NBC News Overnight Intro 1982

[radiodj1520]

I Believe Thi Was A Video Clip Of NBC News Overnight Video Open From Early Tuesday Morning, June 22, 1982.

[allogicid]

typewriter on a news desk oh my god XDDD

[WizzoPro9476]

Prince William is a baldy now!!!

[fanboy2015]

Best. Show. Ever.

[bettyfelon1]

Does anyone remember the show Weekend on NBC in the late seventies? It was a prime time news show on Saturday night on at about eight or nine and Linda was on there with Lloyd Dobbins. Wasn't he on the earlier shows of Overnight and then left?

[TheRealDavidJ]

Great program. Summer 1982, NBC owned my soon-to-be-15 self and the living room console TV after prime time: Tonight Show with Johnny Carson; Late Show with David Letterman in its first year; NBC News Overnight, also in its early days. Overnight was a perfect follow to Letterman -- both were smart shows, dancing masterfully between wry and flat out goofy, but Overnight added serious when necessary. Neither Letterman nor NBC News were ever better.

[trinimark123abc]

David Letterman #LOL

[jettadude736]

Cool intro music. lol

[SWhit62030]

We could use a program like Overnight now.

[nicopita97]

Nice Intro Background so good to see the twin towers in this to.

[fruitbatagogo]

I loved this show and watched it all the time (I worked evenings and was up late, one of the main audiences.) It was a great show, serious about serious issues, but not about itself, or the trivia that is half the "news" in any medium, any era.

So how is it that I watched this all the time, and I do NOT remember the opening music at all? I thought I would be flooded with nostalgia, but I just thought "huh?" Oh, well, last memorable news theme was Huntley-Brinkley (Beethoven's 5th, 2nd movement)

[smokes2468]

That is some really good music in that intro.

[engnr1]

Back then, anything that was on at night (including Letterman and before that, the early SNL) had the feel of a bunch of college students taking over the network after the stuffy adults went home. Very cool time in broadcasting. Now, it is either fake casualness or downright nastiness (esp. Fox News).

[PinkAngelRoxs]

i know what nbc stands for now =]

NOTHING BUT CRAP

[uncleartie]

This show is on the short list of all-time finest news broadcasts. Cancelled far too soon.

[kylelandry]

FREAKING RETRO MAN!!!

[mkpctv]

haha look at that guy's hair and mustache

[tygersflowerz]

I know, he looks like Oates.. from Hall & Oates.

[djbattman]

No,  "Kotter from Welcome back Kotter!"

[Lakeview312]

I loved Linda Ellerbee on this show...and so it goes...

[punkband14]

bleh oldfags

[nicklebackfan]

I remember as a kid trying to stay up to watch this and I don't think I ever could keep my eyes open!

[royalfuzziness]

Its was a very funny show in the sense that most news casts are straight laced and serious. But these hosts would talk about their bosses and the staff, they would read viewer mail

and give their opinions on it,something not seen before on broadcast news. This show set out to prove that news casters are human to.

[riomanpr]

to this day I still miss this show. News is not the same without Linda Ellerbee, and so it goes

[droptopsixfo]

Haha such terrible music!!

[cag1970]

Both NBC News Overnight and CBS News Nightwatch were incredible in their day. I definitely enjoyed Linda Ellerbee on Overnight, as well as Felicia Jeter and the late Christopher Glenn (the voice of the "In The News" spots that CBS used to show on Saturday mornings) on Nightwatch. We take for granted now that we can get news 24/7. Back in the early 1980s, this was very much a novelty.

[felliniesque2000]

That's a Yamaha DX-7 doing that brass sound.

[herehavesomepie]

how do you know?

lets score it

[daryl060761]

Gotta love those typewriters in the foreground. And the synthesizer theme music. Alan Parsons Project meets Kraftwerk, which at that time, must have been seen as the future of music!

