March 25, 1978 Season 3 episode
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Episode | 61 |
Season Episode | 15 |
Host | Christopher Lee |
Musical Guest(s) | Meat Loaf |
Song(s) performed by Musical Guest(s) |
"All Revved Up with No Place to Go" "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" |
Previous Episode March 18, 1978 |
Next Episode April 8, 1978 |
The 61st episode of Saturday Night Live and 15th episode of Season 3 premiered on March 25, 1978, and it was hosted by English actor, singer, and military officer Christopher Lee, star of the Hammer Horror films, the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), the three Star Wars films (2002–2008), both The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit film trilogy (2012–2014), as well as the hit films, the five Tim Burton films, including Sleepy Hollow (1999), Corpse Bride (2005), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Alice in Wonderland (2010), Dark Shadows (2012), The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Dracula (1958), A Tale of Two Cities (1958), The Wicker Man (1973), Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), Jinnah (1998), Glorious 39 (2009), and Hugo (2011), with musical guest Meat Loaf, a rock singer.
This was the first time as the musical guest on SNL for Meat Loaf, as well as the only time hosting for the Sir Christopher Lee.
Cast[]
The Not Ready For Primetime Players[]
Sketches and Music Performances[]
Cold Open Sketch Pre-recorded Weekend Update Music Performance Other
Title | Image | Summary |
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Disclaimer: 101 Dalmatians Get Run Over By 101 Moving Vans | ||
Kevin Scott Cold Open | After John Belushi gets invited to Hollywood for a Grizzly Adams role, the network wants him to change his name to Kevin Scott. | |
Montage | As a continuation of the cold open, Belushi is credited as "Kevin Scott". | |
Christopher Lee Monologue | Christopher Lee shows off the trailers for his rejected horror films: “The Island Of Lost Luggage”; “The Thing That Wouldn’t Leave”, starring John Belushi; and “Dr. Jekyll And Mister Rogers”, starring Vincent Price (Dan Aykroyd). | |
Movie Trailers | Henry Higgins (Christopher Lee) attempts to teach Baba Wawa (Gilda Radner) how to pronounce her R’s. | |
My Fair Lady | Henry Higgins (Christopher Lee) attempts to teach Baba Wawa (Gilda Radner) how to pronounce her R’s. | |
Meat Loaf performs "All Revved Up with No Place to Go" | ||
Weekend Update with Jane Curtin & Dan Aykroyd | Kevin Scott (John Belushi) rants about a recent supertanker oil spill. Bill Murray makes his Oscar picks. | |
Mr. Death | ||
Anwar Sadat | ||
Cold As Ice | ||
Dell Stator's Rabbit Hut | ||
Death to Watergate | With help from Maureen Dean (Jane Curtin), a vampire hunter (Christopher Lee) sets out to kill Richard Nixon’s (Dan Aykroyd) memoirs. | |
Vampire Hunter | ||
Richard Belzer Standup | ||
Meat Loaf performs "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" | ||
Mr. Bill Goes To The Circus | When “Mr. Bill Goes To The Circus”, his arm is decapitated by helium balloons and he is shot out of a cannon by Ringmaster Sluggo. | |
Goodnights |
Notes[]
- ↑ John Belushi was credited as "Kevin Scott" as a continuation of the opening sketch
References[]
Preceded by: March 18, 1978 |
Saturday Night Live episode | Followed by: April 8, 1978 |