**If you're upset the music is cut your quarrel is with RUclips not me** This is substantial parts two episodes of Friday Night Videos. The first is from July 1983 and the second is from August 1983. I haven't edited them together, this is how they were found on the tape. Some of these timestamps may be incorrect now, RUclips cut some stuff due to copyright. 0:00 end of Johnny Carson 0:09 Personal and Confidential 0:29 Convenient Food Mart 84 WHAS contest 0:40 Heat Stress psa 1:10 Montgomery Chevy 1:39 High blood pressure psa 1:59 support the arts WAVE 3 bumper 2:04 Friday Night Videos begins 3:07 Beat It 3:35 World Premiere of That's Why They Call It The Blues 3:52 All The Good Ones Are Taken 4:19 phone vote 4:26 Hungry Like The Wolf 4:55 Let's Dance 5:20 phone vote 5:40 Haven't We Been There Before 6:02 Private Reel w/Rick Springfield 9:35 Human Touch 9:49 phone video vote results 10:02 Come Dancing 10:07 She Works Hard For The Money 10:20 Our House 10:38 Certs 11:08 PS Gitano jeans 11:38 The Star Chamber preview 12:08 Bud 12:40 Video Vote Winner 13:00 Sweet Dreams 13:30 Hungry Like The Wolf 13:56 video vote 14:14 Wrangler jeans 14:44 Renault Fuego 15:14 Dungeons and Dragons game 15:44 National Lampoon's Vacation preview 16:14 World premiere Video Everyday I Write The Book 16:35 savings bonds 17:35 Look What We Can Do Louisville 18:05 20 Years of Rock on WAVE 3 18:40 Friday Night Videos bumper 18:49 SNL preview 18:59 NBC sports preview 19:09 Hot Summer '83 WAVE 3 19:39 Don't Be A Dope 20:09 News Watch 3 award winners 20:45 Friday Night Videos bumper 20:51 Private Reel w/Billy Joel 25:26 video voting results 26:07 Michelob 26:37 Agree 27:07 Bauch & Laumb contacts w/Cris Collingsworth 27:37 Risky Business preview 28:07 Sharp Dressed Man 28:20 Fight Fire With Fire 28:38 Levi's 29:08 Yor The Hunter From The Future 29:37 Sea Breeze 30:08 Dentyne gum 30:40 Friday Night Videos Hall of Fame Billie Jean 31:05 Ivy Tech 31:35 Hot Summer '83 WAVE 3 32:05 Heat Stress psa 32:35 People's Court on WAVE 3 33:08 Friday Night Videos bumper 33:16 We Got It Made promo 33:37 Special Programs for Special People 34:07 Fan Bank 34:27 Alice promo 34:48 WAVE 3 bumper 34:56 Friday Night Videos bumper 35:00 Safety Dance 35:11 It's A Mistake 35:33 Cujo preview 37:04 Wrangler 37:34 video vote results 38:01 Jeopardy 38:20 Where Are They Now 38:53 Ford Ranger 39:23 Sea Breeze 39:53 Bud Light 40:54 Friday Night Videos bumper 41:16 Bad Boys 41:37 Krull preview 42:07 Clorets 42:37 Levi's 43:07 Sprite 43:38 Friday Night Videos credits 44:19 NBC promo 44:39 University of Louisville 45:09 Squire Boone Caverns 45:39 Scruff McGruff 45:49 Hot Summer '83 WAVE 3 45:57 NBC News Overnight
This video time capsule makes me cry. Everything back then, especially the music and the whole music video fad was all very exciting. Even the opening music and graphics to this show were awesome. Back then, it was REAL music. No crap like Tayor Swift, Billie Ilish, and no auto tune at all.
I turned 16, in June of 1983, and starting in July of that year...I had been sent to a summer camp in Northeast Texas. All that was on my mind was girls, girls, girls, and occasionally sports. I know exactly where I was throughout the whole of July and August of 1983. 6 weeks of bliss, away from home, meeting new people from all over the country. Many of whom...(because of Facebook), I am friends with to this day. Amazing how technology changes, and makes the world a smaller place. For nearly 30 years, I had lost contact with many, and now...we are back in touch. These videos, much like MTV, was a staple of our 'emotional life', back in those days. All this...brings back memories of a time, that was carefree, special...and exciting. It was fun to 'grow up', during the 80's. .
