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Garfield's Thanksgiving

 

The Berenstain Bears – Out For the Team / Count Their Blessings

Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade 1983

 

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 1984

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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.

Nickelodeon Pinwheel (Full Episodes from VHS Tape Part 1) [1982-1984 RARE]

SCREENSHOTS

Special Delivery – Sound of Music

It’s been over 50 years since Julie Andrews twirled on an Austrian hill top to proclaim that “the hills are alive with the sound of music.” To celebrate the historic anniversary, ABC’s Diane Sawyer took a trip to Austria with Andrews to revisit where the iconic film was shot. “The Untold Story of The Sound of Music” visited old filming locations and allowed viewers to walk down memory lane as Andrews told stories about what it was like to create a film that has become a worldwide phenomenon. Of course, in reliving those memories, Andrews revealed a few things that many “Sound of Music” fans didn’t know.

  

The Untold Story of 'The Sound of Music'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ37CSjOBcw

The Trapp Family

This movie about the Trapp family is based more closely upon the memoirs of Maria von Trapp than the later movie, "The Sound of Music."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XZMH6F_P7M

Classic Nick Rocks

Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUmE-tne5U

This isn't exactly an 80's video but it's cute.

I Love To Boogie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eiQTFcFPDY

Jocko – Do You Love me?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqBs_4x9oDY

Musical Youth – Pass the Dutchie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFtLONl4cNc

Dan Hartman – I Can Dream About You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc3Sa4n0rS8 

Classic Nick Rocks

Sha Na Na – Hang Up My Rock & Roll Shoes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6hpPPQIRpk

Billy Joel – Tell Her About It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0pM5dm--yQ

Nick Lowe – Half A Boy And Half A Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksOzvYYHW48

Tracey Ullman – They Don't Know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksOzvYYHW48

Lyndsay Buckingham – Holiday Road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nLiQBV6A7c

Pat Wilson – Bop Girl

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

La Toya Jackson – Heart Don't Lie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srFJs9AYxsk 

Classic Nick Rocks

Hey Y'all,

Well, I’ve been thiking about doing something for a little while now and I think I’m ready now.

Every Saturday I post a “Forever 80’s!” playlist of videos in my brother’s F/B group "Your Childhood Days Remembered” as well as a group we own together called “Our Lives in Music.” So I started thinking that I should start posting those same videos here and call it “Classic Nick Rocks.”

Now I realized that I’m not going to have a fancy entro like the real Nick Rocks, all I have it this screen cap that I’ve added the word “classic” to, but I thought it would be nice to just take a look back at some of the old 80’s videos.

So here’s the short list and sorry that I’m posting it on a Sunday and not on Saturday as I had planned but I’ve been a little sick. I went to be about 6:30pm and woke up when my sister called about 10:30pm so I figured since I was up I’d check my F/B and post these for y’all. Hope you enjoy them.

John Fogerty – Centerfield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04KQydlJ-qc

Bruce Springsteen – Glory Days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vQpW9XRiyM

El Debarge – Who’s Johnny?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA9WhYnsD_4

Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam – Lost In Emotion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If8by9Df4wM 

Classic Nick Wed. – Dusty’s Treehouse

During the very early days of Nickelodeon there was a lovely children’s program called Dusty's Treehouse which starred Stuart Rosen as “Dusty” and featured the puppets of Tony Urbano.

Dusty lived in, yes you guessed it, a treehouse with his animal friends Maxine the crow, Scooter the squirrel, and Stanley the red-haired spider who wore sneakers. Each day the characters would learn about the world around them and at times Dusty would go on field trips to factories to see how products were made. In addition to the animal puppets shadow puppets were occasionally used to act out fairy tales.

Mr. Rosen was the creator and co-executive producer, and based it on a program he did in 1966-67 on KCET, then an NET station in Los Angeles. The show won eight Emmy Awards.

The show originated from KNXT (now KCBS-TV), the local CBS flagship TV station in Los Angeles where it ran from 1970-1980 and was briefly syndicated nationally (including on the rest of the CBS O&O stations), and then appeared in reruns on the children's cable TV channel Nickelodeon for four additional seasons.

