Saturday Night Live (season 4)

• The monologue was delivered by the then-Mayor of New York City Ed Koch.
• Bill Murray replaced Dan Aykroyd as co-anchor of Weekend Update.
• Features a "Schiller's Reel" film called "Sushi by the Pool", featuring Desi Arnaz, Jr., Carrie Fisher, and Steven Keats with special guest Hal Holbrook
• The Rolling Stones performed "Beast of Burden", "Respectable" and "Shattered"— all from the June 1978 album Some Girls.
• Two sketches featured Rolling Stones members: the Tomorrow Show parody, in which Tom Snyder (Dan Aykroyd) interviews Mick Jagger, and the Olympia Cafe sketch, which features Ron Wood and Charlie Watts.

• Devo performed two songs from their July 1978 debut album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!: a cover of the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", and "Jocko Homo"; the performance of the latter was preceded by an excerpt from the band's short film, The Truth About De-Evolution.

• Frank Zappa was unpopular with the cast and crew through both rehearsals and taping of the episode, possibly in part due to the fact that their lax views on drug and alcohol consumption did not mesh with his rigid anti-drug stance.^[1] This was highlighted in the sketch "Night on Freak Mountain", which also featured Paul Shaffer as Don Kirshner.
• Throughout the episode, he regularly mugged for the camera and frequently noted to the audience that he was reading from cue cards.^[1] During the "Goodnights" segment, most of the cast stood with their backs turned away from the musician.^[1] Following the episode, he was banned from Saturday Night Live and would not appear on the program again before his death in 1993.^[1]
• Zappa and his band performed three songs that had not been released at that point: "Dancin' Fool" from the 1979's Sheik Yerbouti, "The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing" from 1981's You Are What You Is, and the instrumental "Rollo", which had been cut from 1973's Apostrophe (') and would remain unreleased until 2006's Imaginary Diseases.^[1]
• During Zappa's performance of "Rollo", John Belushi, in character as Samurai Futaba, briefly appeared onstage with the group.^[1] Singing into a microphone duct taped to the body of an electric guitar, Belushi carried out a call and response bit with Zappa's band.

• Van Morrison performed two songs from his September 1978 release Wavelength: the title track and "Kingdom Hall".^[2]
• The show was running long and it forced the last sketch to get cut off. Steve Martin apologized during the goodnights and promised to do the sketch the "next time [he] hosts in February." Unfortunately, Steve never ended up coming back until the following season at which point Dan Aykroyd had left the cast. The sketch was never redone.

• This is Buck's seventh time as host
• "Samurai Optometrist"
• First appearance of "Uncle Roy" sketch
• The Dead play "Casey Jones" and "I Need a Miracle/Good Lovin'" medley
• John Belushi as Elizabeth Taylor chokes on chicken
• First appearance of "Chico Escuela"

• The Blues Brothers open the show with "Soul Man"
• An appearance by Father Guido Sarducci

• There was no billed musical guest for this episode. At host Matthau's request, Garrett Morris performed Mozart's "Dalla sua pace" ("On her peace"), an aria from Don Giovanni.

• Kate Bush performs "The Man with the Child in His Eyes" and "Them Heavy People"
• The sketch "What Do You?", written by Idle, originally appeared on Monty Python's Previous Record.
• Candy Slice performs

• Elliot Gould and Garrett Morris sang "It's Christmas Time in Harlem" during the opening monologue, accompanied by Paul Shaffer
• "Mommie Dearest" sketch
• "Point/Counterpoint" regarding relations with China
• The comedy team of "Bob and Ray"

Al Franken and Tom Davis Father Guido Sarducci

• Michael Palin reprises his sleazy music teacher character Mr. Brighton for another sketch with the Nerds.
• The Doobie Brothers performed "What a Fool Believes" and "Takin' It to the Streets"
• Dickens's "Miles Cowperthwaite", Part 1
• Mr Bill Goes to Court

• Talking Heads perform "Take Me to the River" and "Artists Only" from their album More Songs About Buildings and Food.^[3]

• Nelson performs a medley of his classic hits from the 1950s, Hello Mary Lou, Travelin Man and Fools Rush In for the monologue. He later performs his version of Dream Lover
• Judy Collins only performs one song, Hard Times for Lovers
• Twilight Zone skit featuring classic tv shows Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best, Make Room for Daddy and I Love Lucy
• Candy Slice performs

Andy Kaufman Father Guido Sarducci

• A running gag throughout the show is Fred Silverman trying to sabotage the NBC's line-up
• Brian Doyle-Murray is one of the people taking a tour during the opening monologue
• Kate Jackson plays a nurse who Bill Murray falls for in a sketch involving the Nerds.
• Andy Kaufman plays the bongos and yodels
• "Bad Cabarat for Children" with Leonard Pinth-Garnell
• Mr Bill Goes on a Diet
• This episode marks the last appearance of the Coneheads.

