Happy
Birthday to Legends of the
Hidden Temple host Kirk Fogg!
Monday, September 18, 2017
Saturday, September 16, 2017
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
ON YOUR MARC SNEAK PREVIEW & LIVE EVENT TOUR!
Announcing
the sneak preview tour for On Your Marc, the new feature-length documentary that
intimately captures the life, career and legacy of TV icon Marc Summers.
Summers will present the film in person, coupled with an array of singular
events, during a coast-to-coast preview screening tour revolving around the
31st anniversary of Summers’ Double Dare this October.
In
On Your Marc, the Indiana native looks back on his "messy" ups and
downs, as he powers through the nerve-racking production and opening night of
"Everything In Its Place: The Life & Slimes of Marc Summers," his
hilariously illuminating one-man show, co-written by rising Broadway stars Alex
Brightman (Tony-nominated lead in School of Rock: The Musical) and composer
Drew Gasparini.
Like
his two best-known television series, Double Dare and Unwrapped, On Your Marc
combines a scrappy, “anything goes” appeal with that of an incisive,
informative look at the nature of being in the spotlight. Along the way,
Summers reveals how he survived cancer, a recent near-fatal car crash and his
lifelong bout with OCD.
Reflecting
the unconventional quality of Summers’ career, the On Your Marc tour will
showcase a unique array of live events in each city. These include performances
by local bands, Q&As with special guests, celebrity hosts, interactive
Double Dare type games ... and even Summers singing along with one-man show
"Everything In Its Place" co-writers Alex and Drew.
Our
goal in producing the tour was to forego the conventional path of film
festivals, and bring the movie directly to the fans. Festivals, conventions,
streaming services and perhaps a more traditional theatrical run with a
distributor will all likely be explored later on. But for now, we want to
celebrate the film’s completion, the impact of Marc Summers and the community
still building around what he stands for in what will be memorable evenings
throughout the nation!
TOUR SCHEDULE
Oct.
8, 2017: Los Angeles
Oct.
12, 2017: New York
TBA
Oct.
13, 2017: Philadelphia
Oct.
19, 2017: Austin (and live-streaming nationally)
TBA
Oct
21, 2017: Baltimore
Oct.
26, 2017: Chicago
**Additional
venues, ticket information, links and more details coming soon. Stay tuned!
Saturday, September 9, 2017
Monday, September 4, 2017
Special Delivery – Shorts
Happy
Labor Day Everyone! I thought it would be fun to post a few “short(s)” videos
that are not very long, don’t have anything to do with anything but are just
fun to watch. So sit back, enjoy the rest of your Labor Day and enjoy looking
back with a few classics.
Saturday, September 2, 2017
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Show Title Needed
Hello
Classic Nick fans. For this week’s Classic Nick Wednesday, a Pinwheel fan has
reached out to me and was wondering if anyone would happen to know this name of
this Pinwheel Cartoon. I have taken a few screenshots of this cartoon and here
is the link to the video so that you can watch it. If you know the name of this
cartoon please comment below and I forward this to fellow Pinwheel friend.
Thank you in advance.
SCREENSHOTS
Saturday, August 26, 2017
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Special Delivery – Attack of The Super Monsters
70 million
years ago, the creatures known as dinosaurs mysteriously disappeared from
planet Earth. Until now, it was assumed they were extinct. In reality they had
burrowed deep into the Earth and evolved into super monsters. In the year 2000,
the people from planet Earth were amazed and terrified by the greatest
catastrophe ever known to mankind: the re-appearance of the dinosaurs. Under
the direction of their emperor, Tyrannus, the creatures now seek to destroy
mankind.
Saturday, August 19, 2017
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Classic Nick Wed. – Legends of the Hidden Temple
Still one of the most loved game
shows in all of Nickelodeon’s history, right along with Double Dare that is, is
Legends of the Hidden Temple. Created by David G. Stanley, Scott
A. Stone, and Stephen Brown, the program centered on a temple that was
"filled with lost treasures protected by mysterious Mayan temple
guards". Originally airing on Nickelodeon from 1993 to 1995 Kirk
Fogg served as the show’s host Dee Bradley Baker announced and voiced a
talking Olmec.