Stuart M. Rosen (born 26 June 1939) is a voice director and voice actor. He is also a writer, he wrote and starred in the TV series Dusty's Treehouse. He has voice directed many cartoons and commercials for television and had live-action roles in Rome and The Huntress.

Classic Nick Wed. – The Snowman

Raymond Briggs’ children's picture book “The Snowman” was first published in 1978 by Hamish Hamilton in the U.K., and published by Random House in the U.S. that November. In 1982 the book was adapted into a 26-minute animated film by Dianne Jackson for the fledgling British public-service Channel 4 which debuted on British television on December 26, 1982 and was nominated for an Academy Award. Later this animated classic aired on Nickelodeon as a Special Delivery.

Howard Blake wrote the score and the story is told through pictures, action and music except for the beautiful song "Walking in the Air". In addition to the orchestral score, performed in the film by the Sinfonia of London, Blake composed the music and lyrics of the song, performed by a St Paul's Cathedral choirboy Peter Auty.

The film was produced using traditional animation techniques, consisting of pastels, crayons and other coloring tools drawn on pieces of celluloid, which were traced over hand drawn frames. For continuity purposes, the background artwork was painted using the same tools.

Film Plot (From Wikipedia)

The Snowman is the tale of a boy who builds a snowman one winter's day. That night, at the stroke of twelve, the snowman comes to life. The first part of the story deals with the snowman's attempts to understand the appliances, toys and other bric-a-brac in the boy's house, all while keeping quiet enough not to wake the boy's parents. The two then venture back outside and go for a ride on a motorcycle, disturbing many animals: pheasants, rabbits, a barn owl, a fox and a brown horse.

In the second part of the story, the boy and the snowman take flight — the song "Walking in the Air" appears at this point. They fly over the boy's town, over houses and large public buildings before flying past the Royal Pavilion in Brighton and West Pier and then out into the ocean. They continue through an arctic landscape and fly past many sights and animals such as penguins. Flying into the aurora they reach their destination.

The two wander hand-in-hand into a snow-covered forest and attend a snowmen's party, at which the boy is the only human. They meet Father Christmas and his reindeer, and the boy is given a scarf with a snowman pattern.

The story ends after the return journey. However, the sun has come out the next morning and the boy wakes up to find the snowman has melted. The boy begins to wonder if the night's events were all a dream, but he discovers that he still has the snowman scarf given to him by Father Christmas. Realizing the night's events were real, as the credits play, the boy mourns the loss of his new friend.

Stage Version

In 1986 The Contact Theatre, Manchester, adapted and produced by Anthony Clark, adapted “The Snowman” into a stage show, which included a full script and used Howard Blake's music and lyrics.  In 1993, Birmingham Repertory Company produced a version, with music and lyrics by Howard Blake, scenario by Blake, with Bill Alexander and choreography by Robert North.

Since 1997 Sadler's Wells has presented it every year as the Christmas Show at the Peacock Theatre. As in the book and the film, there are no words, apart from the lyrics of the song "Walking in the Air". The story is told through images and movement. Special effects include the Snowman and boy flying high over the stage (with assistance of wires and harnesses) and ‘snow’ falling in part of the auditorium. The production has had several revisions – the most extensive happening in 2000, when major changes were made to the second act, introducing new characters: The Ice Princess and Jack Frost.

The Snowman (film)

Directed By: Dianne Jackson

Produced By: John Coates

Written By: Raymond Briggs (Book)

Music By: Howard Blake (Composer)

Peter Auty (Treble)

Sinfonia Of London

Studio TVC London 

Running Time: 27 Min.

Language: English

Distributed By:

Channel 4, Universal Pictures (UK)

Columbia TriStar Entertainment (USA)

Release Date(s:)

26 December 1982 (Original)

29 December 1983 (David Bowie)

24 December 2002 (Mel Smith)

The Snowman – Book 

Author(s) – Raymond Briggs

Illustrator – Raymond Briggs

Country – United Kingdom

Genre(s) – Picture book

Publisher – Hamish Hamilton

Publication Date – 1978 

Media Type – Print

Pages – 32 pp

ISBN – 0241100046

OCLC Number – 788883530

LC Classification – PZ7.B7646 Sn 1978 

My Comments:

On a personal note this is one of my favorite Christmas shows. It’s a beautifully animated classic with beautiful music to accompany it. If you can find this DVD my suggestion to you would be to buy it and introduce your children, or yourself, to the wonderful magic of this moving film.

