Saturday Night Live (Season 5)

Saturday Night Live (Season 5)

"Saturday Night Live" aired its fifth season during the 1979 - 1980 television season on NBC. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd left the show at the end of , leaving a void in the cast that most fans thought would be the beginning of the end for the late-night sketch show. Harry Shearer, as well as many of SNL's writers (see "Featured Cast Members" list below), were hired to be replacements. By 1980, all of the cast and writers, including Lorne Michaels, grew tired of the show and planned on ending it in May. NBC, on the other hand, wasn't about to let the successful series slip through their fingers and planned on keeping the show going with a new cast, new writers, and a new executive producer (a practice that initially spelled doom for the show, but has since become the secret to the show's longevity). Al Franken was originally considered to be season six's executive producer, but after a scathing "Weekend Update" commentary about Fred Silverman ("A Limo for the Lame-O"), Franken was dropped.

The fifth season started on October 13, 1979 and ended on May 24, 1980.

Cast

Repertory cast members

*Jane Curtin
*Garrett Morris
*Bill Murray
*Laraine Newman
*Gilda Radner
*Harry Shearer

Featured cast members

*Peter Aykroyd (First episode: November 17, 1979)
*Tom Davis
*Jim Downey
*Brian Doyle-Murray (First Episode: December 15, 1979)
*Al Franken
*Don Novello
*Tom Schiller (First Episode: December 15, 1979)
*Paul Shaffer
*Alan Zweibel (First Episode: December 15, 1979)

Episodes


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