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Announcement - Fan Meet

To those of you who are planning to attend or to those of you who are considering attending.

I just wanted to let yall know that there will be a meal provided on Saturday, October 2 and that tickets MUST be purchased prior to the event, tickets WILL NOT be available at the door and the cut off date is September 29, 2010.

If by that time I have not had a response to the meet (no tickets have been sold) then this event will be canceled with little to no expectation of another being planned.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask. Thank you.

The Water Babies

Tomorrow night, Sept. 17th, the Family Network will be airing the Classic Nickelodeon Special Delivery "The Water Babies".

This is an awesome classic and one of my faves. It blends live-action with animation as they tell the story of Tom, a young chimney sweep, and his adventures to save his new friends The Water Babies.

From Wikipedia
When a 12-year-old chimney sweep is wrongfully blamed for being a thief, he makes a run for it, he jumps into a violent river. There he encounters a wondrous civilization of anthropomorphic underwater creatures. Before he can return to the surface and clear his name, however, he must help the Water Babies leave their enclosed lake and reach the free waters of the ocean. Featured voices include those of James Mason and Tommy Pender.

Can Yall Help?

The other day I had a bit of a revelation and I was wondering if yall could help me out?

While my mom and I were talking abut the fan meet I was telling her how I went to one of the local newspapers and took them the information about the fan meet and then it hit me. What I need is to get the word out about this fan meet otherwise I might get stuck paying for an empty room and that’s where yall come in. (Obviously I knew this before but this current idea just hit me while I was talking to her.)

The first newspaper that I went to told me that they are in association with nine (9) other newspapers so I started thinking about the newspaper in OKC and Tulsa and everywhere else. So my thought was that if yall could send me the names, phone numbers and possibly the email addresses of the newspapers in your cities I could email the same information to all of them and then it would be in newspapers all over the states!!!

So what do yall think? Think you could help me out with those names and phone numbers? It would really be a big help to me and it’s the cheapest way I can think of to advertise in as many different states and cities possible.

And on a side note we have kind of a community channel here where they have the time and date and tempter and so on and they post announcements about different activities going on all over town. Well Thursday or Friday I took them an announcement about the fan meet and I saw it today for the first time!!!

P.S. – If you don’t see this until after the fan meet no worries. Go ahead and send me the information anyway and I can still use it for next year! Thanks again!!!

Jake from Pinwheel

For those of you who might be watching the Dukes of Hazzard marathon on CMTV be sure to keep an eye out for “Jake” from Pinwheel. Here’s the information you’ll need to help you find him.

Date: Sunday, Sept. 12 4:00 PM (Check your local time.)
Channel: CMTV
Show Title: The Dukes of Hazzard
Year: 1979
Episode: Granny Annie #2.10
Character Name: “Vic”



Also on today, Sunday, September 12, 2010
Tuck Everlasting
Starz Kids & Family Channel will be airing the remake of Tuck Everlasting today, check you’re local times.

Classic Nick Alert!!!

I’m sorry yall, I was going to try to get this information to you yesterday but we had a big storm come through and I had to unplug the computer. Then we wound up loosing power for over half an hour and this is the first chance I’ve had to get this to you.

There are a few Classic Nickelodeon programs coming on later today (Sept. 2nd) so if you haven’t seen them or don’t remember them or whatever here’s you’re chance to see them.



The first is the remake of the original “Tuck Everlasting” which is based on the book by Natalie Babbitt about a family that lives forever. (Personally I like the original better but the remake is still really good.) This was a Special Delivery on Nick around…’82…maybe a little later.

This is the story of a family that will live forever and of young love. It stars Alexis Blebel and William Hurtly and costars Sissy Spacek. All times given are for the CENTRAL TIME ZONE so you’ll need to check your local listings.

Channel: Starz Kids & Family
Date: September 2, 2010
Times: 11:55-1:30PM; 7-8:35PM




Next is a Classic Nickelodeon reference to a Special Delivery called “Clever Jack”, a musical version of Jack in the Beanstalk, which stars Lucie Arnaz as the host and preformed by the First All Children’s Theater. Filmed in 1985 this classic stars Ben Stiller as the giant, which is where the Classic Nick reference comes in.

