• Source: Saturday Night Live season 9

      • The ninth season of Saturday Night Live, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between October 8, 1983, and May 12, 1984.


      Hosts


      Future cast member Billy Crystal hosted twice this season: once with musical guest Al Jarreau and again on the season finale with Ed Koch, Edwin Newman, Betty Thomas and former cast member Don Novello, with the Cars as musical guest.


      Cast


      Jim Belushi was added to the cast, making his debut on the third episode of the season.
      Midway through the season in February 1984, Eddie Murphy left the show. To keep viewers watching, SNL aired segments Murphy had pre-taped in September of 1983.
      Brad Hall, who had been anchoring Weekend Update (then called Saturday Night News) since the previous season, left the position in January of 1984. For the rest of the season and into the next, both cast members and SNL guest-hosts would take turns at the anchor chair. Hall himself left SNL at the end of the season.


      = Cast roster

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      Repertory players

      Jim Belushi (first episode: October 22, 1983)
      Robin Duke
      Mary Gross
      Brad Hall
      Tim Kazurinsky
      Gary Kroeger
      Julia Louis-Dreyfus
      Eddie Murphy (final episode: February 25, 1984)
      Joe Piscopo
      bold denotes Weekend Update anchor


      Writers



      This season's writers were Jim Belushi, Andy Breckman, Robin Duke, Adam Green, Mary Gross, Nate Herman, Tim Kazurinsky, Kevin Kelton, Andy Kurtzman, Michael McCarthy, Eddie Murphy, Pamela Norris, Margaret Oberman, Joe Piscopo, Andrew Smith, Bob Tischler, Eliot Wald and Herb Sargent (who returned for the last few episodes of the season). The head writers were Bob Tischler and Andrew Smith.
      Besides, Murphy, Piscopo, and Duke, this was also the final season for writer Pam Norris, who left the show after four seasons. Not counting Murphy or Piscopo, Norris was the last writer from the Jean Doumanian-era season to leave the show.


      Episodes




      References




      = Works cited

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      Hill, Doug; Weingrad, Jeff (1986). Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live. Beech Tree Books. ISBN 978-0688050993.
      Shales, Tom; Miller, James Andrew (2002). Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0316295222.

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