NFTV: Original NF and TOTC

Turn of the Century: Pilot

Dame Darcy Isabelle Bajo, Risque’ Reverie, Gluttony, The Elaborate Empire of Ache, Midnight Mirage w/Dame Darcy, Dutchess and the Doppleganger, The Sirens and The Sailor, The Foundling, Dame Darcy, Doll Craftin’ with Courtney Love -short version, Dame Darcy Banjo + Saw.

Turn of the Century: Episode 01

Dame Darcy + Isabelle Doll Banjo Intro, Dame Darcy sings, The Walrus and the Carpenter, I Dream of Jeannie, Dame Darcy Plays, Contorted Poetry, Decombreit, Dutch Dancers, Dutchess and Doppleganger, Stockton

Turn of the Century: Episode 02

Dame Darcy Intro, June Flowers, Sacrum Torch, Long Tall Salty, Golden Shoes, Dame Darcy, Prof. Dustcoughs Night At Saint Barts, Banjo Fun, PussBucket, Various and Sundry Songs for your Amusement, Dame Darcy - Storms on the Ocean, Morven’s House, Dutch Dancers.

Turn of the Century: Episode 03 - Cakewalk Part 1

“Dem Bones” Dance, Cake Contest, “Lady Godiva” Greta, Witchcraft through the ages.

Turn of the Century: Episode 04 - Cakewalk Part 2

June Jones Intro, Wolf and the Kids, June Jones Again, Cake Walk Bday Party, Professor Bonehead is Shipwrecked, Planet Filly Satnin Daddy, My Little Chickadee, Top Dancing Astronaut on the Moon.

Turn of the Century: Episode 05 - Birthday Panties

Halloween is Fun Shadow, Guy Maddin The Redon Film, Wrestling Part II, The Devils, B-Day Panties, Cabaret On Fire (Silent) Giant woman in Corset Show Girl to Burlesque, B-Day Cake, Midnight Mirage.

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Metal

Metal? Mostly. “You asked for a Metal night in your letters, so now you’re going to get it,” Tom Juarez announces before an episode that is mostly Metal. Metallica, Megadeth, and White Zombie represent the evolving sound of the early '90s, but Butthole Surfer’s Who Was in My Room Last Night? steals the show. You’d be hard pressed to call the Surfers Metal, so we’ll ...Read More

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Metal 2

“Heavy Metal is a musical reaction against the mellow love generation of the 1960s,” Pat Prescott tells us. Tonight’s 1984 Night Flight Original takes us away from this world for a history lesson in Metal with classics from Black Sabbath and Judas Priest and '80s arrivals in Heavy Metal of different varieties: German, (Accept, Scorpion), Woman-Fronted (Rock Goddess,...Read More

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Sub Pop 5

“Take Off” to Seattle-based independent label Sub Pop featuring music videos from Shabazz Palaces, Sunny Day Real Estate, Weyes Blood and TV Priest.

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Sub Pop 4

“Take Off” to Seattle-based independent label Sub Pop featuring music videos from Father John Misty, Tad, The Jesus and Mary Chain and more.

Night Flight - "Take Off" to The Doors

The Doors Are Open is a 1968 black-and-white documentary first aired in the United Kingdom on 4 October 1968 and shown regularly on Night Flight. Combing footage of the Doors playing live at London's Roundhouse venue, interviews with the band members and contemporary news snippets of world current affairs. Watch Night Flight's original broadcast tonight!

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Toyah

Tonight’s original episode comes from 1983, i.e. the early days of discovery on NF that often featured uncut performance footage. Here, we see Toyah’s 1981 show at London’s Rainbow Theatre with the irrepressible performer at the top of her game. Listen up for excellent tunes like "War Boys," "Neon Womb" and more. 

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Woodstock

For three magical days in 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was a "Rock 'n' Roll City" half a million strong. Get ready for one of the headiest retro-television experiences of your life as Night Flight flashes back to Woodstock, with live documentation, concert footage and music from the iconic festival's key sets. 

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Women in Rock II

Kicking off with a rock and soul temptress Tina Turner, host Pat Prescott presents an eclectic selection of female trailblazers and provocateurs including Wendy O. Williams, Patty Smyth's Scandal, Sheena Easton, Sheila E. and more tonight. "Take Off" to Women In Rock explores the pop-rock voices that left us with some of the best music of the 1980s in their wake. Strut!

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Ireland

Night Flight looks at the roots of Irish rock 'n' roll tonight in this original “Take Off” special from the mid-1980s. With Bodhrán, Fiddles, Uilleann pipes and Irish Harps in hand, we kick off with the Chieftans' "Irish Anthem" before looking at the Ireland’s strong music tradition. Dating back to Celtic culture, when poets were elevated to the status of aristocrat...Read More

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Heavy Metal Comedy

"Boy isn't heavy metal a lot of fun!" says Mr. Bill at the start of Night FLight's special "Take Off" to Heavy Metal Comedy, (before an untimely death by anvil.) And Mr. Bill is right: Heavy Metal is a reliably comedic genre, intentional or not. This episode kicks off with Alcatrazz's "God Blessed," a satire of MTV that doomed its chances of airplay on that channel,...Read More

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Hardcore

1988's "Take Off" to Hardcore (and more!)  You gotta hand it to the original Night Flight writers. Every weekend for over seven years, the team put together 8 hours of cutting-edge television—mixing a complex blend of avant-garde, undiscovered and obscure visual/audio art. The amount of work this took on a weekly basis back in the 1980s is staggering.   Tonight’s...Read More

Turn of the Century: Episode 06 - Cabaret Review

Clips of DD in Tub, Red Vixen + Blue Angle, Burlesque Shows

Turn of the Century: Episode 07 - Chock Full O' Mits

Darcy w/ Antoharp Princess Singing Harmony, The Anatomy Lesson, Luminosities, Such Ruins, Sense of Sadness, More Antoharp Princess and Darcy, Films

Turn of the Century: Episode 08 - Apple Girls

“Sleep Walker” Angst onde Ghunde, Apple Girls, June Flowers, Singing Saw Dame Darcy, Fantom of the Opera, Tiny Tim & Tiny Town, Hunch Back of Notre Dame, Banjo Playing.

Turn of the Century: Episode 09 - Choo Choo Train Show

Choo-Choo Intro, Weimar, ChooChoo Song, Cartoon, Banjo Pete Song, Montag: Train Tour, Karen Black ‘Kembra Pfahler’ - Weird Victorian Video , France Branch Dance, Great Illusion Magic Show, Scalding Hot Tea Dance

Turn of the Century: Episode 10 Absenthe Show

DD turning around w/ Chandiler, Banjo Pete Intro, Toss Pot Twins, DD w/Chandiler Again, Absenta, The Amazing Oswald, DD w/ Chandiler Again, Trifles overhead projector, Tobacco Ken, The dog and his various merits, DD w/ Chandiler

Gumby - Crazy Creatures

A tour de force of Gumby's craziest guest creatures in this special Night Flight compilation episode featuring The Glob, The Zoops, Moon Boggles and more... As to be expected, things get a lil crazy.

Gumby - Laboratory Laffs

This special Night Flight compilation looks back at Gumby and Pokey's best experiments and adventures from the lab. Sub-atomic Inventions, pianos on the moon, microscopic civilizations and more... Laff it up.

Gumby - Of Kings and Things

Gumby, the loyal. Gumby's many adventures involving the great King Ott are explored in this special Night Flight compilation. See Gumby rescue the princess in "Sad King Ott's Daughter", joust on his behalf in "The King's Daughter," and teach the great gift of rain for the King's great kingdom.

Gumby - Pilgums and Patriots

Gumby, the American hero. In this special Night Flight compilation Gumby meets an english separatist in "Pilgrims on The Rocks," warns Paul Revere about the redcoats in "Son Of Liberty," and helps General Washington "Cross The Delaware."

