Definitely 1984. They were still using the silver ball logo and slowly introducing the original orange logo. Plus Nickelodeon started running commercials (the only commercials Nickelodeon ran prior were commercials for their programming or network bumpers) beginning June 1st, 1984. And finally, it was the year Nick Rocks and Danger Mouse were added to the lineup.
Announcer: "It's Going Great right here on Nickelodeon!"👍 1984 Geraldine Laybourne: "No it's really not!, 😱We gotta get rid of that old Silver Ball logo. Come on in, Orange Splat logo!
SamGuthrie1977 im 11 soo i dont know but my told me about ot and she SAID it was the freaking best decade ever and i said i want to go back in time to the 80s
@@joaopereira817 I was born in 1987. I did not get to experience the 1980s much, because I was born much too late in the decade. However, I got to experience the 1990s... You'd have to be born in the 1960s or 1970s to have a full 1980s childhood.
Yep, that's true. I looked it up on wikipedia out of curiosity. They're called "DTMF" (Dual-tone multi-frequency), in case anyone else wants to read more about it. =)
When I was a kid, I thought "Out of Control" was the funniest thing in the world. I'm glad reruns aren't available, because I imagine now I'd be embarrassed to learn the truth.
I used to wonder about this all the time, too, until someone on here clued me in. They were signals to the local cable stations that they could air local commercials after the tone. That sound just takes me right back. Some cable stations, like local access, still play it.
All cable channels played that sound every so often during commercials back in the day, for no apparent reason. I've still never come across an explanation.
Man I wish they would bring these shows back!!! And I with that I had all of the old Nick commercials too. Hey thanks for posting this, I use to love NICK ROCKS!!!
Wow, so that's what the whole 2 scoops Raisin Bran thing is all about. Everything well-known in commercials today used to not be so obvious in the past. lol That was a sweet commercial. I'd buy that song on Itunes.
I remember the ball logo, but the sound I most often associated with Nickelodeon was that strange touch-tone thing that happens at 1:09 in the video. It happened between every show, or at least on the hour. What was that, anyway?
That _Chips Ahoy!_ ad that segued into a split recording of Mr. Wizard and a silver ball era bump for YCDTOTV and 3rd Eye originally ended with 🎵 "Nabisco!" 🎵
@autoharpage simple...most everything...i grew up in the tail end of this era, enjoyed it, loved the 90's and up to 2002 but after that, it went downhill quick and fast
Wow I grew up on Nick. What a great kids tv network. Great shows for children and wonderful learning programs that were entertaining to watch as a child. YCDTOTV was my fav show to watch every day after school.
@FunnistPreacher yeah- the shows that they air now on Nickelodeon just keep repeating the same situations over and over again and have very little meaning to them. They keep telling kids that they need to be popular to make it in life instead of telling kids that it is alright to be yourself.
if this was from late 1984 to early 1985, my mom was born in 1983 which means she was 1! I always watch things like these and I wish I was alive to see them on the small old TVs.
Hell yea. Now you got the hey dude theme stuck in my head! "better watch out for those man eating jack rabbits and that killer cacti". Dood, I loved you can't do that on TV. Oh the memories. You forgot a couple though, The mysterious cities of gold, sparticus and the sun beneath the sea, and of course mr.wizards world.
Does anyone remember a show where like an animated Sphinx would say, "Ruminate, Illuminate" and such, and then it would do questions, or puzzles, and there was a segment about getting to Europa on a spaceship? I may be getting these mixed up, but does it ring a bell to anyone, I've been trying to remember what this was for years.
This comment is interesting because my parents used to say very similar things about cartoons and, especially, Nickelodeon kids' programming back then (I grew up in the 1980s). I think it's all in the way the message is communicated. Generations communicate in different ways, and I think sometimes newer programs' messages get "lost in translation" so to speak.
Ahhh, those were the good ol' days. YCDTOTV was my fave. I'd watch any show back then. Then any show on today's Nick. Especially that Sponge Bob crap!!
