2002

This is a list of notable events, premieres, releases, series cancellations and endings, and other business ventures for Nickelodeon in the year 2002.
==Shows==
=== Pilots ===
*LazyTown
===Series premieres===
;Original shows
*January 19: The Nick Cannon Show
*March 22: ChalkZone
*April 1: Play with Me Sesame
*July 20: The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius airs its first episode following an expositional transition special. The series would begin regularly airing on September 6th.
*July 29: Wild and Crazy Kids (2002)
*August 25: Nickelodeon Robot Wars
*August 26: Max & Ruby
*October 18: My Life as a Teenage Robot (Australia only)
*October 27: Scaredy Camp
;Acquired shows
*February 24: Inside TV Land
*March 4: The Cosby Show
*April 1: Degrassi: The Next Generation on Noggin
*April 7
**Sister, Sister
**Smart Guy
**Super Duper Sumos
*April 28: Batman (1966) (aired as part of Nick at Nite, but also aired on Nick for 1 week starting on July 8, 2002)
*June 2: Splash TV
*June 17: The Wiggles
*July 29: Wild and Crazy Kids (2002) (also known by its acronym, WACK)
*August 16: Charles in Charge
*August 25: Speed Racer X
*September 28: Coach
*October 13: Super Duper Sumos
*November 10: Clueless
*November 17: Men in Black: The Series
*November 24: Barbie (movies and specials)
*November 26: Carol Burnett and Friends
===Season premieres===
*January 19
**All That, season 7 (relaunch)
**The Amanda Show, season 3
*February 11: As Told by Ginger, season 2
*March 1: The Fairly OddParents, season 2
*March 11: Dora the Explorer, season 2
*April 30: Blue's Clues, season 5
*September 16: Little Bill, season 4
*September 21
**All That, season 8
**The Nick Cannon Show, season 2
*October 26: Scaredy Camp, season 1
*November 8: The Fairly OddParents, season 3
*December 10: Invader Zim, season 2
===Season finales ===
* April 5: ChalkZone, season 1
* April 20: The Nick Cannon Show, season 1
* May 4: All That, season 7
* June 1: The Wild Thornberrys, season 4
* September 28: Invader Zim, season 1
===Series finales===
*February 10: Action League Now! (series)
*March 4: Sponk!, one season
*April 21: 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd (series)
*April 28: Caitlin's Way 
*May 11: Taina
*September 21: The Amanda Show
*October 20: Groove High (Non-US only)
*November 15: Pelswick
*Oh Yeah! Cartoons, three seasons
===Programming blocks===
*July 12: Friday Night Nicktoons returns.
*August 25: SLAM!
*September 14: Nick on CBS begins airing on CBS
*October 14: U-Pick Live
===Network departures===
*March 31: On the Team, Eureeka's Castle, Doug, 3-2-1 Contact, Cro, The Electric Company, Ghostwriter, Sesame Street Unpaved, Square One Television, Wild Side Show, The Busy World of Richard Scarry and Bill Nye the Science Guy air for the last time on Noggin
*October 31: The original Are You Afraid of the Dark? airs for the last time on Nickelodeon
==Movies==
===Theatrical===
*March 29: Clockstoppers
*June 28: Hey Arnold!: The Movie
*December 20: The Wild Thornberrys Movie
===Made-for-TV===
*February 16: Rocket Power: Race Across New Zealand
*December 15: Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure
==Video games==
*June 14: Nicktoons Racing (Game Boy Advance)
*September 10: SpongeBob SquarePants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman (Game Boy Advance)
*September 20: The Wild Thornberrys Movie (PC)
*September 23: Rugrats: Munchinland (PC)
*October 1: SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month
*October 31: Nickelodeon Party Blast
*November 4: The Fairly OddParents: Enter the Cleft!
