Pinwheel

Pinwheel is an American children's television puppet series. It premiered on December 1, 1977, alongside the experimental QUBE cable television system in Columbus, Ohio, being the only program to air on channel 3 (C-3) of the system. As such, C-3, as it was officially known, became informally known as the "Pinwheel channel" or even the "Pinwheel network".

On April 1, 1979, C-3, now rebranded to Nickelodeon, became a national cable television channel across all Warner Cable services in the United States, not just QUBE, bringing Pinwheel with it. This relaunch reformatted the episodes into one-hour episodes, introduced new puppets for existing characters, new characters entirely, as well as segments featuring shorter cartoons and live-action series imported from around the world, including Europe and Japan. This included series which were not originally available in English, in which case, an English dub would be used. Many of these English dubs were produced specifically for, and were exclusive to, Pinwheel.

In addition, packages of Pinwheel edited for international distribution were aired in countries outside of the United States, and this version of Pinwheel received at least one known dub.

This makes Pinwheel unique in dubbing history, as not only had the main puppet segments of Pinwheel been dubbed, but the cartoon segments of the series itself hosted English dubs of cartoons which were (mostly) not otherwise available in English.

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