

Goodman wrote scripts for several television shows including Hey Dude, Clarissa Explains It All, Clifford's Puppy Days and JoJo's Circus. Goodman co-created the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.

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He created or co-created the television series Kids' Court, The Movie Masters (both with Albie Hecht) Hey Dude, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, among others. There are few mediums that Goodman hasn't written for over the years including newspapers, radio, television, advertising, jazz record liner notes and digital. Goodman worked with MTV Networks, the parent company of both MTV and Nickelodeon, for over 30 years. They led the efforts to rebrand the network as "The First Kids' Network" and help build its new vocabulary, promotional strategies and execution to get the word out the America's cable homes.įred/Alan were MTV Networks' advertising agency, conceiving and creating Nick-at-Nite and launching VH-1. Together, they consulted with MTV's sister channel, Nickelodeon, which was having challenges finding audiences for their quality kids programming.

Seibert and Goodman resigned from MTV and started their company "Fred/Alan" in New York. Goodman supervised hundreds of animations and their accompanying soundtracks depicting the MTV trademark designed by Manhattan Design. In 1981, Goodman was part of the team that launched MTV: Music Television, alongside his college radio alum Fred Seibert. When entering Columbia University in 1970, he joined the college radio station, WKCR-FM where he first encountered his future collaborators, Albie Hecht and Fred Seibert. Goodman began his media career while still in high school as a reporter at The Hunterdon County Democrat in Flemington, New Jersey.