[miamivicepastels83]

that intro music was horrible

[pjbrubak]

and yet I love it

[prplepopsicle]

(no shirt, no shoes) while being led into the police van, the man, boasted out of the back of the van and while being pushed back in by police the man throws his fist in the air and yelled "save Overnight" I was very sad to see this type of "Original" (never been done since) type of news broadcasting. Bill and lynda will always be in my memoried for the confronting newscasts Overnight gave us.

(Very Very sad indeed)

[prplepopsicle]

haha I really really loved this no nonsense news program. watched every time it aired.

The best memory I have of this show was the last episode where they told everyone they were being cancelled a week earlier. They showed a news footage of some protestors being arrested for other reasons.... one of the arrestees,

[dgendvil]

Bil Schechner mainly talks a lot of Northern California stuff... he had also previously worked at Newsroom during the 70's at KQED in San Francisco.

[SuckerTrainBlues87]

ha listen to that theme song....thats the hint its from the 80s lol

[polyiguana]

Is that Linda Ellerbee or a sub?

[IceManNYR]

A sub.

[wmbrown6]

I noticed . . . but who on that day was subbing for Ms. Ellerbee?

[misterspiffy]

The Aaron Brown/Lisa McRee days of World News Now were good too.

[JeffATL]

Oh, four months before I was born.

[JeffATL]

What is the actual air date of this NBC News Overnight Broadcast?

[IceManNYR]

I believe 21st of June 1982 because one of the stories was the birth of Prince William.

[thoughtstorms]

this show was BRILLIANT. They had ZERO budget, so they let it be known that the 5 minute stories reporters had made all over the US that got cut down to 90 seconds - they would air in their entirety! They had fun with the intros to stories and they were great writer. "And So It Goes" by Linda Ellerbee is a great book, too!

[fossefan]

Yes! It's a super read.

[huggyface]

I saw her on Nick News...in the 90's, when not only Nick had it but many local stations also carried it. I think only Nick itself has it now. Unless it was cancelled.

[GoneB4Unoit]

Were did you get this and can you get the whole last show ?

[thoughtstorms]

I want ANY of the shows! They were crazy-great.

[midknightryder13]

This was, without reservation, the BEST OVERNIGHT NEWSCAST EVER!!! In today's climate, unfortunately, you could never do it -- it was a thinking person's newscast. World News Now and Up To The Minute aren't even pale imitations.

[huggyface]

I vaguely remember this...it came on in 1982-3, when I was almost a teen LOL. NBC also did another overnite newsy show called "Nightside" in the 90's, but was cancelled. CBS & ABC still have theirs, but not FOX. Oh snap did I forget the Fox News Channel? You watch, we decide! LOL

[thoughtstorms]

In my opinion (and i watched this every chance i could) - the closest thing - although different is the modern-day two-headed Mark Twain: Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report. Real news is given an amusing treatment -funnier, but rarely as poignant, and NEVER quite as informative.

[dingorex]

Don't forget Lloyd Dobbins. His straightforward no-nonsense presentation was commendable. I still have the last episode on audio tape. Just one of those things...

[Herbert7J]

I remember when I was a senior in high school, watching this show some nights when I had insomnia. I was always struck by the fact that Linda Ellerbee would look at the camera with such a cold and contemptuous stone-cold smirk, as though she wanted to commit murder just by her stare. I've never forgotten that in almost 25 years! She was the Joe Friday of news reporting!

[boyfriendable]

I remember Linda Ellerbee too..she was scary...

[thoughtstorms]

very odd indeed — i found her gaze comforting, and endearing. Of course, i think i had more than a casual crush on her too....

[irish89055]

just five monitors on a shelf, lol lol... and so it goes...

[WashesWhiter]

Latenight news was never any better than this program which was always smart, funny, and a welcome break from the "bad news tonight" at 6PM. I have never forgotten the sentimental final telecast. NBC Overnight should have gone on forever. It was just one of those things...

[4ntid0te]

My Grandfather Lloyd Dobyns was a big part of this show.

[thoughtstorms]

Lloyd was essential to the show. The show he helped create did stay brilliant when he left, but was never quite as great! And i always admired his UN-conventional look, facial hair and all that character that Barbie/Ken anchors never are.....

