This page is a list of shows that made their broadcast debut inside or outside of NickToons but were not produced by ViacomCBS before eventually appearing in reruns on the channel.
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Animaniacs Produced by: Warner Bros. Animation and Amblin Entertainment |
| Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs, created by Tom Ruegger, was the second collaboration between Warner Bros. Animation and Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, after Tiny Toon Adventures. It was a variety show consisting of short skits featuring a large cast of characters, the most prominent being the Warner Brothers, Yakko and Wakko, and their sister Dot, three cartoon characters of indeterminate species.
Infamously, when Nickelodeon had the rights to run the show, many of the show's jokes were often cut for time. Even worse, the show's intro sequence was shortened, with the zoom-in to the Warner Bros. Studio water tower at the beginning replaced by a shot of the show's logo breaking though the Nickelodeon logo, and the variable lines at the end of the song (which always ended in "-aney") all being replaced with "Nickeleeny", despite the obvious fact that it did not rhyme. External links | |
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Pinky and the Brain Produced by: Warner Bros. Animation and Amblin Entertainment |
| Steven Spielberg Presents Pinky and the Brain was a show spun off from one of the most popular segments of Animaniacs. The show focused on the exploits of a pair of genetically-engineered laboratory mice - The Brain and his dim-witted assistant, Pinky - who embark every night on elaborate schemes to take over the world, which never succeed. Although Nickelodeon's reruns of Pinky and the Brain were generally unedited, the theme song was inexplicably altered to have the network's name literally written all over it. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) Produced by: Mirage Studios, 4Kids Entertainment, and Dong Woo Animation |
| The second animated television series based on the comic book of the same name, this reboot brought the Ninja Turtles franchise back to prominence after its decline in popularity in the late 1990s. This series stuck closer in tone to the original comics than its longer-running predecessor, with several early episodes being direct adaptations of stories from the comics, but also included some new takes on the franchise (such as Shredder actually being an evil Utrom). Due to the acquisition of the franchise in 2009, Nickelodeon now owns this show, along with its finale movie Turtles Forever (which served as a crossover with the 1987 cartoon and was produced to celebrate the franchise's 25th anniversary).
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Tiny Toon Adventures Produced by: Warner Bros. Animation and Amblin Entertainment |
| Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures was the first animated series produced by Warner Bros. for television, and also their first collaboration with Amblin Entertainment. An indirect spin-off of Warner's Looney Tunes shorts, the show focused on the adventures of a group of young cartoon characters who attend a school named Acme Looniversity, where they are taught by the original Looney Tunes characters they themselves are based on.
Tiny Toon Adventures aired in reruns on Nickelodeon following its departure from Fox Kids in 1995. During its first run on Nick, the episodes were always bookended with animated bumpers depicting a group of kids going to a theater to watch the show right before it began, and then cheering after it was finished. Notably, one episode that Fox had refused to run, "Toons from the Crypt", made its broadcast premiere on Nick. After September 1999, the show's reruns then appeared on Cartoon Network for the next three years before returning to Nickelodeon on September 2, 2002. The episodes were presented no differently than before, but the shot of the WB Shield zooming out at the beginning of the intro sequence was replaced with a fade from black straight to the Tiny Toons logo. The show's direct-to-video movie, Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation, which was later split into a 4-part episode of the show itself, was also aired in its original form as an installment of Nick Flicks in 1999. External links | |
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You're on Nickelodeon, Charlie Brown Produced by: Lee Mendelson/Bill Melendez Productions |
| You're on Nickelodeon, Charlie Brown was the umbrella title used for Nickelodeon's broadcasts of the animated shows based on the newspaper comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. The package included the majority of the animated Peanuts specials that originally ran on CBS (though one special, It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown, which had not aired on CBS and had only been released on VHS beforehand, would make its US television debut on Nick), plus the Saturday morning cartoon The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show and the educational mini-series This is America, Charlie Brown. Nickelodeon typically did not run the holiday standards A Charlie Brown Christmas, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and A Charlie Brown Thanskgiving, which remained on CBS before moving to ABC in 2001; however, the first two specials did eventually appear on Nick at Nite as part of a four-hour Peanuts marathon on February 15, 2000, which was aired as a tribute to Charles Schulz following his death three days earlier.
Nickelodeon stopped airing You're on Nickelodeon, Charlie Brown in August 2000, several months after the strip's end. However, their contract to air Peanuts cartoons was not set to expire until 2004. Right before the contract expired, the Peanuts cartoons eventually showed up again on NickToons in 2003. External links | |
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ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks Produced by: Bagdasarian Productions |
| The new animated series, ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks, created by Janice Karman, takes us on a roller coaster ride of music, laughter and stories geared to entertain The Chipmunks' four generations of fans. Presented for the first time in glorious CGI, the series features ground-breaking animation and a new, original Chipmunk song in every episode. The series is an animated version of a prime-time sitcom and reflects the trials and tribulations of a single parent, David Seville, trying to raise six hyper-active Chipmunks. Like most parents, Dave's patience will be pushed to the limit, forcing him to end most sentences in "ALVINNN!!!"
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Lego City Adventures Produced by: Bagdasarian Productions |
| Welcome to LEGO City! A modern metropolis filled with the fiercest firefighters, the cream of the crop cops, and so many BLOCKHEADS! Every citizen will assemble together for the most awesomely awesome adventures!
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See also[]
- Non-original shows broadcast by Nickelodeon
- Non-original shows broadcast by TeenNick
- Non-original shows broadcast by Nick Jr. Channel
- Non-original shows broadcast by Noggin