Bubblegum Crisis Ep. 1 (Tinsel City Rhapsody)

The Japanese Cyberpunk Classic! It is the year 2032 A.D. Like a Phoenix, the city of MegaTokyo is rising from the ashes of a devastating earthquake. In the twisted canyons of the megalopolis, the Knight Sabers, a small band of high tech mercenaries, fight a lonely battle against the evil GENOM Corporation and its sinister androids, the Boomers. Venture into an all t...Read More

Bubblegum Crisis Ep. 2 (Born to Kill)

The Japanese Cyberpunk Classic! It is the year 2032 A.D. Like a Phoenix, the city of MegaTokyo is rising from the ashes of a devastating earthquake. In the twisted canyons of the megalopolis, the Knight Sabers, a small band of high tech mercenaries, fight a lonely battle against the evil GENOM Corporation and its sinister androids, the Boomers. Venture into an all t...Read More

Bubblegum Crisis Ep. 2 (Born to Kill)

The Japanese Cyberpunk Classic! It is the year 2032 A.D. Like a Phoenix, the city of MegaTokyo is rising from the ashes of a devastating earthquake. In the twisted canyons of the megalopolis, the Knight Sabers, a small band of high tech mercenaries, fight a lonely battle against the evil GENOM Corporation and its sinister androids, the Boomers. Venture into an all t...Read More

Bubblegum Crisis Ep. 4 (Revenge Road)

The Japanese Cyberpunk Classic! It is the year 2032 A.D. Like a Phoenix, the city of MegaTokyo is rising from the ashes of a devastating earthquake. In the twisted canyons of the megalopolis, the Knight Sabers, a small band of high tech mercenaries, fight a lonely battle against the evil GENOM Corporation and its sinister androids, the Boomers. Venture into an all t...Read More

Night Flight - John Carpenter Original Video Profile

Night Flight's video profile of John Carpenter arrives! The master of horror sits down with Night Flight for this special 1988 director profile and talks his influences, the role of music in his filmmaking and much more. Featuring clips from his films to help tell the story of the auteur's unique vision, this special episode is peak Night Flight and not to be missed!

Night Flight - Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis Video Profile

Tonight’s Video Profile looks at Minneapolis writers, performers, and legendary super producers: Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Bassist Terry Lewis met Keyboard player Jimmy Harris when they were handpicked by Prince for one of Minneapolis's great spinoff bands: The Time. "C...O...O...L"! Night Flight takes us through a tour of classics the pair wrote and produced from ...Read More

Night Flight - Jessica Pratt Video Profile

After a collection of demos and early studio recordings earned her a dedicated audience, songwriter Jessica Pratt moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles and recorded her first intentional album in her bedroom. That album, On Your Own Love Again (released by Night Flight indie label partner Drag City in 2015), would bring her around the world many times, leading man...Read More

Night Flight - Koko Taylor Video Profile

"You can have my husband, but please don't mess with my man!" In tonight's Night Flight original episode from 1983, we treated to a vivid (and mostly unseen) performance from Chicago Blues legend Koko Taylor. Raucous and raw, the Memphis-born Taylor and her band take the audience through a medley of blue standards and hits, including the 1964 energizing anthem: "Wan...Read More

Night Flight - King Khan Video Profile

King Khan and his 8-piece band The Shrines have toured the world spreading their hypersexual gospel through sensational psychedelic soul with a garage rock approach. Also one half of the group King Khan & BBQ Show with Mark Sultan, Khan is a Canadian musician who has spent the last 25 years as a troublemaker musician with notorious stage antics. Night Flight explore...Read More

Night Flight - OMNI Video Profile

Atlanta, Georgia post-punk trio Omni. Featuring 2019's "Skeleton Key" and more.

Night Flight - Night Ranger Video Profile

"Motorin!" Night Flight, in its third season in '83, sat down with the Sacramento-based Arena Rock outfit Night Ranger, known for the power ballad "Sister Christian," who were promoting promoting their album Dawn Patrol. There's also a tour promo for Joni Mitchell, presented by Mattel, to kick things off.

Night Flight - Riki Video Profile

Dark-synth pop act Riki from Dais Records.

Night Flight - Red Axes Video Profile

Red Axes are the Tel Aviv-based electronic duo of Dori Sadovnik and Niv Arzi whose sound is heavily influenced by the music of post-punk and new wave bands from the 80s.

Night Flight - Purple Mountains Video Profile

Purple Mountains, the last project of late Silver Jews singer David Berman, released after a decade of absence from the music industry and a month prior to his tragic passing, was a clever, occasionally somber tribute to the country-rock traditions that had guided much of Berman’s career.

Night Flight - Purling Hiss Video Profile

Initially getting its start as a noisy and abrasive solo project in the basement of Philadelphia guitarist Mike Polizze, before expanding into a power trio, Purling Hiss made their name in the sceen playing alongside acts like the War on Drugs.

Night Flight - Public Image Ltd Video Profile

“In 1977, the Sex Pistol’s Johnny Rotten was the most famous man in Rock 'n' Roll…” Pat Prescott tells us, “then he went to work on Public Image Ltd… a group that called everything to question.” A cadre of PiL’s music videos and candid interview segments with Lydon are the backbone of this epic episode. Let John's disdain for music industry and all it’s hypocrisy,...Read More

Night Flight - Sign Libra Video Profile

Latvian composer and artist Sign Libra's Sea of Islands and Sea Of Nectar.

Night Flight - Shannon Lay Video Profile

Folk artist signed to Sub Pop records. Featuring 2019's "Nowhere" and more.

Night Flight - Suzanne Doucet Video Profile

Suzanne Doucet got her start as a successful pop-star in Germany before moving to the US and embarking on her new-age career, releasing over 40 records in the states.

Night Flight - TAD Video Profile

Sub Pop band from the grunge era. Featuring "Stumblin' Man," and more

Night Flight - TR/ST Video Profile

Founded in 2010 by Robert Alfons and Maya Postepski, the group uses ethereal synth pop tones mixed over surging industrial beats. With the release of their first album TRST in 2012, the duo went their separate ways and Alfons continued to record and tour under the name. As a solo project Alfons began incorporating more elements of acid house and techno into his next...Read More

Night Flight - Billy Idol Video Profile (1985)

Night Flight profiles rock’s 'rude boy' Billy Idol in this classic segment from 1985. “I don’t want to see the no flabby, boring old Billy Idol trying to be what he was when he was 21… I’m young, I need to move about.” he tells Night Flight in an excellent, candid interview, in which he talks about the role of New York City on his art, how he views his critics, and...Read More

Night Flight - Meg Baird Video Profile

Folk artist Meg Baird comes from a long family tradition of Appalachian folk roots, her great-great uncle was folk-singer and regional historian Isaac Garfield Greer. Her solo work features soft, airy vocals that float above otherworldly folk arrangements and her band Espers draws upon the baroque pop/chamber folk sound of the late 1960s, creating an intoxicating ps...Read More

Night Flight - Zola Jesus Video Profile

Zola Jesus is the decade-long solo project of Nika Roza Danilova, featuring dark, haunting lyrics and mesmerizing and ever changing electronic production. Danilova’s earliest output was characterized by noisy, lofi percussion and synths paired with her airy, ascendant vocal. She would quickly begin moving away from this sound, instead opting to create her own interp...Read More

Night Flight - Cave Video Profile

Chicago-based psychedelic Krautrock group Cave began seriously recording music together in 2008. Cave is known for their hypnotic and droning instrumentals which have invited comparisons to bands like Can and Funkadelic.

Night Flight - Clipping Video Profile

Sub-Pop signed horror-core act clipping. Featuring music from 2019's concept album "There Existed an Addiction to Blood" and more.

Turn of the Century: Episode 11 - Auto Hypnomania

Red Gingham Intro, Pygmies on Film, “Auto-Hypnomania” Film - Next Attraction, Fox on Wall - Singing Saw, Hamlet - Ghost Scene, “Spanks for the Memories”, Gingham Dress Ending.

Turn of the Century: Episode 12 - County Fair

Banjo Grass Intro, Animated Musical Number, Banjo/Grass/Dance, County Fair, Banjo Dance, Theatre Scene, Jumping-Jesters / Fair, Panties Dance, Glamorous Quilted, Rolling on Grass.

