# What was your late, late night show before infomercials screwed it all up?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-late-late-night-show-before-infomercials-screwed-it-all-up/617297>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 30, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-late-late-night-show-before-infomercials-screwed-it-all-up/617297 "2012-03-30T16:56:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-late-late-night-show-before-infomercials-screwed-it-all-up/617297/41 "2012-03-31T15:55:35Z")

</div>

> [@Larry\_Mudd](#):
>
> Came here for that.

Me too! They showed music videos before MTV, and some…strange…things on that show.

I think Rhonda Shear hawks ladies underwear on QVC now.

And we used to laugh ourselves senseless at Gilbert Gottfried on Up All Night. I miss those crappy crappy drive-in quality movies, you could tell the soft porn bits were all censored. Good times!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-late-late-night-show-before-infomercials-screwed-it-all-up/617297/42 "2012-03-31T16:03:15Z")

</div>

nm

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-late-late-night-show-before-infomercials-screwed-it-all-up/617297/43 "2012-03-31T16:20:44Z")

</div>

> [@kunilou](#):
>
> [Tomorrow](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_(TV_series)) with Tom Snyder.

Loved that show. Remember when someone sent Tom a big wooden train whistle and he was worried about how it would look on the screen when He blew into it? 😛

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-late-late-night-show-before-infomercials-screwed-it-all-up/617297/44 "2012-03-31T21:07:22Z")

</div>

> [@dropzone](#):
>
> And then there was that fat psychic who dressed all in gold lame and camped it up on a Spanish station. He seemed to be making predictions, but I’ll never know because I don’t speak Spanish. He was good for a laugh, but I haven’t seen him in years.

That’s Walter Mercado. Yes, he made predictions and did the horoscope forecast for each sign. He’s still around, just not on late nights as far as I know.

I just don’t have the energy to stay up late anymore, but when I was in high school, I stayed up to watch Benny Hill. During the brief time in the 80s when we had cable, my brother and I snuck out to the living room after our parents were asleep to watch Night Flight and occasionally Skinemax. One of our favorite lines of any of the soft-core movies they showed was, “You don’t want to be late for your orgy!” :o

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-late-late-night-show-before-infomercials-screwed-it-all-up/617297.md?page=2)