The video in question, Cabaret Voltaire's 'I Want You,' is campy and scary and sexy all at once, at least to a relatively sheltered 12-year-old—a glimmer of another world beyond the banality of contemporaneous radio staples like Men at Work and Toto.
For kids in the suburbs and the sticks, Night Flight wasn't just a place to see cool shit; it was practically a lifeline. From today's perspective, it might be hard to fathom how inaccessible underground culture was in the years before the internet.
Much the way college radio established a safe space for weirdos on the left of the dial, Night Flight staked out misfit-friendly terrain on the upper reaches of basic cable.
So it might come as a surprise to learn that Night Flight is back, in a decidedly 21st-century incarnation: not as a late-night cable broadcast but as a subscription streaming service, Night Flight Plus.
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