In Search of Saturdays

Welcome to “In Search of Saturdays" a weekly advertising space I’ve designed to help our members find those long lost movies, cartoons, TV shows, toys, games and anything else that we’ve all been looking for for a very long time.

The instructions are simple. Post your personal “looking for” list here and we’ll all see if we can help you find what you’re looking for.

If you can’t remember the name of a show or toy that’s alright, post what you can remember and maybe someone here will be able to tell you what it is. Also please remember that if you are listing television shows or movies please let us know if you are looking to purchase these shows or if you just want to watch them online. Then we, the members of the group, will help try to help each other and go “in search of” those items for our fellow members.

A good places to start our searches is iOffer ( http://www.ioffer.com/ ) which, in my opinion, is better than eBay b/c you can find lots of shows there that you can’t find anywhere else.

My Want List

This is a list of the Classic Nickelodeon programs that I’m looking for to purchase. Please note that I am a private collector who does not copy and resell my collection. The videos and DVDs that I collect are for my own private viewing here in my home or my Mother’s house where I originally saw them. If you have any of these and would like to sell me copies – for my private viewing – please contact me at peggysueclay@hotmail.com     Also, IF you contact me via email PLEASE PUT THE NAME OF THE SHOW IN THE SUBJECT LINE. Thank you.

***** NON VIDEO ITEMS *****

Muppets Magazine 1982

People Magazine – recent issue – no date – Marc Summers’ article

Any 80’s women’s or children’s magazines

Early to Mid 80’s TV Guides

REGULAR PROGRAMS

Dusty's Treehouse

Hocus Focus

Kids’ Writes

Livewire

Nick Rocks Video to Go

Pinwheel – more than just the 6 hrs that’s currently available

Science International (aka) What Will They Think of Next?

Spread Your Wings

Standby...Lights! Camera! Action!

Studio See

PINWHEEL CARTOONS

The Adventures of the Mole

Bunny in the Suitcase

Charlie's Climbing Tree

Emily (Emilie) (my favorite)

Hattytown Tales

Magic Coco

The Magic Roundabout

SPECIAL DELIVERY

Beware, Beware My Beauty Fair

Clarence & The Ottaway (staring Billy Hufsey)

Kids’ Writes

Silver City (The Righteous Apples special)

Classic Nick Wed. – 16– La Linea

La Linea, or “The Line", as it is pronounced in English was an award winning Italian animated series created by cartoonist Osvaldo Cavandoli which was originally broadcast on the Italian channel RAI between 1971 and 1986, and consists of 90 episodes, each about 2–4 minutes long. The series has aired in more than 40 countries around the world including the United States when it aired on Pinwheel as one of their animated shorts which it was widely known for.

The cartoon features a man, known as "Mr. Linea", who is drawn as a single outline around his silhouette, walking on an infinite line of which he is a part. As Mr. Linea walks along the line he encounters different obstacles that he has trouble overcoming. At that point he would turn to the cartoonist, which is represented as a live-action hand holding a white grease pencil, and mutters something along the lines of a complaint in gibberish.  At this point, the artist will come in and draw something involving the oddity that Mr. Linea would then interact with but he artist was rather sadistic though, as the cartoons always turn out badly for the main character. The mock version of Milanese that resembled gibberish gave the cartoon the possibility to be easily exported without dubbing.

The length of this animated short usually ran in two minutes thirty seconds per episode although some four-minute episodes were also made and was accompanied by a background tune created by Franco Godi.

DVD Releases

A set of three DVDs containing all the episodes was released in Germany in 2003 and re-edited in September 2008. The first volume was released in France, Hungary, Serbia and Scandinavia. A set of two DVDs containing 56 episodes is sold in Quebec since 2008 by Imavision. The complete series was released in Scandinavia in the beginning of 2008 in a 3-disc box set.

In The News

In October 2012 Ford ran a TV ad campaign for its C-MAX hybrid using La Linea.

See Article: 

Ford C-MAX Commercials Launch with La Linea – Video

http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2012/10/ford-c-max-commercials-launch-with-la-linea-video.html

Mr. Linea also has his own video game

http://www.iworld.com.my/introducing-mr-linea-his-drawer/

Saturday Christmas Lineup

**Posting after midnight – this will replace “In Search of Saturday” for today.**

Saturday Christmas Lineup

(All times are Central Standard Time)

After yesterday’s tragedy here is a nice way to spend some good quality family time. Have some hot chocolate, make some popcorn and homemade pizzas, watch some good old-fashioned “cartoons” and hug your children a little tighter.