Each week six teams of two children (one boy
and one girl) competed to retrieve one of the historical artifacts hidden in
the temple by performing physical stunts and answering questions based on
history, mythology, and geography. Each team was identified with a color and an
animal, indicated on their uniform shirts: the Red Jaguars, Blue Barracudas,
Green Monkeys, Orange Iguanas, Purple Parrots, and Silver Snakes.
The set design has been described as Mayan and
was based on the Indiana Jones movies. Marianne Arneberg of the Orlando
Sentinel described the program as "a combination of Jeopardy and Raiders
of the Lost Ark". It included areas for different types of physical
challenges: the moat (a broad but shallow pool of water), the Steps of
Knowledge (a set of steps), and the hidden temple (a large two-and-a-half-floor
vertical labyrinth).
At the temple's gate was a talking head named Olmec,
which was voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, who narrated the legends (real or
fictional) to the children as they stood on the steps of knowledge. Each
episode centered on an artifact from around the world that found its way to the
temple.
The
rest of this is from Wikipedia:
Round
1: The Moat
In the first round of the show, the six teams
attempted to cross a narrow swimming pool known as "the moat" in a
prescribed manner. For example, in one episode, teams were required to swing
out to a rope net in the middle of the moat, climb it, and then swim to the
other side. All six teams attempted to get both members across according
to the rules and push a button on a pedestal to ring a gong. The first four
teams to cross the moat and ring their gongs advanced to the second round.
Round
2: The Steps of Knowledge
The four remaining teams stood on the topmost
of the four levels of the Steps of Knowledge. Olmec
began the round by telling the remaining teams the episode's legend of the
featured artifact, which became the theme for the remainder of the episode. The
legend centered on an artifact which the winning team searched for in the final
round. At the end of the legend, Olmec told the teams the room in which the
artifact could be found. After finishing, he asked the teams a series of
questions to test their memory. Each multiple-choice question had three
possible answers. A team attempting to answer signaled by stomping on a button
on their step, causing the front of the step to illuminate (if Olmec was still
in the middle of asking a question, he stopped talking immediately). A team who
answered correctly moved down to the next level. If a team answered incorrectly
or ran out of time (three seconds after being called upon), the other teams
were given a chance to answer. The first two teams to answer three questions
correctly and thereby reach the bottom level advanced to the next round.
Round
3: The Temple Game
The temple games featured the two remaining
teams competing in three physical challenges to earn Pendants of Life which the
winning team used in the final round. Several different types of temple games
were featured, with the episode's legend serving as a theme for each. Most
temple games lasted for a maximum of 60 seconds but some were untimed. After
each challenge, the winning team received some portion of a protective Pendant
of Life. The first two challenges, pitting single members from each team
against one another, were worth one half of a pendant, while the final
challenge, involving both contestants on both teams, was worth a full pendant.
If a temple game ended in a tie, both teams received the pendant value of that
game.
The team that earned the most number of
pendants by the end of three temple games won the right to enter the temple. In
the event that the two teams earned the same number of pendants after the three
temple games, the teams played a tiebreaker to determine who advanced to the
temple. The teams stood behind a tiebreaker pedestal, and Fogg (since Season 2,
Olmec) asks a tiebreaker question to determine the winner. The first team to
hit the button on top of their gong was given the chance to answer the
question. A correct answer allowed the team to go to the temple. Originally, a
team that buzzed in and gave an incorrect answer or ran out of time
automatically lost, allowing the other team to advance to the temple by
default. However, in Seasons 2 and 3, the other team was required to answer the
question correctly to go to the temple.
Final
Round: The Temple Run
In the final round, the winning team took the
Pendants of Life the contestants earned into the temple, and attempted to
retrieve the episode's artifact and bring it back out of the temple within a
three-minute time limit. The team designated one member to enter the temple
first; that team member carried one of the team's full pendants. The other team
member held the remaining pendant, half pendant, or no pendant at all and stood
by to enter if the first team member was taken out of the temple by a temple
guard. Before starting, Olmec would explain the rooms in the temple and the
necessary tasks in each room. During season 1, Fogg asked who would go first
and explained about the temple guards and, if necessary, the extra half
pendant. Beginning in season 2, Olmec himself explained these things.
