Children of the Stones scared me as a 8-9 year old watching it on Nick. As an adult about 20 years ago I vaguely remembered and mentioned it to English friends I was visiting. They told me it was filmed in Avebury, and so I visited. I had some sense this was an "important" trip and ended up having a powerful, mysterious, energetic experience. A few years later I found the series again and it totally held up to my discriminating adult viewing sensibilities, and connected in eerie ways to my actual visit/experience which I may have subconsciously remembered from first viewing. In addition to all that it inspired me to take up an interest in British pre-history. All that from this TV show so, yeah, I'd recommend it!
It was my favorite of these serials too. I've been tempted to do a rewatch, if i can find it, but was sort of afraid to for fear of ruining my memories of it.
Fun fact: Alfred Shaughnessy's kids are a lot better known here in the States than he is. The oldest son, Charles, is best known for his role as Maxwell Sheffield on The Nanny and the Donovan twins on Days of Our Lives, and the youngest son, David, is an accomplished voice actor and producer.
I remember this show and the stories back when I was a kid. Thanks for bringing back those memories I had forgotten about! Children of the Stone and Under the Mountain were my favorites.
So I’ve been binging Nick Knacks for the past week or so. I’m Canadian, so I have no particular connection to Nickelodeon outside the Nick imports we got up here, but I found you through the Today’s Special video and found your presentation style so up my alley that I had to dive into the whole series! And I just wanted to say: while I’ve had intellectual and historical interest in the media profiled thus far, this was the first video where I felt so interested in a work that I had to go watch it for myself. The way you talked up Children of the Stones made it sound exactly like the kind of smart, spooky puzzle box story I love, and I was not disappointed after watching it all tonight. Super cool stuff. 👍 Thanks so much for the recommendation, and thanks for doing Nick Knacks as a whole! Media history and analysis is my favourite kind of stuff on TH-cam and this is exactly the kind of work I aim to do myself (albeit at a much slower clip due to IRL circumstances). I’m really looking forward to following this project for a long while to come. Kudos!
Thank you for taking me down memory lane. I was born in the very late 70's, but I have always remembered the first three shows. I vaguely remember Into the Labyrinth, but it's ringing a bell now that I'm seeing it. I totally forgot all about it.
Fun fact: Nickelodeon made a gutsy move bringing The Haunting of Cassie Palmer, a 6 part serial from ITV new boys TVS (Television South) in spring 1982 (shortly after the station's launch no less), stateside in 1983.
So, I knew of mostly of Into the Labyrinth because dad had those on VHS taped off Nick, but tonight, had kinda a craving to watch it, so went to my playlist I made of all 3 Seasons. While I was watching it, I remembered a commercial dad had on one of his tapes, for The Third Eye telling of Children of the Stones. Curious about that, went for a search, which was how I came across this very video. Using this, managed to make a playlist of all 5 stories, and decided to include this video upon it, as well as The Third Eye opener. Not sure if you'll ever see this, but wanted to say thank you for your help. Considering all this was decades before I was born, had very little knowledge about it, so again, thank you.
Re - Into the Labyrinth: Not only did Pamela Salem appear in "The Robots of Death", she also portrayed Professor Rachel Jensen in "Remembrance of the Daleks". Also, I met her as part of a Doctor Who themed cruise group back in 2013, along with several others. She was nice. :-)
She was also Miss Moneypenny...kind-of-sort-of. She played Moneypenny in the "unofficial", non-Eon Bond movie Never Say Never Again, which marked the return of Sean Connery to the role...but it was just a remake of Thunderball anyway. Or, if you will, a sort of "parallel universe" in which the events of Thunderball happened when Bond was much older.
I had no idea The Haunting of Cassie Palmer had a TV adaptation; I have the book. Seems an utterly random choice to adapt; I mean, there are loads of very similar ghost books from around that era. This is like when I learnt Archer's Goon had a TV series based on it...
I remember catching the Third Eye's second season "Under The Mountain." I don't know why I kept watching past Pinwheel and You Can't Do That On Television. But I did. That title sequence with the glowing kid totally made an impression on my own youthful self.
I was only able to watch Nick at my grandma’s house due to lack of cable. All I watched was that and HBO. I remember Into The Labyrinth, but not the title. Now close to 40 years later I know now. And I thought it was on HBO all this time! Next to Fraggle Rock!
