Solid Gold in Concert final original live episode closing credits 1988 

until a reboot one day.

@@jmjfanss Not in this clown, woke world we're in now. 🤮🤮🤮

​​@@dm95422 You're absolutely right. The 80s will never be duplicated. 2024 is a fucking joke compared to the beauty and simplicity of the 1980s.

Yes I believe so.

@@tvfan23 It looks like her at the time. "Knot's Landing" was on from 1979 to 1993, so longer than "Solid Gold", which was 332 episodes from September 13, 1980 to July 23, 1988. I think it could have gone through at least the 1990s to 2000s.

Yup, that’s Lisa. She’s been a guest of SG before - including the time then host Rick Dees performed “Disco Duck”.

Yep the one and only. She would have made a great host for the next year if that had gotten renewed for the 90s.

Yes it seems they knew the end was near. The show was cancelled in November after 13 originals had been produced. The other 13 clip shows were needed to meet contract obligations. It appears they were still trying to recapture the magic with a new host such as Lisa Hartman but in the end it never came to be. Many of the dancers moved on to "Beach Boys Summer Action" I recall.

No this is the final live show which was in Jan or Feb. The final clip show aired in July with no new content and Marilyn talking to an empty studio except crew.

@@tvfan23 Thank you for that information. I had lost track of how the "Solid Gold" show had come to an end. From your information, it is too bad that it ended the way that it had. In my opinion, it should have continued with a countdown format and continued live performances. Maybe it could have gone into the 1990s or the 2000s. At least they had what they had as it was an excellent show. Thanks for your videos. If you have more of the Hits version or the main version of the show, if you could upload more, that would be good to do.

I have wished off and on they could do a reboot of solid gold to see what it would be like to today . I had forgotten how it ended as well but I remember Tiffany 😃 being on but never saw Lisa Hartman host.

@@markbooker174 A "Solid Gold" reboot would be best as a direct update of the original series, with many of the artists still alive appearing as they are currently and classic recapitulations of their classic performances on the original series. A reunion of the old hosts would be nice, as they are all still alive, though in their 70s and 80s. New, current hosts would best be younger artists with cross-generational appeal and the ability to sing across musical genres, as the original hosts had done, with the notable exception of Rick Dees, who was more comedy than serious music, with "Disco Duck" and the only host to have not sung the theme song. At his current age of 72, it would be interesting how "Disco Duck", a 1976 song that seemed dated in the 1984-1985 season of which he was host until being replaced by guest hosts, would hold up in our current times, in which "Disco Duck" is better than a lot of the musical noise that passes as hits of the modern era. Besides, we could all use that comedy in these more morose, polarized times that the modern world entails.

A few weekly dance numbers but no formal countdown in the last season.

@@tvfan23 That loss of the countdown took away the core concept that had been with the show way back to its original 1979-1980 2-hour pilot episode that was meant to be a one-time special, but got such high ratings that it had become a weekly 1-hour series with special 2-hour Christmas, summer,, and other special shows. The countdown and cover songs sung by the hosts and co-hosts were a major part of the program.

Generally I post what I have so watch for more but no complete episode of this one.

​@@tvfan23I noticed that the copyright year on the end credits stated 1987, so that would imply that "Solid Gold" had been cancelled in 1987 after the beginning of the 1987-1988 season, which is a major decline from what had been one of its most popular seasons, the 1985-1986 season with Dionne Warwick in her second stint as host. When whomever decided to take her off as host for the 1986-1987 season and change the format, that was the beginning of the end. That was a sad decline of the most popular television music-variety series of the 1980s. Had they not tinkered with the format, "Solid Gold" might have made it through the 1990s, 2000s, maybe 2010s or 2020s. That would have been something had something even close to that had occurred.😊

@@jasonburger3533 I think Dionne chose to leave based on what I have heard, too bad as season 6 was among the best of the series. Yes I think the show was formally cancelled in November 1987 before the NATPE conference where stations would buy syndicated shows for the following year. My bet is the first thirteen were filmed Aug-Oct on the regular 2 every 2 weeks schedule and the final 13 clip shows were done in less than a week as there was very little to do but film a few intros of Marilyn in an empty studio. Sad but all say the music industry could not support such big variety shows anymore. American Bandstand died at a similar time. Even MTV became reality central in the 90's. Glad we have youtube and eighties on 8 to remember MTV.

Debra Towsley might know as she was part of the production team.

I have a few more I can post. The first 13 episodes are live and different. The last 13 episodes are identical and pre-taped.

@@tvfan23 Please post as soon as possible.

Yes I believe so. They had a couple others for Solid Gold 87. Robert W Morgan left after season 6.

@@tvfan23 I know Charlie O'Donnell did Solid Gold 87.

@@jnadle1 Chuck Reilly was the announcer at the start of Solid Gold 87 and then it switched to Charlie.

@@tvfan23, he obviously saw the writing on the wall.