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Saturday Night Live (Classic)

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Current Season: 3 - Total Episodes: 43
Highest Rated: Ep 10, Season 3
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  • "Buck Henry/Jennifer Warnes"
    Episode 22

    Host: Buck Henry. Well, friends, it appears that the long national nightmare of me blogging about the second season of...

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  • "Shelley Duvall/Joan Armatrading"
    Episode 21

    The Host: Well, friends we have reached the magical second-to-last week of the second season of Saturday Night Live, or as...

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  • "Eric Idle/Neil Innes and Alan Price"
    Episode 20

    Host:Well, friends, it appears that we are nearing the end of the second season of Saturday Night Live and the Spring...

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    B
  • "Elliot Gould/The McGarrigle Sisters"
    Episode 19

    Elliot Gould was the ultimate seventies guy, a lanky, incorrigible smartass whose whole laconic vibe said "I'm just here for the...

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  • "Julian Bond/Tom Waits"
    Episode 18

    Host: The host of today's episode of Saturday Night Live Classic is a handsome, charismatic light-skinned African-American darling of...

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  • "Jack Burns/Santana"
    Episode 17

    The Host: Saturday Night Live guest hosts don't come much more obscure or forgotten than Jack Burns, a veteran writer and performer...

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    C+
  • "Broderick Crawford/The Meters/Levon Helm/Dr. John"
    Episode 16

    Host: For Saturday Night Live writers having an athlete/old-person/politician/non-performer as a host can be either liberating or...

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  • "Sissy Spacek/Richard Baskin"
    Episode 15

    The Good: A commenter a few weeks back called today's episode the single greatest episode ever. That struck me as just a tad...

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  • "Steve Martin/The Kinks"
    Episode 14

    Host: Being a bicentennial baby, I was too young to experience Steve Martin's stand-up super-stardom and early Saturday Night...

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  • "Fran Tarkenton/Leo Sayer"
    Episode 13

    The Host:Well, sports fans, it appears we have stumbled onto another Saturday Night Live first. Today's episode marks...

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  • "Ruth Gordon/Chuck Berry"
    Episode 12

    Host: I'd love to be able to tell you that Ruth Gordon absolutely rocked today's episode of Saturday Night Live, that...

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  • "Ralph Nader/George Benson"
    Episode 11

    Host: Nader, Nader, Nader. It's a name that once inspired rapt admiration but now is more likely to angry up the blood. Few figures are...

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  • "Candice Bergen/Frank Zappa"
    Episode 10

    Host: In Bob Woodward's John Belushi biography Wired Candice Bergen cites the third show she hosted Saturday Night Live as the...

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  • "Jodie Foster/Brian Wilson"
    Episode 9

    Host: The shining example of Jodie Foster gives hope to future generations of kiddie superstars that not every child star is...

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  • "Paul Simon/George Harrison"
    Episode 8

    Host: One of the more intriguing aspects of early Saturday Night Live is how malleable the show was in its infancy. When Paul...

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  • "Dick Cavett/Ry Cooder"
    Episode 7

    Season 2, Episode 7th Host: The opening monologues included in Shout Factory's invaluable series of Dick Cavett Show...

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  • "Buck Henry/The Band"
    Episode 6

    The Host: Blame Buck Henry. According to Saturday Night Live legend the seeds of a thousand obnoxious recurring characters and endlessly...

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  • "Steve Martin/Kinky Friedman"
    Episode 5

    Host: Is any non-cast member more intimately associated with Saturday Night Live than Steve Martin? Saturday Night...

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  • "Karen Black/John Prine"
    Episode 4

    Opening segment: I wrote earlier that the cast and crew's resentment of Chevy Chase provides an endlessly fascinating subtext to the...

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  • "Eric Idle/Joe Cocker"
    Episode 3

    Opening segment: In yet another meta bit the show opens with an uncredited Richard Belzer at the Weekend Update desk pretending to be the...

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  • "Norman Lear/Boz Scaggs"
    Episode 2

    Well, home-skillets, it looks I'm going to be doing things a little differently here in the second installment of Saturday Night...

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    B+
  • "Lily Tomlin/James Taylor"
    Episode 1

    As regular readers of the A.V Club know, I am a shameless Saturday Night Live completist. I devour every book written about...

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    B+
  • Mardi Gras Special
    Episode 0

    Host/Musical Guest: Throughout the long national nightmare of Hurricane Katrina I found myself returning over and over again to Randy...

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    C+