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 March 25, 1978
 Season 3 episode
Christopher lee
Meat Loaf s3
 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
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[]

  1. 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
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