Saturday Night Live (season 5)
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Saturday Night Live | |
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Season 5 | |
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No. of episodes | 20 |
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Original network | NBC |
Original release | October 13, 1979 May 24, 1980 | –
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The fifth season of Saturday Night Live, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between October 13, 1979, and May 24, 1980.
Cast[edit]
- Jane Curtin
- Garrett Morris
- Bill Murray
- Laraine Newman
- Gilda Radner
- Harry Shearer (first episode: October 20, 1979; upgraded to repertory status: February 9, 1980)
Featured players
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bold denotes Weekend Update anchor
Featured cast members announced and shown during the "Opening Introductions" varied from week to week, as noted below in each episode's description.
Writers[edit]
As previously mentioned, Michaels upgraded many of the show's writers to cast member status, including Aykroyd, Downey, Doyle-Murray, Novello, Schiller and Zweibel. Doyle-Murray would be the only one to return, as a writer, in the following season.
This season's writers were Peter Aykroyd, Anne Beatts, Tom Davis, Jim Downey, Brian Doyle-Murray, Al Franken, Tom Gammill, Lorne Michaels, Matt Neuman, Don Novello, Sarah Paley, Max Pross, Herb Sargent, Tom Schiller, Harry Shearer, Rosie Shuster and Alan Zweibel. The head writer was Herb Sargent.
Episodes[edit]
No. overall | No. in season | Host(s) | Musical guest(s) | Original air date | |
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87 | 1 | Steve Martin | Blondie | October 13, 1979 | |
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88 | 2 | Eric Idle | Bob Dylan | October 20, 1979 | |
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89 | 3 | Bill Russell | Chicago | November 3, 1979 | |
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90 | 4 | Buck Henry | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | November 10, 1979 | |
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91 | 5 | Bea Arthur | The Roches | November 17, 1979 | |
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92 | 6 | Howard Hesseman | Randy Newman | December 8, 1979 | |
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93 | 7 | Martin Sheen | David Bowie | December 15, 1979 | |
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94 | 8 | Ted Knight | Desmond Child & Rouge | December 22, 1979 | |
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95 | 9 | Teri Garr | The B-52's | January 26, 1980 | |
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96 | 10 | Chevy Chase | Marianne Faithfull Tom Scott | February 9, 1980 | |
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97 | 11 | Elliott Gould | Gary Numan | February 16, 1980 | |
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98 | 12 | Kirk Douglas | Sam & Dave | February 23, 1980 | |
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99 | 13 | Rodney Dangerfield | The J. Geils Band | March 8, 1980 | |
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100 | 14 | (none) | Paul Simon James Taylor David Sanborn | March 15, 1980 | |
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101 | 15 | Richard Benjamin Paula Prentiss | Grateful Dead | April 5, 1980 | |
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102 | 16 | Burt Reynolds | Anne Murray | April 12, 1980 | |
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103 | 17 | Strother Martin | The Specials | April 19, 1980 | |
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104 | 18 | Bob Newhart | The Amazing Rhythm Aces Bruce Cockburn | May 10, 1980 | |
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105 | 19 | Steve Martin | 3-D Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney | May 17, 1980 | |
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106 | 20 | Buck Henry | Andrew Gold Andrae Crouch & the Voices of Unity | May 24, 1980 | |
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Home media[edit]
SNL's fifth season was released on DVD on December 1, 2009.[7]
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 x y Saturday Night Live: The First Twenty Years. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1994. pp. 124–127. ISBN 0-395-70895-8.
- ^ Saturday Night Live: The First Twenty Years. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1994. pp. 26–27, 264. ISBN 0-395-70895-8.
- ^ Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad, Saturday Night, Beech Tree Books, 1986, p. 376
- ^ "Saturday Night Live: Steve Martin/Paul and Linda McCartney Episode Summary". TV.com. Archived from the original on June 5, 2013. Retrieved August 13, 2011.
- ^ Saturday Night Live: The First Twenty Years. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1994. pp. 109. ISBN 0-395-70895-8.
- ^ Saturday Night Live: The First Twenty Years. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1994. pp. 264. ISBN 0-395-70895-8.
- ^ "Saturday Night Live: Season 5, 1979-1980". Amazon. December 2009. Retrieved March 5, 2015.