Saturday Night Live season 10
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The tenth season of Saturday Night Live, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between October 6, 1984, and April 13, 1985. Only 17 episodes were produced due to a writers' strike and budget constraints.
Changes to format
This season also featured a new opening sequence produced by
Cast
During the
In the middle of the season, Harry Shearer left the show due to "creative differences". Shearer told the AP, "I was creative, and they were different."[1] Despite his departure, his image is still shown in the opening credits (spray-painting an elevated train as it goes down the track).
This was also the final season for the Ebersol-era cast.
Cast roster
Repertory players
- Jim Belushi
- Billy Crystal
- Mary Gross
- Christopher Guest
- Rich Hall
- Gary Kroeger
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Harry Shearer (final episode: January 12, 1985)
- Martin Short
- Pamela Stephenson
Writers
Billy Crystal, Larry David, Christopher Guest, Rich Hall, Rob Riley, and Martin Short joined the writing staff. Jim Downey, Herb Sargent, and Harry Shearer rejoined the staff after a four-year hiatus. Robin Duke, Adam Green, Tim Kazurinsky, Michael McCartney, Eddie Murphy, Pamela Norris, and Joe Piscopo left the staff.
This season's writers were Jim Belushi, Andy Breckman, Billy Crystal, Larry David, Jim Downey, Christopher Guest, Rich Hall, Nate Herman, Kevin Kelton, Andy Kurtzman, Margaret Oberman, Rob Riley, Herb Sargent, Martin Short, Harry Shearer, Andrew Smith, Bob Tischler and Eliot Wald. The head writer was Bob Tischler.
Episodes
No. overall | No. in season | Host(s) | Musical guest(s) | Original air date | |
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179 | 1 | (none) | Thompson Twins | October 6, 1984 | |
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180 | 2 | Bob Uecker | Peter Wolf | October 13, 1984 | |
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181 | 3 | Andrae Crouch Wintley Phipps | October 20, 1984 | ||
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182 | 4 | Michael McKean | Chaka Khan The Folksmen | November 3, 1984 | |
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183 | 5 | George Carlin | Frankie Goes to Hollywood | November 10, 1984 | |
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184 | 6 | Ed Asner | The Kinks | November 17, 1984 | |
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185 | 7 | Ed Begley, Jr. | Billy Squier | December 1, 1984 | |
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186 | 8 | Ringo Starr | Herbie Hancock | December 8, 1984 | |
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187 | 9 | Eddie Murphy | The Honeydrippers | December 15, 1984 | |
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188 | 10 | Kathleen Turner | John Waite | January 12, 1985 | |
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189 | 11 | Roy Scheider | Billy Ocean | January 19, 1985 | |
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190 | 12 | Alex Karras | Tina Turner | February 2, 1985 | |
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191 | 13 | Harry Anderson | Bryan Adams | February 9, 1985 | |
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192 | 14 | Pamela Sue Martin | Power Station | February 16, 1985 | |
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193 | 15 | The Commodores | March 30, 1985 | ||
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194 | 16 | Christopher Reeve | Santana | April 6, 1985 | |
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195 | 17 | Howard Cosell | Greg Kihn | April 13, 1985 | |
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Specials
Title | Original air date | |
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"SNL Film Festival" | March 2, 1985 | |
Hosted by Billy Crystal, presenting short films and commercial parodies. Eddie Murphy, Joe Piscopo, Robin Williams, Tim Kazurinsky, and Stevie Wonder make appearances in pre-recorded segments from previous seasons. Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert review the show. John Candy and Eugene Levy plug next week's show with musical guests Hall & Oates (who don't end up appearing due to a writers strike). | ||
"The Best of John Belushi" | August 3, 1985 | |
The special included material featuring John Belushi during his stint on the show. Sketches include Sam Peckinpah, Beethoven Composes 'My Girl', Beethoven Composes 'What I Say', Vito Corleone in Therapy, Samurai Deli, Wilderness Comedian, The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise, The Bee Honeymooners, Dragnet, Tomorrow with Tom Snyder, Mussolini Reenactment, Little Chocolate Donuts, Olympia Cafe, Don't Look Back In Anger, The Academy Awards, Superhero Party and Miles Cowperthwaite, Part Two: I Am Nailed to the Hull". The special also features musical numbers Belushi performs on the show: Belushi as Joe Cocker performs A Little Help From My Friends and The Blues Brothers performs "King Bee," "Soul Man," and "B-Movie Boxcar Blues". |
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-395-70895-8.
- ISBN 978-0-395-70895-8.
- ISBN 978-0-395-70895-8.
- ISBN 978-0-395-70895-8.
- ISBN 978-0-395-70895-8.
- ^ "Watch Saturday Night Live Highlight: Going Up - NBC.com". NBC.com. NBC. Retrieved October 26, 2021.
- ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_Station_(band)#History