Nickelodeon Promo Reel- 1980

A promo reel from Nickelodeon in 1980 in the network's earliest days with Cy Schneider, president of Nickelodeon talking about the network. It then features several Nickelodeon shows that aired at the time, such as Hocus Focus, What Will They Think of Next?, Dusty's Treehouse, Pinwheel, Video Comics, First Row Features, Special Delivery, and America Goes Bananaz

[@berighteous]

Kids got what they deserved, until they realized that Spongebob paid the bills.

[@agustingomez1590]

Hey peeps! that music video on the reel was the very first music video ever aired on MTV in 1981.

[@Musicradio77Network]

Agustín Gómez Yep! The music video is at 6:17 which is "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. It was the music video that started it all for MTV.

[@lotsoflogos]

Which is crazy because MTV would become a sister channel to Nick

[@agustingomez1590]

@@lotsoflogos that's right

[@UNKNOWN-du5fc]

Another funny thing is, The Buggles were never aired on Special Delivery. I don’t know about PopClips though

[@Launchpad05]

@@UNKNOWN-du5fc kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJ-0eJSIdst_otU

[@berighteous]

Every cable channel is completely opposite to the goals they began with. The Learning Channel is about fighting midgets, nickelodian is midless stupidity, the History channel is Alien Conspiracy theories and science fiction, the TV Food Network is food themed game shows. MTV has NO MUSIC... I miss early cable when folks strived for something.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I know how you feel.

[@sillygoose635]

Proceeds to call something mindless and idiotic while being mindless and idiotic, save your nostalgic bullshit, moron!

[@SuperAV21]

@@sillygoose635 Without saying your own age, in what decade (or generation) did you primarily grow up as a child?

[@andrewbloom7637]

@@SuperAV21 Mine was the late 1990s and early-to-mid 2000s.

[@SuperAV21]

@@andrewbloom7637 I spent my childhood in the 1990s through the early 2000s.

[@Launchpad05]

Nick Knacks sent me here.

[@CadillacL]

Commercial free, I sure miss those days

[@sillygoose635]

No.

[@joshbrice218]

Shut up,Stevie!

[@Launchpad05]

Meanwhile, 'Jerry Springer', 'Maury Povich', 'Steve Wilkos', and 'TMZ' still air on broadcast television for free while anything else that's better is keep behind a pay wall. Let that sink in.

[@Misfit_Kitten]

@@sillygoose635 The fuck does this mean? No, it wasn't commercial-free? Yes it was! I remember it. You were just too young. No, OP doesn't miss those days? Who are you to say that? Do you know them? You and the three people who upvoted you are idiotic kids.

[@CadillacL]

I wish they would get a classic Nickelodeon channel and show all the original years

[@CadillacL]

@** Well, that’s the era I grew up on.

[@mrs.evelynkerr8799]

Me too!

[@CadillacL]

@@mrs.evelynkerr8799 I don’t see why we can’t.

[@SuperSlusheey]

@@CadillacLI’m actually trying to work on a live tv website to bring back that era but have my own name and twist, I’ll let you guys know how it goes

[@CadillacL]

@@SuperSlusheey thanks! I’ll be watching/listening for you.

[@retpolanne]

Wooow, this is freaking rare.

[@SevenFootPelican]

hyper-rare

[@jasonlassiter9229]

I vaguely remember Pinwheel....The snail 🐌 puppet and the green pointy nosed Ebeneezer puppet are the only two characters that I remember...The theme song sticks in my head for some reason too. The first show that I really remember watching as a little kid was Today's Special...

[@melissawickersham9912]

I remember both Pinwheel and Today’s Special from my childhood. They were two of my favorite shows.

[@Diskoboy1974]

1980 was the year our cable providers started to carry Nickelodeon. I can't really say I remember any of the shows with the exception of What Will They Think Of Next and Special Delivery. The only thing I remember about pre-Viacom Nick was it truly wasn't patronizing to kids. The shows didn't talk down to you, or dumb anything down.

[@sillygoose635]

Erm, they still arent.

[@lamontyaboy718]

But apparently they were boring af and at one point during this period nickelodeon was the lowest rated channel in all of cable television. Yikes. No wonder nick barely makes reference to this period when talking about it's history.

[@Diskoboy1974]

@@lamontyaboy718 Yeah. Most of the shows back then were pretty boring. Nickelodeon didn't become the Nick we all know and love until probably the last two years of the silver ball era. I also remember before Nickelodeon went 24 hours in 1985, weekends were dedicated to National Geographic programming that was just mind-numbingly boring.

