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| style="text-align:center;"|November 8, 1975
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* [[Chevy Chase]] impersonates President [[Gerald Ford]].
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*Andrew Duncan and Jacqueline Carlin make cameo appearances.
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*Sketches include "[[Land Shark (Saturday Night Live)|Landshark]]" and "[[The Land of Gorch]]," featuring [[Jim Henson]], [[Jerry Nelson]], and [[Frank Oz]] performing their Muppet characters. This was the first appearance of the Land Shark character.
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* [[Andy Kaufman]] debuts his [[Foreign Man]] character on the show.
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* [[Esther Phillips]] performed "[[What a Diff'rence a Day Made]]" and "I Can Stand a Little Rain".
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*The episode features an [[Albert Brooks]] film, upcoming season.
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| style="text-align:center;"|November 15, 1975
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* [[Laraine Newman]] debuts her character Sherry.
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* [[ABBA]] makes two appearances, singing "[[SOS|S.O.S.]]" and "[[Waterloo (ABBA Song)|Waterloo]]".
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*Loudon Wainwright III performed the songs "Bicentennial" and "Unrequited to the Nth Degree".
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*Host [[Robert Klein]] performed the song "I Can't Stop My Leg" with the [[Saturday Night Live Band]], co-written with [[Howard Shore]] and [[Paul Shaffer]].
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* [[George Coe]] makes a [[Guest Appearance|guest appearance]].
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* [[Jim Henson]], [[Frank Oz]], [[Jerry Nelson]], [[Richard Hunt (Puppeteer)|Richard Hunt]], Alice Tweedy, and [[Fran Brill]] perform in a "The Land of Gorch" sketch.
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| style="text-align:center;"|Tomlin with [[Howard Shore|Howard Shore & the All Nurse Band]]
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| style="text-align:center;"|November 22, 1975
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*Tomlin performed the songs "[[St. James Infirmary Blues]]," "Bee Bop," and "[[I Got You Babe]]" with Scred and the Muppets.
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| style="text-align:left;"|[[Richard Pryor]]
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| style="text-align:center;"|December 13, 1975
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*Gil Scott-Heron performed "Johannesburg" and "A Lovely Day".
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*Thalmus Rasulala appeared as one of the priests in the "Exorcist II" sketch. Annazette Chase appeared as Polly in the "Black & White" sketch. At Pryor's insistence, his ex-wife Shelley Pryor and [[Kathy McKee|Kathrine McKee]], his then-current girlfriend  make cameo appearances.
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*Sketches include "[[Saturday Night Live Samurai|Samurai Futaba]]," "[[The Land of Gorch]]," and an [[Albert Brooks]]'s film, "sick". This was the first appearance of Belushi's Samurai character.
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*The episode introduces the recurring catchphrase "[[Generalissimo Francisco Franco is Still Dead|Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead]]" during ''Weekend Update''.
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*At Pryor's insistence [[Paul Mooney (Comedian)|Paul Mooney]] was hired as a writer Mooney wrote some of Pryor's routines, including the "Racist Word Association Interview".
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*The show was broadcast on a seven second delay.
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| style="text-align:center;"|December 20, 1975
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*Martha Reeves performed "[[(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher]]" and "[[Silver Bells]]". The Stylistics performed the song "[[You Make Me Feel Brand New]]".
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*Candice Bergen appeared in "[[The Land of Gorch]]" sketch where she attends King Ploobis' Christmas party while the guests that he had invited are attending the Killer Bees' Christmas party. Bergen performed the song "[[Winter Wonderland]]" with the cast.
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* [[Maggie Kuhn]] makes a cameo appearance.
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|style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="5"|*Anne Murray performed the songs "The Call" and "Blue Finger Lou".
