• 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!

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  Night Flight’s Stuart S. Shapiro’s inspiring book “Identifi Yourself: A Journey in Fuck You Creative Courage” is a humorous and poetic journey

  Stuart S. Shapiro — the creator and founder of Night Flight — has just published his first book, Identifi Yourself: A Journey in Fuck You Creative Courage (Waterside Press, 2018), “a humorous and poetic journey to empower...

  • Posted November 16, 2018
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  “Sample & Hold”: Neil Young’s ’80s-era videos ran the gamut of musical genres & styles

  Night Flight’s “Neil Young: Video Profile” — which originally aired on November 18, 1988 — featured six of the renegade rocker’s ’80s-era videos, running the gamut of musical genres and styles, from the vocoder & synth-rich techno...

  • Posted October 17, 2018
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  Will Vinton’s “Closed Mondays” & “Mountain Music” were highlights of Night Flight midnight movie fave “Fantastic Animation Festival” (1977)

  We were saddened to learn of the recent death of Oscar-winning Claymation filmmaker Will Vinton, who lost his 12-year battle with multiple myeloma cancer on October 4, 2018. He was 70 years old. We thought fans of...

  • Posted October 8, 2018
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  Wes Craven’s “Deadly Friend” was a modern-day re-imagining of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”

  In our “Fall Horror Preview” — which originally aired on September 26, 1986, and you can now watch on Night Flight Plus — announcer Pat Prescott previews horror movies released that same year, including From Beyond, metal...

  • Posted September 28, 2018
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  “Video Profile: Tom Waits”: Songwriter, actor, playwright & authentic American troubadour

  “In the early ’70s, living in the Tropicana Hotel in Los Angeles, Waits began writing and singing low-down ballads and about the fringes of society,” says Night Flight’s Pat Prescott in her introduction to our “Video...

  • Posted September 13, 2018
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  Penelope Spheeris’s punk rock western “Dudes” was dubbed the “Easy Rider of the Eighties”

  Penelope Spheeris’s Dudes (1987) — highlighted in this special episode of “Night Flight Goes to the Movies,” which originally aired on July 8, 1988 — is a somewhat forgotten but simply unforgettable punk rock western, dubbed “The...

  • Posted July 2, 2018
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  Atomic TV: Europe’s “The Final Countdown” hit was inspired by David Bowie’s “Space Oddity”

  About thirty-five minutes into “Atomic TV” – one of Night Flight’s most popular music video mash-ups, originally airing on April 15, 1988 — is the official video for Europe’s synth-rich 1986 hit “The Final Countdown,” which was...

  • Posted April 19, 2018
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  Gack & Flem, extraterrestrial latex puppets who just happen to be the ultimate showbiz insiders

  Early on in this episode from 1992 — now streaming on Night Flight Plus — host Tom Juarez promises to show viewers “an exclusive preview of the future of television info-tainment.” Juarez then introduces us to Gack...

  • Posted March 16, 2018
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