Man, i remember staying at my grandparents house on the weekends and watching this. It reminds me of some of the best times of my life. The 80's was an awesome time to be a kid .
Thank you for taking the time to post this. I know it's been on for 3 years, but I must've watched this 10-15 times. Love it. Love this. Wish the whole episode was on. Me and my friends in Country Club Hills, IL grew up on this.
Back then these times were golden, life was stress free for us kids, we got to stay up late on the weekends, then woke up on Sat morning for the cartoon line up, I feel sorry for today's kid's. They have psp, wii and xbox iphones to wake up to! SMH!!
Thank you SO MUCH, I was waiting for the day someone would upload this,, Video was never the same since this show disappeared,, I looked forward to it EVERY Friday around 12:00 Midnight (Right after Dr Who) I watched this from around 1983 to late '85 and it was an hour long. They really should bring back something like this,, I remember the Intro very, very well.
remember NIGHT TRACKS CHARTBUSTERS on TBS every saturday night around 9pm central in the 80's? That was the highlight of my Saturday night when i was a kid.
@TheLastBrainLeft Absolutely right, thats exactly how I felt back then, it was a TREAT to us all :) came on right after Dr Who, I was 11 when I first started watching it 1983-85
Anyone ever remember a daytime music video show called "hot" ? Seemed I hated staying up till midnight just to watch FNV. That is, until we bought our first VCR with timer record.
Now that MTV and VH1 have forgotten what music videos are, somebody needs to produce another show like this and bring back the 80s in current times :) They should show current bands, as well as flash back bands.
@hootyhaha Our local Fox station is trying it, now that they have two channels to broadcast. Should be interesting to see how long "The Cool TV" lasts.
@schroeder8911 You have the power man :) Just write in to them telling them that you're a fan. Send me a private message to that places website and I'll go ahead and write in saying I'm a fan of the show too.
@schroeder8911 Hey, I get The Cool TV also! (Cincinnati, OH). My jaw almost hit the floor when I discovered that it was a 24 hour music video channel! Just came across it last week.................it's fairly new, right? It BETTER not go the way of current MTV!!
Never mind cable. As a Canadian I didn't get MTV anyways! But living near lovely Buffalo we received their stations and FNV! Together with Good Rockin' Tonite (a canadian video show) it really was the golden age of the Music Video. It was a total nostalgic blast to see that intro again! I remembered the hexagonal rotating spindle very well.
Talk about memory lane. This brings back the days seeing Friday Night Videos after the news and DL. I didn't have cable back in the '80s and was great in having this for those who didn't have MTV.
Now this brought back some memories. I remember this in college watching this! Those times where so great! I see alot of posts saying how much we miss the music of that time and how much we enjoyed the videos. Now a days, they don't do any of this. My question is, why bother to make videos if there is no place to watch them. Would be nice to bring back the great music and videos!
Yup...this is what we did in SLC (Salt Lake City) before Mtv...stay up on a Friday night to watch newest videos on NBC. And then talk about it on Monday at school. Glory days!
Oh my god, memory lane. Wow, the 80s, the best days of my life!!! I was the only one in my family that would stay up late for this show. All my sisters and brothers would fall asleep. LOL
It was great to have Friday Night Videos then. I didn't have cable back in the '80s and really was something for those who didn't have MTV. I did go to friends' places to watch MTV.
The opening titles still kick -- always wished it were longer. Kinda cracks me up that people under 30 won't realize that the guy in the credits was lashed to a turn table spindle. *laugh* Funny that they used that imagery anyway since this show was playing to the Walkman generation. Just watched the closing credits and saw that the show was produced by Dick Ebersol of Saturday Night Live fame. Who knew?!
One of the best videos shows during it's run. This was probably one of the only late night shows that my mom actually was glad to let me stay up and watch as a kid. It was fun to stay up late and watch videos by Duran duran, prince, Michael Jackson and some of the others. As for the opening, with the animation, I always assumed it meant that someone who was once tied, was being set free by music. Just my two cents
WOW!!!! I came across this, OMG, I used to watch this all the time! It was the best show, came on after the news :) I remember this intro, still cool :) Thanks for taking me back!!!!!
@NeoVictorianX Well Some Of us Blue collars Didn't Have Cable back in them days So lighten up. Cable was something Of A fortune back then...Muchmusic Wasn't even a thought(Canadas Answer To MTV) and Whatever F.N.V Gave us...we were happy with.
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Friday Night Videos was mostly pop garbage. All the hip kids watched Night Flight and 120 minutes. The 80s were so lame. I regret having gone through adolesence during that decade. There was some great and original music, but it seldom got played on FNV.
This was the only way to watch music videos in rural Alaska (with the exception of a big freaking satellite dish) we didn't have MTV out in the boonies.
@rayjr62 The premise is pretty obvious, actually. Remember, this was the early stages of the music video format. The beginning of the intro shows a turntable needle hitting a record. The guy is tied to the spindle of the turntable, and he's spinning around, blindfolded because he can hear the music, but can't "see" it. Then he takes off the blindfold off and... well, you can guess what happens next.
