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Saturday Night Live

Season 3

20 listed hours · 1975–present · NBC

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How this season is filed

Filed by Vivian Cross · The Carpet Report

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 3 of Saturday Night Live (1975–present) on NBC as a mid listed season (3; 3 of 52) — 20 listed hours, 1977-09-24–1978-05-20 from “Steve Martin / Jackson Browne” (S03E01) to “Buck Henry / Sun Ra” (S03E20). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

Desk essentials in this season

  1. S03E18 Steve Martin / The Blues Brothers

    Musical guest as mythology. Steve Martin and the Blues Brothers in the same night: the party and the factory shaking hands.

  1. S03E01 Steve Martin / Jackson Browne
  2. S03E02 Madeline Kahn / Taj Mahal
  3. S03E03 Hugh Hefner / Libby Titus
  4. S03E04 Charles Grodin / Paul Simon and The Persuasions
  5. S03E05 Ray Charles / Ray Charles and The Raelettes
  6. S03E06 Buck Henry / Leon Redbone
  7. S03E07 Mary Kay Place / Willie Nelson
  8. S03E08 Mrs. Miskel Spillman / Elvis Costello and the Attractions
  9. S03E09 Steve Martin / The Nitty Gritty Dirty Band
  10. S03E10 Robert Klein / Bonnie Raitt
  11. S03E11 Chevy Chase / Billy Joel
  12. S03E12 O.J. Simpson / Ashford & Simpson
  13. S03E13 Art Garfunkel / Stephen Bishop
  14. S03E14 Jill Clayburgh / Eddie Money
  15. S03E15 Christopher Lee / Meat Loaf
  16. S03E16 Michael Palin / Eugene Record
  17. S03E17 Michael Sarrazin / Keith Jarrett
  18. S03E18 Steve Martin / The Blues Brothers
  19. S03E19 Richard Dreyfuss / Jimmy Buffett
  20. S03E20 Buck Henry / Sun Ra

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