@@lauraburns4365 For those in the BC era (before cable) that was the only way to see videos. There was later ABC Rocks which wasn't shown in the DC or Baltimore ABC Affilate markets, I could only get it cause I lived in a high rise in Silver Spring that got their Landcaster, PA affiliate. It was a half hour show that started at 11:30 so it was a chance to see more videos for some people.
Personal and Confidential aired for one week on NBC Daytime from 8/1-8/5/1983 from 3-4PM EST, replacing the Peter Marshall hosted show Fantasy for one week. Personal and COnfidential did not become a series.
Fantasy returned on August 8 of that year, but ran for an extra 12 weeks, before it was replaced by The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour, which lasted 39 weeks before being replaced by Santa Barbara.
I've posted a restored version of this to the internet archive. After doing the restoration, I found a partial recording of a rerun of the first episode on a tape, so now I'm going to have to edit that back in and re-upload it, but it will take a while to do that. Odd discovery - on the rerun, "That's Why They Call It The Blues" was moved to later in the episode.
It gets weirder - the video vote results announcement were re-recorded. Same vote numbers, but the announcer doesn't line up on the 2 versions. And then the announcer goes on to read out the numbers to call into, while the screen displays text to not call in due to it being an encore presentation. If they were already re-recording it, why not have the announcer also state it's an encore presentation and not to call in. Not to mention, the FM simulcasts would only have the audio of the number, and result in accidental calls.
I'll never forget tuning in one Friday night in 1983 expecting to see my beloved SCTV, only to discover this unnecessary show had taken its place. Sad days.
28:02 📰📽" CHECK NEWSPAPERS" .. omg!! I just explained the "*process*" of going to the movies in 1984 to my teenage daughters . ☆ you had to buy a newspaper, call the theater, listen to the entire Spiel of all the movies playing right down the times to make sure nothing was sold out yet, pick a movie ,call ur friends- from the 1 phone On the wall in the kitchen, ( wait till they were off the phone because you kept getting a busy signal )..plan rides,H A VE CASH,& change for the Pay Phone! Then, meet your friends, stand in line for tickets & and hope that wasn't sold out -stand in line for seats ,and hope there were still a couple together..if not, wed dit in front on floor😅. " oh my God now we just go on phone,watch trailer buy the tickets &pick our seats..uber, and show up 20 minutes late after the previews..😅.. what if you change your mind and wanted to go to a later movie or invite somebody else? How did ur mom know when to pick you up!huh-.whats a payphone? " Nope, a plan was a plan.
This video pretty much describes the 14-year-old I was in the summer of 1983: Friday Night Videos, Krull, Risky Business, Men without Hats, Men at Work, and Dungeons & Dragons.
LOL!!! I was a big Duran Duran fan back in the day! Any showing of their videos or images made me so happy. Miss that time in my life. The world has changed so much since then.
I probably watched this. The kids next door had a camper and in the summer we used to sleep out there, had a little TV and radio, leftover pizza and Coke, candy just straight junk. We'd burn it off running around the woods, playing manhunt, So much fun! The thing that really zaps you right back are the commercial jingles. You had them playing over and over for a few months and then you don't hear them again till now, it's like time travel. They're comforting and haunting at the same time, like a really intense nostalgia.
I just happen to think of Friday Night videos and decided to look it up. My mouth dropped open to see someone from my hometown in Louisville posted this. I remember all of the videos, commercials WHAS, WAVE 3, WDRB. The convient logo and commercials. This is when music was just music. Thank you for posting this. It brought back so many great memories.
I remember when WAVE 3 had such great shows in the 1980’s such as The People’s Court, The Facts of Life, The Smurfs, CWA Wrestling, Donahue, Family Feud, The New $100,000 Name That Tune, Scrabble, $ale of the Century, WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event, Sally Jessy Raphael, Alvin & The Chipmunks, The Cosby Show, The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime, Win, Lose or Draw, Hollywood Squares, The New Newlywed Game and Days of our Lives, etc.
Wow, commercials for Risky Business, Vacation, and Cujo! I still have my Duran Duran album I had to go buy after the Hungry Like the Wolf video was killin it back then! This is awesome.
Appears to be two episodes edited together: July 29, 1983 and August 5, 1983; switch-over is at 10:00, I think. Thanks for posting this! I've been looking for two clips from these episodes for years: the narrator introducing Beat It on that first episode, and the narrator's switch over in the second one: "From Men Without Hats to Men at Work..."
