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You are now entering “As Aired” territory. a full 3 hour original episode from 1984 streaming in exactly the format it aired 33 years ago. That’s right, from start to finish you’ll see an excellent representation of all the classic segments (including the commercials!). Look out for all the essentials:
Night Flight’s full episode from June 30th, 1984 kicks off hot and heavy with a bold “Take Off” to Sex. “Music videos use phallic and vaginal symbols,” Pat Prescott tells us as she introduces videos from:
Rod Stewart: Tonight I’m Yours,
Vanity 6: Drive Me Wild RARE
Miquel Brown: So Many Men, So Little Time
Commercial Break: Levi Jeans, Wrigley’s Doublemint Gum “Double Your Pleasure”
“Take Off” to Sex” continues
INXS: The One Thing
Berlin: SEX
Mary Jane Girls: Candy Man
Doug & The Slugs: Making It Work RARE
Commercial Break: Playboy Magazine
Dwight Twilley: Girls RARE
Prince:: Dirty Mind
Commercial Break: Pepsi (Narrated by Martin Sheen), Musician Magazine
“Take Off” to Sex” continues
Southside Johnny: Trash It Up RARE
ZZ Top: Sharp Dressed Man
Commercial Break: Coffee commercial with HEART
“Take Off” to Sex” continues
David Bowie: “China Girl (Original Uncensored Version 1)
Duran Duran: Girls On Film
short clip of Marilyn Monroe
Commercial Break: Global Life & Accident Insurance Company,
Mateel Electronics Intellivision II sponsored tour dates for John Cougar Mellencamp over the top of the music video for “Pink Houses”
Preview of later in the show when Night Flight does there Video Classics portion with a “Look back to 1969”
Three Dog Night: Try A Little Tenderness (this song less than three years later gets used in the film “Pretty In Pink”
Commercial Break: Ten-O-Six Lotion, 1-800-HOT-ROCK Music Audio Cassette Mail offer
Then Night Flight goes into a Heavy Metal Half Hour with music videos from:
Marillion: He Know You Know
Krokus: Eat The Rich RARE
Def Leppard: Rock of Ages
Divinyls: Science Fiction RARE (yeah I don’t know why this is here either)
Ratt: Round and Round
The Plasmatics: The Damned
A short Black and White film about Manners from the 1950’s
Commercial Break: Pepsi “New Generation” with The Jackson (1st of 2 commercials featuring The Jackson), Promo for TV Program “Radio 1990”, FCLD Commercial, Night Flight Logo teaser, Miller Beer “Welcome to Miller Time”, Levi 501 “Shrink To Fit 501 Blues”,
Night Flight Cartoon Classics
Commercial Break: A great commercial for CINEMAX that will take you back
Dig into more music videos
Pointer Sister: Jump (For My Love)
Def Leppard: Me and My Wine
RUSH: Distant Early Warning
The Go-Go’s: Turn To You
Bob Dylan: Jokerman
Nick Lowe: Half A Boy/Half A Man
Ultravox: Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
Billy Squire: Rock Me Tonight
Elton John: Sad Songs (Say So Much)
Commercial: Wrigley’s Doublemint Gum “Keeps You Hummin'”, Joy of Sex Movie commercial,
Night Flight’s Rising Stars: Slade: My Oh My and Bronze: Send Me An Angel
Night Flight’s Cult Classics Film short
Commercial Break: Ban deodorant, Pepsi (Narrated by Martin Sheen), Drag Review News Paper offer,
A strange short film called The Speed of Light Directed by Brian Hansen, starring Sally Norvell (later cast by Wim Wenders as “Nurse Bibs” in Paris, Texas). Film is about The Surreal nightmarish story of a Mother and Daughter trip through 1960’s America
Commercial Breaks during the film include: Time Life Books The Vietnam Experience, America’s Top Rock Vinyl, Cassette and 8-Track offer, Miller Beer,
Total Running Time: 2 Hours 55 Minutes
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