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
