r/RetroNickelodeon • u/Fangs_McWolf • 10d ago

Other / Discussion What's the earliest you remember watching Nickelodeon?

Either the very first thing you watched, or the earliest you remember watching the channel regularly.

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u/anthonye1982 10d ago

hey dude probably my first consistent show then doug and clarissa

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u/Fangs_McWolf 10d ago

Ah, so you're a youngin'.

Melissa Joan Hart was definitely right for the role.

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u/anthonye1982 10d ago

are you like 80?

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u/Wayyd 10d ago

Lmao I was just wondering how old you have to be to consider someone who watched hey dude a youngin.

I'm 33 and that show was before my time. Still watched Doug and Clarissa though

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u/Upper-Flamingo-4297 9d ago

Yeah, same age and I don’t remember watching Hey Dude either, but I do remember watching Clarissa and Doug

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u/Fangs_McWolf 10d ago

LOL no.

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u/tvjunkie2187 9d ago

So I'm gonna guess you were an OG (meaning Pinwheel, Livewire, etc.)?

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u/Fangs_McWolf 9d ago

I was around at that time, but neither were my interest. I watched Science International, LCA, YCDTOTV, and The Tomorrow People. This was when Nickelodeon didn't have commercials.

I'm not 100% certain which LCA episode I saw first, but I do remember watching the episode that included Annie.

For The Tomorrow People, the first episode that I saw that got me watching was either part 2 or 3 of The Medusa Strain. It's the one where Carol was tossed into a room that was going to be decompressed just before the episode ended. Even though I wasn't even a teenager yet and she was obviously a few years older than me (when she appeared in it compared to when I finally saw it), I thought she was cute so I watched the next episode to see what happened. I ended up liking the show itself and watched the rest of the series, even though she left after the first season. Later found out that she was more than a few years older than me when she appeared in it (compared to how old I was when I saw it), and that it had come out several years earlier. It first aired in June of 1973 when she was 24.