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Saturday Night Live aired its 11th season during the 1985-1986 television season on NBC. The season started on November 9 1985 and ended on May 24 1986 18 episodes were produced.Dick Ebersol left the show after the 1984-85 season when the network refused his request to shut the program down entirely for six months and shift much of the material onto tape not live broadcast.