Talk:Night Walk (TV series)

Not from 1986

I was suspect of the 1986 cite, because I was certain I remembered watching this or listening to it (Global TV in southern Ontario could be listened to way up around 500 on the am dial). But well, that would be original research. But it was bothering me that maybe I remembered something that wrongly. I went and watched this version of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe4nDMiHGv0

At the 7:00 minute mark they pass a grindhouse on Yonge (which later became a weird theatre, and where I saw Puppetry of the Penis in 2001), which is showing Blood Simple, Tough Enough and Chained Heat, two 1983 movies and a 1984 movie that was released at the Toronto International Film Festival. This would also line up with my recollection that I was in grade school when I first saw the show. All of the youtube rips of the show refer to 1986 when they mention it, but I believe that is when the showing was, not the production).

If anyone has better citations for the date of airing, that would be helpful. And now I should go to bed, because paying attention to Night Ride is what I was doing 25 years ago when I couldn't sleep. --Thespian (talk) 06:02, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

For what it's worth, that theatre was a repertory cinema house, so the movies playing there wouldn't necessarily have been current releases — they could easily have been two or three years old already by the time the Night Ride cameras went through. So I suppose it's certainly possible that the existing sources are wrong about when it actually debuted, but the original release dates of those three films doesn't prove that in and of itself — so before we could claim an earlier premiere date than 1986, we'd have to find a reliable source which confirmed that more definitively than the film titles on the marquee of a rep screen. But even after doing a ProQuest search to upgrade the sourcing here, I still wasn't able to find any hint of sourceability dated earlier than 1987. And, of course, it's also entirely possible that they were filmed and then sat on a shelf for a while before actually starting to air, so premiering in 1986 wouldn't necessarily mean it was filmed in 1986. Bearcat (talk) 18:07, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

slow television

In the lead it's presently asserted that this is "now considered one of the early forays into slow television." That's not actually supported by the source. "Elliott and Crone may have been ahead of their time and unknowingly helped pioneer the emerging genre of 'Slow TV'" is a far cry from that broad claim. I'm going to remove the sentence.--~TPW 17:34, 18 February 2022 (UTC)