Saturday Night Live aired its fourth season during the 1978–1979 television season on NBC. The fourth season started on October 7, 1978 and ended on May 26, 1979. The season four DVD was released on December 2, 2008.
The entire cast from the previous season returned. This would be the final season for Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. Aykroyd and Belushi left to work on The Blues Brothers film.
Release Date
Oct 7, 1978
Episodes
20 episodes
CAST
John Belushi
Self - Various Characters
Laraine Newman
Self - Various Characters
Gilda Radner
Self - Various Characters
Jane Curtin
Self - Various Characters
EPISODES
1
The Rolling Stones
Oct 7, 1978
2
Fred Willard/Devo
Oct 14, 1978
3
Frank Zappa
Oct 21, 1978
4
Steve Martin/Van Morrison
Nov 4, 1978
5
Buck Henry/The Grateful Dead
Nov 11, 1978
6
Carrie Fisher/The Blues Brothers
Nov 18, 1978
7
Walter Matthau/Garrett Morris
Dec 2, 1978
8
Eric Idle/Kate Bush
Dec 9, 1978
9
Elliott Gould/Peter Tosh with Mick Jagger
Dec 16, 1978
10
Michael Palin/The Doobie Brothers
Jan 27, 1979
11
Cicely Tyson/Talking Heads
Feb 10, 1979
12
Rick Nelson/Judy Collins
Feb 17, 1979
13
Kate Jackson/Delbert McClinton
Feb 24, 1979
14
Gary Busey/Gary Busey with Rick Danko and Paul Butterfield, Eubie Blake
Mar 10, 1979
15
Margot Kidder/The Chieftains
Mar 17, 1979
16
Richard Benjamin/Rickie Lee Jones
Apr 7, 1979
17
Milton Berle/Ornette Coleman
Apr 14, 1979
18
Michael Palin/James Taylor
May 12, 1979
19
Maureen Stapleton/Linda Ronstadt, Phoebe Snow
May 19, 1979
20
Buck Henry/Bette Midler
May 26, 1979
Details
Language
English
Country
Production
Network
Metadata
TMDB ID
59591