era, and as for the bigots in The Visitor ep having a sudden change of heart after Haru saves the one man's life (and this after the latter was attacked by Lassie, who stopped them from buring down the Martins' farm and hurting Haru), I think it's what TV Tropes would call a "Heel-Face Turn".

[@Jamessmith-xk3fh]

I would watch Lassie if I woke up early as a kid

[@thepantweaver]

I still wasn’t around when this was airing on the regular schedule but I definitely remember seeing it on Nick at Night. Or at least in commercials.

[@bradyanderson6311]

And nick jr.

[@Lurker1979]

I loved this show. I watched it a whole lot at this time.

[@KateStarPD]

Not to be THAT person, but Jeff's Collie aired between Heathcliff and Flipper, not Littl Bits and Flipper. And the only reason I know this is I had a VHS tape of circa 1992 Nickelodeon. The tape started with the Elephant Show, then this anime-looking series of fairy tale retellings (this is the only one I can't recall the name of, but I remember the episode on the tape being Jack and the Beanstalk specifically), then The Noozles, then The Littl Bits, and then Heathcliff, but the tape cut off a few minutes into the episode. However, I remember the bumpers from the recording said Jeff's Collie would come right after. And after a phone call from my sister, who recorded it in the first place, she confirmed Flipper aired after that. I should clarify, I grew up with 2000s era Nick, but my sister grew up with Nick in its prime. She happened to tape this particular day of Nick Jr. and Nickelodeon programming sometime in '92, watched it a lot when she was young, and eventually passed it down to me. This new episode of Nick Knacks (which was fascinating as always BTW, keep up the good work!) inspired me and my sis to find this VHS. If we do find it, and after one final trip down memory lane, maybe we could send it to you for research purposes. (Also, thank you for giving Spook the recognition he deserves. Acting is hard, especially dog acting! He did the best he could!)

[@PinkieLopBun]

I believe the fairy tale show was called Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics, which yes, was an anime.

[@KateStarPD]

​@@PinkieLopBun That's what I thought it was too, when I researched the shows. But in the episode listing on Wikipedia, there wasn't a Jack and the Beanstalk episode, even though I distinctly remember it being on the tape. (Still looking for that tape too, as of this writing!)

[@Musicradio77Network]

Interesting story about “Lassie” the TV show. I used to watched this since I was a kid. It was a fun show. And speaking of “Lassie”, there was also another movie from 2005 which was a reboot of “Lassie”. It was released on DVD and it was a direct-to-video movie. I have not seen the 2005 reboot of “Lassie” and it was the film that killed the franchise. The film starred Peter O’Toole, Jonathan Mason, Samantha Morton, and John Lynch. The 2005 reboot was a disappointment, and not as good as the previous “Lassie” films, and like I said, the 2005 reboot killed the franchise. The out of all of the “Lassie” movies and her own TV show, “The Painted Hills” is the only “Lassie” film which is in the Public Domain.

[@JadeCryptOfWonders]

They need to bring back the “great books make great movies” style of trailer, they played The Wizard Of Oz trailer before The Iron Giant screening I went to, and I miss how excited the narrator was for Oz’s literary roots already.

[@thepantweaver]

Jacob Martin It would be more effective now if all but two of the movies mentioned weren’t entirely forgotten today.

[@bluebaron6858]

I never knew Lassie was this big back then

[@meyerj75]

