Live From New York, it's... Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, & 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," "Puppy Uppers & Doggy Downers," "Highway Patrol," "Baba Wawa At Large," and "Nixon and Hoover."



The RCO All-Stars (Dr. John, Levon Helm, Paul Butterfield, and the SNL Band) perform "Sing Sing Sing" and "Ain't That a Lot of Love"; The Meters performed "I Got To Get My Name Up In Lights."

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 2 Episode 17 of Saturday Night Live resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Saturday Night Live Season 2 Episodes...

• s02e01 - Lily Tomlin/James Taylor
• s02e02 - Norman Lear/Boz Scaggs
• s02e03 - Eric Idle/Joe Cocker and Stuff
• s02e04 - Karen Black/John Prine
• s02e05 - Steve Martin/Kinky Friedman
• s02e06 - Buck Henry/The Band
• s02e07 - Dick Cavett/Ry Cooder
• s02e08 - Paul Simon/George Harrison
• s02e09 - Jodie Foster/Brian Wilson
• s02e10 - Candice Bergen/Frank Zappa
• s02e11 - Ralph Nader/George Benson
• s02e12 - Ruth Gordon/Chuck Berry
• s02e13 - Fran Tarkenton/Leo Sayer, Donny Harper
• s02e15 - Steve Martin/The Kinks
• s02e16 - Sissy Spacek/Richard Baskin
• s02e17 - Broderick Crawford/The RCO All-Stars, The Meters
• s02e18 - Jack Burns/Santana
• s02e19 - Julian Bond/Tom Waits, Brick
• s02e20 - Elliott Gould/The McGarrigle Sisters, Roslyn Kind
• s02e21 - Eric Idle/Neil Innes, Alan Price
• s02e22 - Shelley Duvall/Joan Armatrading
• s02e23 - Buck Henry/Kenny Vance, Jennifer Warnes

Saturday Night Live Show Summary

Since 1975, SNL has launched the careers of many of the brightest comedy performers of a generation and as "The New York Times" noted on the occasion of the show's Emmy winning 25th Anniversary special in 1999. In defiance of both time and show business convention, "SNL" is still the most pervasive influence on the art of comedy in contemporary culture". At the close of the century, "Saturday Night Live" placed seventh on Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 100 Entertainers of the past fifty years.

Saturday Night Live is broadcast live from NBC's famed Studio 8H in New York City's Rockefeller Center. The program is a production of Broadway Video in association with SNL Studios. Lorne Michaels is the executive producer.