And that is how i learned Degrassi is a full on franchise going back to 1979 and isn't just that one teen drama i saw ads and never bothered with. Or was reminded, i may how known this before at some point.
Spongey444 The original "Kids of Degrassi Street" dealt with what was considered real world issues of everyday kids, in this case, ones living in a Toronto suburb. That was an actual street there that had that grocery store on the corner, a friend of mine once took a picture of it before it closed for good and became something else.
"Is it a cartoon?" You might get junk, or you might get a group of shorts from some country where they don't speak english OR you might get A cartoon movie like Riki-Tiki.
I did not know that there was an Engelbert Humperdinck from the XIX century. I knew about the XX century one, the singer, but I did not know that he took his stage name from the composer.
As far as Nickelodeon airing sports. I am pretty sure they aired some Pop Warner football games one year, at least edited versions of them. I could be mistaken, but I remember a special airing Pop Warner games that I am pretty sure was on Nickelodeon.
4:40 Along with concert films of Duran Duran, The Cars, David Johansen and Quarterflash, there were also concert specials of Utopia, Rick Derringer, The Cars, Split Enz, The Darts, The Police, Toto and Ian Hunter, among others. Also, the David Johansen concert actually aired in 1981, not 1982
“Chocky” was more like a complete miniseries than anything else. I remember first seeing both “Chocky” and the New Zealand science fiction miniseries/special “Night of the Red Hunter” on Nickelodeon’s Special Delivery, and they were both complete series/stories. “Night of The Red Hunter” wasn’t a pilot for Nickelodeon to pick up a series option. It already had a completed storyline by the time Nickelodeon got the rights to air it. Same for “Chocky”.
29:30 dynaman suprises me, i was this on NIGHT FLIGHTS when i was first getting into stoner culture in the late 80's (ironically i didn't get stoned until 93')
The two Dynaman episodes that aired in 1988 were an hour-length pilot with "Cy Steinberg" and "Rhinoman" as the monsters, combining two overdubbed episodes of the Sentai show with a couple short comedy bumpers from the "producer" of the show basically talking about his kids franchise would dominate America. I remember seeing it as a kid on a local NBC station after Saturday morning cartoons and then popping up a few months later on Nickelodeon. The first two episodes were way better than the other four Night Flight dubbed, with 4/5ths of the future "Kids in the Hall" comedy ensemble doing the writing for those, a lot of pop culture jokes, and a rockin' illegally dubbed soundtrack that perfectly synced up with the action (i.e. Billy Idol, Huey Lewis and the News, Bon Jovi, etc.). Only a couple of the voice actors/writers were involved in the other four episodes. I'd suggest tracking those down and you'd get a better idea for the original vision of the project, a combination of Woody Allen's "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" with an 80s MTV music video. It was something people liked and Night Flight tried to dub more on the cheap.
Oh, and Super Sentai Nerd Fact! The first Super Sentai to air in America, I believe, was "Battle Fever J", which aired with subtitles on Hawaiian television in.... you know I'm not sure about the year. Probably shortly after it aired in Japan in 1979. Those subtitles are still available today if you dig hard enough, but since then it's been scrubbed, a fansub group has redone it from scratch, etc.
When I got cable in 1992, this aired for two hours on Saturdays and Sundays (I think it was both days, could have just been Sundays). Then near the end of Spring 1993 it was replaced with a programming block called Nick Mania, where they showed two-hour marathons of a different show, with a quiz during commercial breaks. And then in Summer 1993 it was replaced with Muppet Matinee, a two-hour block of Muppet specials (a handful of Muppet specials had aired as part of Special Delivery in the past year) on Saturdays while that time slot on Sundays went to the premier of Nickelodeon Weinderville, which initially lasted two hours (each half hour would later be shown on their own).
These videos are really fascinating, they are giving me nostalgia for something I never experienced, imagining myself home from school binging Nickelodeon on a snow day in 1980
This is actually the first series you have covered that I watched because it aired for such long a long period of time. I remember watching Special Delivery in the late 80s. It brings back tons of memories!
32:00 Don't forget this was still an era when we still thought of Asian countries like this. Often parodies of Japanese monster movies always had weird accents and fast dialog they gave actors in order to play up the bad dubbing often associated with dubbing foreign productions (especially from Japan). This was a mindset that lasted for quite a while into the 90's. Anyone who seen the English dubbed version of Robot Carnival (an anime anthology) may recall similar voices heard during the segment "A Tale of Two Robots". Again, that was how we associated Japanese kaiju/tokusatsu productions, often due to poor distribution, presentation and representation of said work. Also of note, such interest in something like this didn't really happen yet, especially with anime. We were still getting kid's fare for the most part, and you had that small group of people who obviously knew there was something to this, but their voices weren't really heard yet in those pre-internet days).
I remember trying to tell my friends for years about Dynaman. With it not showing a lot people thought I dreamed it. Now in a full circle moment Super Sentai based shows air on Nickelodeon.
Now Nickelodeon is broadcasting NFL games. Also, Reservation Dogs is the closest thing we have to a modern day Spirit Bay (and its creators are Indigenous, as is its cast).
I do hate to be that guy, and maybe you've addressed it since (I just discovered the show and have been watching in order), but there was an extremely MAJOR sports scandal in the pre-VHS era. The Black Sox scandal, in which the 1919 World Series was fixed, and eight members of the team took bribes to underperform.
Was just going to make this comment but wanted to check if someone else had. I hated to be that guy, either, but it was a big deal and did threaten the integrity of the sport, his exact words.
Here three years later for the same reason. I don't think it's being that guy to want to share one of the most interesting stories in American sports history.
Call it mystery television as Special Delivery was an outlet for Nickelodeon that could be anything at anytime for an up to 2 hour block primary on weekends. Rock concerts, animated cartoons, afterschool specials, sporting events, and heck, even precursors to future shows to what Dynoman did with the Power Rangers. As veteran game show host-producer Jack Barry puts it, Special Delivery was the grab bag, potluck, & secret category of Nickelodeon.
