Saturday Night Live Season 4 Episode 17 Synopsis

Live from New York, it's... Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Garrett Morris, and Bill Murray!



Sketches include "Texaco Star Theater Intro," "The Widettes,"

"The Village Persons," "Launching Pad," "On The Spot," "Bobbi Farber's Father," "Milton's Writers," and "September Song."



Ornette Coleman performed "Times Square."

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 4 Episode 17 of Saturday Night Live resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Saturday Night Live Season 4 Episodes...

• s04e01 - The Rolling Stones
• s04e02 - Fred Willard/Devo
• s04e03 - Frank Zappa
• s04e04 - Steve Martin/Van Morrison
• s04e05 - Buck Henry/The Grateful Dead
• s04e06 - Carrie Fisher/The Blues Brothers
• s04e07 - Walter Matthau/Garrett Morris
• s04e08 - Eric Idle/Kate Bush
• s04e09 - Elliott Gould/Peter Tosh with Mick Jagger
• s04e10 - Michael Palin/The Doobie Brothers
• s04e11 - Cicely Tyson/Talking Heads
• s04e12 - Rick Nelson/Judy Collins
• s04e13 - Kate Jackson/Delbert McClinton
• s04e14 - Gary Busey/Rick Danko and Paul Butterfield, Eubie Blake and Gregory Hines
• s04e15 - Margot Kidder/The Chieftains
• s04e16 - Richard Benjamin/Rickie Lee Jones
• s04e17 - Milton Berle/Ornette Coleman
• s04e18 - Michael Palin/James Taylor
• s04e19 - Maureen Stapleton/Linda Ronstadt, Phoebe Snow
• s04e20 - Buck Henry/Bette Midler

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.