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* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Original host Bob Horn was fired in 1956 after being arrested on a DUI, at a time when WFIL was running a series on drunk-driving. Producer Tomy Mammarella filled in for a while before Dick Clark took over.
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* ChannelHop: Starting off as a local show on WFIL-TV, it went national on Creator/{{ABC}} in August 1957. After a three-decade run, it went to syndication in September 1987. Dick Clark left ABC because its affiliates kept pre-empting the show in favor of college football and other specials, and the network had cut down the show to 30 minutes for the 1986-87 season. The syndicated run, which went back to a full hour, ended in June 1988. After a hiatus of nearly a year, the show came back on Creator/USANetwork in April 1989; it was cancelled for good that October.

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* ChannelHop: Starting off as a local show on WFIL-TV, WFIL-TV in 1952, it went national on Creator/{{ABC}} in August 1957. After a three-decade run, it went to syndication in September 1987. Dick Clark left ABC because its affiliates kept pre-empting the show in favor of college football and other specials, and the network had cut down the show to 30 minutes for the 1986-87 season. The syndicated run, which went back to a full hour, ended in June 1988. After a hiatus of nearly a year, the show came back on Creator/USANetwork in April 1989; it was cancelled for good that October.
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* ChannelHop: Starting off as a local show on WFIL-TV, it went national on Creator/{{ABC}} in August 1957. After a three-decade run, it went to syndication in September 1987. Dick Clark left ABC because its affiliates kept pre-empting the show in favor of college football and other specials, and the network had cut down the show to 30 minutes for the 1986-87 season. The syndicated run, which went back to a full hour, ended in June 1988. After a hiatus of nearly a year, the show came back on Creator/USANetwork in April 1989; it was cancelled for good that October.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Dick Clark attempted to bring back the show in the mid-2000s, but his stroke put an end to that idea.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Dick Clark attempted to bring back the show in the mid-2000s, 2004, but his stroke in December that year put an end to that idea.idea. However, one of the segments of that planned revival -- a national dance contest -- became its own show: ''Series/SoYouThinkYouCanDance''.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Don't hold your breath for a DVD set (or even reruns). In fact, most of the online video uploads of clips from the program come from the one time it aired in reruns, on Creator/VH1 during the mid 1990s (and even then it pretty much stuck to 1975-1986, with brief forays into older episodes; the earliest was 1964, with a handful from 1967-1969).

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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Don't hold your breath for a DVD set (or even reruns). In fact, most of the online video uploads of clips from the program come from the one time it aired in reruns, on Creator/VH1 during the mid 1990s (and even then it pretty much stuck to 1975-1986, with brief forays into older episodes; the earliest was 1964, with a handful from 1967-1969). It would obviously be a nightmare to straighten up the music rights, especially for a DVD release, where the two possible scenarios would be "chop up the episodes into mix-and-match musical performances and piss off the purists in the process" or "charge a ridiculous amount per episode".
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Don't hold your breath for a DVD set (or even reruns). In fact, most of the online video uploads of clips from the program come from the one time it aired in reruns, on VH1 during the mid 1990s (and even then it pretty much stuck to 1975-1986, with brief forays into older episodes; the earliest was 1964, with a handful from 1967-1969).

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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Don't hold your breath for a DVD set (or even reruns). In fact, most of the online video uploads of clips from the program come from the one time it aired in reruns, on VH1 Creator/VH1 during the mid 1990s (and even then it pretty much stuck to 1975-1986, with brief forays into older episodes; the earliest was 1964, with a handful from 1967-1969).
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Charlie O'Donnell, later a prolific announcer of {{Game Show}}s.
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* MissingEpisode: Like many shows of the era, most of the 1950s and early 1960s episodes are gone due to the expense of video tape at the time.

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* MissingEpisode: Like many shows of the era, most of the 1950s and early 1960s episodes are gone due to the expense of video tape at the time.time.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Dick Clark attempted to bring back the show in the mid-2000s, but his stroke put an end to that idea.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Don't hold your breath for a DVD set (or even reruns). In fact, most of the online video uploads of clips from the program come from the one time it aired in reruns, on VH1 during the mid 1990s (and even then it pretty much stuck to the mid-1970s to mid-1980s run of the program, with brief forays into older episodes).

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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Don't hold your breath for a DVD set (or even reruns). In fact, most of the online video uploads of clips from the program come from the one time it aired in reruns, on VH1 during the mid 1990s (and even then it pretty much stuck to the mid-1970s to mid-1980s run of the program, 1975-1986, with brief forays into older episodes).episodes; the earliest was 1964, with a handful from 1967-1969).
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Don't hold your breath for a DVD set (or even reruns).

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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Don't hold your breath for a DVD set (or even reruns). In fact, most of the online video uploads of clips from the program come from the one time it aired in reruns, on VH1 during the mid 1990s (and even then it pretty much stuck to the mid-1970s to mid-1980s run of the program, with brief forays into older episodes).
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* DuelingShows: With ''Series/SoulTrain''.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Charlie O'Donnell, later a prolific announcer of {{Game Show}}s.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Don't hold your breath for a DVD set (or even reruns).
* MissingEpisode: Like many shows of the era, most of the 1950s and early 1960s episodes are gone due to the expense of video tape at the time.

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