• Brian Doyle-Murray is one of Belushi's sycophants during the cold open and also appears as an audience member with a question in "Women's Problems"
• Paul Shaffer plays the bass in Busey's rock-n-roll band in the 1950s sketch
• Bill Murray stars in the Tom Schiller short, "Perchance to Dream"
• Busey's band performs "Stay a Little Longer"

Al Franken and Tom Davis Father Guido Sarducci

• Lorne Michaels and the production staff appear with Margot and Gilda in the opening monologue
• "Point/Counterpoint" regarding Lee Marvin's palimony case
• Mr Bill hides from Mr Hands

• In the cold open, Belushi is sick and is replaced by an actor from NBC's replacement pool
• Rodney Dangerfield, Tom Davis, Al Franken, and Brian Doyle-Murray make cameo appearances in The China Syndrome parody ("The Pepsi Syndrome").
• One of the most popular sketches involving the Nerds where Todd and Lisa finally kiss.
• Chico Escuela tries for a comeback with the Mets with cameos from several Mets players.

• Berle reportedly did not get along with the cast, save for John Belushi.^[4] He originally only wanted to perform his stand-up routine in place of the show's sketches, and had to be convinced to perform in the comedy bits.^[5] He reportedly bossed around stagehands and the lighting crew.^[5]
• During rehearsals, Berle displayed his "legendary" large genitalia to writer Alan Zweibel in a dressing room.^[6] Gilda Radner walked in to the room while his penis was still out.^[5]
• Berle's long opening monologue featured bits from his nightclub stand-up routine that did not mesh with the younger audience, including jokes about women, "Arabs", homosexuals, George Burns, and retirees in Miami Beach.^[5][7] After about five minutes, an off-stage Bill Murray dropped a large pipe, making a loud noise and disrupting the comedian's routine.^[4] Shortly after, Berle was told by a producer at the foot of the stage that the monologue was over, which he responded incredulously to and briefly contested.^[5] During the audience's applause while transitioning to commercial, he can be seen angrily yelling while the house band looks on nervously.^[7]
• While on-air, Berle frequently mugged for the audience, did spit-takes, and ad-libbed straight to the camera.^[5] At the end of the show, Berle broke into a "dreary version" the 1950s standard "September Song" and according to Lorne Michaels, loaded the audience with friends and family members who awarded his performance of the tune with a standing ovation.^[5]
• Michaels has not authorized this episode for syndication due to Berle's performance.^[8][9] However, it was included on the Season Four DVD set.

Father Guido Sarducci

• Differently from most shows, the opening monologue went right to the first song by Taylor, who sings three songs in the show.
• Dickens's "Miles Cowperthwaite", Part 2
• Mr Bill Runs Away From Home

• "Point/Counterpoint" regarding nuclear energy
• Mr Bill Goes to the Movies
• Linda Ronstadt and Phoebe Snow do a duet of "The Married Men"

Michael O'Donoghue Al Franken and Tom Davis

• Mr Bill opens the show with "Live from New York...", but Jane Curtin interrupts the opening credits. John Belushi then opens the show prior, much to Jane's displeasure
• Jane Curtin mentions that she never got to say "Live from New York...", but she had actually said it several times with other castmembers like in the Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek episodes from Season 2
• The final appearance of Samurai Futaba and Olympia Cafe sketches.
• Second appearance of "Uncle Roy" sketch
• Bette Midler performed "Married Men" and "Martha" from her Thighs and Whispers album with The Harlettes (Katey Sagal and Jocelyn Brown) and Luther Vandross as backup singers
• "Schiller's Reel" film called "Clones Exist Now"
• Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi's final episode as cast members.