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Pinwheel is an American children's television series that was the first show to air on the then-rebranded Nickelodeon, as well as the first to appear on its Nick Jr. block along reruns until 1990. The show was aimed at preschoolers aged 3–5. [ 1 ]
Jinkins was also an actor on the old Nickelodeon series Pinwheel and Hocus Focus, and a graphic designer on By the Way and Video Comics. After his first tenure with Nickelodeon, he went to work for Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop), becoming the graphics director for their show Square One Television.
The show aired on American television in the 1980s as part of Nickelodeon's Pinwheel. "Chapi Chapo" is a play-on-words with the French word, chapeaux, which means "hats". Both of the main characters wore oversized hats that matched their clothing. The one in red is Chapi (a girl) and the one in blue is Chapo (a boy).
At its launch, Nickelodeon was commercial-free and mainly featured educational shows. By 1984, the channel began accepting traditional commercials and introduced more entertainment-focused programming. [2] In January 1988, the network launched a weekday morning block for preschoolers called Nick Jr., which carried Pinwheel and other educational ...
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Pinwheel (toy), a spinning children's toy; Pinwheel (cryptography), a device for producing a short pseudo-random sequence of bits; Pinwheel (shogi), an opening in the game shogi or Japanese chess; Pinwheel (TV channel), a channel which would later turn into Nickelodeon; Pinwheel, a children's show on Nickelodeon that ran from 1977 to 1984
Logo used since July 5, 2023 [note 1]. This is a list of television programs currently or formerly broadcast on Nickelodeon's morning block, Nick Jr. from 1988 to 2009 and since 2014 under its current name, 2009 to 2012 under the Nickelodeon Play Date/Play Date name, and 2012 to 2014 under the Weekday Mornings on Nick: The Smart Place to Play name.
For its first few years, Pinwheel was the network's flagship series, and it was played for three to five hours a day in a block format. Vivian Horner asked her co-workers to help come up with a list of possible names for the network. Sandy Kavanaugh (the producer of Pinwheel) proposed "Nickelodeon," [7] [8] even though she was not fully ...