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This page is a list of shows that made their broadcast debut outside of Nickelodeon before eventually appearing in reruns on Nickelodeon and/or its sister channels.
Animated shows
The Alvin Show Original network: CBS | |
The first animated series based on the fictional musical group of Alvin and the Chipmunks, created by Ross Bagdasarian. Each episode consisted of a cartoon starring the Chipmunks, another cartoon about a dim-witted scientist/inventor named Clyde Crashcup, and two musical segments featuring the Chipmunks.
When the show was aired on Nickelodeon in the 1994-95 season, the intro sequence was for some reason altered to have the network's name plastered everywhere. Around the time Nickelodeon picked up reruns of the second Alvin and the Chipmunks cartoon (see below), the individual Alvin Show segments were inserted as the cartoon segments in reruns of Weinerville. | |
Alvin and the Chipmunks Original network: NBC | |
The second animated series based on the fictional musical group created by Ross Bagdasarian.
This show's theme song, "We're the Chipmunks", would be reused as the theme song for ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks, which itself premiered on Nickelodeon. | |
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 theme song's variable verses (which always ended in "-aney") all being replaced with "Nickeleeny", despite the obvious fact that it did not rhyme. External links | |
Beetlejuice Produced by: Nelvana | |
Based very loosely on the 1988 Tim Burton movie of the same name. | |
Bullwinkle's Moose-a-Rama Produced by: Jay Ward Productions | |
This show, one of the earliest cartoons produced for television, originated on ABC as Rocky and His Friends and was then retitled The Bullwinkle Show when it moved to NBC in its third season. Although Nickelodeon's syndicated reruns of the show also gave Bullwinkle top billing, it is more commonly known as The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. | |
Garfield and Friends Produced by: Film Roman Productions | |
Garfield and Friends was a Saturday morning cartoon based on the newspaper comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis. Each half-hour episode consisted of two shorts starring Garfield, with the middle short being based on U.S. Acres, Jim Davis' other, shorter-lived comic strip (known internationally as Orson's Farm). Although the show ran for a total of 121 episodes, only 73 of them, all from the show's first five seasons, were syndicated by The Program Exchange. | |
File:Heathcliff title.jpg | Heathcliff Produced by: DiC Entertainment |
This was the second and more well-known animated series based on the newspaper comic strip of the same name, unofficially referred to as Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats to distinguish it from both the comic and the previous cartoon. Although the show, like the comic strip, stars the wise-guy orange feline of the show's title, this series was better known for the characters created for its "B" segment, officially named Cats & Co. | |
Inspector Gadget Produced by: DiC Entertainment | |
Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon Produced by: Warner Bros. Animation | |
Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon was the program on which Nickelodeon aired numerous installments of the Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon short series. Broadcasts of it typically spanned from half an hour to a full hour. Nickelodeon's Looney Tunes package consisted primarily of the series' early black-and-white shorts, and most of the color shorts produced after August 1948 (the ones produced beforehand had ended up in the ownership of Turner Broadcasting). The show also ran on Nick at Nite for a while, with a different intro sequence.
Since the Warner-owned Looney Tunes shorts were, at the time, also being shown in programs aired on ABC, Fox Kids, and Kids' WB!, Nickelodeon's assortment of Looney Tunes shorts tended to change every year or so. When Time Warner merged with Turner Broadcasting in 1996, Nickelodeon's Looney Tunes package gradually shifted over to Cartoon Network before finally disappearing from Nick entirely in September 1999. Looney Tunes holds the record for being on Nickelodeon the longest out of all the non-original animated shows on air on the network. | |
Nickelodeon's Most Wanted: Yogi Bear Produced by: Hanna-Barbera | |
Nickelodeon's Most Wanted: Yogi Bear was the umbrella title used for Nickelodeon's broadcasts of The Yogi Bear Show and the related spin-offs Yogi's Treasure Hunt and The New Yogi Bear Show. Originally featured as the middle segment on The Huckleberry Hound Show, Yogi is an anthropomorphic bear who resides in Jellystone Park and does not conform to the rules set upon him, as he is "smarter than the average bear."
When Turner Broadcasting bought out the Hanna-Barbera library in 1991 and used it as the foundation for Cartoon Network the following year, Yogi Bear was dropped from Nickelodeon and moved straight to the new network. | |
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. | |
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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File:Tiny Toons.jpg | 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. External links | |
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, plus the Saturday morning cartoon The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show and the educational mini-series This is America, Charlie Brown.
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