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| Saturday Night Live Season 2 : |
| Saturday Night Live aired its second season during the 1976–1977 television season on NBC. The second season started on September 18 1976 and ended on May 21 1977. This season saw the first of many SNL cast changes. Chevy Chase who was pursuing a movie career in California left the show after the October 30th episode hosted by Buck Henry with musical guest The Band. Jane Curtin became the first female cast member to become a Weekend Update anchor following Chase's departure. On the January 15 1977 episode Bill Murray joined the cast to fill the void left by Chase's departure. This season also saw another change in the show: its name. Following the cancellation of ABC's Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell NBC changed the name of the show from NBC's Saturday Night to its current title Saturday Night Live in the episode hosted by Jack Burns in 1977. It was the last time that the Muppet sketches would appear on the show. In a 1977 interview with Playboy O'Donoghue who was head writer/performer referred to the Muppets as those fucking Muppets those little hairy facecloths and were made from the refuse after they cleaned up after Woodstock. He also refused to write for them saying I don’t write for felt. O'Donoghue also had a lynched Big Bird hanging in the writer's office. |
| Episode 1 - [Lily Tomlin James Taylor] |
| Details : Live from New York It's...Chevy Chase Sketches include-- Big shot Lily Tomlin will do the show without rehearsing Debate 76 Legionnaire's Disease Outbreak The Phone Company Women In Literature Tess DiSenzo The Antler Dance Judith Beasley. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Lily Tomlin | Director : Dave Wilson | |
| Air Date : Sep. 18, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 2 - [Norman Lear Boz Scaggs] |
| Details : Live from New York It's...Chevy Chase (On telephone) Sketches include-- Gilda plans to do the fall Jimmy Carter speaks on sexual performance in the White House Chevy's Girls Trial sitcom--The Snakehandling O'Sheas Joseph Franklin--The Metric Clock Abusive Divorce Lawyer Rhodesian Peace Talks. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Carroll O'Connor | Boz Scaggs | Bea Arthur | Jean Stapleton | Norman Lear | Director : Dave Wilson | |
| Air Date : Sep. 25, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 3 - [Eric Idle Joe Cocker And Stuff] |
| Details : Live from New York it's..Chevy Chase (on telephone)! Sketches include-- Hospitalized Chevy confronts impostor Designer Babies KLOG Deejay The Killer Bees Cufflinks of the Gods Drag is Not Funny Dragnet Drag Racing Today Jacques Cousteau Joe Cocker and his doppleganger(Belushi) Ken Norton is more talented than Muhummad Ali. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Joe Cocker | Neil Innes | Eric Idle | Director : Dave Wilson | |
| Air Date : Oct. 02, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 4 - [Karen Black John Prine] |
| Details : Live from New York it's...Chevy Chase! Sketches include-- Chevy returns Baba Wawa at Large Debate '76 A*M*I*S*H Cancer-free Cupcakes Love Russian Style The Lunch Counter Reunion Mr. Bill Ode to American Coinage. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Karen Black | John Prine | Walter Williams | Director : Dave Wilson | |
| Air Date : Oct. 16, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 5 - [Steve Martin Kinky Friedman] |
| Details : Sketches include Yankees Lose Jeopardy 1999 Speak Out For Milk The Beatnik Club Ted Baxter Kills Mary Richards Looks at Books and Mysteries in Medicine. Kinky Friedman performed Dear Abby. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Steve Martin as Himself - Host | Director : Dave Wilson | |
| Air Date : Oct. 23, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 6 - [Buck Henry The Band] |
| Details : Sketches include-- Trick or Treating Land Shark Not For Ladies Only Samurai Stockbroker Garrett Morris's Family History Debate 76 Super Bass-O-Matic 77 The OintMENt Mr. Mike's Least Loved Bedtime Tales Houdini's Ghost. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Buck Henry as Self - Host | Director : Dave Wilson | |
