In America, The series was called The Magic Carousel and it aired in the 1980s on Pinwheel, a children's programme on the kids ' channel Nickelodeon.

One of the specialized channels available to subscribers of the QUBE system was The Pinwheel Network, a cable channel offering children's programming.

ET on weekends ) included Video Comic Book, and the long-running Pinwheel ( now formatted as a daily hour-long series that ran in a 3 – 5 hour block format, and was a precursor to the Nick Jr. block ) along with other shows such as America Goes Bananaz, Nickel Flicks and By the Way.

Nick Jr. was made to replace Nickelodeon's former preschool block, Pinwheel.

Until May 1991, a former staple of the Nickelodeon lineup, Pinwheel was featured, and eventually replaced by a new timeslot for Eureeka's Castle.

The show was the original program featured on the Nickelodeon network ( the channel itself was known as " Pinwheel " from 1977 until 1979 ).

Kim ( played by Arline Miyazaki ) wwas not only the resident artist, but also Aurelia ’ s niece, which was confirmed on the Pinwheel Songbook VHS video during the “ Hobo Bug Giggle Dance ” number.

Other characters included Aurelia ( a gypsy who ran Pinwheel House and used a special phone a desk phone base with a crystal ball on it and no receiver to dial the " Opposite City Operator " and was also Kim ’ s aunt ), Silas the Snail ( had an elderly-looking face, and took an entire episode to go from one end of the garden to the other ), Ebenezer T. Squint ( green-faced equivalent to Sesame Street ’ s Oscar the Grouch ; his sole goal in life was to be on the front page of The Daily Noodle ), Luigi O ' Brien ( who ran a mobile produce stand where all of the fruits and vegetables talked ), Molly the Mole who lived in a tree in the backyard, Herbert and Lulu the Hobo Bugs, and the Admiral Bird which always seems to outwit Smitty.

However, Pinwheel was typically broadcast in 3 to 5 hour long blocks with multiple one-hour episodes shown back-to-back.

One of the most memorable things about Pinwheel was that it featured a wide variety of both regularly animated and stop-motion animation short films or cartoons from many different countries, most of which were only about five minutes long.

The Pinwheel Galaxy was released in December 2002 and the duo began a ten date national tour to promote it.

Van Maanen was a well-respected astronomer of the time who claimed he had observed the Pinwheel Galaxy rotating.

Another early job was for Nickelodeon's Pinwheel.

When the Captain Kangaroo show left CBS in 1984, the segment was adopted as part of Nickelodeon's Pinwheel program until that show was canceled in 1989.

The programme also became familiar to American audiences in the mid 1970s when it was featured on Captain Kangaroo ( where it was narrated by Bob Keeshan instead of Bernard Cribbins ), later on Pinwheel, and after that, on Romper Room.

A Pinwheel calculator was a class of mechanical calculator popular in the 19th and 20th century using, for its calculating engine, a set of wheels that had an adjustable number of teeth.

* " Pinwheel Twist " ( 1962 ) was played live by the Beatles in 1962.

** The Nickelodeon Television Channel, a children's cartoon channel, launches as The Pinwheel Network.

** The Pinwheel Network changes its name to Nickelodeon and begins airing on various Warner Cable systems beginning in Buffalo, New York, expanding its audience reach.

Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally called The Pinwheel Network, is an American children's channel owned by Viacom and operated under its Nickelodeon Kids and Family Group.

By some — not its creators — the series can be seen as homage to the 1974 cartoon Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings, which coincidentally also aired on Nickelodeon in the early 1980's on a show called Pinwheel.

Pinwheel is a children's television show that aired on the Nickelodeon cable network from 1977 to 1989.

* Pinwheel ( TV series ), a children's show on Nickelodeon that ran from 1977-1990.

** Pinwheel ( TV channel ), a channel which would later be the Nickelodeon channel

Pinwheel became Nickelodeon in April 1979.

In the United States, Bod aired on Nickelodeon as a segment on the Pinwheel program.

It also became somewhat sought after in the U. S., where it is often described as the " bunny in a suitcase " and recalled from its frequent broadcasts on the Pinwheel ( TV series ) cable program which appeared on the original Nickelodeon ( TV channel ).

The Pinwheel Galaxy ( Messier 101 / NGC 5457 ): a spiral galaxy classified as type Scd on the Hubble sequence

If the Pinwheel Galaxy were in fact a distinct galaxy and could be observed to be rotating on a timescale of years, its orbital velocity would be enormous and there would clearly be a violation of the universal speed limit, the speed of light.

The show aired on American television in the 1980s as part of Nickelodeons Pinwheel.

Caterpillars of the Oleander Hawk-moth ( Daphnis nerii ) have been found to feed on Pinwheel Flower ( T. divaricata ).

When asked by the skaters what a Monster Cookie Pinwheel is, Skater McGee replies with, " A monster cookie pinwheel is when you skate up to a locomotives cow catch, you 360 punk buster to the second car, do a lemonade hand stand on the third car, a whipping-post ollie to the fourth car, a demon stomper on the fifth car, and a gleaming the cube off the sixth car, before dismounting the train.

Former Pinwheel logo used from 1977 – 1979

R. H. Allen called it the " Pinwheel nebula ", although this name is more often applied to the Triangulum Galaxy.

M101, also called the Pinwheel Galaxy, is a face-on spiral galaxy located 25 million light-years from Earth.

Messier 83 ( also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, M83 or NGC 5236 ) is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 15 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra.

Pinwheel bond is made of four bricks surrounding a square half-brick, repeated in a square grid.

Messier 83 ( the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy ) is at the center of the other subgroup.

This process is also thought to explain why many barred spiral galaxies have active galactic nuclei, such as that seen in the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy.

Messier 101 ( also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy or NGC 5457 ) is a face-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major.

The group is named after the brightest galaxy in the group, the Pinwheel Galaxy ( M101 ).

The term ' Pinwheel nebula ' is an antiquated misnomer used by observers before Edwin Hubble realized that these spiral shaped nebulae were actually ' island universes '.