Back when Nickelodeon was gold for us 80’s kids.

I remember vividly coming home from school super excited to turn on the television set and watch this show, right along with Double Dare. The good ole days of my youth. 🤗

I haven't thought about this show in over 20 years. And as I'm sitting here in bed dozing off, a mental image of a kid searching through a room popped into my mind. I knew it had to be a Nickelodeon game show because they had a lot of shows with kids searching through junk. But this memory was specific. So I Google Nickelodeon 90s game shows and this pops up. Just marveling at the wonders of the internet, Nickelodeon in the 90s, and how memory works.

@retroflashbackdude When we filmed this show Finders Keepers had not aired yet, so the first experience I had with how it worked was being on it. It was one of the very first episodes... And I got to go to Space Camp!!!

@tvshowkid I taped this episode because I was on it, so it's the only one I have...

Those producers were freaking DIABOLICAL with their tough hiding places! I don't remember it ever being this tough.

Back in Nickelodeon's golden years. When their shows weren't all horrendous and extremely uneducational. In fact, they were not only great shows, but very educational. Even one of their classics-- You Can't Do That On Television-- was educational in a cryptic sort of way. Very interesting show.

If nick hasn't done this already, I hope they bring this show back because I always got really excited watching kids demolish rooms like this.

I remember watching this, and Mr. Wizard, Double Dare, and You Can't Do That On Television

Such a Time Warp back to when I was 10...wow. The 80s and 90s were fucking AWESOME 👍♥️👾

Cool, an original run of Finders Keepers "Not a Nick GAS rerun"

I love this old show! My twin brother and I used to watch this every chance we got. Our older brother almost got to be a contestant on FK.

OMG,KZfaq never ceases to amaze me.This brings back soooooo many memories.i used to LOVE this show.I wish I could go back to this age.i watched it religiously! Thanks for uploading

100$ toys r us giftcard is an awesome prize for a late 80s prize,

Damn, awesome that you left the commercials in. A lot of memories. I had forgotten about this show until today!

Omg they need to return to these kinda shows!!!🥰

The mullet is the great equalizer. It doesn't discriminate. Man. Woman. Child.

very good quality for being a tape that was recorded in 1988

One of the greatest kids game shows ever made! I think this show needs a 21st century revival! Am I the only one who thinks that or does someone agree with me on that?!

Now this is a game show! Its not only fun and unique but it kept kids active. Nick back in the day really had some gems. Shame what its become today

I want a pair of those glow in the dark Chuck Taylor's. Seriously

30 years ago...christ thats crazy I used to love this show 😅

Man this brings me back to my childhood!

That snare took me all the way back to the 80's and I was born in 91.

“Fabulous trip to Huntsville Alabama!” You don’t hear that so much anymore

The original escape room 🥺

I don't remember watching this as a kid BUT damn, this was controlled chaos for real. I love it.

I wanted to be on this show so bad lmao

truthful mullet, so 80s......so kool u got to be on the show

I remember that Dennis commercial explaining when a show moved to a different time slot.

Wow! They won tickets on Eastern Airlines to Space Camp!

RIP Toy's 'R' Us 😪

@TheGrungeGamer2 I still have that Haircut!!! My mom did make me get a haircut the day before we taped the show so its a fresh mullet at least;) and it was more than 20 years ago so I am not too upset.. at the time I genuinely thought I invented that haircut cause I had never seen it before:)

Man I miss this show

I was 9 years old when this show was aired lol brings back lots of memories use to watch this show fun house, double dare

This brings back so many memories!

These commercials are so retro I haven’t seen commercials like👍🏽these since my childhood days

This was worth watching just to see the old commercials. Side note, you know you're getting old when commercials from the 90s start seeming as cheesy as the ones from the 80s.

The most educational prizes.

This was one of my favorite shows.

jesus. this game looks so damn hard lol

I finally found out what this show was called! thank you you tube!

THAT WAS FUN-FILLED JANUARY 14, 1988 AIRING OF THIS SHOW.

Thanks for posting this! I couldn't think that fast- those kids were ahead of me! They start tearing up the room while I'm still trying to think of what they should be looking for. The hidden images, I didn't catch any of the hidden image ones until after the kids said what they were.

I ALWAYS wanted to go to space camp. TOTALLY JEALOUS.

Producers didn't fear being sued back then did they😂

Nickelodeon Animation Studio was established as Games Productions Inc. in 1988 and as Nickelodeon Animation Studios in 1990.

