I really wish someone would have recorded a full day of old school nickelodeon and put it on a VHS tape because I would definitely buy it. It would be a sweet taste of nostalgia
James Curley I’m sure, using what we know if the schedule, along with every bit of nick we can find online, we probably could piece together a broadcast day in at least 2 or 3 nick eras. Someone needs to try that someday, tbh
OMG OMG OMG!!! Silver City was one of my fave Special Delivery movies!!!! I still have the music on a cassette tape that I taped when it came on Nickelodeon back then!!! AND if that's not cool enought over the weekend I found my "Name the Stars" mini poster!!! Holy crap I wish I had these of DVD/video, both the commercials and the shows!!! Dang thank you SOOOOOOOOOO much for posting these!!!!!!
man standby lights camera action with leonard nemoy that was such a fun show to watch that and mr wizard man and of course you cant do that on television of course three of my favorite shows
Thank you, This brings back memories. I was 6 years old in 1983 and our local cable company had just gotten nickelodeon. I remember watching a lot of these shows at the times they had listed and from this i remembered some that i have forgotten. Thank you again
There's a great book called Nickelodeon Nation that's full of essays about how Nick took over and rebranded kids TV, and it talks a lot about how the whole network changed in about 1985-86 from the "eat your green vegetables" network to the slime and orange goo fest we know and love.
Wow. This is some great stuff. I grew up with Nick in the '90s, actually, but it was definitely good then, too. Music check: 4:38 is "Energy II" by Craig Palmer, also from Network Music.
The live ball drop in Times Square only applies to the East Coast but you can see it live in the Midwest also. The West Coast edition is tape-delayed but you might see the ball drop at 12:59 AM in Denver.
Stratego was the best board game! My friends and I used to play it for hours back in the 1980s when board games were popular. I also had Simon. Awesome system! Nowadays kids just wanna play with their Playstations etc. Pretty sad.
@Marbles471 I was 13 in 1983...this is indeed very nostalgic for me! You do have good insight into early 1980's TV. Not to worry...this is why YT was invented!
I remember most of these shows from when I was a kid, we got cable around that time (1983) "They had some really good shows back then and I miss the pinball they used to have.
Aww man, this brings back memories of the good 'ol days. I lived in the Bronx, and back then Cable wasn't accessible to my area, just something called WHT. However, when I'd go to the Poconos on vacation, I'd watch all these shows! Lucky for us, Cablevision was beginning to get offered to our area in 90s, so we didn't need to venture too far to watch it. Nostalgia at its best!
Standby lights Camera Action was hosted by Leonard "Spock" Nimoy. it was a pretty good show although they had a tendancy to play the same episodes over and over. The one I remember they played the most was the behind the scenes of "Return to OZ".
Awesome stuff, but now I officially feel old. I remember seeing most of these commercials (especially the Honey Smacks). What a sweet trip down memory lane. Being a kid in the early/mid 80's was the best!
Hi I got this on vhs I guessing it one that had been going around for years nows in the tape trading world. Even down to the channel change Before the Simon game . I love watching old shows with the commercials for that time period .
that is actually the sound of the videotape/satellite equipment used to broadcast television footage to your home. essentially, most television stations (with the exception of live programming) run on a series of videotapes, each carrying a set of commercials, promos, or an episode of a program. I always heard the sounds too in the late 80s and into the early 90s when watching TV. Essentially, those tones indicated to the system what tape to play next....
In its early years Nick showed its programs simultaneously on both coasts; now programs are generally seen in this manner in New York and Chicago on one feed and in Denver and Los Angeles on another. CBS, on the other hand, would begin its primetime lineup simultaneously in NY and Chicago and one hour later in Denver (for example, I saw a Charlie & Company promo that read "8/7 Central & Mountain;" when it's 7 in Central, it's 6 in Mountain).
I miss Muppet magazine! I was crazy about it. I wish I'd saved all my issues. Unfortunately I was stupid and only saved two, which are both missing pages.
@newkillergenius in the 80's it was the game show Double Dare with Mark Summers that saved that network. they need to bring back some of the old game shows, the green slime and everything else that made NIck the 1st network for kids.
It's very fascinating that around this time Nickelodeon did pathetically in ratings outside Pinwheel and You Can't Do That on Television and was very close to death. It got lucky, because back then nobody knew it would make a hard rebound.
