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Searching for an Old SNL Episode

themetfairy Mar 17 2013 08:54 AM

Here is my challenge for everyone. Saturday March 17th, 1984 coincided with both Purim and St. Patrick's Day. Saturday Night Live was hosted by Billy Crystal (with Al Jarreau as the musical guest - Season 9, Episode 15). Ed Koch was in the opening skit, which ended with the immortal line, "Live from New York, It's Purim!" If anyone knows of a link where I can purchase either that episode or that opening skit, I'd truly appreciate it.

metirish Mar 17 2013 09:05 AM Re: Searching for an Old SNL Episode

Perhaps it is here http://www.amazon.com/The-Best-Saturday ... +live+1984 it could be here on HULU, no idea if you can buy http://www.hulu.com/saturday-night-live ... 4AodewYAzw season 9- episode 15 http://www.hulu.com/watch/196413#i0,p10,s9,d0 it's on Netflix https://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?mov ... ly+Crystal

metirish Mar 17 2013 09:08 AM Re: Searching for an Old SNL Episode

Christ, Billy Crystal was a prick then too.

themetfairy Mar 17 2013 09:34 AM Re: Searching for an Old SNL Episode

Thanks Irish. The first link looks like VHS - eek! I'll see whether I can figure out how to download from Hulu or Netflix without signing up for an account. Thanks for the leads!

themetfairy Mar 17 2013 10:00 AM Re: Searching for an Old SNL Episode

A friend tells me that the episode is on Netflix, but that it doesn't include the cold open :(

Ashie62 Mar 17 2013 10:43 AM Re: Searching for an Old SNL Episode

It may take a Festivus Miracle...

cooby Mar 17 2013 01:57 PM Re: Searching for an Old SNL Episode

maybe these people can help: http://www.facebook.com/events/169508509765914/

themetfairy Mar 17 2013 02:05 PM Re: Searching for an Old SNL Episode

cooby - I actually found that one on my own. LOL Yes, I think it's going to take a Festivus miracle to find this skit....

cooby Mar 17 2013 02:36 PM Re: Searching for an Old SNL Episode

It looks like it was fun!

metirish Mar 17 2013 02:53 PM Re: Searching for an Old SNL Episode

themetfairy wrote: A friend tells me that the episode is on Netflix, but that it doesn't include the cold open :( I linked the episode,I tried watching it and got through Crystal's awful opening monologue then quit.

Edgy MD Mar 17 2013 03:12 PM Re: Searching for an Old SNL Episode

In the first sketch, is the extra in the foreground Phyilcia Ayres-Allen?

themetfairy Mar 17 2013 04:14 PM Re: Searching for an Old SNL Episode

Irish - did the episode begin with Crystal? If so, then you missed the skit that I'm seeking. Edgy - I haven't seen the skit since 1984. I remember Mary Gross, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Gary Kroeger being in it, but I don't think that it would have included Phyilcia Ayres-Allen.

Edgy MD Mar 17 2013 07:13 PM Re: Searching for an Old SNL Episode

It's an extra. I doubt it, but it certainly could be.

themetfairy Mar 17 2013 07:25 PM Re: Searching for an Old SNL Episode

What are you talking about? Do you have the Purim clip?

metirish Mar 17 2013 07:38 PM Re: Searching for an Old SNL Episode

The episode started with Crystal.

themetfairy Mar 17 2013 09:00 PM Re: Searching for an Old SNL Episode

metirish wrote: The episode started with Crystal. Then it's missing the part that I'm seeking.

Edgy MD Mar 17 2013 09:39 PM Re: Searching for an Old SNL Episode

I watched the beginning of the Netflix version. It starts with the monologue and then has a classroom sketch, where I saw the ghost of the woman who would become Mrs. Huxtable, only it probably wasn't.

Ashie62 Mar 17 2013 09:58 PM Re: Searching for an Old SNL Episode

SNL Transcript 3/17/1984 [url]http://snltranscripts.jt.org/83/83o.phtml

themetfairy Mar 18 2013 06:09 AM Re: Searching for an Old SNL Episode

Ashie62 wrote: SNL Transcript 3/17/1984 [url]http://snltranscripts.jt.org/83/83o.phtml It's that St. Patrick's Day wrap-up that I'm seeking.

metirish Mar 18 2013 06:18 AM Re: Searching for an Old SNL Episode

The mystery is why is it not in the Netflix version, i would assume that version is the one licensed by SNL.

themetfairy Mar 18 2013 08:07 AM Re: Searching for an Old SNL Episode

Yes - it's confounding!

Edgy MD Mar 18 2013 09:12 AM Re: Searching for an Old SNL Episode

Well, looking at the episode sequence, we also skip the sketch after the monologue, usually reserved for a pre-filmed sketch --- typically a fake commercial, so there's a lot they don't have. I guess there are a lot of legal problems to re-issuing, the original releases not covering the new distribution channels. Or, another theory, there's old material that in retrospect is embarrassing to Lorne Michaels and/or NBC. I know for the longest time they didn't let the Louise Lasser episode escape the vault. And the old Elvis Costello one too, for proud and silly reasons.

Mets – Willets Point Mar 18 2013 05:30 PM Re: Searching for an Old SNL Episode

The SNL episodes on Netflix are all abridged versions of the show. A few years back I got the first few seasons on DVD and those had complete shows as broadcast. I don't know if they've released the 1983-1984 season on DVD yet though. The one thing I learned watching shows from the 1970s is that those people who say "SNL isn't as good as it used to be" have selective memories. In-between the classic sketches that have been repackaged a million times there are a lot of stinkers where even the studio audience was completely silent. That's probably the reason for the abridged shows, albeit it means that the powers that be didn't like the sketch that metfairy is missing.