SNL Season 7: Final cast and episode summary
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Some final thoughts on the season.
Read MoreClassic SNL Review: May 22, 1982: Olivia Newton-John / The SNL Band (S07E20)
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Sketches include "The Pig Meets Olivia", "Ebony & Ivory", "I Married A Monkey IV", "Pearly Gates", "Not A Record Ad", "Buzz Words", "Sandy's Curse" and "Sports Organ Classics".Olivia Newton-John and the SNL Band perform "Physical", "Make A Move On Me", and "Landslide".Michael Davis also appears.
Read MoreClassic SNL Review: May 15, 1982: Danny DeVito / Sparks (S07E19)
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Sketches include "Taxi", "Whiners", "Stress Out", "Old Friends", "Enzo", "Table Talk", and "Looks At Books". Sparks perform "Mickey Mouse" and "I Predict". Andy Kaufman appears with footage of his wrestling match with Jerry Lawler.
Read MoreClassic SNL Review: April 24, 1982: Robert Culp / The Charlie Daniels Band (S07E18)
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Sketches include: "Tennis Club", "Middle Age of Aquarius", "Egg & Sperm", "Party Girl", "James Brown Is Annie", "Babies In Make-Up", "Happy's Mayonnaise Palace", and "Sunken Submarine". The Charlie Daniels Band performs "Still In Saigon" and "The Devil Went Down To Georgia".
Read MoreClassic SNL Review: April 17, 1982: Johnny Cash / Elton John (S07E17)
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Sketches include The Honeyrooneys, Last Request, Hail To The Chief, Jay Clay Gets Depressed, Tegrim, Train Poet and Black Talk. Johnny Cash performs "Man In Black", "I Walk The Line", "Folsom Prison Blues", "Ring of Fire", and "Sunday Morning Coming Down". Elton John performs "Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)" and "Ball and Chain".
Read MoreClassic SNL Review: April 10, 1982: Daniel J. Travanti / John Cougar (S07E16)
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Sketches include: "Ridealong", "Whiners", "The Merman Zone", "Hill Street Blues", "Bavarian Butterfly", "Career Corner" and "Reagan Brand Economics". A 1-900 number phone-in vote is held to determine the fate of Larry The Lobster. John Cougar performs "Hurt So Good" and "Ain't Even Done With The Night". Bruce Weitz also appears.
Read MoreClassic SNL Review: March 27, 1982: Blythe Danner / Rickie Lee Jones (S07E15)
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Sketches include "Lorne Greene: The Meat Dogs Love", "Come On Out America", "The New Celibacy", "20/20", "The Khaddaffi Look", "Poets", "Fab Fifties", "The Uncle Tom Show", "Meet The People" and "Blythe's Plea". Rickie Lee Jones performs "Pirates (So Long Lonely Avenue)", "Lush Life", and "Woody & Dutch On The Slow Train To Peking". Juggler Michael Davis also appears.
Read MoreClassic SNL Review: March 20, 1982: Robert Urich / Mink DeVille, Buh-Weet And De Dupreems (S07E14)
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Sketches include "Backstage", "Buh-Weet and De Dupreems", "Reach Out and Touch Someone", "Paul Harvey News & Comment", "Focus On Film", "Buy A Bullet For A Hungry Kid", "Hail To The Chief", "Fur: You Deserve It!", "Golden Age School of Obedience", "The Embryo", "Headline Challenge", "Low Class Italian Theatre" and "The Thing That Destroyed Tokyo". Mink DeVille performs "Maybe Tomorrow" and "Love & Emotion". Brian Doyle-Murray pays tribute to John Belushi.
Read MoreClassic SNL Review: February 27, 1982: Elizabeth Ashley / Daryl Hall & John Oates (S07E13)
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Sketches include: "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather", "Big Damn Plastic Bubble", "Speaking As A Woman", "The Party", "Hostage Audition", "Papal Tour" and "Lowembrau". Daryl Hall & John Oates perform "You Make My Dreams", "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)", and "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'". Comedian Harry Anderson appears, Joseph Papp also cameos.
Read MoreClassic SNL Review: February 20, 1982: Bruce Dern / Luther Vandross (S07E12)
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Sketches include "Backstage", "Ski Trip", "Who Do You Hate?", "Focus On Film", "The Bizarro World", "Songwriters", "The Mild One", "Fracas", "The Flight" and "Melina's Cafe". Luther Vandross performs "Never Too Much" and "A House Is Not A Home"
Read MoreClassic SNL Review: February 6, 1982: James Coburn / Lindsey Buckingham & The Cholos (S07E11)
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Sketches include: "The President's 71st Birthday", "Reach Out and Touch Someone", "I Married A Monkey", "Mister Robinson's Neighborhood", "Jesus In Blue Jeans", "Crazy Mary, Gay Jim", "Victims", "Magnificent Analyst", "The Khaddaffi Look", "Unique Perspectives" and "Those Crazy Taboosters". Lindsey Buckingham and The Cholos (an early version of Mick Fleetwood's Zoo) perform "Bwana" and "Trouble". Christine Ebersole performs "Don't Let It Show". Marc Weiner also appears.