(Coming to this very late, as I only just discovered this channel thanks to What A Cartoon) My strongest memories of Special Delivery in chrono order are: 1) seeing ads for it when I was maybe six years old and it was forty percent concert videos, and not really caring because I didn't have any real interest in music yet 2) Revenge of the Humanoids (thank you for including a clip) which I swear I've had occasional dreams about for 25 years and should really just find a way to acquire 3) "Somewhere Else", a short film that appears to have fallen down the memory hole but also ran on A&E, about a kid who contacts aliens via a Simon-style electronic toy 4) The weird Burbank Films (Australia) animated adaptations of classical literature: Ivanhoe, Master of the World and Last of the Mohicans stick out for whatever reason 5) Endless repeats of Saban's Grimm Fairy Tales 6) being annoyed that the Special Delivery of 4-5 seemed so much lamer than the stuff I was too young to enjoy in 82-84.
17:50 The reason Nickelodeon could do that (and wasn't bothered by the networks) is because the networks (more often than not) didn't produce the specials at all. As outside productions, once the airings were met by the network (1-2 runs at most) the production companies were free to sell it to anyone. Remember too that networks viewed these afternoon special programs as series, so they wanted to stay and seem new.
Guts... When I think of nickelodeon and sports... Guts comes to mind.... oh... and what was that show with the three teams?........ 🤔 you know with Omar... "damn brain" ... and not feeling like Googling... cause it's 3:25am and you shouldn't be going down the rabbit hole of nostalgia but here we are...
Haven’t seen this since I was 7 in 1991 I was 9 in 1993 they showed animations,specials and movies one I remember was tin mouse and the witch one too 👍
There was a movie aired through Special Delivery called "Somewhere Else" that reminds me of the Are You Afraid of the Dark? episode "The Tale of the Thirteenth Floor".
Dynaman was awesome and hilarious for its time. When it came out in 1988, most people never heard of this type of stuff so they had never seen anything like it. I don't think anyone past the age of five thought that it was trying to be a legit translation of conversion of the original. Sure nowadays people might not give it any notice but at the time it was very entertaining. Everyone I talked to at school thought it was hilarious. It was like MST3K before there was MST3K. Granted you probably could not make 50 episodes of something like this, but for its short run, it was great fun. Nobody took it seriously at all. The joke was that it actually existed. It was making fun of itself.
I hate to be morbid but if you do a video on Sk8-TV you might touch upon the story of Mike "Gator" Rogowski who I believe was featured on the show several times. Rogowski was a brilliant skater who suddenly started exhibiting some VERY bizarre behavior including legally changing his name to Mark Anthony after the Roman General. In 1992 one year after the show ended Rogowski was arrested for murdering his wife's best friend. If you want to learn the whole story you can watch the documentary "Stoked" The Rise & Fall of Gator.
I've found evidence in newspaper TV listings that Special Delivery began airing on Nick as early as April 1980. I've documented what I've found so far on the show's Wikipedia page, with proper citations: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Delivery_(TV_series)
There was a Special Delivery feature that was either a cartoon or stop-motion about a guy going on a fantastical adventure. Sorta reminded me of a kid-version of The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen because how far he went and the strange things he encountered. This must've aired sometime from 1986-1989. On scene I remember, because it was sorta tragic, was that the main hero and his friends come across an island that nobody can get to because something on the island is producing powerful winds that keeps all ships away. Yet they arrive on the island but get stranded for a bit. They meet the source of the winds, a man who has the power to cause great wind storms every time he sneezes, and the reason he's constantly sneezing is because that island produces fruit of which its blossoms he's allergic to, hence he's been stranded because no ship can rescue him. Eventually, the main character and others find a means off the island (like a raft or something) and agree to take the sneezing man off the island, but being the last to board, he winds up sneezing, sending the heroes' raft away, leaving him stranded once again. Now, my memory might not be as keen on what REALLY happened (see the whole Clock Man deal), and I might've gotten some things wrong, but the gist of it is there. Sadly, I don't recall other parts of that program. Remember when IMDb had message boards and a board solely dedicated to asking questions (any and every thing about movies or tv shows)? I asked it there and people pointed me to a Baron Munchhausen animated cartoon, which I think might've also played on Special Delivery (recall the "riding on cannonballs" scene), but I don't think that was it. It was another fantastical journey. Used to love those kinds of tales and I love the work you are doing with Nick Knacks! Keep it up!
1904 was the last time the Olympics had cross country. That Olympics marathon was the maddest thing ever. The cross country had similar issues but not as bad. These issues were due to bad officiating.
For a year or two in the early '90s Nick also showed the Pop Warner Football national championship of some sort, I think at least one of which was also under the Special Delivery banner. Other than airing on tape delay and probably edited to fit into a 2-hour window, it was exactly the same as your standard football telecast of the day, with straight-laced play-by-play and color analysis, sideline reports, etc. It was the closest I ever remember Nick actually broadcasting a "true" sporting event and not a game show or one involving slime or gimmickry.
I had to stop and google it but I DO remember grimm's fairy tales, but the only parts I remember were the commercial bumpers... so I do have some vague memories of this miniseries. definitely inching closer to the stuff for which I have the fondest memories, I can't wait! don't remember dynaman but there's definitely some irony in nick getting MMPR many many years later!
electric grandmother i remember watching that. i the information on it says it aired on HBO but i don't remember watching it there i remembered seeing it on nickelodeon or usa network
Thanks for doing this. I vaguely remember a couple animated movies on Nickelodeon from my childhood I remember liking, but couldn't remember enough to actually search for them. I looked up Special Delivery and found those episodes. They were part of Grimm Fairy Tales shown in 1989. Couldn't have done it without you!
Great video as always. Of those four choices Spirit Bay was probably the best to talk about, but I'd still be curious to hear you discuss the others, especially Chocky and Cuckoo Land, the former being creepy in a way that only 80s British children's dramas could be, and the latter as I remember elements of that show so vividly from watching it on ABC Australia back in the 80s yet could never remember the title, just that it had this ultra-colourful cartoonish look, a sarcastic narrator and a grumpy old neighbour who lived in a literal tree house.
he Box of Delights did get a full showing on Nick. The 3 hour miniseries reedited into 2 hours. It deserves a full feature because it's a groundbreaking landmark in British kids' TV, and arguably spawned the next stage of heritage British kids TV drama, the bridge between the Sunday classic stuff that Children's Classics showcased and the stuff that PBS/Wonderworks/Disney channel showed, Narnia, the Borrowers, etc. It was the most expensive BBC children's drama ever at that point, was coproduced with the BBC by a Christian video company called Lella and the aforementioned Wonderworks, starred Patrick Troughton as a time-travelling magician/tramp (yes, he was cast as a deliberate throwback to Doctor Who, even though this series was considerably more expensive than Doctor Who had ever been) and Sir Robert Stephens as an evil minister/magician, Abner Brown.