| Air Date : Oct. 30, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 7 - [Dick Cavett Ry Cooder] |
| Details : Live from New York It's...Gilda Radner Sketches include-- Chroma Trak Girl Puppy Uppers and Doggie Downers Nixon's Watergate Frame-up Crossroads Grandparent Bees Mr.Mike's Least Loved Bedtime Tales--The Blind Chicken Mobile Shrink How Things Work Marines--Looking For A Few Good Men. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Dick Cavett | Director : Dave Wilson | |
| Air Date : Nov. 13, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 8 - [Paul Simon Paul Simon George Harrison] |
| Details : Live from New York It's...George Harrison Sketches include-- Paul Simon meets pauper Chevy Chase on sidewalk while Lorne talks with George Harrison Quarry Baba Wawa at Large The Twilight Zone Billy Paul Tomorrow with Tom Synder. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Paul Simon as Himself - Musical Guest | Director : Dave Wilson | |
| Air Date : Nov. 20, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 9 - [Jodie Foster Brian Wilson] |
| Details : Live from New York It's...Gilda Radner Sketches include-- Gilda wont be in much of tonight's show Wendy Bee Peter Pan and Tinkerbee Rovco's Puberty Helper Metal Man Steve Bashekis Im Not Black The Crush on the Biology Teacher Don Pardo--The First Fifty Years Laraine Newman's talents Mr.Mike's Least Loved Bedtime Tales--he Little Train That Died. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jodie Foster | Director : Dave Wilson | |
| Air Date : Nov. 27, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
| Episode 10 - [Candice Bergen Frank Zappa] |
| Details : Live from New York it's... Gilda Radner! Sketches include: Patty Hearst At Home Jimmy Carter Can't Keep His Promises Santi-Wrap Consumer Probe Fern and Friend in PSA for The Right to Extreme Stupidity League FX-70 Cheese Slicer The Killer Trees trailer Adopt John Belushi For Christmas Radioactive Fallout Report and Let's Kill Gary Gilmore For Christmas. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Frank Zappa | Candice Bergen as Herself (uncredited) | Director : Dave Wilson | |
| Air Date : Dec. 11, 1976 |
| Episode 11 - [Ralph Nader George Benson] |
| Details : Live from New York It's...Ralph Nader Sketches include-- Ralph Nader wants to cut loose Badmouthing Grandfather Dress Rehearsal for Execution The Confederate Takeover Baba Wawa At Large The Coneheads Youth Ask Questions Andy Kaufman as Elvis Testing Party Dolls. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ralph Nader as Himself | Director : Dave Wilson | |
| Air Date : Jan. 15, 1977 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 12 - [Ruth Gordon Chuck Berry] |
| Details : Live from New York it's...John Belushi in a wheelchair! Sketches include-- Belushi's too sick to do the show Barbara Streisand Emily Litella and Her Sister Tomorrow with Tom Snyder Little Old Ladies of The Night Asking the Babysitter About Sex E. Buzz Miller Crazy Frank Commercial parody and Mr. Mike's Least-Loved Bedtime Tales. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ruth Gordon | Walter Williams | Director : Dave Wilson | |
| Air Date : Jan. 22, 1977 | Rating ➦ ★★★★ |
| Episode 13 - [Fran Tarkenton Leo Sayer] |
| Details : Live from New York it's... the cast of SNL! Sketches include Locker Room Pep Talk Swiss Army Gun Amy Carter in School Chambers' Missing Arm Black Perspective Home Restaurant Community Appeal Fran's One-Night Stand Grand Stand French Liquid and Rhonda's Credit Card Counseling. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Fran Tarkenton | Director : Dave Wilson | |
| Air Date : Jan. 29, 1977 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 14 - [Steve Martin The Kinks] |
| Details : Live from New York It's... Steve Martin! Sketches include Steve Martin's Ego Trip Coneheads' Tax Audit Celebrity Weightlifting Dr. Breadloaf's Quickloss Diet Book Pulling the Plug Broadway Baby Hollywood Bingo From the Big Orange to the Big Apple (film) Roots II and Plenty in Common. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Steve Martin as Himself - Host | Director : Dave Wilson | |
