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American Bandstand

Season 26

46 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 26 of American Bandstand (1952–1989) on WFIL-TV/ABC as a mid listed season (26; 26 of 33) — 46 listed hours, 1982-09-11–1983-09-03 from “Stray Cats / Dazz Band” (S26E01) to “Electric Light Orchestra / The Flirts / X” (S26E46). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

  1. S26E01 Stray Cats / Dazz Band
  2. S26E02 Men at Work / The English Beat
  3. S26E03 Oct. 9, 1982 - no information available
  4. S26E04 Hall and Oates
  5. S26E05 Lionel Richie / ABC
  6. S26E06 Janet Jackson / Laura Branigan
  7. S26E07 Toni Basil / Chilliwack
  8. S26E08 Steel Breeze / Sylvia
  9. S26E09 America / Scandal
  10. S26E10 Kim Carnes / Little River Band
  11. S26E11 Billy Idol / The Gap Band
  12. S26E12 Billy Joel (music video) / Adam Ant
  13. S26E13 Lee Ritenour / Bobby Nunn
  14. S26E14 Ray Parker Jr. / The Bus Boys
  15. S26E15 Juice Newton / Wall of Voodoo
  16. S26E16 Yarbrough & Peoples/ Con Funk Shun
  17. S26E17 The Time/ Charlene
  18. S26E18 Greg Kihn Band/ Night Ranger
  19. S26E19 Phil Everly/ Jeffrey Osborne
  20. S26E20 Chas Jankel/ Kelly Groucutt
  21. S26E21 Wham!/ Tyrone Davis
  22. S26E22 DeBarge/ Sonny Charles
  23. S26E23 Jefferson Starship / Lanier & Company
  24. S26E24 The Bangles / Sparks with Jane Wiedlin
  25. S26E25 Marty Balin / Bananarama
  26. S26E26 Stephen Bishop / Oxo
  27. S26E27 Bryan Adams / Laura Branigan
  28. S26E28 The English Beat / Red Rider
  29. S26E29 Irene Cara / Felony
  30. S26E30 Bow Wow Wow / Thompson Twins
  31. S26E31 Jose Feliciano / Nick Lowe
  32. S26E32 Def Leppard / Patrick Simmons
  33. S26E33 Naked Eyes / Simple Minds
  34. S26E34 Robert Hazard / The Hollies
  35. S26E35 Walter Egan / The Temptations
  36. S26E36 Heaven 17
  37. S26E37 Dave Edmunds
  38. S26E38 MItch Ryder
  39. S26E39 Champaign
  40. S26E40 The Rockats
  41. S26E41 James Brown
  42. S26E42 The Blasters / Lindsey Buckingham (video)
  43. S26E43 Sheena Easton / Toto (video)
  44. S26E44 Stray Cats / Donna Summer (video)
  45. S26E45 Jeffrey Osborne
  46. S26E46 Electric Light Orchestra / The Flirts / X

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