Original upload date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 11:16:39 GMT
By the Way was one of Nickelodeon's first five inaugural programs, along with Pinwheel, Video Comics, America Goes Bananaz, and Nickel Flicks. This long-forgotten, hour-long show was mainly a package
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of short films and cartoons, interspersed between segments featuring the host, a character named Josie (making the show a sort-of predecessor to Hocus Focus, which featured similar content and seems to have replaced By the Way). By the Way aired on Nick each day at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. in 1979, and was made by much of the same creative team as Pinwheel and Hocus Focus, including composer George James, graphic artist Jim Jinkins, and director Andrea Cvirko. The show's writer, Irene Mecchi, would later go on to become a screenwriter for Disney features such as The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Hercules, as well as receiving a Tony nomination for The Lion King musical in 1998. The show was off Nickelodeon by early 1980, making it one of two shows (along with Nickel Flicks) to only have aired on 1970s Nick.