UNDER THE MOUNTAIN was adapted for the big screen in 2009 with Sam Neil (JURASSIC PARK) as Mr. Jones and Oliver Driver as Mr. Wilburforce. Just like the tv series the movie is barely known outside of it's native New Zealand despite a DVD release by Lionsgate in the US in 2010.
It's so funny I fell down a Ron Moody rabbit yesterday watching A Kid in King Arthur's court and Unidentified Flying Oddball where he played Merlin in both. Then this today.
Somehow I have a vague memory of Into the Labyrinth. For the longest time I assumed that what I was remembering was The Tomorrow People, but now that I've seen this, and the cave I am certain it was Into The Labyrinth.
I loved all these shows as a kid. Children of the Stones scared the crap out of me, especially the music. Have seen the remake movie of Under The Mountain?
It is a real shame that Nick didn't get the other two serials of Into the Labyrinth; it only got better and had a very satisfying wrap up. Children of the Stones is my favorite of the Third Eye... it really is so intellectual and has so many levels to it, totally creeped me out as a kid. Under the Mountain is my second favorite it has a lot of great atmosphere. I did like Witches and the Grinnygog but it is pretty slow paced... I did get a little different message out of it personally though; there is a underlying question that keeps arising "have we REALLY changed as a culture to be accepting, or will be lapse back to what we were?" it is subtly placed throughout but it IS there. It took me ages to figure out what that final series was though as I could not remember the name. I finally tracked it down in the Napster days as a serial where witches are "allergic" to classical music, and ordered early bootleg copies of it on burned discs along with the rest of the third eye serials. Sadly the official DVD for Children of the Stones is very poor quality in comparison to my bootlegs. I keep hoping for a high quality film transfer to blu ray. I stumbled across your channel looking for old Nick stuff, I am quite impressed with your research and presentation and look forwards to Belle and Sebastion and Mysterious Cities of Gold. I keep trying to track down a station break "game" Nick used to do where it was a pirate theme and you had to solve pirate puzzles, and I think I remember them being linked so that once you solved all the different puzzles they had one final one where it showed how to get to the treasure on an island or something... they were very short I think maybe a minute or two long for each break. Do you know anything about this?
Does anyone know In what episode or series did that boy 20:45 with the third eye on his forehead appear? I have a memory of a kid pulling back the hair covering his forehead to expose a third eye and have wondered where that memory came from for years. In my mixed up memory it was from an episode of First Row Features.
bro!! I've been wondering what that tune was for yonks. It was the Witches of Grinnygog theme. THANK YOU. And thanks for all these recaps- I never managed to see all of ANY of these shows. I'd really mixed a lot of them up too.
Excellent work-up of a series I remember very fondly. Composer Sidney Sager who wrote the music for "Children of the Stones" and "Into the Labyrinth" was one of my great mentors.
I remember watching the Labyrinth serial but not in any real order. And my kid brain thought it was Roscoe and was played by the dude from You Cant Do That. Meaning it was getting a couple shows mixed up in my memory. Tbf I was 7-9 at the time. I remember watching the ending of that serial and the Dark Crystal which was on HBO that evening. It explains a lot and a little. Course I was even younger watching Watership Down on HBO so cable TV kind of warped me....
All I remember about this is the adds, at the time I didn't have cable, so the only time I could watch Nick was visiting relatives and that would be too early in the day so I just got to see the ads, and it freaked me out at the time. Now seeing samples of the show, I have a feeling I might have been disappointment.
Nickelodeon made a smart gamble by bringing a few ITV serials stateside, especially those from ITV new boys TVS (Television South), who were on the air for over a year at the time The Third Eye first aired in 1983. Two ITV stations were instrumental in making The Third Eye in association with Television New Zealand (TVNZ) for Nickelodeon, HTV West (one half of Harlech Television (HTV), the ITV station for Wales and the west of England, and the aforementioned newcomers at the time TVS (Television South).
You know, I was just wondering why there had been so little animation appearances on Nickelodeon by this point in Nick Knacks. I wonder why it took them so long to break out of the package show shorts?
I'm not an expert, but I think it's just cuz animation is expensive. When Greg did videos on the Animorphs tv show, he talked about how expensive it would have been if they did it animated.
