The Rise of Nickelodeon: How the Pinwheel TV show Created Nickelodeon
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2019
- In the 1970's Cable TV was in it's infancy and in Columbus Ohio there was an idea by Warner cable for an experimental two-way multi-programmed cable television system that played a significant role in the history of American interactive Television, This experiment was called QUBE Network. QUBE introduced viewers to several concepts that became central to the development of modern television today, Pay-per view programs, Special-Interest cable televison networks and interactive services.
QUBE was on Channel 3 of Cable TV Networks and on December 1, 1977 a breakthrough show began airing,a new show called "Pinwheel". The show was similar to 'Sesame Street' complete with live action skits mixed in with shorts from independent animators. The show was met with immense popularity, Channel 3 would even go as far as to change to "Pinwheel".
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Sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinwhee...)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUBE
Pinwheel Fandom page
Pinwheel Wika
4:01 PICTURE OWNED BY PEGGY SUE CLAY.
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Picture Credit at 4:01 ‘Peggy Sue Clay’
This was fantastic. Such great memories thank you for your effort.
DannyBoyTV you say ohio
@@davibatista6087oh come on bro don’t start💀
@@SuperSlusheeyexactly that is a dead meme 💀
Wow, what memories this brings back. I was a writer on the show back in the late seventies. Warner Cable had just brought the show to New York from Columbus Ohio (I think). The plan was to up the production values and crank out a lot of short segment pieces so it could be mixed and matched with film content into the hour long shows. We only shot the studio stuff in New York for two years but they managed to get seven seasons out of it.
A couple of things I remember:
The show’s offices were in a mid town brownstone that we shared with another startup network, MTV. I remember sharing with my cohorts what an absurdly stupid idea I thought music videos were and how no one would ever watch them. Nailed it.
I also remember that Children’s Television Workshop the Sesame Street folks ran a two week seminar for our writers and producers to share their insights. CTW is publicly funded so they had some sort of mandate to do this. They gave us some great info but in the middle of the second week they cut the seminar short apparently realizing we were about to become their competitor.
One segment that I wrote was based on a Sesame Street video addressing fear of the dark. Apparently this was a particularly expensive production with all sorts spooks and goblins flying under and around some poor kids bed. Needless to say it terrified the crap out the target audience. It never aired.
My version had scary shadows that turned out to be stuff like lamps and bedposts. It aired and hopefully helped a few kids.
Anyway, a fun time for me.
Bazooka Bob cool😜
Hey cool story. My parents got cable back in like 81-82. It was Viacom where I lived and I think we had 31 channels on a wooden cable box with a dial. I watched pinwheel all the time. Also MTV in the 80’s changed my life, lol
Adam Hohnadel you can get on em a website called TEEPUBLIC too
Adam Hohnadel yeah a lot of folks don’t remember it because they didn’t have cable and u could watch Sesame Street on PBS for free. Ebeneaser was my favorite too
Adam Hohnadel LoL, yeah I forgot about him. Little dude on a drinking glass who lived in a normal kitchen
I loved this show and Today’s Special so much as a kid. It warms my heart to see clips of Pinwheel here.
Yesss today's special was one of my favorites too.
This and You Can't Do That On Television are some of my earliest memories from the early 80s.
I miss the gross out era of Nickelodeon, with "You Can't Do That on Television" and "Double Dare" and "Ren and Stimpy".
How funny. I haven’t seen this show since 1984 when I was 6 but I STILL know the words by heart.
Tracee J 👌
Same. Music is a time machine. I felt like I was sitting on my living room floor 4 feet from the tv again
I totally grew up on this show.
Hey just stumbled upon this. Cool to see. We're CRAIG & OLGA THE PUPPETEERZ from the show. We were also the Juke Box Band from Shining Time Station (PBS.) On behalf of Molly O'Mole, Herbert & Lulu, The Admiral Bird, and last but not least (because he's still on his way) Silas Snail, we want to say THANX FOR REMEMBERING!
Craig, how the heck are you. I hardly ever check my Gmail, but saw your comment this morning. Happy you’re still alive. Me too.
Thank you for making Pinwheel. You are some of the greatest creators of children’s television. The Nickelodeon Network owes its existence to people like you. Thank you for helping tolaunch a wonderful network.