Read MoreClassic SNL Review: January 30, 1982: John Madden / Jennifer Holliday (S07E10)
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Sketches include: "Loser's Locker Room", "The Johnny Carson School of Acting", "Jogger Motel", "Betty Beer", "Poetry Corner", "The Lou Grant Show", "Next Week", "SNL Newsbreak", "The Uncle Tom Show", "Madden Story", "Mafia Name Giver", "From Super Bowl to Saturday Night Live", "Old Friends". Jennifer Holliday performs "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" and "One Night Only". Comedian Andy Kaufman also appears.
Read MoreClassic SNL Review: January 23, 1982: Robert Conrad / The Allman Brothers Band (S07E09)
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Sketches include "The People's Court", "In The News", "Wild Wild Wild West", "Babies In Makeup", "Overexposure", "Battle Of The Week", "A Few Moments With Andy Rooney", "Nixon Vs. FDR", and "Sister". The Allman Brothers Band perform "Midnight Rider", "Southbound", and "Leavin'".
Read MoreClassic SNL Review: December 12, 1981: Bill Murray / The Spinners, Yale Whiffenpoofs of 1982 (S07E08)
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Sketches include: "The Phone Company", "Tales Of The Unlikely", "No Tomorrow", "MX-5 Tampons", "SNL Newsbreak", "Fairytale", "Sarducci's Predictions", "At Home With The Psychos", and "Supply Side Christmas". The Spinners perform a medley of "Then Came You", "I'll Be Around", "Working My Way Back To You". The Yale Whiffenpoofs of 1982 perform a medley of "The Whiffenpoof Song", "Boar's Head Carol", "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman", "Jingle Bells". Father Guido Sarducci (Don Novello) and Juggler Michael Davis make guest appearances.
Read MoreClassic SNL Review: December 5, 1981: Tim Curry / Meat Loaf & The Neverland Express (S07E07)
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Sketches include: "Texxon", "Mick!", "Poppa I Love You", "The Trouble With Fred", "Father and Son", "SNL Newsbreak", "Tim and Meat's One Stop Rocky Horror Shop" "The Zucchini Song" and "A CBS Special Report: If Reagan Had Survive The Assassination". Meat Loaf and The Neverland Express perform "Promised Land" and "Bat Out Of Hell". Frank Nelson cameos.
Read MoreClassic SNL Review: November 14, 1981: Bernadette Peters / The Go-Gos, Billy Joel (S07E06)
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Sketches include "Texxon", "Johnny Keep Your Gun Clean", "Escape From Escape From New York", "I Married A Monkey", "A Message From Eddie Murphy", "Hidden Photo", "Bedtime Story", "Man Ray And Mic", "Sketch In The Dark", "42nd Street", "Nick The Knock", and "Rock 'N Roll Heaven, Incorporated". The Go-Gos perform "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We Got The Beat". Billy Joel performs "Miami 2017" and "She's Got A Way". Bernadette Peters performs "Making Love Alone".
Read MoreClassic SNL Review: November 7, 1981: Lauren Hutton / Rick James & The Stone City Band (S07E05)
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Sketches include "Exxico", "Here's Cos", "Dressing Room", "Hail To The Chief", "Transeastern Airlines", "Whisper", "The Khaddaffi Look", "Cheap Laffs: Macho Wipe", "Harlequin Romance Novels For Men", "Reach Out", "Velvet Jones School Of Technology", "Reality '81", "Blowing Up A Building", Bitter People" and "Art Is Ficial". Rick James & The Stone City Band perform "Give It To Me Baby" and "Super Freak". William S. Burroughs also appears.
Read MoreClassic SNL Review: October 31, 1981: Donald Pleasence / Fear (S07E04)
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Sketches include "Eddie's Preparation Techniques", "Profiles In British Courage", "Jogger Motel", "Two Faces of Jerry", "I'm So Miserable", "Pumpkin", "Guardian Angel", "Tales From The Hip", "The Clams", "Intermission", "Sugar Breakfast", "Andy Warhol's TV: Costumes", "Home Movie Critique", "The Vic Salukin Show" and "Prose and Cons". Fear performs "I Don't Care About You", "Beef Balogna", "New York's Alright If You Like Saxophones" and "Let's Have A War". Juggler Michael Davis also appears.
Read MoreClassic SNL Review: October 17, 1981: George Kennedy / Miles Davis (S07E03)
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Sketches include "Control Room '81", "Mister Robinson's Neighborhood","53 At Studio 54", "A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney", "Velvet Jones School of Technology", "Mr. Bill in L.A.", "Spray On Laetril", "La Cage Aux Folles '81", "Up And At 'Em", "Rubik's Teeth", "An Editorial Reply", "Jake The Hired Hand", and "Tuna Melts and Typing". Miles Davis performs "Jean Pierre'. Harry Anderson also appears.
Read MoreClassic SNL Review: October 10, 1981: Susan Saint James / The Kinks (S07E02)
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Sketches include "Exxico", "McDonald and Wife", "Buh-Weet Sings", "The Bizarro World", "Blowing Up A Building", "Lifeboat", "She's A Pig", "Let's See What's Bothering Bob", "Single Women", "Honeymoon", "Cheap Laffs" "Andy Warhol's TV", "Alan Alda's Sensitivity Training For Men" and "Assassination Aftermath". The Kinks perform "Destroyer" and "Art Lover".
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