Adventures in Rainbow Country - Nick Knacks Episode
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Nickelodeon had had a serious lack of narrative television in its first two years, but 1981 is here to correct that. First up, Adventures in Rainbow Country, a wilderness adventure show from Canada! It's got rivers! It's got fish! It's got evil clowns!... wait, what?
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I looooooove the silver ball so much! Silver ball Nickelodeon was my own personal weird kid channel. I appreciate the fact that Double Dare ushered in a new era of greater popularity, and that now all the kids can love Nickelodeon, but I will never stop loving the silver ball!
"Google the Canadian residential aboriginal school system and prepare to get mad." Oh shit... this has aged like the finest of cheese.
A guy who was presumed dead wanders into town in a stupor only to get hit by a truck, and a guy who claims to be a detective but isn't what he seems to be? This is kinda like a Canadian proto-Twin Peaks, hahaha.
I'm really glad I found your videos, this is exactly what I needed right now. I've been interested in the early history of Nickelodeon for years but there just wasn't much out there (as I'm sure you know). I didn't start watching the network until around 1988-89, when I was in kindergarten, and I definitely watched Pinwheel. I remembered more of it than I thought I would!
Thanks for the work you're doing.
I was just thinking about “When is the next poparena video”
Two minutes after I thought of that, I checked my phone and saw that you posted a new video about this show lol.
Nice ep. Would have never known about this show without this ep!
You can tell me that Lois Maxwell filmed all of her scenes in a single month and I wouldn’t put it past you.
Plus that fuzz bass from 8:06 to 8:39 is KILLER!!
"Born after 1996?" I don't remember the silver ball logo, and I was born in _1983_
Okay, let's not make fun of the evil clown episode. It was just ahead of its time. It was preparing us for the clown attacks of 2016. XD
It's pretty much a live action version of Jonny Quest
"An evil clown episode!"
But you repeat yourself :P
Everyone remembers (and loves) the silver Nickelodeon ball.
You weren't around for this era? Are you even alive?
I look forward to your look at live action shows like Hey Dude, Pete and Pete and Are You Afraid of the Dark?. I remember the live action shows just as fondly as the nick toons.
Pete and Pete is an all time classic with an incredible soundtrack that is highly worth owning
That tiny split second 'asshole' killed me
you are amazing you poppalicious man....(facepalms so hard face explodes)
So it’s basically a nature version of Scooby-Doo with two boys as the main characters and constantly shifting plots that range from simple to “WTAF?!”?
I’d give it a watch. Seriously, though, I googled that Canadian Indian school thing, and I had a mini meltdown in my head...
Confession: This one's a new one on me. By the time I started watching Nickelodeon religiously in 1983, Adventures in Rainbow Country had just left the network. For a program that existed some 50 years ago and not know about it is quite sheer embarrassing, even though it shows a slight resemblance to Spirit Bay which would later air as part of Special Delivery.
*sniffs, swishes, takes a sip* Ahh yes, classic vintage Nickelodeon Review. The ambitiousness and fairness I expect from the poparena vintners.
I wonder how many little girls who watched this ended up writing fanfic where Hannah went on her own adventures and saved the boys. I probably would've done it if I saw this show as a kid! (I was born in 1983 and wouldn't start watching Nickelodeon till I was like, 8.)
And why is there always an evil clown episode, jeez.
Damn, didn't get to catch this one on early access.
Oh well, at least I get to be the first comment.
EDIT: And..I wasn't even first. Oh well. Great video.
the show's theme song belong in the epic theme song category.
My oldest sister was a year old! She was born the very same day John Lennon died, in the same city
My god
Billy and Pete's band is AWESOME.
19:34--Gerard Parkes was in an episode? As in, Doc from Fraggle Rock?
Watching this show was a guilty pleasure as a teen back in the '60s. So sad these days that young people don't get out in the great outdoors and nature like they used to.
I grew up with the Splat and I was born in '94
How long did Nickelodeon run Adventures In Rainbow Country?! I actually don't rmember it. There was a lot of cool stuff they showed on Nickelodeon that I remember, to one extent or another, that I haven't seen in over 35 years. Would love to see some of they showed on Special Delivery, for instance.