I loved this show as a kid; at that time Nickelodeon was everything, Thanks for sharing
I was actually born in 1979 in Missoula Montana and my mother used to take me to a babysitter's house where along with several other children, we would be watched by a woman who always had Pinwheel playing on her television set for us to be entertained by. That wholesome show is a definite staple of my childhood and I only wish those types of child oriented shows were still around today. They sure don't make children's shows like they used to!
~Dutch
Glad you documented this show; there's very little about this online (or at least, it isn't very easy to find)
It Will Be Cool If Pinwheel Was Shown In NickRewind
It Would If Warner Bros. Didn't Own It.
@@CosmicSponge2004 This show would scare the kids of this generation if it was shown in nickrewind.
@@quetziko2021 NickRewind also isn't on the air anymore so... heh
@@CosmicSponge2004 keep circulating the tapes!
I was a young child in the 80s (born in 83) but I remember watching Pinwheel on Nickelodeon at my aunts house in the late 80s because we didn’t have cable at the time. Good memories!
Thanks you for this information! I am doing a project on the history of Nickelodeon and you helped learn so much!
That’s awesome I really appreciate it
This show is one of my earliest TV memories (most of my earliest memories are TV memories; really set the tone for my life so far). I loved this show. I had no idea that it started in Columbus. I watched this show way down in the heart of Dixie so from that and the dates I didn't see it until it was produced in New York. However I have now spent the latter half of my life so far living just north of Columbus.
Likewise I didn't realize it had jumpstarted Nickelodeon, so indirectly influencing much of the rest of my childhood viewing: Today's Special, Grimm's Fairy Tales, *David the Gnome,* Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea, *The Mysterious Cities of Gold,* and the "successor" Eureeka's Castle -and that's just the stuff before Nicktoons popped up.
Thanks for making this video and sharing this information. It's been quite a trip down memory lane.
Great format, Loved the material and presentation. Expertise and credibility shines through. It's as good of an entertainment history/analysis like Company Man does with business. Amazing job! :)
I watch him! Thanks man! I’m glad you like the video, I am making a narrative that’s ongoing this year so soon there will be another video (I’m currently working on it) about the next major step for Nickelodeon. I have 3 themes I’m focusing on #1 The Rise Of Nickelodeon #2 Old Educational Shows #3 Themed Places, They will be released in that order. Check out episode 2 and 3 of season 2 if you get the chance! Thanks!
I turn 43 this year. I totally watched this show. Man, getting old sucks. Much simpler times, for sure. I miss shows like this, Fraggle Rock, and Today’s Special.
Very informational, best Nickelodeon history I’ve seen on here next to UA-cam “the starts” “nickelodeons early years were interesting” video! Thanks!
I worked on the show and it was recorded in NY City a Matrix Studios I was the Engineer in charge for the whole series and it was not done in OHIO!!! I can name everyone that I worked with on the show to back this up and most of the staff is still living to this day!
I never said the show was filmed in Ohio i said that Qube Network was tested in Ohio and that network eventually turned into PinWheel
Loved this show! Thank you to that whole crew
Hi Harry. Greetings from the past. I was a writer on the show and I’m currently alive too. I posted some stuff about the show above. We writers worked uptown at Reeves Teletape studios across the street from Zabars.
DannyBoyTV - 😉interring info
Seasame Street low budget version remember seeing pinwheel on nick I was 7 in 1991 at the time🙃
This show is so underrated, this brought back so many memories
Pinwheel is the premium version of sesame street
Ayyyy! Woke up singing Pinwheel Pinwheel, Spinning Around. Well, look what I've found. Subscribed!
I only got to see this show a handful of times as a kid because we couldn’t afford cable TV.
My childhood looked like Pinwheel. 🥰🥰🥰
RIP Pinwheel
Loved this show and kept the tv on channel 33 all day long.
I grew up watching pinwheel
Briefly remember watching reruns of this as a kid before Nick!
I was so young watching Pinwheel that I remember this show but I don't remember any details. Watching to the intro in a different video tears to my eyes. Funny how things can make such an impression yet be lost in our brain.
