OT: Rocko's Modern Life (and other Nick shows) Available on DVD from Amazon.com

[John Pannozzi]

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Site-News-Nickelodeon-Amazon-CreateSpace/10375

[speedy fast]

This sounds like good news, though I'd much rather they be official commercial-releases. But maybe these "burn on demand" releases will let Nickelodeon know that there is a market for Nickjelodeon season sets. And what's up with the site selling "Hey Arnold!: Season Two" but not season one?

[nickramer]

Call me a person with mediocore taste, but is Amazon planning to release the original 65 episode (1991-94) run of "Rugrats"?

[speedy fast]

Call me a person with mediocore taste, but is Amazon planning to release the original 65 episode (1991-94) run of "Rugrats"?

How does wanting the original 1991-1994 run of Rugrats make you a person with mediocre taste? Those episodes were better than the later ones.

[nickramer]

How does wanting the original 1991-1994 run of Rugrats make you a person with mediocre taste? Those episodes were better than the later ones.
Well, it's because the show is not a popular topic on this fourm as some people scoff on the show saying the show is childish and the designs are ugly (I don't think they are, I think their just different).

[Glowworm]

Nonsense-the original run of Rugrats were awesome-until Kimmie appeared(Yes-there actually were a few good episodes with Dil in them.

[Geezil]

Could this also lead to the at-long-last availability of The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Season Three? We can but hope. :D

[nickramer]

Nonsense-the original run of Rugrats were awesome-until Kimmie appeared(Yes-there actually were a few good episodes with Dil in them.

That was in my observation, too.

[Kyle G.]

The prices could be a little more reasonable.

[J. B. Warner]

This has promise! I do believe I'll look into it...

[Kyle G.]

Little more info on Amazon's createspace program... http://www.createspace.com/

[Matthew Hunter]

Could this also lead to the at-long-last availability of The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Season Three? We can but hope. :D

I'll have to admit, I liked that show. I still do. It was so absurd that it it transcends time and the "kiddie show" formula. It was sort of like "The Wonder Years" put through a surrealist filter.

[Vdubdavid]

Tell me about it! The third season was the nuttiest one. The "Splashdown" episode from that season is one of my absolute favorites and I dearly wish it would come out on a legitimate DVD!

[Kyle G.]

Yeah, Pete & Pete remains one of my all time favorite series.

They have now added cover art for everything but South Of Nowhere. Also, Hey Arnold! Season One is already available.

[JPox]

This is quite the unique way of adding to your DVD collection.
The ultimate Online shopping experience of sorts. Simply place an order and they burn you a copy, it really saves on production costs and wasted materials.
"Rocko's Modern Life" on DVD? I think I'll check it out.....

[Matthew Hunter]

What about "Salute Your shorts", or "Are You Afraid of the Dark"? Or "Doug" before Nick sold it to Disney and let them suck the life out of it? I'll admit, this is purely nostalgia talking. None of these shows in any way count as "classics", but I enjoyed them as a kid and I wouldnt mind seeing them again.

[Brandon Panther]

Hopefully "Angry Beavers" will be added to this mix soon. My VHS copies have become old and worn. And some of the copies of the unaired Season 5 episodes I have are in terrible shape.

[nickramer]

Hey what about "Pinwheel"? It was Nick's first show and I would like to see it seen as I never seen a whole epiode of that, even if it was a knockoff of the world's most famous street on television.

[Studio Toledo]

Hey what about "Pinwheel"? It was Nick's first show and I would like to see it seen as I never seen a whole epiode of that, even if it was a knockoff of the world's most famous street on television.
Words can't describe this show in general I feel. One person I know had said it was a low-rent cable TV version of Sesame Street, while another calls it a kindergarten acid trip. Whatever it was, it was one of those early recollections of my childhood that has stayed with me ever since. It would be hard to get the complete version of the show out on DVD if it's just the regular segments for the show, as the series often stuck up a lot of 'outside material" in the form of educational films, cartoon shorts and other foreign oddities that might never have had a chance on American TV, period. Never realized a lot of the stuff I had watched came out of Eastern Europe for example, yet none of it is even available currently in America at all.

