Saturday Night Live season 6

=== Hiatus ===

=== Hiatus ===

After Bill Murray's episode, the next episode was scheduled for March 14, 1981 and would have been hosted by [[Robert Guillaume]] and [[Ian Dury and the Blockheads]].{{#invoke:cite|web|title=80{{!}}: Bill Murray / Delbert McClinton (Goodnights) |url=http://snltranscripts.jt.org/80/80lgoodnights.phtml/ |access-date=May 6, 2024 |website=SNL Transcripts}} Subsequent reruns of the episode partially edit the good nights segment to remove the announcement for next week's episode. The cast and writers were also unaware that [[Brandon Tartikoff]], the head of programming for NBC, invited [[Dick Ebersol]], the original developer of ''SNL'', to watch the show in secrecy in the control booth and was totally in despair over how the quality of the show sank.{{Sfn|Hill|Weingrad|1986|pp=435-436}}

After Bill Murray's episode, the next episode was scheduled for March 14, 1981 and would have been hosted by [[Robert Guillaume]] with musical guest [[Ian Dury and the Blockheads]].{{#invoke:cite|web|title=80{{!}}: Bill Murray / Delbert McClinton (Goodnights) |url=http://snltranscripts.jt.org/80/80lgoodnights.phtml/ |access-date=May 6, 2024 |website=SNL Transcripts}} Subsequent reruns of the episode partially edit the good nights segment to remove the announcement for next week's episode. The cast and writers were also unaware that [[Brandon Tartikoff]], the head of programming for NBC, invited [[Dick Ebersol]], the original developer of ''SNL'', to watch the show in secrecy in the control booth and was totally in despair over how the quality of the show sank.{{Sfn|Hill|Weingrad|1986|pp=435-436}}

Doumanian was officially replaced by Ebersol after the Murray episode.{{sfn|Shales|Miller|2002|pp=203-204}} In his first two weeks, Ebersol fired Gottfried, Risley, and Rocket,{{sfn|Hill|Weingrad|1986|p=440}} replacing them with [[Robin Duke]],{{sfn|Hill|Weingrad|1986|p=444}} [[Tim Kazurinsky]],{{sfn|Hill|Weingrad|1986|pp=440-441}} and [[Tony Rosato]]. At the end of the season, he would eliminate the rest of the 1980 cast except for Murphy and Piscopo. Ebersol originally wanted to bring in [[John Candy]] and [[Catherine O'Hara]] from ''SCTV''; Candy turned down the offer. O'Hara initially accepted the job, but immediately quit after a production meeting where [[Michael O'Donoghue]], an original writer for SNL, berated the cast and writers for the show's poor performances and sketches.{{sfn|Shales|Miller|2002|p=209}}

Doumanian was officially replaced by Ebersol after the Murray episode.{{sfn|Shales|Miller|2002|pp=203-204}} In his first two weeks, Ebersol fired Gottfried, Risley, and Rocket,{{sfn|Hill|Weingrad|1986|p=440}} replacing them with [[Robin Duke]],{{sfn|Hill|Weingrad|1986|p=444}} [[Tim Kazurinsky]],{{sfn|Hill|Weingrad|1986|pp=440-441}} and [[Tony Rosato]]. At the end of the season, he would eliminate the rest of the 1980 cast except for Murphy and Piscopo. Ebersol originally wanted to bring in [[John Candy]] and [[Catherine O'Hara]] from ''SCTV''; Candy turned down the offer. O'Hara initially accepted the job, but immediately quit after a production meeting where [[Michael O'Donoghue]], an original writer for SNL, berated the cast and writers for the show's poor performances and sketches.{{sfn|Shales|Miller|2002|p=209}}