Man, I bet all the phone companies loved this shit. I know of at least a couple of kids, back in the day, who got into serious trouble with their parents after running up a huge phone bill by calling voting several times because they just had to have Duran Duran be the winner of some stupid poll battle. Can't imagine this didn't happen a lot elsewhere.
Jesus Christ! This takes me right back! Awesome they started with Beat it. Biggest video until Thriller. The Thriller album is 40 years old next month! Crazy!
Thanks For Posting This Classic Gem I Actually Watched FNV Every Friday Night As A Kid From 1984 - 1989 Great Memories I Miss The Eighties I Am Trying To Get Hulu And PeacockTV To Add This Memorable Show #augusttv123 Hope You Have SOLID GOLD “ 87 “ NBC Saturday Night Comedy Lineup From September 1985 And Other Stuff For Future Requests
Rick also played Apollo and Athena's little brother Zac in Battlestar Galactica 'Saga Of A Star World' which was originally broadcast as a three hour edition of the ABC Sunday Night Movie on September 17, 1978.
The 80’s were also popular for video games (like Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros. and Where in The World is Carmen Sandiego), game shows (like Sale of the Century, Scrabble and The Price is Right), dramas (like Miami Vice, Knight Rider and Hill Street Blues), cartoons (like He-Man and The Masters of The Universe, Alvin & The Chipmunks and The Smurfs), movies (like E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Rambo: First Blood Part II and Back to the Future), soap operas (like Days of our Lives, The Young and The Restless and General Hospital) and sitcoms (like The Cosby Show, The Golden Girls and The Facts of Life).
And the rise of cable TV networks like ESPN, CBN, CNN, VH1, MTV, HBO, Showtime, Headline News, The Weather Channel, TBS, TNT, The Disney Channel and USA Network!
My weekends in 1983 were defined by Friday night videos, Casey Kasem's America's Top 40 (twice) and Dr. Demento. Around 2am Monday morning I would realize I had not done any assigned homework due in 6 hours. I had listened to or watched music for like 40 straight hours. 1983 introduced Cyndi Lauper and Culture Club. 41 years ago? Crazy. Born In The USA did not yet exist.
FNV was for all the kids who’s parents couldn’t afford cable and MTV lol .. and FNV was a big deal back then I loved they had a “dance off” between 2 videos that everyone could vote on. That kind of separated them from MTV.
Well if you can't show the video then you can always create an 80's commercial retro channel. BTW, Rick Springfield was on the mark when he said video games was interfering with communication-the human touch. Look at the where we're at now, sad.
Wow, even an itemized list of contents. The very first Friday Night Videos? I love nostalgia, especially when it includes ooriginal commercials. At the time, I had so much going on, it feels like I can actually enjoy things now I couldn't give my full attention back then. I'm 66 so this is gold to me.
thank you for sharing this. such great memories from this era. I remember staying up on Friday nights watching this. it was so cutting edge (lol) at the time. can't even begin to tell you how much I miss the 80's. thanks again.
In NYC I remember when Friday Night Videos premiered; a few days or so before the radio station Z100 began to broadcast in the city. I took both in! Z100 became the #1 radio station in the country. I recorded so many Friday Night Videos and segments. Never missed it. Miss those times in the early to mid 80’s. We had the greatest music, especially the acts from the UK. Rick Springfield comment about people isolating to themselves with technology! Wow it’s so much true today.
Nick Michaels: Tonight on "Friday Night Videos", Michael Jackson. The Police. Rod Stewart. New videos by Elton John and Styx. Special segments on The Beatles and The Doors. A video vote between David Bowie and Duran Duran. A Private Reel on Rick Springfield. Plus Stevie Nicks. Ian Hunter. Eddy Grant. And Bonnie Tyler. Nick Michaels: For many of you, "Friday Night Videos" will be your first experience with 'music video': A new form allowing you to see what in the past you could only hear. To start things off, here is perhaps the most popular video of all time, Michael Jackson's 'Beat It'. Nick Michaels: And now, the authorized World Premiere of 'That's Why They Call It The Blues' by Elton John. Nick Michaels: Watch the next video, and guess the name of Ian Hunter's favorite movie. I'll give you a hint: It starred Dudley Moore and Liza Minelli. Here's Ian with 'All The Good Ones Are Taken'. Nick Michaels: Right back with David Bowie. Duran Duran. The Beatles. And The Police.