The Snowman (1982) with Original Introduction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE9KpobX9J8

SID AND MARTY KROFFT’S H.R. PUFNSTUF CELEBRATES 40 YEARS

SID AND MARTY KROFFT’S H.R. PUFNSTUF CELEBRATES 40 YEARSBy First Comics News– February 21, 2011
Posted in: News

URL - http://www.firstcomicsnews.com/?p=20387

LOS ANGELES (February 21, 2011) – As H. R. Pufnstuf marks 40 years since the series ended its trailblazing run on Saturday mornings, Vivendi Entertainment honors the iconic Sid and Marty Krofft creation with H. R. PUFNSTUF: THE COMPLETE SERIES. This three-DVD collection features all 17 episodes, which were originally broadcast between 1969 and 1971.

Presented in standard and collector’s editions, both versions include the entire series accompanied by downloadable vintage coloring sheets, and – for the first time ever on DVD – the rare series episode, “Horror Hotel.” In addition, the Collector’s Edition comes with an exclusive H.R. Pufnstuf bobblehead. Each will be available April 12 at all retail outlets for a suggested list price of $24.99 (standard) and $34.97 (collector’s).

Four decades have past since H. R. Pufnstuf left NBC airwaves, but the colorful series remains popular, not only among those reliving their childhood, but also with others discovering the whimsical world of Living Island for the first time. As a testament to the series’ longevity, Los Angeles based KCET, the largest independent public television station in the country, recently added H. R. Pufnstuf to its weekend line-up of children’s programming.

H. R. PUFNSTUF: THE COMPLETE SERIES is the latest release to stem from the partnership the Krofft brothers and Vivendi Entertainment formed last year. The ongoing collaboration promises to produce a series of DVD sets and compilations that will spotlight the sibling puppeteer’s iconic catalog of children’s television shows.

One of those programs, Lidsville, is heading to the big screen courtesy of DreamWorks Animation. The Krofft brothers will serve as executive producers for the project, which marks the first animated feature film adaptation of their work.

The Kroffts have been producing entertainment treasured by families for more than 40 years. Sid & Marty rose to prominence in the ’70s with a series of remarkable programs that featured elaborate sets and fanciful characters. H.R. Pufnstuf was the first in a long line of popular programs created by the Kroffts, including The Bugaloos, Land Of The Lost, Sigmund & the Sea Monsters and The Krofft Supershow to name but a few. The Krofft’s success led them to produce various prime-time series and specials, including The Brady Bunch Hour, The Donny & Marie Show and Barbara Mandrell & The Mandrell Sisters series.

H.R. Pufnstuf: The Complete Series

DVD Episode Listing


Disc 1
1.The Magic Path
2.The Wheely Bird
3.Showbiz Witch
4.The Mechanical Boy
5.The Stand-In
6.The Golden Key


Disc 2
1.The Birthday Party
2.The Box Kite Kaper
3.You Can’t Have Your Cake
4.Horse With The Golden Throat
5.Dinner For Two
6.Book, Flute and Candle


Disc 3
1.Tooth For A Tooth
2.The Visiting Witch
3.The Almost Election of Witchiepoo
4.Whaddya Mean the Horse Gets the Girl?
5.Jimmy Who?
Extras:

A Never Before Released Episode of Horror Hotel from the Krofft Superstar Hour

Downloadable Vintage HR Pufnstuf Music and Coloring Book


Synopsis:
Relive the Saturday mornings of your youth with the first series from legendary producers Sid & Marty Krofft! When a boy names Jimmy finds himself stranded on Living Island with his magic gold flute Freddy, he is taken in by a talking dragon named H.R. Pufnstuf, who is the mayor of Living Island. Pufnstuf tries to help Jimmy escape, while at the same time tries to avoid the evil Witchiepoo who wants the magic flute all to herself.