@@starwarsnerd100 I don't think it's even just that. How the heck did Nick not get the rights to some old cartoon shows to air instead of trying to produce new animation in its fledgling days? You'd think half or more of what ended up on the USA Cartoon Express would have been prime early-Nick material.
@@pronkb000I think they showed some animated movies on Special Delivery...the two TV specials featuring the character Timer, the 1939 Fleischer Brothers version of Gulliver's Travels, and so on. I also remember they used to show shorts in between shows, some of which were the same shorts that showed up on Hocus Focus.
Into the labyrinth! That show made a huge impression on me as a kid and I watched it again on TH-cam a few years back. Didn't know there were multiple seasons of it. Hopefully they're available on TH-cam. Interesting how The Third Eye was a spooky kids' Masterpiece Theater of sorts I had no memory of Into the Labyrinth being a part of this series.
"People who succeed in life despite difficulties in life" is how they describe a show about witches and aliens? How would they describe Star Trek, "people go on a trip"? Actually it's even stupider when you think about it. Conflict is the source of all drama, so people facing difficulties covers basically all fiction ever.
Excellent video as always. I wasn't allowed to watch this and so I was vaguely aware it was a spooky anthology but never looked deeply into it. Man, Powerhouse ran way earlier than i thought; I remember seeing it run after 3 2 1 Contact on Little Rock PBS when I was too little to enjoy long narrative TV, but I probably didn't see an episode (the finale first because of course) until maybe 86 or even 87 if it recycled that long.
The Witches and the Grinnygog IS about a real religion - Paganism. Pagans, Wiccans, etc. (like me) would notice lots of things in the show that are based on real Paganism, and would appreciate how respectfully the show treated it. It being generally grounded in reality is why nothing dramatic happens.
I loved this when it aired. I'd forgotten Under the Mountain, but the twins are familiar here. Doesn't the older brother die or something? I recall that being kind of heavy at the time. I remembered only a little of Cassie Palmer other than the ad bits of her saying "I'm the seventh child of a seventh child". I don't think I got to watch any of the serials in full. I don't think I ever saw any of Children of the Stones, but holy crap that's Gareth Thomas (Blake's 7)! Into the Labyrinth I DEFINITELY remember, at least that opening theme and the very Doctor Who-ish look. I feel like I saw the opening animation of Witches and the Grinnygog, but little else seems familiar.
I'm always excited when another video in this series comes out! These are always really interesting regardless of whether I'd want to watch the show or not (though the serials and regular show in this one all sound pretty interesting). I know it's too late to do it this year, but do you think you'd ever consider doing an April Fool's episode some day? Maybe you could cover the supposed airing on Nick of an imaginary show like "Candle Cove" or "Horsin'Around."
Of the original three series, I only remember Into the Labyrinth. That said, the series that I remembered fondly was The Witches and the Grinnygog. Maybe that's just because it appealed to my proto-Wiccan sentiment, but it's one of the few shows that I remebbered the name of over the decades. I honestly don't remember Under the Mountain and The Haunting of Cassie Palmer (though I watched them both recently and I prefer Cassie Palmer to Under the Mountain).
You mentioned how in the last serial only "pop culture" religious figures are shown. This is no surprise as dramatic shows in the 1980's which featured content regarding any organized religion were frowned upon. No doubt you know of the failed Doctor Who spinoff K-9 and Company from 1981? It had ALOT of revision to remove reference to Wicca and other groups which is why the witches in it are so campy!
Children of the Stones had two separate DVD releases in the UK, but it looks like they're out of print now. :( Fortunately there are quite a few copies floating around eBay: www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=%22Children+Of+The+Stones%22+DVD I have a copy that I don't need, actually, and would like it to have a good home, so I'd be happy to send it to you at no charge. If that interests you, drop me a PM in Twitter (twitter.com/grayishungry).
I remember there was a under the mountain remake from 2009 that was a full blown movie instead of 8 part series. never seen but saw the trailer for it. it looks like a typical straight to DVD B-movie
I have a memory of a tv show and I think this MIGHT be the one. Here is the memory: a kid, a boy I think, and a magically powerful adult, who might be omnipotent, are sitting around having a meal and talking. The kid inquires about a magic box. A box that itself has some magical power. ( The magic guy had intentionally ditched the box somewhere hard to get to ages before. ) The magic guy answers the question by saying something like, "I don't remember why I left it behind. But it must have seemed very important at the time." But the kid presses the subject. Asking him two or three times. Eventually the magic guy stops being polite. Screams something at the kid. And if memory serves he traps him in a desert in the distant past. Is that familiar to anyone else? 1 second ago
This sounds The Box Of Delights. It was an adaptation of a children's novel by John Masefield, made for the BBC in 1984, and starring Patrick Troughton (the Second Doctor) as the wizard Cole Hawlings. It never showed up on The Third Eye, but it probably ran on PBS.
