During most of the 1980s and 1990s, on the first Monday of each month at 6:30 am Eastern Time, the Nickelodeon cable network (U.S.) aired what was called a promo feed. This was a thirty-minute show featuring nothing but 30-second and one-minute program promotional clips for Nickelodeon (early morning, afternoon and early-evening kid's shows), Nick Jr. (late-morning shows for pre-schoolers) and Nick At Nite programs (prime-time and overnight classic reruns). This was done for the benefit of cable system operators, who would record the promo feed, then insert the various promo clips into their advertising on their other cable channels. The Nickelodeon promos were considered some of the slickest-made and most entertaining on TV at the time. The one featured here was recorded on New Year's Day 1990 (ignore the January 5 date at the opening title of the video, for that is an error on my part). The clips featured in this promo feed are as follows: Nickelodeon Promo (Sliming The Whole Town) Eureka's Castle (Nick Jr.) - Flying Batley Eureka's Castle (Nick Jr.) - Eureka's Magic Nick Jr. Musical Promo The Patty Duke Show (Nick afternoon airings) - Kid-dependence The Patty Duke Show (Nick afternoon airings) - Patty On Handling Parents Heathcliff (Nick) - Official Cat of Nickelodeon Dennis The Menace (Nick) - When Grownups Stampede... Fred Penner's Place (Nick Jr.) You Can't Do That On Television (Nick) Inspector Gadget (Nick) - Great Moments In Gadget History Nickelodeon's Total Panic - Kids and Adults Super Sloppy Double Dare Bewitched (Nick At Nite) - Meet A Witch Looney Tunes (Nick) - Grand Opera Looney Tunes (Nick) - The Team From Toontown Mr. Wizard's World (Nick) - New Experiments Hey, Dude (Nick sitcom) - Nick Poetry Hey, Dude (Nick sitcom) - What Is A Dude? Special Delivery (Nick weekends) - some Chuck Jones cartoons Heathcliff (Nick) - Vitamin C (as in CAT) Heathcliff (Nick) - Cat-apults, Cat-agories, Cat-tastrophies Looney Tunes (Nick At Nite) - Acme (Wile E. Coyote) Looney Tunes (Nick At Nite) - Acme (Daffy Duck) Looney Tunes (Nick At Nite) - Acme (Sylvester & Speedy Gonzales) Looney Tunes (Nick At Nite) - Psychriatric Profiles of the Looney Tunes Looney Tunes (Nick At Nite) - Sexy Voice and Lips On The Television (Nick At Nite original series) Car 54, Where Are You? (Nick At Nite) - The Enforcers Make Room For Daddy (Nick At Nite) - Lost Lyrics to the Theme Song Mister Ed (Nick At Nite) - World's Strangest Love Triangle My Three Sons (Nick At Nite) - My Three Sons Sing-Along My Three Sons (Nick At Nite) - Bub's Kitchen The Donna Reed Show (Nick At Nite) - The Perfect American Family Nick At Nite's TV Almanac - Lunch Boxes Bewitched (Nick At Nite) - The "How Powerful Is Samantha" Answer Man #1 Bewitched (Nick At Nite) - The "How Powerful Is Samantha" Answer Man #2 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (Nick At Nite) - Around The World: France Green Acres (Nick At Nite) - Hooterville, TV Land's Hometown Green Acres (Nick At Nite) - Hooterville Vacation Adventure Green Acres (Nick At Nite) - The "Get-To-Know Green Acres" Guide Eureka's Castle (Nick Jr.) - Too Big, Too Small, Too Fast, Too Slow Maya The Bee (Nick Jr.) - What's All the Buzzing About? Maya The Bee (Nick Jr.) - Bee Ready, Bee Watching Finders Keepers (Nick game show) Think Fast (Nick game show) 1989 Nick Slime-In Sweepstakes Winner - Joseph Goodman of Springfield VA Nickelodeon Promo - Join The Revolution Nickelodeon Promo - Visit to An Egyptian Tomb Nick At Nite Promo - Look, ART! (Mister Ed, Car 54, etc) Nick At Nite Promo - Did You Know (Patty Duke, Eva Gabor, etc) 11th Annual Cable ACE Awards Promo (Sunday, January 14 1990) #1 11th Annual Cable ACE Awards Promo (Sunday, January 14 1990) #2

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