Saturday Night Live With Howard Cosell

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As competition to NBCs hugely popular Saturday Night Live which also aired for the first time in 1975, ABC weighed in with the similarly titled (but far less successful) Saturday Night Live With Howard Cosell.

Though the verbose Cosell seemed far more comfortable in his regular gig as an ABC sportscaster than as the host of a variety show, the program did feature regular appearances by talented comedian Bill Murray, who coincidentally would go on to replace Chevy Chase as a member of NBCs SNL in the fall of 1976.