@rayjr62 The premise is pretty obvious, actually. Remember, this was the early stages of the music video format. The beginning of the intro shows a turntable needle hitting a record. The guy is tied to the spindle of the turntable, and he's spinning around, blindfolded because he can hear the music, but can't "see" it. Then he takes off the blindfold off and... well, you can guess what happens next.
We didn't have cable, either. This was the best we could get and it rocked! I haven't seen that opening since 85 or so. Thanks so much for that bit of memory.
as a border line kid (calexico ca._mexicali mex) my brothers & i used to watch fnv at my grandpa´s house, next door and at the time he used to work until 2 or 3 am ,we didnt speak english but music was and still worlwide language ( i perfectly recall watching this intro,madonna,cameo etc way before mtv billy jean,peter gabriel,cars etc
In many markets NBC provided a simulcast on local FM stations so you could listen to it in stereo in cities where stereo TV wasn't available (which wasn't many).
remember watching this back in the 80's when i lived in northen ontario think it came on at midnight ...if you didnt have a satellite and not many had one this was as close to MTV you were ging to get...there used to be on on TBS in the 80's as well i think but cant remeber the name of it right now...
I loved this show! I have a few episodes that I taped, including an episode when Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, and Sam Kinison hosted it, I think it was 1991! Looking back, NBC really had the balls back then to have those 3 host! Long live the 80s!!
Yeeeesssss i love this,i dont think ive seen that intro since then and then the 1st video is SINGLE LIFE(CAMEO).OMG take me back to 85'...i was 17 awwww dayum!!!!
We had cable at the time, but I'd still watched this almost every Friday night when I was a kid! :) You can't see a music video anywhere these days, which really sucks!
I turned 7 in 1985 but my sister was 14. She would let me stay up late with her and watch Friday Night Videos. Great memories!! I wish they had all the episodes available to buy. I have some recorded on VHS and still love to watch them. :)
I hardly remember the show at all after '96 or so.
Ironically, in early 1990 they started running Saturday Morning Videos, which followed Saved by the Bell, & that was really the beginning of the end! It took them like two years to finally cancel that horseshit bowl filled with candy-coated lard!
Personally, I think FNVs took a turn for the better when they started playing less videos and started playing short films, celebrity interviews & insightful commentary, movie reviews, live performances, etc; a little more variety made for a better program. But, what I am referring to is what they did in the early & mid-90s before they switched to an all comedic format which was really the end for me.
If I was legal adult age during the mid eighties,this is what I would of been watching on Friday nights to get me "worked up" before going to a night club on Saturday nights(didn't go to my first real night clubs till the early nineties).
This really takes me back, way back to the early 'eighties. I can remember coming home from going out with my friends and if I got in early enough, I would turn on the television (with a dial, not a remote), and this opening sequence meant my weekend had officially begun. I distinctly remember watching the world premier of Ratt's "Round and Round" on this show. Great memories. Thanks for posting. It has been many years since I have seen this, but somehow it doesn't seem that long ago.
i loved this show back in the day. i had friends to hang out with on friday's and shit. but i was drawn to the music,style, and trends of the 80's. i even dressed like crocket on the tv show miami vice. i wish i could go back. the world is a different place now. violence is the trend now.
@TheJedi365 That may be the reason I dont have many friends. noww. Im 17 and maybe its because I'm focused on more spiritual values that seem too be lost these days. I want to turn the gift of music into something that will open up new energy in people. But sometimes I find myself thinking.. Why should I make good music for these same folks who left me lonely?
God i miss those days. Being a kid and having friday night videos was so special i never thought i would miss it so much. Those definitely were the days. R.I.P. FRIDAY
This was the only show that my mom would let me stay up to watch back in the day. Haven't seen the full intro in years. Too bad nbc don't show shows like this anymore.
@Melville10 The music of our times now is crapppppp!!! Radio stations play the same songs over and over,I called the radio stations asked them why that is,and they hung up on me!!!lol
96.7 and 97.5 austin texas station plays the same stuff over and over?!!
It was on NBC. I was also really young (5 in '84) when this show could actually compete w/ MTV, and loved it. I loved the scrolling title and remember Sherelle's 'I Didn't Mean to Turn You On' video distinctly. Loved it all!
I used to stay up late to watch this show as well. I remember watching the world premiere of Sweet Dreams by the Eurythmics. Friday Night Videos was the best.
@lowgeemudbone You Damn Skippy growing up during the 1980's was the best time in our lives let's get this straight for one the music i don't care what genre it was(Hip Hop/Rap,R&B,Rock,Metal,Pop,Soft Rock,etc.) it was good as FUCK and the music video's back then were Really good to watch i really can't defend todays commercial mainstream music which i can put into a couple words to explain these so-called artists THEY SUCK ASSSSSS PERIOD that is all i can say!!!!!!!!!!