The Biography Channel they will air a biography on Ben Stiller entitled, “There’s Something About Ben Stiller”. The first part of the program features, of course, his younger years and growing up with showbiz parents then moves on to his performance in “Clever Jack”. (That’s him on the left with the red cape over his head.)

Channel: Biography Channel
Date: September 2, 2010
Times: 2-3PM; 3-4AM






And finally we have the Classic Nick Special Delivery “The Water Babies” which stars James Mason and Bernard Cribbins, This is about a chimney sweep named Tom who goes on an underwater adventure to find the Water Babies and rescue his friends. This classic starts out as a live action movie then transforms into animation and back again by the end of the film.

It is scheduled to air on the Family Network at 6:30AM on Friday, Sept. 3rd.

Channel: Family Channel
Date: September 3, 2010
Times: 6-8AM


I hope that all of you are able to catch these great Classic Nickelodeon Special Delivery programs and remember the days when we were all growing up and live was simple.

E-Mails

My emails have been really interesting lately; I’ve had several people write to me asking me about different Classic Nickelodeon programs. It’s so exciting. I know it sounds silly but every time I read a new email from someone asking about a show, well, some how it makes me feel important, like I’m making a difference in the world. It makes me feel like I’m giving this person back a small piece of their childhood. Like my bit of information is like helping them find that last piece of the puzzle. It’s exciting and humbling all at the same time.

And so far I’ve been able to answer every one of them, knock on wood lol and I hope that in the future when I receive more emails that I’ll be able to answer them as well.

So to all of you who read this blog and write to me thank you, you have made me feel as if I’m really on the right track for my life. Yes I know that you may not understand that but trust me, I am so thankful to every one of you. Thank you.

Oh and on a side note I have four new members to my Classic Nickelodeon Yahoo group yay!!!

Cool News! ~ Fan Meet Stuff

The other day while my Mom and I were out running errands we stopped by one of the local newspaper offices to pick up a few copies of last weeks issue. (Friend in the newspaper, saving it for his scrapbook thing, you know.)

Anyway we got talking to the owner and I told him that about the fan meet and asked if they would do a story on it and he said yes. Then he went on to tell me that not only do they have the paper here in Altus but they also run seven or eight other papers as well and when I email him the information if I remind him he’ll run it in all eight papers to all the little towns around here!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW COOL IS THAT?!?!?!!? I’m going to have more advertising than I expected!!!

Luis Cardenas - Runaway

The ONE and ONLY time I EVER saw this video was on Nick Rocks: Video To Go on Nickelodeon back in the mid 1980’s I remembered the video but not who sang it and now I’ll have it for always.

Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings

This was such a cool Pinwheel cartoon. I've often wondered what it would look like if it were made today OR what it would look like as a live action movie! The possibilities are endless!!!

Today's Special:Circus Part 1

Watching this clip from “Today’s Special” reminded me how much I loved this show when I was a kid and I also remember thinking how cool it would be to live in a department store.

First Annual Classic Nickelodeon Fan Meet

If you remember Nickelodeon from 1979-1989 then this fan meet is for you!!! 80’s Kids unite as we take a step back in time to celebrate the network that made us who we are today!

Activities include: meet & greet along with memory sharing, Q&A time for any special guests (working on that) & a full day of watching classic Nickelodeon shows from the early to mid 1980’s including (but not limited to), at least an hour of Pinwheel, Today’s Special, Black Beauty, The Tomorrow People, Turkey Television, Standby…Lights! Camera! Action!, Special Deliveries & much more!

So make your plans now to attend the First Annual Classic Nickelodeon Fan Meet on October 1-3, 2010 at the Best Western Altus in Altus, OK!

Tickets go on sale August 1, 2010, $20 per adult, $10 for children 13–17, $5 for children 4–12, Babies 3 & under will be free. If you have any questions please contact Ice at peggysueclay@hotmail.com (Add fan meet to subject box please.)

http://classic-nickelodeon-fan-meet.moonfruit.com/#

WE’LL SEE YOU THERE!!!