Turn of the Century: Episode 13 - Dame Darcy Sings in French

Intro w/Fancy French Costume, Old Vaudeville Clip, Dancing w/Parisols, Blessed Elisium Propaganda film, Poetry w/ Dame Darcy + Karen and other Girl, Dreams of a fiend, Dame Darcy Signs in French, Set of Meatcake the Movie, Edison Kinscope Films the Kiss

Turn of the Century: Episode 14 - Crazy in the Park with Dame

“Whatanice day”, DD in Park Hits Ross in the Face, Phantom Carrage, DD in Park, That Fatal Sneeze, DD in park Laughing and Skipping, Madcap Matador, How it Feels to be Run Over.

Turn of the Century: Episode 15 - Dance of Death

Maury Povich Intro, The Dance of Death, Caught in a Cabaret,David’s Bow-Tie Lesson, Wrestling Finale, Job (Movie), Dame Darcy + Countessa say Hail Mary’s

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Glam

On tonight’s episode of “20 Years of Rock ’n’ Roll Style” Night Flight covers Glam Rock. “Twilight fell on the grassroots hippie sixties, and it was time to put the glitz and glamor back into rock,” Pat Prescott tells us before introducing T. Rex. From there we travel through Freddie Mercury solo cuts, D.A. Pennebaker’s live video for Bowie’s “White Light, White Hea...Read More

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Freedom

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.

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Hardcore

1988's "Take Off" to Hardcore (and more!)  You gotta hand it to the original Night Flight writers. Every weekend for over seven years, the team put together 8 hours of cutting-edge television—mixing a complex blend of avant-garde, undiscovered and obscure visual/audio art. The amount of work this took on a weekly basis back in the 1980s is staggering.   Tonight’s...Read More

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Rock Around America

Welcome to Night Flight’s “Take Off” to Rock Around America, with songs and videos that celebrate American life, it’s people, the land, and its musical history. Born out of a revolt against society, and nurtured by a rebellious of the ‘60s, Rock has often carried the banner of Revolution. Featuring Matthew Wilder’s “The Kid’s American,” Randy Newman, Frank Sinatra’s...Read More

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Rock Docs

In tonight’s original episode of Night Flight (Air Date 4/19/85) we Take Off to Rock Documentaries. Hop on board for a journey through some of the most famous Rock Films in history starting with the 1964 T.A.M.I. Show up through the Talking Head's Jonathan Demme-directed classic "Stop Making Sense." In between we'll cover Rock Docs like Neil Young's Rust Never Sleep...Read More

Night Flight - "Take Off" to New Metal and Def Leppard Video Profile

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 - "Take Off" to Party Time

When you think of party time in the '80s... what comes to mind? It's totally understandable if a dark void exists for those of you who really found the time party. If the faint lingering echo of Gap Band's "Party Train," or Madness' "Our House" is ringing in your ears, then welcome - please step inside our time capsule to Night Flight's "Take Off To Party Time" from...Read More

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Dance 2

It's 1984. A Friday night. Maybe you're flipping through the channels thinking about how to crush it at the upcoming High School formal and BAM, you stumble upon Night Flight's special "Take Off to Dance," a special segment exploring dance in pop and rock through the ages. Featuring Electric Light Orchestra, Kool and the Gang and more, this episode is just what you needed. 

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Don Giovanni 2

Don Giovanni is an independent record label from New Brunswick, New Jersey whose catalog includes Paisley Fields, Screaming Females, and Weakened Friends.

Night Flight - "Take Off" to BBQs and Bikinis

Another classic cut of summer themed Night Flight programming featuring The Cars, The Untouchables, Jimmy Cliff, and Pat Prescott trivia time: "What happens when the original surf rockers trade places with 900 pounds of rap?" The Fat Boys' Wipeout!

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Women In Rock

Night Flight salutes the Women of Rock in this original episode from June, 1988. "Today," Pat Prescott tells us, "women's voices are more powerful than ever in new music, neo-folk and down & dirty Rock n Roll." Featuring Sinéad O'Connor with MC Lyte, Joan Jett, Lita Ford, and Annie Lennox.

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Women in Rock II

Kicking off with a rock and soul temptress Tina Turner, host Pat Prescott presents an eclectic selection of female trailblazers and provocateurs including Wendy O. Williams, Patty Smyth's Scandal, Sheena Easton, Sheila E. and more tonight. "Take Off" to Women In Rock explores the pop-rock voices that left us with some of the best music of the 1980s in their wake. Strut!

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Women In Rock III

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.

Turn of the Century: Episode 16 - Doll Trolly Ahoy

Dolls Hosting Intro, “The Golden Beetle” Film, Dolls Riding, Trolly Ahoy!, Dolls Sing Song, “Where is Isabelle?” Russian navy Silent Film, Victorian Lady Stares at Flower, Aladdin Film.

Turn of the Century: Episode 17 - Fairey Tale

The Sirens and the Sailors, Transatlantic, The jalerwalkie Poem, Beauty and the Beast, Fairyland by Betty Muffin,Trailer for Art School movie, Frogland, Starwitch

Turn of the Century: Episode 18 - Ferrum 5000

Intro with DD in Parlor, The Pumpkin Race, Ferrum 500 -(Karen Black) ‘Kembra Pfahler, The Ghost Ship.

Turn of the Century: Episode 19 - Grail Time Out

Banjo Time w/ Dame Darcy, In Search of Isabelle Doll, Dutchess and Doppelgänger, Welches Creek - Film, Drawing Meat Cake Comics published by Fantagraphics, Midnight Mirage Featuring Dame Darcy

Turn of the Century: Episode 20 - Hoe Down Tex

Intro w/Tex, Dancing w/Tex, Tobacco Song (Vaudeville), Planet Filly @ The Cooler, Li’l Sweetie (Vaudeville), “Golden Shoes” Cartoon, Viewer Mail w/ Jenny

Bubblegum Crisis Ep. 5 (Moonlight Rambler)

The Japanese Cyberpunk Classic! It is the year 2032 A.D. Like a Phoenix, the city of MegaTokyo is rising from the ashes of a devastating earthquake. In the twisted canyons of the megalopolis, the Knight Sabers, a small band of high tech mercenaries, fight a lonely battle against the evil GENOM Corporation and its sinister androids, the Boomers. Venture into an all t...Read More

Bubblegum Crisis Ep. 6 (Red Eyes)

The Japanese Cyberpunk Classic! It is the year 2032 A.D. Like a Phoenix, the city of MegaTokyo is rising from the ashes of a devastating earthquake. In the twisted canyons of the megalopolis, the Knight Sabers, a small band of high tech mercenaries, fight a lonely battle against the evil GENOM Corporation and its sinister androids, the Boomers. Venture into an all t...Read More

Bubblegum Crisis Ep. 7 (Double Vision)

The Japanese Cyberpunk Classic! It is the year 2032 A.D. Like a Phoenix, the city of MegaTokyo is rising from the ashes of a devastating earthquake. In the twisted canyons of the megalopolis, the Knight Sabers, a small band of high tech mercenaries, fight a lonely battle against the evil GENOM Corporation and its sinister androids, the Boomers. Venture into an all t...Read More

Bubblegum Crisis Ep. 7 (Double Vision)

The Japanese Cyberpunk Classic! It is the year 2032 A.D. Like a Phoenix, the city of MegaTokyo is rising from the ashes of a devastating earthquake. In the twisted canyons of the megalopolis, the Knight Sabers, a small band of high tech mercenaries, fight a lonely battle against the evil GENOM Corporation and its sinister androids, the Boomers. Venture into an all t...Read More

Gumby - Prickles and Predicaments

This special Night Flight compilation follows Gumby's adventure with his yellow dinosaur friend, Prickle. Prickle's brushes with fame ("Prickle's Problem"), misguided birthday excitement ("Turnip Trap"), and good fortune as a fine artist ("Mystic Magic") are all covered in this special edit, with much more.

Gumby - Puppy Dog Tales

This special Night Flight compilation honor's a clayboy's very best friend. Nope, we're not talking about Pokey in this case, but... Nopey, the beloved canine companion from the Original Gumby Series.

