American Bandstand
Season 30
38 listed hours · 1952–1989 · WFIL-TV/ABC
From the desk
How this season is filed
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 30 of American Bandstand (1952–1989) on WFIL-TV/ABC as a mid listed season (30; 30 of 33) — 38 listed hours, 1986-09-13–1987-09-05 from “Big Country” (S30E01) to “Laura Branigan (Final ABC show)” (S30E38). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
- S30E01 Big Country
- S30E02 Regina
- S30E03 Gloria Loring & Carl Anderson
- S30E04 New Edition
- S30E05 Nov. 1, 1986 (pre-empted)
- S30E06 The Stabilizers / Bon Jovi (video)
- S30E07 'til Tuesday
- S30E08 Eddie Money and Ronnie Spector
- S30E09 Rebbie Jackson
- S30E10 Robbie Nevil
- S30E11 John Parr / Huey Lewis & the News (video)
- S30E12 OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark)
- S30E13 Billy Vera & the Beaters
- S30E14 Gregory Abbott
- S30E15 The Beastie Boys
- S30E16 Georgia Satellites
- S30E17 Luther Vandross
- S30E18 Michael Des Barres
- S30E19 Chico DeBarge
- S30E20 The Commodores
- S30E21 Jody Watley
- S30E22 Wire Train
- S30E23 Rank and File
- S30E24 Miki Howard
- S30E25 Deborah Allen
- S30E26 Stephanie Mills
- S30E27 May 16, 1987 (no information)
- S30E28 Crowded House
- S30E29 Hipsway
- S30E30 Robbie Nevil
- S30E31 Jody Watley
- S30E32 Richard Marx
- S30E33 The Whispers
- S30E34 Partland Brothers
- S30E35 Level 42
- S30E36 ABC
- S30E37 Debbie Gibson
- S30E38 Laura Branigan (Final ABC show)
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