World Famous Comics: Saturday Night Live The Complete Third Season - Limited Edition Boxed Set
Saturday Night Live The Complete Third Season - Limited Edition Boxed Set
Starring: Saturday Night Live Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Limited Edition, Subtitled, NTSC Label: Universal Studios Number of Items: 7 Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 13, 2008 Running Time: 1353 minutes Theatrical Release Date: October 11, 1975
Product Description: "Live From New York it s Saturday Night!" For more than thirty years this catch phrase has made its way into the homes of millions of viewers now all 20 episodes of the classic third season are available in their 90-minute length in a 7-disc set for the first time! Saturday Night Live The Complete Third Season features hours of hilarious sketches memorable skits from the original Season 3 cast and all the original musical performances. SNL The Complete Third Season is destined to be a must-have addition to any Saturday Night Live collection.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 025195034739 Manufacturer No: 61104239
Amazon.com: Television history continued to be written in the third year of Saturday Night Live. After a wobbly debut in SNL's second season, Bill Murray got some traction as a performer and America began to see just how brilliant a comedian he truly could be. Dan Aykroyd owned Jimmy Carter with his extraordinary impression of the late-1970s president, and he partnered with Steve Martin three times in Festrunk Brothers sketches featuring the "wild and crazy" Czech siblings looking for a "swinging" time with American "foxes." John Belushi mined familiar territory with his image as a brash reprobate, Jane Curtin (with Aykroyd) made "Weekend Update" her own, and Garrett Morris remained a rock-steady second banana. Laraine Newman proved, as always, to be the cast's chameleon-like wild card, capable of anything. As for Gilda Radner, her luminous charm and gifts in the classic television comedienne tradition balanced the show's steep irony with pure mirth. There is so much to talk about when listing highlights of Saturday Night Live: The Complete Third Season. The attention-grabbing "Anyone Can Host" contest was a cute stunt that resulted in SNL's Christmas episode being officially hosted by 80-year-old Miskell Spillman, a non-celebrity. Spillman proved game enough to pull off an opening monologue (with Buck Henry) and participate in several sketches. But the truly notable event in that December 17, 1977 program was the first appearance of Elvis Costello (replacing the previously-announced Sex Pistols), who underscored the dangers of live television by interrupting his own performance of "Less Than Zero" and instructing his band, the Attractions, to play "Radio Radio" instead. (For a moment, no one watching could have predicted what was about to happen--whether benign or bizarre.) Also of significance to longtime viewers of SNL was the return of Chevy Chase (on 2/18/78), the show's first breakout star who left the series early in season two, as host. By now, the story of Chase's backstage brawl with Murray just before showtime that night is legend, and it's easy to see how flustered Chase looked in a clunky opening monologue. (He recovers sufficiently for some fine sketchwork and a cameo appearance harassing Curtin on "Update.") Andy Kaufman did one of his best bits portraying a non-English-speaking comic who plays drums and drags a woman out of the audience for a nonsensical sight gag. The Coneheads (Aykroyd, Curtin, Newman) return in a very funny "Family Feud" piece, while Al Franken and Tom Davis continue to have an impact with a sketch that finds Franken attacking his own parents. Belushi mixes pop culture influences in a big way in "Samurai Night Fever." Hosting three times, Steve Martin makes as huge an impression on season three as anyone, introducing his musical novelty number "King Tut" and playing a lonely lover in a wistful-slapstick sketch in which he dances with Radner.
The overall slate of musical guests is good though not great, and except for Costello, Randy Newman, Keith Jarrett, and Paul Simon, the artists tend toward middle-of-the-road. Besides Martin, there are a few other strong hosts, including Buck Henry and a magnificent Michael Palin, who opens his show by dumping a plate of seafood and two cats down his pants. Faring less well as hosts are O.J. Simpson, Hugh Hefner, and Michael Sarrazin. As always, there are hits and misses over the course of another sprawling season of Saturday Night Live. --Tom Keogh
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Great!!!!!!! I think the SNL 3rd Season is the best one yet! Have really enjoyed watching it.
snl live from the past one has a certain expectation when seeing the names of john belushi, dan ackroyd, bill murray, jane curtain, gilda radner. steve martin will always be irreplacable and for that this dvd is good. as for the not ready for prime time players, there are certain instances when they are brilliant and not just reading cue cards and expressing some mild interest or overblown drug trance. an example would be belushi doing samarai scenes. he is there! many of the other scenes seem strained. the cone heads are also an exception. if you view this carefully you will see in the opening credits when each player is introduced that gilda takes a bite out of an apple (the big apple?) and then spits it out. they only allowed her to do that one time, and the rest are cut just after she takes the bite. so there are flaws in this entire series. too boring for the most part to detail here. certainly not worth buying. this is a totally subjective opinion of course. so if you must see some history find out for yourself. good hunting.
Now yer' talking!!! THIS season is finally starting to show the cast in their true memories... No more "guests" as the "hosts" for the entire show; the cast gets to develop their style and really enjoys performing. Much better than the 1st and 2nd DVD sets. Laugh till you can't breathe! That's what the original members made you do! Who cares about the price of gasoline. ENJOY!!!!!!!!!
SNL's best year SNL was a very different show in its first five years from the show it would become. It did not pander to popular or dumbed-down tastes, nor was it an excuse for a modestly talented performer to plug their latest star vehicle. The show's third season displayed multiple talents reaching their peak, and the remarkable emergence of Bill Murray as a major comic actor. The musical guests are a truly colorful lot, rather than the flavor-of-the-week acts that are booked today. Most of all, this was the final year that the writing was shaped by the brilliant Michael O'Donoghue, and his hilariously dark perspective. The Robert Klein episode concludes with Mr. Mike's elaborate spoof of D-grade monster movies, "Attack of the Atomic Lobsters," which manages to send up Roger Corman, Orson Welles's "War of the Worlds," and the radio broadcast of the Hindenburg disaster, all at the same time. You'll never see anything as distinctive or daring as this on network TV again. This was also the year of the episode which many on the show considered their best ever, the April 1978 show hosted by Steve Martin. SNL defined comedy for at least a generation. Get this DVD box set and see why.
AWESOMMMMMMMMMME SNL keep it coming. It is so nice for a fan that first tuned into SNL in the mid 80's to finally see classic episodeds in their full unedited presentation.
Anything Goes Trivia
Last Kiss
Megaton Man
Trevor
