9/50 Paul Whiteman’s TV Teen Club (last 30 min, ends with the Cavaliers) [D5]
2/15/54 The Arthur Murray Party (Guest: Johnny Ray, 15 min. show) [1686]
12/16/57 American Bandstand [543]
1959 Jerry Mulligan at Teatro Adriano, Rome (1990s Schegge broadcast on RAI TRE) [D5]
3/14/59 Dick Clark’s Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show [D5]
8/15/59 Dick Clark’s Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show [D5]
Early 1963 The Rat Pack Live At The Sands in Las Vegas (64 min, amateur recording) [D5]
9/16/64 Shindig (PREMIERE) [1690]
9/23/64 Shindig! (Guests include The Righteous Brothers, Little Richard, and The Blossoms) [D5]
11/25/64 Shindig! [3809]
12/12/64 American Bandstand (no commercials) [3255]
1/12/65 Hullabaloo (PREMIERE, host, Jack Jones, all episodes have a time code at the bottom) [4045]
1/19/65 Hullabaloo (S1E2, host: Paul Anka) [4045]
1/26/65 Hullabaloo (S1E3, host: George Hamilton) [4046]
2/2/65 Hullabaloo (S1E4, host: Paul Anka, no commercials) [4046]
2/3/65 Shindig! (no commercials) [3833]
2/9/65 Hullabaloo (S1E5, hosts: Gary Crosby, Frank Sinatra Jr.) [4069]
2/10/65 Shindig! (missing last 20 min, has www.thevideobeat.com bug during the intro) [5161]
2/16/65 Hullabaloo (S1E6, host: Frankie Avalon/Annette Funicello, no commercials) [4069]
2/23/65 Hullabaloo (S1E7, host: Sammy Davis, Jr.) [4101]
3/2/65 Hullabaloo (S1E8, host: Trini Lopez) [4101]
3/9/65 Hullabaloo (S1E9, host: Bobby Vinton, fair video quality) [4130]
3/16/65 Hullabaloo (S1E10, host: Jack Jones, no commercials) [4130]
3/23/65 Hullabaloo (S1E11, host: Dean Jones, no commercials) [4220]
3/30/65 Hullabaloo (S1E12, host: Michael Landon) [4220]
4/6/65 Hullabaloo (S1E13, host: Paul Anka) [4399]
4/13/65 Hullabaloo (S1E14, host: Steve Lawrence) [4399]
4/20/65 Hullabaloo (S1E15, host: Sammy Davis, Jr.) [4527]
4/27/65 Hullabaloo (S1E16, host: George Hamilton) [4527]
5/4/65 Hullabaloo (S1E17, host: Trini Lopez, no commercials) [4549]
5/11/65 Hullabaloo (S1E18, host: Frankie Avalon, no commercials, final hourlong episode) [4549]
7/14/65 Shindig! [5161]
9/13/65 Hullabaloo (S2E1, host: Sammy Davis, Jr, no commercials) [4719]
9/20/65 Hullabaloo (S2E2, hosts: Jerry Lewis and Gary Lewis, no commercials) (Color) [4719]
9/27/65 Hullabaloo (S2E3, host: Dave McCallum, no commercials) [4719]
10/2/65 Shindig! [3833]
10/11/65 Hullabaloo (S2E4, host: George Maharis, no commercials) [4719]
10/18/65 Hullabaloo (S2E5, no commercials) [5230]
10/25/65 Hullabaloo (S2E6, no commercials) [5230]
10/30/65 Shindig! (some commercials) [3833]
11/1/65 Hullabaloo (S2E7, no commercials) [5230]
11/8/65 Hullabaloo (S2E7, no commercials) [5230]
12/4/65 Shindig! (Shindig Goes To London, pt. 1) [3833]
12/9/65 Shindig! (Shindig Goes To London, pt. 2) [3809]
12/13/65 Hullabaloo (S2E13, host: Robert Vaughn) [D5]
12/18/65 American Bandstand [544]
12/20/65 Hullabaloo (S2E14, host: Jerry Lewis, Christmas episode with kids as guests, no commercials) [D5]
12/27/65 Hullabaloo (S2E15, host: Alan King) [D5]
1/3/66 Hullabaloo (S2E16, host: Roger Smith, guests include the Beatles) [D5]
1/8/66 Shindig! (Final Saturday episode) [3809]
1/17/66 Hullabaloo (S2E18, host: Trini Lopez) [D5]
1/24/66 Hullabaloo (S2E19, host: Dean Jones, no commercials) [D5]
2/14/66 Hullabaloo (S2E22, host: Skitch Henderson) [D5]
3/21/66 Hullabaloo (S2E27, hosts: The Serendipity Singers) [D5]
3/28/66 Hullabaloo (S2E28, no commercials) [D4]
4/4/66 Hullabaloo (S2E29, no commercials) [D4]
8/1/66 Where The Action Is [3508]
8/2/66 Where The Action Is [3530]
8/3/66 Where The Action Is [3153]
8/10/66 Where The Action Is [3546]
8/12/66 Where The Action Is [4164]
8/15/66 Where The Action Is [3546] [3547]
8/18/66 Where The Action Is [3640]
8/19/66 Where The Action Is (no commercials) [3153]
8/24/66 Where The Action Is [3507] [3508]
8/29/66 Where The Action Is (no commercials) [3153]
9/1/66 Where The Action Is (no commercials) [3530]
10/8/66 American Bandstand [543]
10/13/66 Where The Action Is [4685]
10/14/66 Where The Action Is [3640]
10/19/66 Where The Action Is [4684]
10/21/66 Where The Action Is [4684] [4685]
10/26/66 Where The Action Is [3641]
12/2/66 Where The Action Is (no commercials) [3530]
12/8/66 Where The Action Is [3153]
12/9/66 Where The Action Is [4685]
12/21/66 Where The Action Is [4164]
12/27/80 Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert (RPT, OAD 2/16/80) [1756]
12/28/80 America’s Top 10 with Casey Kasem [5895]
1981 Jazz America: Max Roach live from Blues Alley in Washington, DC (1983 WNET RPT) [3467]
1981 Julius Wechter and The Baja Marimba Band’s Back! (55 min. PBS concert) [4579]
1981 Tom Jones Live In Las Vegas (1 hr, no promos) [2008]
1/4/81 America’s Top 10 with Casey Kasem [4903]
1/17/81 Solid Gold [4047]
1/24/81 Solid Gold [D5]
1/25/81 America’s Top 10 with Casey Kasem [4903]
1/31/81 Solid Gold [D5]
2/6/81 Midnight Special (Guests: Lynda Carter, Devo, Lily Tomlin, Albert Brooks, Gail Davies, T.G. Sheppard) [4945]
2/13/81 Midnight Special (Guests: Blondie, Neil Diamond, Rick Nelson, The Bellamy Brothers) [5421]
2/21/81 Solid Gold (S1E22) [D5]
2/22/81 Countdown (2000s Rage Retro Month broadcast) [D4]
2/22/81 America’s Top Ten with Casey Kasem [5470]
2/28/81 Solid Gold (S1E23) [3148]
3/1/81 America’s Top Ten with Casey Kasem (some commercials) [4155]
3/7/81 Soul Train (Guests: Deniece Williams, The Gap Band, missing last few min, summer 1981 RPT) [D5]
3/8/81 America’s Top Ten with Casey Kasem [2768]
3/14/81 Solid Gold [3150]
3/15/81 America’s Top Ten with Casey Kasem [6012]
3/19/81 Musikladen (Ep. 61) [D5]
3/20/81 Midnight Special (Guests: Patricia Davis, Emmylou Harris, The Police, X, Rich Little) [5518]
3/21/81 Solid Gold (minor tracking issues) [2996]
3/21/81 Soul Train (Guests: Con Funk Shun, The Pointer Sisters, missing first 15 min, no close, some commercials) [D5]
3/22/81 America’s Top Ten with Casey Kasem [6012]
3/28/81 Solid Gold (tracking problems, especially towards end) [2996]
4/4/81 Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert (RPT, OAD 9/27/80) [1755]
4/5/81 Countdown [D4]
4/30/81 Musikladen (Ep. 62) [D5]
5/3/81 Countdown (2010s The ABC HD broadcast) [D4]
5/23/81 Soul Train (2007 WPIX “The Best of Soul Train” RPT) [D5]
5/24/81 Countdown (2010s The ABC HD broadcast) [D4]
5/30/81 Solid Gold [4047]
5/30/81 Soul Train (missing first couple min.) [D5]
5/31/81 Countdown [D4]
6/4/81 Showtime presents Peter, Paul and Mary in Concert (90 min.) [4110] [4111]
Taped 7/81 Harry Chapin- You Are The Only Song: The Final Concert (5/92 NJN broadcast, no close) [5081] [5082]
7/5/81 America’s Top Ten with Casey Kasem [5470]
7/11/81 Solid Gold (most commercials) [5140]
7/18/81 Solid Gold [D5]
7/25/81 Solid Gold (missing 12 min, some commercials) [4103]
8/81 The Roots of Rock & Roll miniseries (57 min. total, no commercials, features 23 min. from part 4 “Rockin’ the Boat” and 34 min. from part 6 “Every Which Way”) [2243]
8/1/81 MTV (first four hours) [331] [332] [701]
8/1/81 Solid Gold [4129]
8/15/81 Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert (RPT, OAD 4/19/80, fair video quality) [1345]
8/16/81 Countdown (2000s The ABC 1 broadcast) [D4]
8/22/81 American Bandstand [D3]
8/29/81 American Bandstand (brief reception loss in the middle of the episode) [D3]
9/6/81 Countdown (2000s Rage broadcast) [D4]
9/19/81 American Bandstand (Foreigner’s “Urgent” overdubbed with another song) [D3]
10/3/81 Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters (S2 premiere, 8/11/90 TNN RPT) [5199] [5200]
10/11/81 America’s Top Ten with Casey Kasem [5470]
10/15/81 Musikladen (Ep. 65) [D5]
11/6/81 Portrait of a Legend: Kenny Rogers [1351]
11/8/81 Countdown (2000s The Rage Retro Month broadcast) [D4]
11/19/81 Musikladen (Ep. 66) [D5]
11/21/81 America’s Top 10 (last 17 min.) [874]
11/21/81 Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters (Guests: The Statler Brothers, the U.S. Air Force Choir, 11/23/85 KTVY RPT, missing first 20 sec.) [5296] [5297]
11/28/81 MTV footage (VJ: Mark Goodman, 1 hr. 12 min.) [513]
11/28/81 Nashville Palace (25 min. mid-episode, few commercials) [3721]
11/29/81 MTV footage (VJ: Martha Quinn, 2 hr, 44 min.) [513] [1608]
12/5/81 Solid Gold (no commercials) [D7]
12/5/81 Barbara Madrell and the Mandrell Sisters (last 38 min, some commercials, partial close) [3722]
