Night Flight

Someone can write a correction if I am wrong about this but I remember seeing a cartoon called "Thank you, Masked Man" on this show. It was completely crass but I still laugh my head off remembering it. You had to love a show that seemed to have no format but you just didn't want to turn it off. I also think I remember seeing the video for Stevie Ray Vaughns first single, "Love Struck Baby". I didn't have Mtv immediately so a few friends and I found whatever programming we could to see what all these videos and other new things were all about. It definitely was worth loosing sleep over on a weekend. This series would definitely be great to see again after all these years.

Exactly the kind of television that wouldn't be aired today, Night Flight's bizarre (and often hysterical) mix of videos, B-movies and short tv spots was hypnotizing.

It showed such animated spots as "Bambi vs. Godzilla" and "Jac Mack and Rad Boy", and showing cutting edge videos as The Red Hot Chili Peppers' "True Men Don't Kill Coyotes" and Fishbone's "Party at Ground Zero" (both band's first video efforts, only shown to my knowledge on Night Flight nationally.).

Brilliant, weird, revolutionary, and utterly what tv needs right now.

For a long time I've talked about this show to friends and no one seemed to remember it. I felt like I was in some movie where everyone's mind had been erased and for some reason I was the only one left to remember this bizarre show. As a kid I'd stay up late, quietly as to not alert the parents, and I'd watch Tales From the Darkside and other strange shows. Then, really, really late at night one local channel began replaying episodes of Night Flight. My mind was blown and was never to be the same again. Night Flight was an amazing show, nothing like it before or ever since. As many comments have mentioned this is a show that will never exist again. It was a rare gem that slipped through the cracks during the 80s to enlighten the few who were lucky to catch it. It finally dawned on me to look up the show on IMDB. I wasn't surprised at all to find it and i was pleasantly surprised to find so many others who had witnessed this one of a kind late night feast for the mind.

I used to see this show very late at night. It was always on around 2 or 3 AM late Saturday night/early Sunday morning. It was a great mix of music videos, short films and off the wall cartoons ("Bambi vs. Godzilla" was one of them). Very cool late night viewing for night owls such as myself. I believe most of episodes centered around different themes, and everything that was shown flowed smoothly within the subject matter. I wish there was a similar show like it on today; however, there was better music to work with back them.

I too watched this show in the 80's and so wish it would come to DVD. It was progressive, interesting, unique and extremely entertaining. I have really missed this show since it went off the air. I remember the crazy animation and it was the first time I saw Refer Madness(which made me laugh, mostly) among other shows that were cutting edge at that time. I miss the 1970's so much and wish something like it was still with us. A lot of the 70's and 80's shows were the best and so creative. I watched Night Flight every weekend as a kid and wish someone would pick up the reruns. I give it like twenty stars. ********************