Nothing says great lineup more than the original. Ten years ago, old TV shows werent promoted on the tube at all. During the summer months from the mid-to-late 1990s, the channel for a while ran a program block called "Vertivision" (later known as "Block Party Summer"), during which a different series was shown in a three-hour block each night of the week. Its initial programming (running from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., seven nights a week) was a mixture of sitcoms, movies and one drama series, led by Dennis the Menace, and accompanied by The Donna Reed Show, the offbeat comedy Turkey Television (which, like Dennis, also aired on Nickelodeon), and Route 66. In 1988, the channel aired a 30-minute animated Christmas special, the pilot for what was to be an animated series entitled Tattertown, created by Ralph Bakshi. Localize / Custom. My Three Sons was sent off the night Daylight Saving Time ended in October 1991 with a marathon called "Nite of the Setting Sons," permitting two extra episodes in the marathon due to the one-hour time shift. Transitioning from The Wonder Years to Happy Days.Back when Nick at Nite showed shows older than the 90s. //-->. 6:00AM - The Alvin Show; 6:30AM - Weinerville; 7:00AM - Flipper; 7:30AM - The Woody Woodpecker Show (1987) . November 6, 1998 As a little girl who dreamed of one day moving to a big city and working the kind of job that required a fleet of freshly-pressed blazers, I loved watching a show that starred an independent . 1.1 Original programming. A nightly film presentation, branded as the Nick at Nite Movie, aired at 9p.m. Eastern Time through the end of the decade, and included such classic films as the 1947 film The Red House and the 1937 film A Star Is Born. Also new--and currently on the newstands--is a Nick at Nite magazine. The general public seems to think movies had real art and value, but classic TV was considered just reruns and didnt have the value or was as important to culture, Cronin says. It also briefly reran the 1970s mock local talk show Fernwood 2Night. 1.1.1 Animated series; 1.1.2 . In 1986, the channel began running a few different animated 10 second channel identifications with a similar premise that all had vastly different endings, produced by Eli Noyes & Kit Laybourne, and the Fred/Alan agency. Natasha Karaty is an experienced, dedicated and award-winning marketing professional. This has happened two times since 2013, from August 26 to December 31, 2014, August 1, 2015 to January 1, 2016, and September 2 to December 31, 2016. They either sat on the shelves or aired in syndication, rarely to fanfare. It didnt make sense to have a full-time childrens channel, Cronin says. Via Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite is available in 92.0 million households in North America as of January 2016.[2]. The Next Generation 3:01 am - 3:54 am Click icon to watch or own this Movie. Thanks to Greg (snowpeck), I now have all of 1998, almost all of 2000, and most of 1999. Nick at Nite's debut of The Mary Tyler Moore Show was called the "Marython". 11:30 The Art of Being Nick (1/17) 10am Open House 10:30 American Dreamer 11am Bob Newhart 11:30 All the Way (1/24) 10am Open House 10:30 American Dreamer 11am Day . The people who had TV Land in 98 are lucky bastards! Nick at Nite is ranked number one with Adults 18-49 for 2009 in total day, according to Nielsen Media Research (12/31/07-12/14/08)averaging a .6/655,000 A18-49 (up +20% in rating over last year), and marking its most-watched year in four years with A18-49. Regular marathons occur on Nick at Nite. At one point, a television with objects and people from the show scrolling by (for instance, for Get Smart a shoe phone, gun, and Max and 99) would appear on the screen while the announcer describes the program title and time; the time that the show was scheduled to air would be popped up in another box. Nick at Nite: The Old Schedule vs. Now. Additionally, many family-oriented films from other distributors air on the block. On Tuesday nights, the network aired movies for a younger audience such as Good Burger, The Rugrats Movie, The Spongebob SquarePants Movie, and other family-friendly films. Nick Tyler Perry's Young Dylan. On August 26, it also aired a simulcast of the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards for the first time. 01/03 - Andy Richter Controls the Universe - The Complete Series (2023 Release) And getting away from the crazy--and real--world is as good a reason as any to tune into Nick at Nite and its classic, sometimes campy, entertainment. Shows have included The Partridge Family, Benson, Laverne & Shirley, Happy Days, George Lopez, The Cosby Show, Taxi, and The Donna Reed Show. Because of this, Nick Hits was removed and the Nicktoons that aired on that block were moved to Nick at Nite. [12] My Family's Got GUTS eventually premiered on Nickelodeon in September 2008. http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?date=12/16/08&id=20081216nickatnite01, In Australia, Nick at Nite aired from October 1995 until early 2001. The Packer Packer Bowl 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm Paramount+ Star Trek: Picard. 