Season 2 | Saturday Night Live Wiki | Fandom
https://snl.fandom.com/wiki/Season_2Season 2 of Saturday Night Live aired from the fall of 1976 to the spring of 1977. Original cast member Chevy Chase left shortly into season, and was replaced by Bill Murray after the Christmas break. The episode on March 26, 1977 where Jack Burns hosted was the first episode to be called Saturday Night Live, though it and the following episode were the only ones to use that name, …
Saturday Night Live (season 1) - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live_(season_1)In 1974, NBC Tonight Show host Johnny Carsonasked that the weekend broadcasts of "Best of Carson" (officially known as The Weekend Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson) come to an end (The Tonight Show was a 90-minute program at the time), so he could take two weeknights off; NBC would thus air those repeats on those nights rather than feed them to affiliates for broadcast on either Saturdays or Sundays. Given Johnny Carson's undisputed status as the king of late-nig…