H.R. Pufnstuf: The Complete Series
Price: $24.99
Street Date: April 12, 2011
Pre-Book Date: March 8, 2011
Catalog Number: SI2961
UPC: 883476029610
Language: English
Running Time: 374 minutes
Rating: NR


H.R. Pufnstuf: The Complete Series – COLLECTOR’S EDITION
Price: $34.97
Street Date: April 12, 2011
Pre-Book Date: March 8, 2011
Catalog Number: SI3048
UPC: 883476030487
Language: English
Running Time: 374 minutes
Rating: NR

How To Make A Gumby Costume

With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner it’s only fitting that the Classic Nickelodeon Fan Blog post something…well…green. So in honor of St. Pat’s here are your instructions on “How To Make A Gumby Costume”.

Now I must admit that I have never attempted this myself if you read this and make it please send me your pictures and I’ll post them!!! In fact I will not only post them here I will also post them on my new Classic Nickelodeon Forever website! So everyone put your creative hat on and start sending in those pictures!!!

http://classic-nickelodeon-forever.jimdo.com/

How To Make A Gumby Costume
by eHow Holidays & Celebrations Editor
Link - http://www.ehow.com/how_2067142_make-gumby-costume.html
Introduction

This cute television icon seems like a good candidate for a Halloween costume, but Gumby is actually an ambitious choice. For a complete Gumby, the costume will cover the entire body, and it might take awhile to get using to walking inside of it. Nevertheless, there are always different ways to go based on degrees of authenticity.


Things You'll Need
Styrofoam sheets
Glue
Exacto knife or scissors
Green craft paint


Step One - Get Styrofoam sheets. For an authentic Gumby costume, Styrofoam is the best, You'll want a sheet at least as tall as the person who will wear the costume, and several feet wide, enough to cut out limbs and spare pieces.

Step Two - Cut out the body, arms, and legs. You can use an exacto knife or even scissors, but you'll probably need to hold the material down as you cut, or it will be too hard to cut through.

Step Three - Lay out the pieces so you know what goes where. You'll want two of each piece, a front and a back.

Step Four - Glue pieces together. Experts recommend a PVA glue like Weldbond, but with the disclaimer that PVAs need pressure to bond. You can use heavy objects to pressure the Styrofoam pieces while they dry, or you can go with a lighter glue that bonds without pressure.

Step Five - Let pieces dry.

Step Six - Paint them green. Use craft glue that is found at a craft or hobby store.

Step Seven - Add features such as mouth and googly eyes. You can use any kind of material for the eyes.

Tips & Warnings
Make sure your Gumby costume is properly ventilated. Design a hole for breathing and two holes for eyes. Also, make sure any fumes from the glue have dissipated before putting the costume on.

Classic Nick Alert!

Merry Christmas yall. I hope yall see this in time to be able to watch it.

Nickelodeon will be showing the Curious George movie from 3 to 4:45PM Central time, please check your local listings. ~ Curious George was a Pinwheel cartoon and was created by Margret and H.A. Rey.


2006 – The simple joys of story telling are on animated display in a delightful and sweet-natured adaptation of the misadventures of the impish and impetuous chip from the kid-lit classics by Margret and H.A. Rey. (Comedy, 86 mins.)

Curious George Swings Into A Museum Exhibit

Curious George Swings Into A Museum Exhibit
By: ANN LEVIN Published: March 28, 2010

NEW YORK — Ever wonder why Curious George is so curious? Or why the monkey hero of the "Curious George” children’s books is so fond of travel, so prone to mischief yet always narrowly escapes disaster?

A new exhibit at New York’s Jewish Museum suggests that curious readers need look no farther than the real-life adventures of the intrepid husband-and-wife team that created the beloved character.

H.A. and Margret Rey — he changed the name from Reyersbach — were German Jews living in Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion, increasingly concerned about finding safe haven. Two days before the Germans marched into Paris, they fled on bicycles carrying drawings for their picture books, including one about a mischievous monkey then called Fifi.

Curator Claudia Nahson said Hans and Margret created the monkey character that is always on the run while they themselves were on the run. The recurring motif of the monkey’s narrow escape from danger is another autobiographical detail.

Twice in the months leading up to their escape, the couple were questioned by authorities suspicious of their German accents. Both times they were let off the hook when officials learned what they were doing: making children’s books.

