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** The show also airs on a delay in the Mountain and Pacific Time Zones.
* [[Long Runners]]: Has 36 completed seasons, is almost done its 37th season, and will most likely come back for a 38th. It has survived cast and crew turnover, seven U.S. Presidents (starting with [[Gerald Ford]]), harsh critics, low ratings, threats of cancellation, fickle fans, radical (and not-so-radical) social and cultural shifts, and all of the [[Dueling Shows]] that have aired as alternatives.
* [[Missing Episode]]: In its 37 years, there have been times where the show was put on hiatus due to the Writers' Guild of America going on strike (specifically in 1981, 1985, 1988, and 2007-08). Because of this, a lot of planned episodes were never written — or were written but never performed. One particularly sad example is a planned 1988 episode that was supposed to be hosted by Gilda Radner from the original "Not Ready for Primetime Players" cast. Sadly, because of the strike and Radner's death from ovarian cancer, this episode has never been made and never will be.
** One 'missing episode' that was actually produced was Chevy Chase/Jr. Walker and the All-Stars, which aired in April 1981. Originally intended to start the revised second half of season 6 (after Jean Doumanian was replaced by Dick Ebersol, and a number of her cast members were fired), a writer's strike cut the season short. This episode has gone unseen in its original form since 1981 - its lone Comedy Central airing was heavily re-edited, and contained material from other season 6 episodes in place of a few original sketches.
** For reasons unknown, the season 27 episode hosted by Alec Baldwin with musical guest P.O.D. only aired once. Some of the sketches from that episode were seen, however, on the ''SNL'' clip show episode, "The Best of Alec Baldwin."
* [[The Movie]]: Many characters have been spun off into feature films. Although some spinoff movies (such as ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'' and ''[[Wayne's World]]'') have become classics in their own right, most range from [[So Okay It's Average]] (the ''[[MacGruber]]'' movie and ''Stuart Saves His Family'') to completely awful (''It's Pat'', ''A Night at the Roxbury'', ''The Ladies Man'', and ''Blues Brothers 2000'').
* [[Old Shame]]: The 12 episodes produced by Jean Doumanian during the 1980-81 season has been barred from syndication in America due to how poorly it was received by... just about everyone (though Comedy Central ''did'' air the Bill Murray/Delbert McClinton episode as part of a "Best of Eddie Murphy" marathon, NBC aired a full 90-minute version of the episode hosted by [[Jamie Lee Curtis]] with musical guest James Brown and Ellen Shipley as part of their "NBC All Night" rerun block, and Canada's Comedy Network has aired all 12 episodes uncut — including one where Charles Rocket drops an F-bomb during the goodnights, which led to everyone in Doumanian's cast to be fired save Murphy and Joe Piscopo). Universal claims to have stopped production on ''SNL'' season [[DV Ds]] because of music licensing issues (which, of course, is the true reason why all seasons after five haven't been put on DVD), but most fans have assumed it's because of the backlash and poor sales that would have happened had the 1980-1981 season been released. If you have a [[Bile Fascination]] as to how bad Season 6 really is, [[Keep Circulating the Tapes|then your best bet is to find a video collector who has this season]] or check out some video streaming or torrent sites.
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