NBC reruns an old Saturday Night Live episode in the wee small hours of every Sunday morning. These are uncut, as opposed to the hour-long versions that rerun on the E! Network. For a while, they were choosing recent episodes which didn't much interest me but they're now going back a little farther.
This weekend, the featured episode is the one from 5/24/86 with guest host Anjelica Huston, musical guest George Clinton and former Yankees manager Billy Martin somehow appearing in a number of sketches. This was the last episode of that season and it ends with a scene that has all the cast members (playing themselves) trapped in a fire with a cliff-hanger ending: Who will survive? (Which is to say, which cast members will return next season?) You see Lorne Michaels saving Jon Lovitz with the implication that he'll be the only one. Two others did return the following September — Dennis Miller and Nora Dunn — but the rest, including Randy Quaid, Anthony Michael Hall and Terry Sweeney "perished," in that they did not return to the show. Some folks involved with the show felt it was not the nicest way to say goodbye to the performers who were being dismissed.
The following weekend, the episode is the one that originally aired on 2/13/88 with host Justine Bateman and musical guest Terence Trent D'Arby. Not a great show, as I recall. Neither is the one this weekend but at least they're digging up some that haven't been rerun to death.