| Saturday Night Live | |
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| Season 9 | |
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| No. of episodes | 19 |
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| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | October 8, 1983 – May 12, 1984 |
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The ninth season of Saturday Night Live , an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between October 8, 1983, and May 12, 1984.
Future cast member Billy Crystal hosted twice this season: once with musical guest Al Jarreau [1] and again on the season finale with Ed Koch, Edwin Newman, Betty Thomas and former cast member Don Novello, with the Cars as musical guest. [2]
Jim Belushi was added to the cast, making his debut on the third episode of the season. [3] [4]
Eddie Murphy's movie schedule got too busy during this season that, in a historic act for the show, he pre-taped a batch of sketches in September of 1983 that were aired throughout the season as if they were live so that he could skip those live shows. Murphy only performed live in eight of the season's 19 episodes, but he appears in new pre-taped sketches that aired in eight episodes he wasn't present for throughout the season. Midway through the season in February, Murphy left the show, but he remained in the opening credits on and off through April for episodes in which his remaining pre-tapes aired. [5] [6]
Brad Hall, who had been anchoring Weekend Update (then called Saturday Night News) since the previous season, left the position in January of 1984. [7] For the rest of the season and into the next, both cast members and SNL guest-hosts would take turns at the anchor chair. Hall himself left SNL at the end of the season. [7]
Repertory players
bold denotes Weekend Update anchor
This season's writers were Jim Belushi, Andy Breckman, Robin Duke, Adam Green, Mary Gross, Nate Herman, Tim Kazurinsky, Kevin Kelton, Andy Kurtzman, Michael McCarthy, Eddie Murphy, Pamela Norris, Margaret Oberman, Joe Piscopo, Andrew Smith, Bob Tischler, Eliot Wald and Herb Sargent (who returned for the last few episodes of the season). [8] The head writers were Bob Tischler and Andrew Smith.
Besides, Murphy, Piscopo, and Duke, this was also the final season for writer Pam Norris, who left the show after four seasons. [9] Not counting Murphy or Piscopo, Norris was the last writer from the Jean Doumanian-era season to leave the show.
| No. overall | No. in season | Host(s) | Musical guest(s) | Original release date | |
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| 160 | 1 | Brandon Tartikoff [10] | John Cougar Mellencamp | October 8, 1983 | |
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| 161 | 2 | Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman | Eddy Grant | October 15, 1983 | |
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| 162 | 3 | John Candy | Men at Work | October 22, 1983 | |
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| 163 | 4 | Betty Thomas | Stray Cats | November 5, 1983 | |
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| 164 | 5 | Teri Garr | Mick Fleetwood's Zoo | November 12, 1983 | |
Mick Fleetwood's Zoo performs "Tonight" [11] and "Way Down".
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| 165 | 6 | Jerry Lewis | Loverboy | November 19, 1983 | |
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| 166 | 7 | The Smothers Brothers | Big Country | December 3, 1983 | |
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| 167 | 8 | Flip Wilson | Stevie Nicks | December 10, 1983 | |
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| 168 | 9 | Father Guido Sarducci | Huey Lewis and the News | January 14, 1984 | |
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| 169 | 10 | Michael and Mary Palin | The Motels | January 21, 1984 | |
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| 170 | 11 | Don Rickles | Billy Idol | January 28, 1984 | |
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| 171 | 12 | Robin Williams | Adam Ant | February 11, 1984 | |
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| 172 | 13 | Jamie Lee Curtis | The Fixx | February 18, 1984 | |
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| 173 | 14 | Edwin Newman | Kool & the Gang | February 25, 1984 | |
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| 174 | 15 | Billy Crystal | Al Jarreau | March 17, 1984 | |
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| 175 | 16 | Michael Douglas | Deniece Williams | April 7, 1984 | |
First episode where *Eddie Murphy is not credited as a cast member nor appears. | |||||
| 176 | 17 | George McGovern | Madness | April 14, 1984 | |
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| 177 | 18 | Barry Bostwick | Spinal Tap | May 5, 1984 | |
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| 178 | 19 | Billy Crystal, Ed Koch, Edwin Newman, Father Guido Sarducci, Betty Thomas | The Cars | May 12, 1984 | |
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