I've been following this channel for a just about a year now and I wanted to give it some attention because it's finally getting to, IMO, the "good stuff":
Nick Knacks is a show that aims to follow the history of Nickelodeon, from pinwheel to modern times, with each episode going into a ton of information about how everything came to be. The first 30-ish episodes have been really slow as they covered everything in super detail, but the last episode they released, which I embedded above, finally gets into the golden era of nickelodeon, the orange splat era. It's been frankly a fascinating series to watch, way more educational than I expected. The guy has said from the beginning that there would be 3 milestone episodes that cover tentpole shows, and he's done one of them thus far (An episode on You Can't Do That on Television) and said what one of the other two will be (Double Dare, presumably coming in a few months). I've been quietly holding off of recommending this series because seeing half hour episodes on puppet shows from the 70's is admittedly dry, but where they are now is where things have started to become fascinating.
If you grew up with "The first kids network" and hold nostalgia for it, I can't recommend this series enough. Mad interesting. Here's the entire series in playlist form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI-57gAo-Uo&list=PL63ushetAZ-xoXYf46MkIywbmLq_3qXRw
as I said, the last episode finally introduced the nick splat, the doo-wop aesthetic, and is in 1985 barreling towards modern times. So the upcoming episodes should be the most interesting. Worth checking out. Even the episodes which sound like they shouldn't be interesting wind up being fascinating because of the amount of research this guy does. He does a great job of laying out all the multiple strings that wound up creating Nickelodeon independently of each other.
Nick Knacks is a show that aims to follow the history of Nickelodeon, from pinwheel to modern times, with each episode going into a ton of information about how everything came to be. The first 30-ish episodes have been really slow as they covered everything in super detail, but the last episode they released, which I embedded above, finally gets into the golden era of nickelodeon, the orange splat era. It's been frankly a fascinating series to watch, way more educational than I expected. The guy has said from the beginning that there would be 3 milestone episodes that cover tentpole shows, and he's done one of them thus far (An episode on You Can't Do That on Television) and said what one of the other two will be (Double Dare, presumably coming in a few months). I've been quietly holding off of recommending this series because seeing half hour episodes on puppet shows from the 70's is admittedly dry, but where they are now is where things have started to become fascinating.
If you grew up with "The first kids network" and hold nostalgia for it, I can't recommend this series enough. Mad interesting. Here's the entire series in playlist form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI-57gAo-Uo&list=PL63ushetAZ-xoXYf46MkIywbmLq_3qXRw
as I said, the last episode finally introduced the nick splat, the doo-wop aesthetic, and is in 1985 barreling towards modern times. So the upcoming episodes should be the most interesting. Worth checking out. Even the episodes which sound like they shouldn't be interesting wind up being fascinating because of the amount of research this guy does. He does a great job of laying out all the multiple strings that wound up creating Nickelodeon independently of each other.
