List of Saturday Night Live Episodes (Seasons 1–15)
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Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a late-night sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. It premiered on NBC, a terrestrial television network, on October 11, 1975 under the title NBC's Saturday Night. The show often satirizes contemporary American popular culture and politics. Saturday Night Live features a two-tiered cast: the repertory members, also known as the "Not Ready for Prime-Time Players," and newer cast members, known as "Featured Players." Each week, the show features a host, often a well-known celebrity, who delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast. A musical guest is also invited to perform several sets (usually two, and occasionally more). Every so often a host or musical guest will fill both roles, such as was the case with Britney Spears in 2000 and 2002, Jennifer Lopez in 2001 and 2010, Justin Timberlake in 2003, 2006 and 2013, Taylor Swift in 2009, Bruno Mars in 2012, Lady Gaga in 2013, Justin Bieber in 2013, Miley Cyrus in 2013 and 2015, Drake in 2014 and 2016, Blake Shelton in 2015, Ariana Grande in 2016 and Donald Glover in 2018. With the exception of Season 7 and several other rare cases, the show has begun with a cold open that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!"
Saturday Night Live is one of the longest running network programs in American television history, with over 800 episodes broadcast over the span of 42 seasons. A number of the show's sketches have been developed into feature films, including The Blues Brothers, Wayne's World, A Night at the Roxbury, Superstar, Coneheads, and MacGruber.
Seasons 1 through 5 are available on DVD in Region 1. Various Saturday Night Live sketches are available in several new media formats, including streaming on Hulu and Netflix. Selected sketches and segments are also available for purchase at the iTunes Store to download and playback on home computers and certain iPod and iPhone models.
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[edit] Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 24 | October 11, 1975 | July 31, 1976 | |
| 2 | 22 | September 18, 1976 | May 21, 1977 | |
| 3 | 20 | September 24, 1977 | May 20, 1978 | |
| 4 | 20 | October 7, 1978 | May 26, 1979 | |
| 5 | 20 | October 13, 1979 | May 24, 1980 | |
| 6 | 13 | November 15, 1980 | April 11, 1981 | |
| 7 | 20 | October 3, 1981 | May 22, 1982 | |
| 8 | 20 | September 25, 1982 | May 14, 1983 | |
| 9 | 19 | October 8, 1983 | May 12, 1984 | |
| 10 | 17 | October 6, 1984 | April 13, 1985 | |
| 11 | 18 | November 9, 1985 | May 24, 1986 | |
| 12 | 20 | October 11, 1986 | May 23, 1987 | |
| 13 | 13 | October 17, 1987 | February 27, 1988 | |
| 14 | 20 | October 8, 1988 | May 20, 1989 | |
| 15 | 20 | September 30, 1989 | May 19, 1990 | |
| 16 | 20 | September 29, 1990 | May 18, 1991 | |
| 17 | 20 | September 28, 1991 | May 16, 1992 | |
| 18 | 20 | September 26, 1992 | May 15, 1993 | |
| 19 | 20 | September 25, 1993 | May 14, 1994 | |
| 20 | 20 | September 24, 1994 | May 13, 1995 | |
| 21 | 20 | September 30, 1995 | May 18, 1996 | |
| 22 | 20 | September 28, 1996 | May 17, 1997 | |
| 23 | 20 | September 27, 1997 | May 9, 1998 | |
| 24 | 19 | September 26, 1998 | May 15, 1999 | |
| 25 | 20 | October 2, 1999 | May 20, 2000 | |
| 26 | 20 | October 7, 2000 | May 19, 2001 | |
| 27 | 20 | September 29, 2001 | May 18, 2002 | |
| 28 | 20 | October 5, 2002 | May 17, 2003 | |
| 29 | 20 | October 4, 2003 | May 15, 2004 | |
| 30 | 20 | October 2, 2004 | May 21, 2005 | |
| 31 | 19 | October 1, 2005 | May 20, 2006 | |
| 32 | 20 | September 30, 2006 | May 19, 2007 | |
| 33 | 12 | September 29, 2007 | May 17, 2008 | |
| 34 | 22 | September 13, 2008 | May 16, 2009 | |
| 35 | 22 | September 26, 2009 | May 15, 2010 | |
| 36 | 22 | September 25, 2010 | May 21, 2011 | |
| 37 | 22 | September 24, 2011 | May 19, 2012 | |
| 38 | 21 | September 15, 2012 | May 18, 2013 | |
| 39 | 21 | September 28, 2013 | May 17, 2014 | |
| 40 | 21 | September 27, 2014 | May 16, 2015 | |
| 41 | 21 | October 3, 2015 | May 21, 2016 | |
| 42 | 21 | October 1, 2016 | May 20, 2017 | |
| 43 | 21 | September 30, 2017 | May 19, 2018 | |
[edit] Episodes
[edit] Season 1 (1975–76)
- Main article: Saturday Night Live (season 1)
[edit] Season 2 (1976–77)
- Main article: Saturday Night Live (season 2)
[edit] Season 3 (1977–78)
- Main article: Saturday Night Live (season 3)
[edit] Season 4 (1978–79)
- Main article: Saturday Night Live (season 4)
[edit] Season 5 (1979–80)
- Main article: Saturday Night Live (season 5)
[edit] Season 6 (1980–81)
- Main article: Saturday Night Live (season 6)
[edit] Season 7 (1981–82)
- Main article: Saturday Night Live (season 7)
[edit] Season 8 (1982–83)
- Main article: Saturday Night Live (season 8)
[edit] Season 9 (1983–84)
- Main article: Saturday Night Live (season 9)
[edit] Season 10 (1984–85)
- Main article: Saturday Night Live (season 10)
[edit] Season 11 (1985–86)
- Main article: Saturday Night Live (season 11)
[edit] Season 12 (1986–87)
- Main article: Saturday Night Live (season 12)
[edit] Season 13 (1987–88)
- Main article: Saturday Night Live (season 13)
[edit] Season 14 (1988–89)
- Main article: Saturday Night Live (season 14)
[edit] Season 15 (1989–90)
- Main article: Saturday Night Live (season 15)
