Howard Cosell and the other “Saturday Night Live”

FYears ago, in September 1975, Saturday Night Live Makes his debut on networked television. Not the Lorne Michaels version, originally called Saturday evening of NBC, Who would be presented the following month, but rather the Howard Cosell One, a program of short -term varieties which has since disappeared. However, he deserves to remember, if only as one of the worst programs in television history.

According to the writer of the series Robert Lipsyte, Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell was so unbearable that viewers not only died their own televisions, but went next to extinguish their neighbors. Executive producer Roone Arledge ordered the 18 episodes burned, in the hope that any memory of the series would move away with the remaining ashes. If not for producer Rupert Hitzig having marked the name Saturday Night Live, and sell it to NBC for Snl ‘S second season, Arledge could have managed to erase all the remains. (Lateral note: Snl ‘S Cold Open had to use “Live from New York is Saturday night“Because of the program of Cosell which was still being executed and the brand of Hitzig.)