Do you have any full episodes or closing videos of Music Magazine, The Great Record Album Collection, or The Record Guide? I'm looking for those. Please upload them if you can. Lee Press On Nails was always advertised before the last video on The Record Guide, it got me into obscure music.
I guess the phone companies got all that money from people voting between songs, each call costs 50 cents. Just from the first voting results $32,228.50!
The final results of that first video vote were edited out of this. I would have loved to see that part again, although you did leave in the final results of the second one where Duran Duran defeated Eurythmics. If there is a way that you can edit back the final results of the first one in, please do so as I would like to see those final numbers of the first vote again after all of these years and also, do you happen to have the third video vote where The Police won and went on to become the first retired video vote champion? I would like to see that one again as well. What wonderful memories as I used to watch this show religiously.
I was just a little kid back then, but I had the coolest babysitter ever...staying up to watch Friday night videos with her, and my cousin was one of my best memories ever....I'd give almost anything to go back...times were so simple then
I just caught that rerun episode of Alice being advertised less than 24 hours before watching this video. Life has some funny coincidences sometimes. This collection of commercials is awesome btw. Glad they were left in.
**If you're upset the music is cut your quarrel is with RUclips not me**
This is substantial parts two episodes of Friday Night Videos. The first is from July 1983 and the second is from August 1983. I haven't edited them together, this is how they were found on the tape. Some of these timestamps may be incorrect now, RUclips cut some stuff due to copyright.
0:00 end of Johnny Carson
0:09 Personal and Confidential
0:29 Convenient Food Mart 84 WHAS contest
0:40 Heat Stress psa
1:10 Montgomery Chevy
1:39 High blood pressure psa
1:59 support the arts WAVE 3 bumper
2:04 Friday Night Videos begins
3:07 Beat It
3:35 World Premiere of That's Why They Call It The Blues
3:52 All The Good Ones Are Taken
4:19 phone vote
4:26 Hungry Like The Wolf
4:55 Let's Dance
5:20 phone vote
5:40 Haven't We Been There Before
6:02 Private Reel w/Rick Springfield
9:35 Human Touch
9:49 phone video vote results
10:02 Come Dancing
10:07 She Works Hard For The Money
10:20 Our House
10:38 Certs
11:08 PS Gitano jeans
11:38 The Star Chamber preview
12:08 Bud
12:40 Video Vote Winner
13:00 Sweet Dreams
13:30 Hungry Like The Wolf
13:56 video vote
14:14 Wrangler jeans
14:44 Renault Fuego
15:14 Dungeons and Dragons game
15:44 National Lampoon's Vacation preview
16:14 World premiere Video Everyday I Write The Book
16:35 savings bonds
17:35 Look What We Can Do Louisville
18:05 20 Years of Rock on WAVE 3
18:40 Friday Night Videos bumper
18:49 SNL preview
18:59 NBC sports preview
19:09 Hot Summer '83 WAVE 3
19:39 Don't Be A Dope
20:09 News Watch 3 award winners
20:45 Friday Night Videos bumper
20:51 Private Reel w/Billy Joel
25:26 video voting results
26:07 Michelob
26:37 Agree
27:07 Bauch & Laumb contacts w/Cris Collingsworth
27:37 Risky Business preview
28:07 Sharp Dressed Man
28:20 Fight Fire With Fire
28:38 Levi's
29:08 Yor The Hunter From The Future
29:37 Sea Breeze
30:08 Dentyne gum
30:40 Friday Night Videos Hall of Fame Billie Jean
31:05 Ivy Tech
31:35 Hot Summer '83 WAVE 3
32:05 Heat Stress psa
32:35 People's Court on WAVE 3
33:08 Friday Night Videos bumper
33:16 We Got It Made promo
33:37 Special Programs for Special People
34:07 Fan Bank
34:27 Alice promo
34:48 WAVE 3 bumper
34:56 Friday Night Videos bumper
35:00 Safety Dance
35:11 It's A Mistake
35:33 Cujo preview
37:04 Wrangler
37:34 video vote results
38:01 Jeopardy
38:20 Where Are They Now
38:53 Ford Ranger
39:23 Sea Breeze
39:53 Bud Light
40:54 Friday Night Videos bumper
41:16 Bad Boys
41:37 Krull preview
42:07 Clorets
42:37 Levi's
43:07 Sprite
43:38 Friday Night Videos credits
44:19 NBC promo
44:39 University of Louisville
45:09 Squire Boone Caverns
45:39 Scruff McGruff
45:49 Hot Summer '83 WAVE 3
45:57 NBC News Overnight
Would love to talk to you about possibly getting the full uncut version. dante17@yahoo
Would you be interested in trading files of full uncut FNV episodes?
