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Saturday Night Live (1975)Season 4
Saturday Night Live aired its fourth season during the 1978–1979 television season on NBC. The fourth season started on October 7, 1978 and ended on May 26, 1979. The season four DVD was released on December 2, 2008. The entire cast from the previous season returned. This would be the final season for Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. Aykroyd and Belushi left to work on The Blues Brothers film.
- Creator
- Dick Ebersol, Lorne Michaels
- Writers
- Lorne Michaels, Jim Downey, Robert Smigel
- Network
- NBC
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- First aired
- October 11, 1975
- Status
- Returning
- Next episode
- S52E4 · October 31, 2026
Cast
Kenan ThompsonSelf - Various Characters
Darrell HammondDonald Trump (uncredited)
Colin JostEmployee (uncredited)
Seth MeyersSelf - Host
Michael CheSelf - Various Characters
Fred ArmisenSelf - Host
Al FrankenThe Life of Vlad the Impalere announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Cecily StrongSelf - Cameo (uncredited)
Kate McKinnonSelf - Host
Mikey DaySelf - Cameo (uncredited)
Aidy BryantSelf - Cameo (uncredited)
Tim MeadowsLeon Phelps (uncredited)
Bobby MoynihanSelf
Kyle MooneySelf - Various Characters
Maya RudolphSelf - Host
Kevin NealonFranz (uncredited)
Jason SudeikisPolice Officer (uncredited)
Pete DavidsonSelf - Cameo (uncredited)
Bill HaderSelf - Various Characters
Tina FeyLaughing Writer (uncredited)
Episodes
0/20 watched- Episode 1: The Rolling Stones1 h 7 min · Oct 7, 1978
- Episode 2: Fred Willard/Devo1 h 7 min · Oct 14, 1978
- Episode 3: Frank Zappa1 h 7 min · Oct 21, 1978
- Episode 4: Steve Martin/Van Morrison1 h 7 min · Nov 4, 1978
- Episode 5: Buck Henry/The Grateful Dead1 h 7 min · Nov 11, 1978
- Episode 6: Carrie Fisher/The Blues Brothers1 h 7 min · Nov 18, 1978
- Episode 7: Walter Matthau/Garrett Morris1 h 7 min · Dec 2, 1978
- Episode 8: Eric Idle/Kate Bush1 h 7 min · Dec 9, 1978
- Episode 9: Elliott Gould/Peter Tosh with Mick Jagger1 h 7 min · Dec 16, 1978
- Episode 10: Michael Palin/The Doobie Brothers1 h 7 min · Jan 27, 1979
- Episode 11: Cicely Tyson/Talking Heads1 h 7 min · Feb 10, 1979
- Episode 12: Rick Nelson/Judy Collins1 h 7 min · Feb 17, 1979
- Episode 13: Kate Jackson/Delbert McClinton1 h 7 min · Feb 24, 1979
- Episode 14: Gary Busey/Gary Busey with Rick Danko and Paul Butterfield, Eubie Blake1 h 7 min · Mar 10, 1979
- Episode 15: Margot Kidder/The Chieftains1 h 7 min · Mar 17, 1979
- Episode 16: Richard Benjamin/Rickie Lee Jones1 h 7 min · Apr 7, 1979
- Episode 17: Milton Berle/Ornette Coleman1 h 7 min · Apr 14, 1979
- Episode 18: Michael Palin/James Taylor1 h 7 min · May 12, 1979
- Episode 19: Maureen Stapleton/Linda Ronstadt, Phoebe Snow1 h 7 min · May 19, 1979
- Episode 20: Buck Henry/Bette Midler1 h 7 min · May 26, 1979
