Saturday Night Live season 5
- Jane Curtin
- Garrett Morris
- Bill Murray
- Laraine Newman
- Gilda Radner
May 24, 1980 (1980-05-24)
season 4
season 6
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
Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi left the show at the end of season 4, leaving a void in the cast that most fans thought would be the beginning of the end of the late-night sketch comedy show.
To keep the show going, Lorne Michaels upgraded many of the show's writers to featured cast member status: Peter Aykroyd (Dan's brother), Jim Downey, Brian Doyle-Murray (Bill's brother), Don Novello (also credited as Father Guido Sarducci), Tom Schiller and Alan Zweibel. Band leader Paul Shaffer also joined the cast, becoming the first person from the SNL band to become a cast member. Harry Shearer joined the show as a featured cast member and was promoted to repertory status during the season.
This season was the first to have two members of the same family as cast members (Bill Murray and Brian Doyle-Murray).
This would be the final season for everyone in the cast. Tom Davis and Jim Downey would return to the show in future seasons as writers. Al Franken, Brian Doyle-Murray, Don Novello and Harry Shearer would rejoin the cast in future seasons (Al Franken would also return as a writer).
- 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
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
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 (1979-10-13) | |
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88 | 2 | Eric Idle | Bob Dylan | October 20, 1979 (1979-10-20) | |
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89 | 3 | Bill Russell | Chicago | November 3, 1979 (1979-11-03) | |
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90 | 4 | Buck Henry | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | November 10, 1979 (1979-11-10) | |
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91 | 5 | Bea Arthur | The Roches | November 17, 1979 (1979-11-17) | |
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92 | 6 | Howard Hesseman | Randy Newman | December 8, 1979 (1979-12-08) | |
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93 | 7 | Martin Sheen | David Bowie | December 15, 1979 (1979-12-15) | |
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94 | 8 | Ted Knight | Desmond Child & Rouge | December 22, 1979 (1979-12-22) | |
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95 | 9 | Teri Garr | The B-52's | January 26, 1980 (1980-01-26) | |
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96 | 10 | Chevy Chase | Marianne Faithfull Tom Scott | February 9, 1980 (1980-02-09) | |
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97 | 11 | Elliott Gould | Gary Numan | February 16, 1980 (1980-02-16) | |
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98 | 12 | Kirk Douglas | Sam & Dave | February 23, 1980 (1980-02-23) | |
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99 | 13 | Rodney Dangerfield | The J. Geils Band | March 8, 1980 (1980-03-08) | |
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100 | 14 | (none) | Paul Simon James Taylor David Sanborn | March 15, 1980 (1980-03-15) | |
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101 | 15 | Richard Benjamin Paula Prentiss | Grateful Dead | April 5, 1980 (1980-04-05) | |
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102 | 16 | Burt Reynolds | Anne Murray | April 12, 1980 (1980-04-12) | |
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103 | 17 | Strother Martin | The Specials | April 19, 1980 (1980-04-19) | |
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104 | 18 | Bob Newhart | The Amazing Rhythm Aces Bruce Cockburn | May 10, 1980 (1980-05-10) | |
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105 | 19 | Steve Martin | 3-D Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney | May 17, 1980 (1980-05-17) | |
106 | 20 | Buck Henry | Andrew Gold Andrae Crouch & the Voices of Unity | May 24, 1980 (1980-05-24) | |
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Home media
SNL's fifth season was released on DVD on December 1, 2009.[7]
References
- ^ 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.
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