Dancing with the Stars
Season 5 Premiere
TV Flash files “Season 5 Premiere” as a desk essential hour — Dancing with the Stars (2005–present) on ABC, season 5, episode 1, aired 2007-09-24, 120 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E01: listed hour 63 of 509 in the Dancing with the Stars guide, first listed hour of season 5. It aired 2007-09-24 (120 min). The listed hour before it is “Season 4 Finale” (S04E20). Next is “Performance Show” (S05E02). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Essential hour: “Season 5 Premiere”. Season 5 Premiere is labeled like a network event card: the mirrorball now civic weather, shade from the judges still the only scripted sport.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In a "Dancing with the Stars" first, twelve celebrities attempt to outshine one another on a fifth season of the hit series. This marks the largest and most diverse cast assembled to date which includes an Emmy Award-winning actress, a Vegas icon, an Indy 500 champion, a Spice Girl, a daytime drama star, a Cheetah Girl and a former resident of "90210." As an added twist, viewers get a chance to size up the female vs. the male stars as each gender hits the dance floor on separate nights during the first week of competition.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Season 5 Premiere sit in the Dancing with the Stars guide?
S05E01 is listed hour 63 of 509 — first listed hour of season 5, season 5 episode 1.
When did Dancing with the Stars S05E01 air?
Season 5 Premiere aired 2007-09-24 and is listed at 120 minutes.
Do I need ballroom knowledge?
No. Celebrities learn; pros sweat; judges shade. Scoring fights are plot. The mirrorball is democracy, not a syllabus.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Celebrities in sequins, pros sweating the foxtrot, judges as a chorus of shade. Dancing with the Stars is Monday-night ritual: mirrorball as democracy, scoring fights as plot, ballroom glitter that outlasted every prediction that the franchise should have tired by now.
So about Monday night: we are still fighting about a mirrorball. Dancing with the Stars, the U.S. version of Strictly Come Dancing, premiered on ABC in 2005 and became a long-running franchise — Tom Bergeron hosting, Len Goodman, Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli as a chorus of shade, celebrities in sequins, pros sweating the foxtrot, scoring fights as plot. Voting controversies are half the entertainment. Glitter as democracy. Thirty-five seasons in this pack, 509 episodes, still refusing to clock out. (I said…
Filed against
- Tom Bergeron as Host
Tom Bergeron hosted Dancing with the Stars as Host — celebrities in sequins, pros sweating the foxtrot, judges as a chorus of shade, Monday-night ritual, mirrorball as democracy. Scoring fights as plot. TV Flash files him as 2000s…
- Lenny Goodman as Judge
Lenny Goodman judged Dancing with the Stars as Monday-night ritual shade — celebrities in sequins, pros sweating the foxtrot, mirrorball as democracy, scoring fights as plot. Ballroom glitter that outlasted every prediction the franchise…
- Carrie Ann Inaba as Judge
Carrie Ann Inaba judged Dancing with the Stars as the technical conscience in a chorus of shade — celebrities in sequins, pros sweating the foxtrot, Monday-night ritual, mirrorball as democracy. Scoring fights as plot, glitter that…
- Bruno Tonioli as Judge
Bruno Tonioli judged Dancing with the Stars like a chorus of shade with better posture — celebrities in sequins, pros sweating the foxtrot, Monday-night ritual that outlasted every prediction the franchise should have tired. Mirrorball as…