12/12/81 Solid Gold [D5]
12/13/81 Countdown (2000s The Rage Retro Month broadcast) [D4]
12/17/81 Musikladen (Ep. 67) [D5]
12/20/81 Countdown (2000s The ABC 1 broadcast) [D4]
12/26/81 American Bandstand (audio muted during James Ingram performances, fair video quality) [D5]
1982 Joan Jett and the Blackhearts concert clip from Germany’s Rock and Pop festival (29 min., commercial-free) [4292] [4293]
1982 Let’s Rock! (First song: “Blue Suede Shoes”, no commercials) [3641]
1982 Nashville On The Road: From Rawhide in Scottsdale, AZ (Guest: Earl Thomas Conley, few commercials, no close) [4189]
1/3/82 Countdown (2010s The ABC HD broadcast) [D4]
1/16/82 American Bandstand [D4]
1/16/82 Solid Gold (partial close) [D5]
1/20/82 Country Top 20: 1981 year in review countdown special (no commercials, partial close) [3871]
1/21/82 Musikladen (Ep. 68) [D5]
1/23/82 American Bandstand (1996 VH1 half-hour edited version, no commercials) [D7]
1/30/82 Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters (missing last few min.) [3847]
2/82 Teddy Pendergrass In Concert (10/5/82 HBO airing) [2999]
2/82 HBO Standing Room Only: Simon & Garfunkel- The Concert In Central Park (fair quality, few promos) [5982]
2/6/82 Solid Gold (no close) [5446]
2/6/82 Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert (guests: The Rolling Stones, Ronnie Milsap, Genesis, first 27 min.) [5445]
2/13/82 MTV Saturday Concert: Rush: Exit Stage Left (1 hr. 13 min., includes 10 min. of videos) [3287]
2/14/82 Countdown (2010s The ABC HD broadcast) [D4]
2/18/82 Solid Gold Countdown ‘81 (2 hr. special, partial close) [D7]
2/20/82 Solid Gold (partial close) [D5]
2/21/82 Countdown (2010s The ABC HD broadcast) [D4]
2/27/82 Solid Gold [5539]
2/28/82 Countdown (2010s The ABC HD broadcast) [D4]
3/6/82 Down Home Country Music (Airdate based on WHYY airing, includes pledge breaks) [540] [558] [559]
3/7/82 Countdown (2010s The ABC HD broadcast, edited version missing several minutes) [D4]
3/11/82 Musikladen (Ep. 69) [D5]
3/13/82 American Bandstand (guest: Sheena Easton) [1320]
3/14/82 Countdown (2000s Rage broadcast) [D4]
3/27/82 MTV Saturday Concert: Journey (1 hr 51 min, including 35 min. of videos after concert) [3288]
3/28/82 Countdown (2000s Rage broadcast) [D4]
4/82 HBO Presents: Stevie Nicks White Wing Dove concert (58 min., no promos) [2151] [2152]
4/1/82 MTV presents: The News That Rocked ‘81 (33 min, broadcast master with no commercials) [514]
4/4/82 Countdown (2000s The ABC 1 broadcast) [D4]
4/10/82 2nd Annual Country Comes Home (A CBS Special, missing last 10 min.) [559]
4/10/82 Soul Train (S11E22, 2007 WPIX “The Best of Soul Train” RPT, sometimes listed as airing on 5/1/82) [D5]
4/11/82 Countdown [D4]
4/15/82 Musikladen (Ep. 70) [D5]
4/18/82 Countdown (2010s The ABC HD broadcast, chyron incorrectly states the episode as April 11) [D4]
10/10/83 17th CMA Awards [292] [293]
11/26/83 Soul Train (S13E7, first 30 min, 2007 WPIX “The Best of Soul Train” RPT) [D5]
11/26/83 Solid Gold [D5]
12/83 Radio 1990 (28 min, various music videos from multiple episodes, no commercials) [5391]
12/2/83 Another Evening with The Statler Brothers: Heroes, Legends & Friends (intro/some commercials cut) [292]
12/3/83 Dance Fever (first 19 min.) [2597]
12/10/83 American Bandstand (missing first 10 min.) [3110]
Early 1984 Austin City Limits Encore (1977: Larry Garlin/Willie Nelson) [1933] [1934]
Early 1984 USA Hot Spots (last 14 min, partial close, features Kix from the Sea Gull Inn in Baltimore) [5391]
1/8/84 MTV (2 hrs.) [805]
1/14/84 TBS Night Tracks footage (4 hrs, some commercials) [D1]
1/14/84 USA Night Flight footage (23 min, features performances from Toyah, Koko Taylor, and part of the Felony Phone short, no commercials) [5391] [5392]
1/14/84 American Bandstand (1996 VH1 half-hour edited version, no commercials) [D5]
1/14/84 Dance Fever (first 12 min.) [2597]
1/21/84 Austin City Limits (S9E2, “Ray Charles/Lee Greenwood”) [1934] [1935]
1/21/84 TBS Night Tracks footage (2 hrs.) [D1]
1/26/84 Musikladen (Ep. 85) [D5]
1/28/84 Dance Fever (first 13 min.) [2596]
1/28/84 Solid Gold (21 min. excepts, no commercials) [5531] [5532]
Late January 1984 MTV (55 min, first video is The Police “Wrapped Around Your Finger”) [D3]
2/28/84 The 26th Annual Grammy Awards [D5]
3/10/84 WHYY block: The Best Of Live From The Grand Ole Opry/Country Memories with Willie Nelson [349] [350] [351]
3/14/84 MTV (31 min, mostly from Basement Tapes, a couple commercials) [1438]
3/23/84 The Pretenders performance on The New Show (40 min., no commercials or credits) [D5]
3/24/84 Solid Gold (13 min. excepts, no commercials) [5532]
3/25/84 Countdown (2000s Rage broadcast) [D4]
3/31/84 Solid Gold (12 min. excepts, no commercials) [5532]
Taped 4/84 Duran Duran: As The Lights Go Down (Cinemax airing) [4685] [4686]
4/4/84 MTV (45 min, from the Van Halen Lost Weekend with VJ Martha Quinn) [D5]
4/7/84 Austin City Limits (S9E10, George Strait/The Kendalls) [1934]
4/7/84 Solid Gold (first 27 min.) [5532]
4/11/84 Radio 1990 [D5]
4/13/84 Radio 1990 [D5]
4/16/84 Radio 1990 [D5]
4/17/84 Radio 1990 [D5]
4/18/84 Radio 1990 [D5]
4/18/84 The Dance Show (no commercials) [D2]
4/19/84 Radio 1990 [D5]
4/21/84 American Bandstand (broadcast feed with no commercial ads) [1521]
4/23/84 Radio 1990 [D5]
4/27/84 MTV (1 hr. 40 min, VJ: J.J. Jackson) [D5]
4/27/84 New York Hot Tracks (Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time”, Madonna’s “Borderline”, Laura Branigan’s “Solitaire”, Luther Vandross’ “Superstar”, Billy Joel’s “The Longest Time”, and Roberta Flack & Peabo Bryson’s “Tonight I Celebrate My Love” videos edited out) [D5]
4/27/84 Radio 1990 [D5]
4/28/84 MTV Saturday Night Concert: SHNS (Sammy Hagar and Neal Schon, 85 min.) [D5]
5/1/84 Radio 1990 [D5]
5/2/84 MTV (1 hr. 51 min., VJ: Mark Goodman) [D5]
5/3/84 4th Annual Country Comes Home (A CBS Special) [561] [562]
5/3/84 Musikladen (Ep. 86) [D5]
5/4/84 Radio 1990 [D5]
5/5/84 The Great Record Album Collection (obscure music video show) [2261]
5/5/84 Solid Gold (14 min. exceprts, plus last 6 min. special salute to Australia episode, no commercials) [2261] [5532]
5/9/84 Radio 1990 [D5]
5/10/84 Radio 1990 [D5]
5/11/84 Radio 1990 [D5]
5/14/84 Radio 1990 [D5]
5/14/84 19th Academy Of Country Music Awards [2811] [2812]
5/14/84 MTV (2 hr. 25 min., VJs: Martha Quinn, Mark Goodman) [1588]
5/26/84 Soul Train [D5]
6/84 Graffiti Rock (One and only episode of what strived to be “Hip Hop Train”, no commercials) [3442]
6/2/84 Solid Gold (fair video quality, few Canadian commercials, no intro) [D5]
6/3/84 Countdown (2010s The ABC HD broadcast) [D4]
6/8/84 Solid Gold Hits (first 9 min, occasional tracking lines) [4060]
6/9/84 MTV Saturday Night Concert: Night Ranger (Taped 12/13/83)/MTV videos (45 min.) [D5]
6/21/84 Musikladen (Ep. 87) [D5]
6/22/84 USA Night Flight footage on Journey (21 min, no commercials) [D5]
6/23/84 American Bandstand (Guest: Slade) [D5]
6/24/84 MTV (6 hrs.) [1382] [1383] [1384]
6/29/84 Friday Night Videos (first 25 min.) [2207]
Summer 1984 Ant Music: Adam Ant (Video Music Channel special, some commercials, partial intro) [5648]
7/4/84 D.C. Beach Party Starring The Beach Boys (6/28/86 Showtime RPT) [3182]
7/7/84 Solid Gold (7/9/84 WPXI airing) [2791]
7/8/84 Countdown (2000s Rage broadcast, guest host: Culture Club) [D4]
7/12/84 Radio 1990 [D5]
7/14/84 Rock-N-America (first 31 min, some commercials) [5648]
7/17/84 Musikladen (Ep. 88) [D5]
7/21/84 Solid Gold (8 min. excerpts, no commercials) [5532]
7/31/84 Today Show clip: Graham Nash (6 min.) [4539]
8/1/84 CBS Moning News clip: David Crosby (6 min.) [4539]
8/2/84 Solid Gold Hits/WTVN commercials (10 min, includes sign-off) [4113]
8/3/84 MTV (4 ½ hours) [D2]
8/11/84 This Week In Country Music (no commercials) [3643]
8/11/84 American Bandstand (last 24 min, fair video quality) [D5]
8/12/84 Countdown (2000s Rage broadcast) [D4]
8/17/84 Friday Night Videos [2356] [2357]
8/17/84 WOR Top 40 Videos (last 33 min.) [3701]
8/18/84 American Bandstand [D5]
8/23/84 KTLA special: The Beach Boys with Paul Simon, Dan Aykroyd, and Chevy Chase) [4300] [4301]
8/25/84 Solid Gold (special duets episode, a few brief video dropouts) [D5]
8/27/84 MTV (1 hr.) [1594]