2,515 Views . They know what theyre gonna get when they land on us: classic TV thats wholesome and quirky. In the mid-1990s, another Saturday night programming block titled "Very, Very Nick at Nite" centered around a different theme each week, such as "Very Very Mary" with four classic Mary Tyler Moore Show episodes. Basically, he says, shows that were hits when they first aired, become hits on Nick at Nite. 03/28 - Rick and Morty - Season 8 (Blu-ray) (DVD) Comments are more than welcome. Location: In the Wonderful World of Lucy! SpongeBob and Patrick work a day on Old Man Jenkins' farm, much to his dismay; Sandy narrates the nocturnal adventures of Gary and his secret pal, Spot. Turning Nick into a comedy channel was considered--long before Comedy Central, says Cronin--as was a family film channel. In December 2019, Nick at Nite began airing a marathon of Friends to celebrate the show's 25 year anniversary since its finale throughout half of Nick at Nite's regular programming time. At the end the announcer would say "On the place for TV Hits", then there would be a woman's voice that would say "Nick at Nite". This year's Kids' Choice Awards is not one to miss! On June 17, 2019, Nick at Nite aired a simulcast of the 2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards for the first time, along with many of its sister networks. On May 16, 2011, Nick at Nite began scheduling programs airing from 11:00p.m. to 6:00a.m. Eastern Time in an "off-the-clock" format, in which the network runs extended commercial breaks of as much as seven minutes in length to allow additional advertising spots (a method that has tense viewer criticism due to the length between the start of each commercial break and the start of the next segment of a program[9]), allowing the programs to be broadcast in a longer timeslot each half-hour until 6:00a.m. Eastern Time, when start times return to a half-hourly format. All 4:3 content is pillarboxed on the HD feed as opposed to being cropped to fit the 16:9 aspect ratio. The 10th Anniversary on-screen bug was shown at the bottom left corner of the screen for 10 seconds once per half hour show, it was used for the entire year of 1995 as was the 20th Anniversary logo in 2005. Come home from school, eat dinner, do homework, and reward . In 1995, Nick at Nite celebrated its 10th Anniversary with a week-long event, airing viewer picked episodes of every series that ever aired on Nick at Nite since its July 1985 debut. Own/Stream It At. Head programmer Debby Beece led the team to the name "Nick at Nite", and Fred/Alan developed the original logo with Tom Corey and Scott Nash of Boston, creators of the well-recognized Nickelodeon logo. The high definition feed was launched in late 2008 alongside Nickelodeon HD. The Thundermans Return; TMZ's New Game Show Fear and Pain . Nick at Nite also began broadcasting a new animated mini-sitcom entitled At the Poocharelli's in mid-2006. 8:30 - The Patty Duke Show . 12:30 am. In 1991, Nick at Nite started running a wide variety of idents. Not everything is simple either. The male would click the remote and something bizarre would happen, such as a gorilla appearing. (The homage runs Monday through Friday from 8 p.m. till midnight. It also briefly reran the 1970s mock local talk show Fernwood 2 Night. Kids' Choice Awards: All the Noms. In total day, average ratings are about 1.5 million viewers. [5][6][7], In Germany, Nick nach Acht (Nick after Eight) aired on Nickelodeon Germany after 8:15PM Central European Time. No one calls them reruns anymore. Nick at Nite Schedule May 18, 2001 Edit Edit source History Talk (0) Contents. During its early years, the channel ran classic television series from the early 1950s to the 1970s. For instance, when Newhart joined Nick at Nite in the early 1990s, the channel also acquired Bob Newhart's short-lived third sitcom Bob, and ran a block branded "Bob's Bob, Bob Newhart, Newhart Marathon", featuring the two shows along with The Bob Newhart Show (which it already had the rights to broadcast), in an event hosted by Bob Newhart. November 18, 1998 (Photo by: Paul Drinkwater/Getty Images) Get ready '80s and '90s kids. In 