Gumby - Way Out West

No one can escape the allure of the Great American West. In this special Night Flight compilation we cover Gumby's stint as a Sherrif-cum-reformer for "Ricochet Pete," Pokey's success as a great Rodeo Horse in "The Rodeo King," and a Hopi village rescue operation in "Rain Spirits."

Night Flight - Comedy Cuts (Colin Quinn and Sci-fi Monsters)

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 - Comedy Cuts 3

Featuring Chris Rock, Lorne Elliott, Rosie O'Donnell and more...

Night Flight - Comedy Cuts 4

Rapid-fire stand-up from unsung comics like Steve O, Adrienne Tolsch, Stevie Ray Fromstein, Frankie Pace and future Conan O'Brien talk show producer Mike Sweeney, taped on-location at the world famous Comic Strip in NYC.

Night Flight - Comedy Cuts 5 and Sci-fi Blockbusters

Another episode of Night Flight's Friday Evening Comedy Cuts, with an added bonus of summer blockbuster previews of the Science Fiction variety. Watch Pat Prescott discuss the hot films of the time including Aliens, Maximum Overdrive and more...

Night Flight - Comedy Cuts 6 and New Sounds

"Welcome to Comedy Cuts, the most original comedy show on TV today starring Nancy Parker, Dennis Blair, Adrianne Tolsch, Night Flight brings you new sounds with Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Human League, Level 42, Art of Noise and so much more.

Turn of the Century: Episode 21 - Ice Cream Man

Intro on Church Steps, “Wig Rodeo”- Marcel Dujour, “Ice Cream man” Graveyard Peephole, “Slapstick Cinema” Weird Japanese Cartoon, “Red Apple Juice”.

Turn of the Century: Episode 21 - Ice Cream Man

Intro on Church Steps, “Wig Rodeo”- Marcel Dujour, “Ice Cream man” Graveyard Peephole, “Slapstick Cinema” Weird Japanese Cartoon, “Red Apple Juice”.

Turn of the Century: Episode 23 - Random Show

Dame Darcy Sings w/Saw, Dame Darcy plays w/Banjo Pete at Under Acme What’ll I Do?, DD w/ Saw Again, To A Random - Film, DD w/ Saw, The Cheerful Cricket, DD at Under Acme Banjo, Les Esargos Rene Laroux, DD w/ Sing Saw.

Turn of the Century: Episode 24 - Naked Lady Snails

Haunt Lisa McElroy, Darcy Draws Cartoon, Dizzy Dishes Cartoon, Planet Filly Live Interview, Lady Snails attack Cartoon, June Flowers, Filly Dance/Fence me In, Dutch Dancers

Turn of the Century: Episode 25 - Rob 'n' Po

Rest in Peace -Film Starring Dame Darcy + Rachael Amodeo

Night Flight Slumber Party 101 - Fred Armisen & ADULT.

Nick & KJ discuss first concerts, Ian Rubbish, embarrassing moments & more w/ FRED ARMISEN. Later, "Slumber Party Experts," SUSAN & DENISE teach us how to find Narnia whilst playing "7 Minutes in Heaven." Then we check in w/ Detroit band ADULT. "Official" about creepy grammaws, tour diarrhea, and are later joined by a Surprise Guest! NOT TO BE MISSED! We'll also ...Read More

Night Flight Slumber Party 102 - The Accidental Goth Episode ft. Rachel True

Actress/Author RACHEL TRUE joins the Slumber Party for our quasi-"goth" themed episode! Here we discuss her films THE CRAFT, and Gregg Araki's NOWHERE; her semi-autobiographical Tarot guide, 'True Heart Intuitive Tarot,' touch on the dangers of mail-order speed, exacting violent revenge, Ouija hijinx, + afterward pranking her 'The Craft' co-star, Fairuza Balk. Al...Read More

Night Flight Slumber Party 103 - Nerds, Punks & Sassy Brats ft. John Ross Bowie

Hosts Nick Prueher (co-founder of Found Footage Festival) & KJ (Night Flight) dare actor John Ross Bowie to prank-text random celebs in his farcical (yet humiliating) search for anal wart advice, after first discussing the evolution of nerds in pop culture. Later, he tells us about his own new character actor podcast, "HOUSEHOLD FACES w/ John Ross Bowie". Also in...Read More

Night Flight Slumber Party 104 - The Corrupted Childhood Episode

In the 4th installment of the Night Flight Slumber Party, Nick & KJ are joined by Nickelodeon's 'The Adventures of Pete & Pete' stars, MICHAEL C. MARONNA & DANNY TAMBERELLI, as well as Special Guest puppeteer/rap video director, ROY MILES (aka The Ghetto Geppetto), complete w/ surprise puppet cameos! Stay tuned for a special appearance from our "Slumber Party Exp...Read More

Night Flight Slumber Party 105 - Tricks, Pranks, and F*ckin' Don Knotts, Man

Ft. DANA GOULD & ROB ZABRECKY. Welcome to the 5th installment of the Night Flight Slumber Party! Joining hosts Nick & KJ tonight are comedian DANA GOULD (The Simpsons, Stan Against Evil, Hangin' With Dr. Z, Seinfeld) along with actor/musician/author and Magic Castle magician, ROB ZABRECKY (Otherside with Zabrecky). In this episode, Dana tells us about some of his f...Read More

TV Party: Color Show

TV Party's final season was broadcast live in color on Channel J, a public access "commercial station." TV Party tried to pay the extra expense of going to color by selling ads to downtown clubs and underground record companies. "Everything here is for sale," Glenn announces. Desperation is in the air. Glenn is missing a tooth and needs a haircut. The party is spunk...Read More

TV Party: Crusades Show

February 17, 1981. Reagan was the new President. Iran had just released its American hostages, and Israel and the PLO had rejected Egypt's peace plan. It was a grim moment and TV Party decided to do something about it. The TV Party Orchestra, featuring Chris Stein, Lenny Ferrari on flute, sorcerer Patrick Geoffrois slide guitar and Walter Steding, performed punk medieval music.

TV Party: Documentary

In 1978, two revolutionary trends emerged in New York City, public access cable TV and punk rock. These two phenomena came together spectacularly in Glenn O'Brien's TV Party. Hipsters tuned in to follow the antics of the TV Party gang and such guests as Iggy Pop, David Bowie, P-Funk's George Clinton, The Clash's Mick Jones, Kid Creole, Klaus Nomi were featured; also...Read More

TV Party: Halloween Show

Halloween '79 - Glenn is dressed in a casual Dolly Parton lesbian look. With Chris Stein, Debbie Harry,Richard Sohl, Fab Five Freddy & more. This is TV Party at is most dense and abstract, filled with cross-talk, double entendre and obscure information.

TV Party: Makeup & Time Show

This episode plays with ideas of time and space, ("time is money" and "dead air") alternating between aggressive boredom and quick wit. The TV Party Orchestra (Walter Steding on violin, Lenny Ferrari on the New Yorker magazine, and Tim Wright on guitar) jams while host O'Brien performs the sublime feat of rolling a joint blindfolded while smoking a joint.

