Night Walk (1986) Toronto Slow TV [1 of 10 in series]

[@jayleblanc3598]

Not for nothing, Toronto should be ashamed of itself. The guy who did all of these video's should be in the Hall Of Fame of Human Beings. This guy was WAYYYYYYY ahead of his time. I hope he has a comfortable couch with a large screen TV up in the sky when his time is up. Absolute LEGEND.

[@PieFights]

The Person who wrote all of the music for the Night Walk series Michael Spivack was also head of programming at Global at the time

[@johnchen3154]

This was before cctv or cell phone footage

[@saltywetreefer3985]

This was so ahead of it's time. Now so many KZbinrs are doing exactly this type of thing all over the world.

[@sheldonleonard1965]

This should be a Canadian Heritage Moment

[@RibbonVintageGirl]

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN! YES!

[@lantingliu7886]

Damn Right! Bang On👍

[@FrankKnight8846]

When Toronto was Great!!!!….. I miss the old Toronto

[@incarnateTheGreat]

I love how far we've come as a city, but I can also admit to being INCREDIBLY nostalgic when I watch these videos. I do tend to miss the Toronto of old.

[@hardwickd]

Anyone else here watching in 2022 to enjoy reminiscing walking those street back then?

[@yoshitoshi98]

2023 and I’d love to be back there

[@adampierce7468]

Watching in 2024. This is like a wonderland.

[@rcl1955ca]

I’m watching this in 2024, I remember watching

[@kdguro]

Oh boy, being a teenager in the 80s and early 90’s this brings back a lot of nostalgic memories. Staying up late, tucked away in our houses basement. After watching ‘certain late night programming’ (thank you Quebec), then winding down to sleep with Night Moves smooth music and almost trance like stroll through Toronto. What a time…

[@MikeRoberts1964]

This is really the closest I'll get to time travel and the Toronto of my youth.

[@normanbloom]

I was born and raised in Toronto I'd like to go back to the more simply kind because really getting a lot of things anxiety nowadays

[@halsigmund3426]

I discovered this show when I was very sick with the flu. I couldn't sleep and I needed something to take my mind off how awful I was feeling. I turned on the tv and after clicking through a sea of infomercials, I found this and was immediately captivated. I watched this show every morning until my flu was gone. It was just what I needed to help get me through.

[@helikestv]

I'm proud to carry on the decades-long tradition of vibing out to this while half in the bag at 3:30am

[@t-dot416scartown4]

Who's here still watching and listening to Night Walk. It's now June, 19, 2020 and I'm here enjoying it!!!

[@davidw5532]

August 27, 2020 at almost 1am watching this. Enjoying it very much. Brings back memories of my childhood. Would get up late at night and sneak downstairs to the tv room to watch these episodes. I found it mesmerizing back then. So grateful to re-live a part of my childhood with these episodes here on KZbin.

[@ceer9141]

November 25, 2020 5:17 a.m. Off to bed with great memories of the Toronto we grew up in. We didn't know how lucky we were.

[@dukehalliday9833]

I Do

[@threadpusher]

I’m chiming in from the future 2024…. And this video is still ahead of its time

[@kerrbear1980]

I was like 8 years old and I'd wake up an watch this cuz I couldnt sleep. I loved it, seeing a night time view of downtown I'd never been around being in Scarb.

[@davidw5532]

I was like 7 years old. I sometimes purposely woke up at that time of night and snuck downstairs to the tv room just to watch this. I always thought I was a strange kid to do that. Lol. Something mesmerized me about this at that age. I think it’s what you say...to see downtown Toronto at night. And the jazz music just added this sense of a dreamlike atmosphere that was thrilling to me as a child. These episodes are truly a memorable part of my childhood.

[@MyNightWalk]

@David W So glad you found this channel. Same experience here, though I was 13 years old. Thanks for sharing.

[@incarnateTheGreat]

I was about the same age when I started watching these back in the late 80s. Same reason: would wake up early, had a TV in my room, would turn it on and this would be played right before the news would start.

