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Season 4 | |
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No. of episodes | 20 |
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Original network | NBC |
Original release | October 7, 1978 May 26, 1979 | –
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The fourth season of Saturday Night Live, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between October 7, 1978, and May 26, 1979.
The season 4 DVD was released on December 2, 2008.
Cast
[edit]The entire cast from the previous season returned. The only change was Bill Murray's joining Jane Curtin as co-anchor for Weekend Update, replacing Dan Aykroyd. This would be the final season for Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as cast members (who both left to work on SNL's first film, The Blues Brothers).
Repertory players
[edit]Featured players
[edit]bold denotes Weekend Update anchor
Writers
[edit]Walter Williams, creator of the Mr. Bill shorts, joined the writing staff.
This season's writers were Dan Aykroyd, Anne Beatts, Tom Davis, Jim Downey, Brian Doyle-Murray, Al Franken, Brian McConnachie, Lorne Michaels, Don Novello, Herb Sargent, Tom Schiller, Rosie Shuster, Walter Williams and Alan Zweibel. The head writer was Herb Sargent.
Episodes
[edit]No. overall | No. in season | Host | Musical guest(s) | Original air date | |
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67 | 1 | The Rolling Stones | The Rolling Stones | October 7, 1978 | |
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68 | 2 | Fred Willard | Devo | October 14, 1978 | |
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69 | 3 | Frank Zappa | Frank Zappa | October 21, 1978 | |
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70 | 4 | Steve Martin | Van Morrison | November 4, 1978 | |
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71 | 5 | Buck Henry | Grateful Dead | November 11, 1978 | |
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72 | 6 | Carrie Fisher | The Blues Brothers | November 18, 1978 | |
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73 | 7 | Walter Matthau | Garrett Morris | December 2, 1978 | |
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74 | 8 | Eric Idle | Kate Bush | December 9, 1978 | |
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75 | 9 | Elliott Gould | Peter Tosh Mick Jagger | December 16, 1978 | |
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76 | 10 | Michael Palin | The Doobie Brothers | January 27, 1979 | |
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77 | 11 | Cicely Tyson | Talking Heads | February 10, 1979 | |
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78 | 12 | Ricky Nelson | Judy Collins | February 17, 1979 | |
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79 | 13 | Kate Jackson | Delbert McClinton | February 24, 1979 | |
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80 | 14 | Gary Busey | Eubie Blake & Gregory Hines Gary Busey with Rick Danko & Paul Butterfield | March 10, 1979 | |
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81 | 15 | Margot Kidder | The Chieftains | March 17, 1979 | |
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82 | 16 | Richard Benjamin | Rickie Lee Jones | April 7, 1979 | |
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83 | 17 | Milton Berle | Ornette Coleman | April 14, 1979 | |
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84 | 18 | Michael Palin | James Taylor | May 12, 1979 | |
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85 | 19 | Maureen Stapleton | Linda Ronstadt & Phoebe Snow | May 19, 1979 | |
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86 | 20 | Buck Henry | Bette Midler | May 26, 1979 | |
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Special
[edit]Title | Original air date | |
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"Things We Did Last Summer" | October 28, 1978 | |
On October 28, 1978, a special episode entitled "Things We Did Last Summer" aired, starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd performing 2 songs as The Blues Brothers, Garrett Morris, Bill Murray (playing baseball for the Grays Harbor Loggers), Lariane Newman and Gilda Radner. |
See also
[edit]- Recurring SNL characters and sketches introduced in season 4
- History of Saturday Night Live (1975–1980)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w Saturday Night Live: The First Twenty Years. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1994. pp. 124–127. ISBN 0-395-70895-8.
- ^ a b c d "Saturday Night Live > Season 4 > Episode 3 : Frank Zappa". TV.com. October 21, 1978.
- ^ "Saturday Night Live > Season 4 > Episode 4 : Steve Martin/Van Morrison". TV.com. November 4, 1978.
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(help) - ^ Saturday Night Live: The First Twenty Years. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1994. pp. 91. ISBN 0-395-70895-8.
- ^ Saturday Night Live: The First Twenty Years. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1994. pp. 119. ISBN 0-395-70895-8.
- ^ "Season 4: Episode 11". Saturday Night Live Transcripts. February 10, 1979.
- ^ a b c d Kovalchik, Kara (July 9, 2008). "5 Awful Saturday Night Live Hosts of the '70s". Mental Floss. Archived from the original on September 17, 2009.
- ^ a b "Season 4: Episode 17, 78q: Milton Berle / Ornette Coleman". Saturday Night Live Transcripts. October 8, 2018.
- ^ Trivia for Saturday Night Live Milton Berle/Ornette Coleman (1979) at IMDb
- ^ Hill, Doug; Weingrad, Jeff (2011). "33: Off the Air". Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live. Untreed Reads. ISBN 9781611872187. Retrieved May 1, 2015.