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*The episode features an Albert Brooks film, ''Audience Test Screenings''. Other sketches include "Interior Demolitionists" and a Shimmer commercial parody.
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*Paula Kahn makes a cameo appearance.  [[Jim Henson]], [[Alice Tweedy]], [[Jerry Nelson]], and [[Frank Oz]] perform their characters in "[[The Land of Gorch]]".
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*The episode was submitted for the Emmy Award consideration and won ''SNL'' its first Emmy in 1977.
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*Lorne Michaels appears on camera for the first time in the series during a "Killer Bees" sketch gone wrong.
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| style="text-align:left;"|[[Buck Henry]]
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| style="text-align:center;"|[[Bill Withers]] & [[Toni Basil]]
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| style="text-align:center;"|January 17, 1976
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* [[The Blues Brothers]], in the Bees costumes, perform "[[I'm a King Bee]]" with [[Howard Shore]] and [[Saturday Night Live Band|His All-Bee Band]].
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*The episode features a [[Saturday Night Live Samurai]] sketch, "Samurai Delicatessen". Buck Henry premieres his recurring character, Mr. Dantley.
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* [[Bill Withers]] performed "[[Ain't No Sunshine]]".
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* [[Toni Basil]] performed "Wham".
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* [[Alice Tweedy]] and [[Jerry Nelson]] perform their characters in "[[The Land of Gorch]]".
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| style="text-align:left;"|[[Peter Cook]] & [[Dudley Moore]]
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| style="text-align:center;"|[[Neil Sedaka]]
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| style="text-align:center;"|January 24, 1976
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*Scred from "[[The Land of Gorch]]" appeared in a bee costume hoping to be in The Bees sketch, only to be told by Gilda Radner that the sketch was canceled. Scred joins Gilda into introducing Neil Sedaka.
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*Sedaka performed the songs "[[Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (Song)|Breaking Up Is Hard to Do]]" and "Lonely Night".
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*The episode features the sketch, "Lifer Follies," auditions in a prison warden's office for an upcoming inmate talent show, which includes Garrett Morris' "Shotgun" song.
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| style="text-align:left;"|[[Dick Cavett]]
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| style="text-align:center;"|January 31, 1976
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*Humorist [[Marshall Efron]] and Al Alen Petersen make cameo appearances.
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*Jimmy Cliff performed the songs "[[The Harder They Come]]," "[[Many Rivers to Cross]]" and "Wahjahka Man".
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| style="text-align:left;"|[[Peter Boyle]]
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| style="text-align:center;"|[[Al Jarreau]]
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| style="text-align:center;"|February 14, 1976
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*The Shapiro Sisters dance and lip-sync to the song "[[This Will Be]]". One of the sisters, Jenny, also appeared in a sketch.
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*Al Jarreau performed the songs "We Got By" and "Pretty as a Picture".
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* [[Steven Spielberg]] makes an appearance in the audience while Peter Boyle sings a love song to his "wife".
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| style="text-align:center;"|February 21, 1976
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*Arnaz and his son perform the songs "Cuban Pete" and "[[Babalu (Song)|Babalu]]".
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*Actor [[Taylor Mead]] makes a filmed cameo appearance.
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*A cappella group [[The Idlers]] and comedian [[Andy Kaufman]] make cameo appearances. Host Jill Clayburgh appeared with these guests.
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*Photographer and video artist William Wegman appeared with his dog in Gary Weis' filmed piece.
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*Leon Redbone performed the songs "[[Ain't Misbehavin' (Song)|Ain't Misbehavin']]" and "Big Time Woman".
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*The first appearance of [[Saturday Night Live TV Show Sketches of the 1970s#The Mr. Bill Show|Mister Bill]], in response to the show's request for home movies.