[@PieFights]

@@davidw5532 You are not alone I did it as well as a kid with trouble sleeping this would help me get to sleep i was only one year old which this series first aired in 1986 so I watched it back in 1992

[@PieFights]

@@MyNightWalk To me this series is what I think made Global stand out from all of the other stations in Toronto back in the days

[@robg8784]

man what i would give to go back for a walk in 1986......

[@t-dot416scartown4]

Hi all Nite Owls, here again and still enjoying this Beautiful Masterpiece that helps us all relax from a busy day 😊

[@sircharlesbergamyiii3623]

Growing up in Detroit I'd listened to this with the one my dumb ass let get away back in 86 when it just got started, I know for a fact that there is a crystal clear version of all the of episodes somewhere!!! Introduced me to the beauty of Lounge Jazz very early in my life and I will always be grateful. If only i could turn back the hand of time-CB3

[@cycofxtreme]

Growing up in the Malton. Had a small black and white TV in my bedroom. I would wake up in the middle of the night as a 10 yr old and watch this, always being thrilled that I saw a place that I knew in real life. Watching and listening to the sound of this brings me right back. To this day, I can watch this over and over

[@ramifications2140]

Malton? Like near the Woodbine center in Mississauga? If so, I lived in malton for 13 years. I'm 24 now.

[@cas447]

OMG mid-1980s nostalgia overload. This is so awesome.

[@ismellstatic]

I've spent many late nights sitting up with my mom just talking with her about living in Toronto back in those days. Slowly but surely I'm building an emotional map of that world, and stuff like this really helps put the pictures to her memories.

[@MyNightWalk]

That's great - thanks for sharing!

[@PieFights]

@@MyNightWalk You know I was wondering if Michael Spivack looks back at these episodes and will be amazed how well they stood the test of time i mean they are timeless you don't see shows like this today

[@imdjc4]

Toronto - the good, the safe, the clean. When housing was cheap, no bullets (comparitvely) and it was still safe for women to walk the streets alone at night.

[@kerrbear1980]

Not than,those were the years of Paul Bernardo/Scarboro rapist, NOT safe For woman. Rest true tho. I miss all the vintage lights. Not this LD shit now

[@thebelissima64]

@@kerrbear1980 Paul Bernardo was an isolated incident. So much that it made headlines all over the country. I am a woman and I can affirm that during that time Toronto was extremely safe! I hsed to walk at home alonevlate at night.

[@ifyagotajaburadumsheep1752]

@@kerrbear1980 i lived in Scarborough my mom use to take me to hockey practice around 7 on Tuesdays and Thursday at Agincourt lions arena we use to see a guy walking up and down the the side street off McCowan rd we later found out it was him , it was close to home for me

[@melodyofpsalm9468]

@@kerrbear1980 The Paul Bernardo incident didn't happen in Toronto it happened in St Catharines Ontario.

[@t-dot416scartown4]

2024 of January 30th at 1:52 am and still listening to this fabulous music and watching the beautifulness of Toronto!!!

[@ThanatosWings]

I loved watching this when i was a kid!

[@VaporChase]

Man, this is awesome and brings back memories. I was a night owl in the latter half of the 80s and into the 90s, so I'd often catch one of these episodes late at night. It was zen slow TV long before slow TV was a thing; relaxing, calming, kind of a virtual tour of Toronto; now a time capsule of the city long before it became a literal forest of tall condos and construction projects, LED billboards, and perpetual gridlock. I miss this Toronto so much.

[@normanbloom]

It was a lot of different programming it wasn't so sensationalized more relaxed subdue kind of commercials it didn't really hit you in the face like you do nowadays personally I don't like the stuff now a lot of wasted programs in the middle of the night.

[@wolfcatsden]

I wish they continued these and we could watch all the changes in the city. was always so soothing to listen to when i was a teen and pulled the all nighters

[@spelunk8]

The walk from Gerrard down Yonge is amazing. My favourite clip. Makes me nostalgic and sad I miss the almond croissants

[@tonyactorb]

Le Maison Croissant. across from the Leather Ranch. God times were great.

