Saturday Night Live
Season 1
24 listed hours · 1975–present · NBC
From the desk
How this season is filed
Fifty seasons of Studio 8H as afterparty and talent mill: cold opens as weather, musical guests as alibis, and a rope line that never fully goes home.
TV Flash files Season 1 of Saturday Night Live (1975–present) on NBC as the first listed season of 52 — 24 listed hours, 1975-10-11–1976-07-31 from “George Carlin / Billy Preston, Janis Ian” (S01E01) to “Kris Kristofferson / Rita Coolidge” (S01E24). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 George Carlin / Billy Preston, Janis Ian
The live contract. Carlin, two musical guests, and a late-night hour that did not yet know it was a brand.
- S01E07 Richard Pryor / Gil-Scott Heron
The danger hour. Pryor on a delay NBC admitted it wanted — live television as a rope the network could not cut.
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S01E01 George Carlin / Billy Preston, Janis Ian -
S01E02 Paul Simon / Art Garfunkel, Randy Newman, Phoebe Snow -
S01E03 Rob Reiner / John Belushi as Joe Cocker -
S01E04 Candice Bergen / Esther Phillips -
S01E05 Robert Klein / ABBA, Loudon Wainwright III -
S01E06 Lily Tomlin / Howard Shore -
S01E07 Richard Pryor / Gil-Scott Heron -
S01E08 Candice Bergen / Martha Reeves, The Stylistics -
S01E09 Elliott Gould / Anne Murray -
S01E10 Buck Henry / Bill Withers, Toni Basil -
S01E11 Peter Cook & Dudley Moore / Neil Sedaka -
S01E12 Dick Cavett / Jimmy Cliff -
S01E13 Peter Boyle / Al Jarreau -
S01E14 Desi Arnaz / Desi Arnaz, Jr. -
S01E15 Jill Clayburgh / Leon Redbone -
S01E16 Anthony Perkins / Betty Carter -
S01E17 Ron Nessen / Patti Smith Group -
S01E18 Raquel Welch / Phoebe Snow, John Sebastian -
S01E19 Madeline Kahn / Carly Simon -
S01E20 Dyan Cannon / Leon & Mary Russell -
S01E21 Buck Henry / Gordon Lightfoot -
S01E22 Elliott Gould / Leon Redbone -
S01E23 Louise Lasser / Preservation Hall Jazz Band -
S01E24 Kris Kristofferson / Rita Coolidge
More from the 1970s.