Saturday Night Live season 9
Saturday Night Live | |
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Season 9 | |
No. of episodes | 19 |
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Original network | NBC |
Original release | October 8, 1983 (1983-10-08) – May 12, 1984 (1984-05-12) |
Season chronology | |
← Previous season 8 Next → season 10 | |
List of episodes |
The ninth season of Saturday Night Live, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between October 8, 1983, and May 12, 1984.
Hosts
Future cast member Billy Crystal hosted twice this season: once with musical guest Al Jarreau[1] and again on the season finale with Ed Koch, Edwin Newman, Betty Thomas and former cast member Don Novello, with the Cars as musical guest.[2]
Cast
Jim Belushi was added to the cast, making his debut on the third episode of the season.[3][4]
Midway through the season in February 1984, Eddie Murphy left the show. To keep viewers watching, SNL aired segments Murphy had pre-taped in September of 1983.[5]
Brad Hall, who had been anchoring Weekend Update (then called Saturday Night News) since the previous season, left the position in January of 1984.[6] For the rest of the season and into the next, both cast members and SNL guest-hosts would take turns at the anchor chair. Hall himself left SNL at the end of the season.[6]
Cast roster
Repertory players
- Jim Belushi (first episode: October 22, 1983)
- Robin Duke
- Mary Gross
- Brad Hall
- Tim Kazurinsky
- Gary Kroeger
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Eddie Murphy (final episode: February 25, 1984)
- Joe Piscopo
bold denotes Weekend Update anchor
Writers
This season's writers were Jim Belushi, Andy Breckman, Robin Duke, Adam Green, Mary Gross, Nate Herman, Tim Kazurinsky, Kevin Kelton, Andy Kurtzman, Michael McCarthy, Eddie Murphy, Pamela Norris, Margaret Oberman, Joe Piscopo, Andrew Smith, Bob Tischler, Eliot Wald and Herb Sargent. The head writers were Bob Tischler and Andrew Smith.
Episodes
No. overall | No. in season | Host(s) | Musical guest(s) | Original air date | |
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160 | 1 | Brandon Tartikoff[8] | John Cougar Mellencamp | October 8, 1983 (1983-10-08) | |
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161 | 2 | Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman | Eddy Grant | October 15, 1983 (1983-10-15) | |
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162 | 3 | John Candy | Men at Work | October 22, 1983 (1983-10-22) | |
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163 | 4 | Betty Thomas | Stray Cats | November 5, 1983 (1983-11-05) | |
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164 | 5 | Teri Garr | Mick Fleetwood's Zoo | November 12, 1983 (1983-11-12) | |
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165 | 6 | Jerry Lewis | Loverboy | November 19, 1983 (1983-11-19) | |
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166 | 7 | The Smothers Brothers | Big Country | December 3, 1983 (1983-12-03) | |
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167 | 8 | Flip Wilson | Stevie Nicks | December 10, 1983 (1983-12-10) | |
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168 | 9 | Father Guido Sarducci | Huey Lewis and the News | January 14, 1984 (1984-01-14) | |
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169 | 10 | Michael and Mary Palin | The Motels | January 21, 1984 (1984-01-21) | |
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170 | 11 | Don Rickles | Billy Idol | January 28, 1984 (1984-01-28) | |
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171 | 12 | Robin Williams | Adam Ant | February 11, 1984 (1984-02-11) | |
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172 | 13 | Jamie Lee Curtis | The Fixx | February 18, 1984 (1984-02-18) | |
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173 | 14 | Edwin Newman | Kool & the Gang | February 25, 1984 (1984-02-25) | |
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174 | 15 | Billy Crystal | Al Jarreau | March 17, 1984 (1984-03-17) | |
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175 | 16 | Michael Douglas | Deniece Williams | April 7, 1984 (1984-04-07) | |
First episode where *Eddie Murphy is not credited as a cast member nor appears. | |||||
176 | 17 | George McGovern | Madness | April 14, 1984 (1984-04-14) | |
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177 | 18 | Barry Bostwick | Spinal Tap | May 5, 1984 (1984-05-05) | |
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178 | 19 | Billy Crystal, Ed Koch, Edwin Newman, Father Guido Sarducci, Betty Thomas | The Cars | May 12, 1984 (1984-05-12) | |
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References
- ^ "SNL Transcripts: Billy Crystal: 03/17/84". SNL Transcripts. Retrieved May 22, 2024.
- ^ Douwsma, Bronwyn (August 28, 2016). "Classic SNL Review: May 12, 1984: Billy Crystal, Mayor Ed Koch, Edwin Newman, Father Guido Sarducci (Don Novello) & Betty Thomas / The Cars (S09E19)". Bronwyn Douwsma. Retrieved May 22, 2024.
- ^ Hill & Weingrad 1986, pp. 461–462.
- ^ Hoglund, Andy (July 14, 2021). "Jim Belushi Has Always Been an Outsider". Vulture. Retrieved May 22, 2024.
- ^ Hill & Weingrad 1986, p. 469.
- ^ a b Evans, Bradford (October 27, 2011). "The Lost Weekend Update Anchors". Vulture. Retrieved May 22, 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Saturday Night Live: The First Twenty Years. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1994. pp. 124–127. ISBN 0-395-70895-8.
- ^ Shales & Miller 2002, pp. 278–280.
- ^ "Watch Saturday Night Live Highlight: James Brown's Celebrity Hot Tub Party". NBC.com. Retrieved September 1, 2022.
- ^ "January 28, 1984". SNL Archives. Archived from the original on May 20, 2011.
Works cited
- Hill, Doug; Weingrad, Jeff (1986). Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live. Beech Tree Books. ISBN 978-0688050993.
- Shales, Tom; Miller, James Andrew (2002). Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0316295222.
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