Saturday Night Live: The Complete Second Season
Universal Studios (1976)
Comedy, Music
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IMDB   8.1
700 mins USA/English
DVD  Region 1   NR (Not Rated)
Garrett Morris
Jane Curtin
Laraine Newman
Gilda Radner
Dan Aykroyd
Bill Murray
Chevy Chase
John Belushi
Don Pardo Himself - Announcer 
Lenny Pickett Himself - Bandleader 
David Spade
Jimmy Fallon
Darrell Hammond
Fred Armisen
Chris Parnell
Kevin Nealon
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Damon Wayans
Horatio Sanz
Anthony Michael Hall
Victoria Jackson
Director Dave Wilson

A weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show broadcast live from Studio 8H at the GE Building in New York's Rockefeller Center. The show is one of the longest-running network programs in American television history and has launched careers for many major American comedy stars of the last thirty years.
Episodes
 90 mins    9/18/1976  1.  Lily Tomlin/James Taylor
Live from New York, It's...Chevy Chase Sketches include-- Big shot Lily Tomlin will do the show without rehearsing, "Debate 76", Legionnaire's Disease Outbreak, The Phone Company, "Women In Literature", Tess DiSenzo, The Antler Dance, Judith Beasley.
Director:  Dave Wilson 
Guest starring:  Lily Tomlin
 90 mins    9/25/1976  2.  Norman Lear/Boz Scaggs
Live from New York, It's...Chevy Chase (On telephone) Sketches include-- Gilda plans to do the fall, Jimmy Carter speaks on sexual performance in the White House, Chevy's Girls, Trial sitcom--"The Snakehandling O'Sheas", Joseph Franklin--The Metric Clock, Abusive Divorce Lawyer, Rhodesian Peace Talks.
Director:  Dave Wilson 
Guest starring:  Norman Lear
 90 mins    10/2/1976  3.  Eric Idle/Joe Cocker and Stuff
Live from New York, it's..Chevy Chase (on telephone)! Sketches include-- Hospitalized Chevy confronts impostor, Designer Babies, KLOG Deejay, The Killer Bees, Cufflinks of the Gods, Drag is Not Funny, Dragnet, Drag Racing Today, Jacques Cousteau, Joe Cocker and his doppleganger(Belushi), "Ken Norton is more talented than Muhummad Ali".
Director:  Dave Wilson 
Guest starring:  Eric Idle
 90 mins    10/16/1976  4.  Karen Black/John Prine
Live from New York, it's...Chevy Chase! Sketches include-- Chevy returns, "Baba Wawa at Large," Debate '76, A*M*I*S*H, Cancer-free Cupcakes, "Love Russian Style," The Lunch Counter Reunion, Mr. Bill, Ode to American Coinage.
Director:  Dave Wilson 
Guest starring:  Karen Black
 90 mins    10/23/1976  5.  Steve Martin/Kinky Friedman
Sketches include "Yankees Lose," "Jeopardy 1999," "Speak Out For Milk", "The Beatnik Club," "Ted Baxter Kills Mary Richards," "Looks at Books," and "Mysteries in Medicine." Kinky Friedman performed "Dear Abby."
Director:  Dave Wilson 
Guest starring:  Steve Martin
 90 mins    10/30/1976  6.  Buck Henry/The Band
Sketches include-- Trick or Treating Land Shark, "Not For Ladies Only", Samurai Stockbroker, Garrett Morris's Family History, Debate 76, Super Bass-O-Matic 77, "The OintMENt", Mr. Mike's Least Loved Bedtime Tales, Houdini's Ghost.
Director:  Dave Wilson 
Guest starring:  Buck Henry
 90 mins    11/13/1976  7.  Dick Cavett/Ry Cooder
Live from New York, It's...Gilda Radner Sketches include-- Chroma Trak Girl, Puppy Uppers and Doggie Downers, Nixon's Watergate Frame-up, Crossroads, Grandparent Bees, Mr.Mike's Least Loved Bedtime Tales--"The Blind Chicken", Mobile Shrink, "How Things Work", Marines--Looking For A Few Good Men.