[@Tornado1994]

Pre MTV Networks (Viacom and MCA headed by Fred Siebert and Alan Goodman)Nick was horrible.

[@stephenholloway6893]

Imagine in an alternate universe that Warner Bros kept ownership of Nickelodeon instead of creating MTV Networks, and later sold it to Viacom. Yes Viacom ultimately saved Nickelodeon but even they along the way make mistakes.

[@chrisrj9871]

Now, with Nick All Stars Brawl out, and MultiVersus on the way, we could have had both games in one!!

[@baliebox4916]

Nickelodeon Keeps Adventure Time, Eventually Getting Regular Show, Steven Universe and OK KO in the 2010s?! This Probably Also Means Cartoon Network Gets Fanboy and Chum Chum and The Loud House (Possibly Also Keeping Crap Like Johnny Test and Out of Jimmys Head 😨) Even With Alternate History You Cant Kill Two Birds with One Stone 😔

[@arrowpictures2844]

And Viacom buys Turner Broadcasting, the company that owns Cartoon Network.

[@stephenholloway6893]

@@arrowpictures2844 In that alternate universe it could happen.

[@CadillacL]

Nickelodeon, we NEED a classic channel!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

+Lane Crooks And none of this "The Splat" crap!

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

Nick Edutainment Classics, anyone?

[@dickjohnson5979]

Unfortunately most of these shows no longer exist. The master tapes were "wiped", ie. recorded over instead of archived. Videotape was very expensive in those days.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Dick Johnson It wouldn't surprise me.

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

Dick Johnson It's sad that Nickelodeon values entertainment over education outside of Nick Jr./Noggin. The last great educational non-Nick Jr. Nickelodeon TV shows were Mr. Wizard's World and Pinwheel.

[@JenV525]

This is soooo rare

[@RJSchex]

Notice on the floor at 5:28, the title reads "Columbus Goes Bananaz"-the original title used on QUBE, before the show moved to Nickelodeon.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

+RJSchex I always felt jealous Columbus got something nice when Toledo didn't, though apparently my cable operator picked up Nickelodeon as early as Christmas '79.

[@Tornado1994]

QUBE operated it as Pinwheel in 1977-1979.

[@LendriMujina]

I don't hate Nickelodeon's recent shows (...well, not on principle. There's a few I hate on a case-by-case basis. But that's not the point.), but barely anything from this era survives today, so I have almost no idea what it was like at the time! Even Pinwheel, which aired five hours a day for several years, only has five episodes known to still exist today. The only things I HAVE been successful in finding were YCDToTV and shows that originally aired on other networks. And one solitary episode of Turkey TV.

[@m56214]

YCDTOT doesn't count cause wasn't an original series Pinwheel should have just been a puppetry show instead of viewing other preschool shows it would be well remembered for that but I Nick had no idea what they were doing

[@ChristianPerez-pr9jj]

I am really excited that the longest-running children's television network, Nickelodeon is finally celebrating its 45th anniversary next year starting in April 2024!!! Why is Nickelodeon getting close to turning 45 years old already?!! I think I know why!! Nickelodeon has been on the air for the past 44 years, since the channel launched back in 1979!!

[@benjaminkellog7311]

Now I'm kinda wishing I was born earlier when most of this was still on Nick (also that it was available in my area back then, but fat chance of that!). It's basically Sesame Street the channel, how awesome was that?

[@jackmarter3131]

2:03 Is that you, Screech?

[@schemer1991]

I totally wish Nickelodeon would air better children shows For today’s generation today’s shows are just not as great as what the generation during the 80s and 90s Nickelodeon went downhill the day pinwheel final rerun aired on July 6th 1990

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

The 90's was a turning point.

[@randibornstein-sb1mp]

0:18 when I first saw this video suggested to me, I didn’t know if it was going to be the silver ball era or not. That was introduced at the end of 1980. Then, if I see the 1979 logo, this just proves it. This is from early 1980

[@ridgedblock6711]

the silver ball actually debuted in april 1981

[@MoonlightMirage]

(OUTDATED COMMENT!) If only Nickelodeon was still filled with this brilliant edutainment... Classic channel. PLEASE!

[@sillygoose635]

Nickelodeon should NEVER go back to being this way, utterly horrible.

[@AccipiterSmith]

Nickelodeon during the Warner Amex era was pretty boring at first but they are also bold and taking risk in experimenting programing that will cater to kids and teens alike that somehow manage to works on very different angles. Modern Nick should watch or see this video and they can at least have a little spark of inspiration in order to fix this network from being oversaturated by live action comedy and too much nonsense.