[fromthesidelines]

The network dropped "OVERNIGHT" in 1983, due to budget cutbacks. They tried again, with an 'NBC News Channel' overnight feed for local affiliates in the mid-'90s, but, as Jeff Zucker once said about replacing "LATE FRIDAY" with an hour-long edition of "LAST CALL WITH CARSON DALY" five years ago, "This isn't about ratings- this is about sales". That's why there are repeats of Leno's "TONIGHT SHOW" and "POKER AFTER DARK".

[huggyface]

The NBC News Channel feed was called "Nightside", and I was told by an NBC affiliate employee that it did okay ratings-wise, but as you say I guess NBC cared more about money than ratings. Bummer, I think the crap they show overnites (Leno repeats and poker shit) is hardly any better than an infomercial. Heck an infomercial might at least try to sell you some quirky device you might need...maybe. Why not just put up color bars? They're prettier than seeing Leno multiple times all night long.

[spartydrew5]

soundtrack courtesy of tecmo superbowl

[scorinado]

Hahahah. I kinda dig it.

[bruhe]

dang it you made me spill my beer. and btw are those real typewriters? i need to save this to show to my chirren.

[thedjmic]

What a great show. Smart writing. Funny. They used to put toys on their desks and crack up half the time. Great catch phrases like "sports on a reel" or "on a role" "and so it goes". Love this show. Thanks for posting it.

[gvk9r]

The "NBC News Overnight" theme song sort of sounds like the ABC News theme song.

[Skootch]

Whoa! Listen to those typewriters in the background!

[jhudsfo]

this was a smart thinking man's show...long gone what with the corporate "News" crap that permeates the airwaves...as in the latest fake jon benet confessor..and how the media fell over themselves covering that nutcase while troops continue to die in iraq over a lie...

[highonpsi]

that's some old footage of the twin towers

[jasonbondshow]

This was very cool back in the day. I wish they would bring stuff like this back instead of airing infomercials and other crap like that.

[tvnutboy]

ABC does in the form of "World News Now", and CBS does with it's "Up To The Minute" news Block. Depending on where you live in America, they run about 1-3 hours long.

[gvk9r]

You also forgot "Earily Today" on NBC, they still show earily moring news before the local morning news.

[wxtulsa]

Early Today is not the same as World News Now or Up To the Minute. Early Today is just a 30 minute show, and ABC and CBS have similar programs as well. NBC just shows repeats of the Tonight Show and Late Night in the wee hours.

[gvk9r]

True, but MSNBC still covers a recap of yesterday's news durring the earliy monring hours while NBC airs overnight repeats of "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" and "Late Night With Conan O'Brien." For those who don't have cable or satulite, "Earily Today" on NBC still covers a recap of yesterday's news. See for your self.

[wxtulsa]

I understand that, but Early Today isn't the same kind of program as World News Now or Up To the Minute. It's the same kind of program as America This Morning and CBS Morning News.

[MusicOnTV]

I remember this show - especially when Linda Ellerbee was on - I worked the night shift and I never missed it. It was by far the smartest news show on and I thought it was way ahead of its time - unfortunately that time never came and the news never got this smart. And so it goes!

[saturnday]

This program was actually good for its time. Especially because of Linda Ellerbee. The stories were much more detailed and there were lots of local video feeds from NBC Affiliates. I enjoyed this show in the overnights.

[mbhfromla]

When NBC gave up on signing-off.

[Toledo1837]

So was this the first time a network bothered to show something during the night while most where in bed? Wonder how many affiliates even bothered carrying this besides color bars?

[huggyface]

I know of a few stations in the mid-Atlantic (NC, SC, VA) that carried Overnight, but it went off at 2:30 or so I think...then they still allowed some time to put up "color bars" and snow before resuming broadcasting a few short hours later. I think many stations started full-time operations as we got into the 90's. By the advent of the new millennium, hardly any stations, even PBS and small ones, sign off anymore. New times.

[nomadcowatbk]

the fcc didn't allow infomercials until the 80s, they couldn't make any money during the night