I so hope you are not serious.

I'd probably end up buying all the seasons they release (except the last 3-4 years, although that's really jumping ahead)...


Damn i'm a sucker

Posterity. Sorry, couldn't resist.

That's a great start! I wish there was a way to get just 1 show. I'd love to get the show where William Shatner was the host... In this one show, we had a TJ Hooker spoof, Star Trek convention skit, Restaurant Enterprise skit, and William Shatner as a washed-up lounge singer heading out to a Christmas party. It was one of the handful of shows that I remember where each and every skit was hilarious.

Shatner's was fantastic.

It's just a TV show
You. Have you ever kissed a girl?
That was...evil Kirk from episode 17KJ6.

This is incredible news, NEVER thought we'd see these!

Yeah this is amazing..I was just having a conversation hoping this would happen!

I don't want to derail this thread, but is anyone else getting the feeling this might be the beginning of some decent niche/ treasured dvd releases in the near future?
The more I think about it, the more it seems like a last ditch attempt to get certain titles released to dvd before the HD craze takes hold. I mean for certain films/ shows there will be decent elements available to have great HD releases. But for other things (shot on video, titles where film elements have been lost and only complete video masters remain, etc.) the quality just won't be there when they are transferred. The wife and I enjoy a lot of 70's / 80's sitcoms (hey, don't laugh), but there's no way we're buying those on HD, if they're even released. I think studios realize that the majority of consumers aren't going to purchase titles that won't look much better in HD than SD when they have their Star Wars, Terminator, etc. and they feel if they want to make $$$ off those things sitting in the vaults, they better get them out within the next 5 years. Anyone else getting the same vibe?

hells yeah I want

SNL season 1 , "When the show didn't suck edition"

I'll stop at about 1995's season, SNL now is just bland at best

This will be on my Christmas list

You could stop at 1985. Or even 1980 really, but they did some good stuff with Eddie Murphy. Particularly "Buckwheat has been shot"...now THAT is classic TV.

i want them all

Wait a minute...

The running time is 24 hours. The first season is 24 episodes long. Therefore it seems this boxset will not include the integral 90-minutes version of each EP but the 60-minutes version, as released by Orion in the 80's.

I'm dissapointed now.

I guess you aren't accounting for any commercials, huh?

What about the time the commercials took up? You would have to deduct that from the original 90-minute running time.

EDIT: Well, now that I think about it -- wouldn't that mean there were 30 min. of commercial per each show? Seems a bit much. Maybe the running time listed isn't accurate.

Holy crap! I never expected this on DVD. This is a must buy for me.

Even thought I deduct 18 minutes of ads, that come up to a 72 minutes show. So I expect 12 minutes cut on each episode.

This is crazy. I thought this would never happen (or at least not anytime soon). But I personally won't get excited until if/when they get to the 1986-87 season.

Man, that would be a deal breaker and really dumb for a set aimed at completists.

The SCTV sets had episodes that ran slightly over one hour long, and they aired as 90 minute episodes. I know that shows in the 70s had shorter commercial breaks today, but perhaps the 24 hour run time is more of a rough estimate for now?

Season One

1 George Carlin / Billy Preston, Janis Ian 10/11/1975
2 Paul Simon / Phoebe Snow, Randy Newman 10/18/1975
3 Rob Reiner / No Musical Guest 10/25/1975
4 Candice Bergen / Esther Phillips 11/08/1975
5 Robert Klein / Abba, Loudon Wainwright III 11/15/1975
6 Lily Tomlin / No Musical Guest 11/22/1975
7 Richard Pryor / Gil Scott-Heron 12/13/1975
8 Candice Bergen / Martha Reeves, The Stylistics 12/20/1975
9 Elliott Gould / Anne Murray 01/10/1976
10 Buck Henry / Bill Withers, Toni Basil 01/17/1976
11 Dudley Moore / Neil Sedaka 01/24/1976
12 Dick Cavett / Jimmy Cliff 01/31/1976
13 Peter Boyle / Al Jarreau 02/14/1976
14 Desi Arnaz / Desi Arnaz, Jr. 02/21/1976
15 Jill Clayburgh / Leon Redbone 02/28/1976
16 Anthony Perkins / Betty Carter 03/13/1976
17 Ron Nessen / Patti Smith Group 04/17/1976
18 Raquel Welch / Phoebe Snow, John Sebastian 04/24/1976
19 Madeline Kahn / Carly Simon 05/08/1976
20 Dyan Cannon / Leon & Mary Russell 05/15/1976
21 Buck Henry / Gordon Lightfoot 05/22/1976
22 Elliott Gould / Leon Redbone, Harlin Collins, Joyce Everson 05/29/1976
23 Louise Lasser / The Preservation Hall Jazz Band 07/24/1976
24 Kris Kristofferson / Rita Coolidge 07/31/1976

It all goes downhill after season 5. With some Farley/Hartman bits as the exception.

As much as I love the classic SNL, if they include the entire 90 minute episodes, folks will finally see that SNL has pretty much always had the same problems with occasionally lame skits and no concept of what an ending is. Ackroyd, Belushi and company were just first at it.

Still, looking forward to it.

How quckily will they release these is the biggest question. I can't see being 51 years old when the the 30th season set comes out. So hopefully they'll lower the price a bit and do 3 or so a year.

Uncut without commercials SNL episodes are 66 minutes. So about an hour an episode is accurate