| Air Date : Feb. 26, 1977 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 15 - [Sissy Spacek Richard Baskin] |
| Details : Live From New York It's...Dan Aykroyd John Belushi Jane Curtin Garrett Morris Bill Murray Laraine Newman Gilda Radner and Sissy Spacek! Sketches include-- Dave Wilson's Dead Burger Master Ask President Carter Belushi's Olympic Dream Gidget's Disease Bad Playhouse and White Trash Couple. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Sissy Spacek | Director : Robert Altman | Director : Dave Wilson | |
| Air Date : Mar. 12, 1977 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 16 - [Broderick Crawford Dr John The Meters] |
| Details : Live From New York it's... Laraine Newman Gilda Radner Jane Curtin And Linda Ronstadt! Sketches include Goodbye Saccharine Samurai Hit-Man Broderick's Old Neighborhood (film) Mel's Hide Heaven Bill Murray The New Guy Lucy Ricardo's Nuke Job Highway Patrol Baba Wawa At Large and Nixon and Hoover. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Dr. John | Levon Helm | Broderick Crawford as Himself/host | Director : Dave Wilson | |
| Air Date : Mar. 19, 1977 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
| Episode 17 - [Jack Burns Santana] |
| Details : Live From New York It's...John Belushi Sketches include-- Belushi Refuses to Say Live From New York The Coneheads Marine Wedding The Untouchables The Story of The Squatters Ask Big Daddy Washed Up Comedy Writer Suicidal Buisnessman Old-Fashioned Pharmacist. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jack Burns | Director : Dave Wilson | |
| Air Date : Mar. 26, 1977 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
| Episode 18 - [Julian Bond Brick] |
| Details : Live From New York It's...Gilda Radner Sketches include-- Emily Litella's New Love Lowell Brock Black Perspective Dr.X Family Counselor Right On Afro Lustre Great Moments In Motown Creeley's Soup Bad Cinema George Wallace Julian and Andrew Young Talk With President Carter. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Patti Smith | Tom Waits | Julian Bond | Director : Dave Wilson | |
| Air Date : Apr. 09, 1977 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 19 - [Elliott Gould Mcgarrigle Sisters] |
| Details : Live From New York It's...John Belushi! Sketches include-- Brezhnev Wants to Appear on Carson The Castration Walk Nick The Lounge Singer You've Come a Long Way Buddy United Face Bank Jason and Sunshine Pilson Feedbag Dinners. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Kate McGarrigle | Elliott Gould | Director : Dave Wilson | |
| Air Date : Apr. 16, 1977 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 20 - [Eric Idle Neil Innes] |
| Details : Live From New York It's...Bill Murray Sketches include-- Potato Torture The American Dope Growers Union The Nixon Interviews Flight Attendant Sherry Plain Talk Heavy Wit Championship Bill Murray's Bad Childhood Memories Telethon for Britian The Battle of Britain. Gary Weis film: Body Language. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Neil Innes | Eric Idle | Director : Dave Wilson | |
| Air Date : Apr. 23, 1977 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 21 - [Shelley Duvall Joan Armatrading] |
| Details : Live From New York It's...John Belushi Sketches include-- Bee Sketch Is Pre-Empted by Norton-Bobick Fight Video Vixens Badly Disguised Bank Robber Viva Las Vegas II Baba Wawa At Large Feuding Couple Bad Ballet Night of The Moonies Audience Member Chevy. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Joan Armatrading | Shelley Duvall | Spalding Gray | Director : Dave Wilson | |
| Air Date : May. 14, 1977 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 22 - [Buck Henry Kenny Vance Jennifer Warnes] |
| Details : Live From New York It's...Gilda Radner Sketches include-- Carter's Energy Saving Message Buck Performs A Live Sex Act Samurai B.M.O.C The Shower Mike The Coneheads Return to Remulak Rhonda Weiss's Bridal Shower Charles Lindbergh Meets the Land Shark. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Bella Abzug | Jennifer Warnes | Buck Henry as Self - Host | Director : Dave Wilson | |
| Air Date : May. 21, 1977 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |