Good evening high-flying fans, and welcome to Night Flight. Tonight, we share another edition of our distinguished Video Profile series with Van Halen. Wherever you stand on Sammy Hagar v. Diamond Dave, you’ll love tonight’s special episode, with videos and concert footage from both. The group's winning combination of charismatic frontmen, Eddie’s phenomenal guitar playing and insanely epic live shows made them an essential act of the era. Dig in.

Night Flight's 1988 New Metal Special spans the globe - covering bands from Japan, Germany and at home in the USA. Acts included in this essential Night Flight Take Off are Megadeth, Zodiac Mindwarp, Ezo, Warlock and more... Not to be missed!

Night Flight transports you to the wacky world of celebrity rap singles, featuring bars from such hip hop luminaries as Mel Brooks, Rodney Dangerfield, the Chicago Bears and Mr. T. Don’t miss Night Flight's wild ride through this uniquely '80s genre phenomenon!

Tonight we dive into the dark underworld of Gothic Rock! Rising from the ashes of late 70s punk, Goth Rock mixed the batwing style of Bram Stoker's Dracula with bizarre sentiments, black humor and a big beat. This classic episode (part of the Night Flight Series 'Twenty Years of Rock N' Roll Style') is a tour de force of goth bands and their myriad solo offshoots. Fittingly kicking off with Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosi's Dead," this episode also features music from Peter Murphy, Love and Rockets, The Damned, Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephilim and more. Hope all you post-punk ghouls enjoy!

This video profile on Simple Minds features backstory on the Scottish act and multiple videos throughout the bands career arc. Night Flight mines the video vault for select cuts from the Pretenders.

Welcome aboard Night Flight's New Sounds circa 1988. Tonight, we'll climb into the cockpit with Paul Kelly and the Messengers, Gentlemen Without Weapons, The Christians, and some high-tech irony in "Disco Dancer" from the Spud boys of Akron, Ohio: DEVO.

Night Flight's celebrating Independence Day (in 1988 and today!) with a Red, White and Blue Take Off Special to Freedom. We'll take a musical look at the many faces of Freedom, at home and abroad with Billy Bragg, Robbie Robertson, Hulk Hogan, and Aztec Two Step.

This time capsule compilation from Night Flight creator Stuart Shapiro and Laurie Dolphin celebrates the work of 40 innovative media artists using Flash in the early 2000s. At the time, Flash animation was the heartbeat of a new generation of pop culture enthusiasts at the beginning of the Internet. Whether creating their own independent animated clips or working with some of the biggest names in the music world, such as Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Todd Rundgren, Dr Dre and Phish, these Flash artists used the medium's unique quality to make art that defined a pivotal internet era.

Comedienne Renee Taylor's parody of the Fellini films of the 1960s.

“What do you do when a guy puts Mayonnaise on your shoulder?... Do the Watusi!" — Howie Mandel circa 1986.  And so goes 3 minutes of towering cringe (even by '80s standards) in tonight’s "Take Off" episode to Comedy in Music Videos from 1988 that also features the legendary Max Headroom, Father Guido Sarducci, Bette Midler, Will Smith and more!

Tonight we present another edition of Politics in Music Video with John Lennon, Nena, U2, Men at Work and the Fixx. As we dig through the massive vault of Night Flight tapes, we see more and more that politics were a recurring theme for our 1980s writers. This doesn’t come as much of a surprise if you read Night Flight creator Stuart S. Shapiro’s recent book "Identifi Yourself" where he reminisces about his time as “one of the go-to concert organizers from D.C. to Boston for the anti-war movement.” Night Flight was born from the inextricable connection between art and politics.

Just in time for awards season, we're sharing Night Flight's "Take Off" special featuring video profiles on the 1986 Academy Awards acting and music nominees.

Night Flight's take off special feels uniquely 80s in its exposure of videos from Madonna, The Talking Heads and more relating to the culture of wealth and excess that defined the time.

