• L.A.’s Possum Dixon remember Ric Ocasek, who produced their “New Sheets” album in 1998
• Becoming Peter Ivers: A new collection from the “New Wave Theatre” host arrives later this year
• Birdie in the hand for life’s rich demand: Robert Dean Lurie’s “Begin the Begin” covers R.E.M.’s early formative years in Athens, Georgia
• “Other Side with Zabrecky”: A new séance series puts celebrities in contact with the spirit world
• Jane Wiedlin felt weird in Japan in this exclusive excerpt from Drew Fortune’s book “No Encore!”
• 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!
• “J-Men Forever”: Rock ‘n’ Roll battles Muzak in Proctor & Bergman’s Night Flight cult classic

All posts tagged "live action"

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  Wes Archer tells Night Flight about the Butthole Surfers’ “Who Was In My Room Last Night?” video, a tribute to the great Robert Williams

  The Night Flight crew who put together these early ’90s episodes may not have clearly understood the concept of our “Take Off” episodes — perhaps it was too hard to concentrate after huffin’ cans of Dust-Off all...

  • Posted July 30, 2019
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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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  “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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  “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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