@lowgeemudbone Damn right it was! We weren't desensitized to everything like kids today that have the world handed to them on a plate via the internet. We couldn't read leaked scripts, or be spoiled with the movies or download songs. We would actually buy records and appreciate music more. The human spirit is almost dead today.
@cheapcape Totally agree me and my sister used to watch Friday Night Videos back in the day on those non school nights and or with my cousins when I had those overnighters at my aunt's and or at my granmother's house but this generation of kids/young adults who I run to today tells me that they wish that they around back in the 80's watching videos late night Friday Night.
For those of us without cable, this was the thing to do on the southside of chicago on friday nights. The videos were new hip and cool and you felt like you were part of ther in-crowd when you went to school monday. The first video I saw on here was 'I'm still standing by elton john & 'holiday Road' by Lindsey Buckingham. very cool stuff.
@davideternity99 you described my childhood man, being from the southside of chicago without cable, this was exactly what we did, I remember my friday night lineup, webster, mr.belvedere, news, tonight show, david letterman and then friday night videos.
I sat-up with my bro & his friend... who slept-over that night... and watched the pilot in his room. We also had the stereo tuned-in to a local FM-stereo station for the simulcast, because stereo-TV was still a few years off at the time ('83).
huntingtonparkway huh? Yeah, I grew up in the Hamptons. Sounds like we had similar childhood experiences here on the Island. Friday Night Videos was a part of teen life then wasn't it?
Ok , the only reason you think this was good is because it reminds you of your youth....This was not good music.....It was not the good ole days.....Night Flight maybe.... but not this
THIS WAS AMAZING! What memories, never missed an episode and there was ALWAYS a comment on Monday at school starting out with "Did you watch Friday Night Videos with.....?"
Yeah! My brother and I would stay up and watch this every week. Awesome! Thanks for posting!
Sidenote: Look at the quality of the music. If this were today who knows what would be getting airplay, as if any of this Soulja Boi nonsense will be around getting airplay in 20+ years like half the videos mentioned on that intro.
i'd have 2 say 2 all the new mariah carey jay z and all that bs nope it will not even be remembered 10 years from now. remeber the song ride the train fron 97 or 98 whoop there it is whoop there its gone.
wow i remember not missing this show ever , every friday at 11pm on wsju channel 18 UHF , (there was no cable in my area then) the memories. me and my friends used to record this in his beta vcr.
This brings back a lot of memories. I used to tape this every week using my little audio cassette tape recorder and listen to the songs from the videos. Thanks for the memories!
Hell yea! - I stumbled across this by accident. I used to record this show every week - using the timer feature on our $600 VCR, as I was usually not allowed to stay up that late to watch it. Like many of the poeple that commented, I didn't have cable or MTV either. They had just run the cable up to our townhouse about a year before, but my parents didn't want to PAY for tv. This was my only means of seeing popular videos at the time. I LOVED this show! Thanks for the memories!
Heh-- that's funny, our dad bought a VCR that cost $1000.... it was a top-loader, MANUAL channel tuning, and one of the first with a wireless remote. We had NO cable (I had to go to my grandparents house for that), and I remember only owning a couple of VHS tapes for myself in the beginning, so I really had to pick what I wanted to keep! (I even started using my brother's tapes for my own stuff!)
LOL! Same here, VHS tapes were expensive, so I borrowed my brothers tapes to record every FNV episode, this show was part of the magic of been a 80's teen, 12:30 am on my town.
what's the name of the song/video @ 1:02 ??
faridperez 1 week ago
This was MTV for poor kids.
StoneyMcJuicyBuds 3 weeks ago
@StoneyMcJuicyBuds Like me!!
faridperez 1 week ago
@faridperez I was just glad to have electricity, I watched this on a 13 inch black and white tv and changed the channel with a fork.
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StoneyMcJuicyBuds 1 week ago
The good old days of the 80s time.
moormanmmm 1 month ago
morris day made the 0:41 face about 1.5 billion times in the 80s
chets808 1 month ago
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chets808 1 month ago
FRIDAY NIGHT VIDEOS on Friday nights and NIGHT TRACKS on TBS on Saturdays. DAMN i miss the 80s
msmithstud 2 months ago
@msmithstud Tell me about it!
cowboybear40 1 month ago
This brings me back to a better time period. I sure do miss the 80s!
RetroJenny 2 months ago
could u please upload the rest of it
tractorman287 2 months ago
Thanks for the memories.
forangeljr 2 months ago
Watching Friday Night Videos because we didn't have MTV. lol Always had my VCR ready to record my faves. Miss the 80s!
jdalijm2011 3 months ago
Anyone else remember an 80's video show called "HOT!" ? It was short lived, about 1984-85
RacerXGTO 3 months ago
Fawk! Setting my VCR to record at 1:00am because there was no way in hell I was stayin up that late on Friday to watch videos.
