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American Bandstand

Season 21

48 listed hours · 1952–1989 · WFIL-TV/ABC

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Filed by Max Sterling · Streaming Confidential

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.

TV Flash files Season 21 of American Bandstand (1952–1989) on WFIL-TV/ABC as a mid listed season (21; 21 of 33) — 48 listed hours, 1977-09-10–1978-09-02 from “Smokey Robinson / Kaptain Kool & the Kongs” (S21E01) to “Nick Gilder / Burton Cummings” (S21E48). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

  1. S21E01 Smokey Robinson / Kaptain Kool & the Kongs
  2. S21E02 Brothers Johnson
  3. S21E03 Paul Nicholas / Debby Boone
  4. S21E04 Leif Garrett
  5. S21E05 Oct. 8, 1977 - no information available
  6. S21E06 Ronnie McDowell
  7. S21E07 Shaun Cassidy
  8. S21E08 Brenton Wood / Dorothy Moore / Gary Muledeer
  9. S21E09 The Village People
  10. S21E10 Dec. 10, 1977 - no information available
  11. S21E11 The Babys (video)
  12. S21E12 Dec. 24, 1977 - no information available
  13. S21E13 The Ohio Players
  14. S21E14 Odyssey / Alan O'Day
  15. S21E15 High Inergy / Peter Brown
  16. S21E16 Samantha Sang / Bill Withers
  17. S21E17 Sylvers
  18. S21E18 LTD
  19. S21E19 Yvonne Elliman / David Gates
  20. S21E20 Gene Cotton
  21. S21E21 Feb. 25, 1978 - no information available
  22. S21E22 Spinners
  23. S21E23 Cerrone
  24. S21E24 War
  25. S21E25 Raydio
  26. S21E26 Jay Ferguson / Captain & Tennille
  27. S21E27 Ashford & Simpson
  28. S21E28 The Fifth Dimension
  29. S21E29 Eddie Money / Millie Jackson
  30. S21E30 Wild Cherry
  31. S21E31 Bobby Arvon
  32. S21E32 Robert Palmer / Chic
  33. S21E33 Joey Travolta
  34. S21E34 Donna Summer / Brooklyn Dreams
  35. S21E35 K.C. & the Sunshine Band / Jimmy Bo Horne
  36. S21E36 Walter Egan
  37. S21E37 Crystal Gayle / Randy Bachman
  38. S21E38 Tuxedo Junction
  39. S21E39 Pablo Cruise
  40. S21E40 Rare Earth
  41. S21E41 Jul. 15, 1977 - no information available
  42. S21E42 Rick James
  43. S21E43 High Inergy
  44. S21E44 Aug. 5, 1978 - no information available
  45. S21E45 Love & Kisses
  46. S21E46 Bonnie Tyler
  47. S21E47 Evelyn Champagne King / Snail
  48. S21E48 Nick Gilder / Burton Cummings

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