Season 12
Season 12

Saturday Night Live - Season 12

(1986)

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Synopsis

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."

20 Episodes

Rating

IMDB 8.0 (52k)

Genres

Comedy, Music & Musical

Runtime

1h 30min

Director

Liz Patrick

Cast

Michael Che
Self - Various Characters
Mikey Day
Self - Various Characters
Kenan Thompson
Self - Various Characters
Heidi Gardner
Self - Various Characters
Ego Nwodim
Self - Various Characters
Chloe Fineman
Self - Various Characters
Bowen Yang
Self - Various Characters
Andrew Dismukes
Self - Various Characters
Punkie Johnson
Self - Various Characters
James Austin Johnson
Self - Various Characters
Sarah Sherman
Self - Various Characters
Marcello Hernandez
Self - Various Characters
Molly Kearney
Self - Various Characters
Michael Longfellow
Self - Various Characters
Devon Walker
Self - Various Characters
Chloe Troast
Self - Various Characters
Ben Marshall
Self - Please Don't Destroy
John Higgins
Self - Please Don't Destroy
Martin Herlihy
Self - Please Don't Destroy