I was first Introduced to Lassie not on Nickelodeon, at least not yet, but from CBN which was referred to as the Christian Broadcast Network (later The Family Channel and now, Free Form). It aired every Friday night around 8:00 PM during the first half and summer of 1984 with the popular Lockhart-Reilly-Provost era that Nickelodeon would heavily air later on that year. When CBN replaced Lassie with reruns of the Lone Ranger, Nickelodeon immediately picked it up and the following year (1985), it showed up on PBS as well, only commercial free, but still feature the Lockhart-Reilly-Provost episode I'm most familiar with. I'm not sure what time they started off with but i'm guessing 3:00 or 3:30 in the afternoon. While the popular 200 episodes from 1957-64 were still airing, Nickelodeon picked up the 1964-70 and started airing those as well. I think it was sometime in 1989 when it was picked up and from around August 1990 to the summer of 1991, Lassie's Forest Ranger episodes aired at the 6 in the morning time slot seven days a week when I began high school during that time period. Jeff's Collie episodes would come around the fall of 1991 back at the 2:30 time slot weekdays (Flipper followed after) but other than that, I'm sure they left out the final 3 seasons (1970-3) in which by that time. CBS had abandoned the Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday nights and that it was now shown on syndication. Nevertheless, Lassie was a great move for Nickelodeon and kept the show going as long as You Can't Do That On Television, the second to do so ( Mr. Wizard's World holds the honor of not only being the first, but the longest as of 2000). It was also a precursor of what was to come for Nickelodeon the following year, a block of programs, all black & white which aired around the same period as Lassie's peak years. Let's keep that dark until it comes.

[@only257]

Brings back memories I haven’t seen this in years remember watching it on Nickelodeon in 1991 i was 7 until I was 9 in 1993 at the time this show will go down in history as the 2nd tv show I remember watching the first was today’s special the third was flipper🙃

[@LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat]

The Facts of life, Granny in the Beverly Hill Billies Movie. Leachman Traded up.

[@petz415]

I remember the forest ranger episodes, I first saw them after an episode of Timmy's lassie. I was young and confused why there was no Timmy and it was in colour had to be late 80s.

[@AudraBurgess]

I loved watching Lassie as a kid. My mom took me to see the movie in 94.

[@gatorboymike]

Lassie was kicking the Red Menace's ass while Rocky was still scuffling with kids on the playground. *pledge of allegiance, bald eagle, three cheers for Japanese internment*

[@dsl_media]

I have a feeling the forest ranger episodes of Lassie didn't air much on Nickelodeon, which might be why most Lassie viewers watching it at that time doesn't really talk about the forest ranger episodes. I wouldn't be surprised if some of these episodes aired once, with some not airing at all.

[@TheFI4X]

I watched Lassie on PBJ, i like it.

[@Lynn17]

There are three kinds of people who say "TV wasn't always political": 1) People who were kids back when the shows aired and didn't understand those themes 2) The ones who DO remember episodes like this but also point out that such episodes knew how to tell a story around the theme without lecturing the audience 3) Racist boomers who miss the stereotypes and it being legal to use slurs.

[@SavageBroadcast]

Even with 2) that's open to a lot of discussion and debate, since everyone has different ideas on writing and 'how much is too much'. 1984 is a major work of fiction, and isn't subtle by any definition - would that count as a mark against it?

[@Lynn17]

@@SavageBroadcast Good point about 1984. Orwell in general was never very subtle about the politics in his fiction, either, but he's still considered one of the greats. (No arguments here, Animal Farm ended up being one of my favorite books.)

[@abraveastronaut]

The other thing about 2 is that a lot of the time it's just 1 or 3 in disguise. The old show stopped to lecture the audience all the time, the person just either a) didn't pick up on it because they were a child or b) is only bothered by it now because this time either the lecture itself or the character delivering it is incompatible with their personal bigotry. Source: I am a Star Trek fan.

[@robertkirby8685]

The 50s: No single moms and no divorced dads, and also no intermixing between white and black people.

[@razorblade4395]

What's wrong with blacks and whites mixing

[@elizabethpenrose3440]

@@razorblade4395 Nobody cleans the kitchen counter.

[@Rocketboy1313]

Christ, that goodbye scene are 29:30. That breaks my heart. I miss my dogs!

[@infermon]

I will forever remember being upset with lassie because it wasn’t Gumby as a kid

[@thepantweaver]

Blah YES. I can’t wait until Gumby is covered for this series.

[@aaronyochim9779]

@@thepantweaver Ugh. I despised Gumby. I can't wait until he covers FACE on Nick JR. hahaha Remember FACE?

