Along with TBS and USA, Nick offered some great tv in the 80's to early to mid 90's. That was mostly due to these channels not yet producing their own content. I watched Nickelodeon regularly from around '84 to '94, until getting tired of Ren And Stimpy and having more and more interest in stuff like Cinemax boobies.

The first thing I remember about this channel was You Can't Do That On Television, which may have been my introduction to comedy. Then, coming home every day from Kindergarten and watching Pinwheel, Nickelodeon's answer to Sesame Street. Lots of unusual European cartoons on there, as well as Bill Cosby's "Picture Pages" skits. After Pinwheel came what many consider the best thing that channel put out in the 80's, The Mysterious Cities Of Gold, which, to this day, I highly recommend.

Nick At Nite was pretty great, with various random sitcoms from the 50's and 60's. Then there was Hey Dude which was fucking stupid, and later, Salute Your Shorts which wasn't. Once shows like Clarissa Explains It All, Doug and Rugrats come along, I started to lose interest. Are You Afraid Of The Dark? was a good pg horror show. That and Ren And Stimpy was about it for me.

I took an occasional peak as recently at the late 90's, with Blues Clues and shit. Can't imagine what they'd be playing on there these days. Probably something better than what's on USA and TBS.

The doc covers a lot of this. They didn't mention Cosby though, because they must be trying to erase him from history now, but the jump off point was definitely You Can't Do That on Television (which I've never seen). I only began to form memories circa 1991 with stuff like the cartoons mostly, but I remember liking Salute your Shorts. Even then, I loved T2 and always loved that Budnick became John Connor's pal.