Saturday Evening Stay will re-air its first-ever episode from October eleventh, 1975, in celebration of the present’s fiftieth anniversary on Saturday, February fifteenth, at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT.
The inaugural episode of SNL — then recognized merely as Saturday Evening — was hosted by George Carlin and featured musical friends Billy Preston and Janice Ian. The episode additionally featured an look from comic Andy Kaufman and a sketch from Muppets creator Jim Henson, in addition to SNL solid members Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, and Gilda Radner. The lead-up to the episode was just lately dramatized in Jason Reitman’s movie, Saturday Evening.
The rebroadcast of SNL’s first episode is a part of an enormous celebratory weekend that additionally features a Friday night time live performance from Radio Metropolis Music Corridor, and a three-hour dwell primetime particular going down on Sunday, February sixteenth.