The temple consisted of twelve rooms,
each with a specific theme (e.g., the Throne Room, the King's Storeroom, the
Observatory, the Shrine of the Silver Monkey, the Heart Room, etc.). The rooms
connected to adjacent rooms by doorways, although some doors were locked,
blocking a contestant's progress into the adjacent room; the pattern of locked
and unlocked doors changed from episode to episode depending both on the temple
layout and the artifact's location. The unlocked doors were closed at the start
of the round, but they could be opened by completing a specific task or puzzle
within each room. One room in the temple contained the themed artifact (as
stated by Olmec prior to the Steps of Knowledge round). Three other designated
rooms held temple guards (spotters in Lavish Mayan sentinel costumes). If the
winning team had exactly 1 1⁄2 pendants, the remaining half
pendant was also placed in a room for the contestant with the half pendant to
collect to make a full pendant. The extra half pendant, if needed, would either
be hanging on the wall near a door or placed inside an object in a room (e.g.,
hidden inside a pot in the King's Storeroom). If the first player dropped their
pendant, the second player was allowed to pick it up and either throw it back
to their partner or use it if needed.
A contestant who encountered a temple guard
was forced to give up a full pendant in order to continue. However, if the
first contestant was caught without a pendant in his or her possession, he or
she was taken out of the temple and the second contestant entered. In either
case, the temple guard who captures the contestant was out of play, and did not
appear again in that room where the first contestant was captured. When the
second contestant entered, any doors that the first contestant opened remained
open. If the second contestant was caught without a full pendant, the run ended
immediately. It was possible for a player to enter a room with an unencountered
temple guard on their way to the artifact and not get caught, usually if the
room design makes it so that the guard can only capture the player if within
reach (e.g. the Dark Forest where one of the trees "could be inhabited by
the spirit of a temple guard" which was signaled if the tree grabbed the
player, but the player had to be within reach to trigger the tree).
The team had three minutes to retrieve the
artifact and leave the temple with it. If either contestant grabbed the
artifact, all remaining temple guards vanished and all locked doors in the
temple instantly opened, allowing the contestant to escape unhindered. For
entering the temple, the team automatically won a prize. If a team member
picked up the artifact, the team won a more expensive prize as well. A team
that retrieved the artifact and exited the temple with it before time ran out
earned the grand prize, in addition to the other two prizes. Starting with
season 2, the temple had an actual gate that Olmec would lower before the round
started.
Saturday, August 12, 2017
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Special Delivery – 2 Doctor Who Specials
The
Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
This
2013 comedy spoof pays homage to the British science fiction television program
Doctor Who. Written and directed by Peter Davison, who stars alongside fellow
former Doctor actors Sylvester McCoy, Colin Baker, and Paul McGann debuted on
the BBC Red Button service after the broadcast of "The Day of the
Doctor", the official 50th anniversary special.
The
plot focuses on the fictionalized, disgruntled Davison, Baker and McCoy, who
become embroiled in misadventures as they attempt to sneak onto the set of the
official Doctor Who 50th anniversary special. The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot was
nominated for the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form),
along with "The Day of the Doctor".
*This video is on Daily Motion and can not be posted in this blog, please click on the above link. thank you.*
Doctor
Who At The Proms 2008 (From Wikipedia)
Prom 13: Doctor Who Prom was a concert
showcasing incidental music from the British science fiction television series
Doctor Who, along with classical music, performed on 27 July 2008 in the Royal
Albert Hall in London as part of the BBC's annual Proms series of concerts.
The Doctor Who Prom showcased the work of
Murray Gold, who has composed the incidental music for Doctor Who since its
return in 2005. Other classical pieces were also played. The concert was
conducted by Ben Foster and Stephen Bell, and performed by the BBC
Philharmonic.