Director:  Dave Wilson 
Guest starring:  Dick Cavett
 90 mins    11/20/1976  8.  Paul Simon/George Harrison
Live from New York, It's...George Harrison Sketches include-- Paul Simon meets pauper Chevy Chase on sidewalk while Lorne talks with George Harrison, Quarry, "Baba Wawa at Large", The Twilight Zone, Billy Paul, "Tomorrow with Tom Synder".
Director:  Dave Wilson 
Guest starring:  Paul Simon
 90 mins    11/27/1976  9.  Jodie Foster/Brian Wilson
Live from New York, It's...Gilda Radner Sketches include-- Gilda wont be in much of tonight's show, Wendy, Bee Peter Pan and Tinkerbee, Rovco's Puberty Helper, Metal Man, Steve Bashekis, Im Not Black, The Crush on the Biology Teacher, Don Pardo--The First Fifty Years, Laraine Newman's talents, Mr.Mike's Least Loved Bedtime Tales--""he Little Train That Died".
Director:  Dave Wilson 
Guest starring:  Jodie Foster
 90 mins    12/11/1976  10.  Candice Bergen/Frank Zappa
Live from New York, it's... Gilda Radner! Sketches include: "Patty Hearst At Home," "Jimmy Carter Can't Keep His Promises," "Santi-Wrap," Consumer Probe, Fern and Friend in PSA for The Right to Extreme Stupidity League, FX-70 Cheese Slicer, The Killer Trees trailer, "Adopt John Belushi For Christmas," "Radioactive Fallout Report," and "Let's Kill Gary Gilmore For Christmas."
Director:  Dave Wilson 
Guest starring:  Candice Bergen
 90 mins    1/15/1977  11.  Ralph Nader/George Benson
Live from New York, It's...Ralph Nader Sketches include-- Ralph Nader wants to cut loose, Badmouthing Grandfather, Dress Rehearsal for Execution, The Confederate Takeover, "Baba Wawa At Large"" The Coneheads, "Youth Ask Questions", Andy Kaufman as Elvis, Testing Party Dolls.
Director:  Dave Wilson 
Guest starring:  Ralph Nader
 90 mins    1/22/1977  12.  Ruth Gordon/Chuck Berry
Live from New York, it's...John Belushi in a wheelchair! Sketches include-- Belushi's too sick to do the show, Barbara Streisand, Emily Litella and Her Sister, Tomorrow with Tom Snyder, Little Old Ladies of The Night, Asking the Babysitter About Sex, E. Buzz Miller, Crazy Frank Commercial parody, and Mr. Mike's Least-Loved Bedtime Tales.
Director:  Dave Wilson 
Guest starring:  Ruth Gordon
 90 mins    1/29/1977  13.  Fran Tarkenton/Leo Sayer, Donny Harper
Sketches include-- Locker Room Pep Talk, Swiss Army Gun, Amputated Football Player, Black Perspective, "Grand Stand", Rhonda Weiss, Community Appeal, Anabolic Steroids Cereal, Amy Carter and the Secret Service, The Hotel Room.
Director:  Dave Wilson 
Guest starring:  Fran Tarkenton
 90 mins    2/20/1977  14.  Steve Martin/The Kinks
Live from the Mardi Gras, it's Saturday Night on Sunday! The cast of SNL participate in the annual festivities in New Orleans. Jane Curtin and Buck Henry (try to) provide commentary on the Bacchus parade, while Randy Newman performs four times. Penny Marshall appears with the Mystic Krewe of Apollo drag ball, and Eric Idle gets a cushy cameo reporting where nothing is happening.
Director:  Dave Wilson 
 90 mins    2/26/1977  15.  Sissy Spacek/Richard Baskin
Live from New York, It's...Steve Martin Sketches include-- Steve Martin's Ego Trip, Happy Feet, The Coneheads, Celebrity Weightlifting, Dr. Breadloaf Quickloss Diet Book, Pulling the Plug, Hollywood Bingo, Plenty in Common, Roots II
Director:  Dave Wilson 
Guest starring:  Steve Martin
 90 mins    3/12/1977  16.  Broderick Crawford/The RCO All-Stars, The Meters
Live From New York, It's...Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner, and Sissy Spacek! Sketches include-- "Dave Wilson's Dead," "Burger Master," "Ask President Carter", "How Your Children Grow", "Belushi's Olympic Dream," "Gidget's Disease," "Bad Playhouse," and "White Trash Couple."