I missed the 80s❤❤❤

I want this show back. I'm so tired of Nick showing Spongebob like 500 times a day

Thank you this show was my childhood

@greenwater735 Double Dare was out first and already Blue and Red, and the part that noone says anything about is that we all got Converse All Star Sneakers!!!! They said that they were safe to run around in... mine were bright orange, but I wore them every day for almost a year anyway!!!

Lol. I was 5 in 1988, but I watched this show religiously along with “the real ghostbusters”

They should bring back this game show, but this one for adults.

I was in second grade when this episode first aired. It was two months before my ninth birthday! Truthfully, this wasn't one of my favorite Nickelodeon game shows. I was a bigger fan of Think Fast and Double Dare and plus I preferred some of the variety shows like Don't Just Sit There and You Can't Do That On Television. However, now that I've come across old episodes of this show which I could have watched but missed out on, I find this to be a very enjoyable game show! ~Dutch

Those are some serious hiding spots. Dayum...

I wanna play this game looks like a lot of fun

I always wondered what went into the production of this show? How they were able to change up the rooms constantly, how they were able to reset all the rooms between rounds too.

I wanted to be on this show so bad as a kid but it stopped airing before I was even born lol

Oh my gosh, you got the commercials in there too! 😱😱👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I remember this show. I was 3 years old when this show came out.

Yeah that Toys R Us gift card is worthless now. 😢

I watched Nickelodeon for entire childhood in the 90s, but not ONCE did I ever see this show! I remember seeing Family Double Dare, Wild and Crazy Kids, and some other gameshows, but where the heck was THIS one?!

I missed this show a lot

Oh man... your mullet was radical! 😂

As a kid, my dream was to go on this show....or Double Dare. Either one worked. I miss those days 😁

@animegal2686 I can remember being really excited to meet Harvey cause I knew him from seeing double dare... we filmed this in Pennsylvania and I think its where they did DD back then too and they filmed like 3 episodes that day so I bet he just did a few days here and a few days there for both shows without any problems...

Back when Nickelodeon was great nowadays it’s stupid

I had no idea this was an American show, I thought the UK version was the only one! Mind blown.

Just watched a bit of Guts, Legends of the Hidden Temple and now this. My inner child is glowing

Ohhh I miss this, Fun House and I'm Telling.

This is obviously an early taped episode. u can tell by wesleys wardrobe and harvey announcing.

they should really bring this show back or at least one of them..

I wonder if the early taped episodes of Finders Keepers inspired Double Dare go to Blue & Red?

Those commercials worked on me as a kid

The Cosby sweater.

man i wish they brought back Nick Arcade!!

1-14-1988, my older brother wasn't even born yet. Wow. I feel young.

Bring back this game self Finders Keepers on Nickelodeon

I like that you have the air date

I always thought the teams were friends, relatives, whatever. But apparently they didn't even know each other (most times). That's why most of the kids seem so nervous and anxious.

Bell is from classic concentration.

I was 6 years old living in Pasadena California

Thanks for sharing I don't remember this show.

We tried playing this in my friend's house as a kid. His mother *really* did not appreciate us ransacking her bedroom. (P.S. But I found the coffee mug.)

BTW, hackey sack is also known as a footbag.

They need to have a nickelodeon thing like they do for Disney plus but they need to have the old shows like this show, DD, legends of the hidden temple, guts

I feel so bad for the clean up crew for this show

The Toy Store And Pastry Shop Are My 2 Favorite Rooms In FK

The Hulkster is Hulk Hogan.

Those kids won nearly $4500 each in 2019 money.

Sweet mullet.

They need to do a remake of this show and put it on Nickelodeon with Wesley Eure hosting.. RIP Toys R Us!!!!!

@Mr. matthew smith [& everybody else] here, yes, back on Thursday, January 14, 1988, this then-"Finders Keepers" game show had Mr. Wesley Eure as its previous host[though actually, his real last name's "Loper"] just as his former studio announcer there was Mr. John Harvey[though usually called only "Harvey"]!

Finders Keepers should've lasted longer. IMO, FK and Double Dare were the Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune of kids' game shows.

I like how its kind of.....not professional with the kids being awkward and not scripted, seeing the producers and cameras, and the host messing up lines and being weirs.

damn that hd quality

Apparently, the higher-ups at Nickelodeon were not fans of this show.

I always wanted to be on this show

if someone at a big network ever read this post they would get the highest ratings imaginable if they aired old Nick programs. 80s-mid 90s nick had the greatest shows on tv and would be just as great today as they were back then

5:26 R.I.P