* 1985 – Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the " Night Stalker ", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree.

Investigative shows, related to the mystery genre, such as Kolchak: The Night Stalker, also mostly avoid the issue ( though they are hard on secondary characters ).

The X-Files was inspired by shows like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Tales from the Darkside and especially Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

As his first work, Carter decided to pitch a horror series, something as " scary " as his favorite childhood TV show Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

Chris Carter listed television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Tales from the Darkside and especially Kolchak: The Night Stalker as his major influences for the show.

* June 28 – Richard Ramírez, aka the " Night Stalker ," murders his first confirmed victim.

* August 31 – Richard Ramirez, the serial killer known as the Night Stalker, is captured in Los Angeles.

Additionally, he made guest appearances on many popular shows, including Dragnet in 1967, Bewitched and McMillan & Wife in 1971, Adam-12 in 1972 ( as " George Strothers "), Ironside in 1973, Kolchak: The Night Stalker and Sanford and Son in 1974, Starsky and Hutch in 1977, Charlie's Angels in 1978 and Magnum, P. I.

Other enemies include The Brotherhood of Night ( a group of werewolves who could transform others into their werewolves by simple touch ), the cosmic Stalker from The Stars ( a predatory, malevolent cosmic vampire ), humanoid lizards and mutants.

He appeared in several made-for-TV movies, such as Murder Can Hurt You, Return of the Rebels, and For Love or Money ; he also guest-starred in Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

* 1975-Kolchak: The Night Stalker

His series of macabre films include House of Dark Shadows, Night of Dark Shadows, The Night Stalker ( which inspired the series Kolchak: The Night Stalker ), Intruders, The Night Strangler, Burnt Offerings, Trilogy of Terror, The Norliss Tapes ( a 1973 pilot for an unproduced series starring Roy Thinnes ), Curse of the Black Widow, Dead Of Night, Scream of the Wolf and others.

The February 23, 2008 telecast of Saturday Night Live featured Will Forte impersonating Ramos in a Hillary Clinton / Barack Obama debate sketch, in which he is portrayed as an " Obama Stalker ".

* This is My Night ( Music Video ) ( 1985 ) – Mimi in Chaka Khan's music video

The former Swedish pop group The Motorhomes allude to Laika in the video for their song Into The Night.

The creative use of music videos within their 1964 debut film A Hard Day's Night, particularly the performance of " Can't Buy Me Love ", led MTV decades later to honor the film's director, Richard Lester, with an award for " basically inventing " the music video.

SuperStation WTBS launched Night Tracks on June 3, 1983, with up to 14 hours of music video airplay each late night weekend by 1985.

Shortly after TBS began Night Tracks, NBC launched its music video program called Friday Night Videos which was considered network television's answer to MTV.

" The concert was filmed in one take and aired on Cinemax under the title Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night ; it was released on video by Virgin Records, selling 50, 000 copies.

The film and its successors spawned countless imitators that borrowed elements instituted by Romero: Tombs of the Blind Dead, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie ( film ), Zombi 2, Hell of the Living Dead, Night of the Comet, Return of the Living Dead, Night of the Creeps, Children of the Living Dead, and the video game series Resident Evil ( later adapted as films in 2002, 2004, 2007 and 2010 ), Dead Rising, and House of the Dead.

The first revisions of Night of the Living Dead involved colorization by home video distributors.

* In the 2002 video game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, a Tree of Life is the central building of the Night Elf race.

The Russian, American, and Italian Expedition 27 crew aboard the ISS sent a special video message to wish the people of the world a " Happy Yuri's Night ", wearing shirts with an image of Gagarin.

In modern times, the term " zombie " has been applied to an undead being in horror fiction, largely drawn from George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead. They have appeared as plot devices in various books, films, video games and in television shows.

He also appeared in the Kylie Minogue music video On a Night Like This.

Other works dealing with the Persian Empire or the Biblical story of Esther have also referenced Xerxes, such as the video game Assassin's Creed II and the film One Night with the King, in which Ahasuerus ( Xerxes ) was portrayed by British actor Luke Goss.

