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:''This article is about the 1980's cable television show. For the Moody Blues album, see [[Night Flight (album)]].''
'Night Flight' was a television program on the [[USA Network]] in the early 1980's which ran Friday and Saturday nights, for four hours, then repeated into the wee hours of the morning. It was one of the 1st places to see films and shorts not being shown on broadcast television or on the pay-per movie channels like HBO. Night Flight was the 1st place many Americans were able to see music documentaries like [[Another State of Mind]], [[The Grateful Dead Movie]], [[Word, Sound and Power]] and early [[Beavis and Butt-Head]]. It also showed comically dubbed episodes of the [[Japan]]ese [[superhero]] series, ''[[Kagaku Sentai Dynaman|Dynaman]]'' ▼
▲'''''Night Flight ''''' was a television program on the [[USA Network]] in the early 1980's which ran Friday and Saturday nights, for four hours, then repeated into the wee hours of the morning. It was one of the 1st places to see films and shorts not being shown on broadcast television or on the pay-per movie channels like HBO. Night Flight was the 1st place many Americans were able to see music documentaries like [[Another State of Mind]], [[The Grateful Dead Movie]], [[Word, Sound and Power]] and early [[Beavis and Butt-Head]]. It also showed comically dubbed episodes of the [[Japan]]ese [[superhero]] series, ''[[Kagaku Sentai Dynaman|Dynaman]]''
'''Night Flight''' was a studio album by [[Moody Blues]] frontman [[Justin Hayward]], released on [[Decca Records]] in [[1980]]. It was reissued on CD in [[1989]].
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The album came about as a result of Hayward's involvement in [[Jeff Wayne]]'s musical adaptation of ''War of the Worlds''. Wayne produced and arranged the album, which proved to be one of the lengthiest recording experiences of Hayward's career. The music was mostly pop and dance oriented, and most of the tracks were romantic love songs. It was not a favourite with Moody Blues fans, and was not a commercial success.
The title track was the last to be recorded for the album.
==Personnel==
*Justin Hayward: vocals and guitars; bass and drums on "Suitcase"
*Jeff Wayne: production, arrangements, conducting; piano on "Night Flight"
*[[Jo Partridge]]: guitars
*[[Ken Freeman]]: keyboards
*[[Herbie Flowers]]: bass
*[[Barry de Souza]]: drums
*[[Roy Jones]]: percussion
*[[Tony Carr]]: percussion
*[[Doreen Chanter]]: female vocals on "Bedtime Stories" and "Nearer To You"
*[[Irene Chanter]]: female vocals on "Bedtime Stories" and "Nearer To You"
*[[Dave Holland (drummer)|Dave Holland]]: drums on one track (possibly "Crazy Lovers"; the liner note information is unclear)
Brass arrangements by Jeff Wayne and [[Steve Gray]]. Engineered by [[Geoff Young]] with technical assistance from [[Graham Meek]]. Assistant engineers: [[Paul Taylor (engineer)|Paul Taylor]], [[Craig Thompson (engineer)|Craig Thompson]] and [[Norman Goodman]].
==Track Listing==
#Night Flight (Jeff Wayne/[[Paul Vigrass]])
#Maybe It's Just Love ([[Mike Silver]])
#Crazy Lovers (Justin Hayward)
#Penumbra Moon ([[Billy Nicholls]])
#Nearer To You (Justin Hayward)
#A Face In The Crowd (Justin Hayward)
#Suitcase (Justin Hayward)
#I'm Sorry ([[Daryl Hall]]/[[John Oates]], copyright [[1972]])
#It's Not On (Jeff Wayne/[[Gary Osborne]])
#Bedtime Stories ([[Colin Still]])
A further CD reissue in [[2004]] appended two bonus tracks: the single version of "Bedtime Stories" and a live version of "Forever Autumn".
[[Category:1980 albums]]
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