Starring: Robin Duke Mary Gross Brad Hall Tim Kazurinsky Gary Kroeger Julia Louis-Dreyfus Eddie Murphy Joe Piscopo

Episodes

09/25/82: Chevy Chase / Queen 10/02/82: Louis Gossett, Jr. / George Thorogood & The Destroyers 10/09/82: Ron Howard / The Clash 10/23/82: Howard Hesseman / Men at Work 10/30/82: Michael Keaton / Joe Jackson 11/13/82: Robert Blake / Kenny Loggins 11/20/82: Drew Barrymore / Squeeze 12/04/82: Tom & Dick Smothers / Laura Branigan 12/11/82: Eddie Murphy / Lionel Ritchie 01/22/83: Lily Tomlin 01/29/83: Rick Moranis & Dave Thomas / The Bus Boys 02/05/83: Sid Caesar / Joe Cocker 02/19/83: Howard Hesseman / Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 02/26/83: Beau & Jeff Bridges / Randy Newman 03/12/83: Bruce Dern / Leon Redbone 03/19/83: Robert Guillaume / Duran Duran 04/09/83: Joan Rivers / Musical Youth 04/16/83: Susan Saint James / Michael McDonald 05/07/83: Stevie Wonder 05/14/83: Ed Koch / Kevin Rowland & Dexy's Midnight Runners

Summary

Don't question Dick Ebersol - not if you want face-time on "Saturday Night Live" these days. He single-handedly restructured the entire show, altering it from an ensemble production to a one-man showcase of Eddie Murphy's talents - or so it may seem, since the rest of the cast, save for Joe Piscopo, hardly appear on the show. Mary Gross and Tim Kazurinzky manage to star in a few sketches now and then, but most future audiences are surprised to learn that Julia Louis-Dreyfus began performing on "Saturday Night Live" this season. Not so hard to overlook, since much of the focus of the season surrounded the mysterious assassination of Buckwheat, which spawned a Kennenedy-esque reporting style from news sources around the globe.