Special Delivery

  

***TITLES ARE NOW CLICKABLE***
 
DIY Autumn Terrarium – Home & Family

 
Berenstain Bears: The Bad Habit/ The Prize Pumpkin 

 
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 1981
** This Parade Features George James & The Pinwheel Puppets! **

 
Love At The Thanksgiving Day Parade

Special Delivery

DIY Holiday Balloon Parade – Home & Family

Garfield's Thanksgiving

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 1981

*special note on this parade – it features the George James & Pinwheel Puppets*

Special Delivery – Introducing Janet

Janet is an over-weight girl who has a knack for making the other children in school laugh...by making fun of her own weight. In seeing the other kids reaction, she feels that she might have what it takes to be a comedian. She visits the local comedy club where she finds Tony Moroni who is a struggling comedian whose jokes are less than funny. Together Tony helps Janet find self-esteem and Janet helps Tony with his material.

Special Delivery – Thanksgiving 1

It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without the Classics!

 A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (full)

Garfield's Thanksgiving

Turkey Television

Special Delivery – Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

Turkey Television

Part 1 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uKuZJep7Kw

Part 2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaW-LTPwAkA

Part 3 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jEiUvg_uXM

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (full)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ961y0VKEk

Garfield's Thanksgiving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhmLpt886lk

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 1981 (full, with commercials)

***special not on this parade – it features the puppets from Nickelodeon!***

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cYvS2gQM2s

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 1986 (full)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPzBqaA4IuQ

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 1988 (full)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFIpusC7iPg

Happy Thanksgiving

 Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

TURKEY TELEVISION Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uKuZJep7Kw

  

TURKEY TELEVISION Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaW-LTPwAkA

  

TURKEY TELEVISION Part 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jEiUvg_uXM

  

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (full)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ961y0VKEk

  

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 1981 (full, with commercials)

*special not on this parade – it features “the puppets from Nickelodeon!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cYvS2gQM2s

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 1986 (full)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPzBqaA4IuQ

  

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 1988 (full)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFIpusC7iPg

  

Classic Nick Special Delivery Adam & The Ants – The Prince Charming Revue (full concert)

From: Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_and_the_Ants

Prince Charming

In November 1981, Adam & the Ants released Prince Charming. The band had two United Kingdom No. 1 singles: "Stand and Deliver" was a No. 1 single in the UK for 5 weeks in May 1981,[5] followed by "Prince Charming", which topped the UK charts for 4 weeks in September 1981.[6] "Ant Rap" reached No. 3 in January 1982.[7]

There would be a further round of cash-in reissues of early material in early 1982, when the two Jubilee soundtrack songs were reissued in February as a 7-inch single with "Deutscher Girls" as the A Side, reaching No. 13 on the UK singles chart (giving the original Ants band a second posthumous Top 15 hit), while Antmusic EP, a 12" EP of three unused tracks from the Dirk sessions plus a remix of 'Cartouble (Parts 1 & 2)'), was released by Do It in March, reaching No. 46.

Adam & The Ants – The Prince Charming Revue (full concert)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oILeaRiLufY

CC Loveheart Interview from Andy Anderson

Classic Nick Wed. –

CC Loveheart Interview from Andy Anderson

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

A very special thank you to our own Andy Anderson for conducting this interview with CC Loveheart better known as “Coco the Mime” on Pinwheel House from 1979-1981. She is commonly referred to as “The First Coco.”

Here are the questions (they may be long!). Thank you for participating in this interview.

AA: How did you get the job as "Coco" on Pinwheel? Were you asked to audition, or did you develop the character yourself? Where did the name "Coco" come from?

CC:  A lovely woman and producer of the first 2 seasons, Sandy Kavenaugh saw me in a 2-person mime show in NYC.  She talked to me about developing a mime character for "Pinwheel House".  The project was proposed as a project called, "Qube".   Qube was to be the first attempt at 2-way television.  (Meaning, the viewing audience could have the potential to communicate with the performers.)  This never really happened.  But Pinwheel House was taped with its myriad characters in place.  I participated in the first 2 seasons of taping.  I wrote almost all the skits that I performed because the writers did not know how to write for a mime.  Writers use words, mimes do not, so I was also hired as a writer.

