Saturday Night Live Season 5 Episode 20

While the fall of the old SNL marked the end of one era, another golden era was just beginning for the New York Metro Area. Just hours earlier, the New York Islanders won their first Stanley Cup, and they would win it again each of the next three years.

This will be Buck Henry's last time as an SNL host. In five years, he had hosted ten times, a concentration unlike any in the show's history. And his ten appearances would remain the SNL record until Steve Martin did his eleventh show May 20, 1989.

As if to symbolize the end of the original SNL, Andrew Gold sings only one song: "Kiss This One Goodbye."

This marks Gilda Radner's last appearance on "SNL." Four of her five castmates would pop up later on as hosts and in reunion specials, Brian Doyle-Murray would return to the cast in Year 7, Harry Shearer would do so in Year 10, and Al Franken and Don Novello would do so in Year 11.

Buck Henry introduces the supposed new cast for 1980-81 in the opening monologue. Amongst the "new cast members" he introduces are writer Matt Neuman as Carl Quackenbush, Walter Williams (creator of "Mr. Bill") as Gary Lipton, and Don Pardo as "Ron Waldo."