Talk:Pinwheel (TV series)

Untitled
Does anyone have this on VHS or DVD? I would love to show this along with great shows as "Encyclopedia" or "Brain Games".

Pinwheel was actually run twenty-four hours every day until Nick (or, at the time, The Pinwheel Network) came to its senses. it also had almost zero reacurring shorts. --Wack'd About Wiki 13:49, 10 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Are you sure? I thought that Nickelodeon/Pinwheel was a daytime only network until the advent of "Nick at Nite".  Before that, they went off air at night.  However, I do believe you are correct in that while they were the Pinwheel network, the programming was for a time 100% Pinwheel.  -- Kaszeta 15:28, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

As I remember it, Nickelodeon switched over to A&E in the evenings.24.25.172.158 (talk) 16:21, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Pinwheel on DVD
I'm going to be a bit pushy here and say that we have to find a way to get nickelodeon to release the Pinwheel material on DVD. There's a classic nickelodeon petition on petitiononline.com that I have added a link to from the article, and I encourage everyone who would like to see this wonderful (and, at times, maddeningly surrealistic, but that was part of the charm) show again to sign. *please*

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 * Fixed. SchuminWeb (Talk) 04:45, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Cancellation/Ending Year
I have not changed the main article but am curious as to why the end of the series has been changed to 1990. I have only seen one site (retrojunk) that says the series ended in 1990. IMDB doesn't list a specific end date but in the cast shows that characters were played until 1989. http://johnnorrisbrown.com/classic-nick/pinwheel/index.htm also lists it as 1989. Is there any reliable source that can prove what the final year of the show was? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thetaester (talk • contribs) 04:24, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Sesame Street?
Does anyone else feel this article shouldn't be talking so much about Sesame Street? This article should describe Pinwheel, not describe the ways how Pinwheel is like some other, more popular, show. If nobody objects, I'll try to take a stab at doing that later this week. APL (talk) 21:49, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Puppets
I don't know whether it was Plus or Minus who tried to board a spaceship, but I am willing to bet that Plus was not his own antagonist. As is, the sentence essentially reads, "Plus stopped Plus from boarding." Perhaps Pinwheel was more avant-garde than I imagine? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.196.195.125 (talk) 19:10, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

The Clockman
I assume many people here are just trying to uncover the secret of the Clockman. Any good leads? Also, if it is right that it should be included under the list of segments, can someone at least put it properly into the list? Or is it supposed to be associated with the show listed above it? Kpkigar (talk) 22:20, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Right now Clockman is just an urban legend. Like a real-life Candle Cove.
 * Even if it exists, assuming it's part of Pinwheel is just a guess. It could be from some other show with a similar format, or it could even have been an advertisement, perhaps even a local advertisement inserted by some local cable company.
 * Or, there's a real chance that it's an episode of one of the shorts already on the list that people are badly misremembering. ApLundell (talk) 21:42, 29 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Update posted here claiming old 1976 Czech animation found on YouTube "About Dressy Sally". 84user (talk) 16:49, 11 December 2017 (UTC) The channel claims to be the same "AAA Studio" aka Art And Animation studio that created the 2008 Goat Story. 84user (talk) 16:58, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

C3
the article says C3 was a network but it was not a network, but instead it was a selection on the old QUBE box. the title card identified C3 as carrying the Pinwheel programming. i dont know whether to fix it because i cant begin to imagine how to word it. 173.87.171.179 (talk) 22:12, 31 October 2020 (UTC)