Skatetown U.S.A./Fun Facts

• Film debut of Patrick Swayze.

• Patrick Swayze and April Allen were roller skating partners as children in Houston, Texas. When filming started, they hadn't seen each other for eleven years.

• The Skatetown, U.S.A disco was based on Flipper's Roller Boogie Palace on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California. It opened in 1979, and the film premiered there.

• According to Maureen McCormick, cocaine use was common during filming. In her book "Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice", she writes "Like a disco, there was a lot of cocaine being done on the set. Many people were open about it."

• The movie has never been released on home video or DVD, possibly due to rights issues with the soundtrack.

• This film was the first roller-disco movie of the late 1970s. It was released a few months before Roller Boogie (1979).

• The skate gang was called the West Side Wheelers.

• After Patrick Swayze appeared in Dirty Dancing (1987), this movie was nicknamed "Dirty Skating".

• The movie features a few American television stars from the 1960s and 1970s, including Scott Baio, Ruth Buzzi, Maureen McCormick, Ron Palillo, and Flip Wilson.

• Film debut of Kelly Lang.

• Patrick Swayze and an uncredited Gary Hudson would work together later in Road House.

• The nickname of the DJ was the Wizard. The Wiz (1978) had been released the previous year.

• Dorothy Stratten: The blonde at the food counter ordering pizza. She was the August 1979 Playboy Playmate Of The Month and 1980 Playmate Of The Year.