Night Flight - Peter Ivers Video Collage
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RVNG Intl’s 2019 release "Becoming Peter Ivers" collects 25 songs transferred from a survey of over 500 reels and cassettes along with an incredible amount of unseen photos and ephemera.
Ether Antenna
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Inspired by Buddhist tales and set to the tune of Pauline Anna Strom’s astral electronic soundscapes; Ether Antenna is a short film following the journey of some 10 robot characters through Nepal. Fusing spirituality with robotics this cybernetic tale exploits humanity’s fascination with technology and religion. Designed and built on residency at RAN (the Robotics Association of Nepal), all robot characters were developed to act specifically as puppets and carry out precise interactions through different scenes and scenarios. The film begins as robots are birthed from a sacred tree into the pure streams of water at Muktinath and follows their journey toward the polluted rivers of Kathmandu.
Tunnel Vision (New Restoration)
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It's the year "1985" and the proprietors of new television channel called "Tunnel Vision", which is notably free of censorship) are under a government investigation led by a Senator who wishes to shut down the network due to its widespread negative effects on the population. During the hearing, the committee examines a typical day or programming which includes shows, programs, commercials, news, and much more, and what they discover will surely crack you up in this outrageous and irreverent spoof of 1970's movies and television in the tradition of Kentucky Fried Movie and Amazon Women on the Moon!
Night Flight - Comedy Cuts 9
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Welcome to an original 1980s episode of Night Flight’s Comedy Cuts starring stand-up stars from across the country. This installment features Wayne Federman on tiny NYC kitchens and Stallone movies, Nancy Parker’s brassy beauty-salon matriarch, a chaotic “hand-puppet” singalong sketch, Motown-loving bits from Mike Langworthy, and more. Viewer discretion is advised.
Night Flight - Comedy Cuts 10
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Welcome to an original 1980s episode of Night Flight’s Comedy Cuts starring stand-up stars from across the country. This installment features Steve Oh, Frankie Pace, Taylor Mason, George Calfa, Bill Shepp, and Adrian Tull performing club sets mixed with sketches and music cues. Viewer discretion is advised.
Night Flight - Comedy Cuts 11
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Welcome to an original 1980s episode of Night Flight’s Comedy Cuts starring stand-up stars from across the country. This installment showcases Judy Tenuta, Dennis Blair, Jack Simmons, Mario Cantone, and Scott Blakeman, plus quick-hit sketches and music parodies. Viewer discretion advised.
Night Flight - Comedy Cuts 12
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Welcome to an original 1980s episode of Night Flight’s Comedy Cuts starring stand-up stars from across the country. This installment features David Naster, Mike Egan, Scott Blakeman, Nancy Parker, and Dennis Blair. Viewer discretion is advised.
Night Flight - Comedy Cuts 13
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Welcome to an original 1986 episode of Night Flight’s Comedy Cuts, featuring stand-up from Judy Tenuta, Joy Behar, Wayne Federman, Scott Blakeman, and more, interspersed with surreal comedy sketches, offbeat shorts, and vintage Night Flight weirdness.
Night Flight - Comedy Cuts 14
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Welcome to an original 1987 episode of Night Flight’s Comedy Cuts featuring Joy Behar, Wayne Federman, Jack Simmons, and more, alongside absurd comedy sketches, fake commercials, and classic Night Flight interstitials.
Night Flight - Comedy Cuts 15
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Welcome to an original 1986 episode of Night Flight’s Comedy Cuts, featuring Joy Behar, Jack Simmons, Larry Amoros, and more in a rapid-fire mix of stand-up, movie parodies, fake commercials, and offbeat sketches.
Night Flight - Comedy Cuts 16
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Welcome to an original 1987 episode of Night Flight’s Comedy Cuts, featuring Bill Scheft, Steve Skrovan, Frankie Pace, Joe Vega, Adrienne Tolsch, and more in a rapid-fire mix of stand-up, character comedy, musical interludes, and offbeat sketches.
Night Flight - Comedy Cuts 17
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Welcome to an original 1987 episode of Night Flight’s Comedy Cuts, featuring Chris Rock, John Mendoza, Margaret Smith, Jimmy Tingle, and more in a fast-moving mix of stand-up, street comedy, celebrity interviews, and absurd sketches.
60 Minutes Australia - INXS
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60 Minutes Australia follows INXS on their 1991 world tour, interviewing members of the band as well as their devoted fans.
Joe Coleman's Carnival
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Night Flight takes you for an exclusive look inside "Joe Coleman’s Carnival," the artist’s curated exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch Projects in New York City. Filmed on-site in June 2025, this special hour-long presentation follows Coleman as he personally guides Night Flight through the gallery, revealing works that directly connect him to the carnival world, including his portrait of Tod Browning (Freaks) and a world-renowned collection from sideshow legend Johnny Eck, all culminating in his magnum opus: a life-size biographical portrait of his wife and muse, Whitney Ward. “I believe that the carnival is a kind of profane, holy place,” Coleman says, “where the private desires, fantasies, and fears of a society are given uninhibited free expression.”
