Soul Train
Season 8
40 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 8 of Soul Train (1971–2006) on Syndicated as a mid listed season (8; 8 of 35) — 40 listed hours, 1978-08-19–1979-05-19 from “O'Jays/ Etta James” (S08E01) to “Carrie Lucas/ G.Q./ The Gap Band” (S08E40). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
- S08E01 O'Jays/ Etta James
- S08E02 Brothers Johnson/ The Dells
- S08E03 Emotions/ Randy Jackson
- S08E04 The Sylvers/ Kenny Brawner & Raw Sugar
- S08E05 Earth Wind & Fire (in concert)/ Heaven & Earth
- S08E06 Rose Royce/ D.J. Rogers
- S08E07 Peabo Bryson/ Stargard
- S08E08 Larry Graham & Graham Central Station/ Charles Jackson
- S08E09 The Whispers/ Gill Scott-Heron/ Evelyn Champagne King
- S08E10 Melba Moore/ Michael Henderson
- S08E11 Freda Payne/ Atlantic Starr
- S08E12 The Trammps/ Shalamar/ Norma Jean
- S08E13 Frankie Valli/ Creme D'Coca
- S08E14 Jerry Butler/ Rick James
- S08E15 Lenny Williams/ Mother's Finest/ Cheech & Chong
- S08E16 Johnny Guitar Watson/ Jean Carn
- S08E17 Stylistics/ Sun
- S08E18 Barry White/ Danny Pearson
- S08E19 Switch/ McCrarys
- S08E20 Temptations/ Randy Brown
- S08E21 Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr./ Lakeside
- S08E22 Roy Ayers & Ubiquity/ Sarah Dash
- S08E23 Gene Chandler/ Chic
- S08E24 Brass Construction/ Peaches & Herb/ Captain Sky
- S08E25 The Jacksons
- S08E26 Pattie Brooks/ David Oliver
- S08E27 Joe Simon/ Cheryl Lynn
- S08E28 Edwin Starr/ The Jimmy Castor Bunch/ Grace Jones
- S08E29 Bonnie Pointer/ Dan Hartman
- S08E30 Gino Vanelli/ Gloria Gaynor
- S08E31 Bar Kays/ Arpeggio
- S08E32 Isaac Hayes/ Tasha Thomas
- S08E33 Instant Funk/ Cerrone
- S08E34 Billy Preston & Syreeta/ Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers
- S08E35 Curtis Mayfield/ Linda Clifford/ Keith Barrow
- S08E36 Amii Stewart/ Boney M
- S08E37 Hamilton Bohannon/ The Raes
- S08E38 Third World/ Danny Pearson
- S08E39 Tyrone Davis/ Gary's Gang
- S08E40 Carrie Lucas/ G.Q./ The Gap Band
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