Soul Train
Season 5
39 listed hours · 1971–2006 · Syndicated
From the desk
How this season is filed
Don Cornelius promises the hippest trip in America and delivers the national dance party corporate TV had under-served: guests, fashion, the Line, scrambleboard kids who became famous. Syndicated Black music television as cultural archive from 1971 deep into the 2000s. Velvet baritone as the rope.
TV Flash files Season 5 of Soul Train (1971–2006) on Syndicated as a mid listed season (5; 5 of 35) — 39 listed hours, 1975-08-23–1976-06-19 from “The Supremes/ Willie Hutch” (S05E01) to “The Fifth Dimension/ The Brothers Johnson/ Pat Lundy” (S05E39). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Desk essentials in this season
- S05E01 The Supremes/ Willie Hutch
The Supremes and Willie Hutch mark a mid-1970s landmark hour. Fashion, the Line, and Motown-adjacent booking: Soul Train still the national dance floor the networks had not built.
- S05E01 The Supremes/ Willie Hutch
- S05E02 Johnny Bristol / Donald Byrd & The Blackbyrds
- S05E03 Joe Simon/ Millie Jackson/ Choice Four
- S05E04 New Birth / Blue Magic / Bobby Moore
- S05E05 The Impressions/ Rance Allen Group/ Soul Train Dance Contest
- S05E06 Eddie Kendricks/ Tavares/ Paul Mooney
- S05E07 The Pointer Sisters/ B.T. Express/ Ralph Carter
- S05E08 The O'Jays/ Little Milton
- S05E09 LaBelle/ Creative Source
- S05E10 Minnie Riperton/ Twenty First Century
- S05E11 Ramsey Lewis/ Fantastic Four/ Leslie Uggams
- S05E12 The Spinners/ Merry Clayton
- S05E13 War/ The Main Ingredient
- S05E14 Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes/ Esther Phillips
- S05E15 The Miracles/ Poison/ Quincy Jones
- S05E16 Average White Band/ Undisputed Truth
- S05E17 Rufus/ David Ruffin
- S05E18 Freda Payne/ The Whispers
- S05E19 Billy Preston/ The Sylvers
- S05E20 David Bowie/ Faith, Hope and Charity/ Jeff Perry
- S05E21 The Temptations/ Edwin Starr
- S05E22 The Staple Singers/ Bobby Womack
- S05E23 The Jackson Five
- S05E24 The Dells/ Bloodstone
- S05E25 Bill Withers/ The Soul Train Gang
- S05E26 The Jimmy Castor Bunch/ Leon Haywood/ Southshore Commission
- S05E27 The Commodores/ George McCrae
- S05E28 Joe Tex/ The Chi-Lites
- S05E29 Wilson Pickett/ Betty Wright/ The Modulations
- S05E30 Eddie Kendricks/ The Temprees
- S05E31 Johnnie Taylor/ Donna Summer
- S05E32 The Supremes/ Al Wilson
- S05E33 The Dramatics/ Dorothy Moore/ Leon Thomas
- S05E34 Kool & The Gang/ Ashford & Simpson/ Ronnie McNeir
- S05E35 The Delfonics/ D.J. Rogers/ Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr.
- S05E36 Billy Paul/ The Trammps
- S05E37 Archie Bell & the Drells/ Brass Construction
- S05E38 Rufus/ The Checkmates/ The Booty People
- S05E39 The Fifth Dimension/ The Brothers Johnson/ Pat Lundy
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