The Third Eye...Livewire...The Tomorrow People...Standby...LIghts! Camera! Action! with Leonard (MR. SPOCK!!!) Nimoy. Wow. I remember all this from our VERY FIRST year of cable back in May 1983, when COX Cable New Orleans exploded onto the scene. How far we've come since then... :-)
"It's almost over. they should have a Nick rock 80's Block and a Nick rewind channel on a Nick Rewind channel. 6:00 The Smurfs 6:30. DangerMouse 7:00 YCDTOT 7:30 Dusty's Treehouse 8:00 Going Great 8:30 Tomorroe's People 9:00 Mr. Wizard's World 9:30 Third Eye 10:00 Out of Control 10:30 Livewire 11:00 standby."
@acer3573 I was 15 that year in March. I used to watch Nickelodeon because i really liked the Tomorrow People, the rock concerts at night, and You Cant do that on Television.That was the same year that i got into USA networks Night Flight on friday nights. I started watching Nickelodeon in 1982.
Wow what happen to the good ol' days when kids used to be happy with a simple toy ..now they want iPods and ipads :( I wish I could go back in time one more time! :(
wow Lennard nimoy, the original uncut star wars, petticoat fashion, dr who style sci fi shows, the old universal studios, good r&b and the muppets as depicted by jim henson and all that on a fta satellite network IM HOME
Do I remember Ivan Tellalie, Dr. Joyce Sisters, Uncle Hogram, Mr. Fuddle, and all sorts of weird comedy clips from around the world? Do I remember seeing the video for Fish Heads and the standup act of an unknown named Dana Carney? It's a possibility.
Wow...some interesting programs in the 80s. I would've liked to have seen that "lights, camera, action" one. But I didn't start watching Nickelodeon until the early 90s.
Does anyone know the music playing @ 3:32? ACC Basketball games during '83 played that same theme. BTW,this clip rocks on so many levels. Long live classic Nick!
And also I think why they probably must of had the silver ball logo for only a few years back in the early 80's and the orange splat/slime logo for the rest of their life was probably because they thought that the silver ball logo was cheesy in a kind of way. I also noticed that the orange slime logo looked way cooler and less cheesier than the silver ball logo. That's just my probability.
Really only for the first four or five years...I was born the same year Nickelodeon started, and I vaguely remember some of the shows here - the Standby show, for one. But when I got to be 5-6 years old I started watching regularly and there were more cartoons & non-educational programming showing up. Mr. Wizard was a holdout, but besides that they really cut back on it by around '85-'86.
I remember most of those shows and some of those commercials. Silver City I dont remember. Christopher Makepeace the host of "Going Great, but I saw on IMDB so was Keanu Reeves? Whoah. But I defintely miss "You cant do that on television" that marathon of a show "Pinwheel" even when they showed reruns of the 'Monkees'
Control tones used to tell equipment at a TV station or local cable system when a program begins or ends so they can put their own content (usually local commercials) in it's place. Kind of weird to find these tones in the *middle* of a program.
I would pay somebody if they could come up with some clips from Dusty's Treehouse. That's the only old Nickelodeon show that I haven't seen a hint of on youtube.
Nickelodeon changed over time from a small, local, educational children's television channel broadcasting in Columbus, Ohio in the Early 1980's, to a worldwide children's phenomenon TV station in the 1990's, and then Became a not so educational, and not so good channel for the older kids with shows for the older kids. very fewer cartoons then it was back in the 1990's. I don't know why they had the Silver Ball logo for a few years and the Orange slime logo after that for the rest of their life.
Cable was slow in coming to my part of PA. My babysitter had Nick (I was 8 in '83), and my days were stuffed full of Pinwheel, YCDTOT, and the like. Oh, and trying to call DIAL MTV every afternoon to try and get them to play David Bowie songs. LOL
I really wish someone would have recorded a full day of old school nickelodeon and put it on a VHS tape because I would definitely buy it.
It would be a sweet taste of nostalgia
James Curley I’m sure, using what we know if the schedule, along with every bit of nick we can find online, we probably could piece together a broadcast day in at least 2 or 3 nick eras.
Someone needs to try that someday, tbh
Man...that was really truly 80's retro,it really took me back. I sure miss the old Nick as well,an awful lot.
never see that coming
3:14 I love the DTMF tones. I wish they still had them on TV.
What was the technical purpose of these tones?
@@reedrothchild4013 Back in the Satellite days, they were signals to run the Network ID or Indent.
@@Tornado1994 They also signaled the start and end of ad breaks.
I do recall that there are some channels that may still do that but mostly those are like Spanish vintage movies
I leared Time Zones from Nickelodeon. Thanks Nick!
