{"id":2497161,"date":"2026-07-10T21:45:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T21:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2497161"},"modified":"2026-07-10T21:45:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T21:45:53","slug":"salute-your-shorts-actress-megan-mahdavi-praises-showrunners-for-keeping-the-series-wholesome-and-rosy-for-young-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/salute-your-shorts-actress-megan-mahdavi-praises-showrunners-for-keeping-the-series-wholesome-and-rosy-for-young-actors\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSalute Your Shorts\u201d Actress Megan Mahdavi Praises Showrunners for Keeping the Series \u2018Wholesome\u2019 and \u2018Rosy\u2019 for Young Actors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"heading\">NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p><em>Salute Your Shorts<\/em> aired on Nickelodeon from 1991 to 1992, but was syndicated on the network for a decade<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>The camp-based series was beloved by viewers and the young cast, who praised the safe work environment that many take for granted<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>Venus DeMilo Thomas, Megan Mahdavi, Michael Ray Bower, Heidi Lukacsik and Danny Cooksey participated in a virtual reunion on the <em>Splat Attack<\/em> podcast as the show celebrates its 35th anniversary<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Megan Mahdavi has the fondest memories of her time on <em>Salute Your Shorts<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The former actress appeared alongside castmates Venus DeMilo Thomas, Michael Ray Bower, Heidi Lukacsik, and Danny Cooksey in a virtual reunion on the\u00a0<em>Splat Attack<\/em>\u00a0podcast as the show celebrates its 35th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledging that child actors don\u2019t always have a positive experience on the sets of their projects, Mahdavi praised the crew behind <em>Salute Your Shorts <\/em>for providing an appropriate and positive environment for the show\u2019s young talent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had such a love affair with our crew. We had a young, cool crew and they took care,\u201d she began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had an amazing, amazing crew. Like these scandals coming out now that I read, I feel like, \u2018Wow, we were the luckiest cast in the world because not only were our writers these wholesome guys who, their thought was like \u2018Food is funny,\u2019 \u201c Mahdavi acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, they never did things to embarrass us or&#8230; I just feel like how lucky. If you\u2019re going to be a child actor, how lucky to be a child actor with the nicest crew on earth,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>The star later added, \u201cFor me, it was just a really rosy experience. I think they took care of us as kids. So my memories of <em>Salute Your Shorts<\/em> are like, the best time of my life. I mean, I have kids now so nothing can ever be better than that, but yeah, it was just an awesome experience. It\u2019s the summer camp I always wish I\u2019d gone to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">PEOPLE\u2019s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/p>\n<p>Castmate Danny Cooksey noted that the show had a \u201cunique position\u201d since they weren\u2019t \u201cin the Nickelodeon sort of apparatus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were kind of this little independent network,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople would come in and go, \u2018Yep, you guys are spending money making a show. Cool. All right. see you guys next month.\u2019 And they would sort of be gone. We were just this little thing. We were in our own bubble, which was really nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mahdavi also acknowledged that late castmate Kirk Bailey, who played Kevin \u2018Ug\u2019 Lee, was among those who \u201creally took care of us\u201d, using night shoots as an example.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the cameramen was telling us that there was a prison on the other side of the hill, where they had some escapees, just to amp things up. And Kirk just made everything okay. He always made sure. That was who he was,\u201d she shared.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/salute-your-shorts-actress-megan-mahdavi-praises-showrunners-for-keeping-the-show-wholesome-and-rosy-for-young-actors-12015145\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW Salute Your Shorts aired on Nickelodeon from 1991 to 1992, but was syndicated on the network for a decade The camp-based series was beloved by viewers and the young cast, who praised the safe work environment that many take for granted Venus DeMilo Thomas, Megan Mahdavi, Michael Ray Bower, Heidi Lukacsik and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2199148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2497161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Melissa-Gilbert-Celebrates-Dick-Van-Dykes-100th-Birthday-With-Throwback.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2497161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497162,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497161\/revisions\/2497162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2199148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}