TV Party

{{For|the Black Flag EP|TV Party (EP)}} {{More citations needed|date=April 2019}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox television | image = | caption = | genre = Public-access television, talk show | runtime = | company = | creator = | producer = | presenter = Glenn O'Brien | country = United States | network = | first_aired = {{start date|1978}} | last_aired = {{end date|1982}} | related = | num_episodes = }}

'''''TV Party''''' was a public-access television cable TV show in New York City that ran from 1978 to 1982.

== History == After Glenn O'Brien was a guest on the weekly variety television show, ''The Coca Crystal Show: If I Can’t Dance, You Can Keep Your Revolution,'' he went on to create his own show, ''TV Party''.<ref>{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ok2_CQAAQBAJ|title = Downtown Film and TV Culture: 1975–2001|last = Hawkins|first = Joan|publisher = Intellect Books|year = 2015|isbn = 978-1783204229}}</ref>

Glenn O'Brien was the host of ''TV Party''; Chris Stein, the co-founder of the pop band Blondie, was the co-host; and Walter "Doc" Steding was the leader of the TV Party orchestra. Amos Poe was the director. Fab Five Freddy (Fred Brathwaite) was a sometime cameraman and guest.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1991/06/17/living-large | title=Fab Five Freddy, the Coolest Person in New York | magazine=The New Yorker | date=10 June 1991 | last1=Orlean | first1=Susan | access-date=March 6, 2026 | archive-date=December 10, 2025 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251210093107/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1991/06/17/living-large | url-status=live }}</ref> Bobby Grossman was the staff photographer. Guests on the show included Mick Jones, David Byrne, Debbie Harry, James Chance, Klaus Nomi, Charles Rocket, Elliott Murphy and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

In 2005 Brink Films has re-released some of the best of the 80 plus episodes on DVD, as well as a documentary about the TV show.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448143/|title=TV Party (2005)|website=IMDB|access-date=2016-04-19|archive-date=November 10, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251110060218/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448143|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2019, public access show ''The Special Without Brett Davis'' paid tribute to TV Party, with host Brett Davis portraying O'Brien, alongside performers such as Ziwe Fumudoh and Spike Einbinder.<ref>{{Citation |title=The Special Ep. 167: "TV Party" with Mary Houlihan, Ziwe Fumudoh, Rich From Lectrolux |date=23 June 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkmvNZINgvw&list=PLLv6h4AcoO1tUoiCT1BD78-WyHOb5Cnrx |access-date=2023-10-05 |language=en}}</ref>

== See also == * Coca Crystal * The Poetry Project's Public Access Poetry * Jamie Davidovich's The Live! Show (1979-1984) * Potato Wolf TV by Collaborative Projects (COLAB)

== References == {{Reflist|30em}}

==External links== * [http://www.tvparty.org TV Party, the DVD website] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m4ltYuOjuQ Blondie, Klaus Nomi, etc. on TV Party] (YouTube clip) * Mick Jones on TV Party [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6iBtDrqUVU Part 1] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-AcgNtliEM Part 2] (YouTube clip) * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TDIlPomGyA The TV Party Band (Walter Steading and the Dragon People) with David Byrne, 1979]. (YouTube clip)

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