8/28/84 MTV (1 hr. 53 min, features most of the Guest VJ hour with the Eurythmics) [D1]
9/1/84 American Bandstand (edited 1996 VH1 RPT, no commercials) [D7]
9/9/84 America’s Top Ten with Casey Kasem [5725]
9/14/84 1st Annual MTV Video Music Awards (missing first 30 min, most commercials) [4709] [4710]
9/15/84 Solid Gold (no intro) [D5]
9/16/84 American Bandstand (edited 1996 VH1 RPT, no commercials) [D7]
9/18/84 MTV Rock Influences: The Blues (no close) [D4]
9/20/84 Musikladen (Ep. 89, missing first 15 min.) [D5]
9/22/84 Solid Gold (missing first several min, no audio during Prince’s “When Doves Cry”) [D5]
9/22/84 Soul Train [D5]
9/29/84 Soul Train (one brief portion taped over with a cartoon, bad video during close) [D5]
10/4/84 MTV (40 min.) [181]
10/6/84 Soul Train [D5]
10/6/84 Solid Gold (no intro, one very brief portion missing) [D5]
10/7/84 Countdown [D4]
10/7/84 The Go-Go’s: Wild At The Greek (A Cinemax concert) [4686] [4687]
10/13/84 Solid Gold (no intro) [D5]
10/13/84 Soul Train [D5]
10/14/84 John Cale on Rockpalast at Grugahalle, Essen, Germany (commercial-free, partial close) [D5]
10/19/84 Friday Night Videos (last 10 min., includes KTSM sign-off) [1843]
10/20/84 Solid Gold (no intro) [D5]
10/20/84 Soul Train (few commercials, black tracking lines throughout) [D5]
10/27/84 Soul Train (missing closing segment) [D5]
10/27/84 Wembley Music Festival: Country Goes to England (airdate based on WPHL airing) [347] [348]
10/31/84 MTV (3 hrs, no commercials, Elvira hosts this special Halloween edition [706] [707]
11/3/84 WTBS Night Tracks Chartbusters (first 20 min.) [3749]
11/3/84 Solid Gold (no commercials, fair video quality) [D5]
11/3/84 Dance Fever (last 7 min.) [5836]
11/10/84 Solid Gold (no intro) [D5]
11/10/84 Soul Train (no close) [D5]
11/10/84 American Bandstand (wide video, missing Maria Vidal’s “Body Rock" video) [D5]
11/24/84 Solid Gold (Superstars special, pt. 1) [D5]
11/25/84 MTV (1 hr. 52 min.) [4132]
11/27/84 Cinemax presents: Rod Stewart In Concert (59 min.) [2266]
11/29/84 Musikladen (Ep. 90, final episode) [D5]
12/1/84 Solid Gold (Superstars special, pt. 2) [D5]
12/7/84 Johnny Cash Christmas on the Road [1789] [1790]
12/8/84 USA Night Flight: Comedy-themed music videos (1 hr.) [D1]
12/8/84 Solid Gold (no intro, occasional brief video freezes towards middle of episode) [D5]
12/8/84 MTV (2 hrs, includes last 9 min. of Remembering John, 53 min. of videos, and the Saturday Concert on the Dire Straits aLCHEMY tour at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, England [D5]
12/14/84 MTV Sunday Special: MTV Extra- Robert Palmer/Paul McCartney/Bruce Springsteen/MTV videos (1 hr.) [438] [439]
12/21/84 MTV (1 hr. 53 min.) [1804]
12/22/84 American Bandstand (1996 VH1 half-hour edited version, no commercials) [D7]
12/25/84 MTV (50 min, VJ: Dee Snider, no commercials) [998]
12/31/84 Nik Kershaw Live at Hammersmith Odeon (DVD release) [D7]
Late 1984 USA Night Flight clips (12 min, includes Heavy Metal news, Tina Turner, and W.A.S.P.) [3091]
1985 The Cutting Edge (no commercials, from Austin, first act: Brave Combo, 1 hr. total) [3551] [3559]
1985 The Manhattan Transfer: Vocalese (from Laserdisc, 28 min.) [2286]
1985 MTV Liner Notes: Billy Joel’s Greatest Hits 1 & 2 (Japanese airing with no commercials) [D2]
1985 MTV Liner Notes: Talking Heads, Midnight Oil, Stanley Jordan (no commercials) [3551]
1985 MTV: Metal Mania (Guest: Dee Snyder, 1 hr, no commercials) [1003]
1/1/85 MTV (1 hr. 50 min, VH1 launched that same day) [1597]
1/5/85 Soul Train (S14E14, 2010s Bounce TV RPT, no commercials) [D7]
1/8/85 Elvis Presley’s Graceland (8/15/87 WWOR RPT) [3492]
1/11/85 Friday Night Videos (no intro, briefly taped over for a few minutes with The Time’s Jungle Love from VH1 Classic, no close) [D5]
1/12/85 Soul Train (S14E15, 2007 WPIX “The Best of Soul Train” RPT) [D5]
1/16/85 MTV (2 ½ hours) [144] [145]
1/18/85 Friday Night Videos [2506]
1/19/85 Rock-N-America (first 33 min.) [2507]
1/19/85 MTV Saturday Concert- John Waite: No Brakes (Taped 11/84 in Philadelphia) [4370]
1/25/85 MTV (2 hr. 6 min, VJ: Nina Blackwood, poor audio in spots) [2543]
1/26/85 MTV Saturday Concert- KISS: Animalize Live (taped 12/84, from Detroit, fair video quality) [4371]
1/26/85 Soul Train (S14E16, 7/85 RPT, missing intro and last ten min.) [D5]
1/30/85 Austin City Limits: Neil Young (no close) [4371]
2/9/85 Solid Gold [D5]
2/15/85 ABC Rocks (last 8 min.) [1943]
2/16/85 Solid Gold [D5]
2/22/85 One Night At Blue Note, Vol. 2 (circa 1987 Bravo airing) [2591] [2592]
2/23/85 Solid Gold (Special Salute to the Grammys episode) [D5]
2/26/85 The 27th Annual Grammy Awards [5962] [5963]
3/1/85 Friday Night Videos (full broadcast with WCMH commercials, or first 40 min. On KTSM broadcast) [2141] [2142] [3923] [3924]
3/2/85 Solid Gold (no intro) [D5]
3/9/85 MTV Saturday Night Concert: Journey/REO Speedwagon (OAD 11/1981) [D5]
3/10/85 Countdown (2010s ABC 1 broadcast) [D4]
3/16/85 Solid Gold (no commercials) [D7]
3/17/85 Countdown (2010s ABC 1 broadcast) [D4]
3/22/85 MTV (6 hrs.) [2645] [2646] [2647]
3/30/85 American Bandstand (1996 VH1 half-hour edited version, no commercials) [D7]
3/30/85 TNN microblock: Country Clips (last 11 min.)/The Ernest Tubb Show (guest: Willie Nelson, first 14 min.) [3545]
4/5/85 Friday Night Videos (Guests: The Commodores, missing last few min.) [441]
4/13/85 Soul Train (S14E25, 2007 WPIX “The Best of Soul Train” RPT) [D5]
4/14/85 Countdown (2010s The ABC 1 broadcast) [D4]
4/19/85 Friday Night Videos (first 42 min.) [3974]
4/20/85 Soul Train (26 min. excerpts, has watermarks and timecode during Whitney Houston’s performance of “How Will I Know”, no commercials) [D7]
5/3/85 MTV Top 20 Video Countdown [1636]
5/6/85 20th Academy of Country Music Awards (no commercials) [1379]
5/24/85 Friday Night Videos [5588]
5/26/85 America’s Top Ten with Casey Kasem [2767]
Taped 5/29 and 5/30/85 Tears For Fears in Scenes From the Big Chair (1 hr. 24 min, commercial-free) [4649] [4650]
5/31/85 Friday Night Videos [D5]
6/4/85 Radio 1990 (first 7 min.) [3356]
6/7/85 USA Night Flight footage: 4th Anniversary Show (43 min, all vintage videos!) [760]
6/7/85 Friday Night Videos [D5]
6/9/85 Countdown (2010s The ABC HD broadcast) [D4]
6/12/85 Rock and Roll of the 80’s: A Video History, part two includes 14 min. of MTV videos before and after the documentary) [D5]
6/13/85 MTV (2 hr. 7 min, VJ: Alan Hunter [D5]
6/16/85 MTV (2 hr. 20 min.) [1590]
6/16/85 Countdown [D4]
6/20/85 MTV (58 min.) [D2]
6/29/85 Solid Gold (no commercials) [D7]
Summer 1985 MTV: Bruce Springsteen Hour (no commercials) [D3]
7/10/85 Radio 1990 (a special profile of Van Halen) [D5]
7/13/85 ABC Live Aid coverage with Dick Clark (3 hr. 5 min.) [2836] [2837] [2838]
7/13/85 MTV Live Aid coverage (9 hrs 35 min, consists of the following performers in order: Status Quo, The Style Council, Black Sabbath, Run-D.M.C., Sting, Phil Collins, REO Speedwagon, Bryan Ferry, Crosby Stills & Nash, Bob Geldof, Bryan Adams, U2, The Beach Boys, Dire Straits, Albert Collins, George Throgood, Queen, Chevy Chase, Mick Jagger & David Bowie, Simple Minds, Elton John, Better Middle introducing Madonna, Paul McCartney & Band Aid, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Kenny Loggins, The Cars, Duran Duran/The Power Station, The Thompson Twins, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins (again), Led Zeppelin, CSNY, Duran Duran, and Patti Labelle, plus post-concert wrap-up with appearances by Paul Young and Teddy Pendergrass. Includes VJ commentary segments and many commercials. A must for the classic MTV fan! [698] [699] [700] [2727] [2728] [2815] [2816] (First ½ hour on 2727-2728, early evening on 2815-2816)
7/14/85 MTV (VJ: Nina Blackwood, 26 min.) [D5]
7/14/85 Countdown (missing first several min.) [D4]
7/27/85 Solid Gold (Canadian commercials) [4662]
7/27/85 Soul Train (S14E19, RPT, OAD 2/23/85, guests: Shalamar, Dreamboy, wobbly audio, especially in first half) [D5]
7/27/85 WFLD Summer Concert: Phil Collins (no intro/close) [5174]
8/85 Video Shock! (last 11 min, monthly Chicago music video show sponsored by Carson Pirie Scott)/The Record Guide (first 25 min, special focus on Phil Collins) [4187]
8/2/85 Friday Night Videos (VJ: Julian Lennon, missing first 9 min.) [363] [364]
