Saturday Night Live season 12

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Saturday Night Live aired its twelfth season during the 1986-1987 television season on NBC. Despite plans to have SNL cancelled due to its disastrous 11th season, Lorne Michaels pushed Brandon Tartikoff to give the show another chance, provided that a better cast be found for the next season. As a result, many of season 11's castmembers were fired, save for Jon Lovitz, Nora Dunn, Weekend Update anchor Dennis Miller, and featured player A. Whitney Brown (with Al Franken hired back as a writer). Hired in their places were Jan Hooks (who auditioned to be in the season 11 cast, but was turned down for not being young enough), Victoria Jackson, Phil Hartman (who wrote season 11's Thanksgiving episode hosted by Pee Wee Herman and appeared in a sketch as a Pilgrim), Kevin Nealon, and Dana Carvey. This resulted in a new golden age for the show, as critics and (most) viewers began to comment on the show more favorably. In a Dallas-esque joke, the season started with Madonna (who hosted the first episode of the previous season with musical guest Simple Minds) reading a "statement" from NBC about season 11's mediocre writing and bad cast choices. According to the "statement", season 11 was "...all a dream. A horrible, horrible dream."

The 12th season started on October 11, 1986 (coincidentally, the 11th anniversary of the show's first episode), and ended on May 23, 1987.

1 Cast
- 1.1 Repertory cast members
- 1.2 Featured cast members
2 Episodes

[edit] Cast

[edit] Repertory cast members

[edit] Featured cast members

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Episode #	Air Date	Host(s)	Musical Guest(s)	Remarks
214 (12.1)	October 11, 1986	Sigourney Weaver	Buster Poindexter	Madonna appears in the cold opening to read a statement from NBC about the 1985-1986 season: "It was all a dream—a horrible, horrible dream" in a Dallas-esque spoof. Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey, Kevin Nealon, Victoria Jackson and Jan Hooks' first episode as cast members
215 (12.2)	October 18, 1986	Malcolm-Jamal Warner	Run DMC	Contrary to tradition, the host appeared in only two sketches: The Crosby Show and The Parent-Child Drinking Contract.
216 (12.3)	November 8, 1986	Rosanna Arquette	Ric Ocasek	This episode marks the first time that a first-run SNL episode did not air live on the East Coast. The episode was originally supposed to air live on October 25, but was pre-empted by the 1986 World Series until 1:00 am. Rather than air the episode live at that time, it was videotaped, and aired the week after the World Series.
217 (12.4)	November 15, 1986	Sam Kinison	Lou Reed	This episode, much like the Richard Pryor episode from 1975 and later the Andrew "Dice" Clay episode from 1990, was put on a seven-second delay. During Sam Kinison's guest performance, the part where he encourages the legalization of marijuana has been muted out.
218 (12.5)	November 22, 1986	Robin Williams	Paul Simon
219 (12.6)	December 6, 1986	Chevy Chase Steve Martin Martin Short	Randy Newman
219 (12.7)	December 13, 1986	Steve Guttenberg	The Pretenders
220 (12.8)	December 20, 1986	William Shatner	Lone Justice	This show features a sketch with William Shatner at a Star Trek convention telling Trekkies to "get a life!"
221 (12.9)	January 24, 1987	Joe Montana Walter Payton	Debbie Harry
222 (12.10)	January 31, 1987	Paul Shaffer	Bruce Hornsby & The Range
223 (12.11)	February 14, 1987	Bronson Pinchot	Paul Young Buster Poindexter
224 (12.12)	February 21, 1987	Willie Nelson
225 (12.13)	February 28, 1987	Valerie Bertinelli	Robert Cray Band	Bertinelli's then-husband, Eddie Van Halen, appeared in a sketch and played with the SNL Band
226 (12.14)	March 21, 1987	Bill Murray	Percy Sledge	On the original version of this episode, there is a Donahue sketch where one of the guests (played by Nora Dunn) reveals that she had a bad relationship with Jean Doumanian-era/Dick Ebersol-era castmember Joe Piscopo. All reruns of this sketch are replaced[citation needed] with a dress rehearsal version where Nora reveals that she had a bad relationship with Gallagher. With this episode Bill Murray is the only person to host shows produced by all three executive producers (Doumanian, Ebersol and Michaels).
227 (12.15)	March 28, 1987	Charlton Heston	Wynton Marsalis
228 (12.16)	April 11, 1987	John Lithgow	Anita Baker
229 (12.17)	April 18, 1987	John Larroquette	Timbuk 3
230 (12.18)	May 9, 1987	Mark Harmon	Suzanne Vega
231 (12.19)	May 16, 1987	Garry Shandling	Los Lobos
232 (12.20)	May 23, 1987	Dennis Hopper	Roy Orbison

Preceded by Season 11	Saturday Night Live Season 12	Succeeded by Season 13

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