This a live 1981 TV special, "Steve Martin's Best Show Ever," which is now available on the DVD set "Steve Martin: The TV Stuff." The beauty of this particular special is that it was done live, directed by Dave Wilson, produced by Lorne Michaels, from NBC's Studio 8H, on November 25, 1981 at 11:30 pm, with associate producer Cherie Fortis and announcer Don Pardo, and featuring writers/performers Laraine Newman, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Tom Davis, Jim Downey, Al Franken, Tom Gammill, Sarah Paley, Max Pross, Alan Zweibel and Paul Shaffer. Even the "orchestra" is conducted by Howard Shore and looks like most of his All-Nurse Band. All the ingredients of the classic 1975-80 original cast. It's essentially a lost episode. Guests include Emily Prager (briefly a castmember at the end of season 6, and Tom Davis' girlfriend), Eric Idle (frequent host with the original cast), Gregory Hines (musical guest in season 4), Lauren Hutton (who had just hosted on Nov. 7 with the "new cast") and Lynn Redgrave.
This is
the clip with Gregory Hines, and here is the
entire show on Hulu.
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