Kohntarkosz 🎥😌
According to 0:14 two years
Which song is playing at the beginning? I'm guessing it's New Order?
3:57
I know I'm late to this video but i think that only applied to console gaming. May be wrong tho.
3:06 Ok. I listened to this several times, and is that Cam Clarke singing the song in that promo? Because I think it sounds a lot like him.
So it's TheHardy Boys?
What kind of accent did Billy have?
Tunes in to see what the other half of the "Nick First Nations duo" has to offer ("A step in the right direction," I imagine the show responding. Also, I'd just really like to see someone do a serious "Ghostwriter" retrospective and tell me why I shouldn't rake that lousy CBS season over the coals. I'm not sure how Patreon works, so I'm just going to leave this thought hanging in the air. Also also, the "GW" board game was kinda lousy.), walks away stunned to learn that one of the incidental actors on the show composed one of his fave insanely long list songs from childhood. Seriously, "Old Lady Swallowed Fly" (I'm feeling a bit too lazy to type the whole name) was my freakin' JAM for a long time, right up there with "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt," "Sarasponda," and "The Song That Doesn't End." (Also, Barney and Shari Lewis figured prominently in my early music appreciation development.). The unexpected connections these early Nick shows have is simply stupefying sometimes.
You can learn how it works quite easily. You pledge monthly money and get extras/early material.
I don't think I ever watched this, but I may have a slight memory of it being mentioned on a promo. (I remember both the mime era AND the silver ball era.)
Did Rainbow Country air in America before 1981?
81 , were almost to YCDTOTV
0::36 What song is that? It's not bad.
So...it’s Johnny Quest.
I suppose, though I was getting a Hardy Boys vibe out of this too.
Besides mispronouncing both the stars' last names, I never found the show to be as you described. I watched it originally on CBC coming from Windsor, as I lived in Detroit, but I am one of those people who has a copy of the show on DVD.
I met Buckley at a powwow the year after the show went off the air and he explained that he was older than his character, so I knew that.
And, Stephen's hair is either short or long depending on whether he is indoors or outdoors and even he doesn't remember what order the show was filmed in himself. You skipped the last episode which is the most important episode of the series.
Gee, at this point, I'd like to see if you did a flashback on Salute Your Shorts.
BTW, I was sent here from The Adventures in Rainbow Country Facebook page...
"BTW, I was sent here from The Adventures in Rainbow Country Facebook page..." Oh, we could tell.
And yes, how dare someone relying entirely on tape trading circles for availability "skip" an episode that no one has available.
The clown episode was it before it
i honestly am not a fan of shows that have an overall mystery in the background( and or end on a cliffhanger)and just end and judging from the fact that you never mention an episode that talks about what happened to the father in the show i am going to take a guess and assume that the show never aired an episode that explains if the father is alive or not.
Yeah, the mystery was never solved on the show.
yeah i hate when shows do that its quite frusturating to the viewer. and if you are a kid its even more confusing and fursturating. also i am not a big fan of red hearings that never get addressed. i think its okay to have red hearings but at the same time i think they do need to at least be adressed as red hearings. like i wont lie its a shame they decided to go with the format they went with rather then sloving the mystery they were building up but i think it shows how much writting for tv or shows in general has changed over the last 40 years as you could easily get away with making a show with an overall mystery have episode of the weeks you could watch in any order.where as now the overall mystery is what drives the show. like a good example is desginated survior which has both the poilictal problem of the week while also showing as a little bit more of the mystery of the week. and you cleraly can not watch any episode out of order unlike this show and many shows like it where you can just pop in any episode in any order and get the same experience.
I almost didn't recognize Billy's mom as Miss Moneypenny...
I wish the lack of boy representation in girl shows got the same kind of attention lack of girl representation of boy shows, and/or simply getting rid of the binary understanding all together.
Beyonce is 41? WTF
Mst3k joke it stinks 😷📼😂