It would be cool if someone had all the 260 episodes of pinwheel Recorded from a VHS or Betamax tape somewhere a big collection of Pinwheel episodes somewhere it hasn’t been used for decades
I loved this show so much as a kid!
Official name for old pinwheel:Qube TV
I remember this theme song word for word wow
2021: Nickelodeon Smash Bros
I watched the show back in 1980’s when I was a kid
I am a new subscriber.
Actually, PLus and Minus's personalities were reversed and it was Plus who was trying to get to the moon.
Do you remember any Aurelia moments?
Correction: There was an official Pinwheel VHS release called The Pinwheel Songbook," which can watch right here.
ua-cam.com/video/E6rdYL5MCnI/v-deo.html
It was deleted because the UA-cam channel was terminated
Yeah
I dont remember bc i probably was not bron yet lol. But i loved old things..
Pinwheel on Qube: December 1, 1977-March 31, 1979,
and on Nickelodeon: April 1, 1979-July 15, 1990!
Once, I had an nightmare.
It was called ‘Nickelodeon turned back into Pinwheel’.
I Would've Just Started Recording 100s of DVD-Rs
Pinwheel existed before the show shining time station existed
Can someone help me find a live action version of Aladdin’s Lamp that came on Nickelodeon in the mid 80’s on Saturday. I know I saw it twice, I remember a man came out before the play started and explained that people would be changing sets dressed in all black as the play went on, and to not pay attention to them. I remember the Genie was really creepy looking, he freaked me out!
My Childhood
Ebenezer's my Favorite Character
He’s basically Oscar the Grouch
@@rtlthemusician5598 if he was Human and didn't care for trash
@@TheAnchorArmsChad It's kind of hard for me to pick a favorite of the Pinwheel characters.
I got curious to know what was the first nickelodeon tv show was
And ive never heard of this one before. Honestly had no idea nickelodeons been around since the mid 70s
I grew up with the late 90s early 2000s shows.
Hey I was watching the dancing intro I want my pinwheel
It was actually PLUS who tried to board the rocket to the moon
Spongebob should've rode on the pin wheel
Fun fact:
"Admiral Bird" was named after Admiral Byrd, who explored Antarctica extensively in the early-mid 20th century.
I was somewhat annoyed when Admiral Bird was chosen as a name for this character. Early on our producer told us she didn’t want stuff that went over the heads of our viewers. Since our target audience was 5 year olds, I felt that this name did precisely that.
20th Century Fox
@@bobbidybobbobThat name was a historical in-joke meant for the parents and teachers, wasn’t it? Of course, in-jokes tend to fly over the heads of children anyway.
2:45 PuRpLe GuY!!!!!!
LMAO…
Pin pin pin pin pin pin pin pinwheel!
Good video but please give me credit for the picture you used at 4:01. My name is Peggy Sue Clay, I own The Classic Nickelodeon Fan Blog and I also own the picture you used at 4:01 of this video. That picture was autographed and sent to me by Craig and Olga who were puppeteers on Pinwheel, it even says: "PICTURE OWNER: PEGGY SUE CLAY." My blog link classic-nickelodeon-fan-blog.blogspot.com/
JellicleKat Awesome picture, sorry I didn’t give credit, I found it on google images, I typically give credit on most things, I updated a pinned comment to shout you out as the picture owner at 4:01 as well as listed you in my description sources. Thanks!
@@DannyBoyTV Thank you. I'm also thankful that you're saying nice things about Pinwheel when so many don't.
Also forgot to mention that Kin was Aurelia’s niece (confirmed on the Pinwheel Songbook VHS video) and there were two actresses who played Coco, C.C. Loveheart from 1977-1981, Lindanell Rivera from 1982-1991.
Clout chaser
Lol
Think you got Plus and Minus backwards.
@@DannyBoyTV Plus was the one trying to get to the moon and was distracted by Minus. Plus was also the more mopey (maybe it was later in the show) and Minus was the more active and upbeat, ironically.
@@DannyBoyTV You can't always rely on Wikipedia. Some of their information is often incorrect.
