![]() ![]() Watch all your '90s Nickelodeon favorites on NickSplat, your late-night destination for your favorite childhood Nickelodeon cartoons and live-action shows! NickSplat doesn't question football-shaped heads, but embrace them - along with Reptar bars, a Big Ear of Corn, orange soda, and even slime for Pete (and Pete's) sake. From puppet shows ( Pinwheel) to video comics to music video shows hosted by Mike Nesmith ( PopClips), Nickelodeon has tried nearly everything once, and a lot of kids out there loved it all. But, even if you have no recollection of these shows, it’s still fascinating to see how the burgeoning cable network tried and tried again to find its footing. ![]() Occasionally, he’ll sneak in a “Nick Knacks Special” that throws the chronological convention out the window and takes a deep dive into one of the network’s many holiday programs, like Marc Summers’ Mystery Magical Special or The Weinerville Hanukkah Special.ĭue to his thoroughness, poparena is still quite a ways off from covering any shows that “only ‘90s kids will remember.” The most recent episode covers Matt And Jenny, a live action show from the early-’80s that follows the adventures of kids in the wilds of Canada. To do this, Nick Knacks has gone all the way back to the beginning and assess the quality of everything Nickelodeon ever put on air, starting with the network’s premiere seasons in the late-’70s, the episodes go chronologically and range from ten to thirty minutes, depending on how impactful the show was or how much surviving footage there is. MTV not only played videos they also played live promo films and even had a Saturday Night Concert Series that in effect replaced Don Kirshner when he went off the air.ĭon Kirshner was a pioneer and a legend, Rest in Peace Don.Inspired by the idea that each generation has a sense of loyalty to the shows they grew up watching, YouTuber poparena has unveiled a new series of shorts titled Nick Knacks, an epic 40-year journey into the history of Nickelodeon, the first cable channel for kids! The series aims to take a look at how Nickelodeon programming has it changed over the years - from reruns of 1950s serials to Double Dare to Fairly OddParents and beyond - to find out: exactly was its golden age? And is it really as bad today as some people seem to think? It would spawn MTV which ironically combined what Mike Nesmith (of the Monkees, who became Don’s nemesis in the 60’s) was doing on Nickelodeon with POPCLIPS and what Don was doing on Rock Concert. He produced a proof of concept called Pop Clips, which Time-Warner aired on the Nickelodeon Channel as a test. There were times when he didn’t have the acts live but gave you their live performance promo films (ie videos), of the Stones, of Meatloaf when Bat of Hell was exploding and the first full length Springsteen footage ever shown on American television, and you didn’t get just one song, you got multiple songs. Don Kirshner gave you acts before they broke, as well as established superstars. Midnight Special was great in it’s own right, but occasionally there was lip synching, and the acts most of the times were already on the charts plus the presentation was cheesy. ![]() Some may argue that Midnight special was better, that’s not the case. It made you connect with the band, it made you want to buy an album, it made you want to see them live. Here’s what that show did that changed the world: it let artists perform a set of songs live in a row, not just a hit or two like SNL does or even Ed Sullivan did, so you would get album tracks you would get to see the band in that extended environment. In the ‘80s, he once again made music television history, when a program he created for Nickelodeon, PopClips, was sold to the Time Warner and developed into MTV. In this day and age a Don Kirshner couldn’t get near your TV screen and there’s a bazillion more opportunities now than back when “Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert” aired. Without Don Kirshner there is no MTV, without Don Kirshner there would be no FM rock radio explosion of the mid 70’s and I’ll explain why.ĭon Kirshner had a TV show at a time when there were only 5 or 6 channels available it aired on saturday nights on NBC in NYC at 1am after SNL, he didn’t look good, he had a bad New York jewish accent but he had vision. There will be alot of press about Don Kirshner now that he passed away, we’ll hear endless stories about the Monkees and the Archies and Paul Shaffer’s SNL impersonations and that’s all fine, but when you take the bubble gum off of the bottom of your shoe, you’ll find out that Don Kirshner was one the guys who changed the world of rock and roll. ![]()
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