Saturday Night Live aired its thirteenth season during the 1987–1988 television season on NBC. Season 13 started on October 17, 1987 and ended on February 27, 1988.
Before the start of the season few changes happened. Kevin Nealon was promoted to repertory status and Al Franken returned to the cast.
Although the changes to the cast were minimal there were, however, major events that impeded the show's production. During production of the season premiere, a fire broke out near Studio 8H during dress rehearsal.
Despite plans to cancel the show for the week, Steve Martin pushed the cast to perform, making the Steve Martin/Sting episode the only episode without a dress rehearsal.
On March 7, 1988, the Writers Guild of America went on strike, cancelling many planned episodes, including one originally planned to be hosted by former "Not Ready for Primetime" player Gilda Radner. Radner, however, would never get the chance to host due to her death from ovarian cancer the following year. The host for the March 12, 1988 broadcast was never confirmed.
Release Date
Oct 17, 1987
Episodes
13 episodes
CAST
Dana Carvey
Self - Various Characters
Nora Dunn
Self - Various Characters
Dennis Miller
Self - Various Characters
Jon Lovitz
Self - Various Characters
EPISODES
1
Steve Martin/Sting
Oct 17, 1987
2
Sean Penn/L.L. Cool J., Michael Penn & the Pull
Oct 24, 1987
3
Dabney Coleman/The Cars
Oct 31, 1987
4
Robert Mitchum/Simply Red
Nov 14, 1987
5
Candice Bergen/Cher
Nov 21, 1987
6
Danny DeVito/Bryan Ferry
Dec 5, 1987
7
Angie Dickinson/Buster Poindexter & David Gilmour
Dec 12, 1987
8
Paul Simon/Linda Ronstadt & the Mariachi Vargas
Dec 19, 1987
9
Robin Williams/James Taylor
Jan 23, 1988
10
Carl Weathers/Robbie Robertson
Jan 30, 1988
11
Justine Bateman/Terrance Trent D'Arby
Feb 13, 1988
12
Tom Hanks/Randy Travis
Feb 20, 1988
13
Judge Reinhold/10,000 Maniacs
Feb 27, 1988
Details
Language
English
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Production
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Metadata
TMDB ID
59600