Saturday Night Live (season 12)

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Saturday Night Live
Season 12
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No. of episodes20
Release
Original network NBC
Original releaseOctober 11, 1986 (1986-10-11) 
May 23, 1987 (1987-05-23)
Season chronology
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List of episodes

The twelfth season of Saturday Night Live , an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between October 11, 1986 and May 23, 1987.

Contents

History

The season opened with Madonna, host of the previous season opener, reading a "statement" from NBC about season 11's mediocre writing and bad cast choices. [1] According to the "statement", the entire 1985–86 season was "... all a dream. A horrible, horrible dream."

Cast

Returning cast members included A. Whitney Brown, Nora Dunn, Jon Lovitz and Dennis Miller. Al Franken was rehired as a writer. New cast members included Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks, Victoria Jackson and Kevin Nealon. [2]

Cast roster

bold denotes Weekend Update anchor

Writers

This season's writers were Andy Breckman, A. Whitney Brown, E. Jean Carroll, Tom Davis, Jim Downey, Al Franken, Jack Handey, Phil Hartman, George Meyer, Lorne Michaels, Kevin Nealon, Herb Sargent, Marc Shaiman, Rosie Shuster, Robert Smigel, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner, Jon Vitti and Christine Zander. Downey also served as head writer.

Episodes

No.
overall
No. in
season
Host(s)Musical guestOriginal air date
2141 Sigourney Weaver NoneOctober 11, 1986 (1986-10-11)

2152 Malcolm-Jamal Warner Run-DMC October 18, 1986 (1986-10-18)

2163 Rosanna Arquette Ric Ocasek November 8, 1986 (1986-11-08)

2174 Sam Kinison Lou Reed November 15, 1986 (1986-11-15)

2185 Robin Williams Paul Simon November 22, 1986 (1986-11-22)

2196 Chevy Chase
Steve Martin
Martin Short
Randy Newman December 6, 1986 (1986-12-06)

  • Randy Newman performs "Longest Night" and "Roll with the Punches". [3]
  • Chevy Chase acknowledges his recent stint in the Betty Ford Center in the monologue and cold opening, a sketch where klutzy people hold a support group meeting called Stumblebums Anonymous.
  • In a sketch written by Jim Downey and Al Franken, Phil Hartman portrays President Ronald Reagan as Mastermind, a "sweet, befuddled old man in public, who in private becomes the hard-charging director of the covert operation to finance the Nicaraguan Contras".
  • Guest appearance by Eric Idle.
2207 Steve Guttenberg The Pretenders December 13, 1986 (1986-12-13)

2218 William Shatner Lone Justice December 20, 1986 (1986-12-20)

  • Lone Justice performs "Shelter" and "I Found Love". [3]
  • This show features a sketch where William Shatner, sick of Star Trek fans asking him inane questions, tells them to "Get a life!" [7]
  • Comedian Kevin Meaney makes a guest appearance.
  • Special guest Buster Poindexter played "Zat You, Santa?". [3]
2229 Joe Montana
Walter Payton
Deborah Harry January 24, 1987 (1987-01-24)

22310 Paul Shaffer Bruce Hornsby & the Range January 31, 1987 (1987-01-31)

22411 Bronson Pinchot Paul Young February 14, 1987 (1987-02-14)

22512 Willie Nelson Willie NelsonFebruary 21, 1987 (1987-02-21)

  • Danny DeVito makes a guest appearance.
  • Willie Nelson performs "Blue Eyes" and "Partners After All". [3]
  • In a sketch, Nelson accompanies Victoria Jackson on "The Boyfriend Song".
22613 Valerie Bertinelli Robert Cray Band February 28, 1987 (1987-02-28)

  • Robert Cray Band performs "Smoking Gun" and "Right Next Door". [3]
  • Bertinelli's then-husband, Eddie Van Halen, appeared in a sketch and played with the SNL Band. Van Halen performed "Stompin' 8H". [3]
  • Guest appearance by Edwin Newman.
22714 Bill Murray Percy Sledge March 21, 1987 (1987-03-21)

  • Percy Sledge performs "When a Man Loves a Woman". [3]
  • The cold opening for the episode (where Lorne Michaels meets Bill Murray backstage and discusses his contract with him) has been either edited in reruns (as seen on Comedy Central and E!) or replaced with the cold opening from the Bronson Pinchot episode where Liberace (Phil Hartman) is playing the piano in Heaven and tells the audience that the censors won't let him do anything else besides that (as seen with the streaming version formerly shown on Netflix and now shown on NBC's Peacock).
22815 Charlton Heston Wynton Marsalis March 28, 1987 (1987-03-28)

  • Wynton Marsalis performs "J Mood" and "Juan (E. Mustaad)". [3]
  • The episode features a short film by future cast member Ben Stiller.
22916 John Lithgow Anita Baker April 11, 1987 (1987-04-11)

23017 John Larroquette Timbuk 3 April 18, 1987 (1987-04-18)

  • Timbuk 3 performs "Just Another Movie" and "Hairstyles & Attitudes". [3]
23118 Mark Harmon Suzanne Vega May 9, 1987 (1987-05-09)

  • Suzanne Vega performs "Luka" and "Marlene on the Wall". [3]
23219 Garry Shandling Los Lobos May 16, 1987 (1987-05-16)

23320 Dennis Hopper Roy Orbison May 23, 1987 (1987-05-23)

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