RacerXGTO 3 months ago
Man, i remember staying at my grandparents house on the weekends and watching this. It reminds me of some of the best times of my life. The 80's was an awesome time to be a kid .
TheAngus1169 3 months ago
Thank you for taking the time to post this. I know it's been on for 3 years, but I must've watched this 10-15 times. Love it. Love this. Wish the whole episode was on. Me and my friends in Country Club Hills, IL grew up on this.
msaltzma 4 months ago
Props to Friday night videos for mixing it up back in the days!!!
ednoroirika 4 months ago in playlist Friday Night Videos
I miss this show :-(
honeegrrl 4 months ago
So glad I grew up in there era, today's kids are getting ripped off.
pcmcguire18504 5 months ago 4
Good memories
heerah34 5 months ago
Back then these times were golden, life was stress free for us kids, we got to stay up late on the weekends, then woke up on Sat morning for the cartoon line up, I feel sorry for today's kid's. They have psp, wii and xbox iphones to wake up to! SMH!!
jwh1999 6 months ago 4
a 80s GEM. thanks
Hot80s 6 months ago
Thank you SO MUCH, I was waiting for the day someone would upload this,, Video was never the same since this show disappeared,, I looked forward to it EVERY Friday around 12:00 Midnight (Right after Dr Who) I watched this from around 1983 to late '85 and it was an hour long. They really should bring back something like this,, I remember the Intro very, very well.
intromix 6 months ago 2
Oh man, does this take me back....
therealsoulproduct 6 months ago 2
remember NIGHT TRACKS CHARTBUSTERS on TBS every saturday night around 9pm central in the 80's? That was the highlight of my Saturday night when i was a kid.
msmithstud 6 months ago 3
track ID? Its like a lost Italo track....
jnnx 7 months ago
The graphics look like Elvis Costello's 1978 video for Accidents Will Happen
bettyfelon1 7 months ago
Ahhhh the 80s, so many memories. I couldn't wait until this came on on Friday night :-)
honeegrrl 8 months ago
This show was a godsend for those of us who did not get have cable.
TheLastBrainLeft 8 months ago
@TheLastBrainLeft Absolutely right, thats exactly how I felt back then, it was a TREAT to us all :) came on right after Dr Who, I was 11 when I first started watching it 1983-85
intromix 6 months ago
I guess this was NBC's answer to MTV.... I must say even though MTV lasted longer, Friday Night Videos was better than MTV today....
MTV- Moronic Televsion
jriley1992 8 months ago
@jriley1992 Well, what ISN'T better than MTV is, today? Ptomaine poisoning is better than MTV is, now.
GoblinXXX 7 months ago
Anyone ever remember a daytime music video show called "hot" ? Seemed I hated staying up till midnight just to watch FNV. That is, until we bought our first VCR with timer record.
RacerXGTO 8 months ago
Now that MTV and VH1 have forgotten what music videos are, somebody needs to produce another show like this and bring back the 80s in current times :) They should show current bands, as well as flash back bands.
hootyhaha 9 months ago
@hootyhaha Our local Fox station is trying it, now that they have two channels to broadcast. Should be interesting to see how long "The Cool TV" lasts.
schroeder8911 8 months ago
@schroeder8911 You have the power man :) Just write in to them telling them that you're a fan. Send me a private message to that places website and I'll go ahead and write in saying I'm a fan of the show too.
hootyhaha 8 months ago
@schroeder8911 Hey, I get The Cool TV also! (Cincinnati, OH). My jaw almost hit the floor when I discovered that it was a 24 hour music video channel! Just came across it last week.................it's fairly new, right? It BETTER not go the way of current MTV!!
lurch321 7 months ago
Scott Muni voiced this, didn't he? Gawwwd, how I miss the 80s!!!
wannawatchu66 9 months ago in playlist Network archival material
Never mind cable. As a Canadian I didn't get MTV anyways! But living near lovely Buffalo we received their stations and FNV! Together with Good Rockin' Tonite (a canadian video show) it really was the golden age of the Music Video. It was a total nostalgic blast to see that intro again! I remembered the hexagonal rotating spindle very well.
MXB2001 9 months ago
Talk about memory lane. This brings back the days seeing Friday Night Videos after the news and DL. I didn't have cable back in the '80s and was great in having this for those who didn't have MTV.
ScorpioBornIn69 10 months ago
Now this brought back some memories. I remember this in college watching this! Those times where so great! I see alot of posts saying how much we miss the music of that time and how much we enjoyed the videos. Now a days, they don't do any of this. My question is, why bother to make videos if there is no place to watch them. Would be nice to bring back the great music and videos!
swimjockey 10 months ago 4
For those of us that were too cheap to have cable. Good times. Now the video channels suck.
