Disco hit the television airwaves with Soul Train in 1971 hosted by Don Cornelius, then Marty Angelo's Disco Step-by-Step Television Show in 1975, Steve Marcus ' Disco Magic / Disco 77, Eddie Rivera's Soap Factory and Merv Griffin's Dance Fever, hosted by Deney Terrio, who is credited with teaching actor John Travolta to dance for his upcoming role in the hit movie Saturday Night Fever.

" ( 1979 ), Electric Light Orchestra ’ s " Shine a Little Love ", " Don't Bring Me Down ", and " Last Train to London " ( all 1979 ), George Benson's " Give Me the Night " ( 1980 ), Elton John and Kiki Dee's " Don't Go Breaking My Heart " ( 1976 ), and Diana Ross ' " Upside Down " ( 1980 ).

" Among the products sought to be banned were over two dozen beers, and six fortified wines: Cisco, Gino's Premium Blend, MD 20 / 20, Night Train, Thunderbird, and Wild Irish Rose.

* Night Train Drug Seizure, one of the largest drug seizures in history.

Night Train with Reaper by London Irish artist Brian Whelan from the book Myth of Return, 2007

His next two films each experimented with parallel narratives: Mystery Train ( 1989 ) told three successive stories set on the same night in and around a small Memphis hotel, and Night on Earth ( 1991 ) involved five cab drivers and their passengers on rides in five different world cities, beginning at sundown in Los Angeles and ending at sunrise in Helsinki.

Jarmusch's distinctive aesthetic and auteur status fomented a critical backlash at the close of this early period, however ; though reviewers praised the charm and adroitness of Mystery Train and Night On Earth, the director was increasingly charged with repetitiveness and risk-aversion.

He has experimented with a vignette format in three films either released or begun around the early nineties: Mystery Train, Night on Earth, and Coffee and Cigarettes.

Brown's band recorded the instrumental hit, " Night Train ", which was among the first to credit Brown by himself, and became a Top 5 R & B hit and crossed over briefly to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100.

* 2002 – Dick " Night Train " Lane, American football player ( b. 1928 )

** Night Train to Munich-Gordon Wellesley

Memphis is the subject of numerous pop and country songs, including " The Memphis Blues " by W. C. Handy, " Memphis, Tennessee " by Chuck Berry, " Night Train to Memphis " by Roy Acuff, " Goin ' to Memphis " by Paul Revere and the Raiders, " Queen of Memphis " by Confederate Railroad, " Memphis Soul Stew " by King Curtis, " Maybe It Was Memphis " by Pam Tillis, " Graceland " by Paul Simon, " Memphis Train " by Rufus Thomas, " All the Way from Memphis " by Mott the Hoople, " Wrong Side of Memphis " by Trisha Yearwood, " Walking in Memphis " by Marc Cohn, " Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again " by Bob Dylan, " Memphis Skyline " by Rufus Wainwright, and " Sequestered in Memphis " by The Hold Steady.

His etchings around 1920 began to get public recognition and expressed some of his later themes, as in Night on the El Train ( couples in silence ), Evening Wind ( solitary female ), and The Catboat ( simple nautical scene ).

Although she was initially known as a " scream queen " because of her starring roles in several horror films early in her career, such as Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night, and Terror Train, Curtis has since compiled a body of work that spans many genres, and has won BAFTA and Golden Globe awards.

That year, Curtis also starred in Terror Train, which opened in October and was met with negative reviews akin to Prom Night.

Another group from the Dallas and Fort Worth area then replaced Bill Mack with a nightly taped program called the Texas Night Train.

He was heralded over the sound effects of a massive steam train which gave the impression the Texas Night Train was chugging its way across Texas.

Another group that was also based in North Texas who were aware of the Bill Mack venture on XERF and the replacement of his time slot by the Texas Night Train were the owners of a company attempting to revive the British offshore station Wonderful Radio London.

To accommodate the new schedule, the Texas Night Train was pushed back to allow the Big L show to serve as its lead-in beginning at midnight Texas time.

No sooner had the Wonderful Radio London Top 40 Show started, when the Texas Night Train folded.

The Texas Night Train often disappeared into the static of the AM band when the XERF transmitter power dropped off.

Advertisers would not buy time, and with mounting debts, the Texas Night Train came to the end of its line.

Linking the owners of the Texas Night Train and Wonderful Radio London programs was KXOL in Fort Worth where both shows were also aired on weekends.

) After the demise of The Texas Night Train marathon program, the WRLI team approached attorney Arturo Gonzalez in Del Rio with a new proposal.

In addition to the aforementioned, other directors associated with top-of-the-bill Hollywood film noirs include Edward Dmytryk ( Murder, My Sweet, Crossfire )— the first important noir director to fall prey to the industry blacklist — as well as Henry Hathaway ( The Dark Corner, Kiss of Death ) and John Farrow ( The Big Clock, Night Has a Thousand Eyes ).

The plot of Gaudy Night was adapted to become the two-part Out of the Past episode (# 155 & # 156 ) of the American television mystery series Diagnosis: Murder starring Dick van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan.

Lord Peter Wimsey was played by Ian Carmichael in a series of independent serials that ran from 1972 to 1975 and adapted five novels ( Clouds of Witness, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Five Red Herrings, Murder Must Advertise and The Nine Tailors ) and by Edward Petherbridge in 1987, in which three of the four major Wimsey / Vane novels ( Strong Poison, Have his Carcase and Gaudy Night ) were dramatised.