1:52 "Geraldine Laybourne has a story she likes to tell on herself. In 1983, just as she was taking control of Nickelodeon, she oversaw the premiere of a new show called Going Great. It was a weekly newsmagazine about kids who were remarkable in one way or another--a typical episode featured a kid who wrote a best-seller at age 13 and a 10-year-old who played snooker on stilts. Laybourne and the other network executives thought it would be an instant hit with kids--seeing people their own age perform incredible feats. What could be better? They'll eat it up! ...They didn't. Kids loathed it. The show depressed them. What kid, sitting at home in a beanbag chair, wants to hear that someone her age got a six-figure advance for his next novel? The show was off the air after 13 weeks. ..Laybourne likes to talk about Going Great because for her it represents what can happen when adults assemble a children's television show without asking kids what they might like." - Fortune magazine, October 28, 1996 archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/10/28/203922/index.htm
Yeah, why the hell not? I mean Cartoon Network has Boomerang, and TV Land does the commercial flashbacks, why can't they do a "Classic Nick" channel? It should have Outta Control, You Cant Do That On TV, Count Duckula, Dangermouse, HEY DUDE!, Wild n Crazy Kids, Nick Arcade, Round House, Are You Afraid of The Dark, Tomorrow People, Alex Mac (as well as Nick Jr. shows like David The Gnome, Lil' Bits, Noozles, The Little Koala, Grim's Fairytales, and whatever that show was with the Manx Mouse).
@yoshmon Ahhh, no kidding! I only recently found out what that was for, but it was all over cable TV when I was a teen in the 80s. It just takes me back. Makes me feel young.
Does anyone know the name of the song being played in the background from 1:27-1:32. I remember hearing that section of the song and loved it but can never remember the name of it.
Definitely 1984. They were still using the silver ball logo and slowly introducing the original orange logo. Plus Nickelodeon started running commercials (the only commercials Nickelodeon ran prior were commercials for their programming or network bumpers) beginning June 1st, 1984.
And finally, it was the year Nick Rocks and Danger Mouse were added to the lineup.
ahhhhh da original orange Nickelodeon logo those were da days.
Announcer:
"It's Going Great right here on Nickelodeon!"👍
1984 Geraldine Laybourne:
"No it's really not!, 😱We gotta get rid of that old Silver Ball logo. Come on in, Orange Splat logo!
Check out my comment on why Going Great flopped.
@@NJGuy1973 All the things they did in the 80s were crap they should started cartoons sitcoms and dramas then Nick Jr included
The 80's were the best decade ever.
You said it!
I wish that I was born in the 80s
SamGuthrie1977 im 11 soo i dont know but my told me about ot and she SAID it was the freaking best decade ever and i said i want to go back in time to the 80s
@@joaopereira817 I was born in 1987. I did not get to experience the 1980s much, because I was born much too late in the decade. However, I got to experience the 1990s...
You'd have to be born in the 1960s or 1970s to have a full 1980s childhood.
@@joaopereira817 you said it
Yep, that's true. I looked it up on wikipedia out of curiosity. They're called "DTMF" (Dual-tone multi-frequency), in case anyone else wants to read more about it. =)
When I was a kid, I thought "Out of Control" was the funniest thing in the world.
I'm glad reruns aren't available, because I imagine now I'd be embarrassed to learn the truth.
I remember a claymation Nickelodeon commercial with the band Journey back in the early 80s. They often played the classic Houston 1981 MTV concert.
So many great memories. I wanna go back
+Alyssa Garcia Watching this is kinda like going back for me.
I used to wonder about this all the time, too, until someone on here clued me in. They were signals to the local cable stations that they could air local commercials after the tone. That sound just takes me right back. Some cable stations, like local access, still play it.
All cable channels played that sound every so often during commercials back in the day, for no apparent reason. I've still never come across an explanation.
TO BE A KID IN THE 1980'S!
Man I wish they would bring these shows back!!! And I with that I had all of the old Nick commercials too. Hey thanks for posting this, I use to love NICK ROCKS!!!
this is of late 1984/early 1985
It would be nice if there were more footage of pinwheel from Nickelodeon on TH-cam
Gotta love the early80's
Back when Nick was still finding their voice
Wow, so that's what the whole 2 scoops Raisin Bran thing is all about. Everything well-known in commercials today used to not be so obvious in the past. lol That was a sweet commercial. I'd buy that song on Itunes.
I remember the ball logo, but the sound I most often associated with Nickelodeon was that strange touch-tone thing that happens at 1:09 in the video. It happened between every show, or at least on the hour. What was that, anyway?
