FRIDAY NIGHT! SPOOKY SIGHTS & SCARY SOUNDS DELIVER DEVILISH DELIGHTS & FREAKY FRIGHTS! LOTS OF BLOOD & DANCING & MAYBE 100 DIFFERENT VAMPIRES & FOG & WITCHES & SKELETONS. EVERYONE HAS A CAPE! YOU UNDERSTAND THE THEMES AND THE MOODS! DO YOU LIKE HALLOWEEN FUN TIME EXTRAVAGANZAS? THAT’S WHAT THIS IS!

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MUSICVIDEODROME: A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.

About IVOR:IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

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For our big Halloween special, we welcome our friends from the iconic video label Bleeding Skull.  Label heads Joe and Annie have created a truly epic found footage project that tickles us: PHANTASMATAPES. Welcome to the TV horrorshow that never was…a psychotronic mixtape reimagining two late-nite home-taped classics (THE REVENGE OF DR. X and THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN’T DIE) as one continuous video orgone ray, transmitted from Mars, filtered through boatloads of glitches and tripped-out NTSC colors, wow! This is channel-surfing at the witching hour, complete with local TV spots and a new synth score from Taken by Savages

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What do “Quantum Leap”, “McGuyver”, “The Golden Girls”, “Walker: Texas Ranger” and “Baywatch” all have in common? You get double points if you guessed UFO visitations!  Welcome to a new Museum segment called “Real After All”: when the supernatural and paranormal invaded the tube. We also chat with the new segment’s creator: longtime Museum viewer Maddie Q (@jessicafletcher in the chat!).

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We’ve squashed together the best bits of eight awesome underseen documentaries about teen life before the digital age. Some are hard-hitting investigative TV specials, others are deeply personal works. You’ll see the highs and lows of fashion…the gravitational pull of delinquency…the dunder-headed bureaucracy and its dastardly disciplinarians…the very real moments of love, the acidic moments of cattiness, and the nightmare that is SCHOOL LUNCH.

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IN THIS EPISODE: Spooky season waits for no man and the airwaves are full of cobwebs in our celebration of the best day of the year. We’ll have a character costume parade, go through some haunted houses with the most easily startled media members, and much more eerie fun. YIKES! Is that a G-G-G-GHOST?!

ABOUT THE SHOW: No need to adjust your antenna, set the VCR, or even pay the cable bill—just let Your Old Drinkin’ Buddy JDobbs beam all the television he’s been collecting into your home, sorted through his own bizarre filing system of story clichés, recurring jokes, TV history, and anything else that finds purchase in a mind permanently altered by sitting too close to the screen.

ABOUT THE HOST: Jordan Dobbs Rosa is a permanently Californian film school cliche who does a little bit of everything, watches too much TV, and is known on your screens as Your Old Drinkin’ Buddy JDobbs. He previously was the host of The Midnight Now, is still the Museum’s Senior Sports Correspondent, and if you see a JDobbsRosa on any social media platform there’s a very good chance you’ve found him.

These two Seventies horror made-for-TV movies are worth the hype! Dan Curtis was the Ryan Murphy of his day, churning out the daytime goth vampire soap opera “Dark Shadows” while also crafting indelible, edible primetime horror treats like these two iconic bonbons starring a hardboiled Darren McGavin. He is Kolchak: the flea-bitten newspaper reporter who notices supernatural murders happening all around while the local cops do squat about it. Full of true-crime walk-and-talks, primo vintage Vegas footage, and other savory TV-movie delights.

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Longtime viewer/contributor Toby Jones (AJ GOES TO THE DOG PARK, Regular Show) is back in the host chair. Toby’s jones for 21st-century digital Americana burns bright, and tonight’s megamixes are often from that POV. Headlining this special is Absolutely Rose Street, a charming bit of ‘90s SEGA found-footage gaming lore. Among tonight’s tapestry of esoteric tastes is pure public-access poetry, ding-dong online humor, Pacino going feral, BeanTok, a tribute to comedic character actor Gerrit Graham and the further evolution of digital H20.