I'm a Super Sentai and Tokusatsu fan but this the first I've ever heard of Dynaman being shown on Nickelodeon. I love all the new things I learn from watching this documentary series!
Spirit Bay episodes were also shown on USA's weekend morning "Calliope" series which was nearly similar to Special Delivery. When SD was good, it was fun to watch, if it was the 2 hour "Box Of Secrets" for the umpteenth time, it was the signal to do something else. I remember "Fat Chance", "Summer Switch" and "It's Not Easy Being A Teenage Millionaire" along with the Grimm Fairy Tales episodes being on the most.
I've seen one episode of Dynaman, and it's the one that involved kidnapping brides or whatever. I don't even think I finished watching it, as much as I was interested in the Sentai series. Oh, and my avatar is the Chodenshi Bioman emblem.
Forever I've been trying to identify the show that referenced Thunder Bay, and figured it must have been from Special Delivery. Now I'm pretty sure it's from Spirit Bay. So thanks!
I remember a show that aired in the afternoon when I was sick from school in maybe sometimes between 89 or 90 or 91 or maybe even 92 or 93 (I was very young) of 3 kids and one was in a wheel chair and him and one of the other kids (a female) didn’t get along. That’s it. That’s all I remember. I’m wondering if it came from this series. I remember it having an 80s vibe to it, and it was definitely on Nickelodeon.
Thank you for this. Special Delivery in Nick' s history is the first show I remember. It was still airing when Nicktoons were starting out. Now if you excuse me, I am going to look up why I remember the CBS Schoolbreak Special.
I remember both ABC and CBS doing these in the 80's. I suppose we used to joke about them as well given the typical plots often covered. They certainly died out at least during the early 90's I think.
Christopher Sobieniak I remember watching the ABC AfterSchool Special at the end of it's run in about 1995/1996. I was 9 or 10. I remember the opening to CBS Schoolbreak Special almost exactly as it appears on the video. Which shocks me because I was 3 or 4 in the late 80s/early 1990s.
Angel Young By the time ABC's run ending, I was already a senior in high school! Sad they didn't keep it going if it gave the networks an excuse to cover the 3 hour E/I rule.
Christopher Sobieniak I only know that in my area, 4pm was given to Oprah (which is a syndicated show.) The AfterSchool special had that 1 hour time once a month. So the affiliate shuffle seems like it can be a bit too much. So I can understand that show getting cancelled. ABC DID have a very similar show on Saturday morning called the Weekend Special (which I hated one of their openings so I refuse to acknowledge it until now) which could have fallen under the E/I thing. Also take into account that in the mid 1990s Disney acquired Capitol Cities/ABC so that may have factored into both shows dying. I remember the Saturday show running a little bit longer after the Afternoon show ended and there may have been a name change. ABC at that time really had no excuse to end the Saturday show (aside from low ratings) because it seems that whole lineup didn't have any interference with affiliates or wanting to run Good Morning America on the weekend (at that time, now it seems that the news portion is hungry for more Good Morning America.)
Angel Young Normally 4PM was when they aired these. I suppose affiliates either chose to play these or not depending on how tight they were with the schedules or just didn't want to dump Oprah for it.
11:47 Its funny you say that because Nick just broadcasted an NFL wild card game between the Saints and Bears a few days ago while having some teens doing live commentary. They even had their own graphics for the game including an animated, orange and green colored first down line. Maybe sports on Nick will make a comeback and they are testing the waters.
All I can recall of this program was that there was a very creepy episode that ended with a close up of a woman's mouth screaming "I won't go without Danny!" over and over. (At least I THINK the name was "Danny." Could be wrong.) That one film spooked me so badly I never watched Special Delivery again lol
I was old enough to have seen this but I remember nothing about this, absolutely nothing, but I remember the Adventures of T-Rex, something most people don't remember. In all honesty, while it's fun seeing the history of Nick, I can't wait until you get to Nicktoons, SNICK, and the Adventures of Pete and Pete.
Oh wow, I remember Special Delivery. Mostly the animated intros and the commercial promos, but also the random movies or shows they'd air at like, 6 in the morning. I definitely remember seeing the movie version of Molly's Pilgrim, which I'd read the book of already.
I didn't know they'd aired that stop-motion, opera-inspired Hansel and Gretel. I would've been eight and two months. (The changes in the fairy tale originated with Humperdinck's opera.)
29:26 Holy crap! Super Sentai!! Whaaat?!? Note: Stan Lee tried to bring it here in the 80s. Of course... He failed. Thus Saban tried and failed. Tried again and Power Rangers was born. Nickelodeon ha Power Rangers buuut... It's bad. It was bad from the start from 2011... Dino Charge was the only one that was ok.
@@animefan25 to clarify, after the success of the Japanese Spider-Man series, they wanted to make a Captain America series next with a Captain Japan side character. That idea fell through but Toei decided to use some elements to create Battle Fever J. I think I read some where that J to Sun Vulcan were produced under the original Marvel deal.
😳 so Cuckoo land WAS a real thing... all this Time I thought it was a fever dream I had about a car sales man who becomes a vampire space pirate and a bunch of kids save the day because why? I forget a whole lot of it except for the trippy intro. I tried looking for this on UA-cam and I cant find it anywhere...
The first half of 20th century American sports were riddled with scandal but they were almost all gambling-related: the Black Sox, the CCNY college basketball point-shaving scandal, Paul Hornung, etc. That is, athletes throwing games rather than winning illegally. Major cheating scandals were much less of a thing, or maybe more accurately just more glossed over. Even the major NCAA academic/recruiting/player-payment scandals I associate more with the late '70s and '80s.
The thing that should be remembered here is that TV stations need to experiment and if they don't experiment and take chances then they're not going to survive. So I'm not critical about what they put on in their specials. I also don't blame them for putting on shows from other countries, they were cheap enough and they had to see if they had an audience. I remember they had a lot of Canadian programing on these shows. Off the topic the two actors in that Canadian show later appeared in the academy award winning movie Dances with Wolves, and Graham Greene got nominated for best supporting actor.