Probably a dial
Dammit..I miss the old Nickelodeon so much.
I miss You Can't Do that on Television, and Nick at Nite when they played Taxi and Welcome Back Kotter.
That _Chips Ahoy!_ ad that segued into a split recording of Mr. Wizard and a silver ball era bump for YCDTOTV and 3rd Eye originally ended with 🎵 "Nabisco!" 🎵
my god this brings back good times!!i used to watch all of these
thanks for postin
Ah thanks! I grew up back then and I wondered myself what they were. That sound is just so stuck in my memory. Takes me back.
Yes it's memory lane when I was growing up and when they sang nickelodeon I remember Nick rocks oh yeah that's going great
These were the days.
The first half, my guess would have been 1985-86. The second half was from 1984
@autoharpage simple...most everything...i grew up in the tail end of this era, enjoyed it, loved the 90's and up to 2002 but after that, it went downhill quick and fast
Wow I grew up on Nick. What a great kids tv network. Great shows for children and wonderful learning programs that were entertaining to watch as a child. YCDTOTV was my fav show to watch every day after school.
I’m guessing that this is either from late 1983 or early 1984. 1984 makes a little more sense because Nick Rocks would debut in that year.
Nickelodeon has become so dumbed down now. There's no "Mr. Wizard" type shows on now to educate and enterain kids.
@FunnistPreacher yeah- the shows that they air now on Nickelodeon just keep repeating the same situations over and over again and have very little meaning to them. They keep telling kids that they need to be popular to make it in life instead of telling kids that it is alright to be yourself.
2:01 Did they really just show that on Nick? That guy's voice is funny haha
if this was from late 1984 to early 1985, my mom was born in 1983 which means she was 1! I always watch things like these and I wish I was alive to see them on the small old TVs.
Hell yea. Now you got the hey dude theme stuck in my head! "better watch out for those man eating jack rabbits and that killer cacti". Dood, I loved you can't do that on TV. Oh the memories. You forgot a couple though, The mysterious cities of gold, sparticus and the sun beneath the sea, and of course mr.wizards world.
October 1984-January 1985
I didn't realize this until now but he also played the older brother in The Night They Saved Christmas. He was about this age.
i like ALL of the nickelodeon logos
The good old days….
I litteraly shpwed my momma one of these commercials and she was like "Oooo my gosh i remember this huney dont u remember this!"😂😂
Holy shit.. Nick Rocks.. LOL. I used to love that show. Saw all my Weird Al videos on there :)
I miss being a kid. I couldn't wait to grow up, now, I want to grow down!!!
Does anyone remember a show where like an animated Sphinx would say, "Ruminate, Illuminate" and such, and then it would do questions, or puzzles, and there was a segment about getting to Europa on a spaceship? I may be getting these mixed up, but does it ring a bell to anyone, I've been trying to remember what this was for years.
Cities of gold
RIP Mr. Wizard
OMG!! that's Scott Grimes - the red headed boy!!!! How cool is that!!!
The music in the Chips Ahoy! commercials sounds like Jerry Goldsmith's music from the song "Honor of Us All" in Dinsey's "Mulan". XD
Going Great was the show Keanu hosted before this guy! Wish this had Keanu on here.
Easily the most forgettable era for Nickelodeon but I still take this era over how they are now.
The boy in the Chips Ahoy commercial is the same boy who played Bruce Leroy's brother in The Last Dragon.
This comment is interesting because my parents used to say very similar things about cartoons and, especially, Nickelodeon kids' programming back then (I grew up in the 1980s). I think it's all in the way the message is communicated. Generations communicate in different ways, and I think sometimes newer programs' messages get "lost in translation" so to speak.
Don't know if this has been mentioned, but I think that's Scot Grimes at the :39 second mark.
The child in the Chips Ahoy commercial was in the movie The Last Dragon.
Thanks for the info. You know, I haven't heard the chimes for a while, prob in the change to digital.
The Cars were on Nickelodeon one time? MIND=BLOWN
What was it about those days that was so awesome? Somehow...things just seemed...different. Any thoughts?
Ahhh, those were the good ol' days. YCDTOTV was my fave. I'd watch any show back then. Then any show on today's Nick. Especially that Sponge Bob crap!!