While the exhibit touches on the harrowing conditions they endured on their four-month journey in 1940 from France to New York, it’s more about the unusually long and fertile artistic collaboration between Hans and Margret, whose fiery personality is said to be the inspiration for George’s insatiable curiosity and spunk.

Hans Rey was a gentle, pipe-smoking, self-taught artist who toiled for a time in commercial art designing circus posters before launching his career as a writer and illustrator of children’s books. Margarete Waldstein, who shortened her name to Margret, was the more assertive of the two. She had studied art and photography at the famed Bauhaus School in Germany and had strong opinions about nearly everything, including her husband’s work.

Both loved animals. Hans liked to sketch in zoos, and the couple kept pet marmosets in their apartment in Brazil in the 1930s. Margret even knitted sweaters to keep the monkeys warm on the couple’s cold ocean passage to Europe in 1936, but the creatures didn’t survive the voyage.

The exhibition features nearly 80 original drawings and vibrant watercolors for the more than 30 books the couple wrote and illustrated. The most famous, of course, is Curious George — the "good little monkey” captured in the wilds of Africa by a man in a large yellow hat and taken to the city to live in a zoo and later, the man’s home.

The idea for George began in an earlier book about a lonely giraffe named Raffy who befriends nine monkeys, the youngest of which is called Fifi. Eventually, the Reys decided to develop a story just about Fifi. It was one of the stories they brought from France, only to learn when they got to the U.S. that American publisher Houghton Mifflin had doubts about the name Fifi for a boy monkey.

So, Fifi became George in the United States — and Zozo in Britain. The "Curious George” books eventually were translated into many languages, selling tens of millions of copies worldwide.

It’s not hard to see why. With simple lines and bright, buoyant colors, the Reys created an imaginary world full of innocence and optimism.

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Black Beauty Theme

Last night while watching "The Adventures of Black Beauty" I decided that I wanted to do a bit of reading about it so I Googled it and found out something very cool.

The beautiful theme song that opens and closes the show is called "Galloping Home". It was written by Dennis King and performed by the London String Chorale. Also it was released as a single and peaked at number 31 in the UK charts in the week of February 2, 1974.

And for those of you who have never seen season one of "The New Adventures of Black Beauty" I highly recommend it. Season one if the continuation of the 1970's version and features two of the characters from the original series, Dr James Gordon (played by William Lucas) and Jenny Gordon Denning (played by Stacy Dorning). In other words the original Doctor Gordon and the original Jenny Gordon who of course is now grown and married with a step daughter - her name? Victoria - Vicky of course.

The old and new series is out on Region 1 DVD and also airs on the faith based channel FamilyNet.

And as a treat here is my video tribute to the show. Also check out my Classic Nickelodeon channels on youtube. I have one for regular programs, commercials and Special Deliveries. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhov0LkL9cg

For more reading on this please visit my blog at: http://classic-nickelodeon-fan-blog.blogspot.com/2009/05/adventures-of-black-beauty-now-on-dvd.html

~ SPECIAL DELIVERY ~

I’m sorry that this is so late but I get caught up in things and forget to post stuff sometimes so please forgive me. I hope you enjoy it.

I’d like to share with you a Halloween Special Delivery called “Marc Summers' Mystery Magical Special” from 1986 but it continued air, often multiple times, every October for several years afterward.

Summery from Wikipedia
Summers' character and three young children (friends of his, all of whom seem to play themselves) arrive at a mysterious mansion after they get a flat tire. Within, they find, among other things, heads falling from the ceiling, Burton performing card tricks, and even a bizarre demon-like villain character who engages in a prolonged swordfight with Burton. At the end of this fight, Burton performs another display of his talents, wherein he reveals that the demon character never existed, and that the entire ordeal was, in his words, "just a trick". Afterward, the characters leave the mansion, where they meet another lost traveler, Stan Allen, magician, looking for a phone (he had run out of gas), whom they wryly tell to "help [himself]".


Marc Summers' Mystery Magical Special part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NvZ-MoUDws

Marc Summers' Mystery Magical Special part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5thGIFmFAE

Marc Summers' Mystery Magical Special part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDUvxpH4vIA