Billy Ocean / Aretha Franklin (video)

Name: Billy Ocean / Aretha Franklin (video)
Released: 1985-08-10

TV Flash files “Billy Ocean / Aretha Franklin (video)” as hour 2663 of 2821 in the TV Flash guide — American Bandstand (1952–1989) on WFIL-TV/ABC, season 28, episode 48, aired 1985-08-10, 60 min.

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How this hour is filed

This leaf is S28E48: listed hour 2663 of 2821 in the American Bandstand guide, hour 48 of 51 in season 28. It aired 1985-08-10 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band” (S28E47). Next is “Katrina & the Waves / Jeff Beck & Rod Stewart (video)” (S28E49). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

No original recap on file. TV Flash does not invent plots for missing hours. Title, airdate, and the hour filing above are the magazine record for this leaf.

Viewer FAQ

Where does Billy Ocean / Aretha Franklin (video) sit in the American Bandstand guide?

S28E48 is listed hour 2663 of 2821 — hour 48 of 51 in season 28, season 28 episode 48.

When did American Bandstand S28E48 air?

Billy Ocean / Aretha Franklin (video) aired 1985-08-10 and is listed at 60 minutes.

Where should I start?

Start with Clark's national ABC years: rate-a-record, the dance floor, a guest act paying court. The after-school machine is the point, not a plot.

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Filed by Max Sterling · Streaming Confidential · Show package

American Bandstand is Dick Clark's after-school dance floor: kids rating records, stars paying court, payola-era survival skills. Watch it now as the machine that nationalized teen music culture — a Philadelphia floor that taught labels TV could sell singles overnight, and made the host a perpetual industry power broker.

Distribution first: local WFIL-TV Philadelphia, then national ABC from 1957. Dick Clark's after-school floor. **2,821 episodes, 33 seasons**, 1952–1989 in the long count. Kids on camera rating records, artists paying court (often lip-synced), Rate-a-record as participatory UI, dance crazes as the weekly SKU. That is not a sock hop. That is a distribution channel disguised as a dance floor. Rex can hymn the jukebox. The metric is overnight singles.

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Dick Clark as Host
Dick Clark made American Bandstand an after-school dance floor with national reach — kids rating records, stars paying court, payola-era survival skills, a Philadelphia machine that taught labels television could sell singles overnight.…

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