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Talkin’ bout some night cheese!

That is all.

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Wow, what a great time capsule. I wish they had done this in my city.

I like to imagine that they walking cameraman was somehow being followed everywhere by a smooth jazz band.

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I was mesmerised by Night Walk wondering if he’d get mugged, or pick up a prostitute.

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was it a different route every night or something?

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ChessPieceFace said on July 17th, 2012 at 10:51 am

HrolfK said “I was mesmerised by Night Walk wondering if he’d get mugged, or pick up a prostitute.”

That is exactly why I watched this too. Being a kid also staying up way too late, I figured this was the time of night when stuff like that happened. I apparently was under the impression that all the editors were asleep, and the tape from the camera went straight to broadcast.

My late night schedule on Saturday often ended with Night Ride/Walk, after Saturday Night Live and the Italian softcore films on CFMT were done.

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The Unstoppable Gravy Express said on July 17th, 2012 at 11:14 am

I like how you can add one letter to the beginning and end of “Night Ride” to get the name of another, somewhat more widely-known, ’80s show.

What about Night Bus? Loud, drunk people crammed together, throwing up and making out, all to the dulcet tunes of soft jazz.

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Mitchell Hundred said on July 17th, 2012 at 11:34 am

I thought the Toronto Maple Leafs were soulless and sad and everything that is shitty about pro sports today. Or is that just because they play at the Air Canada Centre?

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There was a local version of this on a Buffalo station too. I remember watching it when I was in college in the late 80s, and trying to see if I could tell where in Buffalo they were.

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highlyverbal said on July 17th, 2012 at 12:29 pm

“the second half of Late Night With David Letterman (e.g. “the not as good half”)”

Can I talk you into “i.e.”?

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Many, many moons ago I wrote a “Night Walk” spoof called “Night Mugging” — it went about the way you’d expect.

Some enterprising soul has to link whatever Night Drive/Night Walk videos are extant to Google Maps, so you could click on a place in Toronto and see how it looked to walk or drive there circa 1985.

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Also: cable channels that broadcast the security feed from apartment buildings’ lobbies. Now that’s some good voyeurism.

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Snap Wilson said on July 17th, 2012 at 4:58 pm

“I was mesmerised by Night Walk wondering if he’d get mugged, or pick up a prostitute.”

This is why the Detroit version only lasted one episode.

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Night Drive! The crime solving Drive!

… I’ll see myself out.

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Schmaltzy lounge jazz over a meandering trip through the city. It’s like a bad car crash: I want to look away, but I can’t.

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Jeff Rush said on July 17th, 2012 at 11:23 pm

I watched this as a kid as well. Years later I worked at Global and worked with a camera operator who rode in the car. Lots of great stories but try to find the scene where they get into an accident. He kept shooting and the editors saw no need to “fix” the issue.

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Tim O'Neil said on July 18th, 2012 at 4:05 am

I never experienced anything like this growing up in the wilds of Northern California, but recently I got to thinking about the fact that no one born after, what, 1990? will ever see a color test card, or even the black & white fuzz that you got when you unplugged the old tube TVs from the cable box.

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This sounds pretty cool, in a really surreal way.

The closet thing we had to decent late-night programming in the hinterlands of the US before informercials ruined everything were the horror hosts on the weekends, and when they died out Night Flight on USA.

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Jilliterate said on July 19th, 2012 at 2:59 am

I’ve never seen anything like this in Newfoundland, but the local station is definitely in the running for late-night TV madness. I don’t even know how to begin to describe the weird things that sometimes air on NTV. I mean, yeah, they have Scenes of Newfoundland aired with some local folk music, but that’s the normal stuff. Bizarre interviews with Fidel Castro, old-school cgi videos of UFO and pyramids, and, well…let me introduce you to Captain Canada.

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William Kendall said on July 21st, 2012 at 4:51 pm

I remember this!

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Tartrazine said on August 7th, 2012 at 8:12 pm

Some prisons allow TVs (made of transparent plastic to make it more difficult to hide contraband in them) in cells. I highly recommend watching Lockdown if you get the National Geographic channel.

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