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Description: Here's Part 4 of your holiday cheese platter for this year - The 1st Annual Dance Fever Christmas Special. Hosted by Deney Terrio (with his dance group "Motion"), and featuring guest celebrity judges Robert Blake and his 14 year old daughter Delinah (now known as Delinah Blake Hurwitz), Chad Everett and his 9 year old daughter Shannon, and Connie Stevens and her 11 year old daughter Tricia Leigh (now known as Tricia Leigh Fisher). Also features David Copperfield doing a magic segment and The Gap Band performing. Alison Arngrim, who played "nasty" Nellie Oleson on Little House on the Prairie also is featured as the "Guest DJ" who introduces the songs and performers.

Part 4 includes the Adult couple from Los Angeles - Cookie Benetiz and Jim Dower (sp?), the Junior couple - from Huntington Beach, California, Cindy Pecka and from Anaheim, California, Gilbert (something), another Adult couple from Dallas, Texas - Pamela Pile and Rick Adams (sp?), then another Junior couple - from Duncanville, Texas, Carrie Dvor and Dwayne Taylor (sp?). Lastly, Deney Terrio does a holiday themed solo dance.

(ending bumper cut-off early and commercials cut out unfortunately)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, December 12th 1980 during the 8pm to 9pm timeframe.