Are we sure Cassie Palmer's show wasn't originally meant to be something different than half hour chapters? Could it have been edited down from something longer?
I love, love love this series! But please... can you stop saying eck-scape when you mean escape? Nit pick, I know. I apologize for that. But... please? 😊
These videos you produce are very interesting, fascinating, and informative, but your frequent butchering of English names like Shaughnessy (emphasis normally on the first syllable), Maurice (pronounced Morris in England and probably also New Zealand), Gee (generally pronounced Jee), and Burnham (pronounced BURNum, accent on the first syllable and no h sound) does tend to jar the ear. Other than that, keep up the good work.
Yes. When viewing these home-grown TH-cam docos, I have to remember to put aside my expectations of professional voice-over talent. I wouldn't count on Mr. Knacks getting voice/diction lessons anytime soon. Given that, I'd say he does quite well. :-)
It was on PBS during Christmas vacation between December 1982 and January 1983. Sadly, it never caught on back then but Nickelodeon thanks to its unique promotion despite ending up in Brady Bunch rerun time slots made a killer boom for the show so it was without a shadow of a doubt in my opinion more popular on Nickelodeon than it was on PBS. Oh, it did I mention it had its own commercials too. Remember Man of Might?
The witch stereotype need to be put aside for accurate representations of polytheist religions. Bacchants especially in the witch's case. But even in the case of classical Hellenism, ancient Egyptian religion, Babylonian religion, and so on. Post-Christian stereotypes and white liberal histories alike persist to this day and lead to appropriate these indigenous cultures.
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Children of the Stones scared me as a 8-9 year old watching it on Nick. As an adult about 20 years ago I vaguely remembered and mentioned it to English friends I was visiting. They told me it was filmed in Avebury, and so I visited. I had some sense this was an "important" trip and ended up having a powerful, mysterious, energetic experience. A few years later I found the series again and it totally held up to my discriminating adult viewing sensibilities, and connected in eerie ways to my actual visit/experience which I may have subconsciously remembered from first viewing. In addition to all that it inspired me to take up an interest in British pre-history. All that from this TV show so, yeah, I'd recommend it!
Scare me too at the same age! I went to England in '82 and this was on my mind!
It was my favorite of these serials too. I've been tempted to do a rewatch, if i can find it, but was sort of afraid to for fear of ruining my memories of it.
Green Flash that was a good show saw it on TH-cam the theme music was the scariest 🙃
Children of the Stones sounds like a movie that could have been made in 1967 rather than 1977.
If you don’t mind old Doctor Who, it holds pretty well
Fun fact:
Alfred Shaughnessy's kids are a lot better known here in the States than he is. The oldest son, Charles, is best known for his role as Maxwell Sheffield on The Nanny and the Donovan twins on Days of Our Lives, and the youngest son, David, is an accomplished voice actor and producer.
I'm such a VA nerd I knew exactly who you where talkign about, but had no idea of the link!
I remember this show and the stories back when I was a kid. Thanks for bringing back those memories I had forgotten about! Children of the Stone and Under the Mountain were my favorites.
If I recall, Into the Labyrinth was the first, then The haunting of Cassie Palmer, Under the Mountain, followed by the Children of the Stone.
First saw Children of the Stones as an adult. Very impressed with its atmosphere and the way it regarded younger viewers.
So I’ve been binging Nick Knacks for the past week or so. I’m Canadian, so I have no particular connection to Nickelodeon outside the Nick imports we got up here, but I found you through the Today’s Special video and found your presentation style so up my alley that I had to dive into the whole series!