Director:  Dave Wilson 
Guest starring:  Sissy Spacek
 90 mins    3/19/1977  17.  Jack Burns/Santana
Live From New York, It's...Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, & Linda Ronstadt Sketches include-- "Goodbye Saccharine", Samurai Hit-Man, "Mel's Hide Heaven", Bill Murray--The New Guy, Lucy Ricardo's Nuke Job, "Highway Patrol", "Baba Wawa At Large", Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover.
Director:  Dave Wilson 
Guest starring:  Broderick Crawford
 90 mins    3/26/1977  18.  Julian Bond/Tom Waits, Brick
Live From New York, It's...John Belushi Sketches include-- Belushi Refuses to Say Live From New York, The Coneheads, Marine Wedding, "The Untouchables", "The Story of The Squatters", "Ask Big Daddy", Washed Up Comedy Writer, Suicidal Buisnessman, Old-Fashioned Pharmacist.
Director:  Dave Wilson 
Guest starring:  Jack Burns
 90 mins    4/9/1977  19.  Elliott Gould/The McGarrigle Sisters, Roslyn Kind
Live From New York, It's...Gilda Radner Sketches include-- Emily Litella's New Love, Lowell Brock, Black Perspective, "Dr.X, Family Counselor", Right On Afro Lustre, Great Moments In Motown, Creeley's Soup, Bad Cinema, George Wallace, Julian and Andrew Young Talk With President Carter.
Director:  Dave Wilson 
Guest starring:  Julian Bond
 90 mins    4/16/1977  20.  Eric Idle/Neil Innes, Alan Price
Live From New York, It's...John Belushi! Sketches include-- Brezhnev Wants to Appear on Carson, The Castration Walk, Nick The Lounge Singer, You've Come a Long Way, Buddy, United Face Bank, Jason and Sunshine, Pilson Feedbag Dinners.
Director:  Dave Wilson 
Guest starring:  Elliott Gould
 90 mins    4/23/1977  21.  Shelley Duvall/Joan Armatrading
Live From New York, It's...Bill Murray Sketches include-- Potato Torture, The American Dope Growers Union, "The Nixon Interviews", Flight Attendant Sherry, "Plain Talk", "Heavy Wit Championship", Bill Murray's Bad Childhood Memories, "Telethon for Britian", "The Battle of Britain". Gary Weis film: Body Language.
Director:  Dave Wilson 
Guest starring:  Eric Idle
 90 mins    5/14/1977  22.  Buck Henry/Kenny Vance, Jennifer Warnes
Live From New York, It's...John Belushi Sketches include-- Bee Sketch Is Pre-Empted by Norton-Bobick Fight, Video Vixens, Badly Disguised Bank Robber, Viva Las Vegas II, "Baba Wawa At Large", Feuding Couple, "Bad Ballet", "Night of The Moonies", Audience Member Chevy.
Director:  Dave Wilson 
Guest starring:  Shelley Duvall
 90 mins    5/21/1977  23.  Special. Live from the Mardi Gras
Live From New York, It's...Gilda Radner Sketches include-- Carter's Energy Saving Message, Buck Performs A Live Sex Act, Samurai B.M.O.C, The Shower Mike, The Coneheads Return to Remulak, Rhonda Weiss's Bridal Shower, Charles Lindbergh Meets the Land Shark.
Director:  Dave Wilson 
Guest starring:  Buck Henry
Edition Details
Edition Retail
Series Saturday Night Live
Distributor Universal Studios
Release Date 12/4/2007
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Subtitles English; English (Closed Captioned)
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Stereo [English]
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 8

Features
Disc 01 SNL Mardi Gras Special Dress Rehearsal Audio Andy Kaufman Screen Test 1976-77 Collector's Scrapbook