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SNL Reviews, Sketch comedy, Television Bronwyn Douwsma SNL Reviews, Sketch comedy, Television Bronwyn Douwsma

Classic SNL Review: October 31, 1981: Donald Pleasence / Fear (S07E04)

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.

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SNL Reviews, Sketch comedy, Television Bronwyn Douwsma SNL Reviews, Sketch comedy, Television Bronwyn Douwsma

Classic SNL Review: October 10, 1981: Susan Saint James / The Kinks (S07E02)

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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SNL Reviews, Sketch comedy, Television Bronwyn Douwsma SNL Reviews, Sketch comedy, Television Bronwyn Douwsma

Classic SNL Review: Oct 3, 1981: (no host) / Rod Stewart (S07E01)

Sketches include "NBC", "The Little Richard Simmons Show", "The Clams", "Naughty Nuns on the Beach", "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney", "Prose and Cons", "Strangers in the Night", "Strangers in the Funeral Parlor", "Andy Warhol's TV", and "Season of Glass".  Rod Stewart performs "She Won't Dance With Me", "Hot Legs" (with Tina Turner), and "Young Turks".  Juggler Michael Davis also appears.

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Barney Miller

I first got into Barney Miller in my first year of university, when a Canadian cable channel was running the show five times a week.I had no idea they were running it but I flipped onto one of the weaker early episodes once. Eventually I ended up catching better episodes, and after finding more about the show starting watching regularly when they were running season 3.Unfortunately the channel didn't keep with the reruns long enough to get through the entire series run, but by the time they dropped the show in the middle of season 7, this sitcom about the mundane work of plainclothes detectives in Greenwich Village cemented itself on my all-time favorites list.

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