20carrocks 10 months ago 4
Bring back Friday Night Videos. I'd rather watch videos of Thriller or Sledgehammer than Jimmy Fallon.
richiebear1969 10 months ago
I Wanna See The One With Tempestt Bledsoe And Malcolm Jamal Warner !
aeropostalebunny1 10 months ago
i remember this was out b4 MTV, and I never missed an episode.
roffus420 11 months ago 2
NBC was great back then, now it blows.
cheapcape 11 months ago 7
Yup...this is what we did in SLC (Salt Lake City) before Mtv...stay up on a Friday night to watch newest videos on NBC. And then talk about it on Monday at school. Glory days!
Whateverintheworld 11 months ago 2
Oh my god, memory lane. Wow, the 80s, the best days of my life!!! I was the only one in my family that would stay up late for this show. All my sisters and brothers would fall asleep. LOL
mmr003 1 year ago 2
It was great to have Friday Night Videos then. I didn't have cable back in the '80s and really was something for those who didn't have MTV. I did go to friends' places to watch MTV.
ScorpioBornIn69 1 year ago
The opening titles still kick -- always wished it were longer. Kinda cracks me up that people under 30 won't realize that the guy in the credits was lashed to a turn table spindle. *laugh* Funny that they used that imagery anyway since this show was playing to the Walkman generation. Just watched the closing credits and saw that the show was produced by Dick Ebersol of Saturday Night Live fame. Who knew?!
longmind 1 year ago
When I was a kid, this show was my favorite 90 minutes of the week.
elfshotthefood 1 year ago
One of the best videos shows during it's run. This was probably one of the only late night shows that my mom actually was glad to let me stay up and watch as a kid. It was fun to stay up late and watch videos by Duran duran, prince, Michael Jackson and some of the others. As for the opening, with the animation, I always assumed it meant that someone who was once tied, was being set free by music. Just my two cents
Christinada5 1 year ago
boy that takes me back .
Kajsrj 1 year ago
WOW!!!! I came across this, OMG, I used to watch this all the time! It was the best show, came on after the news :) I remember this intro, still cool :) Thanks for taking me back!!!!!
sassyfrass67 1 year ago
Wow, bring on the memories, lol.
chairmanofthebored1 1 year ago
@NeoVictorianX Well Some Of us Blue collars Didn't Have Cable back in them days So lighten up. Cable was something Of A fortune back then...Muchmusic Wasn't even a thought(Canadas Answer To MTV) and Whatever F.N.V Gave us...we were happy with.
MrVapourtrail71 1 year ago
What a blast from the past. Thanks for posting as I have not seen the intro for this show in over 20 years.
juniorsurprise06 1 year ago
If anyone has these old Friday Night Videos on tape with whole episodes PM me please !
progernelson1 1 year ago
Cool
hilarioph 1 year ago
Man do I remember those neon lights that spelled out friday night videos....takes me back to being 9 years old again!
MrMorningside125 1 year ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Friday Night Videos was mostly pop garbage. All the hip kids watched Night Flight and 120 minutes. The 80s were so lame. I regret having gone through adolesence during that decade. There was some great and original music, but it seldom got played on FNV.
NeoVictorianX 1 year ago
This was the only way to watch music videos in rural Alaska (with the exception of a big freaking satellite dish) we didn't have MTV out in the boonies.
xmodemrm 1 year ago
What year did they stop using this opening ? I remember in the later years, they would go straight to some Star hosting the show.
Motorcyclephil 1 year ago
For the two people that disliked this video why the fuck would you dislike this video what the hell for?????
superapple4ever 1 year ago
I LIVED for Friday Night Videos.
Samadhiatman500 1 year ago
I remember this very well, but I could never understand the premise. . . they tie up some dude. It never made any sense to me.
rayjr62 1 year ago
@rayjr62 The premise is pretty obvious, actually. Remember, this was the early stages of the music video format. The beginning of the intro shows a turntable needle hitting a record. The guy is tied to the spindle of the turntable, and he's spinning around, blindfolded because he can hear the music, but can't "see" it. Then he takes off the blindfold off and... well, you can guess what happens next.
mondosam 1 year ago
@rayjr62 The premise is pretty obvious, actually. Remember, this was the early stages of the music video format. The beginning of the intro shows a turntable needle hitting a record. The guy is tied to the spindle of the turntable, and he's spinning around, blindfolded because he can hear the music, but can't "see" it. Then he takes off the blindfold off and... well, you can guess what happens next.
mondosam 1 year ago
We didn't have cable, either. This was the best we could get and it rocked! I haven't seen that opening since 85 or so. Thanks so much for that bit of memory.
pulyapudoff 1 year ago
as a border line kid (calexico ca._mexicali mex) my brothers & i used to watch fnv at my grandpa´s house, next door and at the time he used to work until 2 or 3 am ,we didnt speak english but music was and still worlwide language ( i perfectly recall watching this intro,madonna,cameo etc way before mtv billy jean,peter gabriel,cars etc
chemamole 1 year ago
This was one of my greatest memories as a child. This and the KISS movie...lol.. Thanks for sharing!
