80s Nickelodeon commercials including Simon, Stratego, You Can't Do That On Television, Standby Lights Camera Action, Reggie Jackson's World of Sports, Honey Smacks
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
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.
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!!!!!!
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
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
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".
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! :(
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.
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.
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.
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....
@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.
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.
"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."
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.
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).
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.
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.
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 .
@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!
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!
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!
stratego is a board game featuring a 10 × 10 square board and two players with 40 pieces each. Pieces represent individual officers and soldiers in an army. The objective of the game is to either find and capture the opponent's Flag, or capture so many of the opponent's pieces that he/she cannot make any further moves. Players cannot see the ranks of each other's pieces, so disinformation and discovery are important elements of the game.
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... :-)
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.
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
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 remember all of this, and it really doesn't seem like it's been 27 years. I would gladly pay for an 80's Nick channel if it were made available. I could show my kids that TV wasn't always the garbage they are exposed to now.
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.
@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.
