If You Give a Dance You Gotta Pay the Band is a 1972 American TV movie.
It was the first program shown under the umbrella ABC Theater.
[1][2] The production (at the time referred to as a "dramatic special" or "teleplay" rather than a made-for-TV movie) was the first screen credit for Laurence Fishburne and led to him getting a role later on in the soap opera One Life to Live.
[3][4][5] The teleplay first aired on ABC at 8:30pm ET on Tuesday, December 19, 1972[3] and was rerun on Wednesday, June 6, 1973 at 9:00pm ET.
[5] In TV listings of the era, the title was generally given as If You Give a Dance You Gotta Pay the Band without a comma.