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I'm having an amazingly trivial disagreement with a good friend.
Everywhere you look on the internet, you are told that Saturday Night Live first aired in the fall of 1975.
However…I recall that it began the year before that, in 1974.
According to the IMDb, the 15th Anniversary TV special aired on September 24, 1989, which would mean that the show began in 1974.
Where could the "correct" information be found, outside the internet?
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Where could the "correct" information be found, outside the internet?
One way to find hard info off-Net would be to buy the relevant back-issues of TV Guide on eBay. Their program listings and network ad pages would be definitive if you can get them.
Also, do public libraries still maintain newspaper collections on microfilm, or the digitized scans of microfilm? They would also contain TV listings.
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Thanks for that idea, Zap!
Hmmm…now I'm wondering if the public library would have reference materials that would cover this question...
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Thanks for that idea, Zap!
Hmmm…now I'm wondering if the public library would have reference materials that would cover this question...
You must have replied while I was editing my message to add the public library idea.
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"You must have replied while I was editing my message to add the public library idea."
EXACTIMUNDO, ZapBrannigan!!!
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You can also try looking in the library for one of the many histories written about the show, if you need empirical evidence.
However, you can be sure that today is the anniversary. October 11th 1975.
I was there watching, and my DVD's of the complete seasons sets confirm episode #1 was broadcast Saturday October 11th, 1975.
There was another show on ABC called Saturday Night Live on at the same time. That's why SNL was actually called "NBC's Saturday Night" in it's earliest days. But it premiered in September of 1975, so that can't be what you're remembering.
It was a prime time variety show hosted by Howard Cosell of all people. Bill Murray was sketch player on the show a year before he appeared on Saturday Night Live.
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The authoritative Complete Directory to Network Prime Time and Cable TV Shows (sixth edition) lists October 11, 1975 as date of first telecast.
This is an actual paper book published in 1995 that I am holding in my hand.
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My first-ever glimpse of SNL was the STAR TREK skit, with John Belushi as Kirk and Dan Aykroyd as McCoy. I walked in mid-sketch and was totally confused and desperate to know what the hell this was. STAR TREK was my life at that point.
I didn't realize it could be a one-time comedy bit, because variety shows like Carol Burnett would not be on at this late hour. It shook me to my core.
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THANK YOU, Mr. DiMucci, and everyone else here who has…
PROVEN ME WRONG!!!
I needed to have the TRUTH, and you have given me the TRUTH!
Thank you all so much for your posts here.
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Where could the "correct" information be found, outside the internet?
Where is that, "outside the internet"?
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