8/3/85 MTV Saturday Night Concert: Dire Straits at the Alchemy (Taped 7/83) [4142]
8/3/85 WFLD Summer Concert: Eurythmics (missing first 5 min, partial close) [5175] [5176]
8/4/85 Countdown (2000s Rage broadcast) [D4]
8/10/85 MTV videos (5 hrs, has time code throughout at bottom)/MTV Saturday Night Concerts: Katrina and the Waves/Nik Kershaw: Live at The Ritz [705]
8/16/85 Friday Night Videos [D5]
8/17/85 American Bandstand (few commercials) [D5]
8/17/85 Dance Fever (RPT, OAD 9/29/84) [D3]
8/17/85 USA Cover Story: America (Soft rock band, no close) [3550]
8/23/85 USA Night Flight: Les Paul (few commercials)/Godley & Crème (23 min, no ads) [3550] [3551]
8/30/85 Friday Night Videos [D5]
8/31/85 American Bandstand (few commercials, oddly has the previous DCP logo at the end) [D5]
9/7/85 Solid Gold (11 min. excerpts, fair quality, Season 6 premiere) [4018]
9/13/85 MTV 2nd Annual Video Music Awards Pre-Show/MTV 2nd Annual Music Video Awards (3 hrs, 15 min. total) [667] [668]
9/14/85 American Bandstand (Guests: Quarterflash, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, no commercials) [D5]
9/15/85 Countdown [D4]
9/21/85 Solid Gold (no commercials) [D5]
9/22/85 Farm Aid [390] [391]
9/28/85 Solid Gold (no commercials) [D5]
Fall 1985 Nick Rocks (missing first 10 min, last video is Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean) [3154]
Fall 1985 WJZ Shake Down (Possibly unaired pilot, local Baltimore bandstand-type show, all episodes are studio masters with no commercials) [D7]
10/3/85 MTV footage (1 hr. 45 min, mostly from the early evening hours, most commercials) [644] [645]
10/5/85 Solid Gold (fair video quality, no close) [D5]
10/11/85 Friday Night Videos (first 23 min.) [1215]
10/12/85 Soul Train (S15E2, 2007 WPIX “The Best of Soul Train” RPT) [D5]
10/12/85 Solid Gold [D5]
10/14/85 19th Annual Country Music Awards (no commercials) [1379] [1380]
10/17/85 MTV: Heavy Metal Mania (Host: Paul Stanley, no commercials) [2213]
10/21/85 MTV (4 hr. 37 min.) [1606] [1607]
10/26/85 Solid Gold (no close, B/W video) [D5]
10/27/85 MTV Sunday Special: Liner Notes [363]
11/2/85 Soul Train (guests: Ready For The World, Starpoint, most commercials) [D5]
11/3/85 Countdown (2010s The ABC HD broadcast) [D4]
11/13/85 MTV footage include The Making of Sun City Liner Notes special (55 min.) [498]
11/13/85 Radio 1990 (with commercials) [448] [449]
11/14/85 Radio 1990 (with commercials) [449]
11/15/85 Friday Night Videos [488]
11/16/85 Solid Gold [D5]
11/17/85 MTV footage (25 min.) [449]
11/19/85 We Are The World: A Year of Giving (1 hr. special) [1166] [1167]
11/21/85 MTV: Heavy Metal Mania (Host: Bruce Dickinson, no commercials) [2213]
11/23/85 Countdown (2000s Rage broadcast) [D4]
11/30/85 Soul Train (S15E9, few commercials) [D5]
12/1/85 American Bandstand’s 33 1/3 Celebration special (missing first few seconds) [903] [904] [905]
12/7/85 John Lennon Remembered [440]
12/7/85 USA Night Flight footage (2 hrs.) [1023] [1024]
12/8/85 MTV Footage (39 min, two segments from the same hour about 20 minutes each) [422] [423]
12/8/85 MTV Footage (30 min, different from above) [440] [441]
12/8/85 MTV footage (90 min, different from those above on the same day) [616]
12/10/85 Johnny Cash 10th Anniversary Christmas Special [1791]
12/13/85 MTV Top 20 Video Countdown (last 1 hr. 25 min, begins with song #12) [D1]
12/15/85 America’s Top 10 (Christmas special) [1097] [1098]
12/20/85 MTV (33 min.) [2192]
12/21/85 Soul Train (Guests: Stephanie Mills, Howard Jones, few commercials) [D5]
12/28/85 WTBS Night Tracks Chartbusters ‘85 year-end special (features restoration closing credits) [D5]
12/28/85 Solid Gold (RPT, OAD 9/14/85) [D5]
12/31/85 Showtime presents Eric Clapton In Concert (taped 5/85) [1852] [1853]
12/31/85 MTV Top 100 Videos of 1985 Countdown (36 min., begins at the end of #48 and ends after #42) [4174]
1/5/86 A Rockabilly Session with Carl Perkins & Friends [1848] [1849]
1/11/86 MTV (2 hrs, VJ: Alan Hunter, for first 90 min, Martha Quinn for last 30 min.) [D3]
1/11/86 Solid Gold [D5]
1/14/86 The Grand Ole Opry 60th Anniversary Special (first hour and last 22 min.) [780] [2704]
1/15/86 MTV (1 hr. 40 min, VJ: Alan Hunter) [D3]
1/19/86 Casey Kasem Presents Elvis: The Echo Will Never Die (last 20 min.) [842]
1/20/86 MTV footage (1 hr. 45 min, VJ: Martha Quinn) [D4]
1/21/86 MTV footage (4 hrs. 15 min, VJs: Alan Hunter, Steven Wright) [D4]
1/22/86 MTV (2 hr. 4 min.) [D2]
1/23/86 MTV (3 hr. 45 min, VJs: Mark Goodman, Nina Blackwood) [D4]
1/25/86 Rocker ‘85 (2-hour year end special hosted by Kenny Loggins and Paula Yates on the year 1985 in music, airdate based on WSTG Providence airing, earliest known airdate: 1/7/86 on WPIX) [1042] [1043]
1/25/86 Dance Fever (first 11 min.) [3377]
1/27/86 American Music Awards [358] [359] [360]
1/27/86 MTV (4 hrs, VJs: J.J. Jackson, Nina Blackwood) [D4]
1/30/86 MTV (2 hrs) [175]
2/86 Austin City Limits (S11E2, “Geezenslaws”, intro and last 30 min. only) [4918]
2/1/86 WJZ Shake Down (PREMIERE, local Baltimore bandstand-style dance show, all episodes are studio master copies, most with slate and commercial-free) [D7]
2/1/86 Dance Fever (8 min. mid-episode) [3377]
2/8/86 Dance Fever (first 10 min, missing first commercial break) [3377]
2/8/86 WJZ Shake Down [D7]
2/9/86 WCAU Channel 10 Philadelphia presents: The Best of the String Bands from the 1986 Mummers' Parade (missing credits) [294]
2/10/86 MTV New Music Hour clips (20 min.) [364]
2/11/86 TNN Opry Tributes: Bill Anderson and Grandpa Jones (1980 episode of Backstage at the Grand Old Opry, tracking lines near bottom) [5957] [5958]
2/13/86 The Academy of Country Music’s 20th Anniversary Reunion [391]
2/15/86 Solid Gold (Salute to Love Songs episode) [D7]
2/15/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
2/16/86 Rock Influences: James Brown (one commercial break) [3249]
2/22/86 1986 International British Record Industry Awards (no video for 14 min. in the middle) [2595]
2/22/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
2/25/86 28th Grammy Awards [360] [361] [362]
2/27/86? MTV Pretty In Pink premiere party special [2193]
2/28/86 Solid Gold Countdown ‘85 [508] [509]
3/86 MTV (33 min, guest VJ: Molly Ringwald, no commercials, a couple songs cut) [2192]
3/1/86 Dance Fever/Solid Gold [3377] [3378]
3/1/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
3/4/86 Peter, Paul & Mary 25th Anniversary Concert (WCET pledge breaks, missing first few min.) [4473] [4474]
3/7/86 Friday Night Videos (first 50 min.) [4958]
3/8/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
3/15/86 USA Night Flight footage (Featuring the 1981 Rock For Kampuchea concert and music videos of 1967, 2 hr. 2 min. total) [1626] [1627]
3/15/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
3/22/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
3/29/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
Spring 1986 New York Hot Tracks (various videos, 1 hr. 15 min, few commercials) [3701]
4/5/86 American Bandstand (missing last 15 min, video resolution zoomed in cutting off edges) [D3]
4/5/86 Hit City (black-oriented syndicated music show, first 25 min.) [5329]
4/5/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
4/6/86 Countdown (2000s Rage broadcast) [D4]
4/12/86 Soul Train (S15E18, guests: Zapp, Meli’sa Morgan, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, most commercials, no close) [D5]
4/12/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
4/14/86 21st CMA Awards [490] [491]
4/19/86 MTV footage (37 min.) [580]
4/19/86 Soul Train (S15E19, guests: Johnnie Taylor, Yarbrough & Peoples) [D5]
4/19/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
4/19/86 TNN CountryClips (first 41 min.) [4519]
4/25/86 Night Flight (1 hr. 30 min, features Fallopia) [725] [726]
4/26/86 Solid Gold [474]
4/26/86 A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor (2 hrs.) [2385] [2386]
4/27/86 120 Minutes (2 hrs.) [1403]
5/3/86 MTV Top 20 Countdown (last 45 min.) [496]
5/3/86 Solid Gold [D5]
5/3/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
5/4/86 MTV Sunday Special: I Was A Teenage Monkee [664]
5/4/86 Countdown (2000s Rage broadcast) [D4]
5/10/86 Solid Gold [1698]
5/10/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
5/17/86 Soul Train (S15E23, missing last 7 min.) [D5]