Though you bother to bring up a point about the non-First Nations involvement in Spirit Bay, it should be noticed in Canada, this aired on a public broadcast channel (CBC) as well as TVOntario (an educational network serving the province of Ontario), I wouldn't say it was quite as commercial if the show was presented without ad breaks. Given what was said about how the writing was, it wouldn't surprise me they didn't want to go to unconventional with how the show could be presented if it might turn off a audience unaware of those cultural differences, I'm sure it make the show at least possible to sell to other international markets without the need for additional translations or explaining these things that a non-Canadian viewer may not know about the First Nations people. Given what was said by Drew Taylor, I take that to mean the show may not have worked in much the same way had it been done based on what Native drama may think works. Sometimes issues like this can be really tricky but I'm sure the show did it's best to make the stories palatable to the average viewer. I know of one such animated project done in Canada, a TV special based on an Inuit tale, though it was not produced with the involvement of Inuit people, titled "The Old Woman Who Raised a Bear as Her Son". Ironically a TV network in Canada though it was a terrible mouthful of a title to call it, but the studio didn't back down from keeping it that way. I still think it's worth watching anyway regardless of what who was involved on it. ua-cam.com/video/1_vesf59GH4/v-deo.html
Maybe you'll cover Mad Movies with the L.A. Connection? That was a series of comedy dubs of edited-down, public-domain movies. (You could call it the second cousin of MST3K.)
FYI, someone just posted a "lost" episode of Special Delivery that aired June 14, 1987,... a short film that's actually from 1985 called "Somewhere Else". They posted it in it's entirety (35 minutes).. the youtube chanel is called "You Forgot This Existed".
I'm going half crazy trying to find the name of an episode I saw back in late 1992 of a storyline revolving around this school orchestra in Australia, which I believe dates to the early '80s...from watching this I guess it was an episode from a TV series? :/ The wikipedia archive only goes to January 1992 and I likely saw this in November/December of that year. Would love to find it again!
I actually remember Special Delivery, though I don't know if my sister does. I remember Stanley, the Ugly Duckling, and I remember the animated Raggedy Ann and Andy movie, that had aired around that same time. Otherwise, most of these entries I'd never even heard of. However, I do remember after school specials, that were largely popular, during the 80s and 90s. I don't recall which ones I've actually seen, though. Even though they might seem dated by today's standards, I think the message that they offered could still be relevant: It's O.K. to not be O.K. I don't think today's children's programming offers anything with that strong a message nowadays. And kids need shows that will teach them about other people's cultures, just maybe not shows with a predominantly White writing staff. Though my sister and I wouldn't know Spirit Bay, and even though most people, including myself, are sick of remakes, it sounds like this show could use an upgrade. It sounds like it could be done today, but with more diversity on staff. Also, Canadian imports are never seen these days. These days, Canada is just a location to film Hallmark movies! Thanks for the video!
Thanks! I remember W&CK more because of the neverending reruns and the fact that Don(nie) Jeffcoat appeared on a soap opera I used to watch. Not to mention Cuba Gooding Jr's...brother...I think...Omar.
I HATED Special Delivery. There was no consistency and most of the content was usually a terrible slow-paced hour-long specials. I remember watching a pretty good one once called The Manx Mouse. But mostly this was the show that I would typically turn off the TV and go outside and play.
That's why I loved Special Delivery. I got to see a lot of good shows/specials on there, like Grimm's Fairy Tales, etc. I do remember the short cartoon segments too like the Cat came Back, and House Cats.
@@newstarcadefan And the Manx Cat. Grim's Fairy Tales was for the most part very dull, but I can remember a few outliers. As a young child, I needed the instant gratification of knowing exactly what I was going to get at a very specific time every day. I was very much in the Double Dare, Inspector Gadget, Looney Tunes camp.
@@Feelthefelt True, in fact Nick did more for Heathcliff, and Inspector gadget than they didn't even dream of. I did hope you looked up his episode on that...because that actually was well done.
Junk drawers can be magical, mysterious things, if you mull it over. ;)
And that is how i learned Degrassi is a full on franchise going back to 1979 and isn't just that one teen drama i saw ads and never bothered with. Or was reminded, i may how known this before at some point.
Spongey444 The original "Kids of Degrassi Street" dealt with what was considered real world issues of everyday kids, in this case, ones living in a Toronto suburb. That was an actual street there that had that grocery store on the corner, a friend of mine once took a picture of it before it closed for good and became something else.
Spongey444 Originally, these aired as the Canadian equivalent of after school specials on CBC.
How many future big names did the franchise launch? Is it just Drake?
I saw the Degrassi movie School's Out (1991), and was shocked. They cursed like sailors in it. Snake dropped the F-bomb.
Ah, Special Delivery. That magical show that inspired the thought, "Sigh... guess it's time to go play outside."
The play Super Mario Bros while you Walt for Livewire show
Or, decide to wait for "16 Cinema" or turn the channel to PBS.
True. Also, Soul Train meant Saturday morning cartoons were over.
@@littlekingtrashmouth9219So did American Bandstand.
"Is it a cartoon?" You might get junk, or you might get a group of shorts from some country where they don't speak english OR you might get A cartoon movie like Riki-Tiki.
I did not know that there was an Engelbert Humperdinck from the XIX century. I knew about the XX century one, the singer, but I did not know that he took his stage name from the composer.
Dynaman episodes were written by people from Kids in the Hall. So dynaman was another Canadian production
As far as Nickelodeon airing sports. I am pretty sure they aired some Pop Warner football games one year, at least edited versions of them. I could be mistaken, but I remember a special airing Pop Warner games that I am pretty sure was on Nickelodeon.
Ironiclly, I remember seeing "My Mother Was Never A Kid" juat two months before I saw an eerily similar film in the theater--"Back To The Future."
4:40 Along with concert films of Duran Duran, The Cars, David Johansen and Quarterflash, there were also concert specials of Utopia, Rick Derringer, The Cars, Split Enz, The Darts, The Police, Toto and Ian Hunter, among others.
Also, the David Johansen concert actually aired in 1981, not 1982
“Chocky” was more like a complete miniseries than anything else. I remember first seeing both “Chocky” and the New Zealand science fiction miniseries/special “Night of the Red Hunter” on Nickelodeon’s Special Delivery, and they were both complete series/stories.
“Night of The Red Hunter” wasn’t a pilot for Nickelodeon to pick up a series option. It already had a completed storyline by the time Nickelodeon got the rights to air it. Same for “Chocky”.
"Hansel and Gretel is a fairy tale without a lot of meat on its bones." I see what you did there.