It was presented by actress Freema Agyeman,
who played companion Martha Jones on Doctor Who. Other Doctor Who actors and
performers dressed as Doctor Who monsters also made appearances on stage and in
the audience. The concert included video montages of scenes from Doctor Who and
a specially filmed "mini-episode" of Doctor Who called "Music of
the Spheres", which was presented on a screen above the orchestra and
included live interactive elements. The Doctor Who Prom was broadcast live on
BBC Radio 3 and recorded for subsequent television broadcast on BBC One on 1
January 2009. It was positively reviewed in several newspapers. The success of
the 2008 Prom led to more Doctor Who Proms for the 2010 and 2013 Proms seasons.
Saturday, August 5, 2017
Thursday, August 3, 2017
Classic Nick Wed. – Hattytown Tales
Created
in 1969 and airing until 1973 Hattytown
Tales was a classic stop motion animation series
which was produced by FilmFair for Thames Television in the United
Kingdom. The series writer and creator, Keith Chatfield, also served as the
show’s narrator which was directed by Ivor Wood. In the United States Hattytown
Tales were featured on Pinwheel along with several other Pinwheel
Cartoons which were usually imported from various countries.
Books of the series were published by World Distributors and featured in the Playland Comic
(offshoot of Pippin) published by Polystyle
Publications and in children's annuals for 10 years.
Hattytown Tales tells the story of its various
residents who are anthropomorphic hats. each
character had its own unique ethnicity, attitude, and role in Hattytown society
which was determined from the style of hat it was.
The main character, Sancho, is a Mexican
sombrero with legs and eyes. Carrots, his best friend, is a donkey with a
carrot dangling in front of his face. Other residents include Bobby, the
constable, which is represented by a policeman’s hat. Other residents include
Mr. Buns – a chief’s hat, a king – who was a crown and so forth. Their homes
also resembled the same has as the character who wore it.
VHS
Releases (from Wikipedia)
On 17 July 1995, Castle Communications
released three videos with five episodes on each one. The copyright year on the
back cover and the label is mistakenly printed as 1981 even though all 13
Series 1 episodes of Hattytown Tales were broadcast on ATV in 1969 and the
first two Series 2 episodes of Hattytown Tales were broadcast on ATV in 1970.
Title:
Hatty Town: 5 Classic Adventures
Catalogue
Number: CVS 4054
Episodes:
Mr. Wimple's Breakfast Rolls, Bobby's Flower Garden, Carrot's Carrot, King
Elthelbert, Milko's Day Off
Title:
Hatty Town: 5 Exciting Episodes
Catalogue
Number: CVS 4055
Episodes:
Simon's Magnifying Glass, Going Fishing, The Statue, Sancho's Camera, Posty's
Old Boots
Title:
Hatty Town: 5 Fun Episodes
Catalogue
Number: CVS 4056
Episodes:
You Cannot Please Anyone, Wash Day, The King's Portrait, Saving Time, Up and
Away
On 14 May 2001, Contender Entertainment Group
released a single video it with the first three episodes on it in its 'kult
kidz' range of classic children's shows from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s that
were released on video.
Title:
Hattytown Tales
Catalogue
Number: Ø
Episodes:
Mr. Wimple's Breakfast Rolls, Bobby's Flower Garden, Carrot's Carrot
Episode Titles
Series
1 (1969)
Mr. Wimple's Breakfast Rolls
Bobby's Flower Garden
Carrot's Carrot
King Ethelbert
Milko's Day Off
Simon's Magnifying Glass
Going Fishing
The Statue
Sancho's Camera
Posty's Old Boots
You Cannot Please Everyone
Wash Day
The King's Portrait
Series
2 (1970)
Saving Time
Up and Away
Creatures of Outer Space
Almost Magic
The Pillar Box
The Royal Hattytown Guards
Friendship
The Picnic
The Cannon
Carrots for the Mayor
Too Much of a Good Thing
Hiccup Buns
Bookworms
Series
3 (1973)
Bobby's Security Patrol
Mr. Bun the Master Baker
The Walking Pillar Box
The Fete
A Note for the Milkman
Sneezy Cheese
Mrs. Bagwash and the King
The Secret Tunnel
It Pays to Advertise
The Auction
The Telephone Box
A Taxi for Hire
Mustafer the Hedgehog
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