5/17/86 Solid Gold (Special Frank Sinatra episode) [D7]
5/17/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
5/18/86 MTV On Location: Montreux Rock Wrap-Up (53 min.) [1313]
5/18/86 MTV: International Music and Media Convention (IMMC) Awards from Monteux (2 ½ hours, missing just a few seconds during Billy Ocean’s “There’ll Be Sad Songs”) [1620] [1621]
5/18/86 Countdown (17 min. excerpts) [D4]
5/22/86 MTV footage (90 min, somewhat dark video quality) [742] [743]
5/23/86 MTV footage (2 hrs, somewhat dark video) [743] [744]
5/24/86 Solid Gold (first half of episode in B&W) [D7]
5/24/86 WJZ Shake Down [D7]
5/29/86 Radio 1990 (first 12 min, with commercials) [478] [479]
5/31/86 Solid Gold [D7]
5/31/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
6/1/86 MTV special- In My Life: The John Lennon File/MTV videos (31 min.) [1261] [1262]
6/6/86 Friday Night Videos (Guest hosts: Jay Leno, Pat Sajak) [D5]
6/8/86 MTV (1 hr. 8 min.) [D2]
6/12/86 1986 Montreaux Rock Music Festival (90 min, taped 5/86) [4077] [4078]
6/13/86 USA Night Flight footage (93 min, consists of an hour of early ‘70s rock performances, subtitled “The Best of the Beat”, and the 1982 B/W short film “Dot”). [1970]
6/14/86 Hit Makers ‘86 (a 2 hour music video show featuring some recent hits along with a few classics) [947] [948]
6/14/86 Soul Train (S15E27, 2007 WPIX “The Best of Soul Train” RPT) [D5]
6/14/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
6/14/86 USA Night Flight Footage (1 hr, mostly classic rock-themed) [1487]
6/15/86 Amnesty International: A Conspiracy of Hope Concert (10 hr. 40 min. from MTV with most commercials, live from Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ) [1911-1916]
6/21/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
6/28/86 American Bandstand (Guests: Electric Light Orchestra, first 36 min.) [D5]
6/28/86 WJZ Shake Down (last hour-long episode) [D5]
6/30/86 BET block: Video Vibrations (last 25 min.)/Video Soul (Guest: Freddie Jackson, RPT, OAD 1/86, 2 hrs.)/Video Vibrations (first 3 hrs.) [D5]
7/86 MTV Special Concert Presentation: Eric Clapton in Birmingham, England [3182] [3183]
7/86 Music Video 60 (17 min. mid-episode, first song: John Cougar Mellencamp “Small Town”) [4188]
7/5/86 Solid Gold (RPT, OAD 2/1/86, partial intro) [D5]
7/5/86 WJZ Shake Down (first half-hour episode) [D5]
7/12/86 Solid Gold [401] [402]
7/12/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
7/19/86 MTV Saturday Special: Til Tuesday (1985, 53 min.) & Platinum Blonde concert (taped 12/31/85, 27 min, commercial-free) [2606]
7/19/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
7/19/86 Soul Train (Guests: Janet Jackson, Atlantic Starr, RPT, OAD 3/29/86) [D5]
7/20/86 MTV (34 min.) [1228]
7/21/86 MTV/VH1 sampler (32 min, includes some commercials) [2201]
7/22/86 MTV/VH1 sampler (23 min, includes some commercials) [1587]
7/26/86 Soul Train (Guests: Alexander O’Neal, Cherelle, Culture Club RPT, OAD 4/26/86) [D5]
7/26/86 Solid Gold (Salute to Soul episode) [D7]
8/5/86 MTV Special concert: Dire Straits (Live from Hammersmith, Odeon 1983, 1 hr, one commercial break at start) [2606] [2607]
8/6/86 MTV special concert: John Waite (55 min, taped 11/85, one ad break at start) [2607] [2608]
8/7/86 MTV (1 hr. 12 min, VJ: Mark Goodman) [2608]
8/10/86 Countdown (2010s The ABC HD broadcast) [D4]
8/16/86 WJZ Shake Down [D7]
8/30/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
8/30/86 American Bandstand (Guest: Device) [D5]
9/5/86 3rd MTV Video Music Awards [1446] [1447]
9/6/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
9/12/86 The New Music City USA (last 10 min.) [5245]
9/13/86 The Rock ‘n Roll Evening News (PREMIERE, first 15 min. only) [1616]
9/13/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
9/14/86 Countdown (2000s Rage broadcast) [D4]
9/17/86 MTV (6 hrs.) [2186] [2187] [2188]
9/20/86 The Rock ‘n Roll Evening News/Cover Story: Paul McCartney [1493] [1494]
9/20/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
9/26/86 Night Flight (1 hr 6 min., features Zbiginew Rybczynski) [367]
9/27/86 Soul Train (Guests: Howard Hewett, Shirley Jones, no commercials) [D7]
9/27/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
9/28/86 HBO Presents: A ‘60s Reunion: A Night At The Filmore/The Prince’s All-Star Trust Rock Concert preview [1615] [1616]
10/4/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
10/13/86 MTV mishmash (1 hr. 8 min.) [2215]
10/17/86 Rock and Roll Evening News/Night Flight (vintage videos, 1 hr.) [1038]
10/18/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
10/24/86 Friday Night Videos (missing last 25 min.) [D5]
10/25/86 Soul Train (S16E6, 2007 WPIX “The Best of Soul Train” RPT) [D5]
10/25/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
11/1/86 The Rock ‘n Roll Evening News (first 30 min.) [1477]
11/1/86 Dance Fever [3036]
11/1/86 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
11/7/86 Friday Night Videos (first 37 min.) [D5]
11/12/86 MTV Midweek Concert: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (1 hr. 40 min, taped 8/6 & 8/7/85) [1606]
11/14/86 The 1986 New Music Awards/Rock and Roll Evening News (first 30 min, no commercials) [1013] [1014]
11/15/86 Dance Fever [3063]
11/19/86 MTV midweek concert: Genesis Live (RPT, OAD 2/84, 1 hr. 36 min.) [1589]
11/21/86 MTV (2 hrs, VJ Martha Quinn, from “Friday Night Party Zone” block) [996]
11/21/86 Friday Night Videos (first 12 min.) [5242]
11/22/86 Dance Fever (Guests: Sweethearts of the Rodeo, missing last few min.) [1324]
11/22/86 WJZ Shake Down (possibly the final episode for seven month) [D5]
11/28/86 My Home's In Alabama (CBS Special) [298]
12/4/86 MTV footage including Andy Warhol’s 15 Minutes (56 min. total) [843] [844]
12/5/86 Friday Night Videos clip (11 min. Towards end of episode, one commercial break, scattered tracking lines, “Best 15 Videos Ever” episode) [5321]
12/6/86 Dance Fever (first 13 min.) [2793]
12/6/86 Soul Train (Guests: Rebbie Jackson, Ready For The World, no commercials) [D2]
12/7/86 The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert from Royal Albert Hall (taped 9/22-23/1983, WDCN RPT, OAD 1/23/84 on HBO) [5369] [5370]
12/10/86 An MTV special concert: Heart Beat ‘86 from Birmingham, UK (1 hr. 17 min.) [1158] [1159]
12/13/86 Dance Fever (first 12 min.) [2793]
12/13/86 MTV footage (1 hr. 8 min, VJ: Martha Quinn) [3769] [3770]
12/13/86 Soul Train (S16E13, guests: Klymaxx, Club Nouveau, Bobby Brown) [D5]
12/18/86 MTV vidcheck (32 min.) [1116]
12/20/86 USA Night Flight footage (30 min. block of Christmas videos) [1121]
12/20/86 Dance Fever (8 min. clip mostly from competition portion of episode) [2793]
12/22/86 1986 Motreux Xmas Rock Special [1122] [1123]
12/26/86 Friday Night Videos (RPT of 3rd Anniversary Special, OAD 9/19/86)/Dancin’ To The Hits [968] [969]
12/27/86 HBO presents Barbra Streisand: One Voice (1 hr. 5 min total, no promos) [5365]
12/27/86 Solid Gold (Rerun of 7th Season premiere, OAD 9/13/86) [1066]
12/27/86 Dance Fever (first 10 min, no commercials) [2793]
Early 1987 Dancin’ To The Hits clips (14 min. total, fair quality) [4018]
1987 RockAmerica music video compilation (3 hrs, musical compilation to promote record stores, first video is “Legacy” by Art Of Noise) [D3]
1/1/87 A Night With Lou Reed At The Bottom Line (WNEV special New Year’s night airing, taped 2/83) [1512]
1/87 VH-1 footage (13 min.)/USA Night Flight footage (27 min, features Art of Noise videos) [2214]
1/87 MTV (1 hr. 14 min, Oogie/Uncle Floyd are the Guest Vjs) [2590]
1/87 MTV (1 hr. 14 min, Oogie/Uncle Floyd are the Guest Vjs) [2590]
1/87 The Beatles Cartoon on MTV: [2649]
*S2E1, “Eight Days a Week”/”I’m Looking You”, OAD 9/10/66
*S1E18, “Matchbox”/”Thank You Girl”, OAD 1/22/66
*S2E2, “Help”/”We Can Work It Out”, OAD 9/17/66
*S3E4, “Taximan/Eleanor Rigby”, OAD 10/17/67
1/3/87 The Rock ‘n Roll Evening News [844]
1/3/87 Nick Rocks [862]
1/10/87 Dance Fever (first 10 min, no commercials) [2793]
1/10/87 MTV Video Countdown (First 20 min. only, from syndicated one-hour version) [3751]
1/17/87 Dance Fever (first 10 min, no commercials) [2793]
1/24/87 Dance Fever (Guest: Rebbie Jackson) [1868]
1/24/87 Soul Train (S16E15, guests: Michael Jeffries, Jody Watley, Jeff Lorber, Karyn White) [D5]
