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The Midnight Special

American television show

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history of television in the U.S.

  • Milton Berle
    In Television in the United States: The late shows

    In 1973 NBC introduced The Midnight Special (1973–81), a rock music variety show that ran from 1:00 am to 2:30 am on Fridays following The Tonight Show, the latest regularly scheduled network program to date. The network continued this trend a few months later, when Tomorrow (1973–82), a talk…

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