*November 16: Rugrats: Royal Ransom
*November 21: SpongeBob SquarePants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman (PlayStation 2)
*December 18: SpongeBob SquarePants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman (GameCube)
==Books==
*April 1: Twister's Big Break
==Home video releases==
===VHS===
*January 1: Nickelodeon Super Toons VHS
*January 29
**Blue's Clues: Telling Time with Blue VHS
**Little Bear: Little Artist Bear VHS
*February 5
**Dora the Explorer: Dora Saves the Prince VHS
**Little Bill: I Love Animals VHS
**Rugrats: Easter VHS
*March 12
**SpongeBob SquarePants: Nautical Nonsense VHS
**SpongeBob SquarePants: Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies DVD
**SpongeBob SquarePants: Sponge Buddies VHS
*May 7
**Blue's Clues: Reading with Blue VHS
**Little Bear: Campfire Tales VHS
**Dora the Explorer: Adventures with Dora Volume 2 VHS (Blockbuster exclusive)
**SpongeBob SquarePants: Undersea Antics VHS (Blockbuster exclusive)
*May 28: Dora the Explorer: Dora's Backpack Adventure VHS
*June 11
**Blue's Clues: Big, Blue and Just for You! Volume 6 VHS (Blockbuster exclusive)
**Little Bear: Favorite Tales, Volume 4 VHS (Blockbuster exclusive)
**Little Bill: All About Little Bill, Volume 2 VHS (Blockbuster exclusive)
*July 2
**Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius VHS & DVD
**Blue's Clues: Big, Blue and Just for You! Volume 7 VHS (Blockbuster exclusive)
*August 27
**Blue's Clues: Meet Joe! VHS
**Little Bear: Snacktime Tales VHS
**Rugrats: Halloween VHS
**SpongeBob SquarePants: Halloween VHS & DVD
*September 24
**Dora the Explorer: Christmas! VHS
**Nick Jr. Holiday DVD
**Nick Jr. Holiday DVD Sampler DVD
**Little Bill: Merry Christmas, Little Bill VHS
**Rugrats: Christmas VHS
**Rugrats: Decade in Diapers DVD
*November 5
**SpongeBob SquarePants: Sea Stories VHS & DVD
**Blue's Clues: Get To Know Joe! DVD
**Blue's Clues: It's Joe Time! VHS
**Dora the Explorer: Move to the Music VHS
*December 26: Hey Arnold!: The Movie VHS & DVD
==Events==
*April 1: The N debuts on Noggin.
*May 1: Nicktoons TV, Nickelodeon's third cable channel, debuts
==Business==
* sells its half of Noggin to Nickelodeon.
==Nickelodeon character debuts==
*FeetFace
*ChalkZone: Skrawl
*The Fairly OddParents: Anti-Cosmo & Anti-Wanda, Remy Buxaplenty, Juandissimo Magnifico, Sanjay, Super Bike, Super Toilet
*Blue's Clues: Joe
*SLAM!: SAM and Gruff
*Hey Arnold!: Lasombra, Eduardo
*The Wild Thornberrys Movie: Sloan Blackburn, Bree Blackburn
==People==
*April 29
**Donovan Patton joins Blue's Clues
**Steve Burns leaves Blue's Clues
*June 10: Steve Burns (actor on Blue’s Clues) returns in "100th episode special celebration"
=== Births ===
*Ian Ousley (actor on the Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024))
*Mason Vaughan (actor on The Loud House and Harvey Beaks)
*Matilda Gilbert (actress on Little Charmers)
*Mr. Carsounds (guest star on Face's Music Party)
*Thomas Langston (actor on Wallykazam!)
