The New Dance Show was a television show in Detroit which ran in the late-1980s to mid-1990s on WGPR-TV 62 (now a CBS

CBS

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 affiliate known as WWJ-TV

WWJ-TV

WWJ-TV, virtual channel 62 , is the CBS-owned and operated television station in Detroit, Michigan. It is co-owned with Detroit's CW station, WKBD-TV , and the two stations share a studio in Southfield, Michigan, a Detroit suburb....

). Hosted by R.J. Watkins, The New Dance Show was a low-budget local version of Soul Train

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and featured regular dancers including a man who dressed like a vampire

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 and wore a cape and a woman who dressed as a boxer. The show was the successor to The Scene which aired during the late-1970s and early-1980s on the same station.
The Mayer Hawthorne

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"Long Time" music video is presented as if it were an excerpt from The New Dance Show.