Saturday Night Live
Season 5
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 5 of Saturday Night Live (1975–present) on NBC as a mid listed season (5; 5 of 52) — 20 listed hours, 1979-10-13–1980-05-24 from “Steve Martin / Blondie” (S05E01) to “Buck Henry / Andrew Gold” (S05E20). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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S05E01 Steve Martin / Blondie -
S05E02 Eric Idle / Bob Dylan -
S05E03 Bill Russell / Chicago -
S05E04 Buck Henry / Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers -
S05E05 Bea Arthur / The Roches -
S05E06 Howard Hesseman / Randy Newman -
S05E07 Martin Sheen / David Bowie -
S05E08 Ted Knight / Desmond Child and Rouge -
S05E09 Teri Garr / The B-52's -
S05E10 Chevy Chase / Marianne Faithfull -
S05E11 Elliott Gould / Gary Numan -
S05E12 Kirk Douglas / Sam & Dave -
S05E13 Rodney Dangerfield / The J. Geils Band -
S05E14 Paul Simon / James Taylor -
S05E15 Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss / The Grateful Dead -
S05E16 Burt Reynolds / Anne Murray -
S05E17 Strother Martin / The Specials -
S05E18 Bob Newhart / The Amazing Rhythm Aces, Bruce Cockburn -
S05E19 Steve Martin / Paul & Linda McCartney -
S05E20 Buck Henry / Andrew Gold
More from the 1970s.