UPDATE: This post dates back 2013 and a lot of the content and comments have to to with Skatemaster Tate (Gerry Hurtado) who didn’t really have an internet presence at the time. Gerry did eventually surface in the online skating world through social media (actually commenting on this site too) as well as having a skateboard released through Flood Control and a flexi-disc release in an issue of Pure Fun. Sadly, within a week of being diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer, he passed away on October 13th, 2015.
I’ve been sitting on some recorded rebroadcasts of SK8 TV from around the turn of the millennium. I’ve been hesitant to post them online because I figured between Viacom and Stacy Peralta, I wasn’t in a hurry to get kicked off of Youtube again. In my head, these belong to the 80’s but according to IMDB, the first air date was in 1990. SrArcade has a channel and blog mostly dedicated to restoring and playing old video arcade games, but he’s also uploaded a healthy chunk of the old Nickelodeon show. There are 51 uploads to date, each a segment instead of a whole episode, but all of them are included in one playlist for easy viewing. It looks like his masters are a lot cleaner than my VHS dubs – dubbed to digital 8, and then again to mini DV – that’s how long I’ve been sitting on them! Nickelodeon has made some of their vintage shows available for download in the iTunes store, but SK8 TV wasn’t one of them. I wonder if Stacy was shrewd enough to be able to retain the copyright on these episodes. If not, why they aren’t being rebroadcast or sold as a DVD set? That show was corny as heck, but it had it’s moments, and nostalgia sells. I’d look forward to watching the hell out of SK8 TV on the couch with my kids on a Saturday morning. SrArcade has had some of these up for a year, so maybe they’ll last. If not there’s another guy selling individual episodes as a download. Say hello to Matthew Lillard and Skatemaster Tate.
14 comments
Chad Cessna
Hi. Can I purchase all episodes of SK8TV TV?
stokey
they used to re-run then on nickelodeon games and sports channel, in the early 2000s. I’d be way into a dvd boxset. corny, yes, but it is waht it is
Lou Sassel
“From the deep end, it is called that because, well it’s deep”
Prickly Pete
Whenever I think of Skatemaster Tate I find myself wishin’ I was Rob Roskopf, Allen Losi, or even Billy Ruff, or anyone else who can skate tough. Funny. Taters in da house!
docskaterock
My favorite phrase: “I knew Tony Hawk, when he couldn
Prickly Pete
The rap battle is on…
He does a rad 720 that I can’t do, you know if I could, I’d do it for you! …lookin’ like they came from da thrift store bin!
docskaterock
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Baltimore Mike
STYLE KING OF THE WEEK
kilwag
Alive and well. A recent visitor too.
Kilwag
Sadly, not the case any more.
rose
nope, i talk to him via internet all the time. just today in fact!
wall eyed glue huffer
that show shouldve been on espn…it SUCKED being 15 in ’90 have to wait for nickleodian…baaarrffff…to play it
john e
If you look at the list and note the number of views for each upload, it’s interesting. Big numbers for Cab, Hosoi, Alva. Only a handful for one of my favorite guys–Dave Hackett. No Respect!
Ian P.
Is there any chance of getting in touch with Stacy to ask him? He seems like a reasonable guy. There has to be a reason these shows aren’t on DVD. I’d love to know why.