@@JonnyGators I would love to but I only have a few. I would love to find that person who has most of the ones from 1983-1985
Damn this takes me back. Random trivia, you could watch this in tandem with your local radio station to get "stereo" sound thru your sound system.
I remember watching these episodes in 1983 on TV I so wanted to see the full videos on this clip
This video time capsule makes me cry. Everything back then, especially the music and the whole music video fad was all very exciting. Even the opening music and graphics to this show were awesome. Back then, it was REAL music. No crap like Tayor Swift, Billie Ilish, and no auto tune at all.
I turned 16, in June of 1983, and starting in July of that year...I had been sent to a summer camp in Northeast Texas. All that was on my mind was girls, girls, girls, and occasionally sports. I know exactly where I was throughout the whole of July and August of 1983. 6 weeks of bliss, away from home, meeting new people from all over the country. Many of whom...(because of Facebook), I am friends with to this day. Amazing how technology changes, and makes the world a smaller place. For nearly 30 years, I had lost contact with many, and now...we are back in touch. These videos, much like MTV, was a staple of our 'emotional life', back in those days. All this...brings back memories of a time, that was carefree, special...and exciting. It was fun to 'grow up', during the 80's. .
lol Northeast Texas(texarkana) is where I now reside..1983 I was cooling in Detroit Mi eating frosted flakes watching Popeye
I watched this every Friday night! I never missed it! God I miss the 80's!
you said it... ill spend eternity trying to get back there.
So do I
Rick Springfield talking in '83 about video games isolating people. Little could they imagine what the next 40 years would bring. 😐
I always watched this on Friday nights. Great way to unwind after a busy work week working as a legal secretary in DC.
Love this! Thanks for bringing more 80s!
Those were the days
Remember tuning into WLRS 102 on your boombox to hear the show broadcasted in stereo!!
Thanks for putting this up, FNV was the motivation to learn how program your VCR since these music videos were shown in the early morning hours.
absolutely we learned how to program our vars for this lol!
@@lauraburns4365 For those in the BC era (before cable) that was the only way to see videos. There was later ABC Rocks which wasn't shown in the DC or Baltimore ABC Affilate markets, I could only get it cause I lived in a high rise in Silver Spring that got their Landcaster, PA affiliate. It was a half hour show that started at 11:30 so it was a chance to see more videos for some people.
I remember FNV would come on at 11:30 after Johnny Carson
reupload this in full to the Internet Archive please. This is gold.
I had Cable back then and I liked Friday night videos much better than MTV
i could go back easily.
Personal and Confidential aired for one week on NBC Daytime from 8/1-8/5/1983 from 3-4PM EST, replacing the Peter Marshall hosted show Fantasy for one week. Personal and COnfidential did not become a series.
Fantasy returned on August 8 of that year, but ran for an extra 12 weeks, before it was replaced by The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour, which lasted 39 weeks before being replaced by Santa Barbara.
Human touch...hear what he said about isolation and video games? Now it's MORE...our phones and everything in between 😔
Life is so boring without the 80's.
As a former Louisvillian and a proud UofL grad, I am shocked the second announcer didn’t call the city “Loo-a-vul” in the ad (18:01)
I've posted a restored version of this to the internet archive. After doing the restoration, I found a partial recording of a rerun of the first episode on a tape, so now I'm going to have to edit that back in and re-upload it, but it will take a while to do that. Odd discovery - on the rerun, "That's Why They Call It The Blues" was moved to later in the episode.
It gets weirder - the video vote results announcement were re-recorded. Same vote numbers, but the announcer doesn't line up on the 2 versions. And then the announcer goes on to read out the numbers to call into, while the screen displays text to not call in due to it being an encore presentation. If they were already re-recording it, why not have the announcer also state it's an encore presentation and not to call in. Not to mention, the FM simulcasts would only have the audio of the number, and result in accidental calls.
I had Cable in 1983 but I preferred Friday night videos over Mtv incredible times and memories..
Hello to my childhood. Wow
Damn. I didn't know they once used white males in commercials. Kewl!