2007, the Nick at Nite logo changed the color from blue to orange thus creating a match with Nickelodeon's colors. After futile attempts at original program development, Laybourne asked programming and branding consultants Alan Goodman and Fred Seibert of Fred/Alan Inc. (successful as the original branders of MTV, and for Nickelodeon's extensive 1984 rebranding) to come up with programming ideas. Each episode was introduced with a brief history, pop culture references, and the original run date on Nick at Nite.A special 10th Anniversary logo "bug" was shown on the bottom corner for the entire year. 03/28 - Rick and Morty - Season 8 (Blu-ray) (DVD) Nick at Nite (stylized as nick@nite) is an American nighttime basic cable television channel that broadcasts over the channel space of Nickelodeon. November 8, 1998 It aired documentaries, drama series, movies and sitcoms. As Martindale said, "it's kind of like guessing the number of jelly beans in a jelly bean jar, but instead of jelly beans, you're using cadavers! Programming marathons were an innovation that began with Nick at Nite in 1985, eventually leading to the phenomenon of "binge-watching". Nick at Nite has also spun off a niche network, TV Land, which features a variety of rerun programming. In 2007, the channel began airing movies for the first time since 1989. 11/29 - Ghosts - Season One (Blu-ray) (DVD) 02/21 - The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet - The Complete Season Nine / The Complete Season Ten In December 2019, Nick at Nite began airing a marathon of Friends to celebrate the show's 25 year anniversary since its finale throughout half of Nick at Nite's regular programming time. Get our L.A. uselessly trying to clean the magic marker off their screens for the rest of the show. November 16, 1998 Although the Latin American Nickelodeon was launched in the mid-1990s, it had never carried the Nick at Nite block before.[1]. But the people who started Nick at Nite, and those here today, feel that the public loves classic TV., Nick at Nite has a big advantage over broadcast television because the channel can pick and choose the best TV shows throughout TV history, says Cronin. The overnight cable stations audience is broad--attracting children in the earlier hours of prime time and older adults throughout the evening and overnight. The One with All the Jealousy - Season 3 Episode 12. SitcomsOnline Digest: Rachael Ray to End After 17 Seasons; Fox Renews Krapopolis for Third Season Geoshea World; Sinbad (TV series) In 1988, the channel aired a half-hour animated Christmas special from Ralph Bakshi, which served as the pilot for a proposed animated series titled Tattertown. The channel is available on subscription services and as an unscrambled, free-to-air (FTA) satellite signal. Modern Family Star Heads to Season 2 of The Santa Clauses; 29th Annual SAG Awards Winners The Nick at Nite logo seen in this screenshot, located within the "0" in "10", is a variant of the 1985 to 1998 version of Nick at Nite's logo. (titled after the catchphrase that male lead characters in some classic sitcoms said to their wives when returning home from work) focused on a 1950s sitcom family called the Nielsens, whose show has been removed from syndication, forcing the family to leave TV Land and move into a real 1990s suburban neighborhood, repeatedly confronting the family with a culture shock. November 26, 1998 November 1, 1998 1998 . But when both channels expanded to 24 hours, Nick execs couldnt quite decide how to fill the newly acquired 14 hours. 11/22 - That '70s Show - The Complete Series (Mill Creek) Nick at Nite has used numerous unusual and offbeat commercials, logos and promotions. According to Nick stats, since last year alone, its viewers have increased by 37%, jumping from 470,000 to 697,000 homes on the average per night. 3 Indicates program that is/had also been on TV Land. When Mayor Humdinger's trash-compacting . Nickelodeon (through Nick at Nite) ran infomercials in some overnight timeslots from 1987 to 1998 (making Nickelodeon one of the few currently operating kids-targeted channels to discontinue airing paid programming, others include Universal Kids, and it is also only one of two ViacomCBS-owned networks to have removed paid programming from its schedule; sister channel BET had discontinued infomercials in 1997, replacing them with religious programming in overnight/early morning timeslots[8]). Thanks to Greg (snowpeck), I now have all of 1998, almost all of 2000, and most of 1999. Heres whats will be on when: Here is the complete Nick at Nite stable of shows over the last 10 years. Alan Goodman and Fred Seibert assembled a team of highly imaginative writer/producers, modeled on their original 1981 creative team that had launched sister channel MTV: Music Television. Fandom Apps Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. It was an integral part of my childhood. 