And I just wanted to say: while I’ve had intellectual and historical interest in the media profiled thus far, this was the first video where I felt so interested in a work that I had to go watch it for myself. The way you talked up Children of the Stones made it sound exactly like the kind of smart, spooky puzzle box story I love, and I was not disappointed after watching it all tonight. Super cool stuff. 👍
Thanks so much for the recommendation, and thanks for doing Nick Knacks as a whole! Media history and analysis is my favourite kind of stuff on TH-cam and this is exactly the kind of work I aim to do myself (albeit at a much slower clip due to IRL circumstances). I’m really looking forward to following this project for a long while to come. Kudos!
Thank you for taking me down memory lane. I was born in the very late 70's, but I have always remembered the first three shows. I vaguely remember Into the Labyrinth, but it's ringing a bell now that I'm seeing it. I totally forgot all about it.
This was back when Nickelodeon was a cool channel. I remember watching both this show and the original The Tomorrow People.
Fun fact: Nickelodeon made a gutsy move bringing The Haunting of Cassie Palmer, a 6 part serial from ITV new boys TVS (Television South) in spring 1982 (shortly after the station's launch no less), stateside in 1983.
So, I knew of mostly of Into the Labyrinth because dad had those on VHS taped off Nick, but tonight, had kinda a craving to watch it, so went to my playlist I made of all 3 Seasons. While I was watching it, I remembered a commercial dad had on one of his tapes, for The Third Eye telling of Children of the Stones. Curious about that, went for a search, which was how I came across this very video. Using this, managed to make a playlist of all 5 stories, and decided to include this video upon it, as well as The Third Eye opener. Not sure if you'll ever see this, but wanted to say thank you for your help. Considering all this was decades before I was born, had very little knowledge about it, so again, thank you.
I remember this from when I was 6 or 7. The slug monsters terrified me but it burned into my memory. Thanks!
When I was little i had a huge crush on the evil witch in Into the Labyrinth
Interesting note, Pamela Salem also played Toos on The Robots of Death from Tom Baker's Dr. Who run.
Re - Into the Labyrinth: Not only did Pamela Salem appear in "The Robots of Death", she also portrayed Professor Rachel Jensen in "Remembrance of the Daleks".
Also, I met her as part of a Doctor Who themed cruise group back in 2013, along with several others. She was nice. :-)
She was also Miss Moneypenny...kind-of-sort-of. She played Moneypenny in the "unofficial", non-Eon Bond movie Never Say Never Again, which marked the return of Sean Connery to the role...but it was just a remake of Thunderball anyway. Or, if you will, a sort of "parallel universe" in which the events of Thunderball happened when Bond was much older.
She was on Blake’s 7 episode Cygnus Alpha
I had no idea The Haunting of Cassie Palmer had a TV adaptation; I have the book. Seems an utterly random choice to adapt; I mean, there are loads of very similar ghost books from around that era. This is like when I learnt Archer's Goon had a TV series based on it...
I remember catching the Third Eye's second season "Under The Mountain." I don't know why I kept watching past Pinwheel and You Can't Do That On Television. But I did. That title sequence with the glowing kid totally made an impression on my own youthful self.
1984...the absolute watershed for Nick.
And MTV.
I was born in 1984. 👍
I was only able to watch Nick at my grandma’s house due to lack of cable. All I watched was that and HBO. I remember Into The Labyrinth, but not the title. Now close to 40 years later I know now. And I thought it was on HBO all this time! Next to Fraggle Rock!
UNDER THE MOUNTAIN was adapted for the big screen in 2009 with Sam Neil (JURASSIC PARK) as Mr. Jones and Oliver Driver as Mr. Wilburforce. Just like the tv series the movie is barely known outside of it's native New Zealand despite a DVD release by Lionsgate in the US in 2010.
It's so funny I fell down a Ron Moody rabbit yesterday watching A Kid in King Arthur's court and Unidentified Flying Oddball where he played Merlin in both. Then this today.
I loved watching Nickelodeon near Halloween during the 1980s. So this episode of Nick Knacks may be my favorite so far.
Somehow I have a vague memory of Into the Labyrinth. For the longest time I assumed that what I was remembering was The Tomorrow People, but now that I've seen this, and the cave I am certain it was Into The Labyrinth.
I loved all these shows as a kid. Children of the Stones scared the crap out of me, especially the music. Have seen the remake movie of Under The Mountain?
That guy in the crown in Into the Labyrinth looks like Johnny Lawrence from the Karate Kid lol
Can't WAIT for Danger Mouse!
