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Article: `Club Dance' takes final bow on TNN
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 26, 1999
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. It was last call Saturday at "Club Dance."
The Nashville Network ended production of the popular country
dance program whose fans tuned in as much to see booted partners get
together or break apart as to watch them two-step around the floor.
After countless surprise birthdays, some engagements, a full
wedding, a few divorces and a lot of line dancing, the show's
fictional honky-tonk tavern is closed.
The dance floor where as many as 200 people rhythmically
shuffled and twirled in Stetsons is dark. The wall of televisions
where the latest music videos played is blank. And the wooden bar
where urban cowboys and cowgirls sipped sodas and traded gossip is
shuttered.
"The ...