33:03, “The People’s Court, Monday at 🕠 on WAVE-TV!”-Chuck Casteel.
That AARP commercial is terrifying
I was 12 🙏🏻 Thankyou
I'll never forget tuning in one Friday night in 1983 expecting to see my beloved SCTV, only to discover this unnecessary show had taken its place. Sad days.
My childhood. Millennial power.
Errrrrrr. GEN X
Time machine PLEASE
28:02 📰📽" CHECK NEWSPAPERS" .. omg!! I just explained the "*process*" of going to the movies in 1984 to my teenage daughters .
☆ you had to buy a newspaper, call the theater, listen to the entire Spiel of all the movies playing right down the times to make sure nothing was sold out yet, pick a movie ,call ur friends- from the 1 phone On the wall in the kitchen, ( wait till they were off the phone because you kept getting a busy signal )..plan rides,H A VE CASH,& change for the Pay Phone! Then, meet your friends, stand in line for tickets & and hope that wasn't sold out -stand in line for seats ,and hope there were still a couple together..if not, wed dit in front on floor😅.
" oh my God now we just go on phone,watch trailer buy the tickets &pick our seats..uber, and show up 20 minutes late after the previews..😅.. what if you change your mind and wanted to go to a later movie or invite somebody else? How did ur mom know when to pick you up!huh-.whats a payphone? "
Nope, a plan was a plan.
Rick Springfield was talking but didnt say shit
wow this is so old that white males were actually the stars of most commercials lol
I remember this show! 👍
This video pretty much describes the 14-year-old I was in the summer of 1983: Friday Night Videos, Krull, Risky Business, Men without Hats, Men at Work, and Dungeons & Dragons.
As God intended.
I remember this when I was 13 years old!
And, I was 14. JORDACHE jeans, the Smurfs, That Rainbow shirt every girl had, Hubba Bubba,Pop Rocks,& roller skates😅MTV
sounds fantastic lets go back brother. I wanna go back.
The 80s were amazing if only we had a time machine to go back to this magical time
I called and voted for Duran Duran just now, it said I was not authorized to use that line.
LOL!!! I was a big Duran Duran fan back in the day! Any showing of their videos or images made me so happy. Miss that time in my life. The world has changed so much since then.
I probably watched this. The kids next door had a camper and in the summer we used to sleep out there, had a little TV and radio, leftover pizza and Coke, candy just straight junk. We'd burn it off running around the woods, playing manhunt, So much fun! The thing that really zaps you right back are the commercial jingles. You had them playing over and over for a few months and then you don't hear them again till now, it's like time travel. They're comforting and haunting at the same time, like a really intense nostalgia.
Sorry you had to cut out all the good videos due to nazi tube. Good vid anyways.
I just happen to think of Friday Night videos and decided to look it up. My mouth dropped open to see someone from my hometown in Louisville posted this. I remember all of the videos, commercials WHAS, WAVE 3, WDRB. The convient logo and commercials. This is when music was just music. Thank you for posting this. It brought back so many great memories.
I remember when WAVE 3 had such great shows in the 1980’s such as The People’s Court, The Facts of Life, The Smurfs, CWA Wrestling, Donahue, Family Feud, The New $100,000 Name That Tune, Scrabble, $ale of the Century, WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event, Sally Jessy Raphael, Alvin & The Chipmunks, The Cosby Show, The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime, Win, Lose or Draw, Hollywood Squares, The New Newlywed Game and Days of our Lives, etc.
Who even knew 1983 Kentucky had electricity nvm TVs
Wow, commercials for Risky Business, Vacation, and Cujo! I still have my Duran Duran album I had to go buy after the Hungry Like the Wolf video was killin it back then! This is awesome.
and Dungeons and Dragons
Appears to be two episodes edited together: July 29, 1983 and August 5, 1983; switch-over is at 10:00, I think. Thanks for posting this! I've been looking for two clips from these episodes for years: the narrator introducing Beat It on that first episode, and the narrator's switch over in the second one: "From Men Without Hats to Men at Work..."
I recorded all 1983 FNV's on VHS. Still have all of them.
Would love to have those!!!!!!
Get someone to transfer them before there destroyed! Vcr tapes self destruct!
Gabriel please share it on RUclips please 🥺🙏🏼
This is a real gem, thank you for taking the time to edit it for YT. Really takes me back to great times as a young teen.
I didn’t have cable growing up, so no MTV. Thank goodness Friday Night Videos filled that void.