*Jenelle Lynn Randall (actor on Rugrats (2021), The Patrick Star Show, and The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish)
*Antionette Angeline (actress on Team Umizoomi)
*January 30: Tyla (singer and songwriter and guest star at the 2024 Kids' Choice Awards)
*February 1: Hayley Scherpenisse (actress in Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library)
*February 4: Graham Verchere (actor in Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library)
*February 5: Davis Cleveland (actor in Rufus and Rufus 2)
*February 11: Chase Vacnin (actor on Drama Club)
*February 24: Louis Tomeo (actor on Every Witch Way)
*March 4: Jacob Hopkins (actor on The Loud House)
*March 21: Kyla Kowalewski (voice actress on Ni Hao, Kai-Lan)
*March 27: Jaxon Inge (actor and guest star on The Really Loud House)
*March 28: Ian Ousley (actor on the Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action series)
*March 29: Miohana Krishnan (actress on I Am Frankie)
*April 2: Ty Consiglio (actor in Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library)
*April 8: Skai Jackson (actress on Dora the Explorer, ¡DORA!, Bubble Guppies, and Team Umizoomi)
*April 11: SeanDoesMagic (YouTuber and guest star at the 2023 Kids' Choice Awards)
*April 17: Justin Felbinger (voice actor and actor on The Casagrandes and Shimmer and Shine)
*April 29: Grace Kaufman (actress on Shimmer and Shine and Bubble Guppies and singer on Face's Music Party)
*April 30: Kyra Leroux (actor, singer, and dancer in The J Team and Blurt!)
*May 2: Kallan Holley (voice actress on Abby Hatcher, Butterbean's Café, Deer Squad, and PAW Patrol)
*May 9: Cree Cicchino (access on Game Shakers, Nickelodeon's Ho-Ho Holiday Special and Nickelodeon's Ultimate Halloween Haunted House)
*May 16: Jessica Belkin (actress on Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn)
*May 22: Paulina Chávez (actress in The Casagrandes Movie)
*May 29: Aidan Miner (actor on School of Rock)
*June 3: Eva Bella (actress on Shimmer and Shine and Sam & Cat)
*June 16
**Matthew Zhang (actor on Henry Danger and voice actor on Harvey Beaks and The Adventures of Kid Danger)
**Isaak Presley (actor on Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn and Instant Mom)
*June 17: Jake Goodman (actor on Life with Boys and Max & Shred)
*June 22: Myrna Velasco (actress on Santiago of the Seas)
*June 25: Mason Vale Cotton (voice actor in Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie)
*June 28: Griffen Campbell (actor on The Loud House)
*July 9: Thomas Robinson (film actor on Harvey Beaks)
*July 11: Lolli Sorenson (actress on The Thundermans)
*July 23: Benjamin Flores Jr. (actor and voice actress in The Haunted Hathaways, Game Shakers, Henry Danger, One Crazy Cruise, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Santa Hunters, The Thundermans, and Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie)
*August 2
**Kara Hoffman (actress in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events)
**Shelby Hoffman (actress in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events)
*August 30: Grant Palmer (and actor on Game Shakers and voice actor on The Loud House)
*September 12: DeVion Harris (guest star on 100 Things to Do Before High School)
*September 15: Marleik Walker (actor on Bubble Guppies and singer on Face's Music Party)
*September 24: Elijah Richardson (actor in Fantasy Football)
*September 30: Maddie Ziegler (actress on Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn)
*October 6: Rio Mangini (actor on Marvin Marvin, Bella and the Bulldogs, See Dad Run, One Crazy Cruise, and Nickelodeon's Ho Ho Holiday Special)
*October 10: Thomas Kuc (actor on Game Shakers)
*October 28: Jackie Frazey (actress on Every Witch Way)
*October 29: Glory Curda (actress on The Loud House)
*October 30: Jake Brennan (actor on Sam & Cat)
*November 1: Choppa (rapper and songwriter on Face's Music Party)
*November 15: Laura Krystine (actress in 100 Things to Do Before High School)
*November 20: Madisyn Shipman (actress on Game Shakers)
*December 8: Park Sung-hoon (singer in Baby Shark's Big Movie!)
*December 14: Nikki Bruner (actor on The Loud House)
*December 31: Nasiv Sall (actor in Monster High: The Movie)
=== Deaths ===
*March 27: Milton Berle (actor on Kenan & Kel)
*August 5: Josh Ryan Evans (voice actor on Hey Arnold! and Rugrats (1991))
*August 13: Jeramine Fuller (musician on Face’s Music Party)
*September 11: Johnny Unitas (football player and actor on The Adventures of Pete and Pete)
*November 3: Jonathan Harris (voice actor on The Angry Beavers)
*November 20: Nina Elias-Bamberger (creator of Tiny Planets)
==Accolades==
*Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the , but was lost to .
 2002