This just unlocked so many memories! I never realized this was nickelodeons hodge podge trials and errors....loved this show regardless
29:30 dynaman suprises me, i was this on NIGHT FLIGHTS when i was first getting into stoner culture in the late 80's (ironically i didn't get stoned until 93')
The two Dynaman episodes that aired in 1988 were an hour-length pilot with "Cy Steinberg" and "Rhinoman" as the monsters, combining two overdubbed episodes of the Sentai show with a couple short comedy bumpers from the "producer" of the show basically talking about his kids franchise would dominate America. I remember seeing it as a kid on a local NBC station after Saturday morning cartoons and then popping up a few months later on Nickelodeon.
The first two episodes were way better than the other four Night Flight dubbed, with 4/5ths of the future "Kids in the Hall" comedy ensemble doing the writing for those, a lot of pop culture jokes, and a rockin' illegally dubbed soundtrack that perfectly synced up with the action (i.e. Billy Idol, Huey Lewis and the News, Bon Jovi, etc.). Only a couple of the voice actors/writers were involved in the other four episodes. I'd suggest tracking those down and you'd get a better idea for the original vision of the project, a combination of Woody Allen's "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" with an 80s MTV music video. It was something people liked and Night Flight tried to dub more on the cheap.
Oh, and Super Sentai Nerd Fact! The first Super Sentai to air in America, I believe, was "Battle Fever J", which aired with subtitles on Hawaiian television in.... you know I'm not sure about the year. Probably shortly after it aired in Japan in 1979. Those subtitles are still available today if you dig hard enough, but since then it's been scrubbed, a fansub group has redone it from scratch, etc.
addendum: Looks like Goranger aired in Hawaii as well, on KIKU channel 13. I clearly don't know enough about this to comment, lol.
You could make a whole MST3K style show based solely on riffing on After School Specials
When I got cable in 1992, this aired for two hours on Saturdays and Sundays (I think it was both days, could have just been Sundays). Then near the end of Spring 1993 it was replaced with a programming block called Nick Mania, where they showed two-hour marathons of a different show, with a quiz during commercial breaks. And then in Summer 1993 it was replaced with Muppet Matinee, a two-hour block of Muppet specials (a handful of Muppet specials had aired as part of Special Delivery in the past year) on Saturdays while that time slot on Sundays went to the premier of Nickelodeon Weinderville, which initially lasted two hours (each half hour would later be shown on their own).
I remember seeing Riki-Tikki-Tavi on Special Delivery all those years ago.
These videos are really fascinating, they are giving me nostalgia for something I never experienced, imagining myself home from school binging Nickelodeon on a snow day in 1980
I think I recall seeing "Sammy's Super T-Shirt" as part of this program block.
This is actually the first series you have covered that I watched because it aired for such long a long period of time. I remember watching Special Delivery in the late 80s. It brings back tons of memories!
32:00 Don't forget this was still an era when we still thought of Asian countries like this. Often parodies of Japanese monster movies always had weird accents and fast dialog they gave actors in order to play up the bad dubbing often associated with dubbing foreign productions (especially from Japan). This was a mindset that lasted for quite a while into the 90's. Anyone who seen the English dubbed version of Robot Carnival (an anime anthology) may recall similar voices heard during the segment "A Tale of Two Robots". Again, that was how we associated Japanese kaiju/tokusatsu productions, often due to poor distribution, presentation and representation of said work.
Also of note, such interest in something like this didn't really happen yet, especially with anime. We were still getting kid's fare for the most part, and you had that small group of people who obviously knew there was something to this, but their voices weren't really heard yet in those pre-internet days).
I remember trying to tell my friends for years about Dynaman. With it not showing a lot people thought I dreamed it. Now in a full circle moment Super Sentai based shows air on Nickelodeon.
Now Nickelodeon is broadcasting NFL games. Also, Reservation Dogs is the closest thing we have to a modern day Spirit Bay (and its creators are Indigenous, as is its cast).
I do hate to be that guy, and maybe you've addressed it since (I just discovered the show and have been watching in order), but there was an extremely MAJOR sports scandal in the pre-VHS era. The Black Sox scandal, in which the 1919 World Series was fixed, and eight members of the team took bribes to underperform.
Was just going to make this comment but wanted to check if someone else had. I hated to be that guy, either, but it was a big deal and did threaten the integrity of the sport, his exact words.
@@mjacton You get me.
Here three years later for the same reason. I don't think it's being that guy to want to share one of the most interesting stories in American sports history.
Call it mystery television as Special Delivery was an outlet for Nickelodeon that could be anything at anytime for an up to 2 hour block primary on weekends. Rock concerts, animated cartoons, afterschool specials, sporting events, and heck, even precursors to future shows to what Dynoman did with the Power Rangers. As veteran game show host-producer Jack Barry puts it, Special Delivery was the grab bag, potluck, & secret category of Nickelodeon.
So "My Mother Was Never a Kid" was essentially, Back to the Future before Back to the Future, right!?
(Coming to this very late, as I only just discovered this channel thanks to What A Cartoon)
My strongest memories of Special Delivery in chrono order are:
1) seeing ads for it when I was maybe six years old and it was forty percent concert videos, and not really caring because I didn't have any real interest in music yet
2) Revenge of the Humanoids (thank you for including a clip) which I swear I've had occasional dreams about for 25 years and should really just find a way to acquire
3) "Somewhere Else", a short film that appears to have fallen down the memory hole but also ran on A&E, about a kid who contacts aliens via a Simon-style electronic toy
4) The weird Burbank Films (Australia) animated adaptations of classical literature: Ivanhoe, Master of the World and Last of the Mohicans stick out for whatever reason
5) Endless repeats of Saban's Grimm Fairy Tales
6) being annoyed that the Special Delivery of 4-5 seemed so much lamer than the stuff I was too young to enjoy in 82-84.
Omg! "Somewhere Else"! I remember being very unnerved by that as a kid. Thanks for linking a title to the memory!
You mentioned Grimm's Fairy Tale classics. I can't wait for that episode.
17:50 The reason Nickelodeon could do that (and wasn't bothered by the networks) is because the networks (more often than not) didn't produce the specials at all. As outside productions, once the airings were met by the network (1-2 runs at most) the production companies were free to sell it to anyone. Remember too that networks viewed these afternoon special programs as series, so they wanted to stay and seem new.
Does anyone remember the special delivery abut an Amish boy wanting to live in the modern life and even sneaks out to go to friend's birthday party.
