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E! (USA): Saturday Night Live (with guest Ian McKellen) (Season 27, Episode 15)
Last updated 02 January 2017
Broadcast: Wednesday 9th October 2002
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Synopsis Source: TWiDW
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An edited repeat of the original NBC show which featured Sir Ian McKellen as a guest, with music performed by Kylie Minogue. During the original show, McKellen played "the best Doctor Who impersonator in town" in the Comic Book sketch - it isn't known if it made this edited version.
Synopsis Source: TWiDW
Broadcast Source: TWiDW
Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:
Wednesday 9th October 2002:
NOT SO LIVE FROM NEW YORK:
On March 16, 2002, Ian McKellan (Gandalf in the Lord Of The Rings movies) guest-hosted Saturday Night Live (2001-2002 season, show 15). One of the segments involved a cable access Comic Book show, where Ian McKellan showed up as "the best Doctor Who impersonator in town". E!, a US Cable/Satellite network, is premiering the 60 minute version of this edition of Saturday Night Live today, October 9, at 7PM Eastern/Pacific Time. E! is likely to repeat the 2001-2002 SNL shows repeatedly in the next few weeks in various time slots, and I believe they also air in Canada on a network. I don't know if the "Doctor Who" segment made the cut from 90 minutes to 60 minutes. If it didn't make the cut, then keep an eye on NBC. NBC has not (to my knowledge) rerun this edition of SNL yet, so it will probably appear uncut in the Saturday 11:30PM Eastern/Pacific slot in the next few months, giving the SNL crew a week off from doing a live program.
TWIDW will give an alert the week that NBC reruns the full SNL show with the Doctor Who related skit, but given the high number of times E! will air the edited rerun I am not planning at this time to list E! repeats in the weekly column. If it was a full fledged Doctor Who parody like Curse Of Fatal Death I might view it differently. But the combination of E!'s airing schedule and the fact that it's not really a Doctor Who feature as such lead me to think that one reference of the E! premiere and one reference the week of the NBC rerun is enough.
NOT SO LIVE FROM NEW YORK:
On March 16, 2002, Ian McKellan (Gandalf in the Lord Of The Rings movies) guest-hosted Saturday Night Live (2001-2002 season, show 15). One of the segments involved a cable access Comic Book show, where Ian McKellan showed up as "the best Doctor Who impersonator in town". E!, a US Cable/Satellite network, is premiering the 60 minute version of this edition of Saturday Night Live today, October 9, at 7PM Eastern/Pacific Time. E! is likely to repeat the 2001-2002 SNL shows repeatedly in the next few weeks in various time slots, and I believe they also air in Canada on a network. I don't know if the "Doctor Who" segment made the cut from 90 minutes to 60 minutes. If it didn't make the cut, then keep an eye on NBC. NBC has not (to my knowledge) rerun this edition of SNL yet, so it will probably appear uncut in the Saturday 11:30PM Eastern/Pacific slot in the next few months, giving the SNL crew a week off from doing a live program.
TWIDW will give an alert the week that NBC reruns the full SNL show with the Doctor Who related skit, but given the high number of times E! will air the edited rerun I am not planning at this time to list E! repeats in the weekly column. If it was a full fledged Doctor Who parody like Curse Of Fatal Death I might view it differently. But the combination of E!'s airing schedule and the fact that it's not really a Doctor Who feature as such lead me to think that one reference of the E! premiere and one reference the week of the NBC rerun is enough.
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