Saturday Night Live
Season 8
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 8 of Saturday Night Live (1975–present) on NBC as a mid listed season (8; 8 of 52) — 20 listed hours, 1982-09-25–1983-05-14 from “Chevy Chase / Queen” (S08E01) to “Ed Koch / Dexys Midnight Runners” (S08E20). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
- S08E01 Chevy Chase / Queen
- S08E02 Louis Gossett Jr. / George Thorogood & The Destroyers
- S08E03 Ron Howard / The Clash
- S08E04 Howard Hesseman / Men at Work
- S08E05 Michael Keaton / The New Joe Jackson Band
- S08E06 Robert Blake / Kenny Loggins
- S08E07 Drew Barrymore / Squeeze
- S08E08 The Smothers Brothers / Laura Branigan
- S08E09 Eddie Murphy / Lionel Richie
- S08E10 Lily Tomlin, Pervis Hawkins
- S08E11 Rick Moranis & Dave Thomas / The Bus Boys
- S08E12 Sid Caesar / Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes
- S08E13 Howard Hesseman / Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
- S08E14 Beau Bridges & Jeff Bridges / Randy Newman
- S08E15 Bruce Dern / Leon Redbone
- S08E16 Robert Guillaume / Duran Duran
- S08E17 Joan Rivers / Musical Youth
- S08E18 Susan Saint James / Michael McDonald
- S08E19 Stevie Wonder
- S08E20 Ed Koch / Dexys Midnight Runners
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