Guts... When I think of nickelodeon and sports... Guts comes to mind.... oh... and what was that show with the three teams?........ 🤔 you know with Omar... "damn brain" ... and not feeling like Googling... cause it's 3:25am and you shouldn't be going down the rabbit hole of nostalgia but here we are...
Wild & Crazy Kids
Haven’t seen this since I was 7 in 1991 I was 9 in 1993 they showed animations,specials and movies one I remember was tin mouse and the witch one too 👍
There was a movie aired through Special Delivery called "Somewhere Else" that reminds me of the Are You Afraid of the Dark? episode "The Tale of the Thirteenth Floor".
Dynaman was awesome and hilarious for its time. When it came out in 1988, most people never heard of this type of stuff so they had never seen anything like it.
I don't think anyone past the age of five thought that it was trying to be a legit translation of conversion of the original. Sure nowadays people might not give it any
notice but at the time it was very entertaining. Everyone I talked to at school thought it was hilarious. It was like MST3K before there was MST3K. Granted you probably
could not make 50 episodes of something like this, but for its short run, it was great fun. Nobody took it seriously at all. The joke was that it actually existed. It was making fun of itself.
I hate to be morbid but if you do a video on Sk8-TV you might touch upon the story of Mike "Gator" Rogowski who I believe was featured on the show several times. Rogowski was a brilliant skater who suddenly started exhibiting some VERY bizarre behavior including legally changing his name to Mark Anthony after the Roman General. In 1992 one year after the show ended Rogowski was arrested for murdering his wife's best friend. If you want to learn the whole story you can watch the documentary "Stoked" The Rise & Fall of Gator.
Dynaman looks like power rangers’ granddaddy
Kids Show Trivia: The woman singing at 21:45 was an actor on Sesame Street for a few years and recorded a couple famous songs.
Special Delivery was one of my favorites BECAUSE it was a total grab bag. Loved that show.
I remember watching Special Delivery when I was a kid I still like it and it should come back one day. 😀👍
Loved this as a kid!!!. They aired Rikki Tikki Tavi often and sometimes the Jungle Book
Yup, you knew it was going to be a banger if you saw anything from Rankin/Bass like Rikki Tikki Tavi.
I've found evidence in newspaper TV listings that Special Delivery began airing on Nick as early as April 1980. I've documented what I've found so far on the show's Wikipedia page, with proper citations: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Delivery_(TV_series)
I remember Special Delivery,a little,I more remember Calliope and the USA Cartoon Express.
I was going to call it their dumping grounds, but junk drawer is a more gentle way of describing it
There was a Special Delivery feature that was either a cartoon or stop-motion about a guy going on a fantastical adventure. Sorta reminded me of a kid-version of The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen because how far he went and the strange things he encountered. This must've aired sometime from 1986-1989. On scene I remember, because it was sorta tragic, was that the main hero and his friends come across an island that nobody can get to because something on the island is producing powerful winds that keeps all ships away. Yet they arrive on the island but get stranded for a bit. They meet the source of the winds, a man who has the power to cause great wind storms every time he sneezes, and the reason he's constantly sneezing is because that island produces fruit of which its blossoms he's allergic to, hence he's been stranded because no ship can rescue him. Eventually, the main character and others find a means off the island (like a raft or something) and agree to take the sneezing man off the island, but being the last to board, he winds up sneezing, sending the heroes' raft away, leaving him stranded once again.
Now, my memory might not be as keen on what REALLY happened (see the whole Clock Man deal), and I might've gotten some things wrong, but the gist of it is there. Sadly, I don't recall other parts of that program. Remember when IMDb had message boards and a board solely dedicated to asking questions (any and every thing about movies or tv shows)? I asked it there and people pointed me to a Baron Munchhausen animated cartoon, which I think might've also played on Special Delivery (recall the "riding on cannonballs" scene), but I don't think that was it. It was another fantastical journey. Used to love those kinds of tales and I love the work you are doing with Nick Knacks! Keep it up!
If I had the money to spare, I'd contribute to your Patreon! Another great episode!
1904 was the last time the Olympics had cross country. That Olympics marathon was the maddest thing ever. The cross country had similar issues but not as bad. These issues were due to bad officiating.
For a year or two in the early '90s Nick also showed the Pop Warner Football national championship of some sort, I think at least one of which was also under the Special Delivery banner. Other than airing on tape delay and probably edited to fit into a 2-hour window, it was exactly the same as your standard football telecast of the day, with straight-laced play-by-play and color analysis, sideline reports, etc. It was the closest I ever remember Nick actually broadcasting a "true" sporting event and not a game show or one involving slime or gimmickry.
Aaaand a couple of years later and Nick is full-blown showing NFL playoff games, albeit from a kids' perspective.
I had to stop and google it but I DO remember grimm's fairy tales, but the only parts I remember were the commercial bumpers... so I do have some vague memories of this miniseries. definitely inching closer to the stuff for which I have the fondest memories, I can't wait! don't remember dynaman but there's definitely some irony in nick getting MMPR many many years later!
It was like that grab bag. You didn’t know what you were going to get
electric grandmother i remember watching that. i the information on it says it aired on HBO but i don't remember watching it there i remembered seeing it on nickelodeon or usa network
Well I wasn't expecting to see Super Sentai in one of these.
Thanks for doing this.
I vaguely remember a couple animated movies on Nickelodeon from my childhood I remember liking, but couldn't remember enough to actually search for them. I looked up Special Delivery and found those episodes. They were part of Grimm Fairy Tales shown in 1989.
Couldn't have done it without you!
3:48 is that Jim Carrey?
Great video as always. Of those four choices Spirit Bay was probably the best to talk about, but I'd still be curious to hear you discuss the others, especially Chocky and Cuckoo Land, the former being creepy in a way that only 80s British children's dramas could be, and the latter as I remember elements of that show so vividly from watching it on ABC Australia back in the 80s yet could never remember the title, just that it had this ultra-colourful cartoonish look, a sarcastic narrator and a grumpy old neighbour who lived in a literal tree house.
Oddly I barely recall Spirit Bay, but that theme song does resonate for me!
he Box of Delights did get a full showing on Nick. The 3 hour miniseries reedited into 2 hours. It deserves a full feature because it's a groundbreaking landmark in British kids' TV, and arguably spawned the next stage of heritage British kids TV drama, the bridge between the Sunday classic stuff that Children's Classics showcased and the stuff that PBS/Wonderworks/Disney channel showed, Narnia, the Borrowers, etc. It was the most expensive BBC children's drama ever at that point, was coproduced with the BBC by a Christian video company called Lella and the aforementioned Wonderworks, starred Patrick Troughton as a time-travelling magician/tramp (yes, he was cast as a deliberate throwback to Doctor Who, even though this series was considerably more expensive than Doctor Who had ever been) and Sir Robert Stephens as an evil minister/magician, Abner Brown.
