Video of the old Lifetime pharmaceutical "show"?
March 2, 2010 2:56 PM Subscribe
Where can I watch video of the pharmaceutical "show" that used to appear on the Lifetime channel late at night years ago?
Back in the '80s Lifetime would air pharmaceutical text late at night. White text on a black background. The text scrolled at a pace slightly faster than a typical reading level. It was fun to read about side effects and drug study statistics.
I've looked on youtube and some other places to see if anyone has tossed up old recordings, but didn't seem to find anything.
Here's how one blog describes the "show":
"Looking back, when I was in high school, I used to stay up until midnight to watch the Lifetime channel, because at midnight, it switched into a nameless, almost surreal mode in which detailed, fine-print text from pharmaceutical inserts scrolled by on the screen while incomprehensibly bland and depersonalized new age music played in the background. Woah! It felt like it was beamed in from another planet! Who wrote this stuff? Who's sitting in the control room entering all that text about "myocardial infarction" and "syncope"?"
Back in the '80s Lifetime would air pharmaceutical text late at night. White text on a black background. The text scrolled at a pace slightly faster than a typical reading level. It was fun to read about side effects and drug study statistics.
I've looked on youtube and some other places to see if anyone has tossed up old recordings, but didn't seem to find anything.
Here's how one blog describes the "show":
"Looking back, when I was in high school, I used to stay up until midnight to watch the Lifetime channel, because at midnight, it switched into a nameless, almost surreal mode in which detailed, fine-print text from pharmaceutical inserts scrolled by on the screen while incomprehensibly bland and depersonalized new age music played in the background. Woah! It felt like it was beamed in from another planet! Who wrote this stuff? Who's sitting in the control room entering all that text about "myocardial infarction" and "syncope"?"
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