# @cowmissing on YouTube - **Type:** Video - **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=cRKpPfQGr68 - **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33963211-cowmissing-youtube - **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/7e9178a58c.jpg - **Posted:** 2025-08-31T16:49:32.000+00:00 - **Account Owner:** Cow Missing (@CowMissing) — https://gondola.cc/CowMissing ## Caption Night Flight’s host, Tom Juarez, recorded stand-ups at Universal Studios Hollywood in several iconic locations, including the Studio Tour plaza (Lower Lot / Studio Center), King Kong Encounter, Earthquake: The Big One, French Street near the Moulin Rouge façade, and Parisian Courtyard on the Streets of the World. Night Flight is an online visual-arts magazine and variety television show that first debuted on the USA Network. Originally airing from 1981 to 1988, the series later entered syndication in the early 1990s. It relaunched online in 2015 through NightFlight.com and continues to stream on its subscription channel Night Flight Plus. In April 2018, the program returned to cable television as a 15-minute short-form series airing late Friday nights and early Saturday mornings on IFC. Its eclectic content includes a mix of mainstream and alternative music videos, artist interviews, B-movies, documentaries, short films, stand-up comedy, and animation. The idea for Night Flight came in February 1981, when Jeff Franklin (head of American Talent International) and Stuart S. Shapiro (head of International Harmony) approached USA Network about producing a show that defied traditional formats. USA agreed, and the first episode aired on June 5, 1981—timed strategically during the 1981 Writers Guild of America strike, which had halted production of NBC’s popular Saturday Night Live. Early episodes ran four hours each and were broadcast after 11:00 PM ET on Friday and Saturday nights. The final original broadcast aired on December 30, 1988, after which Night Flight was replaced by Camp Midnite and USA Up All Night, hosted by Gilbert Gottfried. The show was revived in 1990 for syndication, producing three new seasons before ending in 1992. Afterward, USA aired “best of” compilations hosted by Tom Juarez until as late as 1996. A new era began in 2015 with the launch of NightFlight.com, offering both original programming and curated content, including short and feature films, as well as hand-selected clips from YouTube and Vimeo. The subscription platform Night Flight Plus, introduced in March 2016, gave viewers on-demand access to full-length episodes. In 2018, a new version of Night Flight premiered on IFC, blending highlights from the original series with surreal footage from film, television, and the Internet. Night Flight broke ground in American television by showcasing full-length and short films rarely seen on either broadcast networks or pay cable outlets like HBO. For many viewers, it was their first chance to see documentaries such as Another State of Mind, The Grateful Dead Movie, Word, Sound and Power, and Yessongs. It was also among the first shows to treat music videos as an art form rather than simple marketing tools, airing uncensored or banned videos that other outlets, including MTV, refused to broadcast. The show’s Director of Programming, Stuart Samuels—a University of Pennsylvania history professor and lecturer at the Cannes Film Festival—brought a scholarly, thematic approach. He envisioned episodes where the films and videos “spoke” to one another, encouraging audiences to draw their own conclusions. Samuels emphasized that Night Flight was never meant to compete with MTV but instead to offer something “more selective, intelligent, and stimulating.” Samuels credited the series with pioneering techniques such as identifying directors of music videos, profiling bands, interviewing artists, airing long-form 12-inch remix videos, and weaving in political themes, including apartheid. His approach avoided heavy-handed messaging, instead framing episodes around timely cultural topics. By the late 1980s and early 1990s, as rock video repetition drew criticism, Night Flight expanded into cult, camp, and public-domain animation, including the works of Fleischer Studios and Ub Iwerks. This programming shift cemented its role in distributing cult cinema, midnight movies, and quirky, unconventional film content to a broad television audience. Universal Studios Hollywood is both a working film studio and a theme park located in Universal City, California, just outside Hollywood in Los Angeles. It is one of the oldest and most iconic film studios still in operation today. Copyright © 1984-2025 Night Flight Inc. All rights reserved. (https://www.nightflightplus.com/) @NightFlightTVShow Posted for entertainment and educational purposes only. No copyrights were infringed. All works are the property of the company listed above. Please do not reproduce without their expressed written consent. #NightFlight #TomJuarez #USANetwork #UniversalStudiosHollywood #StudioTour #KingKongEncounter #EarthquakeTheBigOne #FrenchStreet #MoulinRougeFacade #CultTV #1980sTelevision #MusicVideoHistory #MidnightMovies #ClassicCableTV #NightFlightPlus #cowmissing ## Stats - **Views:** 279 - **Likes:** 12 - **Shares:** 0 - **Comments:** 0 ## Tags culttv, tomjuarez, frenchstreet, universalstudioshollywood, nightflightplus, nightflight, 1980stelevision, cowmissing, earthquakethebigone, usanetwork, kingkongencounter, studiotour, musicvideohistory, midnightmovies, moulinrougefacade, classiccabletv --- Copyright (c) Gondola