Please check me out too yall and dani at #DisneyDiva and thank you and be safe and sound 💗
The first show that u showed us was laggy
What do you expect it’s from the 70s lol
I am young I watch max and ruby
It's hard to find as some of the episodes are too old
Also her or him joined 7 years ago
But Guys, If it is showing Pinwheel & Video Comics & By the Way & Nickel Flicks & America Goes Bananaz & Children's Classics & Hocus Focus & First Row Features & PopClips & Special Delivery & What Will They Think of Next! & Dusty's Treehouse & Livewire & Matt and Jenny & Studio See & Adventures in Rainbow Country & Vegetable Soup & Nick's Family Picks & Reggie Jackson's World of Sports & The Tomorrow People (1973) & Kids' Writes & Spread Your Wings & The Adventures of Black Beauty & You Can't Do That on Television & Today's Special & Against the Odds & Standby... Lights! Camera! Action! & The Third Eye & Mr. Wizard's World & Going Great & Spirit Bay & Danger Mouse & Nick Rocks: Video to Go & The Saturday Concert & Belle and Sebastian & Vic's Vacant Lot & Lassie & Powerhouse & Out of Control & Hangin' In & National Geographic Explorer & Turkey Television & The Adventures of the Little Prince & Dennis the Menace & Bananaman & Star Trek: The Animated Series & Curious George & The Mysterious Cities of Gold & The Monkees & Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea & Zoo Family & Rated K: For Kids By Kids & The Bad News Bears & The Shari Show & Maple Town & Adventures of the Little Koala & Miss Peach of the Kelly School & Kids in Motion & Sharon and Lois and Bram's Elephant Show & 16 Cinema & Finders Keepers & The World of David the Gnome & Count Duckula & Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp & Don't Just Sit There! & Kids' Court & Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics & Nickelodeon's Total Panic & Think Fast & Hey Dude & Eureeka’s Castle & Make the Grade & The Patty Duke Show & The Kids of Degrassi Street & Camp Runamuck & SK8-TV & Wild and Crazy Kids & Flipper & Outta Here! & Kidsworld & Cartoon Kablooey & Nick News: Special Edition & Fifteen & Welcome Freshmen & Get the Picture & Clarissa Explains It All & Nickelodeon's Launch Box & Mork and Mindy & Nick Hit List on Nickelodeon, I Hope they would posting all full episodes from Pinwheel & Video Comics & By the Way & Nickel Flicks & America Goes Bananaz & Children's Classics & Hocus Focus & First Row Features & PopClips & Special Delivery & What Will They Think of Next! & Dusty's Treehouse & Livewire & Matt and Jenny & Studio See & Adventures in Rainbow Country & Vegetable Soup & Nick's Family Picks & Reggie Jackson's World of Sports & The Tomorrow People (1973) & Kids' Writes & Spread Your Wings & The Adventures of Black Beauty & You Can't Do That on Television & Today's Special & Against the Odds & Standby... Lights! Camera! Action! & The Third Eye & Mr. Wizard's World & Going Great & Spirit Bay & Danger Mouse & Nick Rocks: Video to Go & The Saturday Concert & Belle and Sebastian & Vic's Vacant Lot & Lassie & Powerhouse & Out of Control & Hangin' In & National Geographic Explorer & Turkey Television & The Adventures of the Little Prince & Dennis the Menace & Bananaman & Star Trek: The Animated Series & Curious George & The Mysterious Cities of Gold & The Monkees & Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea & Zoo Family & Rated K: For Kids By Kids & The Bad News Bears & The Shari Show & Maple Town & Adventures of the Little Koala & Miss Peach of the Kelly School & Kids in Motion & Sharon and Lois and Bram's Elephant Show & 16 Cinema & Finders Keepers & The World of David the Gnome & Count Duckula & Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp & Don't Just Sit There! & Kids' Court & Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics & Nickelodeon's Total Panic & Think Fast & Hey Dude & Eureeka’s Castle & Make the Grade & The Patty Duke Show & The Kids of Degrassi Street & Camp Runamuck & SK8-TV & Wild and Crazy Kids & Flipper & Outta Here! & Kidsworld & Cartoon Kablooey & Nick News: Special Edition & Fifteen & Welcome Freshmen & Get the Picture & Clarissa Explains It All & Nickelodeon's Launch Box & Mork and Mindy & Nick Hit List on Paramount+ 😔
Coco was my favorite 💯
Nickelodeon was created in ohio🤨