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*Betty Carter performed the songs "Music Maestro, Please / Swing Brother Swing" and "I Can't Help It".
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*King Ploobis and Scred from "[[The Land of Gorch]]" approach Anthony Perkins for help to get their sketch back on the air.
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*President [[Gerald Ford]] appeared in a filmed segment during the cold opening where he opens the show with "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" after Chevy Chase's signature pratfall. He also appeared in filmed segments during the monologue (where he introduces the host) and during Weekend Update (where, following Chevy Chase's signature line "I'm Chevy Chase and you're not", he says "I'm Gerald Ford and you're not").
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* [[Billy Crystal]] (billed as Bill Crystal) performed a monologue. Dan Aykroyd impersonates talk show host [[Tom Snyder]].
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*The episode features a short [[Gary Weis]] film on New York garbage men.
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*Patti Smith Group performed the song "[[Gloria (Them Song)|Gloria]]" and "[[My Generation (The Who Song)|My Generation]]".
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*Raquel Welch performed the song "[[Superstar (Delaney and Bonnie Song)|Superstar]]" with John Belushi as Joe Cocker, as well as "[[It Ain't Necessarily So]]".
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*Phoebe Snow performed the songs "All Over" and "Two-Fisted Love".
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*John Sebastian performed the song "[[Welcome Back (John Sebastian Song)|Welcome Back]]" with John Belushi as Joe Cocker.
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*Lorne Michaels appeared on air, offering the Beatles $3,000 to perform three songs.
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*The characters from "[[The Land of Gorch]]" face facts that they aren't welcome on the show anymore.
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*First appearance of Gilda Radner as [[Baba Wawa]].
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*Scred and The Mighty Favog cut a deal with Chevy Chase to have Lorne Michaels renew their sketch in exchange that The Mighty Favog gets [[The Beatles]] to appear on the show.
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*Carly Simon performed the songs "Half a Chance / [[You're So Vain]]" in a pre-taped segment with Chevy Chase playing cowbell.
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*Leon and Mary Russell perform the songs "Satisfy You" and "Daylight," the latter of which featured John Belushi as Joe Cocker.
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*Lorne Michaels offers the Beatles $3,200 and free hotel accommodations to perform three songs.
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*Gordon Lightfoot performed the songs "Summertime Dream" and "Spanish Moss". A third song, "Sundown," is interrupted by John Belushi's Samurai.
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*Leon Redbone performed the songs "[[Shine On, Harvest Moon]]" and "Walking Stick".<ref name="SNL" /> Harlan Collins & Joyce Everson perform "Heaven Only Knows".
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*Akira Yoshimura and Doris Powell appear in "[[The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise]]," a sketch written by [[Michael O'Donoghue]], parodying the television series ''[[Star Trek]]''. In the sketch, the crew of the Enterprise tries to deal with the show's cancellation.
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*In her opening monologue, host Louise Lasser, who had been arrested on a drug charge the week before and was very difficult for the cast and writers to work with that week, pretends to have a bout of [[Stage Fright|stage fright]] and lock herself in her dressing room. She had actually done the same thing in real life just before the beginning of the show; the cast was dividing her parts among themselves. Her self-indulgent behavior led Michaels to keep this episode out of [[Broadcast Syndication|syndication]].
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*Actor [[Michael Sarrazin]] makes a filmed cameo appearance.
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*Preservation Hall Jazz Band performed the song "[[Panama (Jazz Standard)|Panama]]".
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*Rita Coolidge performed the song "Hula Hoop". Host Kris Kristofferson performed the song "I've Got a Life of My Own". Together, Kristofferson and Coolidge performed "Eddie the Eunuch".
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Current revision as of 11:16, 25 May 2018

