Overview
Saturday Night Live aired its fourth season during the 1978–1979 television season on NBC. The fourth season started on October 7, 1978 and ended on May 26, 1979. The season four DVD was released on December 2, 2008.
The entire cast from the previous season returned. This would be the final season for Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. Aykroyd and Belushi left to work on The Blues Brothers film.
Episodes
Steve Martin/Van Morrison
Buck Henry/The Grateful Dead
Carrie Fisher/The Blues Brothers
Walter Matthau/Garrett Morris
Elliott Gould/Peter Tosh with Mick Jagger
Michael Palin/The Doobie Brothers
Cicely Tyson/Talking Heads
Kate Jackson/Delbert McClinton
Gary Busey/Gary Busey with Rick Danko and Paul Butterfield, Eubie Blake
Margot Kidder/The Chieftains
Richard Benjamin/Rickie Lee Jones
Milton Berle/Ornette Coleman
Michael Palin/James Taylor
Maureen Stapleton/Linda Ronstadt, Phoebe Snow