Saturday Night Live - Staffel 12

Saturday Night Live aired its twelfth season during the 1986-1987 television season on NBC. The 12th season started on October 11, 1986, the 11th anniversary of the show's first episode, and ended on May 23, 1987. Despite plans to have Saturday Night Live canceled due to the ratings of its previous season, producer Lorne Michaels convinced Brandon Tartikoff to give the show another chance, provided that a better cast be found for the next season. As a result, many of season 11's cast members were fired, except for Nora Dunn, Jon Lovitz, featured player A. Whitney Brown, and Weekend Update anchor Dennis Miller. Al Franken was rehired as a writer. The rest were relative unknowns, led by Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks, Victoria Jackson, and Kevin Nealon. Hooks had auditioned to be in the season 10 and 11 casts, but had been turned down. Hartman helped write sketches in season 11's Thanksgiving episode hosted by Pee-wee Herman, and appeared in a sketch as a Pilgrim. The first show of the 1986-1987 season opened with Madonna, host of the previous season opener, reading a "statement" from NBC about season 11's mediocre writing and bad cast choices. According to the "statement", the entire 1985-1986 season was "...all a dream. A horrible, horrible dream."

• S12 E1 - Sigourney Weaver/Buster Poindexter

• S12 E2 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner/Run DMC

• S12 E3 - Rosanna Arquette/Ric Ocasek

• S12 E4 - Sam Kinison/Lou Reed

• S12 E5 - Robin Williams/Paul Simon

• S12 E6 - Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, & Martin Short/Randy Newman

• S12 E7 - Steve Guttenberg/The Pretenders

• S12 E8 - William Shatner/Lone Justice

• S12 E9 - Walter Payton, Joe Montana/Debbie Harry

• S12 E10 - Paul Shaffer/Bruce Hornsby & the Range

• S12 E11 - Bronson Pinchot/Paul Young

• S12 E12 - Willie Nelson

• S12 E13 - Valerie Bertinelli/The Robert Cray Band

• S12 E14 - Bill Murray/Percy Sledge

• S12 E15 - Charlton Heston/Wynton Marsalis

• S12 E16 - John Lithgow/Anita Baker

• S12 E17 - John Larroquette/Timbuk 3

• S12 E18 - Mark Harmon/Suzanne Vega

• S12 E19 - Garry Shandling/Los Lobos

• S12 E20 - Dennis Hopper/Roy Orbison