Classic 80s/90s TV Shows on Video
For years many of us have longed for video releases of classic Nickelodeon shows. There are several official releases on VHS and DVD. In addition to these official releases are DVD-Rs of old TV shows that individuals have recorded themselves from old VHS tapes of shows that they taped off of television themselves.
Here is my spiel about DVD-Rs. Below I provide links for both kinds of resources (official and burned DVDs), but would strongly encourage you to buy official releases of DVDs if they exist. Many of us have petitioned for studio releases of certain shows on DVDs. For this reason, I believe that you should buy official copies to show the studios how much we love these shows. If we buy these official DVDs (e.g. the first seasons of Clarissa Explains It All and the Adventures of Pete and Pete ), then hopefully Nickelodeon and other studios will take more of these old shows out of the vault and present them to us in nicely packaged DVDs with bonus footage. However, if there are no official releases for certain TV shows, then I see no problem with buying DVD-Rs if an individual copied the episodes themselves directly from TV.
- The Adventures of Pete and Pete Season 1 (2005)
- Alf Season 1
- Alf Season 2 (due out the end of Aug.)
- Care Bears (many DVDs)
- Clarissa Explains It All Season 1 (2005)
- The Critic Complete Series
- Curious George Comes to America
- Curious George Rides a Bike...and More Tales of Mischief
- Danger Mouse Seasons 1 & 2
- Daria: Is It College Yet?
- Daria: Is It Fall Yet?
- Doogie Howser MD Season 1
- Fraggle Rock Season 1 (due out Sept. 05)
- Fraggle Rock - Dance Your Cares Away (2005; features 3 episodes)
- Fraggle Rock - Doin' Things That Doozers Do (Due out Sept. 05; to be released on VHS also)
- Fraggle Rock - Live By the Rule of the Rock (2005; also released on VHS)
- Fraggle Rock - Where It All Began (first three episodes; also released on VHS)
- In Living Color Season 1 (2004; Buddy Sheffield from Roundhouse wrote for this show too)
- In Living Color Season 2 (2004)
- In Living Color Season 3 (2005)
- Inspector Gadget - Gadget Files
- Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas
- Little Bear: Feel Better, Little Bear (was originally released on VHS)
- Little Bear: Little Bear's Band (2005; was originally released on VHS)
- The Little Bear Movie (2003)
- Little Bear: Rainy Day Tales (2005)
- The Muppet Show Season 1 (Due out Aug. 05)
- My Little Pony Season 1
- Party of Five Season 1
- Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer
- Ren & Stimpy Seasons 1 & 2 (2004)
- Ren and Stimpy: Seasons Three and a Half-ish (2005)
- Ren and Stimpy: Season Five and Some More of Four (Due out Sept 05)
- Rocky and Bullwinkle: Season 1
- Rocky and Bullwinkle: Season 2
- Rocky and Bullwinkle: Season 3 (Due out Sept. 05)
- Saved By the Bell: Seasons 1 & 2 (2004)
- Saved By the Bell: Seasons 3 & 4 (2004)
- Saved By the Bell: Season 5 (Due out mid-July 05)
- Saved By The Bell - The College Years: Season 1 (2004)
- Saved By The Bell - The New Class: Season 1 (2005)
- Saved By the Bell - The New Class: Season 2 (2005)
- Saved By the Bell - The New Class: Season 3 (2005)
- Saved By the Bell - The New Class: Season 4 (Due out mid-Aug. 05)
- Transformers (many DVDs)
- Buy New
- Clarissa Explains It All: Enslaved by the Bell (1991)
- Eureeka's Castle: Christmas at Eureeka's Castle
- Eureeka's Castle: Sing Along With Eureeka
- Eureeka's Castle: Wide Awake at Eureeka's Castle (1989)
- Little Bear: Campfire Tales (2002)
- Little Bear: Little Artist Bear (2002)
- Rocko's Modern Life: Machine Madness (1993)
- Out of Print; Buy Used from Amazon.com
- Snick, Vol. 1: Nick Snicks Friendship (1993: 1 episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark, Roundhouse, Ren & Stimpy & Clarissa Explains It All, plus some Pete and Pete shorts)
- Snick, Vol. 2: Nick Snicks the Family (1993: 1 episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark, Roundhouse, Ren & Stimpy & Clarissa Explains It All, plus some Pete and Pete shorts)