Night Flight - "Take Off" to Comedy IX
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In "Take Off to Comedy IX," enter Jackie Mason's mind with the brilliant compilation “The World According To Me,” Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi get Brian Wilson out of bed to go surfing in a long forgotten clip that was one of our most popular stories on the blog last year. Other gems include Divine’s “These Lips Were Made For Kissing,” Dweezil Zappa, Weird Al Yankovich and an original segment with comedian Ritch Shydner’s hilarious bit in the Night Flight studios.
Night Flight - "Take Off" to Women In Rock III
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This classic episode of Night Flight's venerable "Take Off" series which premiered in 1984 features music videos featuring flashy female rock icons such as Debbie Harry, Grace Slick, Tina Turner, Wendy O. Williams & Stevie Nicks.
60 Minutes Australia - Janet Jackson
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In a rare candid interview from the time, Janet Jackson discusses her famous family, especially her relationship to brother Michael.
Night Flight - Kate Bush Video Profile
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Welcome to Night Flight’s exclusive Video Profile of Kate Bush. “This multimedia performance artist has combined dance, music, literature and mime on her way to becoming Britain’s most popular female star,” Pat Prescott says to introduce the pop polymath. Featuring Bush’s candid interview from the Night Flight studios (recorded in November 1985), this episode is an immersive survey of her creative vision and premiered as “Running Up That Hill” was topping the charts. A timely treasure from the archive in 2022!
Night Flight - Valentine's Day Special 1988
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This 1988 special Night Flight episodes has 1930s beauty tips, cult classic cartoons and a lost interview with heartthrob Mick Jagger. "For decades moviegoers have fulfilled their romantic fantasies by watching the big screen," host Pat Prescott tells us before kicking off the segment "Greatest Love Scenes and Lovers."
60 Minutes Australia - Yothu Yindi
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Yothu Yindi combine rock music with traditional Aboriginal instrumentation to create a distinct sound all their own. This 1992 60 Minutes story covers their history, influences and politics.
Night Flight - Heaven 17 Video Profile
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“I don't need the Daytime, all I want is Nighttime.” Take off to the creation of Heaven 17’s music video for “Let Me Go” in this Night Flight special that goes on set (a closed-off train station in the middle of the night) and behind the scenes with the band. This early Night Flight Video Profile (1983) shows off an impressive suite of big budget music videos from ex-Human League synth rockers including “Penthouse and Pavement” and the German Expressionism-themed video for “Temptation.”
Night Flight - Britain's Ska Revival and Viewer's Choice 5
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Welcome back to Viewer’s Choice, where you get the videos you asked for. “We’ve got some wild requests tonight...” Pat Prescott proclaims as she lists of: Zappa, The Cure, Falco (“Jeanny!!!”), Whistle, Ultravox, Shriekback and Phil Collins. Another snapshot of pop music in the '80s from the perspective of the fans, preserved forever in an episode of Night Flight. “Ska is a pre-reggae Jamaican dance rythym first popular in the 60s…” Pat Prescott explains, while introducing this very special Video Vault. Tonight we all dance to a Ska beat when the vault opens to the leaders of Britain’s ska revival of the 80s featuring Special AKA, Madness, Fun Boy 3, The English Beat and more.
Night Flight - "Take Off" to Video Violence
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Tonight we "Take Off" to Violence in Music Videos in this 1984 original episode of Night Flight; perfect for triggering your local PMRC chapter. “The following program contains controversial material…” Pat Prescott warns before contrasting the "psychological violence" of the Ramones against the "comic book violence" of Iggy Pop in this '80s time capsule that also features music videos from Golden Earring, and a piercing scream from the infernal beyond courtesy of Alcatrazz.
Night Flight - New Sounds (1987)
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Night Flight’s 1987 episode of New Sounds is teeming with deep cuts and lost treasures. Mondo Boffo with Scorpio (!), Prince proteges Wendy and Lisa's excellent tune "Waterfall," Squeeze's Dali-esque video painting and more.
Night Flight - Top Ten Countdown and Rising Stars (1984)
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Thirty-six years ago to the day. Tonight’s Night Flight original mixes chart-toppers and heatseekers to provide a complete snapshot of music circa January 20th, 1984. With the top-ten countdown, you get a suite of the year’s trending music videos and tucked inside the Rising Stars section, a peak at bands on the rise like Sons of Heroes, Howard Jones and Wendy and The Rockets.
Beats and Rhymes
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A dance-off at a school.
Gravity
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A spoof of educational films about gravity.
Night Flight - New Sounds (1985)
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“Night Flight goes beyond 'Corporate Rock' for New Sounds!" From the Night Flight archives, here’s an early iteration of our New Sounds format form 1985. Featuring music from the unstoppable Nina Hagen, Washington D.C.'s raw rhythm based Go-Go Movement leaders Mass Extension, post-punk and synthesized pop by Germany's Propaganda, and supergroup Shriekback's high concept music video for their single "Nemesis."