[@m56214]

@@AccipiterSmith Why would they look back at this they should look at clever comedy like Pete and Pete

[@m56214]

To add your lucky Nick went to risk making the shows that we love to this day be grateful you had a wholesome childhood you don't deserve one if you think they should go back to where they started

[@MoonlightMirage]

Okay woah, what was I saying when I typed this lmao Guessing that the crap sitcoms that aired in the mid-2010s made me think this way

[@81lrkr]

5:44 There's Andy Kaufman strangling himself on Nickelodeon.

[@WillCWilson]

Back when [from what I've heard] Nickelodeon was seen as the boring channel, and any kid who liked the shows would get made fun of X(

[@ZoogWeekendz]

Wouldn’t it be great if Nickelodeon could re-air the 1980-1981 “Mime” IDs on the Nickrewind block? They said in their promos for the block that they were also targeting the “80s Nickelodeon generation” (Btw, thanks for the replies on my forum thread) -allthat182

[@muppetsretrofan8873]

Sadly, I don't think they will. Nickelodeon actually HATES any 80s show that isn't named Double Dare, Hey Dude, or You Can't Do That on Television. Why else would Eureeka's Castle be on Parmount Plus but with zero episodes while Kablam has a few episodes on the same service? Also, Nickelodeon's treatment of Pinwheel, their first show, is repulsive. They rarely talk about it, and don't want to re-air it on Nickrewind [they actually aired Pinwheel without the shorts in the late 80s, so the shorts aren't the problem]. It's a shame too, as while I'm a 2000's kid, 80s Nick seemed like it had some pretty cool shows.

[@ZoogWeekendz]

@@muppetsretrofan8873 It would be really cool if they ever re-aired the exact episode of Pinwheel that contained the O Paradive Sally short film.

[@georgekenney8121]

i would like to know on if you might have the Dusty,s Treehouse episode with the Puppet Cinderella story on it and if you do then could you please Post it here on youtube,

[@JellicleKat]

Wow, they certainly can't say that about the channel now, now it's filled with the same mindless garbage all the other channels have.

[@SuperAV21]

+JellicleKat That's nearly all of television (broadcast and cable), ma'am.

[@JellicleKat]

+SuperAV21 Yes, sadly that is all too true.

[@sillygoose635]

No, BACK then channels were filled with mindless garbage, today's content is much better

[@austinreed7343]

JellicleKat And yeah, there’s been a few superior programs like Avatar here and there...

[@keeganbucy5554]

Sorry, but this stuff is pretty lame.

[@Gannooch]

There was a reason why Nickelodeon changed. During the Schneider years, the channel almost went bankrupt. It was a kids channel…that kids for the most part avoided. Schneider for the most part seemed to be out of touch with what kids wanted. Geraldine Laybourne (his successor) was in touch with what kids wanted. If you

[@Gannooch]

If you or anyone brings back this version of Nick, I don’t think it would succeed…maybe unless it was a digital broadcast network.

[@Malik-bw1wp]

Nickelodeon would never be like this again, Nickelodeon today attracts young teens too the show, so they love too air icarly, game shakers,drake and josh, and so on, all those shows i mentioned. Nickelodeon would probably never air these shows, cause the network doesn't wanna do it.

[@sillygoose635]

No, Nickelodeon was flat out boring back then, it's much better now, and the demographics have changed.

[@m56214]

@@sillygoose635 Yeah they would have shut down if there wasn't an improvement

[@sebastianguevara3615]

@@sillygoose635 I Disagree With You!!!!!! 100%!!!!!!!!

[@m56214]

Also Nick Jr has it's own channel now they can do the educational stuff there tv's for entertainment not to bored the hell out of people

[@face4radio]

Phil Hartman?

[@chantingmammal]

nope

[@BlueyFriendly]

Wheres the man of the logo of Nickelodeon?

[@Melvinshermen]

Remake pinwheel

[@schemer1991]

Max Nyström they should remake pinwheel And you can’t do that on television as well and David the gnome And today’s special

[@melissawickersham9912]

@@schemer1991Nickelodeon doesn’t own the production rights to Today’s Special. In fact Nickelodeon never did own the production rights to Today’s Special when that show was made. A Canadian company called TVOntario owned and produced Today’s Special. Nickelodeon only imported the series from Canada.

[@arrowpictures2844]

0:13

[@jbwarner8626]

1:36 ...Those are the most bored looking kids I've ever seen. Is that really the image you want in your sizzle reel? Your target audience watching your shows and looking like they'd rather be doing literally anything else? 😆

[@TheCheekymonkey212]

I hate Nickelodeon today, total crap!