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American Bandstand

Season 24

47 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 24 of American Bandstand (1952–1989) on WFIL-TV/ABC as a mid listed season (24; 24 of 33) — 47 listed hours, 1980-09-13–1981-09-05 from “Larry Graham / Benny Mardones” (S24E01) to “Sugarhill Gang” (S24E47). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

  1. S24E01 Larry Graham / Benny Mardones
  2. S24E02 The Spinners
  3. S24E03 Molly Hatchet / Rob Hegel
  4. S24E04 Alabama / Lacy J. Dalton
  5. S24E05 Oct. 11, 1980 - no information available
  6. S24E06 Irene Cara / Livingston Taylor
  7. S24E07 25-Oct-1980 - no information available
  8. S24E08 15-Nov-1980 - no information available
  9. S24E09 Jimmy Hall
  10. S24E10 Connie Francis / Billy Burnette
  11. S24E11 The Beach Boys
  12. S24E12 Tierra
  13. S24E13 Kool & the Gang / John Cougar Mellencamp
  14. S24E14 Rockpile
  15. S24E15 24-Jan-1981: no information available
  16. S24E16 George Burns / Susan Anton & Fred Knoblock
  17. S24E17 Firefall
  18. S24E18 A Taste of Honey / Phil Seymour
  19. S24E19 Loverboy / Rupert Holmes
  20. S24E20 The Association
  21. S24E21 James Taylor and J.D. Souther
  22. S24E22 Jermaine Jackson
  23. S24E23 Juice Newton
  24. S24E24 Sheena Easton
  25. S24E25 Teena Marie / Lakeside
  26. S24E26 Sister Sledge / Michael Damian
  27. S24E27 Tribute to Paul Anka
  28. S24E28 Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio / Dr. Hook
  29. S24E29 02-May-1981: no information available
  30. S24E30 Bill Medley
  31. S24E31 Frankie & the Knockouts / Adam and the Ants
  32. S24E32 Rick Springfield
  33. S24E33 Don McLean
  34. S24E34 Kim Carnes / Gary U.S. Bonds
  35. S24E35 Bill Withers
  36. S24E36 John O'Banion / Get Wet
  37. S24E37 27-Jun-1981: no information available
  38. S24E38 04-Jul-1981: no information available
  39. S24E39 11-Jul-1981: no information available
  40. S24E40 18-Jul-1981: no information available
  41. S24E41 Lee Ritenour
  42. S24E42 The Village People
  43. S24E43 08-Aug-1981: no information available
  44. S24E44 15-Aug-1981: no information available
  45. S24E45 Manhattan Transfer
  46. S24E46 Frankie Smith
  47. S24E47 Sugarhill Gang

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