11/15 - The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet - The Complete Season Seven / The Complete Season Eight After being presented with over 200 episodes of The Donna Reed Show (a 1950s sitcom which Laybourne despised), Goodman and Seibert conceived the idea of the "first oldies TV network." Get ready 80s and 90s kids. Also typically, series that have been airing on Nick at Nite for at least three years are often moved exclusively to the overnight schedule in order to make room for newly acquired series (though in the past, entire broadcast runs of a few series such as Perfect Strangers and Charles in Charge have aired in an overnight graveyard slot for a short period of time following their debut on the network). I probably couldn't answer very many questions, but just ask if you do have any Open House (Sitcom with Ellen DeGeneres)?,Day By Day (With Julia Louis-Dreyfuss)? Sadly, the schedules beyond Summer 2000 weren't as great as the earlier ones. List of programs broadcast by Nickelodeon 5:00AM - Cable in the Classroom 5:30AM - Aaahh!!! THanks for posting, TVJunkie! Each New Year's Eve from 1989 to 1998, the channel would host "Nick at Nite's (year) Rerun/Classic TV/TV Hits Countdown" hosted by longtime countdown radio DJ, Casey Kasem. 12/13 - Hogan's Heroes - The Complete Series (Blu-ray) Logobelly was seen doing various activities and appeared on colorful backgrounds on TV sets interacting with past TV stars watching television sets. Check listings for the times of your fave.) Sometimes, Nickelodeon takes the 10:00 p.m. Some of the movies Nick at Nite has broadcast in recent years have included the Back to the Future trilogy, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Baby's Day Out, Pretty in Pink, National Lampoon's Vacation, Ghostbusters (and its sequel Ghostbusters II), Jurassic Park, The Nutty Professor, Legally Blonde, The Princess Diaries and The Parent Trap. By 1995, Nick at Nite introduced a new mascot named "Phil". Typically, older series on the Nick at Nite schedule are often are moved exclusively to the overnight hours after some time in order to make room for newly-acquired series . [5] Nickelodeon's and Nick at Nite's respective ratings periods encompass only the hours they each operate under the total day rankings, though Nick at Nite is rated only for the primetime ratings; this is due to a ruling by Nielsen in July 2004 that networks have to program for 51% or more of a particular daypart to qualify for ratings for that daypart.[6]. ID: A car drives across the road in a desert and we see a sign of a coyote howling, a sign of the sun setting, then the Nick At Nite logo stuck on a TV, then we see the car drive into the road, and we can see a few cactuses. On June 25, 2012, Nick at Nite began airing Nickelodeon programs for the first time, airing reruns of All That and Kenan & Kel from 9:00 to 10:00p.m. Eastern Time weeknights. Usually when a show debuts, it receives an all-night or a week-long marathon. The station also had a wide variety of "bugs" or logos displayed in the corner of the screen during logos would be on the lower left side of the TV screen, and from 1998 on, it would be on the lower right side of the TV screen. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Wolf Pack. So by that logic, oldies stations should be playing JXL's remix of Elvis' "A Little Less Conversation" and, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOTh3hVT0HU, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrEbJBFWIPk. In December 2019, Nick at Nite began airing a marathon of Friends to celebrate the show's 25 year anniversary since its finale throughout half of Nick at Nite's regular programming time. Will Dominion-Fox News lawsuit be different? ftp.funet.fi/pub/dx/text/sfnet.harrastus.dx-kuuntelu/1700-1799/1724, The Search For The Funniest Mom In America, List of programs broadcast by Nick at Nite, http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?date=12/16/08&id=20081216nickatnite01, Sat trio in U.K. debut - Entertainment News, International News, Media - Variety, Saturday Morning Hang Zone with Lincoln Loud. Location: Watching Three's Company & Wrestling. Shows have included My Family's Got GUTS, Dance on Sunset, Dennis the Menace, and Heathcliff. Others were either a woman setting up her backyard behind a "city", which was made of cardboard, or a man setting up his bedroom, and then the unusual happening.