Early Sunday morning (3:01 AM in some time zones), NBC is rerunning the full, 90-minute version of the Saturday Night Live originally broadcast on October 3, 1981. It was not a great episode but it was somewhat important in the show's history.
As you may recall, when Lorne Michaels departed the show after Season #5, all the cast members and writers went with him. A former talent coordinator named Jean Doumanian was inexplicably appointed Producer and assigned the impossible job of rebuilding the show, almost from scratch. Among those who were around the show at this time, there seems to be a consensus that no one could have succeeded in the situation (not much lead time, lower budgets, network expectations of an instant classic, etc.) but that it didn't have to be quite that bad.
Anyway, Ms. Doumanian was fired and a man named Dick Ebersol was handed the job of building something out of the wreckage. He didn't have a lot of money to do it with and he had even less time. Ebersol produced an episode or two…but then he caught a break. The Writers Guild called a strike and NBC agreed to end that season of Saturday Night Live early. Ebersol suddenly had until the Fall to remodel the show, and he did. The 10/3/81 episode was the first of the new season and while not great, it was a huge improvement. Eddie Murphy especially blossomed with a sketch in which he played an amalgam of the legendary rocker, Little Richard, and the legendary exercise instructor, Richard Simmons.
There was no real host but Rod Stewart did some musical numbers and performed in sketches so he almost functioned as host. You'll also see juggler Michael Davis do a nice turn, from back in the days when SNL used to book acts like that. The entire cast consisted of Brian-Doyle Murray, Robin Duke, Christine Ebersole, Mary Gross, Tim Kazurinsky, Eddie Murphy, Joe Piscopo and Tony Rosato.
The following week in the same time slot, NBC is running the 1/30/82 episode from the same season. John Madden was the guest host and Jennifer Holliday was the musical guest, singing two songs from the Broadway show, Dreamgirls. Most of the show was Eddie Murphy but somewhere in there, there's one of Andy Kaufman's odder appearances.