Aired: 9/5/1980
--Eddie Money performs ""Running Back"" and ""Trinidad""
Aired: 9/12/1980
--Kim Carnes (1st appearance) - ""Cry Like A Baby"" and ""More Love""
Aired: 9/19/1980
--The Cars perform ""Touch and Go,"" ""Shoo Be Doo"" and ""Gimme Some Slack""
Aired: 10/3/1980
--Al Jarreau (1st appearance) - ""Spain"" and ""Distracted""
Aired: 10/10/1980
--Ted Nugent performs ""Scream Dream"" and ""Paralyzed""
Aired: 10/17/1980
--Split Enz performs ""I Got You"" and ""I Hope I Never""
Aired: 10/31/1980
--Dire Straits performs ""Skateaway"" and ""Romeo and Juliet""
Aired: 11/7/1980
--Devo - ""Whip It"" and ""Uncontrollable Urge""
Aired: 11/14/1980
The Busboys performed ""KKK,"" ""Johnny Soul'd Out"" and ""Minimum Wage"" from their 'Minimum Wage Rock & Roll' album.
Aired: 11/21/1980
--Heart performs ""Bebe-La-Strange"" and ""Tell It Like It is""
Aired: 11/28/1980
Aired: 12/5/1980
--Pat Benatar sings ""Hit Me With Your Best Shot"" and ""Hell Is For Children""
Aired: 12/12/1980
--Steve Forbert performs ""Romeo's Tune,"" ""Lonely Girl"" and ""Get Well Soon""
Aired: 12/19/1980
--Rockpile performs ""Teacher Teacher""
Aired: 1/9/1981
--George Thorogood & the Destroyers perform ""Can't Stop Lovin'""
Aired: 1/16/1981
--The Plasmatics perform ""Living Dead"" and ""Butcher Baby""
Aired: 1/23/1981
--REO Speedwagon perform ""Don't Let Him Go"" & ""Keep On Lovin' You""
Aired: 2/6/1981
--Valerie Bertinelli (host) --Jim Carroll Band - ""People Who Died"" (and possibly ""Wicked Gravity"" & ""Day and Night"")
Aired: 2/13/1981
--Michael McKean & David L. Lander (co-hosts, in character as ""Lenny & Squiggy"") --Kool & The Gang - ""Celebration,"" ""Take It To The Top"" & an instrumental song
Aired: 2/20/1981
--Andy Kaufman (host) - the infamous fistfight episode --Sir Douglas Quintet performs ""You're Gonna Miss Me,"" ""Mendocino"" + 2 more songs
Aired: 2/27/1981
--On tape: Andy Kaufman appears in a videotaped apology.
Aired: 3/13/1981
--Marshall Tucker Band perform ""Heard it in a Love Song"" and ""This Time I Believe""
Aired: 4/3/1981
--Don Novello (host, in character as Father Guido Sarducci) --Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent Wilson, the singing duo ""Dawn,"" appear with Sarducci. --Jefferson Starship perform ""Find Your Way Back"" and ""Jane""
Aired: 4/10/1981
Aired: 5/8/1981
--Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band perform ""Margaritaville"" and ""It's My Job""
Aired: 5/15/1981
--Gary U.S. Bonds performs ""This Little Girl,"" ""Way Back When"" and ""Jole Blon""
