Saturday Night Live - Season 10

Saturday Night Live aired its tenth season during the 1984-1985 television season on NBC. The season contained 18 episodes and was cut short due to a writer's strike and budget constraints. During the previous season Eddie Murphy left the show mid season. Because of Murphy's departure Joe Piscopo also left the show because he did not want to do it without Murphy. Dick Ebersol then fired Robin Duke, Brad Hall and Tim Kazurinsky. Ebersol then wanted to blow up the show by adding seasoned comedians instead of newcomers. He hired Billy Crystal, Harry Shearer, New Zealander Pamela Stephenson, Rich Hall, Martin Short, and Christopher Guest. Guest would become the anchor of Saturday Night News. In the middle of the season, Harry Shearer left the show, due to "creative differences". Despite his departure, his image is still shown in the opening credits.

• S10 E1 - (no host)/Thompson Twins

• S10 E2 - Bob Uecker/Peter Wolf

• S10 E3 - Jesse Jackson/Andrae Crouch, Wintley Phipps

• S10 E4 - Michael McKean/Chaka Khan, The Folksmen

• S10 E5 - George Carlin/Frankie Goes to Hollywood

• S10 E6 - Ed Asner/The Kinks

• S10 E7 - Ed Begley, Jr./Billy Squier

• S10 E8 - Ringo Starr/Herbie Hancock

• S10 E9 - Eddie Murphy/The Honeydrippers

• S10 E10 - Kathleen Turner/John Waite

• S10 E11 - Roy Scheider/Billy Ocean

• S10 E12 - Alex Karras/Tina Turner

• S10 E13 - Harry Anderson/Bryan Adams

• S10 E14 - Pamela Sue Martin/Power Station

• S10 E15 - Mr. T & Hulk Hogan/The Commodores

• S10 E16 - Christopher Reeve/Santana

• S10 E17 - Howard Cosell/Greg Kihn

• S10 E18 - Season 10