TV Party: The Sublimely Intolerable Show

The first 10% of this show sums up what we don't get on TV anymore. Technical difficulties. TV Party was live and improvised, and this meant casual disaster. This early episode gets off to an artistically agonizing start--the sound person is late, overdosing on drugs or both. Or it was the broken down equipment. Once the sound kicks in the show gets lively. Compton ...Read More

Night Flight - Flash Tracks (1987)

In this excellent Flash Tracks episode from June, 1987 Night Flight covers Women in Rock including Siouxsie and the Banshees, Yazoo's Alison Moyet and Suzanne Vega. Born Susan Janet Ballion in a London suburb, Siouxsie Sioux cut her musical teeth on rock legends the Sex Pistols and David Bowie. Siouxsie Sioux brought unrestrained fashion and rock together, (what ...Read More

Night Flight - Flash Tracks (2/26/88)

Your original Night Flight programming returns with a 1988 episode of Flash Tracks. Tonight we have neo-60s psychedelia Australian style with Hoodoo Gurus, gritty english rock Flesh for Lulu, and from Bradford, England it's "Sanctuary” for your soul with The Cult! And for a timely bonus, stay tuned at the end of this episode for Australia's roaming reporter Norma...Read More

Night Flight - Flash Tracks Episode 11

Eclectic music video magic from Amazulu, The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite & Thrashing Doves

Night Flight - New Sounds (12/10/88) and Video Flash Tracks

Side A: Welcome to New Sounds highlighting the burgeoning acts and micro-genres of the late 80s with Belgian synth act Front 242 (with a video from iconic photographer Anton Corbijn), Australian punk act Lime Spiders, Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians massive hit “What I Am,” and some fantastic Joy Division inspired coldwave from Siglo XX. Side B: Time for some...Read More

Night Flight - Video Flash Tracks

It's time for more video flash tracks. Presenting video portraits of The Style Council, Fields of The Nephilim and Aztec Camera. First, we point the viewfinder at Glasgow act Aztec Camera's folk fusion of jazz chords and bossanova rhythms. Then it's on to our next act: Rising like ghosts from a swamp, the London band Fields of the Nephilim combine the dusty, lawless...Read More

Night Flight - Video Flash Tracks: Thomas Dolby and Metal In Your Face

Night Flight profiles sonic wizard Thomas Dolby in this special episode of Video Flash Tracks. Cut with some of Dolby's best tracks, Pat Prescott brings us up to speed with Thomas Dolby's history in pop and status as one of its best collaborators with the inclusion of his 1988 George Clinton collaboration "Hot Sauce." This episode also features extra coverage on Whi...Read More

Turn of the Century: Episode 26 - Sand Man Episode

Intro w/ Moon Elaborate, Empire of Ache Set, Sandman, Empire of Ache Behind The Scenes Talking Steak, Sunset, Testament Telekinesis, The Amazing Ozwald, Prima Parasite, Spanks for the Memories. -Edited At Sunbow.

Turn of the Century: Episode 27 - Snacks and Crafts

Doll Craftin’ with Courtney Love, Victorian Show, More Doll Crafting, Spankings and Cookies

Turn of the Century: Episode 28 - Suckdog

Dame Darcy Intro, Suckdog Live in Louisville Kentucky Featuring: Lisa Suckdog, Dame Darcy, Suckdog Behind the Scenes footage.

Turn of the Century: Episode 29 - Super Best Of Show

Ladies, Maury spot, The Toss Pot Twins, Dame Darcy Montage, Long Tall Salty, Honey Time.

Turn of the Century: Episode 30 - Thanksgiving Special

Snacks & Crafts, Victorian Ladies Fighting, Suckdog II (Dancing), Top Dance, Kens Turkey Movie, More Fighting, Cartoon, Suckdog French Toast, More Fighting, Red Apple Juice, Suckdog -Finale, Planet Filly, Welk Organ, This Old House

Night Flight - New Sounds (1986)

This 1986 episode of New Sounds brings you a survey of Great Britain’s music geographies of the 1980s. The lineup includes Two Minds Crack, who rose from the industrial ashes of South Wales in 1981 to create some of Britain’s freshest techno-pop, video-vèrite innovators Cabaret Voltaire, Gene Loves Jezebel, Joe Strummer’s Sid and Nancy track “Love Kills,” and The Ho...Read More

Night Flight - New Sounds (1987)

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 - New Sounds (August 1988)

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 - New Sounds (June 1988)

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 - New Sounds (June 1988)

"Stay tuned for the latest music... on Night Flight's New Sounds!" Tonight, we head back to June 1988, Floodland-era Sisters of Mercy, Kid n' Play premiere the "Kickstep" Do This My Way, Electronic Body Music from Boston's Manufacture, and quiet storm grooves from Soul artist Terence Trent D'arby's single "Sign Your Name."

Night Flight - New Sounds 4 and Wendy O. Williams Video Profile

Night Flight's 1985 Episode of New Sounds music's latest trends and hottest rising stars. Tonight: Dance music, sounds from the national club scene, with Peter Brown, Feelabelia, Goon Squad, and more. Also in this episode, a hardcore video profile on Metal's leading lady, Wendy O. Williams.

Night Flight - New Sounds XVI

English imports arrive on Night Flight's New Sounds. Videos include Blancmange's Zbigniew Rybczyński directed video for "Lose Your Love," Kate Bush classic "Cloudbusting," Paul Hardcastle and Big Audio Dynamite.

Night Flight - New Sounds and Discoveries (1986)

This original episode features some of the most obscure artists to have ever graced cable television. Acts like The Insex, masked provocateurs a la the Residents or "Wheelchair," a "Wild Thing" parody of the lowest order. In keeping with this month's theme, the episode also features a special look at LA Goth rockers Kommunity FK (pictured above).

Night Flight - New Sounds and New Filmmakers (1988)

Ryuichi Sakamoto's passing in 2023 has left an enormous void in the world of music, film, and beyond. Here at NF HQ, we were comforted by bittersweet arrival of a tape from the archives that includes Sakamoto's Man Ray inspired video for “Risky,” which features the inimitable croon of Iggy Pop. This "New Sounds" episode also highlights songs from ex-Go-Go's band Hou...Read More

Radio 1990 (10/28/83)

Episode 158 - 10/28/83 Welcome to Radio 1990. The Future is here today with Radio 1990. Tonight Lisa Robinson concludes our interview with John Cougar Mellencamp, with his latest video hit ‘Crumbling Down,’ with more on The Moody Blues, Earth Wind and Fire and a look at the 1983 film “The Right Stuff.”

Radio 1990 (12/26/83)

Welcome to Radio 1990, bringing you the latest news from the world of entertainment and today's best music videos. In this episode, Lisa Robinson shares sad news for any The Who fans out there, previews a new Mel Brooks episode and videos from Hall and Oates, Men at Work and 1983's #2 power cut from "The Album Network" countdown.

Radio 1990 (12/30/83)

We get set for the New Year in 1984 as Lisa Robinson previews a video art star studded PBS broadcast, discusses the secrets behind a new The Go-Go's album, and music videos from Prince and John Cougar Mellancamp.

Radio 1990 (2/22/84)

A classic episode of Radio 1990 (from 1984) arrives on Night Flight Plus. Lisa Robinson interviews Mick Jagger, Kathryn Kinley looks at the Hot Sports Illustrated of the Year and music videos (then known as video music) from Elton John, Bob Seger and The Rolling Stones.

Radio 1990 (4-17-84)

Episode 268. An episode of Radio 1990 from 1984 featuring R.E.M, Rockwell and Marvin Gaye.

Turn of the Century: Episode 31 - Taxidermied Mice

Mouse Taxidermy Art Show, “Honey time”, Cartoon, Greta Bilinger Film, Animal Art w/google eyes, Harpo Plays Accordian w/Dracula Organ, “The Great Chase”, TOTC Wide World of Wrestling - Part one, Dutch Dancers (Vaudeville)

Turn of the Century: Episode 32 - The Laughing Fit

DD Laughing Fit, “Prima Parasite”, DD’s Laughing Fit “The Gay Shoe Clerk”, Planet Filly- Vaudeville Show, Vintage DD Movie, Li’l Sweetie, Dutch Dancers, Cat Attacks Sock Puppet.

Turn of the Century: Episode 33 - The Making of the Elaborate Empire of Ache

Elaborate Empire of Ache Movie, Little Lull Cartoon, More Making Of, Making of Rest in Peace, Train Footage, Planet Filly w/ Dancing Ladies, Film

Turn of the Century: Episode 34 - The Christmas Episode

Banjo Pete/ Dame Darcy Sign Along/Saw, Cartoon, Duckie Doolittle/ Sexy Santa, Thurston Moore Intro, Michael Weiner, Moonlighters, Moscow Footage, Puppet Show, Thurston Moore Sing w/ Princess Darcy, Johnny Fox Swallows Balloons, Not Farewell Sweet Flesh

Turn of the Century: Episode 35 - The Rock Show

Rock Rock Chicken Pox, X, Mors Syphilitica, Family Cow, Kitty Winder, Tiny Tim, Deep 6, Planet Filly, Requiem in White

Radio 1990 (7/12/84)

Welcome to Radio 1990, today we present a very special video profile on The Rolling Stones. Featuring Lisa Robinson’s exclusive interview with Bill Wyman. “There has never been another rock and roll band quite like The Rolling Stones,” Host Kathryn Kinley explains, before launching into video roll of some the band’s best. Check it out!

