Streaming, rent, or buy Saturday Night Live – Season 5:
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21 Episodes
S5 E1 - Steve Martin/Blondie
S5 E2 - Eric Idle/Bob Dylan
S5 E3 - Bill Russell/Chicago
S5 E4 - Buck Henry/Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
S5 E5 - Bea Arthur/The Roches
S5 E6 - Howard Hesseman/Randy Newman
S5 E7 - Martin Sheen/David Bowie
S5 E8 - Ted Knight/Desmond Child and Rouge
S5 E9 - Teri Garr/The B-52's
S5 E10 - Chevy Chase/Marianne Faithfull
S5 E11 - Elliott Gould/Gary Numan
S5 E12 - Kirk Douglas/Sam and Dave
S5 E13 - Rodney Dangerfield/J. Geils Band
S5 E14 - Paul Simon/James Taylor
S5 E15 - Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss/The Grateful Dead
S5 E16 - Burt Reynolds/Anne Murray
S5 E17 - Strother Martin/The Specials
S5 E18 - Bob Newhart/The Amazing Rhythm Aces, Bruce Cockburn
S5 E19 - Steve Martin/Paul and Linda McCartney
S5 E20 - Buck Henry/Andrew Gold
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20 Episodes - 89min
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Streaming details for Saturday Night Live - Season 5 on Apple TV
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20 Episodes - 89min - English
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Streaming details for Saturday Night Live - Season 5 on Peacock Premium
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20 Episodes - 89min - English
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Streaming details for Saturday Night Live - Season 5 on Peacock Premium
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20 Episodes - 89min - English
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Streaming details for Saturday Night Live - Season 5 on Peacock Premium Plus
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9/1/2026
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89min
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20 Episodes - 89min
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$29.99
Streaming details for Saturday Night Live - Season 5 on Amazon Video
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89min
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20 Episodes - 89min
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$29.99
Streaming details for Saturday Night Live - Season 5 on Apple TV
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89min
Quality
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20 Episodes - 89min - English
Buy
$29.99
Streaming details for Saturday Night Live - Season 5 on Fandango At Home
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Synopsis
Saturday Night Live aired its fifth season during the 1979–1980 television season on NBC, and also the final season with the original cast. This fifth season started on October 13, 1979 and ended on May 24, 1980. SNL's fifth season was released on DVD on December 1, 2009. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd left the show at the end of the fourth season, leaving a void in the cast that most fans thought would be the beginning of the end of the late-night sketch show. To keep the show going, Lorne Michaels upgraded many of the show's writers to cast member status: Peter Aykroyd, Jim Downey, Brian Doyle-Murray, Don Novello, Tom Schiller and Alan Zweibel. Band leader Paul Shaffer also joined the cast, becoming the first person from the SNL band to become a cast member. Harry Shearer joined the show as a featured cast member and was promoted to repertory status during the season. This would be the final season for everyone in the cast. Tom Davis and Downey would return to the show in future seasons as writers. Al Franken, Doyle-Murray, Novello, and Shearer would rejoin the cast in future seasons.