1/31/87 Dance Fever (first 11 min, no commercials) [2793]
1/31/87 Nick Rocks [439]
1/31/87 Solid Gold (6/27/87 RPT) [D5]
1/31/87 MTV (2 hr. 8 min, from Party Zone Weekend) [2214]
2/2/87 MTV (20 min.) [439]
2/7/87 Dance Fever (9 min. clip mostly from competition portion of episode) [2793]
2/13/87 Friday Night Videos (1 hr, missing first 10 min, last 10 min, and two commercial breaks) [2612]
2/15/87 Countdown (2000s Rage broadcast, first song appropriately is "The Final Countdown") [D4]
2/21/87 Dance Fever (first 10 min, no commercials) [2793]
2/28/87 Dance Fever (first 10 min, semifinal episode, no commercials) [2793]
3/7/87 Dance Fever (partial intro, unannounced final episode, first 11 min, no commercials) [2793] [2794]
3/7/87 MTV (5 hrs). [190] [191] [192]
Taped 3/12/87 HBO World Stage: Cyndi Lauper In Paris [2430] [2431]
3/14/87 Dance Fever (partial intro, , first 10 min, no commercials, RPT, OAD 9/13/86) [2794]
3/15/87 Bruce Willis: The Return of Bruno (missing first couple min, fair quality) [3852] [3855] [3856]
3/15/87 America’s Top Ten with Casey Kasem (missing first eight min.) [D5]
3/21/87 Solid Gold (8/15/87 RPT) [D5]
3/21/87 Soul Train (S16E19, 2007 WPIX “The Best of Soul Train” RPT) [D5]
3/27/87 Friday Night Videos (Guests: Jesse Ventura and “Mean Gene” Okerlund) [1184]
3/28/87 Solid Gold (8/22/87 RPT, missing last several min.) [5493]
4/4/87 MTV (47 min, mostly Fleetwood Mac related) [1588]
4/10/87 Dance Fever clip (6 min, RPT, OAD 10/11/86) [2794]
4/10/87 VH1 footage (Beatles A to Z weekend, intermittently recorded but contains many commercial breaks (1 hr. 20 min.) [1296] [1297]
4/11/87 VH1 footage (Beatles A to Z weekend, intermittently recorded but contains many commercial breaks (2 hr. 10 min.) [1297] [1298]
4/19/87 Countdown (2010s The ABC HD broadcast) [D4]
4/24/87 MTV (VJ: Mark Goodman, 1 hr. 3 min.) [5085]
4/25/87 MTV Headbangers’ Ball (Guests: Howard Stern, Leslie West, 2 hrs.) [1004]
5/2/87 Solid Gold (first 5 min.) [2631]
5/16/87 Showtime Presents Paul Simon- Graceland: The African Concert (taped 2/14/87, no promos) [2641] [2642]
5/17/87 Countdown (2000s Rage broadcast) [D4]
5/23/87 MTV Headbangers Ball (Guest: Wendy O. Williams) [1208]
5/31/87 MTV (38 min, includes the last two songs of the Top 20 Video Countdown) [1604]
6/6/87 WTBS Night Tracks (6 hrs, 4th anniversary episode) [D7]
6/8/87 MTV (46 min.) [1604]
6/12/87 A&E's coverage of the Montreux Rock Festival (2 half-hour episodes, featuring Frankie Goes to Hollywood, a-ha, The Pet Shop Boys, Level 42, OMD, Julian Lennon, ELO , and Eurythmics) [1311]
6/13/87 Soul Train (S16E31, occasional brief video freezes during last 15 min.) [D5]
6/13/87 Austin City Limits (S10E6, guests: Ricky Skaggs, The Judds, RPT, OAD 2/23/85) [5105]
6/20/87 Soul Train (S16 finale, most commercials) [D5]
6/20/87 WJZ Shake Down (Season premiere) [D7]
6/21/87 The Country Express (weekly PBS country music video show) [5630]
6/21/87 Madonna Who’s That Girl Tour from Japan (80 min, with Japanese commercials) [4055] [4056]
6/23/87 MTV Dragnet Premiere Party (no commercials) [D5]
7/3/87 Friday Night Videos (no close) [D4]
7/4/87 Soul Train (S16E18, RPT, OAD 3/14/87) [2084]
7/5/87 Countdown [D4]
7/11/87 Solid Gold (no close) [5209]
7/18/87 Solid Gold (missing last few min.) [5163]
7/20/87 Nick Rocks [1052]
7/25/87 MTV Headbangers Ball (Host: Dee Snider, no commercials) [1207]
7/27/87 Nick Rocks (no closing) [1051]
8/6/87 Prairie Home Companion (Guest: Hank Snow, RPT, OAD 4/11/87, missing first 10 min.) [3542] [3543]
8/29/87 USA Night Flight footage: Snub TV (first song: The Three Johns- Never and Always, no commercials) [3513
8/29/87 WJZ Shake Down [D5]
8/30/87 The Cutting Edge Happy Hour (last 37 min, some commercials)/MTV footage (31 min.) [3513]
8/30/87 VH1 New Visions (Guest hosts: Elements) [D5]
9/4/87 Friday Night Videos [1659]
9/5/87 American Bandstand (Final ABC episode, ½ hour) [1520]
9/5/87 WJZ Shake Down (Final episode until 1992) [D5]
9/11/87 Friday Night Videos (somewhat blurry video quality, missing last couple min.) [1660]
9/11/87 4th Annual MTV Video Music Awards (3 hr. 52 min.) [D4]
9/19/87 Solid Gold In Concert [D7]
9/25/87 Top Of The Pops (US PREMIERE)/Friday Night Videos [1660] [1661]
9/26/87 Soul Train (Guests: Shalamar, Alexander O’Neal) [D5]
9/26/87 Solid Gold In Concert (first 35 min.) [D7]
9/26/87 It’s Showtime At The Apollo (no commercials for any episode in this series unless otherwise mentioned) [4830]
9/27/87 MTV 120 Minutes [1605]
9/28/87 MTV vidcheck (30 min.) [1605]
10/3/87 It’s Showtime At The Apollo [4830]
10/3/87 Soul Train (Guests: Five Star, Babyface) [D5]
10/10/87 It’s Showtime At The Apollo (two copies, excellent quality with no commercials or 1/9/88 RPT, first 31 min. with commercials) [2522]
10/10/87 Soul Train (Guests: Atlantic Star, La La, Giorge Pettus, partial close) [D5]
10/10/87 MTV Headbangers Ball (no commercials/close) [3606]
10/12/87 21st Annual Country Music Awards (last 33 min.) [3093]
10/17/87 Solid Gold In Concert (no commercials, missing last couple min.) [D7]
10/17/87 It’s Showtime At The Apollo (no commercials) [4861]
10/24/87 It’s Showtime At The Apollo (no commercials) [4861]
10/30/87 Friday Night Videos (host: Elvira) [1287]
10/31/87 Solid Gold In Concert [D5]
10/31/87 Soul Train (Guests: Marlon Jackson, Madame X) [D5]
10/31/87 It's Showtime At The Apollo (no commercials) [4881]
11/3/87 A Blues Session with B.B. King & Friends (56 min. Showtime special) [2592] [2593]
11/7/87 It’s Showtime At The Apollo (no commercials) [4861]
11/8/87 VH1 New Visions (Host: Jamaaladean Tacuma, no intro) [D5]
11/14/87 It's Showtime At The Apollo (no commercials) [4881]
11/20/87 Friday Night Videos (Hosts: Janeson Bateman, Barry Sobel) [1748]
11/21/87 Soul Train (Guests: LL Cool J, Sting, Me’lisa Morgan) [D5]
11/27/87 Friday Night Videos (Hosts: Randy “Macho Man” Savage, Gene Okellund, Elizabeth) [1749]
11/28/87 Soul Train (Guests: ABC, Colonel Abrams, Eric B. & Rakim) [D5]
11/28/87 It's Showtime At The Apollo (no commercials) [4881]
12/87 Dance Party USA family Christmas special (no commercials) [D2]
12/5/87 Soul Train (Guests: The Jets, Kashif, Public Enemy) [D5]
12/10/87 Dial MTV (partial, 30 min.) [226]
12/11/87 Friday Night Videos (Hosts: Billy Crystal, Danny DeVito) [1749]
12/18/87 Friday Night Videos (Hosts: Judy Tenuta, Emo Philips, Christmas episode) [1749] [1750]
12/19/87 It’s Showtime At The Apollo (first 14 min.) [1816]
12/20/87 VH1 New Visions (Guest host: Miles Davis) [D5]
12/25/87 Top Of The Pops (US, Part 1 of 3 of a special countdown for the top 100 hits of 1987) [1844]
12/25/87 TBS Night Tracks (5 hr. 50 min, special viewer’s request episode) [D7]
12/27/87 VH1 New Visions (100th episode) [D5]
12/31/87 MTV Top 100 Video Countdown and Countdown to ‘88 New Year’s Eve Special (5 hrs. 10 min, total, countdown starts at #43 and New Year’s special ends about a minute into 1988) [702] [703] [704]
1988 Duran Duran Working For The Skin Trade Concert (VHS, 57 min.) [913]
1988 Rock UK (Night Flight documentary, 8/24/89 WNET RPT) [D5]
1/1/88 VH1 1987 Year In Review (5 hrs, features numerous interviews, a Top 40 yearly video countdown, and lots of movie and music news) [1709] [1710] [1711]
1/1/88 Top Of The Pops (US, Part 2 of 3 of a special countdown for the top 100 hits of 1987) [1844]
1/1/88 Friday Night Videos [957]
1/2/88 America’s Top 10 (last 8 min.) [227]
1/2/88 MTV 1987: The Year In Rock [563] [564]
1/2/88 American Bandstand [1819]
1/8/88 Top Of The Pops (US, Part 3 of 3 of a special countdown for the top 100 hits of 1987)/Friday Night Videos (Top 10 videos of 1987 special) [1844] [1845]
1/9/88 MTV Week In Rock (first 17 min.) [957] [958]
1/10/88 VH1 New Visions (Hosts: John Abercrombie, Mark Johnson) [D5]
1/15/88 Top Of The Pops (US)/Friday Night Videos (Guest host: Jerry Seinfeld) [1870] [1871]
1/16/88 Soul Train (Guests: Smokey Robinson, Pretty Poison, no intro) [D5]
1/17/88 VH1 New Visions (Guest host: Philip Glass) [D5]
1/22/88 Top Of The Pops (US)/Friday Night Videos (Guest host: Gilbert Godfried) [1871] [1872]
1/23/88 MTV Week In Rock [1874]
1/24/88 A&E Showcase- Sinatra: Concert For The Americas (OAD 11/11/82) [4514] [4515]
1/24/88 MTV Top 20 Video Countdown (missing first 20 min, starts at song #17) [5398]