Family Channel

6AM – Cat in the hat – 1971

6:30AM – The Grinch / Cat in the Hat – 1982

7AM – Little Drummer Boy – 1968

7:30AM – Little Drummer Boy Book II

8AM – Nester the Christmas Donkey – 1977

8:30AM – Pinocchio’s Christmas

9:30AM – Miser Brother’s Christmas – 2008

10:30AM – 1^st Christmas Snow – 1975

11AM – ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas – 1974

11:30AM – Frosty’s Winter Wonderland – 1976

12Noon – Jack Frost – 1979

1PM – Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July – 1979

3PM – Disney’s A Christmas Carol – 2009

5PM – Toy Story – 1995

7PM – Toy Story 2 – 1999

9PM – Santa Claus is Commin to Town – 1970

10PM – Year Without A Santa Claus – 1974

On Nickelodeon

5PM – Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh! – 2007

Classic Nick Wed. 15 – Today's Special Christmas Episodes 1 & 2

Classic Nickelodeon Wednesday – 15

December 12, 2012

This week’s Classic Nickelodeon Wednesday is a little different in that instead of writing an article I’m posting the link to the Today’s Special Christmas episodes part one and two. Enjoy.

Video Link – http://youtu.be/5N_aOvFfT6k

Video Title – Today's Special – "Christmas Parts 1 & 2"

Uploaded By – Travis Doucette on Feb 20, 2012

Video Description

On Christmas Eve, Jeff was brought to life because he didn't want to miss Christmas. But Sam, Muffy and Jodie knew that he was going to be alone in the store. So after leaving him, Jeff decides to decorate the biggest Christmas tree. Jodie returns and so does Muffy. Sam tries to get in but he left his wallet and keys in the store. So after trying to call Jeff to let him in, he is taken away by the police. Meanwhile, two of Santa's elves are loose in the store and Muffy tries to catch one (since everyone knows if you catch one and let it go, they give you a wish) but the elves out smart them and deliver Sam's wallet and keys to the police station and after proving who he is, the police let him go and he gets back to the store in time to spend Christmas with Jeff.

In Search of Saturdays

Welcome to “In Search of Saturdays" a weekly advertising space I’ve designed to help our members find those long lost movies, cartoons, TV shows, toys, games and anything else that we’ve all been looking for for a very long time.

The instructions are simple. Post your personal “looking for” list here and we’ll all see if we can help you find what you’re looking for.

If you can’t remember the name of a show or toy that’s alright, post what you can remember and maybe someone here will be able to tell you what it is. Also please remember that if you are listing television shows or movies please let us know if you are looking to purchase these shows or if you just want to watch them online. Then we, the members of the group, will help try to help each other and go “in search of” those items for our fellow members.

A good places to start our searches is iOffer ( http://www.ioffer.com/ ) which, in my opinion, is better than eBay b/c you can find lots of shows there that you can’t find anywhere else.

My Want List

This is a list of the Classic Nickelodeon programs that I’m looking for to purchase. Please note that I am a private collector who does not copy and resell my collection. The videos and DVDs that I collect are for my own private viewing here in my home or my Mother’s house where I originally saw them. If you have any of these and would like to sell me copies – for my private viewing – please contact me at peggysueclay@hotmail.com     Also, IF you contact me via email PLEASE PUT THE NAME OF THE SHOW IN THE SUBJECT LINE. Thank you.

***** NON VIDEO ITEMS *****

Muppets Magazine 1982

People Magazine – recent issue – no date – Marc Summers’ article

Any 80’s women’s or children’s magazines

Early to Mid 80’s TV Guides

REGULAR PROGRAMS

Dusty's Treehouse

Hocus Focus

Kids’ Writes

Livewire

Nick Rocks Video to Go

Pinwheel – more than just the 6 hrs that’s currently available

Science International (aka) What Will They Think of Next?

Spread Your Wings

Standby...Lights! Camera! Action!

Studio See

PINWHEEL CARTOONS

The Adventures of the Mole

Bunny in the Suitcase

Charlie's Climbing Tree

Emily (Emilie) (my favorite)

Hattytown Tales

Magic Coco

The Magic Roundabout

SPECIAL DELIVERY

Beware, Beware My Beauty Fair

Clarence & The Ottaway (staring Billy Hufsey)

Kids’ Writes

Silver City (The Righteous Apples special)

Classic Nick Wed. 14 – Emily

One of the most unique characteristics about Pinwheel is that it featured many different types of animated shorts. There was stop-motion animation; the most notable were the Building Blocks sequences. Claymation such as Hattytown Tales and Gumby and traditional animation such as Emily, or Émilie as she is known in France, was created by French author and illustrator Domitille de Pressensè the mid-1970s when she was in the forth year of School of Fine Arts. In America we know Émilie as Emily, a French cartoon that aired on Pinwheel.

The stories take place in the daily life of the little girl and are representative of a little girl's life of 5-6 years whose design style is simple and minimalist. The cartoon follows the adventures of Emily, a little girl who wears only red, a red dress, shoes, and hat but at times her gloves are green. She has an brother named Stephen who wears blue overalls and a little sister Beth who’s name varies according to country. Other names for Emily’s sister are Pat and in France her name is Elise. She also has a pet hedgehog named Humphrey in the English version, Arthur in other versions.

Other characters include the series include her cousins Alexander, who wears a green jumper with knee-pads, and Nicholas who wears red shorts and green sweater and her English friends Grégory and Chloe who wears blue as well as William her who wears yellow overalls and Sydney  who has curly hair.

