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SNL: Season One!

post #1 of 23
10/13/06 at 4:29pm
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Originally Posted by The Digital Bits
So... you want some cool news to make the end of your week a happy one? This should do nicely then: Universal has just officially announced the DVD release of Saturday Night Live 1975-1976: The Complete First Season for 12/5! The 8-disc set (SRP $69.98) will include all 24 90-minute episodes complete with their original hosts and all the original musical guests. You also get a 32-page book of liner notes and rare case photos. I'll tell you, we were wondering if this would EVER happen. How cool will it be to be able to go back and enjoy vintage SNL just as it was originally broadcast? Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Garrett Morris, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman. Can you imagine? Frickin' awesome, man. AWESOME!
"I would like... to feed your fingertips... to the wolverines!"
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post #2 of 23
10/13/06 at 4:35pm
Fantastic news.
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post #3 of 23
10/13/06 at 4:48pm
Damn it, just when I had resolved to slow down on my expenses. This might be too good to pass up. (And the next few seasons are just as solid, so I'd better start revising the budget.)
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post #4 of 23
10/13/06 at 5:12pm
I am excited to rent these for the musical guests more than anything. Frank Zappa and Fear being the 2 I am dying to see.
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post #5 of 23
10/13/06 at 5:41pm
Not to mention all the falling down Gerald Ford you can get for that price.
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post #6 of 23
10/13/06 at 6:05pm
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Originally Posted by futtbuck
I am excited to rent these for the musical guests more than anything. Frank Zappa and Fear being the 2 I am dying to see.

Fear?

That's from 1981. I think you're going to have to wait a while.
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post #7 of 23
10/13/06 at 6:30pm
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I'm hoping these are actually stripped down with just the show, and not so much filler. That way they can push through with each season fairly quickly. I'll probably even wind up buying *shudder* the Ebersol years.

But I want every skit Phil Hartman ever did, and this looks like it'll be the only way to get them.

So much history. I just hope the musical guest stuff doesn't delay these too much (won't they receive a cut of any money?)
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post #8 of 23
10/13/06 at 7:21pm
Pretty much the awesomest DVD news in a long time. Very cool.
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post #9 of 23
10/13/06 at 7:47pm
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Originally Posted by Nordling
But I want every skit Phil Hartman ever did, and this looks like it'll be the only way to get them.
Glad I'm not the only one who loved the work of Phil Hartman.

As much as I love the classic line-up, I want the 1985 (I think) season with Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer. That year was golden.
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post #10 of 23
10/13/06 at 9:18pm
Wow. Never thouht they'd do this. I can't imagine myself sitting through an entire season, though.
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post #11 of 23
10/14/06 at 12:35am
"Jane, you ignorant slut!"
This is great, I haven't seen most of the original seasons since they originally aired. Here and especially with the late 80's, there's tons of throw-away sketches that otherwise would have been lost to the ages. A wonderful collection of history thats for sure. To see Chevy in his prime, full of piss and vinegar will be great.

The down side, it's a fucking gi-normous money pit.
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post #12 of 23
10/14/06 at 12:38am
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Originally Posted by Judas Booth
Glad I'm not the only one who loved the work of Phil Hartman.

As much as I love the classic line-up, I want the 1985 (I think) season with Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer. That year was golden.

That's the 1984-85 season. Hard to believe that line-up, along with Martin Short lasted only one year. As much as I hate Billy Crystal, he rocked his comedy ass here. I would love to see a movie with him and Guest doing thier, "Ever take one of those, uh....."Cheese graters?" "
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post #13 of 23
10/14/06 at 3:17am
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Originally Posted by Nordling
But I want every skit Phil Hartman ever did, and this looks like it'll be the only way to get them.
Hell yeah. And they can keep the music footage, I just want the skits.
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post #14 of 23
10/19/06 at 8:51pm
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Originally Posted by Nordling
I'm hoping these are actually stripped down with just the show, and not so much filler. That way they can push through with each season fairly quickly. I'll probably even wind up buying *shudder* the Ebersol years.
I'd say it's 50/50 that the Ebersol seasons are even released--I'd wager they'll skip from 80 to 86, maybe going back and filling in those missing seasons after they release the rest of Michaels' stuff.
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post #15 of 23
12/6/06 at 7:54pm
So how many people picked this up yesterday?
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post #16 of 23
12/12/06 at 6:40am
Old Ricky Ricardo is creepy.
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post #17 of 23
12/12/06 at 7:06am
Too damn expensive, but will eventually.
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post #18 of 23
12/12/06 at 11:26pm
I've only seen the first episode with Carlin so far. Fucking weird. I don't want to know how high you'd have to get to laugh at the Jim Henson puppet routines. Chase is all over the place on the first "Weekend Update" and looks like he has no idea where the camera is. Billy Preston singing "Nothing from Nothing" was pretty cool.
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post #19 of 23
1/1/07 at 3:03pm
The first 3 episodes aren't SNL. There are virtually no skits. The 3rd one with Paul Simon is just Paul Simon. There was the news and all music with a decent basketball skit with Simon. Why do a sketch comedy show with no sketches?

The 4th episode with Candice Bergin is where it starts to look like SNL with the host actually in a skit and having actual skits. They havve talent in their prime and they don't even use them.

I'm only up to 5 that had Robert Klein and ABBA. They lip synced their last song(SNL admitted it) because their tracks didn't come. But what was weird is while singing they did a Titanic sketch with Robert Klein during both songs(S.O.S. and Waterloo).

Also interesting is that for the sketches they use their real names alot.

Looking forward to the Richard Pryor one.
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post #20 of 23
1/1/07 at 3:10pm
What did everyone think of the Louise Lasser episode? I heard that the only reason she got on was because Woody Allen wanted to bomb the show out of the television waters.

Hell, if that thing would've aired today...mission accomplished.

Lasser makes Dane Cook look competent as a host in comparison.
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post #21 of 23
1/1/07 at 3:23pm
The second episode is the Paul Simon one. As they said in the oral history book, they had three months to write the first episode and six days to write the second. So there's virtually nothing there, though I do like the basketball competition, even if the joke is obvious. The third ep was with Rob Reiner, and I thought he was one of the first to get it.

The Lasser Episode I thought was pretty electric because of the history behind it. The monologue is so fucking crazy, but then they play into that, which makes it self aware and even stranger.
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post #22 of 23
1/1/07 at 6:24pm
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Originally Posted by Moltisanti
I don't want to know how high you'd have to get to laugh at the Jim Henson puppet routines.
"I don't write for felt." I laughed so hard at the description of O'Donaghue hanging the Big Bird puppet in the oral history.
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post #23 of 23
1/2/07 at 7:22pm
It really is fascinating to watch the show's evolution. Even the stuff that doesn't work (and there's a lot, most notably the Muppet sketches) holds facination for the oddity value.

If they can keep securing the music rights, I'll likely keep picking these up as they come out, at least until the last season of the not ready for primetime players. Would be nice to have a supplemental documentary or commentary of some kind, just to provide historical background or backstage ancedotes.
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