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American Bandstand

Season 23

45 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 23 of American Bandstand (1952–1989) on WFIL-TV/ABC as a mid listed season (23; 23 of 33) — 45 listed hours, 1979-09-15–1980-09-06 from “The Beach Boys” (S23E01) to “Billy Preston & Syreeta / Dave Mason” (S23E45). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

  1. S23E01 The Beach Boys
  2. S23E02 B.B. King / Patrick Hernandez
  3. S23E03 Smokey Robinson / Mary McGregor
  4. S23E04 Oct. 13, 1979 - no information available
  5. S23E05 Nov. 10, 1979 - no information available
  6. S23E06 Leif Garrett / Bell and James
  7. S23E07 Willie Aames / Lauren Wood
  8. S23E08 Joe Jackson
  9. S23E09 Captain & Tennille / Terry Desario with K.C.
  10. S23E10 John Cougar Mellencamp / ELO (video)
  11. S23E11 Richie Furay / The Motels
  12. S23E12 The Boomtown Rats / Rupert Holmes
  13. S23E13 Prince / Patrice Rushen
  14. S23E14 Nicolette Larson / Jackie DeShannon
  15. S23E15 Tom Johnston
  16. S23E16 Rufus
  17. S23E17 Feb. 23, 1980 - no information available
  18. S23E18 Pat Benatar / Manhattan Transfer
  19. S23E19 Bonnie Pointer
  20. S23E20 Shalamar / 29 with Lenny White
  21. S23E21 Kool & the Gang / Cindy Bullens
  22. S23E22 The Romantics / Ray, Goodman & Brown
  23. S23E23 Kenny Nolan / Sister Sledge
  24. S23E24 Jose Feliciano / The Ritchie Family
  25. S23E25 Tommy James
  26. S23E26 The Spinners / The Jam
  27. S23E27 Felix Cavalieri
  28. S23E28 Photoglo
  29. S23E29 Public Image Ltd. / Robbie Dupree
  30. S23E30 Jermaine Jackson / Mary MacGregor
  31. S23E31 Barry White / Peter Mclan
  32. S23E32 Cretones
  33. S23E33 June 14, 1980 - no information available
  34. S23E34 Devo / Bernadette Peters
  35. S23E35 Rocky Burnette
  36. S23E36 Stephanie Mills
  37. S23E37 The Whispers
  38. S23E38 The Temptations
  39. S23E39 July 26, 1980 - no information available
  40. S23E40 Aug. 2, 1980 - no information available
  41. S23E41 Kim Carnes
  42. S23E42 Ali Thompson
  43. S23E43 Pete Townshend (music video)
  44. S23E44 Pure Prairie League
  45. S23E45 Billy Preston & Syreeta / Dave Mason

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