They did some lame rehash of it later on. I’m talking about the OLD Night Flight - M-TV before there were really videos.
Used to keep me up to the very wee hours weekend nights as a young teen. They had all sorts of stuff that you’d never see anywhere else: anime, alternative short and full-length films (it was the first place I ever saw ‘Reefer Madness’), and short-film features on artists and their music. (I especially remember some cool old David Bowie and Rolling Stones stuff.)
They were videos before the artists even understood what videos were, or what they could (and would) do for them.
Not only do I remember “Night Flight” (which aired on USA Network), I also remember Nickelodeon’s “PopClips,” which aired from something like 1980-82, and was the first place that I saw videos like the Pretenders’ “Brass in Pocket,” Rush’s “Tom Sawyer,” and Madness’ “One Step Beyond.”
Oh man, I used to watch Night Flight all the time. They definitely showed some weird stuff, especially when you got into the 2 or 3 am time zone. I remember seeing some pretty strange movies. And the concerts were always very cool, too. I liked how it was campy, not very slick kinds of stuff. Like, you just knew that some of that stuff got on there only because it was cheap to broadcast and they needed something to fill that 2:12 to 2:26 time slot.
Have to admit that I knew what you were speaking of the second I read the thread title. I remember NightFlight too, the cheesy logo and the bizarre cartoons. I was allowed to stay up very late that one night, as long as I was quiet. It was on this show that I saw my first music video, not the great “M”. Guess that lables me a dinosaur.
I liked “USA UP All Nite” too. Damned lame movies were candy.
I don’t think you’re insane, Eve. He may have hosted the lame, later facsimile I referred to in my OP.
Seems to me there was no real ‘host’ of the Night Flight I’m talking about. The voice-overs referring to what was going to be on next were done by some woman with a very deep, sexy, lady-DJ voice.
I remember it! I even have one saved on tape. They did a whole “cold war” thing with propaganda films and some interesting videos. Frankly, we used to drop acid and then watch weird tapes like this one… ah, how I long for the good old days… or daze…
Hey you!! Don’t touch that! Watch this! This is the heavy heavy monster sound…
I vaguely remember Night Flight, probably from my mid-teen years, think I only saw it once, possibly twice. Very hazy memories, and that’s not from ingestion of questionable chemicals, either. I think it’s the swxy woman DJ voice over bit from Milossarian that triggered it.
“Friday Night Videos”, on the other hand, I remember very well. My sister used to tape it on our VCR (two sections, top-loading - but it had a camera too!) and we’d catch it on Saturday afternoon.
I remember Night Flight. I also remember a show that aired on a UHF channel in my area (NJ), hosted by Emo Phillips, I think it showed videos as well. And I reember Friday Night Videos, but I think MTV was around at that time, just not carried on a lot of cable companies.
Years later, and on a Saturday morning-- anyone remember Kidd Video?, a cartoon that showed video clips throughout.
Night Flight! With the oh-so 1985 Raster Graphics computer generated flying effect!! Yeah!
I used to say up WAY late watching that when I was a kid, especially the animation specials. They’d play animated videos MTV didn’t bother with like the 'Stones “Hard Woman” and weird European groups not to mention work from strange indie animators.
Wasn’t much for the “new” Night Flight, besides it competed with “Weird TV”.
Oh my god! Someone else who remembers PopClips! But do you also remember the Doobie Bros.-looking DJ from Carmel, California in the Hawaiian shirt who hosted the show?
In addition to the videos you named, Kim Carnes’ “More Love”, the Police’s “Walking On the Moon” and Toni Basil’s “Swan Lake” (a really weird ballet/breakdance thing) were in the show’s very small library. They played the same videos over and over. I guess there weren’t many others available at the time.