Linda Ellerbee discusses "NBC News Overnight"

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4. "And So It Goes" Was Her Catchphrase At The End Of The Show.

As an insomniac, I used to watch her every night in the early 80s, while the show lasted. It was part of my midnight routine: eat a bowl of pot noodles, and watch Linda Ellerbee. And, on the channel I was watching, they'd put The Alfred Hitchcock Hour on afterwards. That was a bit of a contrast. Overnight would finish at 3am, then they'd put on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, then Rod Sterling's Night Gallery (creepy)...and then they'd top it off with MATT DILLON (the precursor to Gunsmoke, with Dennis Weaver as Matt's limping sidekick). That would bring me to 5:00 am, when I could finally get to sleep.

I remember one time she made a joke about her and her husband having such divergent schedules that they had to make a ground rule: only one of them was required to be awake when they were having sex.

I think that was the fist overnight news show, until they put on Charlie Rose (yeah...THAT Charlie Rose) overnight. Charlie Rose was about as smart as a sack full of dead skunks. His interviews were literally painful to watch.