[@normanbloom]

I don't recognize downtown Toronto anymore buildings are tall modernized a lot of character has disappeared from the strip on Young Street and around downtown just not the same anymore..

[@Toronto_Golfer]

Been searching for this series! I'm now 39 years old and this breaks back fond memories. I would watch these on early mornings as a elementary school kid, and as a foreigner.

[@MyNightWalk]

Thank you for sharing, and so glad you found this!

[@guardiane]

This was one of those shows I discovered by accident in my youth. I would be up late nights back then, just because I could, and by swapping around the channels looking for something to watch, I found this. Reminds me of the good ol'days before the internet took over and changed our way of life. So much nostalgia when watching these videos...makes me happy and sad a the same time. Imagine trying to make something like this today? People losing their minds left and right, threatening legal action...so sad that the world is so damn paranoid now. I'd love to see a modern day version of this.

[@markwoodley712]

Sheldon Leonard nails it with the Canadian Heritage moment remark, the flashing neon at Yorkdale station takes me back to a similar sequential neon display at the old AGO on the corner of Dundas & Beverley Streets. The illuminated street signs downtown too! Where are we going at Ford's Drugstore, temptations on Yonge Street, billiard halls, restricted theatres, arcades, Mr Submarine, Pizza Pizza. A fun time.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Certainly needs to be put in a registry of sorts. Just like America does with a number of films it considers historically significant.

[@erikpetersen-chinguacousys1943]

SAM'S!! And the spinning disc!

[@byungcho9145]

A wistful, gentle, nostalgic trip down memory lane circa 1980's. Remember the Imperial Six?

[@robertdion848]

What a fantastic series and concept. I remember watching this like it was yesterday . It’s looks nostalgic and futuristic at the same time .Great memories

[@TheCaptainLulz]

When I was a kid and couldnt sleep, id put this on and that was it.

[@marcosmota1094]

Did they know how valuable this would become to future generations? I came here after watching the Bergen train/SlowTV on Netflix. This was the grandaddy to that Norwegian program. Toronto of yesteryear to be enjoyed forever! I am a New Yorker, and cities are just fucking beautiful and sexy.

[@melodyofpsalm9468]

I used to love Toronto in the 60's as a kid. Not the same now.

[@dukehalliday9833]

I Miss These. I Used To Watch Them ALL THE TIME And Then I Had 2 Get Up For School At 7:00.Am. *My Mom Would Give Me Sh*t n Say Go 2 Bed... LOL (Love And Miss You Mom)

[@Zxarr]

I'd love to see these digitally restored... I used to love staying up late and finding these on TV. Childhood memories.

[@mrcanadaoso]

I love these videos, used to watch this on Global on my TV back at my old house with my brother, when I was a little kid, helped us relax at night....but these were good times watching this show...Thank you My Night Walk for taking me back to my childhood ❤️🙏

[@MyNightWalk]

@Gaston Palavicino You're welcome! So glad you found this channel and took the time to comment.

[@mrcanadaoso]

My Night Walk your welcome 🙏❤️ this was a favorite nighttime for us, and to see it again tonight after so long, I was emotional, never thought I see it again as I did tonight, thank you again ❤️ this gave me so much to remember growing up in the late 80s

[@robertafett8211]

Still watching in 2024.

[@tonyactorb]

Home is where the heart is Toronto has my heart. Beautiful. Thank You

[@SLam-ve3yp]

I miss being young and listen to this in the wee hours of the night when I could not sleep. I felt less lonely. I wish I was young again.

[@thebelissima64]

This used to be aired overnight on Global TV 💕 I miss my old Toronto and despite not living there anymore I wish it had stayed that way ☹️

[@kelcarr9623]

I am so happy to see this brings nostalgia to others like myself.

[@pekozelenovic7233]

I remember this as a kid yorkdale station looks the same today except the ceiling light its not there anymore

[@incarnateTheGreat]

Yep. The 'Arc en ciel' work used to run in the direction that a train was moving in. Was pretty neat. Unfortunately it was removed because of water damage. There's been talk to reinstall it using LED.