[@ydna]

dangit, Jeff and/or Joe and/or Timmy are trapped in the storm drain!!

[@ninashewchuk8976]

I don't know if the original series was airing in syndication anywhere in Canada in the early '90s when I was a kid, but I definitely tuned in to the 1997 Lassie reboot which ran for three seasons on YTV up here (and, according to Wikipedia, on Animal Planet in the US).

[@MarkStevens-fh3wb]

I follow you logic on why Holocaust was not the best choice of episode title, but I suspect whomever wrote it was thinking of the traditional dictionary meaning of the word, which is literally a huge fire, the more common modern meaning obviously not being derived till after World War II. Also I suspect the more obvious choice of "The Inferno" was probably mooted as "The Towering Inferno" would have just recently been in theatres at the time.

[@gwenburchell516]

Virgin Timmy vs the Chad Jeff

[@shmikex]

13:00 - *Weatherwax negotiates with MGM to retain all rights to Lassie* Wow...Weatherwax is smart... 25:00 - *Weatherwax sells all rights to Lassie to Maxwell for $2000, who a few years later sells for $3,250,000* Wow...nevermind...

[@Tacom4ster]

One of your best episode

[@Nick-ty9us]

Yeah and those lassie films they’re kind of like Muppet movies where he plays different characters

[@allisoncarroll1284]

I remember when this was on Nick jr. Sometimes I'd watch it. Other times I'd shrug it off as that show in black and white. I wonder how it would have done if it were colorized.

[@blackbearcj5819]

I think it depended on how old you were. For me, this is one of the shows I have the earliest memories of watching consistently on Nick.... But when it was a color episode, it turned me off, because it wasn't 'as good' in my mind. But I was also a dumb kid and just might have thought it weird it was different deep down.

[@bradyanderson6311]

@@blackbearcj5819 Nick Jr also aired Dennis the Menace.

[@kiwikarp9509]

I hear people using the term "little timmy" to describe some hypothetical innocent little kid, makes me wonder if this is where it came from...

[@SonicMoon1]

The biggest one until Double Dare.. Or if you get to Rugrats.. Spongebob..

[@SaskRider2]

You Can't Do That on Television was an hour and a half. So this would be the second longest.

[@SonicMoon1]

BlackBearCJ Not yet..

[@michaelbuono4007]

43:32 yes Australia where U have the emu war, inviting King Toads to where they over populate, and all the poisonous animals there are

[@lamontyaboy718]

Yeah a new defunct tv... er I mean a new nick knacks lol.

[@BrawlSnorlax]

The first show I know I saw.

[@germsincognito8329]

Your videos rule dude.

[@kriswright]

Been following this channel for awhile, but it looks like we’re really hitting the gas pedal on shows I actually watched on Nick as a kid: Lassie, Today’s Special, The Third Eye, YCDTOT, etc. But watching a bunch of episodes of Out of Control in 2019 with an adult mind? That sounds like a doorway to madness. Stay strong, brother.

[@rmyers99]

OMG OUT OF CONTROL IS NEXT! As a Kansas Citian, I love that show often featured restaurants like Dixon's Chili that were near where I grew up. Hey, can I get a Hurry-Up to fast forward to the release of that one?

[@meaninglez100]

9:33 Good Lord it's easy to make me cry

[@evilredflame]

That weak paw really got to me, jeeze.

[@BethMDowney]

46:28 THEY'RE ALL GOOD DOGS BRANT

[@LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat]

Well there's just NO POINT ON ME WATCHING OLD YELLER NOW! TO MANY SPOILERS!

[@adamguymon7096]

I remembered watching this show on TV as a kid. I loved watching it and I wish there were more updated versions of these shows that could teach all people good values and how to not be racist? It would be nice to have shows like these made for the 2000s?

[@BoondyAlBoondy]

I'll always associate Lassie with that distinctive "whimper" sound effect (you capture it at the 29:45 mark)

[@zacharybusch338]

Talking about more of Nick Knight because i gotta say one do yours was popular wit h the kids and adults and I Love Lucy

[@mr.tomraypaz6085]

Yeah me too. This, Pinwheel, and Eureeka’s Castle.