Killbride 1 year ago
In many markets NBC provided a simulcast on local FM stations so you could listen to it in stereo in cities where stereo TV wasn't available (which wasn't many).
mgabrysSF 1 year ago
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remember watching this back in the 80's when i lived in northen ontario think it came on at midnight ...if you didnt have a satellite and not many had one this was as close to MTV you were ging to get...there used to be on on TBS in the 80's as well i think but cant remeber the name of it right now...
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2braindamage 1 year ago
One of the BEST tv themes ever! As a kid growing up with NO cable, this was the show to watch to keep up with MTV.
lurch321 1 year ago 4
Oh my God! I haven't seen this since I was a kid! Why is that guy tied to the pole and spinning around?
unisomerzzz 1 year ago
@unisomerzzz Its called an "LSD " flashback. That is from the guy who created the opening theme.
Motorcyclephil 1 year ago
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Roadstar1602 1 year ago
I remember Friday Night Videos!!! I could never wait for it to come on!
Ozone04p 1 year ago
I loved this show! I have a few episodes that I taped, including an episode when Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, and Sam Kinison hosted it, I think it was 1991! Looking back, NBC really had the balls back then to have those 3 host! Long live the 80s!!
M0tleyFreak 1 year ago
This is how most of america watched music videos on tv before we had cable and MTV
shibainuwalker 1 year ago
Yeeeesssss i love this,i dont think ive seen that intro since then and then the 1st video is SINGLE LIFE(CAMEO).OMG take me back to 85'...i was 17 awwww dayum!!!!
iluvrachellef 1 year ago
Wow. This brings back some memories!
TheCurmudgen 1 year ago
Seriously long live the 80s!
TheRings7 1 year ago 2
I counted on this show after our Satellite Cable went all scrambly and sh it. Great show!
gravelandgrain100 1 year ago
We had cable at the time, but I'd still watched this almost every Friday night when I was a kid! :) You can't see a music video anywhere these days, which really sucks!
purplegurl79 1 year ago 24
@purplegurl79 Boy do i miss this time period
amcstudio30 5 months ago
Believe it or not, NBC used to be a fun network
cheapcape 1 year ago
@cheapcape All of them used to be fun. I wonder who decided to turn it all to crap?
marioTmaggot 1 year ago
@marioTmaggot Corporate greed. NBC and other networks put on only what they like, not what the people like.
cheapcape 1 year ago
The best reason to actually stay home on Friday nights.
honeegrrl 1 year ago 2
@honeegrrl Friday nights on NBC were actually cool. Miami Vice at 10 pm F.N.V at 12:30 a.m.
richiebear1969 1 year ago
i watch friday nights with my 2 older brothers,i was 5 since that age i like the music..i still like it
dragongirl1980 1 year ago
Yeah!
My Jungle Love!
I just wanna know ya know ya!
AltimaNEO 1 year ago
Great Line-up--I wanted to hear Cameo
wcorowitz 1 year ago
I turned 7 in 1985 but my sister was 14. She would let me stay up late with her and watch Friday Night Videos. Great memories!! I wish they had all the episodes available to buy. I have some recorded on VHS and still love to watch them. :)
jasonlacyashton 1 year ago
The best decade of my life!
CHRISCP9740 1 year ago
Hey kids; I am 38 and back then this was amazing technology back then.
peacheslovesjesus 1 year ago
I hardly remember the show at all after '96 or so.
Ironically, in early 1990 they started running Saturday Morning Videos, which followed Saved by the Bell, & that was really the beginning of the end! It took them like two years to finally cancel that horseshit bowl filled with candy-coated lard!
SpookeyR 1 year ago
Personally, I think FNVs took a turn for the better when they started playing less videos and started playing short films, celebrity interviews & insightful commentary, movie reviews, live performances, etc; a little more variety made for a better program. But, what I am referring to is what they did in the early & mid-90s before they switched to an all comedic format which was really the end for me.
SpookeyR 1 year ago
man i miss friday night videos
johndoe590 1 year ago
God I use to watch this when I was a kid, love this thank you
gaadoutwat 1 year ago
Fantastic theme song!!! Does anyone have a full uncut, no voice over copy of this song??? Would be fantastic to get this??
Thanks Much!!!
cinibar 1 year ago
If I was legal adult age during the mid eighties,this is what I would of been watching on Friday nights to get me "worked up" before going to a night club on Saturday nights(didn't go to my first real night clubs till the early nineties).
TheXtro101 1 year ago
This really takes me back, way back to the early 'eighties. I can remember coming home from going out with my friends and if I got in early enough, I would turn on the television (with a dial, not a remote), and this opening sequence meant my weekend had officially begun. I distinctly remember watching the world premier of Ratt's "Round and Round" on this show. Great memories. Thanks for posting. It has been many years since I have seen this, but somehow it doesn't seem that long ago.
JamesM1868 1 year ago
They should bring this back! As if there isn't enough junk on late night TV these days...
ddavenport 1 year ago
Cool.
