Classic Nick Wed. – Sightings

Today’s Classic Nickelodeon Wednesday is a bit different. For the last few months I’ve had a few Classic Nickelodeon sightings and I wanted to share them with you. Hope you enjoy them. 

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As I was cleaning out my spare bedroom I found an old 16 Magazine from 1985. As I flipped through it I found the address page and low and behold, I found an address to write to Alasdair Gillis from You Can’t Do That On Television! 

 

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Before Tomorrow People fans knew Trevor Bannister as “Colonel Masters” he was already well known on the hit television series Are You Being Served? Where he played “Mr. Lucas” Here he is with fellow co-star John Inman preforming “Mammy.” Who knew the Colonel was so well coordinated? 

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Curious George has been around for a long time and if you watched Pinwheel in the ‘80’s then chances are you saw George as a Pinwheel Cartoon. In October I happened to notice this sign in the electronics department in Walmart. George is such a cutie! 

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Last Friday while I was out of town for a doctor's appointment I took a stole through Target and noticed this guy on one of the 4-way shelves in the electronics department. 

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'90's kids may remember the night Nickelodeon aired Puf-a-Palooza, an all night marathon of the wold and crazy worlds of Sid and Marty Krofft. While going through some old newspapers I ran across this article about H.R. Pufnstuf appearing on the Nickelodeon show Mutt & Stuff.

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About two weeks ago while I was in Walmart I happen to look over at the TVs by the door and noticed they were showing Hey Arnold. How could I NOT take a picture of that?! 

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As you all know, Paddington Bear aired during Pinwheel making it a Pinwheel Cartoon as I like to call them. While I was in the dollar store I happened to notice this DVD set of Paddington Bear DVD. 

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What's Nickelodeon without Slim?! Personally I prefer the real stuff, as seen on You Can't Do That On Television, but for today's modern kids who's never seen the show this will have to do. Still, it does look fun don't cha' think? 

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So, you’re probably asking what does a unicorn in a pen have to do with Nickelodeon right? Three Nickelodeon Special Deliveries, namely, Alex and the Wonderful “Doo Wah” Lamp, Big Apple Birthday and The Stowaway where part of a two volume VHS anthology series collectively known as Unicorn Tales. In the opening title of the videos is a unicorn in a pen kicks the fence then jumps over it and runs away. Here is the coloring book and a screenshot of Unicorn Tales. 

Special Delivery & Nick Rocks My B-Day

Those of you who have been following my blog for a while know that every year on my birthday I pick out my favorite special deliveries and post them for my birthday. This year is no different. Hope you all enjoy some of my personal favorites. Also, just a quick note. That is NOT my birthday cake, I googled “'80's birthday cakes” and thought this looked awesome. It didn’t have a name or age so I thought it was perfect. The cake creators are Cake Central.

Starship – We Built This City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1b8AhIsSYQ

Cyndi Lauper – All Through The Night

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

Toto – Africa 

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

Billy Joel – For The Longest Time

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

Dan Hartman (movie group The Sorels ) – I Can Dream About You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auLyfd49-UE

Bruce Springsteen – Glory Days

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

The Goodies – Funky Gibbon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAmx_XdQky8

Menudo – Claridad (2009)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3nRRDf6TcE

Billy Joel – Tell Her About It

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

The Bangles – Manic Monday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsmVgoXDq2w

Cirque Du Soleil – Alegria

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

Galileo: Dr. Who video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM2n0TnSxM4

Selena Vive - Fotos y Recuerdos (Paulina Rubio)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFzGM4gtWY0

The Bugaloos – "Lady, You Don't Look Eighty"

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

Unicorn Tales 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkgrmiqIP48

Big Apple Birthday [0:21]

Alex and the Wonderful Doo-Wah Lamp [23:50]

The Magic Hat [47:17]

The Magnificent Major [1:10:51] 

Fame TV Series - Season 6 Episode 22 – Of Cabbages and Kings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoviydyGk-k

Special Delivery – My Birthday!

