The Night Shift for November 6, 2026: Midnight Spook Stew. 8 pieces (songs and theme tunes, vintage commercials and promos, sound effects): Midnight Syndicate - Spectral Masquerade, Sound effect: Grave digging, Baha Men - It's Spooky in Here and more, with Vivienne Vayne.

In this episode:

1. 0:00 Stupid Potato
2. 0:12 The Night Shift opens: Vivienne Vayne welcomes you
3. 1:31 Midnight Syndicate - Spectral Masquerade
4. 4:13 Sound effect: Grave digging
5. 4:46 Baha Men - It's Spooky in Here
6. 7:16 The Night Shift on Stupid Potato
7. 7:26 McDonald's McNugget Buddies (commercial, 1993) — McDonaldland is a fictional fantasy world created by McDonald's, starting with Ronald McDonald in 1963, and inhabited by him and his friends. Early efforts by the marketing agency Needham, Harper & Steers to expand it were later effectively dropped because of legal issues. Its ongoing elements were developed further through McDonald's projects made with several outside companies, including Data East, Virgin Interactive, Treasure, SEGA, and Klasky Csupo.
8. 7:57 Danny Hutton - Monster Shindig
9. 9:58 The Night Shift on Stupid Potato
10. 10:10 Fantastic Voyage (radio spot) — Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 American science fiction adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer, with a screenplay by Harry Kleiner based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby. In it, a submarine crew is shrunk to microscopic size and travels inside the body of an injured scientist, Dr. Jan Benes, to repair damage to his brain. The movie starred Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence, and Arthur Kennedy.
11. 10:57 McDonald's Scared Silly (commercial, 1988) — A 1988 Halloween-themed McDonald's commercial featuring Ronald McDonald and Chicken McNuggets characters preparing scary sauces for dipping, promoting McDonald's sauces as a reliable product.
12. 11:27 Frankie and Newports - Monster Mash
13. 14:42 Vivienne Vayne signs off
14. 15:40 More free classic radio at stupidpotato.com

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The Night Shift for October 31, 2026: Adrian Johnston - Remember That Time, Rush - Witch Hunt and Joel McNeely - Patrol Car. 13 pieces (songs and theme tunes, short pieces, vintage commercials and promos): Adrian Johnston - Remember That Time, Rush - Witch Hunt, Joel McNeely - Patrol Car and more, with Vivienne Vayne.

In this episode:

1. 0:00 The Night Shift on Stupid Potato
2. 0:11 Vivienne Vayne opens the show
3. 1:46 Adrian Johnston - Remember That Time
4. 3:00 Rush - Witch Hunt
5. 7:27 Joel McNeely - Patrol Car
6. 7:28 Vivienne Vayne on Primus - The Devil Went Down to Georgia
7. 7:38 Primus - The Devil Went Down to Georgia
8. 12:10 Fatal Beauty (trailer)
9. 14:28 Wade Denning and Kay Lande - Halloween
10. 17:11 The Night Shift on Stupid Potato
11. 17:22 Ted Heath and His Music - Spooky — A big band recording by Ted Heath and His Music, composed by Kenny Graham and Ralph Dollimore. This 1960 instrumental piece captures the playful, jazzy spirit of spooky-themed music popular in mid-century Britain.
12. 20:42 Vivienne Vayne on Alan Hawkshaw - Calling of the Aura
13. 20:52 Alan Hawkshaw - Calling of the Aura
14. 22:42 Shawn Lee - Halloween
15. 25:30 Marcia Berman - Halloween
16. 27:17 Carter Burwell - Stream Dream
17. 28:03 Vivienne Vayne on John Williams - Climbing the Mountain
18. 28:13 John Williams - Climbing the Mountain
19. 30:36 Jerry Goldsmith - A Place for Everything — Jerry Goldsmith composed the original score for this 1999 supernatural horror film directed by Jan de Bont, featuring orchestral music recorded with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of London.

Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 60 free 24/7 channels and 188 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

The Night Shift for October 30, 2026: Joel McNeely - Patrol Car, Halloween - Come See What It's All About and Bobby Vee - The Night Has a Thousand Eyes. 15 pieces (songs and theme tunes, short pieces): Joel McNeely - Patrol Car, Halloween - Come See What It's All About, Bobby Vee - The Night Has a Thousand Eyes and more, with Vivienne Vayne.

In this episode:

1. 0:00 The Night Shift on Stupid Potato
2. 0:12 Vivienne Vayne opens the show
3. 1:35 Joel McNeely - Patrol Car
4. 2:08 Halloween - Come See What It's All About
5. 6:24 Bobby Vee - The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
6. 8:56 Vivienne Vayne on Fred Mollin - End of a Year
7. 9:05 Fred Mollin - End of a Year
8. 10:54 Dicky Doo - Flip Top Box
9. 12:56 The Paper Magic Group - Finger Cutting
10. 13:16 K-Tel International - Black Hole March
11. 14:29 Vivienne Vayne on Lalo Schifrin - Why Didn't You Pull The Trigger
12. 14:47 Lalo Schifrin - Why Didn't You Pull The Trigger
13. 14:58 Horror Charly - Horror Horror Dance
14. 17:34 The Night Shift on Stupid Potato
15. 17:45 Bob McFadden & Dor - Frankie and Igor at a Rock and Roll Party
16. 20:18 13 Cats - Teddy Boy Kung-Fu Weapon
17. 24:44 Vivienne Vayne on Captain Dax - Dr. Beezar Soul Frankenstein
18. 24:54 Captain Dax - Dr. Beezar Soul Frankenstein
19. 29:32 Riichiro Manabe - Crisis In The Container — Godzilla vs. Megalon is a 1973 Japanese kaiju film directed by Jun Fukuda and written by Fukuda and Shinichi Sekizawa, marking the 13th film in the Godzilla franchise. The film was produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano and distributed by Toho. The cast includes Katsuhiko Sasaki, Hiroyuki Kawase, Yutaka Hayashi, and Robert Dunham, with Shinji Takagi as Godzilla, Hideto Date as Megalon, Kenpachiro Satsuma as Gigan, and Tsugutoshi Komada as Jet Jaguar.
20. 29:48 Billy Strange - The Munsters Theme
21. 31:34 Ivan Hrvatska - Making Love to Halloween — A holiday novelty song by Ivan Hrvatska from the album Seasons of Love (Party All Year), released in 2005.

Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 60 free 24/7 channels and 188 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.