• R.I.P. Pete Shelley, former frontman of the Buzzcocks and “Homosapien” hitmaker, age 63
• R.I.P. Italian auteur Bernardo Bertolucci, director of 1987’s “The Last Emperor” & other epic films
• R.I.P. Nicolas Roeg, director of “The Man Who Fell to Earth,” “Performance” & other great films
• 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 with Blue Underground to present the best cult, horror & exploitation films
• Lech Kowalski’s “D.O.A.: A Right of Passage” features Sex Pistols U.S. tour footage & more
• Bob Gruen’s behind-the-scenes look at his Ike & Tina Turner music doc “On the Road: 1971-72″
• “The Gumby Show”: America’s Favorite Clayboy is back again on Night Flight!
• “Arise! The SubGenius Movie”: The return of Night Flight’s “Love That “Bob”” episodes!
• Outsider artist & one-man showcase filmmaker Laz Rojas comes to Night Flight Plus!

All posts tagged "live action"

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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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  “Rock ‘n’ Wrestling”: In 1985, Hulkamania was runnin’ wild on this Saturday morning TV show

  In this sports-themed episode of “Night Flight,” which originally aired on April 9, 1987 — it’s now streaming over on Night Flight Plus — we featured the memorable “Land of a Thousand Dances” video, performed by a...

  • Posted May 19, 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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  “Jack the Giant Killer”: Ray Harryhausen’s “Sinbad” hit inspired this sword & sorcery Saturday Matinee staple

  In 1962, about four years after he’d passed on making The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, which went on to become one of the year’s top-grossing hits, United Artists executive producer Edward Small decided to copy that film’s...

  • Posted March 15, 2017
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  “Adventures in Success”: Two Will Powers 3D computer-animated videos were featured in NF’s “Take Off to Animation”

  Night Flight’s “Take Off To Animation” featured not just one but two videos by Will Powers, an alter ego with a synthetically-altered faked male voice used by photographer Lynn Goldsmith, including “Adventures in Success,”one of the first...

  • Posted March 2, 2017
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  “The Bugaloos”: This 70s-era live-action Beatles-inspired bug rock TV show nearly starred Phil Collins

  For two years in the early 70s, from September 12, 1970 until September 2, 1972, there was a live-action Saturday morning TV show that aired on the NBC network called “The Bugaloos,” about a rock band quartet...

  • Posted September 12, 2016
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  Who you gonna call?: The original “Ghost Busters” was a Saturday morning live-action kids show in 1975

  The 2016 remake of the supernatural blockbuster comedy Ghostbusters didn’t quite have the box office success during its opening weekend that Sony Pictures had hoped for, selling roughly $46 million in North American ticket sales and $19.1...

  • Posted July 18, 2016
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  “Joe’s Apartment”: The original MTV short that first gave us sex, bugs and rock ‘n’ roll

  In 1992, this original short film — a live-action/stop-motion cult classic featuring singing cockroaches, directed by John Payson, MTV’s then-current director of on-air promotion and animated I.D.’s. — aired between breaks in MTV’s programming, and as part...

  • Posted December 3, 2015
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