Man, I bet all the phone companies loved this shit. I know of at least a couple of kids, back in the day, who got into serious trouble with their parents after running up a huge phone bill by calling voting several times because they just had to have Duran Duran be the winner of some stupid poll battle. Can't imagine this didn't happen a lot elsewhere.
Jesus Christ! This takes me right back! Awesome they started with Beat it. Biggest video until Thriller. The Thriller album is 40 years old next month! Crazy!
Thank you for your time in posting these videos. I would like to see more videos from the late '70s and early '80s from Kentuckiana affiliates.
I’m so happy I was able to experience this era!
Searching for the episode that Shelley Long hosted with some other actress...
Thanks For Posting This Classic Gem
I Actually Watched FNV Every Friday Night As A Kid From 1984 - 1989
Great Memories I Miss The Eighties
I Am Trying To Get Hulu And PeacockTV To Add This Memorable Show #augusttv123
Hope You Have SOLID GOLD “ 87 “ NBC Saturday Night Comedy Lineup From September 1985 And Other Stuff For Future Requests
With music rights the way they are that will never happen with most music-oriented shows, unfortunately.
Rick Springfield killed on True Detective season 2.
Rick also played Apollo and Athena's little brother Zac in Battlestar Galactica 'Saga Of A Star World' which was originally broadcast as a three hour edition of the ABC Sunday Night Movie on September 17, 1978.
And in the last few years , Supernatural!
The 80's were popular for their music!
The 80’s were also popular for video games (like Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros. and Where in The World is Carmen Sandiego), game shows (like Sale of the Century, Scrabble and The Price is Right), dramas (like Miami Vice, Knight Rider and Hill Street Blues), cartoons (like He-Man and The Masters of The Universe, Alvin & The Chipmunks and The Smurfs), movies (like E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Rambo: First Blood Part II and Back to the Future), soap operas (like Days of our Lives, The Young and The Restless and General Hospital) and sitcoms (like The Cosby Show, The Golden Girls and The Facts of Life).
@@danalong1237 Don't forget about Diff'rent Strokes, CHiPS, and Gimmie a Break!
Don’t forget Airwolf and The Legend of Zelda, not to mention Double Dare (Nickelodeon)!
and also dont forget the rise and popularity of professional wrestling
And the rise of cable TV networks like ESPN, CBN, CNN, VH1, MTV, HBO, Showtime, Headline News, The Weather Channel, TBS, TNT, The Disney Channel and USA Network!
This is from Louisville in the 80s? Surprised we don't see any news footage of Louisville getting beat by Memphis State. Lol
Just phenomenal memories.
My weekends in 1983 were defined by Friday night videos, Casey Kasem's America's Top 40 (twice) and Dr. Demento. Around 2am Monday morning I would realize I had not done any assigned homework due in 6 hours. I had listened to or watched music for like 40 straight hours. 1983 introduced Cyndi Lauper and Culture Club. 41 years ago? Crazy. Born In The USA did not yet exist.
I was 13 and was absolutely watching this when it originally aired.
Rick Springfield is in this early 70s now, and he's still super hot 🔥🥵🔥🔥
This show premiered (nearly) 40 years ago on July 29, 1983.
How .. Another World is not even on at 2 pm yet..xd
FNV was for all the kids who’s parents couldn’t afford cable and MTV lol .. and FNV was a big deal back then I loved they had a “dance off” between 2 videos that everyone could vote on. That kind of separated them from MTV.
Well if you can't show the video then you can always create an 80's commercial retro channel. BTW, Rick Springfield was on the mark when he said video games was interfering with communication-the human touch. Look at the where we're at now, sad.
Wow, even an itemized list of contents. The very first Friday Night Videos? I love nostalgia, especially when it includes ooriginal commercials. At the time, I had so much going on, it feels like I can actually enjoy things now I couldn't give my full attention back then. I'm 66 so this is gold to me.
thank you for sharing this. such great memories from this era. I remember staying up on Friday nights watching this. it was so cutting edge (lol) at the time. can't even begin to tell you how much I miss the 80's. thanks again.
Gotta love the D&D commercial.....pretty cool!
I used to stay up-midnight-with the VCR ready to record my fav videos. Good memories
It might get removed due to copyright reasons, but it was sure fun to watch.
Real fkn dumb materialist times; awesome classic pop tunes
I have no idea how I clicked on this but it's fantastic. The commercials are outstanding. Well done and thx.
