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Saturday Night Live (season 1)
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| DVD cover art
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| Country of origin
| United States
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| No. of episodes
| 24
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| Release
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| Original network
| NBC
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| Original run
| October 11, 1975 – July 31,
1976
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| Season chronology
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| Next →
Season 2
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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.
History
Cast
Changes and notes
Cast roster
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
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| 1
| 1
| George Carlin
| Billy Preston & Janis Ian
| October 11, 1975
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- 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.
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References
Template:Saturday Night Live (TV Series)