Radio 1990 (7/10/85)

Van Halen video music highlights bookended by entertaining bites from incorrigible singer David Lee Roth's interview with Lisa Robinson. An excellent survey of the band in pure Radio 1990 style.

Radio 1990 (5/9/84)

Episode 284. An original episode of Radio 1990 from 1984 featuring Girlschool, Hotsox Fashion, and Billy Joel (it was his birthday!)

Radio 1990 (5/4/84)

Episode 281. An episode of Radio 1990 from 1984 featuring Duran Duran, Nena, and a Billy Idol interview.

Radio 1990 (5/14/84)

Episode 287. An episode of Radio 1990 from 1984 featuring Duran Duran, Paul Simon, The Pretenders and more.

Radio 1990 (5/11/84)

Episode 286. An episode of Radio 1990 from 1984 featuring Wang Chung, The Alan Parsons Project, and a summer movie preview.

The Vampire Happening

If Russ Meyer had directed an East German version of 'The Fearless Vampire Killers', surely this is it - and so much so that Ferdie Mayne reprises his role here from Roman Polanski’s film. A "Hollywood" actress (Pia Degermark) visiting her Transylvanian ancestral home finds she bears a remarkable resemblance to her bloodsucking grandmother (Pia plays both roles)....Read More

Turn of the Century: Episode 36 - Rumpelstiltskin

Sunbow Intro “Rumpelstiltskin”, Rumpelstiltskin II, Countessa w/ Dame Darcy Singin’ Crazy, Spanish Matador Cartoon, “Don’t Fence Me in” Song with Filly Doll, Countessa & Dame “Bye”

Turn of the Century: Episode 37 - Filly Suckdog and other Pets

Filly Intro “Red Rosey Aple” Song, Filly Dance “Cards with Cards”, More Filly, Suckdog Live- Mermaid more filly, Floodwalker, More Filly, Cat Trick, More filly, Cakeland Cartoon.

Turn of the Century: Episode 38 - Ghost Stories, Mummies, Murder, and Mayhem

Suckdog Montage, The Marquis’ Song, The Mummy - clip, The Dance of Death Mummy, Adieux Dames, Victorian House Montage, Family Cow w/puppets, Lincoln clip, Long Tall Salty, Honey Time, Dutch Dancers, Svengali clip

Turn of the Century: Episode 39 - Misfortunes and Oo LaLa

Church Steps Intro, The Misfortunes of Crappleshire, Banjo Pete, Wings of a Dove, OO LaLa Interview, Puss In Boots Clip, Thanksgiving Movie, Roll Cartoons.

Turn of the Century: Episode 40 - The Careful Show

Dame Darcy on Church Steps, “Wings of a Dove Intro”, Careful by Guy Maddin, Banjo Pete Intro, Toss Pot Twins, Honey time, Dame Darcy at the Edd Sullivan Theatre.

Turn of the Century: Episode 41 - Best Of

Dame Darcy Intros, Long Tall and Salty, Dame Darcy - Amazing Telekinesis, “May I Cut In?” w/Dame Darcy & Friend the Girl, Contorted Poetry, Golden Shoes by Dame Darcy and Henry Jones, Planet Filly, The Elaborate Empire of Ache, Cards with Cards, TOTC Wide World of Wrestling, Dutch Dancers, Dutchess and Doppelgängers, Tiny Tim & Tiny Town, Risque Reverie, The Amazing...Read More

Hype!

Drop into the Pacific Northwest in the early '90s and watch a vibrant underground music scene explode into a global "grunge" media frenzy. Hype! follows the music from local bands playing for their friends, to Sub Pop Record’s brilliant exploitation of "the Seattle Sound," to Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" hitting #1 on the charts. Questions of money, authentic...Read More

Future Quest 101 - Into the Future

Time travel; the future and a science series pilot. Let Jeff Goldblum be your guide to the future. This lost 1994 PBS series is led by experts as they compare the futuristic visions of pop-culturists with the breakthrough advances in science and technology.

Future Quest 103 - Globonet

The information superhighway. Let Jeff Goldblum be your guide to the future. This lost 1994 PBS series is led by experts as they compare the futuristic visions of pop-culturists with the breakthrough advances in science and technology.

Future Quest 102 - Greetings

Space explorations. Let Jeff Goldblum be your guide to the future. This lost 1994 PBS series is led by experts as they compare the futuristic visions of pop-culturists with the breakthrough advances in science and technology.

Future Quest 104 - The Shape of Space

Cosmology; shape of space. Let Jeff Goldblum be your guide to the future. This lost 1994 PBS series is led by experts as they compare the futuristic visions of pop-culturists with the breakthrough advances in science and technology.

Future Quest 105 - Wizards of Wisdom

Education; how to learn. Let Jeff Goldblum be your guide to the future. This lost 1994 PBS series is led by experts as they compare the futuristic visions of pop-culturists with the breakthrough advances in science and technology.

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Sacred Bones 1

“Take Off” to Brooklyn-based independent label Sacred Bones, featuring music videos from Black Marble, Marissa Nadler, Boris, and Spellling.

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Sacred Bones 2

“Take Off” to Brooklyn-based independent label Sacred Bones featuring music videos from John Carpenter, Black Marble, Molchat Doma, and Zola Jesus.

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Sacred Bones 3

“Take Off” to Brooklyn-based independent label Sacred Bones featuring music videos from Moon Duo, John Carpenter, Alan Vega, and Amen Dunes.

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Sacred Bones 4

“Take Off” to Brooklyn-based independent label Sacred Bones featuring music videos from Caleb Landry Jones, John Carpenter, Anika, and DJ Muggs the Black Goat.

Night Flight - "Take Off" to RVNG Intl. 1

“Take Off” to Brooklyn-based independent label RVNG Intl. featuring music videos from Holly Herndon, Greg Fox, Helado Negro, and Kate NV.

Night Flight - "Take Off" to RVNG Intl. 2

“Take Off” to Brooklyn-based independent label RVNG Intl. featuring music videos from Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Sign Lbira, Kate NV, and Ka Baird.

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Politics (1988)

Night Flight's special feature on Politics, featuring videos by Talking Heads, Tracy Chapman, Sting, Billy Bragg, Midnight Oil, Living Color, and many more!

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Party Time

When you think of party time in the '80s... what comes to mind? It's totally understandable if a dark void exists for those of you who really found the time party. If the faint lingering echo of Gap Band's "Party Train," or Madness' "Our House" is ringing in your ears, then welcome - please step inside our time capsule to Night Flight's "Take Off To Party Time" from...Read More

Night Flight - "Take Off" to New Metal and Def Leppard Video Profile

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 - "Take Off" to Gothic Rock

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. F...Read More

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Glam

On tonight’s episode of “20 Years of Rock ’n’ Roll Style” Night Flight covers Glam Rock. “Twilight fell on the grassroots hippie sixties, and it was time to put the glitz and glamor back into rock,” Pat Prescott tells us before introducing T. Rex. From there we travel through Freddie Mercury solo cuts, D.A. Pennebaker’s live video for Bowie’s “White Light, White Hea...Read More

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Ireland

Night Flight looks at the roots of Irish rock 'n' roll tonight in this original “Take Off” special from the mid-1980s. With Bodhrán, Fiddles, Uilleann pipes and Irish Harps in hand, we kick off with the Chieftans' "Irish Anthem" before looking at the Ireland’s strong music tradition. Dating back to Celtic culture, when poets were elevated to the status of aristocrat...Read More