Tonight, we’re opening Night Flight’s closely guarded vaults and dedicating a full hour to Video Classics. “The diamonds, emeralds, pearls, gold, frankincense and myrrh of video history” host Tom Juarez explains in one of his interstitial antics. Catch the episode in our 1990’s Syndication Episodes row!

How did I get here? Night Flight takes on Talking Heads in this brilliant profile, originally aired September 20th, 1986 and now streaming on Night Flight Plus. "In the 1970s, a group called Talking Heads became staples on the Bowery music scene..." explains Pat Prescott. The Heads’ fused artistic concepts with rock, relying on the tight structure and quirky lyrics which have become a heads trademark.

A mean bulldog ringleader puts a worm through a harrowing audition.

One of the more popular animated short films that aired during Night Flight’s '80s heyday was Wes Archer’s cult fave Jac Mac & Rad Boy, Go!, a wonderfully frenetic cartoon about two party-bound teens who inadvertently destroy a city on their way to hell, which Archer admits he may have also been inspired by his own wayward youth in Houston, Texas. Note: Wes went on to have an amazing career in animation and is currently the supervising director on Rick and Morty.

For this edition of Night Flight, Morris Day, Prince collaborator and bandleader of The Time, sits down for an exclusive interview where he discusses what it was like acting for the first time in Purple Rain. Also featuring a special report on super-producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, including music videos from their hit songs with Janet Jackson and Robert Palmer.

Welcome to Night Flight's new filmmaker series, featuring short films from America's most talented writers, directors and producers. Tonight, two films from the Glasshouse production team Tom Stern and Alex Winter, Squeal of Death and Aisles of Doom.

Video hits from Prince and affiliated acts such as Morris Day and The Time and the late, great Vanity.

Call it Hillbilly, Rockabilly, Boogie or Bluegrass Swing, Progress or Neo-traditional–call it anything, but KEEP IT COUNTRY! Night Flight creator Stuart S. Shapiro's Country Music Video Magazine (1990) is 60 minutes of country's finest from Nashville to L.A. A must for modern country fans: intimate interviews, exclusive LIVE performances, and video and CD reviews from country's cutting edge - the rising stars of contemporary and traditional country music. Volume 1. goes poolside with Oklahoma's own New Traditionalist Garth Brooks, "Killin' Time" with Clint Black, country's queen of controversy k.d. lang: speaks out, The Desert Rose Band live on-stage at the China Club and Patty Loveless, a honky tonk angel moves on down the line./

The first Volume of Night Flight creator Stuart S. Shapiro's video magazine VHS series, Dance International. Dance International, the Global Dancefloor, brings you the sound and images of what's happening on the streets and clubs around the world. After the summer of illegal raves and warehouse parties around the UK, the show goes legal... ENERGY at the London Docklands Arena. Rave with SNAP, GURU JOSH, BLACK BOX, 808 STATE and more!

Metalhead is one wild ride down the hardest rocking highway, with backstage posses, exclusive and furious live shows, raw interviews of the loud and lewd...Metalhead. Interviews and videos from Bon Jovi, Sabbath, Scorpions, Skid Row and more. Featuring spotlight on new bands - Salty Dog, Ezo, Little Caesar, Dead On, plus shock rock from GWAR, MTV'S Riki Rachtman and Faster Pussycat's Taime Downe eyeball Hollywood's sexiest dancers at Bordello, a view from the top of Rick Rubin's Def American Recordings and comic artist Robert Williams.

SLAMMIN!... Rap's #1 video magazine. Here are the acts you're going to be meetin' in the premiere episode of this 1990 Video VHS Magazine produced by Night Flight creator Stuart S. Shapiro. Waking up in the morning with Big Daddy Kane...KANE style, a spin in Ice T.'s Ferrari and a tour of his home with the Rhyme Syndicate posse, MC HAMMER contributes his def videos, QUEEN LATIFAH and her dancers 007 and 99 allow SLAMMIN' into their "Queendom" to drop science on women in the rap industry. CHUCK D, KRS ONE, CHRIS ("COMEDY'S DIRTIEST DOZEN") ROCK and STEVE ("DO THE RIGHT THING") WHITE take a comic's look at rap movies. Host ALEX ("BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE") WINTER races around town, trying to hook up with SLAMMIN's rap acts in this premiere issue.