Whitney Houston's music video " Queen of the Night " includes clips from the film as well as Houston wearing a shiny metallic ensemble resembling Maschinenmensch.

In 2006, Greenaway began an ambitious series of digital video installations, Nine Classical Paintings Revisited, with his exploration of Rembrandt's Night Watch in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

He starred in a leading role in the highly sexualized erotic thriller Color of Night ( 1994 ), which was very poorly received by critics, but did well in the home video market and became one of the Top 20 most-rented films in the United States in 1995.

Santa's Little Helper has also appeared in issues of Simpsons Comics, in the 2007 film The Simpsons Movie, and in video games based on The Simpsons such as Night of the Living Treehouse of Horror and The Simpsons Game.

* In the PlayStation 1 video game Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, the Ring of Varda is dropped by Paranthropus.

* Mournblade ( as Mourneblade ) is featured in Konami's video game Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and possesses the ability to heal the player character whenever he strikes something with it ( much like how Mournblade and Stormbringer grant their wielder health and vitality when used to slay a foe, though the game weapon can grant health even when striking non-living objects, such as candles ).

The video for " My First Night Without You ", released in 1989, was one of the first to be closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Night Tracks ' producer Tom Lynch weighed in on the effects of the video violence controversy.

The Falcons had their first Monday Night Football game in Atlanta during the 1970 season.

The CNA Center in Chicago flashes a " GO BEARS " window display before a Bears NBC Sunday Night Football | Sunday Night Football game

Other instances include the 2005 Monday Night game against the Washington Redskins when the team inducted Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, and Michael Irving into the Cowboys Ring of Honor, and the 2006 Christmas Day game against the Philadelphia Eagles.

The game was televised on ESPN's Monday Night Football and marked a record 42nd win for the Cowboys on MNF.

The Cowboys waited until Smith had retired as a player before inducting Aikman and Irvin, so all three could be inducted together, which occurred during halftime at a Monday Night Football home game against the arch-rival Washington Redskins on September 19, 2005.

The game, Night Trap, was not a great success, but is considered a pioneering title as it was the first game to use live actors, specifically a well known personality ( Plato ).

The Miami Marlins in front of a sellout crowd at the inaugural Opening Night game at Marlins Park against the reigning World champion St. Louis Cardinals.

" In November 2007, Mr. T appeared in a television commercial for the online role playing game World of Warcraft with the phrase " I'm Mr. T and I'm a Night Elf Mohawk ".

It wasn't until 43 years later, on December 17, 2007 ( a Monday Night Football game versus the Chicago Bears ) that the Vikings again donned both purple jerseys and purple pants.

The New Orleans Saints ' first post-Katrina home game was an emotionally-charged Monday Night Football game versus their division rival, the Atlanta Falcons.

The Jets ' first regular season home game at the new stadium was held on September 13, 2010 and was shown nationwide on Monday Night Football.

Crowe is also a fan of the National Football League, and on 22 October 2007 appeared in the booth of a Monday Night game between the Indianapolis Colts and the Jacksonville Jaguars.

On October 27, 2003, the Chargers wore their navy pants with their navy jersey for a Monday Night Football game versus the Miami Dolphins that was played at Sun Devil Stadium, then the home of the Arizona Cardinals, due to wildfires in southern California.

This is part of an extensive military outreach program, which also includes a series of Military Appreciation Night games, and game tapes mailed to deployed United States Navy ships of the Pacific Fleet for onboard viewing ( a large portion of the Pacific Fleet is homeported in San Diego ).

Both players combined for 13 tackles, while the Bills defense held running back Barry Word, who became the Chiefs ' primary rusher since the Monday Night game and rushed over 100 yards in each of Kansas City's previous 3 games, to just 50 yards.

The pregame show held before the game featured country music singer Hank Williams, Jr., who performed his theme song for Monday Night Football, which was based on his single " All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight ".

The game was rematched on October 27, 1997, as a near-national telecast on ABC's Monday Night Football, the only time ABC aired a rematch of the previous season's Super Bowl.

** A Disco Demolition Night publicity stunt goes awry at Comiskey Park, forcing the Chicago White Sox to forfeit their game against the Detroit Tigers.