Saturday Night Live/Season Ten

Season Ten
Saturday Night Live
Season Premiere	October 6, 1984
Season Finale	April 13, 1985
Episode Count	18
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Season Ten 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.

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

Episodes

#	#	Title			Airdate
179	1	(no host)/Thompson Twins			October 6, 1984
180	2	Bob Uecker/Peter Wolf			October 13, 1984
181	3	Jesse Jackson/Andrae Crouch, Wintley Phipps			October 20, 1984
182	4	Michael McKean/Chaka Khan, the Folksmen			November 3, 1984
183	5	George Carlin/Frankie Goes to Hollywood			November 10, 1984
184	6	Ed Asner/The Kinks			November 17, 1984
185	7	Ed Begley, Jr./Billy Squier			December 1, 1984
186	8	Ringo Starr/Herbie Hancock			December 8, 1984
187	9	Eddie Murphy/The Honeydrippers			December 15, 1984
188	10	Kathleen Turner/John Waite			January 12, 1985
189	11	Roy Scheider/Billy Ocean			January 19, 1985
190	12	Alex Karras/Tina Turner			February 2, 1985
191	13	Harry Anderson/Bryan Adams			February 9, 1985
192	14	Pamela Sue Martin/Power Station			February 16, 1985
S2	SP	SNL Film Festival			March 2, 1985
193	15	Steve Landesberg/The Commodores			March 30, 1985
194	16	Christopher Reeve/Santana			April 6, 1985
195	17	Howard Cosell/Greg Kihn			April 13, 1985