**If you're upset the music is cut your quarrel is with RU-vid not me** 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.
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.
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.
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 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. .
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.
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!
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..."
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.
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
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.
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!
@@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.
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.
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.
I WAS SIX YEARS OLD IN 83. BUT HAVING OLDER BROTHERS IN THE HOUSE I LEARNED A LOT OF THINGS AT AN EARLY AGE. I REMEMBER IT BEING FRIDAY NIGHT, NO SCHOOL FOR TWO DAYS SO I COULD STAY UP UNTIL I FELL ASLEEP. JUST THE INTRO TO FRIDAY NIGHT VIDEOS WAS MY FAVORITE PART. LOVE IT.
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.
OMG this brings me back! My sister and brother would be allowed to stay up late on Friday nights to watch Friday Night Videos! It was the only channel that would come in clear enough to watch! What a treasure!
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
