Night Flight

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

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

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

If the early 1980s marked your high school/college years, there's a good chance you either held-on for dear life to the decomposing remains of that beast called disco, or you embraced the European invasion of punk/new wave subculture which was rarely brought forth to the general American public before this iconic show emerged. "Night Flight" was a brilliant clip-art collage incorporating cutting-edge/avant-garde music, challenging art-cinema, hi-camp vintage Americana, racially insensitive old cartoons, and a whole lot of fashion incentives(VERY "Fiorucci"). This was an exotic dish lovingly prepared for a very select target audience....a unique and conceptually inceptive experiment which, for a short time, separated "us" from "them", aesthetically speaking.

Unexampled, unforgettable 80s time capsule...we need another show like this one NOW, and more than ever. 10/10

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

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

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