Dead of Night — Season 1
Anyhing can Happen... In the Dead of Night
About this season
Welcome to Viktorville: a town where inter-dimensional flux-core portals open daily and a menagerie of dangerous creatures crawl through them. Join Viktor Corporation enforcement officers, Status and AK, as they protect Viktorville from dinosaurs, killer robots, golems, Basilisks, Sligaks, Goldenballs, Drainers, The Drolic, and much more! Created by real life security guards, Wayne Spitzer and Andy Kumpon, Dead of Night is an ambitious supernatural shot-on-video TV series that aired on Spokane cable-access from 1994-1997.
Episodes (12)
1. Introductions
Aired 2 January 1994
Status and AK begin their partnership as Viktor Corporation enforcement officers. Status shares stories of missed connections at a dance club while the duo encounters their first supernatural threats: a football-wielding ghost and a mysterious caller.
2. Basilisk Part 1
Aired 9 January 1994 • 29 min
The team faces their first major creature: a serpentine interdimensional beast with black-and-white stripes terrorizing Viktorville.
3. Basilisk Part 2
Aired 16 January 1994 • 29 min
With atmospheric music and creative locations, Status and AK corner the Basilisk in a rusty metal foundry for a final showdown.
4. The Forty Milers Part 1
Aired 23 January 1994 • 29 min
A daylight investigation at the local county fair introduces "The Forty Milers" - creatures that phase between dimensions. AK gets "slimed" and goes crazy.
5. The Forty Milers Part 2
Aired 30 January 1994 • 29 min
After Status is exposed to the mind-altering substance, both agents venture into another dimension seeking a cure, battling ferocious creatures and interdimensional hunters along the way.
6. The Forty Milers Part 3
Aired 6 February 1994 • 29 min
Status, still controlled by the mind controlling substance, attempts to unleash monsters and demons from the "Tomb of Darkness" as AK must intervene. Frank and the sligaks help guide them amidst the chaos that ensues.
7. Taste for Terror Part 1
Aired 13 February 1994 • 29 min
The discovery of a massive black monolith on a carrot farm leads to surreal dream sequences and reality shifts.
8. Taste for Terror Part 2
Aired 20 February 1994 • 29 min
The monolith imprisons Status and AK in a twisted nightmare dimension, forcing them to devise an escape plan before time runs out.
9. The Infection
Aired 27 February 1994 • 29 min
AK falls victim to an alien parasite that slowly transforms him into a violent, unhinged version of himself. As his partner becomes increasingly dangerous, Status must find a way to save him while the infection spreads.
10. On Goldenball
Aired 6 March 1994 • 29 min
"The team confronts bizarre and deadly golden spheres terrorizing the residents of Viktorville. Armed for battle, they pursue the creatures into their own dimension for a final showdown.
11. Siren's Song (Unfinished)
Aired 13 March 1994 • 20 min
A seductive supernatural entity eliminates other security guards while targeting Status. This partially lost episode was intended to explore darker territory before production issues left it unfinished.
12. Tool
Aired 20 March 1994 • 36 min
When a deadly mechanical creature begins terrorizing ordinary Viktorville families, Status and AK must confront how their work affects innocent civilians. As the killer entity stalks its victims through the town, the agents race against time to stop it before it claims more lives. The investigation leads them through Viktorville's streets, past the town's iconic clock tower, forcing them to question their role in the supernatural chaos that plagues their community.