I also like the sharp picture here, too!
mwhite36 1 year ago
Man I miss the 80s
honeegrrl 1 year ago
simple the best
wuatho70 1 year ago
i loved this show back in the day. i had friends to hang out with on friday's and shit. but i was drawn to the music,style, and trends of the 80's. i even dressed like crocket on the tv show miami vice. i wish i could go back. the world is a different place now. violence is the trend now.
TheJedi365 1 year ago
@TheJedi365 That may be the reason I dont have many friends. noww. Im 17 and maybe its because I'm focused on more spiritual values that seem too be lost these days. I want to turn the gift of music into something that will open up new energy in people. But sometimes I find myself thinking.. Why should I make good music for these same folks who left me lonely?
Lil285 3 months ago
God i miss those days. Being a kid and having friday night videos was so special i never thought i would miss it so much. Those definitely were the days. R.I.P. FRIDAY
blainebishop1 1 year ago
This was the only show that my mom would let me stay up to watch back in the day. Haven't seen the full intro in years. Too bad nbc don't show shows like this anymore.
Christinada5 1 year ago
...for those of us who didn't have cable. LOL
20carrocks 1 year ago
That a-Ha video is a classic
russwinkler 1 year ago
Used to watch this on WWBT Channel 12 Richmond, VA!
kd4adv 1 year ago
Boy that brings back Memories!
For those of us who didn't have MTV, let alone cable, this was our only source of music videos.
Verdillac2 1 year ago
Nick Michaels is the man behind the microphone for this intro.
wrestlingchallenge 1 year ago
I remember watching this show with my family. It was ritual.
CATGOTCHATOUNGE 1 year ago
aw snap that lineup was wild, + they opened w/cameo too, miss the 80's
aquarianrican 1 year ago
@aquarianrican. Your not enjoying 2010? : ) Why would that be?
Melville10 1 year ago
@Melville10 The music of our times now is crapppppp!!! Radio stations play the same songs over and over,I called the radio stations asked them why that is,and they hung up on me!!!lol
96.7 and 97.5 austin texas station plays the same stuff over and over?!!
brokenheartedfool75 1 year ago
This was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid, when growing up was fun.
moonraker30 1 year ago
I saw this airing! It was in October of 1985!
robfergusonjr 1 year ago
I remember them premiering "Thriller" on this show back in 83.
memyself2k 1 year ago
gawd, im old! lol
myredrose1974 1 year ago
It was on NBC. I was also really young (5 in '84) when this show could actually compete w/ MTV, and loved it. I loved the scrolling title and remember Sherelle's 'I Didn't Mean to Turn You On' video distinctly. Loved it all!
majmike2008 1 year ago
what network was this on??
elixeroflife 1 year ago
Looks like Fall of `85 to me. I remember most those songs were aired then.
1984AP 2 years ago
yeah I mainly remember the battle videos,especially when Def Leppard ruled
n3miovfd 2 years ago
i always loved the opening credits of this show, ty for posting
XMLarry 2 years ago
I used to stay up late to watch this show as well. I remember watching the world premiere of Sweet Dreams by the Eurythmics. Friday Night Videos was the best.
xpviking 2 years ago 5
growing up in the early 80s was the best!!
lowgeemudbone 2 years ago 64
@lowgeemudbone Amen to that. Todays kids just care about emo, iPods, cell phones and facebook. Generation Me. I want it now!
southport97 1 year ago
@lowgeemudbone You Damn Skippy growing up during the 1980's was the best time in our lives let's get this straight for one the music i don't care what genre it was(Hip Hop/Rap,R&B,Rock,Metal,Pop,Soft Rock,etc.) it was good as FUCK and the music video's back then were Really good to watch i really can't defend todays commercial mainstream music which i can put into a couple words to explain these so-called artists THEY SUCK ASSSSSS PERIOD that is all i can say!!!!!!!!!!
FeuDduDe29 1 year ago
@lowgeemudbone You and me both dude. i miss those days.
Faiko76 1 year ago
@lowgeemudbone That it was!!
wannawatchu66 1 year ago
@lowgeemudbone Damn right it was! We weren't desensitized to everything like kids today that have the world handed to them on a plate via the internet. We couldn't read leaked scripts, or be spoiled with the movies or download songs. We would actually buy records and appreciate music more. The human spirit is almost dead today.
southport97 1 year ago 2
@southport97 Very true my friend, I also grew up in the 80's and damn do I miss that time!
cheapcape 11 months ago 14
@cheapcape Totally agree me and my sister used to watch Friday Night Videos back in the day on those non school nights and or with my cousins when I had those overnighters at my aunt's and or at my granmother's house but this generation of kids/young adults who I run to today tells me that they wish that they around back in the 80's watching videos late night Friday Night.