OMG OMG OMG!!! Silver City was one of my fave Special Delivery movies!!!! I still have the music on a cassette tape that I taped when it came on Nickelodeon back then!!! AND if that's not cool enought over the weekend I found my "Name the Stars" mini poster!!! Holy crap I wish I had these of DVD/video, both the commercials and the shows!!!
Dang thank you SOOOOOOOOOO much for posting these!!!!!!
man standby lights camera action with leonard nemoy that was such a fun show to watch that and mr wizard man and of course you cant do that on television of course three of my favorite shows
2:14 Rest in peace
Thank you, This brings back memories. I was 6 years old in 1983 and our local cable company had just gotten nickelodeon. I remember watching a lot of these shows at the times they had listed and from this i remembered some that i have forgotten. Thank you again
The music from 3:23-3:53 was also used as the
music for commercials for the ONTV subscription
television service.
i'm 32, we didnt get cable til about 85 but this is great to see the very beginning of Nick that we missed only by a year or so.
There's a great book called Nickelodeon Nation that's full of essays about how Nick took over and rebranded kids TV, and it talks a lot about how the whole network changed in about 1985-86 from the "eat your green vegetables" network to the slime and orange goo fest we know and love.
Actually it started changing during 1984-85.
The 80's were very fun. I was 'old enough to be aware' in 1984. And I tell you, it was strange, exciting and fun
Wow. This is some great stuff. I grew up with Nick in the '90s, actually, but it was definitely good then, too.
Music check: 4:38 is "Energy II" by Craig Palmer, also from Network Music.
this is amazing. never saw any 80s nick stuff till now
Makes me kind of sad to watch it but then again it brings a smile and fond memories.............
I forgot how much the "silver ball" was an icon for Nickelodeon.
WOW! I forgot that Nick ever looked like this. Thanks for sharing!
30 years ago.....wow.
When they stopped showing Pinwheel, ( the show that the station was named after for a while) it was the beginning of the end.
You kidding? Nickelodeon was at its peak in the 1990s
@@morbidsearch Yeah
They weren't named pinwheel at the start, they were called C-3.
Wow. It's pretty wild to see what nickelodeon was like back in the early days.
I don't remember Nick until 1986...I guess we didn't get it where I lived then....I still love "you can't do that on T.V."
aww good memories i was only a little kid in 83 but today is not the same anymore
thanks for posting this, so so much! brings back so many memories!
This is SO vague, yet so MEMORABLE. Wow, Return of the Jedi just came out!
The live ball drop in Times Square only applies to the East Coast but you can see it live in the Midwest also. The West Coast edition is tape-delayed but you might see the ball drop at 12:59 AM in Denver.
Stratego was the best board game! My friends and I used to play it for hours back in the 1980s when board games were popular. I also had Simon. Awesome system! Nowadays kids just wanna play with their Playstations etc. Pretty sad.
@Marbles471 I was 13 in 1983...this is indeed very nostalgic for me! You do have good insight into early 1980's TV.
Not to worry...this is why YT was invented!
I remember most of these shows from when I was a kid, we got cable around that time (1983)
"They had some really good shows back then and I miss the pinball they used to have.
Holy crap, does this all bring back memories....
i miss the 80s so much
Aww man, this brings back memories of the good 'ol days. I lived in the Bronx, and back then Cable wasn't accessible to my area, just something called WHT. However, when I'd go to the Poconos on vacation, I'd watch all these shows! Lucky for us, Cablevision was beginning to get offered to our area in 90s, so we didn't need to venture too far to watch it. Nostalgia at its best!
It just wouldn't be 80s Nickelodeon without the DTMF tones to signal to the cable provider to switch in/out local advertising!
Standby lights Camera Action was hosted by Leonard "Spock" Nimoy. it was a pretty good show although they had a tendancy to play the same episodes over and over. The one I remember they played the most was the behind the scenes of "Return to OZ".
That's the same thing today with SpongeBob, but that's because it's AWESOME!!!!!!
Awesome stuff, but now I officially feel old. I remember seeing most of these commercials (especially the Honey Smacks). What a sweet trip down memory lane. Being a kid in the early/mid 80's was the best!
I would've liked Standby Lights Camera Action. R.I.P Leonard Nimoy :(
It was an awesome show!
what year Leonard died
@@DEADCHANNELASOFDECEMBER 2015 I think
Hi I got this on vhs I guessing it one that had been going around for years nows in the tape trading world. Even down to the channel change Before the Simon game . I love watching old shows with the commercials for that time period .
