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  • CBS
  • Oct 29, 1988
  • CBS
  • Oct 29, 1988
Dirty Dancing

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 t...

  • CBS
  • Oct 29, 1988
  • CBS
  • Oct 29, 1988
Dirty Dancing
Season 1
Season Premiere: Oct 29, 1988
Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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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 t...

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Oct 29, 1988 • 46 m
Baby, It's You
Episode 2 • Nov 5, 1988 • 23 m
Heat Wave
Episode 3 • Nov 12, 1988 • 24 m
Save the Last Dance for Me
Episode 4 • Nov 19, 1988 • 24 m
Walk Like a Man
Episode 5 • Dec 3, 1988 • 23 m
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Episode 6 • Dec 10, 1988 • 23 m
Poetry in Motion
Episode 7 • Dec 17, 1988 • 47 m
Stand By Me/Book of Love
Episode 8 • Dec 31, 1988 • 23 m
Turn Me Loose
Episode 9 • Jan 7, 1989 • 22 m
Our Day Will Come
Episode 10 • Jan 14, 1989 • 23 m
Hit the Road
Episode 11 • Jan 21, 1989
Don't Make Me Over
In an attempt to get noticed by big Broadway producer Harold Ballantine, Johnny begins to behave in a way that upsets the rest of the staff. His only chance to regain their respect is to be honest - with himself and with Baby.

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
27
0% Positive
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29% Mixed
2 Reviews
71% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
27
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29% Mixed
2 Reviews
71% Negative
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50
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]
By Steve Sonsky FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By John J. O'Connor FULL REVIEW
30
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]
By Clifford Terry FULL REVIEW
25
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]
By Ed Siegel FULL REVIEW
20
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]
By Robert P. Laurence FULL REVIEW
20
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.
By Howard Rosenberg FULL REVIEW
10
Apr 22, 2014
Dead on its feet...How anyone can watch this without getting the giggles is beyond me.
By Tom Shales FULL REVIEW

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