Season 7
(1981)
Overview
Saturday Night Live aired its seventh season during the 1981–1982 television season on NBC. The seventh season started on October 3, 1981 and ended on May 22, 1982. A total of 20 episodes were broadcast. Following the dismissal of producer Jean Doumanian and most of her cast members, the show was shut down due to the commencement of the 1981 WGA strike. Dick Ebersol, the program's developer, was hired as Doumanian's replacement. The new cast of Saturday Night Live for this season were the sam…
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
Episodes
(no host)/Rod Stewart 4.0
October 3, 1981
Sketches include ""Our Age is Showing,"" ""The Little Richard Simmons Show,"" ""The Clams"" (film), ""Nuns on the Beach…
Susan Saint James/The Kinks 4.0
October 10, 1981
Sketches include ""McDonald & Wife,"" ""The Bizarro World,"" ""Buckwheat Sings,"" ""Skanky Fiancee,"" ""Cheap Laffs,"" …
George Kennedy/Miles Davis 5.0
October 17, 1981
Sketches include ""To Tell the Truth Gone Awry,"" ""Mister Robinson's Neighborhood #2,"" ""Velvet Jones #1,"" and ""Har…
Donald Pleasence/Fear 7.0
October 31, 1981
Sketches include ""Vomiting for Luck,"" ""Jogger Motel,"" ""Profiles in British Courage,"" ""Last Night I Killed My Hus…
Lauren Hutton/Rick James 6.0
November 7, 1981
Sketches Include: "Here's 'Cos", "Dressing Room", "Hail To The Chief", "Transeastern", "Whisper", "Cheap Laffs", "Harle…
Bernadette Peters/The Go-Go's, Billy Joel 7.0
November 14, 1981
Tim Curry/Meat Loaf 7.0
December 5, 1981
Bill Murray/The Spinners, Yale Whiffenpoofs 6.0
December 12, 1981
Sketches include ""The Phone Company,"" ""Tales of the Unlikely,"" ""Washed-Up Tom Snyder,"" ""MX-5 Tampons,"" and ""Th…
Robert Conrad/The Allman Brothers Band 5.0
January 23, 1982
John Madden/Jennifer Holliday 6.0
January 30, 1982
James Coburn/Lindsey Buckingham 6.0
February 6, 1982
Bruce Dern/Luther Vandross 5.0
February 20, 1982
Elizabeth Ashley/Hall and Oates 5.0
February 27, 1982
Robert Urich/Mink DeVille 5.0
March 20, 1982
Sketches include ""He's No Burt Reynolds,"" ""Paul Harvey Radio News,"" ""Golden Age Obedience School,"" and ""Koala Be…
Blythe Danner/Rickie Lee Jones 5.0
March 27, 1982
Sketches include ""Lorne Greene,"" ""The New Celibacy,"" ""20/20,"" ""The Uncle Tom Show,"" ""Senior Spring Fling '82,"…
Daniel J. Travanti/John Cougar 5.0
April 10, 1982
Sketches include ""Save Larry the Lobster,"" ""Whiners' Anniversary,"" ""Hill Street Blues,"" ""Too Many Ethel Mermans,…
Johnny Cash/Elton John 9.0
April 17, 1982
Elton John performs the John Lennon tribute ""Empty Garden."" Sketches include ""Velvet Jones"" and ""Shadows.""
Robert Culp/The Charlie Daniels Band 5.0
April 24, 1982
Danny DeVito/Sparks 7.0
May 15, 1982
Sketches include ""Louis DePalma's Revenge,"" ""The Executive Test,"" ""The Whiners on an Airplane,"" ""Solomon and Pud…
Olivia Newton-John 6.5
May 22, 1982
Sketches include ""Ebony & Ivory,"" ""I Married a Monkey,"" Grease, ""Hitler In Heaven,"" and ""Ballpark Organ Favorite…