[@Nick-ty9us]

The second movie has a rat pack member beating up A Nazi

[@Nick-ty9us]

The first Lassie movie actually has Cornelius from planet of the apes Roddy McDowall

[@LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat]

I was about to say Now put Out Of Control on Dave Coulier's IMDb Page but I found it under Actor.

[@TheMister123]

4:35 - "York-sure", not "York-shy-er". The only time "shire" is pronounced "shy-er" is when it's alone (as per where hobbits live). All other uses has it unstressed and sounding like "ur". Yorkshire, Lancashire, Worcestershire ("Wuster-sure"), etc. (Though, in "A Day In the Life", John Lennon does pronounce Lancashire almost like "Lanka-SHEER" instead of "sure".)

[@yotsubafanfan]

Glad to know this! I'm heading to the U.K tomorrow and I would've butchered it BIG.

[@RainbowMilk1996]

I know I'm late to the comments, but there was an anime in the mid-90s... Just throwing that out there

[@GTVNewsForGamers]

Please tell me you have that Inspector Gadget marathon uploaded somewhere.

[@poparena]

I don't have the marathon uploaded, but I do have the *commercials* from the marathon uploaded! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYHNemmnnNB9r9E

[@Musicradio77Network]

“Inspector Gadget” was on WNEW-TV (channel 5) in NYC back in the 1980’s before it went to Nickelodeon in the 1990’s.

[@Smaggledagle]

Lassie x Lone Ranger is the original Marvel crossover

[@Musicradio77Network]

“Lassie” did had a crossover episode with the “Lone Ranger” from the TV version of a popular long running radio show.

[@visionaryventures12]

Whose voice did we hear doing these innovative commercials?

[@shmikex]

What's interesting is that it sounds like Lassie was always played by a boy dog. I guess because of the original root of the name "Lassie" the character had to do be a girl dog.

[@abraveastronaut]

I don't know why I'm surprised to learn The Dog Widely Known As Lassie fought Nazis. It seems so obvious in retrospect.

[@LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat]

I MEAN WHAT'S THE POINT WHEN EVERYONE KEEPS TELLING ME THE DOG DIES!

[@KinseySwartz]

37:20 Not hamsters. It was a guinea pig.

[@kootunesscrewy]

I think I prefer watching the first nine seasons.

[@LikaLaruku]

I like how Porky is a walking fat joke, but would barely qualify as even slightly chubby in the real world. Way to give kids a negative body image, Hollywood.

[@billgreen3138]

and movie called The Magic Of Lassie plus lassie on sit come tv shows like donny and marrie show as a mind doctor

[@Musicradio77Network]

“The Magic of Lassie” was released on home video in the 1980’s by MGM/UA, but it was never released on DVD in the US, except it was released only in the UK.

[@pumpkinmaryam5500]

47:40 ive never seen that nick ident before....and of course THATS what i take away from this (still interesting a very interesting episode though)

[@Musicradio77Network]

That has to be the Nickelodeon “Hands” ident. I remember seeing this before “You Can’t Do That on Television”. Nickelodeon has way too many idents during the mid to late 1980’s. The “Fireworks” ident might be a good one, along with the “Dream” ident, the “Boat” ident, the “Octopus” ident and lots more that I have to list them all. There were a bunch of Nickelodeon idents on KZbin if you want to see it.

[@adamdavis1648]

I'm sorry, but I just can't see Jeff as an "asshole" for wanting to help an injured animal. You're smarter than that on most other controversial issues, but you sometimes seem to have a weird, obnoxious blind spot where animal welfare is concerned.

[@Lynn17]

Wanting to help a wounded animal isn't bad in and of itself, but wild animals aren't meant to live in a domestic setting or as pets. It's too restrictive, especially for predatory animals who need to hunt to survive. Plus he lied to his mother about it, which might not be THE asshole move, but it was a bad idea and the bird caused a lot of trouble for the family.