Dirty Dancing: Season 1

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CBS | Season Premiere Date: October 29, 1988

Starring: Mandy Ingber, McLean Stevenson, Constance Marie

Summary: Love story meets comedy in yet another attempt to transfer a popular movie to TV. The setting is a summer resort in upstate New York's Catskill Mountains. Patrick Cassidy replaces Patrick Swayze as Johnny Castle, a dance instructor at the resort. The 17-year old daughter of the resorts owner falls in love with him, greatly frustrating theLove story meets comedy in yet another attempt to transfer a popular movie to TV. The setting is a summer resort in upstate New York's Catskill Mountains. Patrick Cassidy replaces Patrick Swayze as Johnny Castle, a dance instructor at the resort. The 17-year old daughter of the resorts owner falls in love with him, greatly frustrating the father. The show had more dancing than episodes or viewers.… Expand

Genre(s): Comedy

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E11. Hit the Road
Air Date: January 14, 1989
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S1:E10. Our Day Will Come
Air Date: January 7, 1989
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S1:E9. Turn Me Loose
Air Date: December 31, 1988

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Steve Sonsky

Apr 22, 2014

The TV show seems fairly faithful to the formula: trite, sappy and predictable, if somewhat sweet and nicely filmed. [29 Oct 1988, p.C1]

John J. O'Connor

Apr 22, 2014

Ms. Hardin is appealing but a bit lumpish in the dance scenes. Mr. Cassidy, looking as if he has just spent hours pumping iron, bumps, grinds and gyrates with all the sexual steaminess the producers are clearly seeking. Can Johnny and Baby keep this misbegotten romance simmering for a few weeks, never mind a full season? Can enough dirty dancing be squeezed into future half-hour episodes to maintain the mambo momentum? I doubt it. Read full review

Clifford Terry

Apr 22, 2014

Everything about the series is cuddly instead of crackling, simpy instead of sexy. Cassidy seems more like an Amherst sophomore than an off- season mechanic, while Hardin flounces around like a perky princess...The dancing itself, although relatively racy for prime-time placement, is not so much dirty as slightly soiled. [28 Oct 1988, p.6]

Ed Siegel

Apr 22, 2014

Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey may not have been James Dean and Natalie Wood, but Patrick Cassidy and Melora Hardin look as if they'd be more at home in a TV version of "Revenge of the Nerds." [29 Oct 1988, p.9] Read full review

Robert P. Laurence

Apr 22, 2014

Cassidy is a decently capable dancer, but the routines performed by the troupe at the resort seem utterly tame, so mild that Stevenson's fuddy-duddy objections seem only puzzling. They are not nearly as puzzling, however, as CBS's decision to pencil Dirty Dancing onto the network dance card. [29 Oct 1998, p.D-15]

Howard Rosenberg

Apr 22, 2014

Play[s] like an extended shampoo commercial and lacking the edge and joyful vigor of the movie on which it is based....The premiere of the TV series is a static bore, mismanaged and miscast. Read full review

Tom Shales

Apr 22, 2014

Dead on its feet...How anyone can watch this without getting the giggles is beyond me. Read full review

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: October 29, 1988
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  S1:E11. Hit the Road
  Air Date: January 14, 1989
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  S1:E10. Our Day Will Come
  Air Date: January 7, 1989
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  S1:E9. Turn Me Loose
  Air Date: December 31, 1988
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  S1:E8. Book of Love (Part 2)
  Air Date: December 17, 1988
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  S1:E7. Book of Love (Part 1)
  Air Date: December 17, 1988
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  S1:E6. Poetry In Motion
  Air Date: December 10, 1988
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  S1:E5. Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
  Air Date: December 3, 1988
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  S1:E4. Walk Like A Man
  Air Date: November 19, 1988
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  S1:E3. Save the Last Dance for Me
  Air Date: November 12, 1988
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  S1:E2. Heat Wave
  Air Date: November 5, 1988
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  S1:E1. Baby, It's You
  Air Date: October 29, 1988