Saturday Night Live: 1975-1976

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  Season 1: 1975-1976




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Starring:

Dan Aykroyd

John Belushi

Chevy Chase

George Coe (last: 10/18/75)

Jane Curtin

Garrett Morris

Laraine Newman

Michael O’Donoghue (last: 10/18/75)

Gilda Radner

Written by:

Anne Beatts

Chevy Chase

Tom Davis

Al Franken

Lorne Michaels

Marilyn Suzanne Miller

Garrett Morris

Michael O’Donoghue

Herb Sargent

Tom Schiller

Rosie Shuster

Alan Zweibel

Episodes

10/11/75: George Carlin / Billy Preston, Janis Ian

10/18/75: Paul Simon / Randy Newman, Phoebe Snow

10/25/75: Rob Reiner

11/08/75: Candice Bergen / Esther Phillips

11/15/75: Robert Klein / ABBA, Loudon Wainwright III

11/22/75: Lily Tomlin

12/13/75: Richard Pryor / Gil Scott-Heron

12/20/75: Candice Bergen / Martha Reeves, The Stylistics

01/10/76: Elliott Gould / Anne Murray

01/17/76: Buck Henry / Bill Withers, Toni Basil, The Blues Brothers

01/24/76: Peter Cook & Dudley Moore / Neil Sedaka

01/31/76: Dick Cavett / Jimmy Cliff

02/14/76: Peter Boyle / Al Jarreau

02/21/76: Desi Arnaz / Desi Arnaz, Jr.

02/28/76: Jill Clayburgh / Leon Redbone, The Singing Idlers

03/13/76: Anthony Perkins / Betty Carter

04/17/76: Ron Nessen / Patti Smith

04/24/76: Raquel Welch / Phoebe Snow, John Sebastian

05/08/76: Madeline Kahn / Carly Simon

05/15/76: Dyan Cannon / Leon & Mary Russell

05/22/76: Buck Henry / Gordon Lightfoot

05/29/76: Elliott Gould / Leon Redbone, Harlan Collins & Joyce Everson

07/24/76: Louise Lasser / Preservation Hall Jazz Band

07/31/76: Kris Kristofferson / Rita Coolidge

Summary   Lorne Michaels had a vision: to bring live late-night comedy/variety totelevision. NBC was playing reruns of “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson” on Saturday nights, but wanted to feature new programming instead. And so, “Saturday Night Live” was born, albeit under the name “NBC’s Saturday Night”, since sportscaster Howard Cosell was already using the name for his prime-time comedy/variety show. To mock him even further, Michaels dubbed his cast members “The Not Ready For Prime Time Players”, after Cosell’s own “Prime Time Players”.

   Despite the overabundance of material for the first show (which included two musical guests, an Albert Brooks film, a Muppets piece and several commercial parodies), “SNL” found a vacancy in viewers’ eyes. As standard throughout the years that followed, “SNL” beat the competition, and the only thing to survive Cosell’s show was a young comedian named Billy Murray, who would join the successful NBC comedy program during its second season.

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