Here's some clips to show people what I'm talking about...

Pinwheel Intro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVliKI0px-I)
Pinwheel Puppets on Nickelodeon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_M9edMGTh0)
Pinwheel on the Road (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxDtnyvXM3o) (some intersitual that aired on Nick as filler at one point)
Pinwheel Footage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQPlWDjhD94) (from one person whom I'm getting some footage mailed to me as we speak! Contained here are some of what made this show interesting in the number of foreign cartoons they had, including Chapi Chapo [France], Curious George, Alfie Atkins [Sweden], Charlie's Climbing Tree [Sweden], Hattytown Tales [UK] and Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings [UK].
Pinwheel Outro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aThn0HVcglQ) (sans the end credits, but they weren't too important, especially not to make a mention on where they got all that cool cartoon stuff than to state they were from "outside sources", good one Nick, you just made it the harder for me to find it!)

[nickramer]

It would be hard to get the complete version of the show out on DVD if it's just the regular segments for the show, as the series often stuck up a lot of 'outside material" in the form of educational films, cartoon shorts and other foreign oddities that might never have had a chance on American TV, period. Never realized a lot of the stuff I had watched came out of Eastern Europe for example, yet none of it is even available currently in America at all.


Oh yeah, I guess it would be diffcult to get all the rights to the forgin inserts in order to have a small collection of the show.

By the way, is it true that "Pinwheel" borrowed some animated inserts from "Sesame Street"?

[Greg Method]

What about "Salute Your shorts", or "Are You Afraid of the Dark"? Or "Doug" before Nick sold it to Disney and let them suck the life out of it? I'll admit, this is purely nostalgia talking. None of these shows in any way count as "classics", but I enjoyed them as a kid and I wouldnt mind seeing them again.
"Are You Afraid of the Dark" was another Canadian show that Nickelodeon imported. So although Viacom does not have the rights to it, the show's actual owner has released the entire series on DVD in season sets and single-disc "best of" releases (though for some reason, the first couple of seasons are only available in Canada).

[Studio Toledo]

"Are You Afraid of the Dark" was another Canadian show that Nickelodeon imported. So although Viacom does not have the rights to it, the show's actual owner has released the entire series on DVD in season sets and single-disc "best of" releases (though for some reason, the first couple of seasons are only available in Canada).
It's more a matter of whether or not the foreign owner of said would even cares enough about the US market to do a thing about it, or else a potential US distributor hasn't licensed said property for home video completely. Face it, Nick's classic era was littered with this sort of thing. We should be grateful for the few that manage to find R1 releases at all.

[Studio Toledo]

Oh yeah, I guess it would be diffcult to get all the rights to the forgin inserts in order to have a small collection of the show.
Near the final years of the show's airing on Nick, it got trimmed to about an hour's length from it's height of having been on for about 5 hours a day. This edited version was pretty much the regular Pinwheel sequences with the cast and puppets as I can recall.

Being reminded Paddington Bear and Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings is currently owned by Canada's Cookie Jar Entertainment, who just recently acquired the rights to both Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake from American Greetings.

By the way, is it true that "Pinwheel" borrowed some animated inserts from "Sesame Street"?
Can't remember if it's true or not, but surprised if it was (especially for a time when PBS was still a viable network for anything educational since cable TV still was in it's infancy without much of it.

[cbrubaker]

Sorry to bring this old topic up, but I have a question to anyone who bought any of these DVD-on-demand thing.

Does it play on your computer? (Windows Vista, to be specific).

I just bought both the Rocko DVDs and it doesn't play on my Vista, although it works on a regular DVD player and one laptop. But not on this one, though.