Saturday Night Live (Season 1)

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		+	*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.
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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").
		+	* [[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 (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]]".
		+	*Phoebe Snow performed the songs "All Over" and "Two-Fisted Love".
		+	*John Sebastian performed the song "[[Welcome Back (John Sebastian 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]].
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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
	Next → 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 1 History 2 Cast 2.1 Changes and notes 2.2 Cast roster 3 Writers 4 Episodes 5 References

History

Cast

Changes and notes

Cast roster

Repertory cast members Dan Aykroyd John Belushi Chevy Chase George Coe (only credited episode: October 11, 1975) Jane Curtin Garrett Morris Laraine Newman Michael O'Donoghue (final credited episode: November 8, 1975) Gilda Radner

bold denotes Weekend Update anchor

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.

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
The cold open features John Belushi as a foreign man learning English being taught by writer Michael O'Donoghue. Following this sketch, Chevy Chase appeared with a headset on and bellows the first "Live From New York, It's Saturday Night!" As host, George Carlin performed stand-up, introduced the musical guests, and conducted the goodnight segment. Carlin performed three monologues, including "Baseball-Football". Andy Kaufman appeared in a segment consisting of him playing the Mighty Mouse theme on a record player. Valri Bromfield makes a guest appearance. Jacqueline Carlin appeared as the mother in the "New Dad Insurance" sketch and as the woman with a book in the "Academy of Better Careers" sketch. Wendy Craig appeared as the salesman in the "Academy of Better Careers" sketch. Richard Belzer (the show's warm-up comedian), writer Tom Davis, and talent coordinator Neil Levy appear as jurors in the "Courtroom" sketch. Billy Preston performed "Nothing from Nothing" and "Fancy Lady". Janis Ian performed "At Seventeen" and "In the Winter". Sketches include the Bees; the Albert Brooks film, "The Impossible Truth"; "Trojan Horse Home Security"; "Triple-Trac"; and The Land of Gorch, with Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Rhonda Hansome, and Alice Tweedy.
2	2	Paul Simon	Randy Newman, Phoebe Snow, Art Garfunkel & Jessy Dixon Singers	October 18, 1975
Connie Hawkins and Marv Albert appear on Weekend Update. Jerry Rubin appeared in the "Up Against the Wallpaper" sketch. Bill Bradley appeared in the goodnights. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel perform "The Boxer," "Scarborough Fair," and "My Little Town". Paul Simon also performed "Still Crazy After All These Years," "Marie" "American Tune" solo, "Loves Me Like a Rock" with the Jessy Dixon Singers, and "Gone at Last" with Phoebe Snow and the Jessy Dixon Singers. Art Garfunkel performed "I Only Have Eyes for You". Randy Newman performed "Sail Away". Phoebe Snow performed "No Regrets".
3	3	Rob Reiner	none	October 25, 1975
Denny Dillon appeared as a special guest with Mark Hampton in a sketch as nuns running a parish talent show. Jacqueline Carlin appeared as a swimmer in the "Golden Needles" sketch. Tom Schiller appeared as the priest in the "Wrigley's Gum" sketch and as one of the Bees. Penny Marshall appeared in the "Fashion Show," "Hoe-Down," and "the Bees" sketches. The Lockers and comedian Andy Kaufman make guest appearances. Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Alice Tweedy, and Richard Hunt perform in a "The Land of Gorch" sketch. In lieu of a musical guest, John Belushi performed "With a Little Help from My Friends"> while impersonating Joe Cocker. The episode features an Albert Brooks film about heart surgery.
4	4	Candice Bergen	Esther Phillips	November 8, 1975
Chevy Chase impersonates President Gerald Ford. Andrew Duncan and Jacqueline Carlin make cameo appearances. Sketches include "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. Andy Kaufman debuts his Foreign Man character on the show. Esther Phillips performed "What a Diff'rence a Day Made" and "I Can Stand a Little Rain". The episode features an Albert Brooks film, upcoming season.
5	5	Robert Klein	ABBA & Loudon Wainwright III	November 15, 1975
Laraine Newman debuts her character Sherry. ABBA makes two appearances, singing "S.O.S." and "Waterloo". Loudon Wainwright III performed the songs "Bicentennial" and "Unrequited to the Nth Degree". 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. George Coe makes a guest appearance. Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Alice Tweedy, and Fran Brill perform in a "The Land of Gorch" sketch.
6	6	Lily Tomlin	Tomlin with Howard Shore & the All Nurse Band	November 22, 1975
Tomlin performed the songs "St. James Infirmary Blues," "Bee Bop," and "I Got You Babe" with Scred and the Muppets.
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
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". 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. Maggie Kuhn makes a cameo appearance.
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
The Blues Brothers, in the Bees costumes, perform "I'm a King Bee" with Howard Shore and His All-Bee Band. The episode features a Saturday Night Live Samurai sketch, "Samurai Delicatessen". Buck Henry premieres his recurring character, Mr. Dantley. Bill Withers performed "Ain't No Sunshine". Toni Basil performed "Wham". Alice Tweedy and Jerry Nelson perform their characters in "The Land of Gorch".
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
Humorist Marshall Efron and Al Alen Petersen make cameo appearances. Jimmy Cliff performed the songs "The Harder They Come," "Many Rivers to Cross" and "Wahjahka Man".
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.

References

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