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THIS EPISODE IS PURE HYPE! IT’S ESSENTIALLY OUR TAKE ON MTV’S AMP! SUPER DANCEY & KINDA RELENTLESS! IT’S A HOT ONE! SPOTLITE on the silky synths & sultry singing of MILK TALK!

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MUSICVIDEODROME: A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.

About IVOR:IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

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Wild, impulsive, indulgent filmmaker Ken Russell worked some serious magic and synesthesia in the Seventies. You might know him best as the director of The Who’s TOMMY or the sci-fi brainbomb ALTERED STATES. In anticipation of the upcoming theatrical re-release of Russell’s THE DEVILS, tonight we’ll watch the guy’s other stone-cold masterpiece from the same year of 1971. On paper, the idea of Richard Chamberlain playing 19th-century Russian composer Tchaikovsky sounds a little dry…but not for a second in Russell’s world.

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One of the Museum’s greatest achievements! For several NTSC decades, our favorite silly TV comedies made the occasional awkward one-off turn into melodrama. These episode-length PSAs aspired to Emmy gold with delectably over-lit depictions of drugs, violence, death, abandonment, sex work, cults, UFOs, and spirit demons. Let’s revel in the most heart-stopping examples of a "very special episode" visibly in over its head: psychedelic dream states, death rattles, abrupt stretches played straight for minutes, emotional outbursts, and more!

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A project years in the making, “We’re Going to Disneyland” is a feature-length distillation of 30 years of sitcom households packing their bags and hitting the road to a Disney theme park for family fun, fireworks, and fulfilling contractual corporate obligations. Hosted by JDobbs

ABOUT THE SHOW: No need to adjust your antenna, set the VCR, or even pay the cable bill—just let Your Old Drinkin’ Buddy JDobbs beam all the television he’s been collecting into your home, sorted through his own bizarre filing system of story clichés, recurring jokes, TV history, and anything else that finds purchase in a mind permanently altered by sitting too close to the screen.

ABOUT THE HOST: Jordan Dobbs Rosa is a permanently Californian film school cliche who does a little bit of everything, watches too much TV, and is known on your screens as Your Old Drinkin’ Buddy JDobbs. He previously was the host of The Midnight Now, is still the Museum’s Senior Sports Correspondent, and if you see a JDobbsRosa on any social media platform there’s a very good chance you’ve found him.

Another fastest-paced-Museum-session-ever with two all-new hours of our signature Garbage Plate™ mixes. More than lemonade out of lemons, this is caviar out of compost. It’s like channel-changing on a cable system with a gazillion stations.

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It’s about time we properly celebrated two of the American counterculture’s greatest heroes; here we return to the well of fun John Waters interview clips. For this sequel, we’ll also focus on Waters’ beloved Edith Massey (“The Egg Lady” from PINK FLAMINGOS). These two are forever helixed in film history; they were witty, creative, shocking, and assured in equal measure. “Every word I ever utter shall be considered a royal proclamation!”

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FRIDAY NIGHT! Sweet friend DJ HOSEH made a GIGANTIC PILE of very FUN videos and also very HORNY videos just for YOU! Excited that he’s co-hosting this episode & boy will it be silly! Will it be a DOUBLE HORNY BLOCK episode? There’s just too many butts!

We have over 50 years of combined radio experience between us and it’ll be very funny when that doesn’t translate to live tv!

MUSICVIDEODROME: A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.

About IVOR:IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

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Simply put, Reelblack is one of YouTube’s finest archives of rare footage, and one of YouTube’s longest-running channels ever! Michael Dennis has been saving impeccably cool nuggets of African-American life on film and video for 20 years.  We honor Mike with a megamix of our favorite Reelblack moments. Behind-the-scenes with The Roots and The Neptunes, TV commercials that will blow your mind, Richard Pryor crooning (which will also blow your mind), historic dance parties, DMX on a rollercoaster, and the hair show to end all hair shows! We’ll also hear the scoop on Reelblack’s first Blu-ray release: RIVERBEND, the previously-lost ‘80s action epic starring the late Steve James (AMERICAN NINJA and many other Cannon Films).

