VHS Opening/Closing: HARRIET THE SPY (Paramount, 02-25-97) · 6:34pm Jul 17th, 2016
(I intend to buy this at PDQ Records on July 28, 2016 provided it still is at PDQ. I already have this but with no case.)
The opening to this tape has a preview for various Rugrats tapes on VHS that were available at the time (of which I still don't have Phil and Lil: Double Trouble) - note that at the end it says, ''Available Only from Nickelodeon!''
Then comes what I now consider to be a cheesy promo for Paramount's Family Favorites on home video; this has a cover version of the Happy Days theme even though that was the theme to one of Paramount's TV shows so it shouldn't have been too hard for them to secure it.
Then there is a promo for a film I haven't heard much about titled Magic in the Mirror: Fowl Play; I think this was a direct-to-video film, IDK whether or not it got a theatrical release.
On this tape, the film is bookended by two Rugrats music videos. The opening of this tape features the music video for ''Rugrats Rap'' (which is put before Paramount's Feature Presentation bumper and subsequent warning and format screen.)
The closing of this tape features the music video for ''Rugrats Rock'', then a black screen; after a few seconds some tapes show what has been known for the longest time as THE WHITE SCREEN OF DEATH.
Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. But when Harriet's friends find her secret notebook the tables are turned on her. Can she win her friends back and still keep on going with the spy business? Find out in Nickelodeon's first feature film, based on the Louise Fitzhugh novel of 1964.
In 1993, Nickelodeon forged a two-year contract with 20th Century Fox to make feature films. The joint venture would mostly produce new material, though a Nickelodeon executive did not rule out the possibility of making an as-of-yet-still-unfinished film based on The Ren & Stimpy Show. The contract expired in 1995 with no movies produced. By then, Nickelodeon's parent company, Viacom, had already purchased Paramount Communications. Paramount Pictures would make the movies instead.
Nickelodeon Movies was then founded in 1995. On July 10, 1996, the studio theatrically released its first film, Harriet the Spy, a spy-comedy-drama film based on the 1964 novel of the same name (see box)
