The Rise of Nickelodeon: Nicktoons
If you watched the First Rise of Nickelodeon video about the networks first show, Pinwheel, you know that I touched briefly on some of the animated shorts from independent animators. These were the first steps in what would eventually become a staple of the Network. The first Cartoons that aired on Pinwheel were foreign-made cartoons that were dubbed over in english, a lot of them were from the 1950's and 1960's and were cartoons that were related to old folk tales.
Many of these animations today are obscure and poorly made they're also notorious for being kinda creepy. For its first years, Nickelodeon continued to play foreign-made cartoons in a similar fashion as part of two anthology series called First Row Features and Special Delivery. In 1980, the channel aired its first original series that was not live-action: Video Comic Book. It could best be described as a "motion comic" that consisted of illustrated scenes with animated elements, like speech bubbles and moving backgrounds.
Nickelodeon's first attempt at a fully-animated show occurred later in 1980, when Geraldine Laybourne produced test pilots for Video Dream Theatre. It holds the title of Nickelodeon's first true cartoon. However, it was left unaired when test audiences did not give the reactions Laybourne wanted. Throughout the 1980s, the amount of acquired animated shows increased on Nickelodeon, with reruns of cartoons such as Bananaman, Danger Mouse, The Little Prince, and The Mysterious Cities of Gold. Blocks dedicated to animated programming like Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon ran from the mid-1980s well into the late 1990s.
Profits from Nickelodeon's expanding audience at the time helped it fund its own original cartoons. This started what's known today as the"Nicktoons".
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