1/24/88 VH1 New Visions (Guest host: Tom Scott) [D5]
1/25/88 The 15th Annual American Music Awards (last 2 hr. 14 min.) [D5]
1/29/88 Top Of The Pops (US)/Friday Night Videos [2055] [2056]
1/30/88 MTV Week in Rock [745]
1/30/88 Soul Train (Guests: The Deele, Georgio, Pebbles) [D5]
1/31/88 VH1 New Visions (Guests: Nightark, missing first couple min.) [D5]
2/7/88 A&E Showcase: The Doobie Brothers Farewell concert from San Francisco (1982)/Montreux Rock (taped 5/86, first song: a-Ha “Take On Me”) [4986] [4987]
2/7/88 VH1 New Visions (Guest hosts: Michael Hedges, Leo Kottke) [D5]
2/12/88 TBS Night Tracks footage (last 90 min.) [D7]
2/14/88 VH1 New Visions (Guests: Carlos Santana, Chester Thompson) [D5]
2/19/88 Friday Night Videos [2056]
2/20/88 MTV Headbangers’ Ball (host: Lita Ford) [3601]
2/21/88 VH1 New Visions (Guest host: Hiram Bullock) [D5]
2/27/88 MTV Week In Rock [858]
2/27/88 Sold Gold In Concert (A Salute to the ‘60s episode, missing last few min.) [D7]
2/28/88 VH1 New Visions (Guest host: Mason Williams, no intro) [D5]
3/2/88 The 30th Annual Grammy Awards (2 hr. 15 min. total, some commercials, missing part of the first half of the special) [D1]
3/5/88 Soul Train (2007 WPIX “The Best of Soul Train” RPT) [D5]
3/6/88 VH1 New Visions (Guest host: Jane Siberry, no close) [D5]
3/12/88 MTV Week in Rock [471]
3/12/88 Soul Train (no commercials) [D1]
3/13/88 VH1 New Visions (Host: Michael Pedicin, Jr.) [D5]
3/16/88 MTV (2 hrs, VJ Carolyne Heldman) [997]
3/19/88 MTV Week In Rock [836]
3/19/88 Soul Train (no commercials) [D1]
3/24/88 Supertramp In Concert from Madrid, Spain (86 min, 2000s TVE 50 Years rebroadcast) [D5]
3/25/88 Friday Night Videos [D3]
3/26/88 It’s Showtime At The Apollo (2 copies: original broadcast with commercials, or excellent quality with no commercials) [2044] [2045] [4898]
3/27/88 VH1 New Visions (Guests: Mose Allison, Wayne Shorter) [D5]
4/1/88 Friday Night Videos [2056] [2057]
4/2/88 MTV Week In Rock (first 12 min.) [770]
4/2/88 It’s Showtime At The Apollo (no commercials) [4898]
4/3/88 VH1 New Visions (Guest hosts: Robert Fripp & The League of Crafty Guitarists, last show with 1987 copyright date) [D5]
4/9/88 It’s Showtime At The Apollo (no commercials) [4898]
4/10/88 VH1 New Visions (Host: John Luri, copyright date FINALLY reads 1988) [D5]
4/16/88 MTV Week In Rock (16 min. mid-episode) [825]
4/17/88 VH1 New Visions (Guests: Chick Corea, Gary Burton) [D5]
4/24/88 VH1 New Visions (Guests: Branford Marsalis, Harry Connick, Jr., no close) [D5]
4/29/88 Friday Night Videos (Michael Jackson special) [1070]
4/30/88 Solid Gold In Concert (Ladies of the ‘80s, pt. 1) [D7]
5/88 MTV clips (22 min.) [219]
5/7/88 Soul Train (Guests: Stephanie Mills, Force M.D.’s, Sherrick) [D7]
5/7/88 Solid Gold In Concert (Ladies of the ‘80s, pt. 2) [D7]
5/14/88 It’s Showtime At The Apollo (Guests: Charles Cozart, Pepsi & Shirley, 27 min. mid-episode with commercials) [2341] [2342]
5/15/88 MTV (11 min.)/David Gilmour: Beyond The Floyd/MTV Week In Rock (first 5 min.) [5107]
5/15/88 VH1 New Visions (Guest host: Suzanne Ciani, no close) [D5]
5/20/88 VH1 (2 hr. 57 min.) [1162] [1163]
5/20/88 Friday Night Videos (Vjs: Ron Howard, Warwick Davis) [1402]
5/22/88 VH1 New Visions (Guest host: Dave Grusin) [D5]
5/28/88 Solid Gold In Concert (Salutes the ‘70s episode, no close) [D7]
6/4/88 Solid Gold (S8E24, first 9 min., partial intro) [1218]
6/5/88 VH1 New Visions (Guest host: John Scofield) [D5]
6/11/88 Freedom Fest: A Concert For Nelson Mandela (5 hrs.)/USA Tonight [1474] [1475] [1476]
6/19/88 VH1 New Visions (Guests: Henry Johnson, Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Williams) [D5]
6/24/88 Friday Night Videos (hosts: Gallagher and La Toya Jackson) [1287]
6/25/88 MTV Week In Rock [725]
6/25/88 MTV Headbangers’ Ball (Host: Ace Frehley, no commercials) [3605]
6/26/88 VH1 New Visions (Guests: Shadowfax, no intro) [D5]
7/2/88 It’s Showtime At The Apollo (first 27 min, RPT, OAD 4/23/88) [4089]
7/10/88 VH1 New Visions (Musical guests: Michel Petrucciani, Patrick O’Hearn) [D5]
7/16/88 Soul Train (RPT, OAD 3/26/88) [3886]
7/22/88 Friday Night Videos (Guests: Judy Tenuta, Emo Phillips) [1720]
7/24/88 VH1 New Visions (Guests: Arthur Blythe, Herbie Mann, no intro) [D5]
Aug-Oct. 1988 Music video “general mishmash”, 6 hrs, consists of various MTV with occasional VH1, Night Flight, or Night Tracks footage, few commercials and VJ segments) [2216] [2217] [2218]
8/7/88 VH1 New Visions (Special guest: Ornette Coleman, no close) [D5]
8/13/88 Headbangers’ Ball (Host: Rob Halford) [2194]
8/14/88 VH1 New Visions (Guests: Amina Claudine Myers, Helen Merrill, no close) [D5]
8/15/88 Dial MTV (39 min. mid-episode) [2194]
8/20/88 MTV: VJ Julie Brown (30 min.)/Freddy Kreuger Hour: A Nightmare On Elm Street 4/Headbangers’ Ball (first 30 min.) [229]
8/21/88 VH1 New Visions (Guest: Stanley Jordan, no intro) [D5]
8/25/88 Wired (Obscure USA Network show) [4988]
8/30/88 Dance Party USA (Guest: Gloria Loring) [D5]
9/88 VH1 New Visions (Guests: Rob Wasserman, Pete Bardens) [D5]
9/1/88 Wired (Obscure USA Network show, no commercials) [4966]
9/2/88 MTV (2 hr. 35 min.) [1593]
9/3/88 MTV Headbangers’ Ball (Guests: Guns N’ Roses) [1009]
9/7/88 5th Annual MTV Video Music Awards (2 hr. 35 min, fair video quality) [D4]
9/15/88 Wired (Obscure USA Network show, no commercials) [4966]
9/16/88 Sony Music TV (Pick-Up artists: INXS, Freddie Jackson, 3 hr. 18 min.) [2589]
9/17/88 MTV Week In Rock (first 21 min.) [758] [759]
9/18/88 VH1 New Visions (Guests: Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock) [D5]
10/1/88 MTV Week In Rock [762]
10/2/88 VH1 New Visions (first primetime episode) [D5]
10/5/88 VH1 videos (30 min.) [660]
10/6 & 10/7/88 VH1 mishmash (31 min, a few commercials and some John Lennon Weekend footage) [1704]
10/8/88 MTV The Big Picture [830]
10/9/88 MTV John Lennon’s birthday footage (11 hr. 40 min. total, includes 1 hr. 48 min of videos, the Top 20 Countdown, Week In Rock, 6 hr. 20 min of more videos, a special John Lennon hour, and 6 more minutes of footage, a few sections with brief skips of around a minute, but otherwise nearly continuous coverage) [532 through 537]
10/9/88 VH1 footage (3 hr. 53 min.)/VH1 New Visions: Wynton Marsalis [538] [D5]
10/9/88 Cinemax Vintage Performances: John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival Festival (55 min., taped 9/13/69) [2393] [2394]
10/10/88 The 22nd Annual Country Music Association Awards (first 2 hrs, some tracking lines) [5275] [5276]
10/15/88 MTV footage (54 min.) [304]
10/15/88 Soul Train (Guests: Paula Abdul, Bobby Brown) [D7]
10/15/88 The Latin Connection (Guest: Sweet Sensation, short-lived freestyle-oriented show from NY's Studio 54) [3024]
10/15/88 TBS Night Tracks (6 hrs.) [D7]
10/16/88 MTV Week in Rock (last 18 min.) [538]
10/16/88 VH1 New Visions (Guests: Brian Eno, Tower Of Power) [D5]
10/21/88 TBS Night Tracks (last 90 min.) [D7]
10/22/88 Soul Train (few commercials) [D1]
10/29/88 Soul Train (Guests: Deniece Williams, Midnight Star, Kiara) [D7]
10/29/88 TBS Night Tracks (last 1 hr. 35 min.) [5374] [5375]
10/30/88 VH1 New Visions (Guests: John Hendricks, Chuck Mangione) [D5]
11/5/88 America’s Top Ten with Casey Kasem [2767]
11/12/88 Soul Train (Guests: Ziggy Marley, Karyn White, Freddie Jackson) [D7]
11/13/88 VH1 New Visions (Musical guests: Bennie Wallace, Eliane Elias) [D5]
11/26/88 Tropical Rock: A Hot Night In Ibiza (partial intro, dark video) [4817]
11/26/88 Soul Train (missing first 10 min.) [D7]
Nov. 1988-Jan. 1989 MTV/VH1/Night Tracks mishmash (some commercials and VJ commentary breaks, 5 hrs. 45 min. total) [2225] [2226] [2227]
12/3/88 Soul Train (Guests: Keith Sweat, Surface, no audio for first several min.) [D7]
12/4/88 MTV Week In Rock [855]
12/9/88 TBS Night Tracks (6 hrs.) [D7]
12/10/88 Dance Party USA (missing first 10 min.) [D5]
12/10/88 MTV News: The Week In Rock (last 19 min.) [448]
12/10/88 MTV Presents: The Story of the Who [434]
12/11/88 A Rock ‘n Roll Christmas [447]
12/17/88 Soul Train (RPT, OAD 9/24/88, guests: Thomas Dolby, Vanessa Williams, Tony Terry) [D7]
12/24/88 MTV Week In Rock [951] [952]
12/24/88 MTV Headbangers Ball (Guest: Ozzy Osbourne, Christmas episode) [1010]
12/24/88 It’s Showtime At The Apollo (first 17 min.) [5886]