Why I Got Into TV & Other Stories
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A series of vignettes told by a woman relating to her television obsession.
Night Flight - 1993 Syndication (Elton John and Rod Stewart)
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This special ‘90s syndication episode feature host Tom Juarez introducing multiple classic Night Flight segments. PAL Tape 8 profiles Elton John and Rod Stewart.
Night Flight - New Sounds (June 1988)
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Night Flight’s June 1988 New Sounds provides the pulse of new music from the past, featuring Joni Mitchell and Peter Gabriel, a lost X video for “Devil Doll,” Yugoslavian Avant-pop, and early sample-based techno from Coldcut.
Night Flight - "Take Off" to Guitar Heroes
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Tonight we find out what gives a six string its zing! We look at the origin of some of the most soul-stirring, far out guitar sounds with a special "Take Off" to Guitar Heroes. We salute the creme-de-la-creme of guitar playing with a look at virtuosos like Jeff Beck, Pete Townshend, Jimmy Page and the Firm, Stanley Jordan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King and more on this special trip to Valhalla of Guitar Gods. Tune Up, and Take Off. Then, stay tuned for European import videos from Peter Schilling, Nena, Nina Hagen, the Scorpions, George Kranz, Taco, Telephone, Chagren d'Amor, Yello and Krokus!
Night Flight - "Take Off' to The Beach
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We suggest you Take Off To The Beach with this Night Flight episode from 1986. This segment takes you through a video vignette series covering the land of the surf, sand and sun with videos include Y&T, The Beach Boys, Joe King Carrasco and Beastie Boys. Side B of this episode is a mix of videos loosely held together by the theme: 'Crime.' There's a topnotch selection of videos ranging from Art of Noise, Paul Hardcastle, Golden Earring, Tony Powers and David Bowie's Labyrinth cut "Underground."
Night Flight - 1993 Syndication (Simple Minds and Aretha Franklin)
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This special ‘90s syndication episode feature host Tom Juarez introducing multiple classic Night Flight segments. PAL Tape 7 profiles Simple Minds and Aretha Franklin.
Night Flight - Short Cuts: "The Time"
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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.
Night Flight - "Take Off" to Food
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What’s on the menu for tonight? Fish Heads! Our 1988 “Take Off” episode of Night Flight is a special salute to… Food? “Whether you slice it or dice it, chew it or spew it” Pat Prescott proclaims, “you can’t live without it!” Kicking off with Weird Al Yankovich’s “Eat It,” and including tunes from The Fat Boys, Tom Petty, Barnes and Barnes and a myriad of food-related, public domain interstitials, this episode is a pure cup of instant weird. Including the the notorious 'pot brownie' recipe from 'The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook!
Night Flight - Comedy Cuts (Colin Quinn and Sci-fi Monsters)
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This episode kicks off with a Colin Quinn bit (Night Flight exclusive), a Louis Armstrong/Kung Fu-mashup, Rudy Vallée’s “The Musical Doctor” (with a guest appearance from Chaka Khan?!), a Fellini parody by Renée Taylor and Night Flight original video essay “Sci-fi Monsters.” Stick around for Mouseferatu!
Night Flight - "Take Off" to Street Music IV
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1985's "Take Off" to street music featuring Chaka Khan, Grand Master Flash, Run DMC and more...
Night Flight - Dr. Demento's Comedy Classics
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“Wind up your Television, Dementites and Dementoids, it’s time for Dr. Dementos’ Comedy Classics on Night Flight!” On this original 1985 episode, you’ll be seeing and hearing some favorites from the Dr. Demento radio show in a promo episode for his upcoming six-record Rhino Record’s release ““The Greatest Novelty Records of All Time.” Featuring selects like Demento discoveree Weird Al Yankovic, Barnes and Barnes “Fish Heads,” and more.
The Bathtub
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An eccentric, introverted man (Bob Bert of Sonic Youth) goes on an adventure in his bathtub. As he explores a warped and lopsided world, he chooses to ignore his surroundings in favor of his favorite comic book. Others around him react to his presence with lust, jealousy, desperation and violence while he remains blissfully naive. Winner of the 2020 LA Punk Film Festival's "Best Animated Film" award.
Kin-dza-dza!
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Night Flight invites you into the the existential weirdness of the wonderfully loopy Soviet-era sci-fi comedy KIN-DZA-DZA, recently restored by Mosfilm for its first-ever U.S. release by Deaf Crocodile. Two average Muscovites are teleported across the universe to the planet Pluke, a Tatooine-like desert world whose inhabitants are hilariously noncommunicative and where common wooden matches are tremendously valuable. A deadpan, absurdist mixture of Kurt Vonnegut, Monty Python, Samuel Beckett and Jodorowsky's never-made Dune where alien cultures are even more haphazard and WTF? than our own, the film is also a savage satire of bureaucratic idiocy and dysfunction no matter what political system you're living under - or what planet you're living on.

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