 

AA: Was Pinwheel already formed as a series when you joined, or were they still developing the structure of the show?

CC:  It was still being structured.

 

AA: What was the typical shooting/production schedule on the set of Pinwheel?

CC:  I flew to Columbus, Ohio for 2 weeks at a time.  I had young children at home, so it was part of my contract that I be flown home and have time off in-between shoots for Pinwheel House.

 

AA: How did you get inspired to perform as a mime? Were you influenced by other mimes such as Marcel Marceau?

CC:  I began as and wanted to be a dancer.   (I had danced in the floor shows in Las Vegas.) And, after my last child was born, I took a mime class at a local community college in upstate New York in order to get back in shape.  The teacher of the class asked me to perform with him in NYC.  That’s where Sandy Kavenaugh saw me and hired me.  I also studied mime with Moni Yakim and others before going into “straight” acting.

 

AA: For those who may have never watched the show before, could you describe Coco's character and personality? What did you enjoy about playing her?

CC:  I loved Coco.  I developed her, wrote and performed her.  I wanted to entertain and inform.  My intention was to make Coco childlike in her innocence and playfulness.  My hope was to make her available and loveable for kids of varying ages.   As to the performing aspect, I was required to be an “athlete” in that often many takes were required, so I had to be very strong physically, in order to repeat the mimes required.

I enjoyed my interactions with Jake, the older couple who lived in the house (whose names I have forgotten), the vegetable vendor, the veggies and the puppets.  All in all, it was a most pleasant working experience.

 

AA: How popular was Pinwheel at the time it was airing?

CC: I don’t know.  But it certainly caught on.  I still receive emails from folks who grew up with Coco and still remember her fondly. 

 

AA: Was there ever any thought that Coco might scare young children as they sometimes have an abnormal fear of mimes and clowns?

CC:  Yes, that was a big concern of mine. Children are known to be afraid of clowns and the white face look. So, I developed Coco’s make-up by trying various make-ups.  I would get in front of the camera and look at the monitor to see if the look was friendly, appealing and not scary.  That’s how the hearts on the cheeks along with the big eyed-double- false-eyelash, and pale lip color came to be. 

 

AA: Some say that Pinwheel was the original name of the Nickelodeon channel, while others say that it was just a program on Nickelodeon. What is most accurate?

CC:  Pinwheel House was always the name of the project.  All of us lived in Pinwheel House or the neighborhood.  As I said, in the beginning, it was under the aegis of “Qube”.

 

AA: How different was it from making the program for QUBE in Columbus, Ohio, where Pinwheel was created, to making it for Nickelodeon in New York? Did Nickelodeon make any changes to the series once it launched?

CC:  I was not involved in the NY taping.  When it came time to renew my contract, we had a new producer (Tippy Fortune was her name and how appropriate it turned out to be) and we had “contractual differences”.   And so, a woman who was VERY different physically from me, and who had not requested residuals replaced me.

 

AA: What was your fondest memory on the Pinwheel set? Any behind-the-scenes incidents/outtakes? What are some little known facts about the show?

CC:  I remember a wrap party in which Coco spoke.  I had secured promises from the camera and sound folks and we, in secret, made a tape of Coco speaking and thanking everyone.  Coco had a very strong lisp and the running joke in this private tape (meant only for the party) was that that was why Coco never spoke.   The actor-musician, George James, who played Jake, was a friend and I recommended him for the show.  We had a great time cracking each other up both in front of and behind the camera.

 

AA: How did you end up leaving Pinwheel? Was it cancelled, or did you leave to pursue other projects?

CC:  As mentioned above, there were contractual differences that played into my leaving.  But, I also felt a strong calling to move on to speaking characters.  I began to work as an actor and went on to have a career that has spanned some 40 years.

 

AA: Can you recall any other individuals important in developing Pinwheel?

CC:  The young men, Jim Jenson and Brad?? Were the puppeteers and they were very talented.  They brought much to the show.  Unfortunately, Jim died quite young.

And again, Sandy Kavenaugh had great vision and pulled the cast and crew together.  She was instrumental in the success of the show.

 

AA: Thank you for generously participating in this interview.

CC:  You are welcome.  Please send me the link to your blog.