Some of the most popular TV series which premiered during the 1980s or carried over from the 1970s include: Alf, Airwolf, The A-Team, Dynasty, Dallas, Knight Rider, MacGyver, Magnum, P. I., Miami Vice, Diff ' rent Strokes, The Jeffersons, The Facts of Life, The Cosby Show, Murder, She Wrote, 21 Jump Street, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Night Court, Who's the Boss ?, Family Matters, Quantum Leap, Saved by the Bell, Roseanne, Full House, The Golden Girls, Cheers, Growing Pains, Family Ties, Seinfeld, The Simpsons and Married ... with Children.

After beginning the 1930s with a series of non-musical plays, I Lived With You ( 1932 ), Fresh Fields, Proscenium, Sunshine Sisters, Flies in the Sun ( all 1933 ) and Murder in Mayfair ( 1934 ), Novello returned to composition in 1935 with Glamorous Night, which was the first of a series of enormously popular musicals.

The channel shows the German premiere of 30 Rock and Friday Night Lights, as well a wide variety of old and recent American drama and comedy, including Murder, She Wrote, Northern Exposure, Monk, Third Watch, Rescue Me, Six Feet Under, Seinfeld, ER, The King of Queens, Everybody Loves Raymond, Caroline in the City, Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones and Falling Skies.

Morecambe and Wise worked on their much-desired film, a television movie in 1983, Night Train to Murder, with which both were unhappy: recorded on videotape using the new medium of lightweight ENG cameras instead of 16mm or 35mm film, they felt it looked " cheap ".

Abigail and Roger, The Airbase, As Good Cooks Go, the 1960 adaptation of The Citadel, the 1956 adaptation of David Copperfield, The Dark Island, The Gnomes of Dulwich, Hurricane, For Richer ... For Poorer, Hereward the Wake, The Naked Lady, Night Train To Surbiton, Outbreak of Murder, Where do I Sit ?, and Witch Hunt have all been wiped with no footage surviving while four out of seven episodes of the paranormal anthology series Dead of Night were wiped.

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.

He has since appeared in starring and supporting roles in many films, including Francis of Assisi, The Fiercest Heart, The Longest Day, The Comancheros ( sharing leading man status with John Wayne ), Convicts 4, The Day and the Hour, Signpost to Murder, Shock Treatment, Rio Conchos, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Sands of the Kalahari, The City Beneath the Sea, An American Dream, The Last Escape, The Invincible Six, Night of the Lepus, Shatter, Captain Apache, Strange Shadows in an Empty Room, Guyana: Crime of the Century, Treasure Seekers and The White Buffalo.

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In 1983 they made their last film, Night Train To Murder.

The film he and Wise wanted to make – Night Train To Murder – was eventually screened on New Year's Day 1985.

After leaving Hawaii Five-O, McArthur guest-starred on such television shows as Murder, She Wrote, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island and Vega $, as well as in the mini series Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story and The Night the Bridge Fell Down, and in the 1998 television movie Stormchasers: Revenge of the Twister, with Kelly McGillis.

* Author Patricia Kennealy-Morrison has a protagonist named Turk Wayland in her Rennie Stride mystery series, and sets a scene at the end of the fourth book, " A Hard Slay's Night: Murder at the Royal Albert Hall ", at Wayland's Smithy.

Since appearing in the widely-popular Sound of Music, Plummer has appeared in a vast number of notable films, including Inside Daisy Clover ( 1965 ), The Night of the Generals ( cameo as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ) ( 1967 ), Oedipus the King ( 1968 ), The Royal Hunt of the Sun ( 1969 ), Battle of Britain ( 1970 ), Waterloo ( 1970 ), The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 ), The Return of the Pink Panther ( 1975 ), The Silent Partner ( 1978 ), International Velvet ( 1978 ), Murder by Decree ( 1979 ), Somewhere in Time ( 1980 ), Eyewitness ( 1981 ), Dragnet ( 1987 ), Shadow Dancing ( 1988 ), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ( 1991 ), Malcolm X ( 1992 ), Wolf ( 1994 ), Dolores Claiborne ( 1995 ), 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ), Syriana ( 2005 ), The New World ( 2005 ), and The Lake House ( 2006 ).

Author Patricia Kennealy-Morrison has a protagonist named Turk Wayland in her Rennie Stride mystery series, and sets a scene at the end of the fourth book, " A Hard Slay's Night: Murder at the Royal Albert Hall ", at Wayland's Smithy.

Other acting appearances include the comedy-drama In the Red ( BBC Two, 1998 ), the macabre sitcom Nighty Night ( BBC Three, 2003 ), Agatha Christie's Marple as Ronald Hawes in The Murder at the Vicarage, a guest appearance in the Vic & Bob series Catterick in 2004 and the live 2005 remake of the classic science fiction serial The Quatermass Experiment.

and The Dumplings, and made guest appearances on many shows, including ABC Stage 67, The Edge of Night, Marcus Welby, M. D., Trapper John, M. D., Medical Center, Maude, Fantasy Island, Alice, Murder, She Wrote, The Muppet Show, The Love Boat, and St.

Chiles has also done some work in television, playing J. R .' s love interest Holly Harwood in the 1982 – 1983 season of Dallas and guest appearances in shows such as Hart to Hart ( as a psychotic split-personality model ), In the Heat of the Night, and Murder, She Wrote.

Carlisle's early movies included Murder at the Vanities ( 1934 ), A Night at the Opera ( 1935 ) with the Marx Brothers, and two films with Bing Crosby, She Loves Me Not ( 1934 ) and Here Is My Heart ( 1934 ).

* Reichsmordwoche, Nacht der langen Messer – " State Murder Week, Night of the Long Knives " of June – July 1934 during which Hitler assassinated hundreds of party-internal opponents, especially the SA, which was decapitated of its leadership.

* Night of Mystery ( 1937 ) ( based on The Greene Murder Case ) with Grant Richards as Philo Vance.