Anyone familiar with late-night 80's cable shows will most likely be into the classic series Night Flight, an incredible program which showcased cutting-edge music videos and animation in a strange cut-and-paste montage of non-stop psychotronic video. Night Flight was kind of a poor man's MTV; all the fun and wackiness of a it's big brother wrapped up within a program which stretched into the wee hours of the USA Network and was eventually spun-off into a condensed syndicated version in the early nineties where it finally perished along with the rest of all the other excellent late after dark programming which couldn't find a place within the new corporate tv world of phone sex commercials, informercials and other assorted pieces of sludge. Night Flight creator Stuart Shapiro recently tried to bring back the format with his Direct TVMidnight Rider specials but these attempts have proven unrecognized and largely unsuccessful. It looks like the end, but who can tell what the future of the Night Flight will be given this new age of expanding multimedia possibilites. Only time will tell.

One of Night Flight's more interesting 'toons was cult epic Jac Mac and Radboy - GO!, which was directed by Wesley Archer (The Simpsons, King of the Hill) and starred two strange-looking youth who find out about a party and decide to drive over. After screetching down the highway at hyper speed and running over a dog (!), the duo stop at a convenience store to pick up some booze. After charging through the front windows of the store with their loot, they zooom past police cars and other obstacles toward the big finale where the boys ram their car undearth a big rig hauling nuclear warheads, setting off a gigantic explosion which sucks Jac Mac and RadBoy to hell where they meet rest in eternity, tortured by eerie-looking demons. "We'll never get to the party now!" screams Rad Boy. Indeed you won't Rad, indeed. Even though GO! is a short animated piece with a simple focus, it still manages to embody the anarchic spirit of the Night Flight format. These two crazy characters seem like the grandparents of Beavis and Butthead, and Mike Judge himself has even admitted to being a fan of the film. This short was produced somewhere around 1985 and even though it's mostly remembered through it's airings on Night Flight and it's brief excerpts shown in high school anti-drinking programs, it was re-released in the mid 90's on the video release Outrageous Animation Volume 2.