I'm a Super Sentai and Tokusatsu fan but this the first I've ever heard of Dynaman being shown on Nickelodeon. I love all the new things I learn from watching this documentary series!
Spirit Bay episodes were also shown on USA's weekend morning "Calliope" series which was nearly similar to Special Delivery.
When SD was good, it was fun to watch, if it was the 2 hour "Box Of Secrets" for the umpteenth time, it was the signal to do something else. I remember "Fat Chance", "Summer Switch" and "It's Not Easy Being A Teenage Millionaire" along with the Grimm Fairy Tales episodes being on the most.
I've seen one episode of Dynaman, and it's the one that involved kidnapping brides or whatever. I don't even think I finished watching it, as much as I was interested in the Sentai series. Oh, and my avatar is the Chodenshi Bioman emblem.
Forever I've been trying to identify the show that referenced Thunder Bay, and figured it must have been from Special Delivery. Now I'm pretty sure it's from Spirit Bay. So thanks!
I remember a show that aired in the afternoon when I was sick from school in maybe sometimes between 89 or 90 or 91 or maybe even 92 or 93 (I was very young) of 3 kids and one was in a wheel chair and him and one of the other kids (a female) didn’t get along. That’s it. That’s all I remember. I’m wondering if it came from this series. I remember it having an 80s vibe to it, and it was definitely on Nickelodeon.
Thank you for this. Special Delivery in Nick' s history is the first show I remember. It was still airing when Nicktoons were starting out. Now if you excuse me, I am going to look up why I remember the CBS Schoolbreak Special.
I remember both ABC and CBS doing these in the 80's. I suppose we used to joke about them as well given the typical plots often covered. They certainly died out at least during the early 90's I think.
Christopher Sobieniak I remember watching the ABC AfterSchool Special at the end of it's run in about 1995/1996. I was 9 or 10. I remember the opening to CBS Schoolbreak Special almost exactly as it appears on the video. Which shocks me because I was 3 or 4 in the late 80s/early 1990s.
Angel Young By the time ABC's run ending, I was already a senior in high school! Sad they didn't keep it going if it gave the networks an excuse to cover the 3 hour E/I rule.
Christopher Sobieniak I only know that in my area, 4pm was given to Oprah (which is a syndicated show.) The AfterSchool special had that 1 hour time once a month. So the affiliate shuffle seems like it can be a bit too much. So I can understand that show getting cancelled. ABC DID have a very similar show on Saturday morning called the Weekend Special (which I hated one of their openings so I refuse to acknowledge it until now) which could have fallen under the E/I thing. Also take into account that in the mid 1990s Disney acquired Capitol Cities/ABC so that may have factored into both shows dying. I remember the Saturday show running a little bit longer after the Afternoon show ended and there may have been a name change. ABC at that time really had no excuse to end the Saturday show (aside from low ratings) because it seems that whole lineup didn't have any interference with affiliates or wanting to run Good Morning America on the weekend (at that time, now it seems that the news portion is hungry for more Good Morning America.)
Angel Young Normally 4PM was when they aired these. I suppose affiliates either chose to play these or not depending on how tight they were with the schedules or just didn't want to dump Oprah for it.
11:47 Its funny you say that because Nick just broadcasted an NFL wild card game between the Saints and Bears a few days ago while having some teens doing live commentary. They even had their own graphics for the game including an animated, orange and green colored first down line. Maybe sports on Nick will make a comeback and they are testing the waters.
then again there was an audible "what the fuck" in there so i dunno if they wanna risk it again lol
I have a strong memory of Special Delivery showing a Cricket in Times Square and I think an adaptation of the Mouse and the Motorcycle..?
All I can recall of this program was that there was a very creepy episode that ended with a close up of a woman's mouth screaming "I won't go without Danny!" over and over. (At least I THINK the name was "Danny." Could be wrong.) That one film spooked me so badly I never watched Special Delivery again lol
HBO had 30 minute specials too in the early 90s.
Omg...you're doing Degrassi right? I mean I know it's not technically Nickelodeon but please...🥺❤
:D I love watching your videos while I'm having a late night writing papers, perfect timing for a new video
I was old enough to have seen this but I remember nothing about this, absolutely nothing, but I remember the Adventures of T-Rex, something most people don't remember. In all honesty, while it's fun seeing the history of Nick, I can't wait until you get to Nicktoons, SNICK, and the Adventures of Pete and Pete.
lain iwakura I remember "The Adventures of T Rex", a local station played that show.
Spirit Bay looks awesome.
Excellent
I am trying to find the Special Delivery film Collared aired February 8, 1987
Oh wow, I remember Special Delivery. Mostly the animated intros and the commercial promos, but also the random movies or shows they'd air at like, 6 in the morning. I definitely remember seeing the movie version of Molly's Pilgrim, which I'd read the book of already.
I guess in a way, the early days of cable was like UA-cam at the time when it comes to find long lost tv specials
I didn't know they'd aired that stop-motion, opera-inspired Hansel and Gretel. I would've been eight and two months. (The changes in the fairy tale originated with Humperdinck's opera.)
Oh jesus you found Dynaman I love you!
29:26 Holy crap! Super Sentai!! Whaaat?!?
Note: Stan Lee tried to bring it here in the 80s. Of course... He failed. Thus Saban tried and failed. Tried again and Power Rangers was born. Nickelodeon ha Power Rangers buuut... It's bad. It was bad from the start from 2011... Dino Charge was the only one that was ok.
@@Launchpad05 Yes, and also Battle Fever J.
@@animefan25 to clarify, after the success of the Japanese Spider-Man series, they wanted to make a Captain America series next with a Captain Japan side character. That idea fell through but Toei decided to use some elements to create Battle Fever J. I think I read some where that J to Sun Vulcan were produced under the original Marvel deal.
9:09 oH MY GOD YOU'VE AWAKENED MY MEMORIES OF HAVING THIS ON DVD AS A KID GHGJYG
😳 so Cuckoo land WAS a real thing... all this Time I thought it was a fever dream I had about a car sales man who becomes a vampire space pirate and a bunch of kids save the day because why? I forget a whole lot of it except for the trippy intro. I tried looking for this on UA-cam and I cant find it anywhere...
