Weinerville

Weinerville
Weinerville title card, as seen on the show's opening sequence.
Created by	Marc Weiner
Starring	Marc Weiner Ray Abruzzo Brian Berns Scott Fellows David Jordon
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	62
Production
Location(s)	Universal Studios Florida
Running time	22 minutes per episode
Distributor	CBS Television Distribution
Release
Original network	Nickelodeon
Picture format	480i (SDTV)
Original release	July 11, 1993 (1993-07-11) – December 21, 1997 (1997-12-21)
External links
Website

Weinerville is an American television program on Nickelodeon that was produced in 1993-1994. The show was based around a giant puppet stage which was designed to look like a city called Weinerville. The show was hosted by Marc Weiner.

The show premiered on July 11, 1993 and ended on December 21, 1997.

During the first season, all episodes ran in a two-hour marathon every Sunday. However, Weinerville quickly gained popularity; in the middle of the first season, Nickelodeon began running the show on weekday afternoons. As a result, Nickelodeon allowed Marc and his characters to host a New Year's special event, a kids' version of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve titled Nick New Year's, with host segments serving as wraparounds for the best Nicktoons and shows of that year, and read letters from kids about their New Year's resolutions as they counted down to midnight, then celebrated by shooting slime into the sky. Marc and his Weinerville characters hosted Nick New Year's in 1993 and 1994 from Times Square in the Nickelodeon Party Penthouse.

For the second season, which premiered on May 2, 1994, the episodes aired daily and were part of the Stick Stickly show Nick in the Afternoon, which included Marc as Dottie in some segments. Unfortunately with all the success of hosting two seasons, promotions, three television specials, and hosting a four-hour New Year's special for two years, and especially hitting a milestone for being the show to tape its 1000th episode at Nickelodeon Studios, Weinerville was not renewed for a third season. According to Marc, the cancellation happened because Nickelodeon was changing their identity from family friendly to edgy, sarcastic, and somewhat subversive shows, and a puppet show did not fit with the network's new direction of programming. After its cancellation, reruns aired on Nickelodeon until June 30, 1997, although the Chanukah special was later repeated as a one-off broadcast on December 21, 1997.

On April 2, 2015, the series came to The '90s Are All That block for their "Out of the Vault" week. When the block expanded and rebranded as The Splat, Weinerville was broadcast three times the night of October 10, 2015. As of today, the show has not broadcast since October 10, 2015.