| 1 | * ChannelHop: Starting off as a local show on 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. |
| 2 | * DuelingShows: With ''Series/SoulTrain''. |
| 3 | * 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". |
| 4 | * 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. |
| 5 | * 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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