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Saturday Night Live season 13

Saturday Night Live aired its thirteenth season during the 1987-1988 television season on NBC. Except for Kevin Nealon moving from featured player to repertory player, there were no major cast changes. There were, however, major events that impeded the show's production. During production of the season premiere, a fire broke out near Studio 8H during dress rehearsal. Despite plans to cancel the show for the week, Steve Martin (the episode host) pushed the cast to perform, making the Steve Martin/Sting episode the only episode without a dress rehearsal. In February 1988, The Writers Guild of America went on strike, cancelling many planned episodes, including one originally planned to be hosted by former "Not Ready for Primetime" player Gilda Radner with musical guest U2. U2 would go on to be the musical guests for Val Kilmer (in season 26) and Luke Wilson (in season 30) while U2 frontman Bono would cameo in the season 33 episode hosted by Brian Williams. Gilda Radner, however, would never get the chance to host due to her death from ovarian cancer.

Season 13 started on October 17, 1987 and ended (abruptly) on February 27, 1988.

1 Cast
- 1.1 Repertory cast members
- 1.2 Featured cast members
2 Episodes

Cast

Repertory cast members

Featured cast members

Episodes

Episode #	Air Date	Host(s)	Musical Guest(s)	Remarks
234 (13.1)	October 17, 1987	Steve Martin	Sting	This is the only episode that did not have a dress rehearsal[citation needed]. A fire near Studio 8H caused everyone to evacuate before rehearsal could begin. Steve Martin convinced everyone to go on with the show instead of cancelling it. Al Franken rejoins the cast after a one year hiatus
235 (13.2)	October 24, 1987	Sean Penn	LL Cool J The Pull	Michael Penn, younger brother of host Sean, performed "This and That" with his band The Pull (making it the only time in SNL's history that one brother hosts the show while another serves as a musical guest). He would later have a hit with the song as a solo artist.
236 (13.3)	October 31, 1987	Dabney Coleman	The Cars
237 (13.4)	November 14, 1987	Robert Mitchum†	Simply Red
238 (13.5)	November 21, 1987	Candice Bergen	Cher
239 (13.6)	December 5, 1987	Danny DeVito	Bryan Ferry
240 (13.7)	December 12, 1987	Angie Dickinson	Buster Poindexter David Gilmour	The music in the Drunk Man sketch would later be used as the intro music to "Weekend Update with Norm MacDonald". David Gilmour's appearance on SNL marked the first time a member of Pink Floyd played live on US television (Pink Floyd, without Gilmour and with his predecessor Syd Barrett, appeared 20 years earlier on American Bandstand miming to "Apples and Oranges"). He played an otherwise unreleased instrumental guitar jam with the SNL house band called "Song For My Sara" (which was mistakenly called "Aah Robinson It's You" on many Gilmour ROIOs), and he plays lead guitar using a Steinberger electric guitar instead of his famed Fender Stratocaster.
241 (13.8)	December 19, 1987	Paul Simon	Linda Ronstadt
242 (13.9)	January 23, 1988	Robin Williams	James Taylor
243 (13.10)	January 30, 1988	Carl Weathers	Robbie Robertson
244 (13.11)	February 13, 1988	Justine Bateman	Terence Trent D'Arby	D'Arby performed "Wishing Well" and "Under My Thumb."
245 (13.12)	February 20, 1988	Tom Hanks	Randy Travis
246 (13.13)	February 27, 1988	Judge Reinhold	10,000 Maniacs

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Contents

Cast

Repertory cast members

Featured cast members

Episodes