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Leather and Lace

The twin flames of '80s music video: Leather & Lace. “Leather suggests being wild, animalistic, masculine" Pat Prescott says, "while lace says soft, feminine, and sensual… and both conjure up sexual images.” Tonight, Night Flight looks to the 1983 and finds ample examples of both in videos from Billy Idol, The Romantics, Franky Goes to Hollywood, Roxy Music, Waysted...Read More

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Los Angeles

"The sound of surf, sand and Sunset Strip..." Coming to you direct from the nerve center of the entertainment industry, tonight Night Flight "Takes Off" to the City of Angels. In this special syndication episode from 1992, we explore the troubadours and minstrels that help shape the musical legacy of Los Angeles and the California sound, from Folk to Surf, Rockabill...Read More

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Metal

Metal? Mostly. “You asked for a Metal night in your letters, so now you’re going to get it,” Tom Juarez announces before an episode that is mostly Metal. Metallica, Megadeth, and White Zombie represent the evolving sound of the early '90s, but Butthole Surfer’s Who Was in My Room Last Night? steals the show. You’d be hard pressed to call the Surfers Metal, so we’ll ...Read More

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Metal 2

“Heavy Metal is a musical reaction against the mellow love generation of the 1960s,” Pat Prescott tells us. Tonight’s 1984 Night Flight Original takes us away from this world for a history lesson in Metal with classics from Black Sabbath and Judas Priest and '80s arrivals in Heavy Metal of different varieties: German, (Accept, Scorpion), Woman-Fronted (Rock Goddess,...Read More

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Don Giovanni 1

Don Giovanni is an independent record label from New Brunswick, New Jersey whose catalog includes The Homeless Gospel Choir, Laura Stevenson and Rodeo Boys.

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Day-Glo Rock

“They’re the flashiest bands in Rock ’n’ Roll” Pat Prescott says at the start of tonight’s new ‘Take Off’ arrival from the archives, “Musicians who express themselves as much through packaging as playing.” What follows is a high chroma, technicolor video mix featuring Fishbone’s “Modern Industry,” We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It!, Kid Creole and The Co...Read More

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Dais 1

“Take Off” to independent label Dais Records featuring music videos from Space Africa, Choir Boy, Xeno & Oakland and Death Bells.

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Dais 2

“Take Off” to independent label Dais Records featuring music videos from ADULT., Choir Boy, Body of Light and Getting The Fear.

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Dais 3

“Take Off” to independent label Dais Records featuring music videos from Death Bells, SPICE, Choir Boy, and Death of Lovers.

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Dais 4

“Take Off” to independent label Dais Records featuring music videos from Riki, Private World, SRSQ, and SPICE.

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Dais 5

“Take Off” to independent label Dais Records featuring music videos from Cold Showers, Pierce with Arrow, ADULT., and Xeno & Oaklander.

I Was A Zombie For The FBI

In 1985, SPIN Magazine asked Bob Dylan "What movies do you wish you'd been in?" One of his answers was "I Was a Zombie For the F.B.I," which had aired for the first time on cable TV on "Night Flight" earlier that same year (it was originally offered up with "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" for a cult double-feature). "I Was A Zombie For the F.B.I." is low-budget, ...Read More

Devo - Live 1980

This rare footage has been compiled from a full-length show at the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma, CA in 1980. Songs include Its Not Right, Pink Pussycat, Whip It, Girl U Want, (I Cant Get No) Satisfaction, Swelling Itching Brain and many more. This is DEVO at the peak of their game! Bonus material: Dove - The Band of Love from M80 Concert in 1980, Praying Hands & Shrivel Up.

Devo - Live Butch Devo and The Sundance Gig

"In January of '96, we closed Sundance Film Festival. We wore 20s style prison suits and dished out classic DEVO songs to an unsuspecting audience of Hollywood elite," Devo's Jerry Casale tells us of this raw concert bonus disc included with the Men Who Make The Music reissue. Watch the full concert tonight on Night Flight Plus!

Hardcore Devo Live!

Devo, captured live in Oakland, performing early experimental tracks written between 1974 and 1977, prior to any label deal or public success. No matter how messy, beginnings are exciting. Especially when what happens next endures the test of time. For Devo, the beginning happened in the basements and garages of Akron, Ohio. The songs they wrote were raw and unfilte...Read More

Night Flight - Devo Profile and New Metal

Welcome back its time to climb into the video vault for Devo, and follow the bands career through their experimental clips. Night Flight looks at the hottest metal in 1986 with new Twisted Sister, Black 'n Blue, Autograph, Kiss and more metal masters.

Night Flight - Devo Video Vault and New Age

Only Night Flight could find a way to program classic Devo cuts with soothing mystical New Age. Relive that original programming style tonight by climbing into Night Flight's video vault for a Devo retrospective featuring some of the best Devo videos using the pioneering experimental video techniques they did so well. For part 2, sit back and relax as we explore ...Read More

Gil Scott-Heron - Black Wax

BLACK WAX is a musical-political entertainment film produced and directed by Robert Mugge in 1982. It was the first American film to be fully funded by Britain's then-brand-new Channel 4 Television and also likely the first film to use Steadicam from first frame to last. BLACK WAX centers on the late African American poet-singer-songwriter Gil Scott-Heron - the man ...Read More

Hawaiian Rainbow

Hawaiian Rainbow is "music filmmaker" pioneer Robert Mugge 1987 film about Hawaiian music, examining Hawaii's traditional chants, percussion, ukulele, slack-key and steel guitar, male and female falsetto, and the lush vocal harmonies, many of them accompanied by authentic Hawaiian dance styles.

Sun Ra - A Joyful Noise

Years ahead of his time, composer, keyboard player, bandleader, poet, and philosopher Sun Ra coupled images of outer space with those of ancient Egypt, acoustic instruments with electronic ones, and modern American musical genres (jazz, soul, gospel, blues, swing) with the sounds of Africa and the Caribbean. He also combined his music with dance, poetry, colorful co...Read More

Pride And Joy: The Story Of Alligator Records

Director Robert Mugge, having recently made the film DEEP BLUES (1991) about the blues traditions of Mississippi, decided to follow up with a tribute to Alligator and its roster of top contemporary blues artists from Chicago and elsewhere. The resulting film, PRIDE AND JOY: THE STORY OF ALLIGATOR RECORDS, presents musical highlights from one of the 4-plus-hour conc...Read More

Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers

In August 1969, to the dismay of many fans, Frank Zappa disbanded the original Mothers of Invention. Feeling constrained by the musical abilities of certain members, he cleaned the slate and set about assembling a new group. Hand-picking superior talent from a variety of musical genres, by 1970 the second incarnation of the band was unleashed. This film focuses on t...Read More

Night Flight - Directions in Jazz and Double Exposure

For this short film series, we have “Double Exposure” a true hidden gem that aired on Night Flight in 1986. Starting with scenes of industrial Chicago, this short film takes you into a suburban household where a wayward artist-types stop in at home for family dinner. Later on in the evening the nervous suburban awkwardness explodes into pure energy (a la Pere Ubu) i...Read More

CBGB - Punk From The Bowery

Decades after birthing punk in the 1970s, CBGB remains the archetypal club of the Rock and Roll underground. For the past twenty-eight years, CBGB has played host to up-and-coming bands from all sub-genres of Rock and continues to capture the hearts of those who appreciate the spirit of original music. This video features live performances by Agnostic Front, UK Su...Read More

Punk's Not Dead

Punk's Not Dead is more than just a tribute documentary. It takes you on an era-by-era journey that puts punk rock's non-conformist reputation under the knife. Officially sanctioned by the bands in the film who donated personal photos, fliers and home videos, Punk's Not Dead follows the evolution of punk music from its anarchic roots, to its use as a corporate marke...Read More

Salad Days: A Decade Of Punk In Washington, DC (1980-90)

"Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)" examines the early DIY punk scene in the Nation's Capital. It was a decade when seminal bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Government Issue, Scream, Void, Faith, Rites of Spring, Marginal Man, Fugazi, and others released their own records and booked their own shows-without major record label constraints or...Read More

Black Metal: The Music Of Satan

Cult director Bill Zebub wanted to prove a documentary about black metal could still be entertaining without using sensationalism. You get to see most artists express themselves candidly, while of course some people embarrass themselves with their facades. Featuring interviews with Mayhem, Venom and many more!