It is a real shame that Nick didn't get the other two serials of Into the Labyrinth; it only got better and had a very satisfying wrap up. Children of the Stones is my favorite of the Third Eye... it really is so intellectual and has so many levels to it, totally creeped me out as a kid. Under the Mountain is my second favorite it has a lot of great atmosphere. I did like Witches and the Grinnygog but it is pretty slow paced... I did get a little different message out of it personally though; there is a underlying question that keeps arising "have we REALLY changed as a culture to be accepting, or will be lapse back to what we were?" it is subtly placed throughout but it IS there. It took me ages to figure out what that final series was though as I could not remember the name. I finally tracked it down in the Napster days as a serial where witches are "allergic" to classical music, and ordered early bootleg copies of it on burned discs along with the rest of the third eye serials. Sadly the official DVD for Children of the Stones is very poor quality in comparison to my bootlegs. I keep hoping for a high quality film transfer to blu ray. I stumbled across your channel looking for old Nick stuff, I am quite impressed with your research and presentation and look forwards to Belle and Sebastion and Mysterious Cities of Gold. I keep trying to track down a station break "game" Nick used to do where it was a pirate theme and you had to solve pirate puzzles, and I think I remember them being linked so that once you solved all the different puzzles they had one final one where it showed how to get to the treasure on an island or something... they were very short I think maybe a minute or two long for each break. Do you know anything about this?
th-cam.com/video/FU0C0Ijt5dU/w-d-xo.html That link has something like you described.
As a huge fan of the Robert Holmes era of Who, color me interested in Into The Labyrinth.
I deny you the Nidus!
Into the Labyrinth feels an awful lot like Doctor Who vs The Master.
EDIT: Now I know why.
Does anyone know In what episode or series did that boy 20:45 with the third eye on his forehead appear? I have a memory of a kid pulling back the hair covering his forehead to expose a third eye and have wondered where that memory came from for years.
In my mixed up memory it was from an episode of First Row Features.
bro!! I've been wondering what that tune was for yonks. It was the Witches of Grinnygog theme. THANK YOU. And thanks for all these recaps- I never managed to see all of ANY of these shows. I'd really mixed a lot of them up too.
the labrinthe show looks super neat, i have to check it out at some point.
I deny you the Nidus
I thought it was spelled Naidus almost like the girl from YCDTOTV named Naida Gosselin.
Excellent work-up of a series I remember very fondly. Composer Sidney Sager who wrote the music for "Children of the Stones" and "Into the Labyrinth" was one of my great mentors.
Gareth Thomas who would play Blake also played Brake.Coincidence?
I watched these when I was 8. People being turned to stone and especially that theme song scared me.
I remember watching the Labyrinth serial but not in any real order. And my kid brain thought it was Roscoe and was played by the dude from You Cant Do That. Meaning it was getting a couple shows mixed up in my memory. Tbf I was 7-9 at the time. I remember watching the ending of that serial and the Dark Crystal which was on HBO that evening. It explains a lot and a little. Course I was even younger watching Watership Down on HBO so cable TV kind of warped me....
All I remember about this is the adds, at the time I didn't have cable, so the only time I could watch Nick was visiting relatives and that would be too early in the day so I just got to see the ads, and it freaked me out at the time. Now seeing samples of the show, I have a feeling I might have been disappointment.
Nickelodeon made a smart gamble by bringing a few ITV serials stateside, especially those from ITV new boys TVS (Television South), who were on the air for over a year at the time The Third Eye first aired in 1983. Two ITV stations were instrumental in making The Third Eye in association with Television New Zealand (TVNZ) for Nickelodeon, HTV West (one half of Harlech Television (HTV), the ITV station for Wales and the west of England, and the aforementioned newcomers at the time TVS (Television South).
Saw children of the stones on TH-cam as a adult it was great📼😎
You know, I was just wondering why there had been so little animation appearances on Nickelodeon by this point in Nick Knacks. I wonder why it took them so long to break out of the package show shorts?
I'm not an expert, but I think it's just cuz animation is expensive. When Greg did videos on the Animorphs tv show, he talked about how expensive it would have been if they did it animated.
@@starwarsnerd100 I don't think it's even just that. How the heck did Nick not get the rights to some old cartoon shows to air instead of trying to produce new animation in its fledgling days? You'd think half or more of what ended up on the USA Cartoon Express would have been prime early-Nick material.