- The Adventures of Pete & Pete: Classic Petes (1993)
- The Adventures of Pete & Pete: Farewell, My Little Viking (1993)
- The Adventures of Pete & Pete: School Daze (1993)
- Are You Afraid of the Dark: Cutter's Treasure (1992)
- Are You Afraid of the Dark: Ghostly Tales (1992)
- Are You Afraid of the Dark: Nightmare Tales (1992)
- Clarissa Explains It All: Dating (1991)
- Clarissa Explains It All: Ferguson Explains It All (1995)
- Clarissa Explains It All: Take My Brother Please (1991)
- (The World of) David the Gnome (1987)
- (The World of) David the Gnome: Kangaroo Adventure (1987)
- (The World of) David the Gnome: Rabbits, Rabbits Everywhere (1987)
- (Nickelodeon's) Double Dare: The Messiest Moments (1988)
- (Nickelodeon) GUTS All-Star Special! (1994)
- Meet the Muppet Babies (1989)
- Muppet Babies: Baby Piggy & Thunder St (1984)
- Muppet Babies: Be My Valentine (1993)
- Muppet Babies: Explore with Us (1984)
- Muppet Babies: Let's Build (1984)
- Muppet Babies: Time to Play (1984)
- Muppet Babies: Treasure Hunt (1984)
- Muppet Babies: Yes I Can Be a Friend (1984)
- Muppet Babies: Yes I Can Help (1984)
- Muppet Babies: Yes I Can Learn (1984)
- Muppet Babies Video Story Book - If I Were Just Like Kermit (1989)
- Ren & Stimpy Show: The Classics (1991)
- Ren & Stimpy Show: The Classics, Vol. 2 (1991)
- Ren & Stimpy Show: Have Yourself a Stinky Little Christmas (1991)
- Ren & Stimpy Show: In Disguise (1991)
- Ren & Stimpy Show: Incredibly Stupid Stories (1991)
- Ren & Stimpy Show: More Stinky Stories (1991)
- Ren & Stimpy Show: Nothing But Shorts (1991)
- Ren & Stimpy Show: On Duty (1991)
- Ren & Stimpy Show: The Stinkiest Stories (1991)
- Ren & Stimpy Show: Stinky as They Wanna Be (1991)
- Ren & Stimpy Show: The Stupidest Stories (1991)
- Rocko's Modern Christmas (1993)
- Rocko's Modern Life: Modern Love (1993)
- Rocko's Modern Life: With Friends Like These (1993)
- (Sharon, Lois & Bram's) Elephant Show (1994)
- Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show: Back by Popular Demand - Live (1990)
- Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show: Candles Snow & Mistletoe (1994)
- Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show: Live in Your Living Room (1990)
- Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show: Pet Fair (1994)
- Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show: Radio Show (1994)
- Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show: Sing A to Z (1992)
- Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show: Sleepover (1990)
- Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show: Soap Box Derby (1990)
- Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show: Treasure Island (1989)
- Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show: Who Stole the Cookies? (1990)
- Barth's Burgery - DVD Set of 12 episodes and DVD-ROM set of all episodes of You Can't Do That on Television plus 2 CD ROMs of episodes of Whatever Turns You On, the predecessor to YCDTOTV
- Buy Classic Nick - ONLY OPERATING UNTIL JULY 20, 2005; Entire series of Hey Dude, The Secret Adventures of Alex Mack, Are You Afraid of the Dark, the Adventures of Pete and Pete, and Salute Your Shorts
- Kozaks Discount - All six seasons of Ren & Stimpy on 5 DVDs
- TelevisionMedia.net - All six seasons of Ren & Stimpy on 5 DVDs
- ioffer - An online bidding site, a little different from ebay . These are in either DVD or VHS format. I have not included directly links because the they are limited time items. Simply search for each title.
- Parker Lewis Can't Lose
- California Dreams
- Are You Afraid of the Dark
- Wonder Years
- Perfect Strangers
- Quantum Leap
- Duck Tales
- Tale Spin
- Rescue Rangers
- Rainbow Brite
- Mr. Belvedere
- Fraggle Rock
- Daria
- Ebay - Do I need to explain Ebay?
- Salute Your Shorts
- Grimm's Fairy Tales
- David the Gnome
- Are You Afraid of the Dark
- Rainbow Brite
- Dinosaurs
- Fifteen
- My So-Called Life (DVD, officially released but now out of print)
- Hey Dude: Showdown at the Bar None (Nickelodeon Paperback)