Get Thrashed! The Story Of Thrash Metal

The GET THRASHED journey begins in the early 80s, where Metallica and several other bands laid the groundwork for what would become a lasting impression on the face of heavy metal music. These bands helped ignite local scenes in Los Angeles, the Bay area of Northern California and New York City, which helped fuel a worldwide, thrash metal movement. By the dawn of th...Read More

DEATH by Metal

Here comes DEATH's probing and pulsing rock doc, DEATH BY METAL, pulling back the palm fronds of DEATH's origins in Altamonte Springs, Florida, and latching a narrative hook into the headstrong Chuck Schuldiner juggernaut for fifteen gratifying if sometimes frustrating years. As the baby steps become giant leaps, the stable of supporting players grows and continuall...Read More

Sex and Broadcasting: A Film About WFMU

Sex and Broadcasting is a human, and humorous, look at New Jersey’s WFMU, a radio station that refuses any programming boundaries. Most of its disc jockeys are unpaid volunteers, working for their love of surprising, spontaneous radio. They play everything from flat-out uncategorizable strangeness to every form of rock and roll, experimental music, jazz, psychedelia...Read More

"New Wave Theatre" - Show 9 (1982)

Examining and monitoring LA's new music renaissance with host Peter Ivers. "Welcome to New Wave Theatre. Monitoring the new music scene is a discovery into the minds and artistic souls of its artists... one of the last roads to freedom left is through the world of art and entertainment." Featuring Fear, Powertrip, Carnival of Souls, Red Wedding and more…

42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Notorious Street

The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street. The story behind the rise and fall of New York’s 42nd Street. The cinemas, the films, the people, the crime and the rebirth of the block as “New 42nd Street” - this is the document of the world’s most notorious movie strip. Featuring interviews with exploitation era experts that include Lloyd Kaufman (Troma En...Read More

1984 Home Movie: The Gun Club on the Road

1984 Home Move: Gun Club On The Road includes never-before-seen footage of the band backstage and onstage during their legendary 1984 tour. This classic line-up only stayed together for this one album, featuring original drummer Terry Graham, as well as guitar from Kid Congo Powers (The Cramps, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) and bassist Patricia Morrison (Sisters Of Mercy).

NIght Flight Goes to the Movies and Latin Sounds

This edition of Night Flight Goes to The Movies looks at the holiday new releases for 1987 including "Throw Momma From The Train", "The Last Emperor" & "Overboard". Latin Sounds features sizzling South-of-the-border inspired music videos from Miami Sound Machine, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Madonna and more!

Night Flight - "Goes to the Movies" and Flash Tracks (1987)

Welcome to Night Flight "Goes to the Movies," where we'll go behind the scenes with Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride and other films from '87. The This is Spinal Tap director takes us the set of his large-scale fantasy adventure film or as Reiner calls it: a slightly "bent fairly tale.” Featuring interview clips with Reiner, Wallace Shawn, and Carole Kane. This episo...Read More

Night Flight - Robert Plant Video Profile & NF Goes to the Movies

Welcome to Night Flight's video profile of one of Rock's greatest vocalists and song stylists, Robert Plant and Night Flight goes to the movies with Arnie Action Thriller Red Heat, Bull Durham and more

Night Flight Goes To The Movies (Spike Lee, Ruben Blades and More)

Welcome to Night Flight goes to the movies, a. Tonight we look at the growing emergence of black leading men in a variety of film genres including Carl Weather's "Action Jackson" and Spike Lee's "School Daze" including interviews. This episode also previews "The Return of Ruben Blades," now come full circle and streaming on Night Flight Plus.

Night Flight Goes To The Movies and Video Profile: The Cars

Night Flight Goes to the Movies for John Waters' classic "Hairspray" and a couple of less fondly remembered also-rans released in March '88. Next is a high-octane look at The Cars legacy in music video with interviews between songs.

Night Flight - 1993 Syndication (Simple Minds and Aretha Franklin)

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 - 1993 Syndication (INXS)

This special ‘90s syndication episode feature host Tom Juarez introducing multiple classic Night Flight segments. PAL Tape 3 features a Video Profile of INXS.

Night Flight - 1993 Syndication (Irish Rock & Tom Waits)

This special ‘90s syndication episode feature host Tom Juarez introducing multiple classic Night Flight segments. PAL Tape 5 (Parts 1 & 2) feature a “Take Off” to Irish Rockers, a Tom Waits Video Profile, and Dire Straits.

Night Flight - 1992 Syndication (Steve Winwood and Ike & Tina Turner)

This special ‘90s syndication episode feature host Tom Juarez introducing multiple classic Night Flight segments. Juarez stops by Universal Studios in PAL Tape 19 delivers two Video Profiles: Steve Winwood and Ike & Tina Turner.

Night Flight - 1992 Syndication (Motown Sound)

This special ‘90s syndication episode feature host Tom Juarez introducing multiple classic Night Flight segments. PAL Tape 6 is an in-depth review of the Motown Sound.

Night Flight - 1992 Syndication (The Kinks and The Cure)

This special ‘90s syndication episode feature host Tom Juarez introducing multiple classic Night Flight segments. PAL Tape 20 covers the Kinks and The Cure.

Elektro Moskva: The Secret History of Soviet Space-Age Electronic Music

Welcome to a weird and definitely wired world of avant-garde rock musicians, DIY circuit benders, vodka-swilling dealers and urban archaeologists/collectors, all fascinated with obsolete Soviet-era electronic synthesizers: primitive and ungainly beasts like the Polyvox, ESKO, Yunost and the fabulous ANS Photo-Electronic Synthesizer, a surreal device that translates ...Read More

Amateur On Plastic

Butch Willis is a Washington, D.C. rock legend. Born and raised in 1960s suburban Maryland, Byron Henry "Butch" Willis came of age in the late '70s post-hippie subculture. After sharing an apartment with infamous local music icon Root Boy Slim, Butch was inspired to become a rock'n'roll star himself. The unique and unusual brand of "outsider music" that Butch Will...Read More

Glastonbury Fayre

First ever DVD release of this cult music film / rockumentary that established Glastonbury as the UK's main festival! Shot by acclaimed director, Nicolas Roeg, Glastonbury Fayre is an enthralling music film of the first Glastonbury festival to have the pyramid stage. Free to all and with a line-up that included Melanie, Terry Reid, Family, Fairport Convention, Traff...Read More

The Last Movie

Dennis Hopper’s radical, much-mythologized lost masterpiece – widely unseen for nearly 50 years until now in a new 4K Restoration! Consciously self-reflexive and co-written by Hopper and Rebel Without A Cause screenwriter Stewart Stern, The Last Movie follows a Hollywood movie crew in the midst of making a western in a remote Peruvian village. When production wra...Read More

The Boy In The Plastic Bubble

John Travolta practices impeccable COVID protocols in this 1976 made-for-TV melodrama (based on a true story) about a boy who lacks effective immune systems and had to live in incubator-like conditions. His room is completely hermetically sealed against bacteria and virus, his food is specially prepared, and his only human contact comes in the form of gloved hands. ...Read More

Sad Vacation: The Last Days Of Sid And Nancy

Sad Vacation is an up close and personal account of the tumultuous and stormy relationship between Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen and how it ended in Room 100 of the Chelsea Hotel. Directed by Danny Garcia (The Rise and Fall of The Clash, Looking for Johnny), this films pulls no punches and reveals the facts through personal friends, insiders and witnesses. Includes ...Read More

Night Flight - High-Functioning Flesh

Los Angeles, CA-based Electro-punk act on Dais Records.

The Flesh

THE FLESH (La Carne) is a romantic black comedy about a divorced piano player named Paolo (Sergio Castellitto) who meets and falls in love with a most beauteously busty woman (bombshell Francesca Dellera), who uses her special powers to turn the man into her sex slave. The film depicts the oftentimes torturous nature of carnal desire and the erotic power of women in...Read More