TV Episode Summaries for
18th April 1976

Saturday Night Live Season 1, Episode 17

Ron Nessen/Toni Basil, Patti Smith

Airs: 4:30am - 6:00am on NBC

Live from New York (pre-recorded), it's... Gerald Ford!



Sketches include "The Dead String Quartet," "Super Bass-O-Matic '76," "Briefing the President," "Digusting Jam Names," "Press Secretaries Through History" (three parts), "Lie Detector Test," "The New Army," "The Berkeley Collection," "Garbage" (film), "Autumn Fizz, the Carbonated Douche," "Tomorrow with Tom Snyder," "Singing at the Urinal" (film), "Supreme Court Spot Check," a guest performance by Billy Crystal, "Try-Hard 1-11," and "Misconceptions."



The Patti Smith Group performed "Gloria" and "My Generation."
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