I remember Rick Springfield in Battle Star Galactica also never watched general hospital
My sister and I got in soo much trouble voting for the videos we blew up the phone bill😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂Our parents were so mad
In NYC I remember when Friday Night Videos premiered; a few days or so before the radio station Z100 began to broadcast in the city. I took both in! Z100 became the #1 radio station in the country. I recorded so many Friday Night Videos and segments. Never missed it. Miss those times in the early to mid 80’s. We had the greatest music, especially the acts from the UK. Rick Springfield comment about people isolating to themselves with technology! Wow it’s so much true today.
Nick Michaels: Tonight on "Friday Night Videos", Michael Jackson. The Police. Rod Stewart. New videos by Elton John and Styx. Special segments on The Beatles and The Doors. A video vote between David Bowie and Duran Duran. A Private Reel on Rick Springfield. Plus Stevie Nicks. Ian Hunter. Eddy Grant. And Bonnie Tyler.
Nick Michaels: For many of you, "Friday Night Videos" will be your first experience with 'music video': A new form allowing you to see what in the past you could only hear. To start things off, here is perhaps the most popular video of all time, Michael Jackson's 'Beat It'.
Nick Michaels: And now, the authorized World Premiere of 'That's Why They Call It The Blues' by Elton John.
Nick Michaels: Watch the next video, and guess the name of Ian Hunter's favorite movie. I'll give you a hint: It starred Dudley Moore and Liza Minelli. Here's Ian with 'All The Good Ones Are Taken'.
Nick Michaels: Right back with David Bowie. Duran Duran. The Beatles. And The Police.
Do you have any full episodes or closing videos of Music Magazine, The Great Record Album Collection, or The Record Guide? I'm looking for those. Please upload them if you can. Lee Press On Nails was always advertised before the last video on The Record Guide, it got me into obscure music.
I like how the commercials only had White people in them.
I guess the phone companies got all that money from people voting between songs, each call costs 50 cents. Just from the first voting results $32,228.50!
I put this on in the background and I am transported back to that 1983 feeling.
after the bars....back in the day..
DURAN DURAN!!.. it doesn't matter who went up against these guys.. they were the KINGS!
We were lucky if we could stay up to watch this! Or you could watch Saturday Morning Videos at 11am!
I had cable but liked Friday night videos much more than MTV
I remember looking forward to watching this as a kid! Oh the nostalgia!
On this day, 40 years ago, Friday Night Videos debuted. Happy 40th anniversary, Friday Night Videos!
This was the very first episode of Friday Night Videos
Ugh. I was so looking forward to this, but all the videos are cut up. 😞💔
Free Pepsi, huh? That's the soft drink I made the switch.
Who else came here after reading the dick ebersol book?
Man, I forgot the Hot Summer festivals on the Belvedere!! We used to go see the Hot Rods! I even remember the T shirts!!
Thank you for this GOLD! Awesome video 😎
The final results of that first video vote were edited out of this. I would have loved to see that part again, although you did leave in the final results of the second one where Duran Duran defeated Eurythmics. If there is a way that you can edit back the final results of the first one in, please do so as I would like to see those final numbers of the first vote again after all of these years and also, do you happen to have the third video vote where The Police won and went on to become the first retired video vote champion? I would like to see that one again as well. What wonderful memories as I used to watch this show religiously.
Except for the videos (that I had to remove due to copyright) if it was on the tape it’s here.
I was then, trying to sneak and stay up late and watch videos.
I bet Duran Duran won
I was just a little kid back then, but I had the coolest babysitter ever...staying up to watch Friday night videos with her, and my cousin was one of my best memories ever....I'd give almost anything to go back...times were so simple then
Friday night videos was the best tv show of all time
I turned 16 in 1983. My teenage years.
Love this
I really wish they'd air these shows again
That commercial for Krull. Damn that was a good movue. Fell in love with Lisette Anthony. Those big gorgeous eyes.
Louisville Kentucky Was Different In 1983 I Was Three Years Old
I miss watching Friday Night Videos That was some must-see TV back in the day😊
I just caught that rerun episode of Alice being advertised less than 24 hours before watching this video. Life has some funny coincidences sometimes. This collection of commercials is awesome btw. Glad they were left in.
Stevie Nicks - Stand Back !
Oh my God! This sis so cool!! Thank you!
I miss those normal times 😢