@@pronkb000I think they showed some animated movies on Special Delivery...the two TV specials featuring the character Timer, the 1939 Fleischer Brothers version of Gulliver's Travels, and so on. I also remember they used to show shorts in between shows, some of which were the same shorts that showed up on Hocus Focus.
What makes it interesting... *goes on to describe the licensing*
goddamn I love you knick knacks
3:22 I think calling the cops is easier than calling a spirit beyond the grave. Lmao. How the hell did I love this show? Lol
Into the labyrinth! That show made a huge impression on me as a kid and I watched it again on TH-cam a few years back.
Didn't know there were multiple seasons of it. Hopefully they're available on TH-cam.
Interesting how The Third Eye was a spooky kids' Masterpiece Theater of sorts I had no memory of Into the Labyrinth being a part of this series.
"People who succeed in life despite difficulties in life" is how they describe a show about witches and aliens? How would they describe Star Trek, "people go on a trip"? Actually it's even stupider when you think about it. Conflict is the source of all drama, so people facing difficulties covers basically all fiction ever.
THANK YOU!!
Only two (or three?) more years of Nick until we get to the point where my mom got cable! :-)
Into the labyrinth sounds like 1980s samurai Jack
Or a really, REALLY dark version of Fraggle Rock minus the muppets and Doctor Who.
The Third Eye was kind of like The NBC mystery movie .4 different shows with a common theme .Kids with bizzare encounters compared to NBC crime dramas
that "I deny you the nydis" line.
Excellent video as always. I wasn't allowed to watch this and so I was vaguely aware it was a spooky anthology but never looked deeply into it. Man, Powerhouse ran way earlier than i thought; I remember seeing it run after 3 2 1 Contact on Little Rock PBS when I was too little to enjoy long narrative TV, but I probably didn't see an episode (the finale first because of course) until maybe 86 or even 87 if it recycled that long.
The Witches and the Grinnygog IS about a real religion - Paganism. Pagans, Wiccans, etc. (like me) would notice lots of things in the show that are based on real Paganism, and would appreciate how respectfully the show treated it. It being generally grounded in reality is why nothing dramatic happens.
Do you ever get the notion that the Witches and the Grinnygog may have been a foreign precursor to the Disney movie "Hocus Pocus" a decade later?
Under The Mountain Was a Masterpiece
Man, New Zealand was unfortunately late to the television industry party.
You say foreign TV shows, I think Tim Curry in the Wild Thornberrys.
I loved this when it aired. I'd forgotten Under the Mountain, but the twins are familiar here. Doesn't the older brother die or something? I recall that being kind of heavy at the time. I remembered only a little of Cassie Palmer other than the ad bits of her saying "I'm the seventh child of a seventh child". I don't think I got to watch any of the serials in full. I don't think I ever saw any of Children of the Stones, but holy crap that's Gareth Thomas (Blake's 7)! Into the Labyrinth I DEFINITELY remember, at least that opening theme and the very Doctor Who-ish look. I feel like I saw the opening animation of Witches and the Grinnygog, but little else seems familiar.
I'm always excited when another video in this series comes out! These are always really interesting regardless of whether I'd want to watch the show or not (though the serials and regular show in this one all sound pretty interesting).
I know it's too late to do it this year, but do you think you'd ever consider doing an April Fool's episode some day? Maybe you could cover the supposed airing on Nick of an imaginary show like "Candle Cove" or "Horsin'Around."
The theme to Into the Labyrinth sounds a lot like the riff to "N.I.B." by Black Sabbath.
Night of the Red Hunter was a REAL show?????? I vaguely remember that title!
Of the original three series, I only remember Into the Labyrinth. That said, the series that I remembered fondly was The Witches and the Grinnygog. Maybe that's just because it appealed to my proto-Wiccan sentiment, but it's one of the few shows that I remebbered the name of over the decades. I honestly don't remember Under the Mountain and The Haunting of Cassie Palmer (though I watched them both recently and I prefer Cassie Palmer to Under the Mountain).
I remember watching it in 1983 when I was 15.Also You can’t do that on television and reruns of the 1970’s Tomorrow People
You mentioned how in the last serial only "pop culture" religious figures are shown. This is no surprise as dramatic shows in the 1980's which featured content regarding any organized religion were frowned upon. No doubt you know of the failed Doctor Who spinoff K-9 and Company from 1981? It had ALOT of revision to remove reference to Wicca and other groups which is why the witches in it are so campy!
