Saturday Night Live season 4
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The fourth season of Saturday Night Live, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between October 7, 1978, and May 26, 1979.
The season 4 DVD was released on December 2, 2008.
Cast
The entire cast from the previous season returned. The only change was Bill Murray's joining Jane Curtin as co-anchor for Weekend Update, replacing Dan Aykroyd. This would be the final season for Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as cast members (who both left to work on SNL's first film, The Blues Brothers).
bold denotes Weekend Update anchor
Writers
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This season's writers were Dan Aykroyd, Anne Beatts, Tom Davis, Jim Downey, Brian Doyle-Murray, Al Franken, Brian McConnachie, Lorne Michaels, Don Novello, Herb Sargent, Tom Schiller, Rosie Shuster, Walter Williams and Alan Zweibel.
Members of the writing staff were credited as "special guests" in the opening montage in episodes where they performed a segment of their own material. Al Franken and Tom Davis, usually billed as "the comedy team of Franken and Davis", and Don Novello, credited as "and a special report from Father Guido Sarducci," appeared throughout the season, with former/original writer Michael O'Donoghue returning for the finale as a special guest, credited as "impressionist Michael O'Donoghue." Novello did seven appearances as Sarducci, while Franken and Davis did four appearances.
Episodes
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Special
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See also
References
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