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Season 8: 1982-1983

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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

SummaryDon’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.

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