The other movie review show Nick had was called "Rated K" ("For Kids, By Kids") It was only on for a couple of years in the late 80's.
Watching Third Eye and Tomorrow People as kid = Lifetime love of science fiction
that is actually the sound of the videotape/satellite equipment used to broadcast television footage to your home. essentially, most television stations (with the exception of live programming) run on a series of videotapes, each carrying a set of commercials, promos, or an episode of a program. I always heard the sounds too in the late 80s and into the early 90s when watching TV. Essentially, those tones indicated to the system what tape to play next....
Yeah! I loved watching all of those shows!
In its early years Nick showed its programs simultaneously on both coasts; now programs are generally seen in this manner in New York and Chicago on one feed and in Denver and Los Angeles on another. CBS, on the other hand, would begin its primetime lineup simultaneously in NY and Chicago and one hour later in Denver (for example, I saw a Charlie & Company promo that read "8/7 Central & Mountain;" when it's 7 in Central, it's 6 in Mountain).
I miss Muppet magazine! I was crazy about it. I wish I'd saved all my issues. Unfortunately I was stupid and only saved two, which are both missing pages.
This is TV Gold
The only commercial I remember is that "My Great Recipes" commercial they played over and over and over. I could recite it from memory.
Third Eye used to scare be bejeeeeezus outta me... I loved it!
Now *this* is the Nickelodeon I knew and loved! The Tomorrow People was the best, of course.
The four time zone schedule... so retro.
@newkillergenius in the 80's it was the game show Double Dare with Mark Summers that saved that network. they need to bring back some of the old game shows, the green slime and everything else that made NIck the 1st network for kids.
What was always with that dail tone effect, I remember that now, and thought it was the coolest thing ever.
This was life was like before I was born.
holy shit, that simon says commercial is The Police's DeDooDooDoo!
Ah yes, Muppet Magazine. Finally, a magazine by Muppets, for Muppets.
Many cable channels have different feeds for different places, though I think E! Entertainment has only one. News channels are the same way too.
I remember the Honey Smacks ad! The teacher (Beverly Archer) played "Gunny" Bricker on Major Dad!
Damn... so that's what Nick was like before Rugrats and the other Nicktoons came along.
This was easily 1984 due to the addition of ads such as Simon, Stratego and the futuristic-styled "Nick... NICKELODEON!" campaign.
Way before Nick even got in touch with JoJo Siwa, the NFL or even _That Girl LayLay_
Or, in that case, The Loud House.
It's very fascinating that around this time Nickelodeon did pathetically in ratings outside Pinwheel and You Can't Do That on Television and was very close to death. It got lucky, because back then nobody knew it would make a hard rebound.
The Third Eye...Livewire...The Tomorrow People...Standby...LIghts! Camera! Action! with Leonard (MR. SPOCK!!!) Nimoy. Wow. I remember all this from our VERY FIRST year of cable back in May 1983, when COX Cable New Orleans exploded onto the scene.
How far we've come since then... :-)
Live long and prosper in Heaven, Spock. 🖖
I remember that sound too....
"It's almost over.
they should have a Nick rock 80's Block and a Nick rewind channel on a Nick Rewind channel.
6:00 The Smurfs
6:30. DangerMouse
7:00 YCDTOT
7:30 Dusty's Treehouse
8:00 Going Great
8:30 Tomorroe's People
9:00 Mr. Wizard's World
9:30 Third Eye
10:00 Out of Control
10:30 Livewire
11:00 standby."
@acer3573 I was 15 that year in March. I used to watch Nickelodeon because i really liked the Tomorrow People, the rock concerts at night, and You Cant do that on Television.That was the same year that i got into USA networks Night Flight on friday nights. I started watching Nickelodeon in 1982.
RIP Nickelodeon.
This taught me about time zones
"Simon says go longer and faster. When you do, you'll be the master"
That's what she said, LMAO
_Simon, the "do what I do" computer game from MB Electronics_
Wow what happen to the good ol' days when kids used to be happy with a simple toy ..now they want iPods and ipads :( I wish I could go back in time one more time! :(
wow Lennard nimoy, the original uncut star wars, petticoat fashion, dr who style sci fi shows, the old universal studios, good r&b and the muppets as depicted by jim henson and all that on a fta satellite network IM HOME
hey anyone besides me remember turkey tv on nickelodeon
"Anywhere they've got t.v., Herman Turkey's there. Bringin' it home to Hollywood and puttin' it on the air on
Tur-key Tur-key T V !!!"