Fan Meet Viewing Schedule
Pinwheel
Today’s Special
Gigglesnort Hotel (substitute for Dusty’s Treehouse)
Vegetable Soup
Black Beauty
The Tomorrow People
You Can’t Do That On Television
Double Dare
- Special Delivery – Wild Rides
The Third Eye – Under the Mountain
Turkey Television
Out of Control
- Fan Meet Special Delivery – Big Apple Circus
Livewire (1 segment)
Standby…Lights! Camera! Action!

In between each program will be Classic Nickelodeon commercials and/or Pinwheel Cartoons and a couple of Classic Nickelodeon sightings from VH1.

Oh my gosh I'm so excited, I just bought 15 episodes of "Out of Control" on iOffer!!! So that's one more show I can add to the playlist for the fan meet!

I've decided that since I do have so many of these classics on video and DVD that I'm going to make one video tape (or DVD if I can find the instructions) of all the old shows for the fan meet.

What I thought would be to use one of my old TV guide schedules and copy it as closely as possible with what I have. For example have one hour of Pinwheel followed by Today's Special and Vegetable Soup and so forth. So in a way I'll be recreating (as much as possible) a full day of Classic Nickelodeon programs for us to enjoy so I hope that everyone, or at least a lot of you, are making plans to be here for it!!!

The Adventures of Black Beauty

The Adventures of Black Beauty
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Adventures of Black Beauty was a British children's television drama series produced by London Weekend Television, shown on ITV in the United Kingdom and exported worldwide via London Weekend International between 1972 and 1974.

Two seasons were produced, the first airing from September 1972 to March 1973 and the second from September 1973 to March 1974. Although it was mainly aimed at children, it was shown in the Sunday teatime "family" timeslot and gained a wide audience, becoming popular enough to make the general Top 20 ratings. It was repeated regularly, although often on a regional basis, for many years, its last full repeat run being on Sunday mornings from 1986 to 1988. It also aired in the United States on Nickelodeon in the 1980s.

The series was not an adaptation of the book by Anna Sewell, but a "continuation" featuring new characters created by Ted Willis, most prominently Dr James Gordon, played by William Lucas, and his children Vicky, played by Judi Bowker (who became Jenny, played by Stacy Dorning, in the second series) and Kevin, played by Roderick Shaw. Other writers included David Butler and Richard Carpenter, while directors included Charles Crichton and Peter Duffell. The series, which was filmed mainly at Stockers Farm, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, was widely acclaimed for its high production values and quality of writing and acting, and at times had remarkable "English gothic" overtones for a children's series.

The theme tune, "Galloping Home", written by Denis King and performed by the London String Chorale, was released as a single and peaked at number 31 in the UK charts in the week of February 2, 1974. It was later used at the climax of the first series of I'm Alan Partridge, with Alan dreaming of running through a field as Black Beauty does in the series' title sequence. The theme tune was also featured in the series Brainiac: Science Abuse. It actually has lyrics by Dick Vosburgh as revealed by Denis King at a memorial concert for Dick Vosburgh in July 2007.

The series, The New Adventures of Black Beauty (1990-91) was a continuation of the original 1970's series.

Home Video ReleasesA number of video releases over the years were superseded by two DVD releases, featuring selected episodes from both series, in 2001. Full series releases have been made in the United Kingdom and the United States


Season/Series - Complete Series 1
Region 1 US - May 5, 2009
Region 2 UK - 3 September 2007


Season/Series - Complete Series 2
Region 1 US - August 4, 2009
Region 2 UK - 14 April 2008


Season/Series - Complete Series 1- 2
Region 1 US - TBA
Region 2 UK - 5 October 2009



The Adventures of Black Beauty Genre - Children, Drama

Starring
Judi Bowker
William Lucas
Stacy Dorning
Roderick Shaw
Michael Culver

Theme Music Composer - Denis King
Country of Origin - United Kingdom
Language(s) - English
No. of Seasons - 2
No. of Sepisodes - 52


Production Location(s) - Hertfordshire, England
Running Time - 30 minutes
Production Company(s) - The Fremantle Corporation, London Weekend Television


Broadcast Original Channel - ITV
Picture Format - Color
Audio Format - Monaural
Original Run - 17 September 1972 – 27 March 1974