Does anybody have memories of late night television? Mine include:
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* infomercials (Ms. Cleo, Time Life Music, Censored In America)
* bars and tones test patterns
* classic reruns
* risque programming

Remember the Legends: Classic Rock collections??? I grew to love classic rock because that was the music I went to bed listening to.

I remember the National Anthem being played around 4-5am on most stations
a long time ago.
Nick @ Nite was probably my best memory of late nite television, they used to show St. Jude Hospital Infomercials late at night from time to time with Marlo Thomas.
I remember on weekends they would show UP ALL NIGHT with Rhonda on USA.

I remember back when stations used to go off the air around 4 to 5 a.m. (some would do it even earlier-around 1:30 or 2) and they used to play "THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER" while they showed a film of flags waving, armed forces perrsonell saluting, etc. And before that, they would show a priest giving a lecture about something, etc. Different stations had different names for it, it'd be called things like "SERMONETTE", "THOUGHT FOR TODAY" and many different names. Not every station did that, though. Some used to have late-night news which was just an announcer reading the news and some like "LATE NIGHT NEWS UPDATE" would be written on the screen. And some stations would show vintage reruns as a lead in to all this. I remember seeing reruns of "THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW", "F TROOP", "STAR TREK", "MY FAVORITE MARTIAN", "LOVE AMERICAN STYLE", "ADAM 12", and "THE RIFLEMAN" among others on local stations.

My late night memories are of SNOW. I would wake up and find that I fell asleep with the tv on and there would be snow. :lol: There was no such thing as 24 hour programming back then. I do remember the Star Spangled Banner being played.

I also remember the Johnny Carson show. :rip:

I also remember the Star Spangled Banner then the snow, it was time for bed. I also remember watching Creature Features every Saturday night from 11:30 to 1am.

I remember Elvira's Move Macabre on Saturday nights at 1:00 am from about 1981-1985. In the tradition of Mystery Science Theater 3000, she would show classic "bad" B-grade horror movies and make comments about them with little 5-10 second sound bites. The series became a cultural cult phenomenon. I wish ME-TV would pick this up or the Sci-Fi channel! The series was repeated around 1987-1988 because a friend of mine, knew someone who had a bit-part in one of the movies. Those were classics, and some network needs to get the rights again.

I also remember a local commercial station in my area, which was totally syndicated at the time, experimenting with uncut R-rated movies in the mid 80's at 1 am on Friday nights. They ran soft-core stuff like Private Lessons, and My Tutor, with a disclaimer that the shows were uncut and that parental discretion was advised. Most viewers did not take well to the change, and after about 3 weeks, with responses 3-1 against the movie they dropped the R-rated films. The station manager was fired some time later. It was widely believed, but never proven, that his termination was largely due to his decision to experiment with showing the uncut R-rated movies.

Jack

the midnight special on friday nights with wolfman jack was sure a fun late night show to watch

My late night memories are of SNOW. I would wake up and find that I fell asleep with the tv on and there would be snow. :lol: There was no such thing as 24 hour programming back then. I do remember the Star Spangled Banner being played.

I also remember the Johnny Carson show. :rip:me too it seemes like just yesterday that he went off the air

i use get up watch incredible hulk on tv greatest american hero great space coaster fredd nightmares on tv back in the day cartoon fall preview follwed b new cartoons the weekend later.

watching honeymooners late night usa up all night dont forget tbs use have baseball rain outs then reruns of happy days sanford come on all in the family.

ah good ol days

We used to get Night Owl Theater....with some classic Vincent Price horror flicks.....then for a while.....Waylan and Madam....what a dumb show that was!

Infomercials
B-movies
1-900 ads
sign-offs

Fritz the Night Owl, who used the intro to Pink Floyd's "Time" for his theme music; Monty Python on PBS every night when I was in college; but most especially, being very young and being allowed to watch "The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson" only when we were on one of my dad's business trips, all cozy in a posh hotel bed LOL!

I remember; our local ABC affiliate in the 70s used to premp ABCs late-night programing on Fridays and show a movie instead. Then they would show ABCs programing after the movie, around 1:30 or 2:00 A.M. I remember, back then stations used to show commercials for local buisnesses, record commercials, etc. late at night, and it'd be a little strange on that channel seeing promos for ABC shows, etc.

And, I remember the station used to show their movies a strange way-they wouldn't show the opening, and start showing it (the movie) with the opening scene, then when the movie would end, they'd show the ending, then show the opening of it, for some reason.

Mine is pretty lame haha. My mom used to work nights when I was a kid so I remember staying up because she would call every night at about 9PM, so I'd stay up watching Nick at Nite waiting for her phone call. Then she'd call, I'd talk to her for a few minutes, and then go back to my room to catch I Love Lucy at 9:30. But boy has that changed. Well my mom no longer calls me every night cause I don't live at home anymore and I'm 23 haha but still, sad to see how great N@N used to be and what it's turned into now. :(

Infommercials for CDs. I love those.

I used to see lots of B&W games shows on late at night. Now hardly any. :(

Mine is pretty lame haha. My mom used to work nights when I was a kid so I remember staying up because she would call every night at about 9PM, so I'd stay up watching Nick at Nite waiting for her phone call. Then she'd call, I'd talk to her for a few minutes, and then go back to my room to catch I Love Lucy at 9:30. But boy has that changed. Well my mom no longer calls me every night cause I don't live at home anymore and I'm 23 haha but still, sad to see how great N@N used to be and what it's turned into now. :(
Yeah, that and TVLand used to have some great programming on late. Now they don't even have anything good on early.

My late night memories are of SNOW. I would wake up and find that I fell asleep with the tv on and there would be snow. :lol: There was no such thing as 24 hour programming back then. I do remember the Star Spangled Banner being played.

Same here. That was back when there was only the 3 channels plus the PBS channel, only I don't think it was called PBS. That was also when you actually had to get up to change the channel!!

Same here. That was back when there was only the 3 channels plus the PBS channel, only I don't think it was called PBS. That was also when you actually had to get up to change the channel!!
Bingo! :lol: And no tv timers to turn off the tv automatically in case you fell asleep. ;)

is this about Late Night Talk Show's

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It's abt anything related to late night television. What memories do you have of watching tv late at night when you were young?

Same here. That was back when there was only the 3 channels plus the PBS channel, only I don't think it was called PBS. That was also when you actually had to get up to change the channel!!
no, it wasn't. Remote controls were out in the 60s; but for a LONG time, the technology wasn't very good. In other words, they didn't work that good, And they were expensive, and rare.

And as for channels; you're forgetting about the 3 UHF channels.

I remember, back in the late 80s (when we first got cable) COMEDY CENTRAL (which was called THE COMEDY CHANNEL back then) used to show reruns of "THE JACK BENNY SHOW", a half-hour show that showed clips from Steve Allens prime-time 50s variety show (I remember each clip had a "live" introduction from Steve Allen) and a half-hour show that showed clips from "YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS" & "CEASERS HOUR" (each one had a "live" introduction from Sid Ceaser).