Saturday Night Live season 5
Saturday Night Live | |
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Season 5 | |
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No. of episodes | 20 |
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Original network | NBC |
Original release | October 13, 1979 May 24, 1980 | –
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The fifth season of Saturday Night Live, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between October 13, 1979, and May 24, 1980.
Cast
- Jane Curtin
- Garrett Morris
- Bill Murray
- Laraine Newman
- Gilda Radner
- Harry Shearer (first episode: October 20, 1979; upgraded to repertory status: February 9, 1980)
Featured players
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bold denotes Weekend Update anchor
Featured cast members announced and shown during the "Opening Introductions" varied from week to week, as noted below in each episode's description.
Writers
As previously mentioned, Michaels upgraded many of the show's writers to cast member status, including Aykroyd, Downey, Doyle-Murray, Novello, Schiller and Zweibel. Doyle-Murray would be the only one to return, as a writer, in the following season.
This season's writers were Peter Aykroyd, Anne Beatts, Tom Davis, Jim Downey, Brian Doyle-Murray, Al Franken, Tom Gammill, Lorne Michaels, Matt Neuman, Don Novello, Sarah Paley, Max Pross, Herb Sargent, Tom Schiller, Harry Shearer, Rosie Shuster and Alan Zweibel. The head writer was Herb Sargent.
Episodes
Home media
SNL's fifth season was released on DVD on December 1, 2009.[1]
References
- ^ "Saturday Night Live: Season 5, 1979-1980". Amazon. December 2009. Retrieved March 5, 2015.