Saturday Night Live (season 1)
DVD cover art
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 24
Release
Original network NBC
Original run October 11, 1975 – July 31,
1976
Season chronology
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Season 2

The first season of Saturday Night Live, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC from October 11, 1975 to July 31, 1976.

Contents

[edit] History

[edit] Cast

[edit] Changes and notes

[edit] Cast roster

Repertory cast members

bold denotes Weekend Update anchor

[edit] Writers

Main article: List of Saturday Night Live writers § Season 1

The original writing staff included Anne Beatts, Chevy Chase, Tom Davis, Al Franken, Lorne Michaels, Marilyn Suzanne Miller, Michael O'Donoghue, Herb Sargent, Tom Schiller, Rosie Shuster and Alan Zweibel. The head writers were Lorne Michaels and Michael O'Donoghue.

[edit] Episodes

Main article: List of Saturday Night Live episodes
No.
overall 		No. in
season 		Host Musical guest(s) Original air date
1 1 George Carlin Billy Preston & Janis Ian October 11, 1975
2 2 Paul Simon Randy Newman, Phoebe Snow, Art Garfunkel & Jessy Dixon Singers October 18, 1975
3 3 Rob Reiner none October 25, 1975
4 4 Candice Bergen Esther Phillips November 8, 1975
5 5 Robert Klein ABBA & Loudon Wainwright III November 15, 1975
6 6 Lily Tomlin Tomlin with Howard Shore & the All Nurse Band November 22, 1975
7 7 Richard Pryor Gil Scott-Heron December 13, 1975
  • Gil Scott-Heron performed "Johannesburg" and "A Lovely Day".
  • Thalmus Rasulala appeared as one of the priests in the "Exorcist II" sketch. Annazette Chase appeared as Polly in the "Black & White" sketch. At Pryor's insistence, his ex-wife Shelley Pryor and Kathrine McKee, his then-current girlfriend make cameo appearances.
  • Sketches include "Samurai Futaba," "The Land of Gorch," and an Albert Brooks's film, "sick". This was the first appearance of Belushi's Samurai character.
  • The episode introduces the recurring catchphrase "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" during Weekend Update.
  • At Pryor's insistence Paul Mooney was hired as a writer Mooney wrote some of Pryor's routines, including the "Racist Word Association Interview".
  • The show was broadcast on a seven second delay.
8 8 Candice Bergen Martha Reeves & The Stylistics December 20, 1975
9 9 Elliott Gould Anne Murray January 10, 1976
*Anne Murray performed the songs "The Call" and "Blue Finger Lou".
  • The episode features an Albert Brooks film, Audience Test Screenings. Other sketches include "Interior Demolitionists" and a Shimmer commercial parody.
  • Paula Kahn makes a cameo appearance. Jim Henson, Alice Tweedy, Jerry Nelson, and Frank Oz perform their characters in "The Land of Gorch".
  • The episode was submitted for the Emmy Award consideration and won SNL its first Emmy in 1977.
  • Lorne Michaels appears on camera for the first time in the series during a "Killer Bees" sketch gone wrong.
10 10 Buck Henry Bill Withers & Toni Basil January 17, 1976
11 11 Peter Cook & Dudley Moore Neil Sedaka January 24, 1976
  • Scred from "The Land of Gorch" appeared in a bee costume hoping to be in The Bees sketch, only to be told by Gilda Radner that the sketch was canceled. Scred joins Gilda into introducing Neil Sedaka.
  • Sedaka performed the songs "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" and "Lonely Night".
  • The episode features the sketch, "Lifer Follies," auditions in a prison warden's office for an upcoming inmate talent show, which includes Garrett Morris' "Shotgun" song.
12 12 Dick Cavett Jimmy Cliff January 31, 1976
13 13 Peter Boyle Al Jarreau February 14, 1976
  • The Shapiro Sisters dance and lip-sync to the song "This Will Be". One of the sisters, Jenny, also appeared in a sketch.
  • Al Jarreau performed the songs "We Got By" and "Pretty as a Picture".
  • Steven Spielberg makes an appearance in the audience while Peter Boyle sings a love song to his "wife".
14 14 Desi Arnaz Desi Arnaz & Desi Arnaz, Jr. February 21, 1976
