Saturday Night Live/Season Ten
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| Season Ten Saturday Night Live | |
| Season Premiere | October 6, 1984 |
| Season Finale | April 13, 1985 |
| Episode Count | 18 |
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Season Ten (1984-1985) of Saturday Night Live premiered on October 6, 1984.
By the end of season nine, five cast members either left the series or were fired leaving a large void in the show. The space was filled by some of the best known SNL cast members of the era, including Billy Crystal, Martin Short and Christopher Guest.
In addition to cast members, producer Dick Ebersol also hired new writers like Larry David, who quit the show mid-season, only to return days later as if nothing had happened. David would later use this life experience as the plot of an episode of Seinfeld. David left at the end of the season, only one sketch he wrote appeared on the show, in the last 5 minutes of an episode where "weaker" sketches are typically buried.
One episode in the season, slated to be hosted by John Candy and Eugene Levy then of SCTV, was cancelled due to the 1985 Writers Strike. The episode was advertised on the SNL Film Festival special for March 9, 1985.
[edit] Cast
- Jim Belushi
- Billy Crystal
- Mary Gross
- Christopher Guest
- Rich Hall
- Gary Kroeger
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Harry Shearer (Last Show: 10x10)
- Martin Short
- Pamela Stephenson
[edit] Episodes
| # | # | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 180 | 1 | (no host)/Thompson Twins | October 6, 1984 |
| 181 | 2 | Bob Uecker/Peter Wolf | October 13, 1984 |
| 182 | 3 | Jesse Jackson/Andrae Crouch, Wintley Phipps | October 20, 1984 |
| 183 | 4 | Michael McKean/Chaka Khan, the Folksmen | November 3, 1984 |
| 184 | 5 | George Carlin/Frankie Goes to Hollywood | November 10, 1984 |
| 185 | 6 | Ed Asner/The Kinks | November 17, 1984 |
| 186 | 7 | Ed Begley, Jr./Billy Squier | December 1, 1984 |
| 187 | 8 | Ringo Starr/Herbie Hancock | December 8, 1984 |
| 188 | 9 | Eddie Murphy/The Honeydrippers | December 15, 1984 |
| 189 | 10 | Kathleen Turner/John Waite | January 12, 1985 |
| 190 | 11 | Roy Scheider/Billy Ocean | January 19, 1985 |
| 191 | 12 | Alex Karras/Tina Turner | February 2, 1985 |
| 192 | 13 | Harry Anderson/Bryan Adams | February 9, 1985 |
| 193 | 14 | Pamela Sue Martin/Power Station | February 16, 1985 |
| SP2 | — | SNL Film Festival | March 2, 1985 |
| 195 | 16 | Steve Landesberg/The Commodores | March 30, 1985 |
| 196 | 17 | Christopher Reeve/Santana | April 6, 1985 |
| 197 | 18 | Howard Cosell/Greg Kihn | April 13, 1985 |
