Saturday Night Live
Season 12
20 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 12 of Saturday Night Live (1975–present) on NBC as a mid listed season (12; 12 of 52) — 20 listed hours, 1986-10-11–1987-05-23 from “Sigourney Weaver / Buster Poindexter” (S12E01) to “Dennis Hopper / Roy Orbison” (S12E20). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
- S12E01 Sigourney Weaver / Buster Poindexter
- S12E02 Malcolm-Jamal Warner / RUN DMC
- S12E03 Rosanna Arquette / Ric Ocasek
- S12E04 Sam Kinison / Lou Reed
- S12E05 Robin Williams / Paul Simon
- S12E06 Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, & Martin Short / Randy Newman
- S12E07 Steve Guttenberg / The Pretenders & Buster Poindexter
- S12E08 William Shatner / Lone Justice & Buster Poindexter
- S12E09 Walter Payton & Joe Montana / Debbie Harry
- S12E10 Paul Shaffer / Bruce Hornsby & the Range
- S12E11 Bronson Pinchot / Paul Young & Buster Poindexter
- S12E12 Willie Nelson
- S12E13 Valerie Bertinelli / Eddie Van Halen & The Robert Cray Band
- S12E14 Bill Murray / Percy Sledge
- S12E15 Charlton Heston / Wynton Marsalis
- S12E16 John Lithgow / Anita Baker
- S12E17 John Larroquette / Timbuk 3
- S12E18 Mark Harmon / Suzanne Vega
- S12E19 Garry Shandling / Los Lobos
- S12E20 Dennis Hopper / Roy Orbison
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