Sat, Jan 12, 1985
Check out these selected sketches and segments from the 1985 episode hosted by two-time Golden Globe winning actress Kathleen Turner. Sketches include: "Donahue Green Room", "Willie & Frankie Waterskiing", "Nose Hair Trimmer" "Saturday Night News", "The Joe Franklin Show" and SNL Commercial Parody "Safeco". For clearances reasons, episodes have been edited from their original version.
Sat, Jan 19, 1985
Watch these selected sketches and segments from the 1985 episode hosted by Jaws star Roy Schneider. Sketches include: "Reagan Inauguration", "Phil and Ricky on Super Sunday", "Good Cop Bad Cop" and "Chock Full O Nuts". For clearances reasons, episodes have been edited from their original version.
Sat, Feb 2, 1985
Film and TV veteran Alex Karras hosts this 1985 episode featuring selected sketches such as: "Prince at SNL", "Time for Time", "A Couple of White Guys", "Kelly Cola", "Bait & Tackle" and the SNL Commercial Parody "Kaddafi Jeans". For clearances reasons, episodes have been edited from their original version.
Sat, Mar 2, 1985
Does not include musical performances or sketches containing licensed music. America's premier sketch-comedy show returns for its 39th season LIVE from Studio 8H in New York City. This season, the cast includes Vanessa Bayer, Taran Killam, Seth Meyers, Bobby Moynihan, Nasim Pedrad, Jay Pharoah, Kenan Thompson, featuring Beck Bennett, Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, John Milhiser, Kyle Mooney, Mike O'Brien, Cecily Strong, Noël Wells, and Brooks Wheelan. Check out these selected sketches and segments from each of this season's episodes, so you can make every night a Saturday Night.
Sat, Mar 30, 1985
Wrestlemania stars Mr. T and Hulk Hogan host this 1985 episode with special guest appearance by Liberace. Selected sketches include: "I Am Also The World", SNL Commercial Parody "Reagan Jeans", "Toxic Waste", "Mr. T and Hulk Hogan Reply", "Nathan Thurm's Mistress" and "The Joe Franklin Show". For clearances reasons, episodes have been edited from their original version.
Sat, Apr 6, 1985
Watch selected sketches and segments from the 1985 episode hosted by Superman actor Christopher Reeve with gues performance by Steven Wright. Selected sketches include: "Superman Auditions", "Escaping the Germans", "Talk Back" and "Saturday Night News". For clearances reasons, episodes have been edited from their original version.
Sat, Apr 13, 1985
Watch famed sports journalist Howard Cosell host this 1985 episode with selected sketches such as: "Willie and Frankie", "Inside Out", "Run Throw and Catch Like a Girl Olympics", "Howard's Bar Mitzvah", "Fernando's Hideaway" and "Dr. Ruth". For clearances reasons, episodes have been edited from their original version.
Sat, Nov 9, 1985
No cold opening. In her monologue, the host Madonna talks about her and Sean Penn's recent secretive wedding and shows mockumentary clips from it. Hell beer commercial carries a warning for the soul. The Reagans spend a quiet evening with Prince Charles and Lady Di at the White House but tongues get loose after a few drinks and Nancy gets frisky. The musical guest Simple Minds perform their song Alive and Kicking. Twitchy street fences Jones & Jones offer the best cheapest goods in town. Dennis Miller makes his first appearance as the anchorperson on the Weekend Update. He comments on the USSR's paranoid reaction to Halley's Comet, the US and USSR's peace talks, Georgia's ironic anti-gay law, Ferdinand Marcos hold over the Philippines elections, the passing of Orson Welles, the new way to throw away the garbage, Libya, the Palestinian PLO and Jehovah's Witnesses clash, clinical death record, the Beatrice Company expansion, Louis Farrakhan's similarities to Pee-wee Herman, the ironic dilemma of illegal immigrant and US lottery winner Jose Caballero, the controversial policy of the World News Agency and Jordan King Hussein's arms deal with the Philadelphia police department. Finally, Dennis makes the wish of SNL's viewer Bobby to take on major league baseball pitcher Goose Gossage come true but hubris intervenes. Madonna performs a funny version of A-ha's Take On Me on a Spanish variety show La Cucaracha Motel. Penn bets the audience that he'll pull off a magic trick with cards before his partner Teller drowns in a tightly locked tank filled with water but things don't go as he planned. National Inquirer Theater's questionable reenactment of the violent death of Marylin Monroe involves the Kennedy brothers and a mentalist. Simple Minds perform their song Sanctify Yourself. The host of the Twilight Zone-esque Limits of the Imagination intervenes during the story. An awkward movie shoot with an ironic twist portrays a gay actor's fear of "Pinklisting", a new scare in Hollywood caused by the AIDS outbreak. An African American teenage mother promotes her educational "I Don't Want a Baby" coloring book.
Sat, Dec 7, 1985
In cold open, President Reagan ignores Dr. Federico's appeal to use nukes against an incoming killer comet. In his monologue, jet-lagged John Lithgow mistakes the live show for a pre-show dress rehearsal. Hell beer ad has a warning for your soul. Uptight family man Bob Danielson has something up his behind. Master thespian Jonathan Yankolovichy and his mentor Baudelaire have a deadly acting duel. Texan car salesmen Rudy Randolph wants to sell you a Rolls-Royce. A time-wasting ad successfully wastes your time. John is a caring father who only talks in clicheed metaphors, phrases and expressions, which aggravates his heartbroken daughter Joan to no end. Pop rock band Mr. Mister perform their hit song Broken Wings. On Weekend Update, Dennis discusses Reagan's claim that an alien threat could unite the planet and end the Cold War, Reagan's Star Wars weapons program, US gymnast and 1984 Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton's selling out to ad companies, the gruesome results of the "Search for Captain Crunch" competition, the acquittal of the death squad responsible for the murder of Filipino opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr., Reagan's stuffing of a turkey, former hippie Wally Paxton who claims to be the inventor of Granola and is disillusioned by its commercialization, the resignation of Reagan's national security adviser Robert McFarlane over his rivalry with the White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan, Exxon's plans for the year, the White House's plan to hire Brooke Shields as a spokesperson against selling US secrets to foreign countries, the subscription to Omni magazine, the 40th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the 920th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings and anchor Phyllis George's attack on CBS's executives. The segment wraps up with Damon as a political commentator from the hood who comments on the US - USSR negotiations, the Star Wars initiative and the threat of nuclear war. Next, Nancy Reagan dreams about being a femme fatal cabaret singer. Popular stand up comedian Sam Kinison does his stand up bit about Jesus. In the 19th century, mutiny on the Cameron fails due to a lack of demands. Trojan ad turns to patriotic Americans. Mr. Mister performs their song Kyrie. On the Twilight Zone-sque The Limits of Imagination episode, a couple goes to an "all you can eat" restaurant not realizing that this place takes that slogan literally.
Sat, Dec 14, 1985
The host is Tom Hanks and the musical guest is Sade. The sketches are: on "Entertainment Tonight", Brooke Shields claims that her film career stalled after turning down "Scarface" and "Once Upon a Time in America"; Paul meets two stand-up comedians; Pat Stevens interviews Louis Farrakhan; Steve has a fantasy; Tommy Flanagan meets his brother Earl; Tomaso and Mateo are fishermen. Sade performs "Is It a Crime?" and "The Sweetest Taboo". Steven Wright performs a stand-up.