• “Other Side with Zabrecky”: A new séance series puts celebrities in contact with the spirit world
• R.I.P. documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker, one of the pioneers of cinéma vérité filmmaking
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• A Night Flight Exclusive: “How to Be a New Wave Video Slut,” starring Ann Magnuson as “Fallopia”
• Night Flight’s Stuart S. Shapiro’s inspiring book “Identifi Yourself: A Journey in Fuck You Creative Courage” is a humorous and poetic journey
• Night Flight partners up with Severin Films for more cult, horror, mondo & exploitation films
• Attention “cord cutters” and streaming fanatics: Night Flight Plus has been just been updated!
• Teens high on “the weed rooted in hell” go wild in the midnight movie classic “Reefer Madness”
• “J-Men Forever”: Rock ‘n’ Roll battles Muzak in Proctor & Bergman’s Night Flight cult classic
• “Arise! The SubGenius Movie”: The return of Night Flight’s “Love That “Bob”” episodes!

All posts tagged "canceled TV shows"

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  “Captain Power & the Soldiers of the Future”: Don’t just stand there, children, fire back!

  “Captain Power & the Soldiers of the Future“ was a short-lived syndicated sci-fi fantasy series, set in the far-flung future, airing from September 1987 to March 1988. Watch all twenty-two episodes of its first and only season,...

  • Posted July 11, 2018
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  “What are we going to do now?”: Notes on Spike Milligan’s “Q” series

  WHO?!? No, not Spike Jones. That was the bandleader who did a peppy version of “Der Fuehrer’s Face.” Aside from possibly brief appearances arguing over parking with Peter Sellers in Terry Southern’s gloriously mad The Magic Christian,...

  • Posted April 28, 2017
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  “Bizarre”: Showtime’s 1980s variety show featured Super Dave stunts & bare-breasted babes

  In 1980, the Showtime cable network began airing a groundbreaking off-center comedy variety show called “Bizarre,” which featured lots of unpardonable puns in comedic vignettes and blackout sketches lampooning various aspects of every day life. The “uncensored”...

  • Posted April 12, 2017
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  Too Much Monkey Business: “Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp” & the Evolution Revolution

  “Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp,” the short-lived early ’70s live-action Saturday morning comedy series, was, as far as we know, the only TV show with a cast of chimpanzees (and one orangutan named Henry) with “dialogue” overdubbed by...

  • Posted March 22, 2017
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  “Beyond Westworld”: This 1980 CBS series was a failed first attempt at bringing “Westworld” to TV

  HBO’s mega-popular “Westworld“ series climaxed its first season with a mind-numbing 90-minute finale (“The Bicameral Mind”) a few weeks back, but the first time there was a TV show based on the 1973 Michael Crichton-penned movie —...

  • Posted January 6, 2017
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  “Hail to the Chief”: In 1985, TV’s first female President of the United States was a short-lived sitcom flop

  As surely everyone knows by now, American voters have yet to elect a woman President of the United States, but there have been a handful of them in the movies and on TV, including a short-lived 1985...

  • Posted November 16, 2016
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  “Exo-Man”: This failed 1977 TV pilot featured a wobbly superhero who only used “psychological terror”

  On June 18, 1977, the NBC network aired a two-hour TV pilot called Exo-Man which its creators had hoped would be picked up for a weekly series for the 1977-’78 fall season. Alas, audiences weren’t keen on...

  • Posted August 25, 2016
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  “Really Weird Tales”: SCTV alumni were the best thing about HBO’s short-lived 1986 anthology sketch series

  Thirty years ago, in the fall of 1986, the HBO network aired three 30-minute episodes of a brand new anthology sketch comedy series, called “Really Weird Tales,” which featured Second City TV alumnus among the show’s cast,...

  • Posted August 10, 2016
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