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Skatetown, U.S.A. is a 1979 American comedy musical film produced to capitalize on the short-lived fad of roller disco. [2] Directed by William A. Levey, the film features many television stars from the 1960s and 1970s, among them Scott Baio, Flip Wilson, Maureen McCormick, Ron Palillo and Ruth Buzzi.
Roller Boogie is a 1979 American teen musical exploitation film [3] directed by Mark L. Lester and starring Linda Blair, Jim Bray, Beverly Garland, Roger Perry, Mark Goddard, Jimmy Van Patten, and Kimberly Beck.
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1979 Romance TV movie about two teens who become romantically involved as they train for a skating championship. Ice Pawn: 1989 Drama Dan Haggerty's favorite champion of ice skating. On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story: 1990 Biographical Fact-based TV film on champion skater's career focusing on her drug abuse and depression. Carmen on Ice: 1990
Roller Boogie: United Artists / Compass International Pictures: Mark L. Lester (director); Barry Schneider (screenplay); Linda Blair, Jim Bray, Albert Insinnia, Jimmy Van Patten, Kimberly Beck, Stoney Jackson, Beverly Garland, Mark Goddard: 20 All That Jazz: 20th Century Fox
In 1978 Chicago, after the local roller rink the "Palisade Garden" closes down, 16-year-old Xavier "X" Smith and his friends Junior, Boo, Naps, “Mixed” Mike, along with his new neighbor Tori, spend their summer roller skating in the ritzy uptown rink "Sweetwater" where they are disrespected by the five-year roller disco contest champions, Sweetness and his crew, the Sweetwater Rollers.
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To promote the movie, Ted Coombs roller-skated across the United States and back and gained a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. A photo novel of the movie was released in 1979, and the musical soundtrack was released on both vinyl and audiocassette by Lorimar Records.