Still awhile before we get to the Nicktoons, huh? lol jk still the bed series on TH-cam
I don't remember this being on Nickelodeon.
Anybody know where I can find Children of the stones?
Children of the Stones had two separate DVD releases in the UK, but it looks like they're out of print now. :( Fortunately there are quite a few copies floating around eBay:
www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=%22Children+Of+The+Stones%22+DVD
I have a copy that I don't need, actually, and would like it to have a good home, so I'd be happy to send it to you at no charge. If that interests you, drop me a PM in Twitter (twitter.com/grayishungry).
*gets to Children of the Stones* ....BLAKE!
I remember there was a under the mountain remake from 2009 that was a full blown movie instead of 8 part series. never seen but saw the trailer for it. it looks like a typical straight to DVD B-movie
Is there a finders keepers episode
40 minutes? You treat us, Greg.
Also, I love how Children of the Stones look. I'm definitely gonna give that a look.
@@Isthecakereallyalie And thus discover the best show of its kind ever made. Enjoy!
The Grinnygog looks a bit like Baby Yoda, who has a similar name - Grogu. Coincidence, or important Mandalorian plot point?
Children of the Stones looks fun. Is there a way to watch it?
Right now, it's all on TH-cam. :)
@@poparena Thanks. :)
I have a memory of a tv show and I think this MIGHT be the one.
Here is the memory: a kid, a boy I think, and a magically powerful adult, who might be omnipotent, are sitting around having a meal and talking. The kid inquires about a magic box. A box that itself has some magical power. ( The magic guy had intentionally ditched the box somewhere hard to get to ages before. ) The magic guy answers the question by saying something like, "I don't remember why I left it behind. But it must have seemed very important at the time." But the kid presses the subject. Asking him two or three times.
Eventually the magic guy stops being polite. Screams something at the kid. And if memory serves he traps him in a desert in the distant past. Is that familiar to anyone else?
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This sounds The Box Of Delights. It was an adaptation of a children's novel by John Masefield, made for the BBC in 1984, and starring Patrick Troughton (the Second Doctor) as the wizard Cole Hawlings. It never showed up on The Third Eye, but it probably ran on PBS.
Can't wait for 1984.
Are we sure Cassie Palmer's show wasn't originally meant to be something different than half hour chapters? Could it have been edited down from something longer?
0:17 is that the kid from Neverending Story and Cocoon?
If the Haunting of Cassie Palmer is based on a book, where can this book be found?
www.amazon.com/Haunting-Cassie-Palmer-Vivien-Alcock/dp/039581653X
Is this narrated by Ken Nordine
17:10 Nice O face.
I love, love love this series! But please... can you stop saying eck-scape when you mean escape? Nit pick, I know. I apologize for that. But... please? 😊
HOORAY
These videos you produce are very interesting, fascinating, and informative, but your frequent butchering of English names like Shaughnessy (emphasis normally on the first syllable), Maurice (pronounced Morris in England and probably also New Zealand), Gee (generally pronounced Jee), and Burnham (pronounced BURNum, accent on the first syllable and no h sound) does tend to jar the ear. Other than that, keep up the good work.
Yes. When viewing these home-grown TH-cam docos, I have to remember to put aside my expectations of professional voice-over talent. I wouldn't count on Mr. Knacks getting voice/diction lessons anytime soon. Given that, I'd say he does quite well. :-)
Adam Brake and Roj Blake.Brake and Blake.Coincidence?
I think Powerhouse is next.
So are we in for some POWERHOUSE EXCITEMENT?!
I used to watch that on PBS as a kid.
It was on PBS during Christmas vacation between December 1982 and January 1983. Sadly, it never caught on back then but Nickelodeon thanks to its unique promotion despite ending up in Brady Bunch rerun time slots made a killer boom for the show so it was without a shadow of a doubt in my opinion more popular on Nickelodeon than it was on PBS. Oh, it did I mention it had its own commercials too. Remember Man of Might?
The witch stereotype need to be put aside for accurate representations of polytheist religions. Bacchants especially in the witch's case. But even in the case of classical Hellenism, ancient Egyptian religion, Babylonian religion, and so on. Post-Christian stereotypes and white liberal histories alike persist to this day and lead to appropriate these indigenous cultures.