Season 1
(1975)
Overview
The first season of Saturday Night Live, the weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show on NBC, aired during the 1975–1976 television season. Saturday Night Live premiered on October 11, 1975 and consisted of a total of 24 episodes, the last of which aired on July 31, 1976. In 1974, NBC Tonight Show host Johnny Carson requested that the weekend broadcasts of "Best of Carson" come to an end, so that Carson could take two weeknights off and NBC would thus air those repeats o…
Cast
as Self - Various Characters
as Self - Various Characters
as Self - Various Characters
as Self - Various Characters
as Self - Various Characters
as Self - Various Characters
as Self - Various Characters
Episodes
George Carlin with Janis Ian and Billy Preston 7.9
October 11, 1975
Live from New York, It's...George Carlin! Sketches Include: Wolverines, New Dad Insurance, The Courtroom, Victims of S…
Paul Simon with Randy Newman, Phoebe Snow, and Art Garfunkel 5.4
October 18, 1975
Live from New York, It's...Paul Simon! Sketches Include: The Berkeley Collection, Bees, Jim Henson's Muppets, Try-Har…
Rob Reiner 7.0
October 25, 1975
Live from New York, it's...Rob Reiner! Sketches Include: National Pancreas Association, Fashion Don'ts, Golden Needles…
Candice Bergen with Esther Phillips 7.8
November 8, 1975
Live from New York, It's...Candice Bergen Sketches include: Ambassador Training Institute, CIA Department of Records, …
Robert Klein with ABBA and Loudon Wainwright III 6.6
November 15, 1975
Live from New York, It's...Robert Klein Sketches include: Pong, Minute Mystery, Bee Centennial Minute, Greg Allman How…
Lily Tomlin 7.0
November 22, 1975
Live from New York, it's...Lily Tomlin Sketches Include: Beethoven Part 1, Jaws III, Bell-Hop, Edith Ann Skates, Beeth…
Richard Pryor with Gil Scott-Heron 7.2
December 13, 1975
Live From New York, it's...Richard Pryor! Sketches Include: Samurai Hotel, Looks At Books, Line-Up #1, Word Associatio…
Candice Bergen with Martha Reeves and The Stylistics 6.5
December 20, 1975
Live from New York, It's...Chevy Chase Sketches include-- Fireside Chat with Gerald Ford, "Mel's Char Palace", "What G…
Elliott Gould with Anne Murray 6.8
January 10, 1976
Live from New York, it's... Chevy Chase Sketches include "The Dead String Quartet," "Interior Demolitionists," "Vito C…
Buck Henry with Bill Withers and Toni Basil 6.7
January 17, 1976
Live from New York, It's...Chevy Chase Sketches include--Suicide Prevention, "Samurai Deli", Operation Stumblebum, "Ci…
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore with Neil Sedaka 6.2
January 24, 1976
Live from New York, It's...Chevy Chase Sketches include-- Bomb Squad, Prisoner Auditions, "Don Pardo's Holiday on A El…
Dick Cavett with Jimmy Cliff 6.3
January 31, 1976
Live from New York, It's...Chevy Chase Sketches include--Voodoo on Chevy Chase, Alcohol and Firearms, Lowell Brock of …
Peter Boyle with Al Jarreau 7.0
February 14, 1976
Live from New York, It's...Chevy Chase Sketches include "The Valentine's Day Massacre," "Samurai Divorce Court," "Jaso…
Desi Arnaz with Desi Arnaz Jr. 6.3
February 21, 1976
Live from New York, It's...Chevy Chase Sketches include-- Gerald Ford gives a word association, Literary Recital, Very…
Jill Clayburgh with Leon Redbone 6.3
February 28, 1976
Live from New York, It's...Chevy Chase Sketches include-- No More Falls, "Great Moments in Herstory", White Guilt Reli…
Anthony Perkins with Betty Carter 6.7
March 13, 1976
Live from New York, It's...Chevy Chase Sketches include--'SNL is not ad-libbed' says Chevy Chase, A President's View o…
Ron Nessen with the Patti Smith Group 7.7
April 17, 1976
Live from New York, It's...Gerald Ford Sketches include-- "The Dead String Quartet", Super Bass-O-Matic 76, An Oval Of…
Raquel Welch with Phoebe Snow and John Sebastian 6.3
April 24, 1976
Live from New York, It's...Chevy Chase Sketches include-- "Get to the fall Chevy!", Purina Rat Chow, Joseph Franklin's…
Madeline Kahn with Carly Simon 6.5
May 8, 1976
Live from New York, it's Chevy Chase! Sketches are "Ronald Reagan's Jam Session," Not for Ladies Only, Wilderness Com…
Dyan Cannon with Leon & Mary Russell 5.3
May 15, 1976
Live from New York, It's...Chevy Chase Sketches include--Chevy has to do the fall again, "Hearing Test," "The Adultere…
Buck Henry with Gordon Lightfoot 6.7
May 22, 1976
Live from New York, It's...Chevy Chase Sketches include--Emmy winner Chevy tries to get Laraine todo the fall, Samurai…
Elliott Gould with Leon Redbone and Harlan Collins & Joyce Everson 6.3
May 29, 1976
Sketches include "Wax Museum," "Phone Operator Academy," "European Poker Player," "Babs's Uvula," "The Last Voyage of t…
Louise Lasser with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band 3.0
July 24, 1976
Live from New York, It's...Chevy Chase Sketches include--Belushi thinks Chevy has a big head, Louise Lasser locks hers…
Kris Kristofferson with Rita Coolidge 6.3
July 31, 1976
Live from New York, It's...Chevy Chase Sketches include--Kristofferson signs "Help Me Make it Through The Night", new …