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One of the Museum’s greatest loves is unseen footage of 1980s Los Angeles. We recently stumbled across a whole few episodes of the short-lived “Laugh Trax”: a Xerox of a competitor to “Fridays” (itself a janky clone of SNL). This show was filmed on location across the whole of LA. Cameos by Fred Willard and Leslie Nielsen, and a musical shots by General Public. SNL ’80 alumnus Gail Matthius (from the infamous “worst season ever”) acquits herself just fine here as a main cast member. And you’ll get to see the inside of some neon-soaked nightclubs

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Are you ready for the wildest game show we’ve ever aired? WOW, this is one hell of a tape. Nearly unedited by us, we present the infamous 1994 episode of the short-lived British phenom “Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush”…the one with a finale akin to Oprah’s “You get a car, and you get a car, and you get a car...”. “Toothbrush” is an unholy manic hybrid of variety show (Barry White guests for a few songs AND is an erstwhile contestant), sketch comedy (the red-headed host just won’t stop riffing), “Let’s Make A Deal” (audience encouraged to bring enormous papier-mâché toothbrushes), “Numberwang” (the fictitious surrealistic UK game show), and shock reality programme (see: finale). You won’t regret this.

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The look…that piercing look! Sandra’s rocked this world with fifty years of being WHO SHE IS. Starting her career as a manicurist to the stars, Sandra brings that intimacy, cattiness and filthiness that only a salon-ster can really bring. Tonight we bring well over 60 minutes of incredible talk show appearances and enthralling chutzpah.

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A supersonic blast of superlative, demented high-energy TV commercials from the UK.  You’ll hear jingles you’ll never be able to unhear! You’ll see foods that probably shouldn’t exist! Get down with elfish mascots, obscure condiments, baffling animations, naughty chocolates, wildlife chugging P.G. Tips, a few Python cameos, absolutely haunting PSAs and other delights.

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FRIDAY NIGHT! Your loins’ll be a-burnin’ like her voice is urgently yearnin’! She’s the brand ambassador for BIG HAIR and a lobbyist for SULTRY FLOWING FABRIC! It’s a SPOTLITE on the late great BONNIE TYLER! LATER IN THE EPISODE — A People’s Guide to Fisting Safety!

MUSICVIDEODROME: A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.

About IVOR:IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

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An unusual slice of warm ’n fuzzy watching from the Hall of Forgotten Sitcoms. After his iconic ten-year stretch between “Soap” and its hugely successful spinoff “Benson”, Robert Guillaume was looking for his next big move. Tonight we’ll watch a full episode of Guillaume’s short-lived titular sitcom from ’89, the unusual vibe of which is very cozy, low-stakes and more like an indie arthouse film.

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A babyfaced Bruce Campbell at age 24 (!), captured in a great late-nite moment in time. Finding this recording was the first we’d heard of “PBS Late Night”: a long-running public television competitor to Carson and Letterman, broadcast live from Detroit, MI. Here, affable host Dennis Wholey interviews Bruce at length on the May 6th, 1983 edition about THE EVIL DEAD. And they take live calls from around the States like it’s Larry King’s show!

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What a discovery! Before the iconic ‘90s indie that showcased the skill and style of Kid ’N Play, young filmmaker Reginald Hudlin shot an early version of HOUSE PARTY in ’83 for his undergrad degree at Harvard! Many of the scenes would later end up in the feature film verbatim, and this charming short did end up on PBS’s “Image Union” back in the ‘80s.

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MUSICVIDEODROME: A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.

About IVOR:IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

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The multiverse has never been filled with this much madness. Easily one of the most unhinged and surreal martial arts spectacles to ever escape from Hong Kong, 1978’s THE DRAGON LIVES AGAIN finds the departed spirit of Bruce Lee battling through the Underworld against Dracula, James Bond, The Godfather, The Exorcist, Emmanuelle, and even some mummies. But he's not alone! Along the way, Bruce befriends the One-Armed Swordsman, Caine from the TV show “Kung Fu,” and last but not least, Popeye the Sailor Man. Tonight we’ll watch this whole damned thing, unedited!

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