[@BGRANT777X]

I can't even imagine Toronto not being packed with people all the time everywhere.

[@wecontrolthevideo]

I used to watch these all the time in the Detroit area from Global TV on Ch 22, that served Windsor. Nice to see it with a clear picture, I always received Global with a little bit of snow (noise) in the picture.

[@cycofxtreme]

So great to listen/watch this in 2023. Brings me back to living in Malton and Rexdale..watching this on a black and white 14 inch TV in the middle of the night..simpler times for sure

[@t-dot416scartown4]

Hi peepz, I'm here again and it's August, 18, 2021 and still enjoying this Masterpiece

[@RyanChow1989]

I really miss life before the internet. So simple, so soulful, and romantic.

[@robm843]

This brings me back… it came on around 3 or 4am… you’d be sitting having finished a fun evening just winding down. . Thanks for posting this

[@callmemrbombastic1903]

Song 4 the happy times live here on this channel and in the heart 🧠 ❤️ 🥲! Blessings!

[@FireflyLightningBug]

I cannot be weary of watching this whole 80s series. These snapshots take me to the fourth dimension. I am spellbound

[@paolomiceli6656]

What an awesome and strangely sad trip to a time that just seemed so simple and exciting! Hitting those late night record shops that have all disappeared will always remind me of my youth! Job well done preserving these timeless journeys!

[@highlevelthreat8767]

Funland arcade was a sketchy place to hang around back in my days.

[@johnpatterson4272]

I loved this show and I loved Toronto back in the 80s. It was a peaceful way to end a long day, or after finishing a late-afternoon shift. I fell asleep many times to the soothing music and images of Toronto when it was much quieter. I remember the original shows as being called 'Night Ride'. This is the first time I've seen the 'Night Walk crew' board a TTC vehicle.

[@yoshitoshi98]

This is the one I remember because of the music.

[@tedjones3955]

I love the night. My wife and I used to walk around our neighborhood at 3 in the morning. That was back in 83. Not now, too many whackjobs with delusions of criminal grandeur. I can still enjoy it through these gems. Thanks for helping us take the night back. If only vicariously through you, at least I won't end up in a Hospital.

[@missj2045]

Still remember these subway cars with the green or orange cushioned seats. There was no air conditioning. They got replaced with the AC cars in the mid 90s. It sure felt nice to ride with the AC in the summer.

[@callmemrbombastic1903]

Wow my home Yorkdale! I instantly recognized those stairs! I love this kind of stuff!

[@t-dot416scartown4]

Loving it and still enjoying it on This Day December, 14, 2022 at 10:32 pm

[@JOKERkid761]

Amazing! and great story. I just wish you did (or someone did) these during the day. The memories! TO was cool back then. You never know it...til it's gone. 8-(

[@lazyorangehousecat9164]

Toronto was such a beautiful city.

[@steevski]

“Was” is the key word here.

[@bb3ca201]

Yorkdale station at the start. Love it

[@fredroper398]

missed the H1 trains

[@maziku4749]

i love the music

[@MrDigitalman78]

My 8th birthday was 3 days away in 1986 you can tell what I was born in. Used to see it as a kid from 5am until cartoons would air on a weekend on Global TV

[@callmemrbombastic1903]

Bravo 👏🏾 😄 encore! Great 😁 👍🏾 film 🎥!

[@callmemrbombastic1903]

I was about a year old at the time this was made! This is refreshing to my spirit!

[@melodyofpsalm9468]

Very, very cool! I used to watch this when I couldn't sleep in the middle of the night. I loved it so much that I taped it when I was sleeping so I wouldn't miss it, but watching it in broad daylight just didn't have the same haunting effect....LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS!!

[@OtomoTenzi]

Yeah, it would've been hella hard to watch anyway with all that GLARE from the daytime...

[@melodyofpsalm9468]

It's much better watching it at 3 or 4am!

[@TheDenice777]

Oh the memories

[@callmemrbombastic1903]

Song 2 I'm definitely home! Watching this!