Today is my birthday and this is my very special Special Delivery with two of my favorites, Sha Na Na and Unicorn Tales! Hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

Sha Na Na Live 1973 on Musikladen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVBaH7k_1Xk

Sha Na Na – Full Concert – 04/21/73

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEGaljlPL8c

Unicorn Tales 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQh20erhrKg

The Magic Pony Ride [0:00]

*The Stowaway [23:39]

The Maltese Unicorn [47:11]

Carnival Circus [1:10:43]

Unicorn Tales 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkgrmiqIP48

*Big Apple Birthday [0:21]

*Alex and the Wonderful Doo-Wah Lamp [23:50]

The Magic Hat [47:17]

The Magnificent Major [1:10:51]

Special Delivery – Unicorn Tales 1 & 2

Since this week has been a bit turned around anyway I may as well go with it and post a Special Delivery today instead of videos then try to get back to normal after the holidays. On that note look for my special Christmas post coming up either the 24^th or 25^th.

Now, this Special Delivery is actually a three in one Delivery. The three featured are, as they appear, “The Stowaway,” “Big Apple Birthday,” and “Alex and the Wonderful Doo-Wah Lamp” all of which aired as Special Deliveries on Nickelodeon in the ‘80’s.

Those three shorts came from a two videos called “Unicorn Tales 1 & 2.” Now I can’t find these shows separately online but some wonderful someone has put both videos online for us to enjoy and personally I am very thankful. I have the music from Big Apple Birthday and The Stowaway on CASSETTE TAPE that I taped off Nickelodeon when they aired back in the 1980’s!!! I loved these two shows and while I do have them on VHS my VCR isn’t working right now so I haven’t been able to watch them for a while. (Bit of my own history right there.)

So enjoy these Specials and I’ll see you all next week with Christmas Videos and Classic Specials!

Unicorn Tales 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQh20erhrKg

The Magic Pony Ride [0:00]

*The Stowaway [23:39]

The Maltese Unicorn [47:11]

Carnival Circus [1:10:43]

Unicorn Tales 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkgrmiqIP48

*Big Apple Birthday [0:21]

*Alex and the Wonderful Doo-Wah Lamp [23:50]

The Magic Hat [47:17]

The Magnificent Major [1:10:51]

Special Delivery – The Big Apple Birthday

Good evening everyone. Before I post today’s Special Delivery I’d like to apologize for not posting anything last week. Without going too much into it all I will tell you is that it’s been a very rough week which started last Monday evening but praise God He is good and His mercies endureth forever.

This past Sunday afternoon the Lord gave me a word that has literally turned my whole world upside down, but in a good way! I wish I could tell you what is going on but I can’t. All I can tell you is God is good and I am looking forward to watching Him work over the course of this next year.

That being said I should be back to my regular posting schedule this Saturday with Classic Nick Rocks, I did have a list of videos for you but I lost the list! Mercy! I need to either find that list or one of the other two or three I have as back up LOL. I guess that’s what happens when you start your spring cleaning early. ;)

Classic Nickelodeon Special Delivery – 

Big Apple Birthday– from Unicorn Tales (last 15 minutes)

This special delivery is one of my all-time favorites. It’s the story of Amy, a very bored little girl. During the first fifteen minutes of this show Amy wakes up on her birthday only to find that it’s just like any other day, in a word, BORING!

When Amy finds out she has, “to take that long boring bus ride,” all the way up town to Aunt Lucy’s apartment to get her birthday present she isn’t very happy about it but all of that changes when she gets to The Unicorn Arms, the building where Aunt Lucy lives.

She soon meets all of the wacky neighbors who live in the building and we pick up the story when she meets Old King Cole and Sleeping Beauty; who, for some reason is wide awake! But why? Find out in the Big Apple Birthday!

Big Apple Birthday – From Unicorn Tales (last 15 minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDht8N-EiyE

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