About this season
The New Show is a NBC sketch comedy show produced by Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels, which ran for only one season from January 6 to March 23, 1984. Apart from being 60 minutes in length and entirely pre-recorded, the show is similar in format to SNL. It was the lowest rated of 94 programs that aired during the 1983-84 television season, averaging a dismal 7.81 household rating. It was opposite 20/20 & Falcon Crest.
Episodes (10)
1. Steve Martin, Jeff Goldblum, Catherine O'Hara
Aired 6 January 1984 • 60 min
2. John Candy, Carrie Fisher, Paul Simon
Aired 13 January 1984 • 60 min
Ruth Gordon and Orson Welles (VB, Candy) Why don't you check on the baby? (Fisher) Paul Simon performs Hearts and Bones Mountain Mike (DT, Simon, Candy) Time Truck (everyone) Andropov faking illness (everyone) Weekend Tonight (BH, DT, Candy as Pavarotti) Paul Simon debuts music video for Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog after the War Roy's Food Repair (everyone)
3. Kevin Kline, Gilda Radner, John Candy
Aired 20 January 1984
4. Raul Julia, Penny Marshall
Aired 3 February 1984
5. Randy & Dennis Quaid, Catherine O'Hara
Aired 10 February 1984
6. Steve Martin, Catherine O'Hara
Aired 17 February 1984 • 60 min
Jim McKay at the Olympics (DT, VB) Steve Martin asks "What Kind of Guy Watches the New Show?" Couple seeing the doctor about "going unconscious" (DT, O'Hara, BH) Steve Martin as Italian gigolo (also with O'Hara) Cyndi Lauper performs New York Daily Bugle (Martin, O'Hara, BH, DT) Weekend Tonight (BH, DT, O'Hara as Julie Andrews, DT as Boy George) Problem with extras (everyone) New employee (DT, BH, Moynihan) Cyndi Lauper performs Film segment: "The Day Before"
7. Best Of
Aired 24 February 1984
8. Candice Bergen, Steve Guttenberg
Aired 9 March 1984
9. Laraine Newman, John Candy
Aired 16 March 1984
10. Teri Garr
Aired 23 March 1984