Saturday Night Live
Season 7
TV-14
Saturday Night Live aired its seventh season during the 1981–1982 television season on NBC. The seventh season started on October 3, 1981 and ended on May 22, 1982. A total of 20 episodes were broadcast.
Following the dismissal of producer Jean Doumanian and most of her cast members, the show was shut down due to the commencement of the 1981 WGA strike.
Dick Ebersol, the program's developer, was hired as Doumanian's replacement. The new cast of Saturday Night Live for this season were the same ones from the episode Ebersol produced on the April 11, 1981 episode: Robin Duke, Tim Kazurinsky and Tony Rosato along with the Doumanian era's sole survivors Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo. Denny Dillon and Gail Matthius were fired following the April 1981 episode while Laurie Metcalf and unseen castmember Emily Prager weren't asked back to be cast members on the show.
Ebersol then hired two new cast members: Mary Gross and Christine Ebersole. Both were hired to fill the gap left by Metcalf and Prager.
Wanting to distance the show from its first five seasons, Ebersol cut the popular opening line Live from New York, It's Saturday Night! from the cold openings. In fact, sometimes cold openings weren't even shown and the monologues were skipped over almost entirely. These changes were not permanent, as Ebersol decided to reverse them for the eighth season.
Following the dismissal of producer Jean Doumanian and most of her cast members, the show was shut down due to the commencement of the 1981 WGA strike.
Dick Ebersol, the program's developer, was hired as Doumanian's replacement. The new cast of Saturday Night Live for this season were the same ones from the episode Ebersol produced on the April 11, 1981 episode: Robin Duke, Tim Kazurinsky and Tony Rosato along with the Doumanian era's sole survivors Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo. Denny Dillon and Gail Matthius were fired following the April 1981 episode while Laurie Metcalf and unseen castmember Emily Prager weren't asked back to be cast members on the show.
Ebersol then hired two new cast members: Mary Gross and Christine Ebersole. Both were hired to fill the gap left by Metcalf and Prager.
Wanting to distance the show from its first five seasons, Ebersol cut the popular opening line Live from New York, It's Saturday Night! from the cold openings. In fact, sometimes cold openings weren't even shown and the monologues were skipped over almost entirely. These changes were not permanent, as Ebersol decided to reverse them for the eighth season.
Where to Watch Season 7
20 Episodes
- (no host)/Rod Stewart
E1(no host)/Rod StewartSketches include ""Our Age is Showing,"" ""The Little Richard Simmons Show,"" ""The Clams"" (film), ""Nuns on the Beach,"" ""A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney,"" ""Prose and Cons"" (film), ""The Khaddaffi Look,"" ""Ruth Deals With Rod,"" ""Andy Warhol,"" Juggling with Michael Davis, and ""Season of Glass"" (film). - Susan Saint James/The Kinks
E2Susan Saint James/The KinksSketches include ""McDonald & Wife,"" ""The Bizarro World,"" ""Buckwheat Sings,"" ""Skanky Fiancee,"" ""Cheap Laffs,"" and ""The Alan Alda Guide to Sensitivity."" The Kinks performed ""Destroyer"" and Christine Ebersole performed ""Single Bars and Single Women."" Also featured is an Anwar Sadat tribute film. - Donald Pleasence/Fear
E4Donald Pleasence/FearSketches include ""Vomiting for Luck,"" ""Jogger Motel,"" ""Profiles in British Courage,"" ""Last Night I Killed My Husband"" (musical number), ""Sugar Breakfast"" and ""Andy Warhol's TV."" Fear performed ""I Don't Care About You"" and medley of ""Beef Bologna,"" ""New York's Alright If You Like Saxophones,"" and ""Let's Have A War."" - Bernadette Peters/The Go-Go's, Billy Joel
E6Bernadette Peters/The Go-Go's, Billy JoelJohnny Keep Your Gun Clean, Escape from New York Films, I Married a Monkey, A Message to Young White Viewers, Hidden Photo, Bedtime Story, Man Ray and Mic, Sketch in the Dark, 42nd Street, Nick the Knock, Rock 'N Roll Heaven Incorporated. - James Coburn/Lindsey Buckingham
E11James Coburn/Lindsey BuckinghamSketches include: President's Birthday, Reach Out, I Married a Monkey, Mr. Robinson Neighborhood, Jesus in Blue Jeans, Crazy Mary Gay Jim, Victims of 60 Minutes, Magnificent Analyst, The Khaddaffi Look, Unique Perspectives, Those Crazy Taboosters. - Elizabeth Ashley/Hall and Oates
E13Elizabeth Ashley/Hall and OatesSketches include: CBS Evening News, Damn Plastic Bubble, Speaking as a Woman, African Tour, Musical Performance "You Make My Dreams", Joseph Papp Auditions, Musical Performance "I Can't Go For That", Girls to Women, Lowembrau, Musical Performance "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" - Robert Culp/The Charlie Daniels Band
E18Robert Culp/The Charlie Daniels BandSketches include: Tennis Club Locker Room, Middle Age of Aquarius, Party Girl, Musical Performance "Still in Saigon", Egg & Sperm, James Brown is Annie. U.S.S. Cunningham , Babies In Makeup, Happy's, Musical Performance "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" - Danny DeVito/Sparks
E19Danny DeVito/SparksSketches include ""Louis DePalma's Revenge,"" ""The Executive Test,"" ""The Whiners on an Airplane,"" ""Solomon and Pudge,"" ""Enzo,"" and ""Looks at Books."" Sparks performs ""Mickey Mouse."" Also, Brian Doyle-Murray interviews recently humbled actor-wrestler Andy Kaufman.
