Dancin' to the Hits (TV Series 1986– ) Poster

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5/10
80's cheese fest
rams_lakers17 May 2008
Airing on local TV in 1986, this show featured a group of performers called "The Summer Action Dancers" with host Lorenzo Lamas introducing each dance number. They danced to many current hits and some classic ones like Born to be Wild. We didn't have cable at our house yet and this was the only thing worth watching at the time along with G.L.O.W. Wrestling.

My favorite dancer was Cheryl Yamaguchi who had graduated from Pearl City High School in 1982. Back then she came into our store with a see-through boob tube and we could see everything. She just smiled because she knew she was hot. With her solid voluptuous body Cheryl was fun to watch on the show as she pranced around slowly in her colorful lingerie.

I remember a male dancer with white/blonde hair that was trying to emulate Billy Idol (without the spikes). This guy never smiled and always wore a sneer while he danced.

One song I remember them all dancing to was Werewolves of London. The set was smoke filled and there were tombstones all around. It was almost like a ballet as each guy and girl dancer would hold each other, spin, and then branch out their arms or legs in sappy dramatic poses.

The series was really really cheesy and I only watched it for the cheap thrills. My friend and I would record the shows and then check it out in slo-mo to see some slippage when the ladies bent over. Hey - they were wearing loose lingerie and it happened! This show was awful fluff now that I think about it. I give it a 5 out of 10 only because Cheryl was fine!
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Enjoyed the show very much.
vanillaorchids6920 April 2005
I was and still am a fan of music/dance related shows and Dancing To The Hits (in my opinion) was a fun show to watch for anyone who enjoyed performing arts. Sure, as the other commenter said, it might have been a rip off of Solid Gold but they did not have the girls in lingerie all the time. The women on Solid Gold wore sexier, more revealing outfits. Geez!! Anyway, I enjoyed the themes of the dance numbers. It wasn't just watching dancers in the same outfits on the same sets constantly. They had themes, like a Halloween type theme (with a graveyard, cobwebs, coffin, etc) or a New York street theme. It changed and it was fun and I thought the dancers were VERY good.
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1/10
I Thought It Was Terrible
richard.fuller117 August 2006
Warning: Spoilers
But I suppose I was much older than the other posters.

The women were in their underwear, as the other posters call it, because this was after Madonna had broken onto the scene. They were emulating her.

There was more than one guy, for anyone interested. There were at best about three. Solid Gold began with more guys as well, but when they realized it was the women people wanted to see, they reduced the number of male dancers in the end to about two.

Anyway, what I remember about this show was how it was just tacking on to hit music. Like they wanted to be a part of all the Fame, Flashdance, Footloose music that was going on.

I remember Lorenzo talking to the dancers in one-on-one's.

He talked to one of the guys and bless the poor thing's heart, he said when he came to New York or LA to be a dancer, "I had never seen a cockroach before." Goodness.

And I remember a little blonde girl and apparently there were rumors she was dating one of the male dancers.

"We are only just friends. I don't know why everybody thinks anything else." Everybody? It was the talk of the town, I guess.

The guy I think she was supposed to be dating bore a resemblance to Billy Idol, I thought.

Every now and then, when I look at my own life, I wonder about those kids who got that shot and what they made of it. Ah well.

It was cheesy, and highly unlikely you will ever see this released on DVD. The title was derived from the remake hit Mick Jagger and David Bowie had of "Dancing In The Streets".

Best forgotten as far as I'm concerned.
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You're not the only one who remembers...
sunangel1920 July 2004
It's funny but I used to watch this show when I was really little...i was just talking about it because I remember the male dancer (Barry) was in a Janet Jackson video back in the 80's and I used to think he was hot for some reason! For some odd reason I used to love watching this show when I was 5 years old...me and my sister used to love it. It didn't hurt that Lorenzo Lamas is hot! I agree that the music and the dancing were definitely a little hokey and a rip off to Solid Gold, but what are we to expect from the 80s. I never did understand why the females were always dancing around in their underwear, or why there was the one token male, but then again I was only 5! Why ask why?
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Gosh-Awful but....
jpowell18010 August 2002
I sincerely doubt that anyone will ever read this comment, as I am probably the only one who even remembers this show! Basically it was a top-ten-type Solid Gold ripoff with a twist - seems all the ladies were dancing to the hits in lingere! I kid you not - and they made sure there was plenty of mist for them to dance in! They would dance to anything - and I mean ANYTHING - every hit of 1986, they danced to it (yes, there were some male dancer but for some reason I don't remember much about them, LOL!). You don't know pain until you see a bunch of weird-looking people trying to dance to Bruce Hornsby's "The Way it Is"!!! (basically they'd sorta gyrate and figure that was about the only way they could dance to certain songs.) Weird, weird show. Hot girls, though.
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