Sketches include: "Dressing Room", "Formula for the Good Life", "The Writer", "Altered Walter", "ChapStick", "Nick Rivers", "Cut Flowers", "No Sex With Mary", "Cat's Name" and "Bubba's Wash, Fayetta's Dry".Delbert McClinton performs "Givin' It Up For Your Love" and "Shotgun Rider" with Bonnie Bramlett.Mark King also appears.

Sketches include: "Super Fight", "Greatest Records Of All Time", "Mister Robinson's Neighborhood", "Pork Parade", "The Rocket Report- Subway" "A Fiddler Be On The Roof", "Lincoln Bedroom", "Backstage", "The Competition", "Speaking Out", "Women Behind Bars", "SNL Sports", "Submissing Sugar Daddies", "Mary Louise" and "After Midnight".Todd Rundgren performs "Healer" and "Time Heals".Prince performs "Partyup".

Sketches include "Sinatra Interview", "Don't Look In The Refrigerator", "Livelys II", "Newsbreak I", "Where's Cooter?", "The Rocket Report - Central Park", "Card Store", Big Brother", "Sweet Hearts", "SoHo", "Newsbreak II", "Big Ape" and "Dropout".Deborah Harry performs "Love TKO" and "Come Back Jonee".Funky 4 + 1 perform "That's The Joint".Poland invades Russia.

Sketches include: Reagan & The Economy, The Rocket Report- Hostages, The Audition, Name That Sin, Eye Ear Nose & Throat, Was I Ever Red, Iranian Joke Book, Parent & Child, A Day In The Life of a Hostage, Lean Acres, Iranian Student Council, New York, Pillow Pets and Televised Trial.Jimmy Cliff performs "I Am The Living" and "Gone Clear". Sally Kellerman performs "Starting Over Again".

Sketches include "America Not Held Hostage Anymore", "Dazola", "Love American Style", "Saturday Night Live Sports Central", "Reaganco", "Save-A-Network Telethon", "Pre-Superbowl Pre-Game Preview", "The Foreign Film", "Funeral", "Disco Meltdown", "The Rocket Report", "The Pacesetter", "Ravi Sings", "Cut 'N Curl", "Promotion", "Dream Date", "Ordinary Elephant People", and "National Enquirer".Joe "King" Carrasco & The Crown perform "Don't Bug Me, Baby".14 Karat Soul performs "I Wish That We Were Married" and "This Time It's For Real".

Sketches include "White House Strip", "The Legendary Composers", "Foundation for the Tragically Hip", "The Livelys", "Sinatra & Reagan", "The Rocket Report: Daredevils", "Mona Lisa", "60 Minutes", "Hospital Bed", "Saturday Night Sports: Fair Dinkum", "Neighbor", "Turnpike Diner", "Saturday Night Live Action Dolls", "What's It All About" and "National Handgun Association".Cheap Trick performs "Baby Loves To Rock" and "Can't Stop It But I'm Gonna Try".Stanley Clarke Trio performs "Wild Dog".

Sketches include: "To Tell The Truth", "Work Time", "Interpreter", "Tommy Torture", "Citizens For A Better America", "Bobbie's Bar/January 11th", "Taped Confession", "Have A Nice Day", "Black Market Baby", "Surrogate Mothers", "The Man In The Black Hat", "Stop-A-Nut", "The Waiter-Maker", "Commercial For Nothing", and "Insult Contest". Jack Bruce & Friends perform "Dancing On Air" and "Livin' Without Ja".

Sketches include "Pardo Impression", "Gun City", "Kung Fu Menswear", "Cedar Mall", "The Rocket Report", "Dylan & Guthrie", "The Home Version of Dallas", "Mr. Bill's Christmas Special", "Kung Fu Christmas", "Heroin In Harlem", "Virgin Search", "Dopenhagen & Happy Daze", "Mourning The Colonel", "The Dancing Man" and "Welfare Counseling". Linda Ronstadt, Rex Smith, George Rose and the cast of The Pirates of Penzance perform medleys of selections from the musical and Christmas carols.

Sketches include "The Mean Majority", "Clovin Hind Jeans", "Attack of the Terrible Snapping Creatures", "Three Card Monty", "Who Is Gilbert Gottfried?", "Dying To Be Heard", "Poker and Drugs", "Badgers", "Tortu-Matic", "Hairstylist", and "News In Akron". James Brown performs "Rapp Payback" and a medley of his hits. Ellen Shipley performs "Fotogenic". Excerpts from Martin Brest's "Hot Dogs For Gauguin" are also shown.

Sketches include “Going Co-op”, “The Ed McMahon School of Laughing”, “What’s It All About”, “The Rocket Report”, “Video Date”, “Our Front Door”, “Pepe Gonzales”, “Planned Parenthood”, “Lesson”, “The Toni Tenille Show”, “Fish Heads”, “Blame The Kids” and “Lonely Old Lady”. Aretha Franklin performs “United Together” and “Can’t Turn You Loose”. Keith Sykes performs “B.I.G.T.I.M.E.”

Sketches include "Execution", "Mutually Omaha's Wild Kingdom", "Tobacco Grower's Association", "Serf City", "Adopted Amy Carter", "American Milk Association", "Showdown", "Gothic Romance Novel Shop", "The 100 Years War", "Leather Weather Report", "Commie Hunting Season", "The Rocket Report", "Jack The Stripper", "Someone Is Hiding In My Apartment" and "The Wine Cellar",Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band perform "Hot Head" and "Ashtray Heart".

Sketches include "Glory Days", "Highway Education", "White House", "Billy-Gram", "American Cancer Society", "What's It All About", "Foot Fetish", "At One With", "Heart To Heart", "SNL Sports", "The Date", "The Accordian Killer", "Gidgette Goes To Hell" and "Speed Listening". Kid Creole & The Coconuts perform "Mister Softee" and "There But For The Grace Of God Go I".

The ill-fated 1980-81 season is one shrouded in mystery and a negative reputation that grew bigger the less frequently reruns from that season appeared in syndication.Like with 1981-82, I will be doing sketch-by-sketch reviews of the episodes this season.If anyone has information to contribute about the episodes, such as who wrote what, writer cameos, etc., I welcome it and will acknowledge my source in the sketch review.