Definitely 1984. They were still using the silver ball logo and slowly introducing the original orange logo. Plus Nickelodeon started running commercials (the only commercials Nickelodeon ran prior were commercials for their programming or network bumpers) beginning June 1st, 1984. And finally, it was the year Nick Rocks and Danger Mouse were added to the lineup.
Announcer: "It's Going Great right here on Nickelodeon!"👍 1984 Geraldine Laybourne: "No it's really not!, 😱We gotta get rid of that old Silver Ball logo. Come on in, Orange Splat logo!
SamGuthrie1977 im 11 soo i dont know but my told me about ot and she SAID it was the freaking best decade ever and i said i want to go back in time to the 80s
@@joaopereira817 I was born in 1987. I did not get to experience the 1980s much, because I was born much too late in the decade. However, I got to experience the 1990s... You'd have to be born in the 1960s or 1970s to have a full 1980s childhood.
When I was a kid, I thought "Out of Control" was the funniest thing in the world. I'm glad reruns aren't available, because I imagine now I'd be embarrassed to learn the truth.
I used to wonder about this all the time, too, until someone on here clued me in. They were signals to the local cable stations that they could air local commercials after the tone. That sound just takes me right back. Some cable stations, like local access, still play it.
Yep, that's true. I looked it up on wikipedia out of curiosity. They're called "DTMF" (Dual-tone multi-frequency), in case anyone else wants to read more about it. =)
All cable channels played that sound every so often during commercials back in the day, for no apparent reason. I've still never come across an explanation.
Man I wish they would bring these shows back!!! And I with that I had all of the old Nick commercials too. Hey thanks for posting this, I use to love NICK ROCKS!!!
Wow, so that's what the whole 2 scoops Raisin Bran thing is all about. Everything well-known in commercials today used to not be so obvious in the past. lol That was a sweet commercial. I'd buy that song on Itunes.
Wow I grew up on Nick. What a great kids tv network. Great shows for children and wonderful learning programs that were entertaining to watch as a child. YCDTOTV was my fav show to watch every day after school.
That _Chips Ahoy!_ ad that segued into a split recording of Mr. Wizard and a silver ball era bump for YCDTOTV and 3rd Eye originally ended with 🎵 "Nabisco!" 🎵
if this was from late 1984 to early 1985, my mom was born in 1983 which means she was 1! I always watch things like these and I wish I was alive to see them on the small old TVs.
Hell yea. Now you got the hey dude theme stuck in my head! "better watch out for those man eating jack rabbits and that killer cacti". Dood, I loved you can't do that on TV. Oh the memories. You forgot a couple though, The mysterious cities of gold, sparticus and the sun beneath the sea, and of course mr.wizards world.
@autoharpage simple...most everything...i grew up in the tail end of this era, enjoyed it, loved the 90's and up to 2002 but after that, it went downhill quick and fast
I remember the ball logo, but the sound I most often associated with Nickelodeon was that strange touch-tone thing that happens at 1:09 in the video. It happened between every show, or at least on the hour. What was that, anyway?
@FunnistPreacher yeah- the shows that they air now on Nickelodeon just keep repeating the same situations over and over again and have very little meaning to them. They keep telling kids that they need to be popular to make it in life instead of telling kids that it is alright to be yourself.
Does anyone remember a show where like an animated Sphinx would say, "Ruminate, Illuminate" and such, and then it would do questions, or puzzles, and there was a segment about getting to Europa on a spaceship? I may be getting these mixed up, but does it ring a bell to anyone, I've been trying to remember what this was for years.
Ahhh, those were the good ol' days. YCDTOTV was my fave. I'd watch any show back then. Then any show on today's Nick. Especially that Sponge Bob crap!!
This comment is interesting because my parents used to say very similar things about cartoons and, especially, Nickelodeon kids' programming back then (I grew up in the 1980s). I think it's all in the way the message is communicated. Generations communicate in different ways, and I think sometimes newer programs' messages get "lost in translation" so to speak.
@yoshmon Ahhh, no kidding! I only recently found out what that was for, but it was all over cable TV when I was a teen in the 80s. It just takes me back. Makes me feel young.
1:52 "Geraldine Laybourne has a story she likes to tell on herself. In 1983, just as she was taking control of Nickelodeon, she oversaw the premiere of a new show called Going Great. It was a weekly newsmagazine about kids who were remarkable in one way or another--a typical episode featured a kid who wrote a best-seller at age 13 and a 10-year-old who played snooker on stilts. Laybourne and the other network executives thought it would be an instant hit with kids--seeing people their own age perform incredible feats. What could be better? They'll eat it up! ...They didn't. Kids loathed it. The show depressed them. What kid, sitting at home in a beanbag chair, wants to hear that someone her age got a six-figure advance for his next novel? The show was off the air after 13 weeks. ..Laybourne likes to talk about Going Great because for her it represents what can happen when adults assemble a children's television show without asking kids what they might like." - Fortune magazine, October 28, 1996 archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/10/28/203922/index.htm
Does anyone know the name of the song being played in the background from 1:27-1:32. I remember hearing that section of the song and loved it but can never remember the name of it.
Yeah, why the hell not? I mean Cartoon Network has Boomerang, and TV Land does the commercial flashbacks, why can't they do a "Classic Nick" channel? It should have Outta Control, You Cant Do That On TV, Count Duckula, Dangermouse, HEY DUDE!, Wild n Crazy Kids, Nick Arcade, Round House, Are You Afraid of The Dark, Tomorrow People, Alex Mac (as well as Nick Jr. shows like David The Gnome, Lil' Bits, Noozles, The Little Koala, Grim's Fairytales, and whatever that show was with the Manx Mouse).
Cable head end cue tones. If a cable system was set up with the proper equipment, the home user wouldn't hear those tones. They triggered tape equipment at the cable company to do local ad inserts. The ending tones stopped the tape machine and switched the cable TV insert back to the station (Nickelodeon).