  • Arnaz and his son perform the songs "Cuban Pete" and "Babalu".
  • Actor Taylor Mead makes a filmed cameo appearance.
15 15 Jill Clayburgh Leon Redbone & The Idlers February 28, 1976
  • A cappella group The Idlers and comedian Andy Kaufman make cameo appearances. Host Jill Clayburgh appeared with these guests.
  • Photographer and video artist William Wegman appeared with his dog in Gary Weis' filmed piece.
  • Leon Redbone performed the songs "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Big Time Woman".
  • The first appearance of Mister Bill, in response to the show's request for home movies.
16 16 Anthony Perkins Betty Carter March 13, 1976
  • Betty Carter performed the songs "Music Maestro, Please / Swing Brother Swing" and "I Can't Help It".
  • King Ploobis and Scred from "The Land of Gorch" approach Anthony Perkins for help to get their sketch back on the air.
17 17 Ron Nessen Patti Smith April 17, 1976
  • President Gerald Ford appeared in a filmed segment during the cold opening where he opens the show with "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" after Chevy Chase's signature pratfall. He also appeared in filmed segments during the monologue (where he introduces the host) and during Weekend Update (where, following Chevy Chase's signature line "I'm Chevy Chase and you're not", he says "I'm Gerald Ford and you're not").
  • Billy Crystal (billed as Bill Crystal) performed a monologue. Dan Aykroyd impersonates talk show host Tom Snyder.
  • The episode features a short Gary Weis film on New York garbage men.
  • Patti Smith Group performed the song "Gloria" and "My Generation".
18 18 Raquel Welch Phoebe Snow & John Sebastian April 24, 1976
  • Raquel Welch performed the song "Superstar" with John Belushi as Joe Cocker, as well as "It Ain't Necessarily So".
  • Phoebe Snow performed the songs "All Over" and "Two-Fisted Love".
  • John Sebastian performed the song "Welcome Back" with John Belushi as Joe Cocker.
  • Lorne Michaels appeared on air, offering the Beatles $3,000 to perform three songs.
  • The characters from "The Land of Gorch" face facts that they aren't welcome on the show anymore.
  • First appearance of Gilda Radner as Baba Wawa.
19 19 Madeline Kahn Carly Simon May 8, 1976
  • Scred and The Mighty Favog cut a deal with Chevy Chase to have Lorne Michaels renew their sketch in exchange that The Mighty Favog gets The Beatles to appear on the show.
  • Carly Simon performed the songs "Half a Chance / You're So Vain" in a pre-taped segment with Chevy Chase playing cowbell.
20 20 Dyan Cannon Leon and Mary Russell May 15, 1976
  • Leon and Mary Russell perform the songs "Satisfy You" and "Daylight," the latter of which featured John Belushi as Joe Cocker.
21 21 Buck Henry Gordon Lightfoot & Garrett Morris May 22, 1976
  • Lorne Michaels offers the Beatles $3,200 and free hotel accommodations to perform three songs.
  • Gordon Lightfoot performed the songs "Summertime Dream" and "Spanish Moss". A third song, "Sundown," is interrupted by John Belushi's Samurai.
22 22 Elliott Gould Leon Redbone, Harlan Collins & Joyce Everson May 29, 1976
23 23 Louise Lasser Preservation Hall Jazz Band June 24, 1976
  • In her opening monologue, host Louise Lasser, who had been arrested on a drug charge the week before and was very difficult for the cast and writers to work with that week, pretends to have a bout of stage fright and lock herself in her dressing room. She had actually done the same thing in real life just before the beginning of the show; the cast was dividing her parts among themselves. Her self-indulgent behavior led Michaels to keep this episode out of syndication.
  • Actor Michael Sarrazin makes a filmed cameo appearance.
  • Preservation Hall Jazz Band performed the song "Panama".
24 24 Kris Kristofferson Rita Coolidge June 31, 1976
  • Rita Coolidge performed the song "Hula Hoop". Host Kris Kristofferson performed the song "I've Got a Life of My Own". Together, Kristofferson and Coolidge performed "Eddie the Eunuch".

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