Season 1

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How this season is filed

Filed by Tessa Quinn · Spoiler-Free (Mostly)

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.

TV Flash files Season 1 of Dancing with the Stars (2005–present) on ABC as the first listed season of 35 — 6 listed hours, 2005-06-01–2005-07-06 from “Round 1” (S01E01) to “Season 1 Finale” (S01E06). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

Desk essentials in this season

1. S01E01 Round 1

   Round 1 is the first foxtrot cattle call: celebrities in sequins, pros sweating, judges as a chorus of shade, ABC inventing a Monday ritual.