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Coast to Coast

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ360324 ↗
Source-derived summary

Coast to Coast or Coast 2 Coast may refer to:

Films and television

Coast to Coast (1980 film), a comedy film starring Dyan Cannon and Robert Blake

Coast to Coast (1987 film), a comedy thriller film starring Lenny Henry and John Shea

Coast to Coast (2003 film), a television film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Judy Davis

Coast to Coast (British TV programme), the regional news programme of TVS, 1982–1992

Coast to Coast (1998 TV series), a UK documentary series featuring Janet Street-Porter

Coast to Coast, a television show starring Australian comedian Graham Kennedy

Space Ghost Coast to Coast, an animated TV series that aired on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim

Cavuto Coast to Coast (TV series), business news program hosted by Neil Cavuto

Music

Coast to Coast (band), British rockabilly band

Coast 2 Coast (B-Legit album), 2007

Coast To Coast (Dave Clark Five album)

Coast to Coast (Hit the Lights EP),

Coast to Coast (McDonald's Jazz Band album), 1984

Coast to Coast (Steve Morse Band album), 1992

Coast to Coast (Cody Simpson EP)

Coast to Coast (Westlife album)

Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners, a 1973 album by Faces

"Coast 2 Coast", a song by Sam Adams from Boston's Boy

"Coast to Coast", a song by Ducks Deluxe, 1973 (their first single)

"Coast to Coast", a song by The Jesus and Mary Chain from Automatic

"Coast to Coast", a song by The Scorpions from Lovedrive

"Coast to Coast", a song by Elliott Smith from From a Basement on the Hill

Radio

Coast to Coast AM, a syndicated AM talk radio show made famous by Art Bell

Costas Coast to Coast, now known as Costas on the Radio

Country Coast to Coast, a radio format, the former name of Best Country Today

Routes

Coast-to-Coast Trail, a multi-use trail from the west to east coast of Florida.

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“Coast to Coast” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Coast, Wikimedia and disambiguation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 1987, 2003, 1982—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Coast, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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“Coast to Coast” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Coast, Wikimedia and disambiguation provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q360324. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1980, 1987, 2003 and 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “Coast to Coast” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.