Bradiorecords 5 months ago 2
For those of us without cable, this was the thing to do on the southside of chicago on friday nights. The videos were new hip and cool and you felt like you were part of ther in-crowd when you went to school monday. The first video I saw on here was 'I'm still standing by elton john & 'holiday Road' by Lindsey Buckingham. very cool stuff.
davideternity99 2 years ago 37
@davideternity99 you described my childhood man, being from the southside of chicago without cable, this was exactly what we did, I remember my friday night lineup, webster, mr.belvedere, news, tonight show, david letterman and then friday night videos.
moonraker30 1 year ago
@davideternity99 Exactly!! It was the same for those of us without cable in Alabama as well! Loved it!
jasonlacyashton 1 year ago
@davideternity99 I hear ya man. All we had was rabbit ears then a roof antenna! So FNV was a great alternative to MTV then.
cheapcape 11 months ago
I sat-up with my bro & his friend... who slept-over that night... and watched the pilot in his room. We also had the stereo tuned-in to a local FM-stereo station for the simulcast, because stereo-TV was still a few years off at the time ('83).
nickelindimer 2 years ago
This intro creeped me out as a kid.
UTubeHeadVA 2 years ago 2
@UTubeHeadVA The creepiest intro was "Unsolved Mysteries"
richiebear1969 1 year ago
man funny seeing this again. brings back memories. when everybody didnt have cable and for sure every tv in the house didnt
huntingtonparkway 2 years ago
huntingtonparkway huh? Yeah, I grew up in the Hamptons. Sounds like we had similar childhood experiences here on the Island. Friday Night Videos was a part of teen life then wasn't it?
AgaMbadi 2 years ago
man, i'm back in junior high with this one.....if ya didn't have cable back then on a friday night, this was the shit!!
hevyonez97 2 years ago
Daaammmnnn....this was for those of us who did not have cable for MTV. This takes me back.
GenVirtu 2 years ago
Ok , the only reason you think this was good is because it reminds you of your youth....This was not good music.....It was not the good ole days.....Night Flight maybe.... but not this
hicks727 2 years ago
it was very good...80's rule
holywar911 2 years ago
Ah yes, Friday Night Videos... staying up late for no other reason than to watch cool music...
conradragzoff 2 years ago
And to think this was one of the few reasons to watch NBC besides The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson....Ahhhhh, yes!
redpaladin64 2 years ago
ahhh, the good old days. I miss the 80s something fierce!
zestyguy87 2 years ago
THIS WAS AMAZING! What memories, never missed an episode and there was ALWAYS a comment on Monday at school starting out with "Did you watch Friday Night Videos with.....?"
rc8675309 2 years ago
This show was like religion to us growing up in the 80's. No teenager would dare forget to watch it on Friday nights.
ApparitionZ 2 years ago 3
Amen to that brother.
GenVirtu 2 years ago
My friend Pat & I would watch this with the volume turned way down on the TV. Heaven forbid if we woke up his Bible thumping mother.
MrScottydog1969 2 years ago 2
Yeah! My brother and I would stay up and watch this every week. Awesome! Thanks for posting!
Sidenote: Look at the quality of the music. If this were today who knows what would be getting airplay, as if any of this Soulja Boi nonsense will be around getting airplay in 20+ years like half the videos mentioned on that intro.
DasWolfsBlood 2 years ago
i'd have 2 say 2 all the new mariah carey jay z and all that bs nope it will not even be remembered 10 years from now. remeber the song ride the train fron 97 or 98 whoop there it is whoop there its gone.
bobafettfan32 2 years ago
wow i remember not missing this show ever , every friday at 11pm on wsju channel 18 UHF , (there was no cable in my area then) the memories. me and my friends used to record this in his beta vcr.
the13joker 2 years ago
This brings back a lot of memories. I used to tape this every week using my little audio cassette tape recorder and listen to the songs from the videos. Thanks for the memories!
chris21125150 2 years ago 2
I've done that too... Only I did it off the local UHF channel's version, that showed before & after school.
nickelindimer 2 years ago
Hell yea! - I stumbled across this by accident. I used to record this show every week - using the timer feature on our $600 VCR, as I was usually not allowed to stay up that late to watch it. Like many of the poeple that commented, I didn't have cable or MTV either. They had just run the cable up to our townhouse about a year before, but my parents didn't want to PAY for tv. This was my only means of seeing popular videos at the time. I LOVED this show! Thanks for the memories!
skt285 2 years ago 3
ditto here
ApparitionZ 2 years ago
Heh-- that's funny, our dad bought a VCR that cost $1000.... it was a top-loader, MANUAL channel tuning, and one of the first with a wireless remote. We had NO cable (I had to go to my grandparents house for that), and I remember only owning a couple of VHS tapes for myself in the beginning, so I really had to pick what I wanted to keep! (I even started using my brother's tapes for my own stuff!)
conradragzoff 2 years ago
LOL! Same here, VHS tapes were expensive, so I borrowed my brothers tapes to record every FNV episode, this show was part of the magic of been a 80's teen, 12:30 am on my town.
thefonkykid 2 years ago