Night Walk (TV series)

Night Walk was the first in a short but frequently-repeated series of late-night television programs aired on Global in Ontario from 1986 to 1993.[1] Despite having a seven-year run on Global, only one episode of Night Walk was produced, and was repeated nightly during late-night hours.[1] However, it would later be supplemented by similar programs such as Night Ride and Night Moves.[2]

Each of the shows was a first-person view of a trip through part of Toronto during the late-night hours, accompanied by jazz music.[3] Night Walk strolled through the Yorkville district of the city and the Yorkdale subway station;[2] Night Ride drove down the Don Valley Parkway and the Gardiner Expressway, thence onto King Street and ended in the city's Chinatown;[2] Night Moves followed Queens Quay to Front Street, ending in a hotel nightclub.[2] Night Ride also included a brief segment during which the film crew was stopped by a police officer.[2]

The program was created by Michael Spivak, then vice-president of production for Global, as a substitute for a test pattern.[3] Spivak, also a hobby composer, wrote the show's musical score.[3] The track was performed by an ensemble consisting of local musicians Guido Basso, Jimmy Dale, Eugene Amaro, Mike Malone, Joe Sealy, Sara Hamilton, David Hamilton and Sharon Lee Williams.[2]

Media coverage identified the show's largest audiences as insomniacs and prison inmates.[4]

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References

  1. 1 2 Night Walk (etc.) at the Canadian Communications Foundation.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Global serves up some quiet night magic". Broadcast Week, July 2, 1988.
  3. 1 2 3 "A late-night ride around the dial: Between reruns and test patterns lies a low-budget pocket of Canadian programs that takes viewers down the parkway and up to the heavens". Toronto Star, November 28, 1987.
  4. ↑ "Night Moves: Prison inmates, insomniacs and night owls are among the legions of fans of Global's three hours of T.O. at night". Toronto Star, June 25, 1988.

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