Dance International, the global dance floor, brings you news and views of what's happening on the streets and in the clubs of the world. The Brain Club takes a trip to Iceland, Deee-Lite talk about love, life, and the universe and S-Express's Sonique takes time out of their video shoot. Hyperstyle of the '80s and NYC's hottest urban rave. Finally Boy George introduces his new label and gives us his views on the industry.

60 minutes of swingin', twangin', hell raisin', trailblazin' contemporary country music in Night Flight creator Stuart S. Shapiro's Video Magazine series. Coming to you from Nashville, Austin or L.A., country is happening in a big way... so remember, KEEP IT COUNTRY! Behind-the-scenes peek and up-front Q & A on the set of Dwight Yoakam latest video, backstage at Universal with the "Blue Kentucky Girl" Emmylou Harris and her hot new band Marty Stuart, in stitches at Country-Western clothier Manuel's Nashville shop and Delbert Mcclinton takes his Texas roadhouse blues to Nashville.

Contemporary Country music rides the range from hard rockin' hillbilly to the sweet soul of Dixie...call it anything but KEEP IT COUNTRY! In Volume 3 of this Video Magazine produced by Night Flight creator Stuart S. Shapiro, Kathy Mattea talks romance, risk-taking, hit songs and spandex, a personal invitation from Garth Brooks to hang out backstage, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in London after dark-performance, plus fish 'n' chips and a pint at the pub, Dan Seals shows off his top secret Tennessee fly-fishing spot and more .

Welcome to COUNTRY MUSIC VIDEO MAGAZINE, Volume 4-where a star is more than just a cowboy hat and a good lookin' pair of boots... and every tune is an invitation to kick up your heels. Come on over to the cutting edge of country for on-stage excitement, exclusive interviews, memorable behind-the-scenes magic... and remember, KEEP IT COUNTRY! On the road to Denver with the hard workin' star-on the plane Alan Jackson, under the bright lights where Alan goes, CMVM follows. ...country's hardest rockin' female Carlene Carter struts her stuff with this live performance exclusive, a VHS review of "Mondo Elvis," and more.

In Volume 3 of Dance International, Mica Paris talks about her new album "Contribution," a label profile of Tam Tam Records, the home of "A Homeboy, A Hippie and A Funki Dredd" and "Soho," Tonka sound system goes to the beach and we answer what is THE NEW JERSEY SOUND? Check out the hottest dance label in America, Nu Groove, and Michiko Koshino talks to us in her London shop Spring '91 collection shot exclusively at Kaos weekender. Aveda interviewed at home and in performance at New York's Palladium Club and the The new musical phenomenon exposed: Jazz Rap!

In Volume 4, Soul Records' hot now hip-hop group Son of Bazerk discuss their music including their hit "Change The Style," and Ralph Tresvant is Interviewed on the set of his latest video "Stone Cold Gentleman," talking frankly about New Edition and his solo career. Deo C Loo ("Something Ain't right") talks about the current rise in dance music and its growing acceptance worldwide. And... THE DIVAS OF NEW JERSEY! Meet the women who have been labeled the "Motown of the '90s."

The sounds and images of what's happening on the streets and clubs around the world. House, techno, hip-hop, soul, funk... Only on dance international! Featuring an exclusive interview and LIVE performance from New York's Gay Pride rally with Crystal Waters, an exclusive short film from Massive Attack shot in the band's home town of Bristol, Rave parties and the highlife in the most hedonistic capital in the southern hemisphere (Sydney!), and The Godfather of Funk, George Clinton, is beamed down from the Mothership to discuss the past, present and future of funk.