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Early Access: The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena - The Goosebumps Monthly
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The Shari Show - Nick Knacks Episode #059
Shari Lewis was one of the most versatile and creative people in children's entertainment in the 20th century. Today, we look at her life and works through the lens of The Shari Show, a twelve-episode puppet program from 1975 that might be a bit more personal than you thought.
Early Access: The Shari Show - Nick Knacks Episode #059
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The Bad News Bears - Nick Knacks Episode #058
Can a movie about a foul-mouthed little league baseball team and their alcoholic coach work as a family sitcom? Only one way to find out.
Early Access: The Bad News Bears - Nick Knacks Episode #058
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Nick Knacks the Book Kickstarter!
Hello, my lovely patrons. Announcing the new Kickstarter for a Nick Knacks book series! Bringing the show-by-show retrospective into print!https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/poparena/nick-knacks-the-book-a-show-by-show-history-of-nickelodeon
Double Dare (A Franchise Retrospective) - Nick Knacks Episode #056
The year was 1986, and Gerry Laybourne had done a lot to clean up Nickelodeon's image, making it a fun place for kids. But Laybourne still lacked a career-defining hit show. So, she locked four people in an office and told them to make the best children's game show ever. This is the story of Double Dare, from it's humble beginnings filming in Philadelphia, to it's star role at Nickelodeon Studios, to its unloved revival, to it's second, much-more-well-loved revival. Over thirty years of questions, physical challenges, and ob...
Early Access: Double Dare Part Six
Due to the huge nature of the Nick Knacks episode on Double Dare, I've decided to get it out to my lovely patrons in parts, as they're finished. Here is Part Six: Double Dare 2018. Now, to edit them all together and release it to the public. :)
Early Access: Double Dare Part Five
Due to the huge nature of the Nick Knacks episode on Double Dare, I've decided to get it out to my lovely patrons in parts, as they're finished. Here is Part Five: Double Dare 2000.
Early Access: Double Dare Part Four
Due to the huge nature of the Nick Knacks episode on Double Dare, I've decided to get it out to my lovely patrons in parts, as they're finished. Here is Part Four: Family Double Dare.
Early Access: Double Dare Part Three
Due to the huge nature of the Nick Knacks episode on Double Dare, I've decided to get it out to my lovely patrons in parts, as they're finished. Here is Part Three: Super Sloppy Double Dare.
Early Access: Double Dare Part Two
Due to the huge nature of the Nick Knacks episode on Double Dare, I've decided to get it out to my lovely patrons in parts, as they're finished. Here is Part Two: Double Dare.
Early Access: Double Dare Part One
Due to the huge nature of the Nick Knacks episode on Double Dare, I've decided to get it out to my lovely patrons in parts, as they're finished. Here is Part One: Dare.
Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea - Nick Knacks Episode #056
From the "was that real, or did I just make it all up" part of your brain comes Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea. We've got secret underground civilizations, we've got cartoon anteaters, we've got punk pirates, and we've got the same two songs repeated over and over and over and over and over...
Early Access: Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea - Nick Knacks Episode #056
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Cool, Clear, Artificial Eyes/The Klopstock Incident - A Look at Legend of the Galactic Heroes (8/9)
Two episodes of Legend of the Galactic Heroes that deal with the inevitable fall of the Galactic Empire. Is it better to preserve what once was, or burn it all down and move forward?
Early Access: Cool, Clear, Artificial Eyes/The Klopstock Incident - A Look at Legend of the Galactic Heroes (8/9)
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The Headless Ghost - The Goosebumps Monthly
Duane and Stephanie decide to break into a copyright-infringing haunted house to find a ghost's missing head. It's a pretty classic ghost story plot, so let's see how R.L. Stine messes it up.
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The Mysterious Cities of Gold - Nick Knacks Episode #055
Nickelodeon continues its trend of introducing two animated shows to their lineup. 1986's theme? French Weirdness! It's 1532, and Spain has gold fever! Join Esteban, Zia and Tao as they get kidnapped, get taken to South America, and end up joining shady explorer Mendoza on a quest to find the fabled seven cities of gold!
Early Access: The Mysterious Cities of Gold - Nick Knacks Episode #055
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The Monkees - Nick Knacks Episode #054
A band from the 60s finding a second wave of popularity in the 80s wasn't weird, the nostalgia market for baby boomer adults was huge. A band from the 60s finding success with KIDS in the 80s? That's a whole other story. A winding, complicated story of a TV band who became a real band, and how they returned to be the darling of MTV and Nickelodeon, at least for a while.
Early Access: The Monkees - Nick Knacks Episode #054
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The Haunted Mask II - The Goosebumps Monthly
It's been a year since Carly Beth scared the crap out of Steve with her spooky monster mask. This year, he's in the market to scare some people, so why not get a haunted, evil mask of his own? What could possibly go wrong?
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Mister Ed - Nick Knacks Episode #053
And now we look at the third and final show for Nickelodeon Summer Camp, Miser Ed. A show about a talking horse has to be more interesting for the children of 1986, right? Well, that's debatable...
Early Access: Mister Ed - Nick Knacks Episode #053
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A Wrinkle in Time - A Wrinkle in Storytelling
A meditative look at the odd qualities of the Madeleine L'Engle's novel, A Wrinkle in Time.
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My Three Sons - Nick Knacks Episode #052
We continue our look into Nickelodeon Summer Camp, Nick's summer programming block to entice parents to get more interested in Nick at Nite. The second show for the block is My Three Sons, where Fred MacMurray played a widowed father raising his three sons, plus a fourth son, plus an adopted daughter, plus three grandkids... look, he just ends up raising a lot of kids.