Do I remember Ivan Tellalie, Dr. Joyce Sisters, Uncle Hogram, Mr. Fuddle, and all sorts of weird comedy clips from around the world? Do I remember seeing the video for Fish Heads and the standup act of an unknown named Dana Carney?
It's a possibility.
Wow...some interesting programs in the 80s. I would've liked to have seen that "lights, camera, action" one. But I didn't start watching Nickelodeon until the early 90s.
I have an older sister who was born on Oct. 21 of that year; 1983.
Recorded in Chicago, IL.
Does anyone remember an early Nick show that basically showed comic books set to music and narration? I think it was called Video Comics.
I agree it was around 95-96 where it went downhill.
I used to like those locker jocks on you cant do that on tv
It looked as if Nick used the Frankfurter font a lot before using a brush script.
This video itself is a decade old now...
Does anyone know the music playing @ 3:32? ACC Basketball games during '83 played that same theme.
BTW,this clip rocks on so many levels. Long live classic Nick!
I was born in the mid 90s, but I Feel like I was alive around this Time & have seen these commercials! Weird..
Song at 3:23 is High Combustion by Craig Palmer.
@crazykidsdad
It was a digital code signal thing for commercial switches. The sound is also at the start of some old VHS tapes.
The attitude that transformed Nickelodeon into what we have today.
Do da do! That Simon commercial is ace. XD
And also I think why they probably must of had the silver ball logo for only a few years back in the early 80's and the orange splat/slime logo for the rest of their life was probably because they thought that the silver ball logo was cheesy in a kind of way. I also noticed that the orange slime logo looked way cooler and less cheesier than the silver ball logo. That's just my probability.
back when the remote could change the TV from 100 feet away and pointing in the wrong derection
I can't believe this is from 30 years.
31 now
You Can't Do That on Television. Wow!!!!
I won that Blue Nickelodeon tshirt in that contest at the end of the video!
3:07-3:23 I
Really only for the first four or five years...I was born the same year Nickelodeon started, and I vaguely remember some of the shows here - the Standby show, for one. But when I got to be 5-6 years old I started watching regularly and there were more cartoons & non-educational programming showing up. Mr. Wizard was a holdout, but besides that they really cut back on it by around '85-'86.
Wow, Nick has changed LOTS.
I remember most of those shows and some of those commercials. Silver City I dont remember. Christopher Makepeace the host of "Going Great, but I saw on IMDB so was Keanu Reeves? Whoah.
But I defintely miss "You cant do that on television" that marathon of a show "Pinwheel" even when they showed reruns of the 'Monkees'
Control tones used to tell equipment at a TV station or local cable system when a program begins or ends so they can put their own content (usually local commercials) in it's place.
Kind of weird to find these tones in the *middle* of a program.
I would pay somebody if they could come up with some clips from Dusty's Treehouse. That's the only old Nickelodeon show that I haven't seen a hint of on youtube.
"Viola" from Mama's Family in a Honey Smacks commercial? She was always funny. She always made the funniest faces.
0:00 Glowsticks: OK for safety, great for clubbing
@BrotherBearAZ Me too, it just felt different enough not to feel it had to complete with the "Big Three" in those days.
Nickelodeon changed over time from a small, local, educational children's television channel broadcasting in Columbus, Ohio in the Early 1980's, to a worldwide children's phenomenon TV station in the 1990's, and then Became a not so educational, and not so good channel for the older kids with shows for the older kids. very fewer cartoons then it was back in the 1990's. I don't know why they had the Silver Ball logo for a few years and the Orange slime logo after that for the rest of their life.
Based on the contest date, this was shown in December '83. I turned 10 that month.
You sure this wasn't '84, dude? People tell me Nick didn't do commercials til '84.
@@sweetinlover1989 "1983 Nickelodeon commercials"
"Contest ends December 19th!"
Cable was slow in coming to my part of PA. My babysitter had Nick (I was 8 in '83), and my days were stuffed full of Pinwheel, YCDTOT, and the like. Oh, and trying to call DIAL MTV every afternoon to try and get them to play David Bowie songs. LOL
On June 1,1984, Nick went full open circuited.
Man, I remember when this channel was decent. It's hard to believe how far downhill it has gone. Sign of our times, I suppose.
I always wondered, why DID Kellogg's choose a FROG as the Honey Smacks mascot?