Classic Nick Wed. – PopClips

With set flats made from the Styrofoam packing used to ship laserdisc players and 3/4" video decks PopClips was broadcast weekly on the youth-oriented cable television channel Nickelodeon in late 1980 and early 1981 and was the direct predecessor of MTV.

The first music-video program was a promotional device for Warner Communications' record division, which was first conceived by former Monkee Mike Nesmith with production beginning in the spring of 1979 at SamFilm, a sound-stage built and operated in Sand City, California by Sam Harrison, a Monterey Peninsula College instructor with a motion picture background; the first "VeeJay" was Jeff Michalski.

== Early Videos Broadcast On PopClips ==

Split Enz -- "I Hope I Never"

Pretenders -- "Brass in Pocket"

Kim Carnes -- "More Love"

Mike Nesmith -- "Rio"

Huey Lewis and the News -- "Some of My Lies Are True (Sooner or Later)"

Huey Lewis and the News -- "Don't Ever Tell Me That You Love Me"

Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons -- "Security"

The Police -- "Walking on the Moon"

Rolling Stones -- "Waiting on a Friend"

The Tourists -- "I Only Want to Be with You"

Madness -- "One Step Beyond"

Split Enz -- "I Got You"

Squeeze -- "Cool for Cats"

The Police -- "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"

The Waitresses -- "I Know What Boys Like"

Mi-Sex -- "Computer Games"

Pearl Harbor and the Explosions -- "Drivin"

Toto -- "99"

Thin Lizzy -- "Waiting For An Alibi"

Tycoon --"Such a Woman"

Lucifer's Friend --"Goodbye Girls"

Pearl Harbor and the Explosions --"Drivin'"

Boney M --"Rivers of Babylon"

Poco --"Crazy Love"

Graham Parker --"Protection"

Carly Simon --"Vengance"

== PopClips ==

Genre – Music television

Created By – Michael Nesmith

Developed By – Michael Nesmith & William Dear

Directed By – William Dear

Presented By

Howie Mandel

Jack Armstrong

Jeff Michalski

Charles Fleischer

Bill Martin

Country Of Origin – United States

Original Language(s) – English

No. Of Seasons – 1

== Production ==

Executive Producer(s) – Michael Nesmith

Running Time – 30 Minutes

Broadcast – Original Channel – Nickelodeon

== Chronology ==

Preceded By – Elephant Parts (video)

Followed By – Television Parts

Related Shows – MTV Channel

Classic Nick Wed.6 – The Third Eye

In the spirit of Halloween this month I will be focusing on the Nickelodeon anthology mini-series known collectively as “The Third Eye” which begin airing on Nickelodeon in January 1983.

This hodgepodge of mini foreign shows consisted of a variety of serials from the UK and New Zealand and included: "The Haunting of Cassie Palmer" (1982),  "Under The Mountain"(1981), "Children of the Stones" (1976), and "Into the Labyrinth" (1981).   Later “The Witches of Grinnygog” was added to this line up however it never aired in this collection and was shown later as a Special Delivery.

What made The Third Eye so unique was that it wasn’t silly, upbeat programs that kids were used to, these shows were.  They were live action, sci-fi / supernatural theme, their strange and somewhat their bizarre nature and unclear target audience made them something of a novelty that hasn't been seen since its time on the Nickelodeon Network. The unifying theme of the show (and hence the name of the title, and opening montage sequence) was that of children with psychic powers.

Before each episode an on-screen announcement would read the following statement: "The following is a science-fiction program, and may contain some startling scenes. This show is intended for older children."

Then we see a room of children all standing in a black room with thin light beams fanned out over the floor. As the camera moves through them we hear: "Somewhere in the crowd, sometimes you find someone very special. Someone who hears the unheard, someone who understands the mystery. Sometimes, there's someone who sees with the third eye!" At that point the camera would stop on a child in the back of the crowd with an eye on his forehead them a series of natural disasters flash by.

And while the person responsible for developing the series for Nickelodeon is unknown its loyal followers have never forgot this short series and still lives in their hearts even to this day, and I should know because I’m one of them.

Starting next week I will begin posting about each series in order from my least favorite right up to Halloween night where I will finish out with my favorite show in this series.