It's Sting, in the video for "Synchronicity II" by the Police.
I do believe that's Leo O'Brien from "The Last Dragon" and Scott Grimes from "Critters" - lol
Wicked Cool! Out of Control was awesome...
That's Sting hanging in the air, in the video for "Synchronicity II" by the Police.
1:52 "Geraldine Laybourne has a story she likes to tell on herself. In 1983, just as she was taking control of Nickelodeon, she oversaw the premiere of a new show called Going Great. It was a weekly newsmagazine about kids who were remarkable in one way or another--a typical episode featured a kid who wrote a best-seller at age 13 and a 10-year-old who played snooker on stilts. Laybourne and the other network executives thought it would be an instant hit with kids--seeing people their own age perform incredible feats. What could be better? They'll eat it up!
...They didn't. Kids loathed it. The show depressed them. What kid, sitting at home in a beanbag chair, wants to hear that someone her age got a six-figure advance for his next novel? The show was off the air after 13 weeks.
..Laybourne likes to talk about Going Great because for her it represents what can happen when adults assemble a children's television show without asking kids what they might like." - Fortune magazine, October 28, 1996
archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/10/28/203922/index.htm
Yeah, I agree. We could call it "Nick Retro."
Wow, I had completely forgotten about the music video show.
oh my god, the third eye!
What's with the telephone dial noises? I've heard them on other old 80's TV TH-cam videos and at the beginning of Disney movies from the 1980's.
How come there is a wierd tone after the going great commercial and b4 mr. wizard? What does it do or mean??
YES! I would LOVE that.
Before Rugrats and ren and stimpy the dark ages!
Those weren't the dark ages!
Not to me. That was the good of days
That era was good compared to this they had nothing
Wait can’t you bite chips ahoy without biting a chip by just taking a tiny bite?
Yeah, why the hell not? I mean Cartoon Network has Boomerang, and TV Land does the commercial flashbacks, why can't they do a "Classic Nick" channel? It should have Outta Control, You Cant Do That On TV, Count Duckula, Dangermouse, HEY DUDE!, Wild n Crazy Kids, Nick Arcade, Round House, Are You Afraid of The Dark, Tomorrow People, Alex Mac (as well as Nick Jr. shows like David The Gnome, Lil' Bits, Noozles, The Little Koala, Grim's Fairytales, and whatever that show was with the Manx Mouse).
Nick didn't have a west coast feed at the time... only an east coast feed. When did they put the west coast?
@yoshmon Ahhh, no kidding! I only recently found out what that was for, but it was all over cable TV when I was a teen in the 80s. It just takes me back. Makes me feel young.
CHIPS AHOY
I knew that the monkees had a contest on nick rocks and I wanna know do you have that video if so please let me know
Commercials from 1984
Mr. Wizard taught me how to blow stuff up.
Oh mah gawd its Chips ahoyyyyy
I don't remember the silver ball and rainbow logo. I was born at the very tail end of 79. I most remember the orange logo.
From what I can find out, 2007.
Thanks a lot! ^-^
Beginning of the video sounds like a sports bangle
🌒🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪 I bite a child's ahoy cookie I'd bet I'd bite a chip.
those chips ahoy cookies looke sooo big back then..now small
Dang, I watched that too!
1980/1984
The golden age
I see the splat logo and the pinball that's wierd
Because around this time as I believe they were just about to fully rebrand but didn't at this time, so this is a rare occasion.
In 40 years ago
early 1984.
Does anyone know the name of the song being played in the background from 1:27-1:32. I remember hearing that section of the song and loved it but can never remember the name of it.
Synchronicity II by the Police
Lol at 2:38 and beyond XD
@willowbel That's what made today's generation worry me.
justin you wouldnt happen to go to gpc would u?
Whats is that at 1:09
3:00 i hate Raisin Bran because the Raisins taste like Fried Flower with Vomit and the Brans has no sugar
cuz you can't eat unhealthy food
any one know where i can find footage of a nickrocks episode
totally agree
What year is the up next bump at the beginning?
1984 or 1985
What kind o standby?
Nickelodeon was great what happened?
The third eye. Lol. It sounds like a porno now.
😂 Don't even.
@cookingmamaloves2me I strongly agree with you on that. :)
1:33 what song is that?
You might think im crazy,
the cars, i think