[@joe461]

bring back old time mis the days

[@20035079]

this went triple platinum in the vaporwave community just thought you'd know

[@steerpike1359]

I love this, always did !

[@ne12bot94]

Love watching this when I was kid after midnight, I remember they used to have night driving in the winter. I miss this show , thanks you for sharing this video.

[@knowpassword]

Oh.. thank you 😊.. I was ten years old and remember my friend 👍🖖

[@callmemrbombastic1903]

For song 2 that pizza pizza 🍕 😋 is still there with a new look of course! Yonge st Toronto! Never ceases to amaze me! A history buffs 💪🏾 vice of choice! Thanks for the footage! Making this footage was definitely forward thinking! Bless!

[@78zappaf]

Good Lord the nostalgic feeling. Especially during this pandemic. Would be nice to bring this back, since (hopefully) we won't be seeing these masks in the future. Great series!

[@MyNightWalk]

@78zappaf Thanks for the kind words! I'm glad the 2019 episodes were able to capture Toronto before the pandemic.

[@PieFights]

@@MyNightWalk as I said in another video I really like watching the old ones and the new ones these videos are like being in a time machine seeing Toronto Back then vs Toronto Now as a kid I had a hard time sleeping so I would go downstairs and watch the original episodes I was born 1985 so I was only little when the original episodes were first aired so I caught them when Global was still airing them in 1992-1993

[@normanbloom]

I hate these masks I don't want to see these masks next year and year after enough already enough.

[@Tony_Cardoza]

​@@normanbloomWere you still seeing them when you write this 8 months ago? I'm just curious, cuz we have been over the mask wearing for so long, couple years at this point.

[@callmemrbombastic1903]

Song 4 Dundas square! Mind-blowing 🤯! What a transformation!

[@peterkiss4804]

Studying all night at University with this on the TV. What a great time. Where did the time go.

[@heatherr0420]

Very soothing, and the fact that it filmed in one of my favorite cities (Toronto), makes it even better

[@kevinth86]

I like that it takes place at night and is dark

[@melodyofpsalm9468]

Hi Kevinth86!

[@Mihhailv]

I don't remember exactly the year, but roughly 20 years ago i was in elementary school in Bucharest, i was already familiar with another piece of Canadian tv mastery in Forever Knight, also filmed in Toronto and when i saw and heard this, well let's say i have been in love with Jazz since then and now contemplating of a similar project with this concept of slow tv. Thank you, nightwalk.ca for the smooth, quiet nights all the way to Romania!

[@Hondasmama2005]

This was taped the year I was born! I remember seeing this a few times when I visited Canada as a kid. Then last year I met some friends on TWITCH and KZbin who live in Toronto and other areas who also remember this and it got mentioned somehow and shared and I was like I know this but how? Then remembered all the trips to Thunder Bay Canada and the one trip to Toronto and vaguely remember seeing this on TV there late at night with my dad and it helped me fall fast asleep! I play it on here when I can't sleep! Still can't believe I found it again and that it was filmed the year I was born!

[@goblinman7]

This seems right out of a Police squad Leslie Neilson movie. The music, the camera, the feel, the...well...everything. Brings a smile to my face.

[@MikeG42]

This is great. A journey back in time to beautiful Toronto Ontario. I used to watch this late at night whenever I had the chance. Interesting tour through the city with some nice music. I love this ! 😀👍♥️🇨🇦🌃

[@PieFights]

as a long time fan of this series thanks for uploading the full episodes of this great series brings back memories. I was one year old when it started back when Global had great programming

[@stevek5264]

It brings back so many good memories of the old days I love it time was different I used to put this on to put me to sleep when I was young 💚👌👍

[@callmemrbombastic1903]

Song 4 the infamous red rocket 🚀 at Lawrence West station 🚉 my neighborhoods second subway station! This is priceless! I can't thank you enough 😉!

[@HeadRush-yj4fy]

God I love Toronto.

[@paulfromdonmills]

Too many here, are not Torontonians, huh.

[@incarnateTheGreat]

@@paulfromdonmills That's because this program aired in many places. There was a following.

