Country of origin United States Original network NBC | No. of episodes 20 | |
Original release October 7, 1978 (1978-10-07) – May 26, 1979 (1979-05-26) | ||
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.
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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 film The Blues Brothers.
The season four DVD was released on December 2, 2008.
Cast
bold denotes Weekend Update anchor
Writers
Walter Williams, creator of the Mr. Bill shorts, joined the writing staff.
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. The head writer was Herb Sargent.