The only Special Delivery shows I remember are Chalky (I think they edited two movies out of that and I didn't know it was a series) and Dynaman.
It's actually "Chocky," for those who are doing a search. All the episodes are available on youtube.
@@jwb932 That's the one. I couldn't remember the spelling but I had a feeling I was off.
11:09 someone forgot about the 1919 Black Sox scandle haha, but still an interesting topic nonetheless.
The first half of 20th century American sports were riddled with scandal but they were almost all gambling-related: the Black Sox, the CCNY college basketball point-shaving scandal, Paul Hornung, etc. That is, athletes throwing games rather than winning illegally. Major cheating scandals were much less of a thing, or maybe more accurately just more glossed over. Even the major NCAA academic/recruiting/player-payment scandals I associate more with the late '70s and '80s.
There was that super sentai that looked like a episode of power rangers.
Dino Thunder actually did redub an episode from it's sentai version once.
The thing that should be remembered here is that TV stations need to experiment and if they don't experiment and take chances then they're not going to survive. So I'm not critical about what they put on in their specials. I also don't blame them for putting on shows from other countries, they were cheap enough and they had to see if they had an audience. I remember they had a lot of Canadian programing on these shows. Off the topic the two actors in that Canadian show later appeared in the academy award winning movie Dances with Wolves, and Graham Greene got nominated for best supporting actor.
Do you have anything on somewhere else it came on special delivery june of 1987
If the people from nick is watching this they should bring back that block
Though you bother to bring up a point about the non-First Nations involvement in Spirit Bay, it should be noticed in Canada, this aired on a public broadcast channel (CBC) as well as TVOntario (an educational network serving the province of Ontario), I wouldn't say it was quite as commercial if the show was presented without ad breaks.
Given what was said about how the writing was, it wouldn't surprise me they didn't want to go to unconventional with how the show could be presented if it might turn off a audience unaware of those cultural differences, I'm sure it make the show at least possible to sell to other international markets without the need for additional translations or explaining these things that a non-Canadian viewer may not know about the First Nations people. Given what was said by Drew Taylor, I take that to mean the show may not have worked in much the same way had it been done based on what Native drama may think works. Sometimes issues like this can be really tricky but I'm sure the show did it's best to make the stories palatable to the average viewer.
I know of one such animated project done in Canada, a TV special based on an Inuit tale, though it was not produced with the involvement of Inuit people, titled "The Old Woman Who Raised a Bear as Her Son". Ironically a TV network in Canada though it was a terrible mouthful of a title to call it, but the studio didn't back down from keeping it that way. I still think it's worth watching anyway regardless of what who was involved on it.
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Maybe you'll cover Mad Movies with the L.A. Connection? That was a series of comedy dubs of edited-down, public-domain movies. (You could call it the second cousin of MST3K.)
FYI, someone just posted a "lost" episode of Special Delivery that aired June 14, 1987,... a short film that's actually from 1985 called "Somewhere Else". They posted it in it's entirety (35 minutes).. the youtube chanel is called "You Forgot This Existed".
I'm going half crazy trying to find the name of an episode I saw back in late 1992 of a storyline revolving around this school orchestra in Australia, which I believe dates to the early '80s...from watching this I guess it was an episode from a TV series? :/ The wikipedia archive only goes to January 1992 and I likely saw this in November/December of that year. Would love to find it again!
I believe this is incomplete because there was a few of them that I actually ever before this I think the show debuted in April
DYNAMAN DESERVES BETTER
Hey! It’s the ancestors of the power rangers!
I loved Andrew (1980). I hope someone can post that one:)
Hansel and Gretel is a 'holiday' story because of the gingerbread house.
Night Flight for kids....
Adam and the Ants were just too noisy for kids. What was the network thinking?
I actually remember Special Delivery, though I don't know if my sister does. I remember Stanley, the Ugly Duckling, and I remember the animated Raggedy Ann and Andy movie, that had aired around that same time. Otherwise, most of these entries I'd never even heard of. However, I do remember after school specials, that were largely popular, during the 80s and 90s. I don't recall which ones I've actually seen, though. Even though they might seem dated by today's standards, I think the message that they offered could still be relevant: It's O.K. to not be O.K. I don't think today's children's programming offers anything with that strong a message nowadays. And kids need shows that will teach them about other people's cultures, just maybe not shows with a predominantly White writing staff. Though my sister and I wouldn't know Spirit Bay, and even though most people, including myself, are sick of remakes, it sounds like this show could use an upgrade. It sounds like it could be done today, but with more diversity on staff. Also, Canadian imports are never seen these days. These days, Canada is just a location to film Hallmark movies! Thanks for the video!
11:34 Does Wild and Crazy Kids count as Nickeloden trying to get into sports?
It did air around the same time as Sk8TV, so it does support his theory of them coming in "waves".
Thanks! I remember W&CK more because of the neverending reruns and the fact that Don(nie) Jeffcoat appeared on a soap opera I used to watch. Not to mention Cuba Gooding Jr's...brother...I think...Omar.
@@angelmarie2281 Did you know that Cuba and Omar's father sang for the Main Ingredient whose top ten hit includes "Everybody Plays The Fool" (1972)?
That and Guts. The kind of tenuous connection the network had with sports.
2:56 AHHHH!!!! AHHHHH!!!
The SpongeBob episode is gonna be lit
I HATED Special Delivery. There was no consistency and most of the content was usually a terrible slow-paced hour-long specials. I remember watching a pretty good one once called The Manx Mouse. But mostly this was the show that I would typically turn off the TV and go outside and play.
That's why I loved Special Delivery. I got to see a lot of good shows/specials on there, like Grimm's Fairy Tales, etc. I do remember the short cartoon segments too like the Cat came Back, and House Cats.
@@newstarcadefan And the Manx Cat. Grim's Fairy Tales was for the most part very dull, but I can remember a few outliers. As a young child, I needed the instant gratification of knowing exactly what I was going to get at a very specific time every day. I was very much in the Double Dare, Inspector Gadget, Looney Tunes camp.
@@Feelthefelt True, in fact Nick did more for Heathcliff, and Inspector gadget than they didn't even dream of. I did hope you looked up his episode on that...because that actually was well done.
It usually was boring. Now that it’s gone, I miss it for some reason
Of a Rhino Turd. XD