[@hardyboy1959]

I lived out on Queen St. E. years ago and you triggered a flashback @8:10 of my many drunken walks down Yonge to catch the Queen car after the dance clubs had closed. Amazing seeing all those stores again, now they're gone! The music is so suitable too!

[@peterwojnar5781]

"I need you now, can't wait til tomorrow". I still remember her singing those lyrics from when I first saw this back in 1986. Thanks so much for posting.

[@spendingtimetogether8428]

Thanks for the additional information of when it was aired. I remember my dad watching these late in the night.

[@srb_keepthechange]

It really emptied out at night back then because many that worked during the day in the city left in the afternoon. Great memories.

[@kellark]

Thanks for posting. Ive been trying to find Night Walk and Night Ride for a while now. I remember watching these after regular TV programming ended.

[@PieFights]

this show was back in the golden age of the Global Television Network

[@bb3ca201]

I loved this show

[@Origbootleg]

"Flâneurie," coined by Honore De Balzac, represents a practice among 19th-century noblemen where they would stroll meekly, un-assumedly, to ingest the vivaciousness of the world around them with minimal affectation. Moments of loss, love, of heartening lightness and unbearable weight all functioning as a "gastronomy for the eye," a tableau of humanity represented by hundreds of ever-unfolding vignettes. The flâneurist's aim is (allegedly) not of a voyeur's, but of an empath's. This show is contemporary flâneurie, and a daring premise: the drama of an evening - every evening - in all its delicate incidentiality. For returning to when I need a few wistful tears. Cheers!

[@blawndeeboy]

I really really think this would be amazing if it could be used with a VR headset. It would be that much more incredible!!

[@360ambiencevideos]

somebody needs to redo this in VR for the quest, but use these old tunes (and edit in SAMs back where it was).. or show an overlay with what used to be... damn.

[@casualsuede]

Ahead of it's time, this is a youtube thing.

[@hardknox144]

All the insomniac kids like me were up watching the Mod Squad and the Night Ride shows before we went back to bed.

[@steerpike1359]

A beautiful androgynous voice...sing it, Sarah !

[@bojackson3398]

Before Toronto was a Sanctuary City 👳🏿‍♀️

[@thebelissima64]

You said it 🙁

[@lambzey7980]

pioneers of liminal spaces. CORE.

[@torontofred]

This was a low point in my life. In four more years I'd find myself in the States. What a mistake!! I used to walk the streets late at night like this when I was a teen in the 70s. Wow.... the memories.

[@millionairesplendor2751]

torontofred a mistake?

[@torontofred]

@@millionairesplendor2751 Moving to the States was a mistake. Yes. LIfe, for me, was better in Canada.

[@millionairesplendor2751]

torontofred sorry you feel that, any reason why?

[@torontofred]

@@millionairesplendor2751 There are many reason. Freedom, security, peace, good government, justice. Pick one. All you have to do is a search on the internet and you find all sorts of reasons why. About the only good stuff is, some fantastic landscapes (not too many jobs at the Grand Canyon), crazy buying power (if you have money), great tech jobs and service support in certain locations (most places in the States is depressed), the most powerful military in the world (and a lot of PDS), and some places doesn't snow (hurricanes, tornadoes, super hail, floods, fires, sinkholes, super hot, super cold, volcanoes, and Trump) and the best medical/hospitals money can buy... (hint, money). Having said that... the States has some terrific potential to be the best country in the world. Best educated, best health care, best rights and freedoms, best government, best leadership. I'm just to old to wait anymore. Moving to Canada.

[@millionairesplendor2751]

torontofred not gonna debate it, in fact I think our country is full anyways. But good luck then

[@kdrcampbell]

The bit where the guy looking like an undercover cop waves the walker into Ford Drugs/ Restaurant is a tease into a world of Toronto Noir .. what was the walker picking up in the back room ..

[@melodyofpsalm9468]

You would make a great story-teller..with a great imagination....you should be a novelist..LOLOL

[@archangle81]

I love that part. Now I have a better idea of what was happening. I love how abruptly it was cut and back to the cool wandering.. nothing to see here folks!