12/30/88 USA Night Flight footage (26 min.) [434]
12/31/88 MTV Top 100 Videos of 1988 countdown (first 6 hrs, ends after song #43, some brief freezing problems around song #90) [1398] [1399] [1400]
1989 MTV Rockumentary: Poison (early 1991 RPT, no commercials) [1545] [1546]
1989 Rush: A Show Of Hands (90 min. VHS, taped late 1988 in Birmingham, UK) [5158] [5159]
1989 Ruth’s Music Corner (Guest: Emily Remler, 5/90 paid programming airing) [D7]
1989 The Power of Blues Guitar: Playing Traditional Blues with Rory Block, Tape 1 (1 hr.) (Video) [2133]
1/7/89 MTV Headbangers’ Ball (Best of ‘88 episode) [3603] [3604]
1/13/89 Friday Night Videos (VJ: Sinbad) [1402]
1/27/89 MTV Top 20 Video Countdown [1603]
1/28/89 MTV Week In Rock [870]
Feb.-March 1989 MTV/music video channel mish-mash (2 hr. 5 min, some commercials/VJ breaks, includes World Premiere Video of Madonna’s “Like A Prayer”) [2224]
2/3/89 Friday Night Videos [1634]
2/25/89 Austin City Limits (S14E5, Emmylou Harris, Nanci Griffith) [4939]
Spring 1989 Club MTV (partial, no commercials, last song is Will To Power’s “Fading Away”) [D3]
Mar.-May 1989 Mixed MTV/VH1/Night Tracks (2 hrs, includes Club MTV clip with Samantha Fox, Spring Break footage, and the world premiere video of Prince’s “Batdance”, some commercials) [2239]
3/4/89 USA Cover Story: Sheena Easton (no commercials, occasional color loss) [4940] [4941]
3/7/89 Buzz (Busted MTV pilot, few commercials) [5111]
3/11/89 USA Cover Story: Kim Carnes (RPT, OAD 10/8/88, no commercials) [5111]
3/15/89 MTV (90 min.)/MTV Big Serious Show (first 10 min.) [D5]
3/18/89 MTV Week in Rock (first 21 min.) [467]
3/18/89 Soul Train (Guests: Midnight Star, Gerald Alston, Kiara, Shanice Wilson) [D7]
3/20/89 MTV Spring Break concert (last 25 min, windowboxed video) [3832]
4/89 Club MTV (17 min. excerpts, brief audio loss at times, first song: Bobby Brown- Every Little Step) [5980]
4/1/89 Soul Train (Guests: George Duke, Tony! Toni! Tone!, Marcus Lewis) [D7]
4/8/89 Soul Train (Guests: Was Not Was, Milli Vanilli, Z-Looke) [D7]
4/8/89 American Bandstand (USA network premiere, missing first couple and last couple min.) [D7]
4/10/89 24th Academy of Country Music Awards [1453]
4/14/89 MTV The Week In Rock/Just Say Julie [1404]
4/15/89 American Bandstand (Guests: Sweet Sensation, missing last 10 min.) [D5]
4/15/89 Soul Train (Guests: Skyy, Desiree Coleman, Apollonia) [D7]
4/16/89 MTV (1 hr.)/MTV Daytona Revisited/Yo! MTV Raps/Cheap Trick concert from Spring Break ‘89 [2545] [2546]
4/22/89 VH1 footage (21 min.)/MTV Week In Rock [570] [571]
4/22/89 Soul Train (Guests: Ashford & Simpson, Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, Johnny Kemp) [D7]
4/22/89 Austin City Limits (S14E13, guests: Timbuk 3, Eric Johnson) [5061]
5/8/89 VH1 footage (63 min.) [571] [572]
5/12/89 Jacksonville Jazz IX festival [4287] [4288]
5/15/89 MPT New Country Video (first 16 min.) [5983]
5/20/89 American Bandstand (Guest: Cherrelle, missing last 10 min.) [D5]
5/27/89 Headbangers Ball [1211]
Late May/early June 1989 MTV Classic on MTV Japan (VJ: Martha Quinn, 1 hr. 54 min.) [1684]
6/3/89 Our Common Future Concert (4 hrs. 40 min, most commercials, a couple brief video dropouts in first hour) [5349] [5350] [5351]
6/8/89 Heavy Metal Meltdown (PREMIERE, Digital broadcast with Night Flight bug, no commercials) [D5]
6/10/89 American Bandstand (Guest: Tommy Page, no close) [D5]
6/10/89 VH1: Bobby Rivers interview with Paul McCartney (last 1 hr. 20 min.) [2346] [2347]
6/17/89 American Bandstand (Guest: Sa-Fire, audio slightly out of sync) [D5]
6/18/89 MTV (1 hr. 33 min.) [1401]
6/23/89 Friday Night Videos (first 21 min.) [1999]
6/24/89 MTV Week in Rock [566]
6/24/89 American Bandstand (Guest: Dino) [D7]
July-Oct. 1989 Music video general mishmash (6 ½ hrs, mostly MTV with a some Night Tracks, Movietime, and part of an episode of CNN Larry King Live, scattered commercials/VJ segments mixed in) [2219] [2220] [2221]
7/89 Postmodern MTV (1 hr, hosted by Andy Partridge of MTV, no commercials/close, a couple videos missing) [4060]
7/1/89 American Bandstand (Guest: Stacey Q, audio slightly out of sync) [D5]
7/1/89 It’s Showtime At The Apollo (no commercials) [4944]
7/3/89 Countdown Revolution (PREMIERE, shorter, half-hour edition of The ABC’s Countdown) [D4]
7/8/89 MTV Week In Rock (last 11 min.)/MTV Rockumentary: Tom Petty [4060] [4061]
7/8/89 American Bandstand (Guest: El DeBarge) [D7]
7/8/89 Heavy Metal Meltdown (Digital broadcast with Night Flight bug, some commercials) [D5]
7/8/89 It’s Showtime At The Apollo (no commercials) [4944]
7/9/89 MTV 120 Minutes (no commercials) [4941]
7/10/89 VH1 Entertainment Watch clips (7 min.) [1724]
7/12/89 Countdown Revolution [D4]
7/15/89 Heavy Metal Meltdown (Digital broadcast with Night Flight bug) [D5]
7/30/89 MTV Elvis Costello Spike special [5182]
7/30/89 MTV Week in Rock (first 23 min.) [714]
8/12/89 MTV Headbangers Ball (from the Moscow Music and Peace Festival) [3602]
8/13/89 MTV presents: The Moscow Music and Peace Festival (3 hr. 52 min, commercial free) [3522] [3523]
8/20/89 MTV Week In Rock (missing first few min.) [1254] [1255]
8/20/89 MTV Rockumentary: Roy Orbison [1477] [1478]
8/26/89 MTV Week In Rock [1478]
9/89 Sony Music TV (1 hr. 32 min., Japanese music video channel with English-speaking artists)/Pure Rock KNAC 105.5 (42 min, Japan-based music channel) [1622] [1623]
9/3/89 MTV Headbangers’ Ball (1 hr. 34 min. mid-episode) [D5]
9/6/89 6th Annual MTV Video Music Awards (most commercials) [D4]
9/13/89 The Who In Concert: Tommy [4771] [4772]
9/16/89 It’s Showtime At The Apollo (no commercials) [4944]
9/22/89 Friday Night Videos (last 48 min.) [1634]
9/23/89 Soul Train (Season 19 premiere, guests: Debbie Allen, Heavy D and the Boyz) [D7]
9/23/89 It’s Showtime At The Apollo (no commercials) [4965]
9/30/89 Soul Train (Guests: Full Force, Chuckii Booker) [D7]
10/7/89 American Bandstand (Guests: The Cover Girls, unannounced finale, fair quality, missing last few min.) [D5]
10/9/89 The 23rd Annual Country Music Awards (first 1 hr. 19 min.) [3359] [3360]
10/13/89 Friday Night Videos (Top Artists of the Decade episode) [2002]
10/14/89 It’s Showtime At The Apollo (no commercials) [4965]
10/14/89 Soul Train (Guests: Regina Belle, Alyson Williams, After 7, 1/6/90 RPT) [D7]
10/27/89 Countdown Revolution [D4]
11/89 Assorted MTV (1 hr. 40 min, some commercials, Night Tracks clips) [2242]
11/4/89 Soul Train (Guests: Stephanie Mills, Michael Cooper, The Good Girls, no commercials) [D7]
11/4/89 It’s Showtime At The Apollo (no commercials) [4965]
11/11/89 Paul McCartney: Put It There [2720]
11/11/89 It’s Showtime At The Apollo (no commercials) [4991]
12/89 Various MTV (30 min, few commercials) [2241]
12/1/89 Friday Night Videos (missing last 8 min.) [1829]
12/3/89 The Disney Channel presents: Ready, Steady Go! (1964 episode featuring The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Hollies, Dusty Springfield, Rufus Thomas, and Martha & The Vandellas) [2720] [2721]
12/6/89 MTV Rate The ‘80s (15 min. mid-episode) [D2]
12/8/89 MTV Week In Rock (missing last couple min.) [2223]
12/8/89 MTV Headbangers’ Ball [3608]
12/10/89 A Peter, Paul & Mary Holiday Concert (RPT, OAD 12/3/88 with WNMU pledge breaks, partial intro) [5347] [5348]
12/11/89 MTV videos (2 hrs. 10 min, including #25-#21 the Hard 30 of ‘89 countdown)/Yo! MTV Raps/ Club MTV/Dial MTV (first 50 min.) [546]
12/14/89 MTV block: Videos (1 hr. 28 min.)/Hard 30 of 1989, pt. 4/Yo! MTV Raps/Club MTV (first 23 min., tracking lines at bottom, a few brief skips near end of block) [5375] [5376]
Mid Dec. 1989 MTV: ‘80s Rock Blocks (Madonna)/Just Say Julie (RPT of 6/89 episode about the ‘60s)/Post Modern MTV (10 min.) [2223]
12/15/89 Friday Night Videos (Guests: New Kids on the Block, first 33 min.) [1821]
12/17/89 MTV: Decade 1980-1989 (no commercials) [407]
12/17/89 The 1989 CMJ New Music Awards (no commercials) [D2]
12/22/89 Music Video Connection (first 39 min.) [2439]
12/24/89 VH1 New Visions: Jazz (special hourlong Christmas episode, no commercials) [5373] [5374]
12/31/89 MTV Top 100 Videos of 1989 footage (1 hr 14 min, some songs and most ads cut)/MTV Dawn Of The Decade House Party (from New York’s Palladium, 2.5 hours, includes top five songs of 1989) [D2]