An English studio adapted the cartoon from the books, whose simple but expressive illustrations are focused on 4-7 year olds. These red books were published at G.P  in 1978 and then republished in the Orange and Blue collection from 1985-1987, in the Red and Gold (1989-1992) and finally in the Pocket Jeunesse edition (1994-1999).

The books are also available on CD via Antenna 2 featuring the voice of Jackie Berger. There are not currently any VHS or DVDs of the series available.

Name: Émilie

Origins: United Kingdom, France

Producer: Kid Cartoons

Year Of Production: 1979

Number Of Episodes: 49 X 5 Minutes

Author Bd: Domitille De Pressensé

Realization: Raymond Burlet

Production: Jacques Vercruyssen

Scenery: Domitille De Pressensé

Technical Director: Jean Janssens

Music: Philippe Noel

Animation: Geneviève Antoine, Jean-Claude Deridder, Jacques Iaton,

Nadine Kalaitzic, Patrick Theunen

Theme Song Lyrics

It's me Emily!
Your little friend as nice as can be.
You can always tell that it's me,

'cause I always wear red, you see.

Red dress and a red hat,
But sometimes my gloves are green.

We are friends as nice as can be.
Big brother Stephen and little sister Beth.
And my little hedgehog Humphrey,
Who'll share my adventures with me.

Yipee!

***Comments Needed And Welcomed***

Recently I was contacted by owners of Old School Lane Blog, Patricia and Kevin, who requested an interview with me about my Classic Nickelodeon Wednesday Fan Blog (this blog).

One of the questions they asked me was which Classic Nickelodeon shows I would like to see remade and one of my answers was “Kids’ Writes” so I emailed that part of the interview to Jim Mairs from Kids’ Writes (the blond guy on the right) and imagine my surprise when I checked my email the next day and found this email from Mr. Mairs.

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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:25:46 -0700
Subject: Re: Classic Nickelodeon Wednesday – 14
From: Jim Mairs
To: peggysueclay@hotmail.com

Well, this took me by surprise.  Lots of good ideas and memories.  I will be curious to read what other folks think.  All the best for the holidays.  Jm

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

He’s very interested in hearing what other Classic Nick fans think about my interview with me so I’m asking all of you to PLEASE comment about that interview here so that I can send your comments to him.

Yall, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. Mr. Mairs is a very good link to 80’s Nickelodeon and it’s important that if he’s asking for feedback that we all give it to him. Please my interview and comment here.

Old School Lane's Nickelodeon Tribute: Interview with Peggy Sue Clay

http://oldschoollane.blogspot.com/2012/11/old-school-lanes-nickelodeon-tribute_29.html

Happy Anniversary

Happy Anniversary to our two long time December members. 

12-19-07 – jrenaefo

12-28-07 - tvshows1985

In Search of Saturdays

Welcome to “In Search of Saturdays" a weekly advertising space I’ve designed to help our members find those long lost movies, cartoons, TV shows, toys, games and anything else that we’ve all been looking for for a very long time.

The instructions are simple. Post your personal “looking for” list here and we’ll all see if we can help you find what you’re looking for.

If you can’t remember the name of a show or toy that’s alright, post what you can remember and maybe someone here will be able to tell you what it is. Also please remember that if you are listing television shows or movies please let us know if you are looking to purchase these shows or if you just want to watch them online. Then we, the members of the group, will help try to help each other and go “in search of” those items for our fellow members.

A good places to start our searches is iOffer ( http://www.ioffer.com/ ) which, in my opinion, is better than eBay b/c you can find lots of shows there that you can’t find anywhere else.

My Want List

This is a list of the Classic Nickelodeon programs that I’m looking for to purchase. Please note that I am a private collector who does not copy and resell my collection. The videos and DVDs that I collect are for my own private viewing here in my home or my Mother’s house where I originally saw them. If you have any of these and would like to sell me copies – for my private viewing – please contact me at peggysueclay@hotmail.com     Also, IF you contact me via email PLEASE PUT THE NAME OF THE SHOW IN THE SUBJECT LINE. Thank you.

***** NON VIDEO ITEMS *****

Muppets Magazine 1982

People Magazine – recent issue – no date – Marc Summers’ article

Any 80’s women’s or children’s magazines

Early to Mid 80’s TV Guides

REGULAR PROGRAMS

Dusty's Treehouse

Hocus Focus

Kids’ Writes

Livewire

Nick Rocks Video to Go

Pinwheel – more than just the 6 hrs that’s currently available

Science International (aka) What Will They Think of Next?

Spread Your Wings

Standby...Lights! Camera! Action!

Studio See

PINWHEEL CARTOONS

The Adventures of the Mole

Bunny in the Suitcase

Charlie's Climbing Tree

Emily (Emilie) (my favorite)

Hattytown Tales

Magic Coco

The Magic Roundabout

SPECIAL DELIVERY

Beware, Beware My Beauty Fair

Clarence & The Ottaway (staring Billy Hufsey)

Kids’ Writes

Silver City (The Righteous Apples special)