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Saturday Night Live aired its seventeenth season during the 1991-1992 television season on NBC. The seventeenth season started on September 28 1991 and ended on May 16 1992. Twenty episodes were produced.Many changes happened before the start of the season. A. Whitney Brown and Jan Hooks both left the show but the major blow was the departure of long time cast member Dennis Miller who had been the anchor of Weekend Update for six seasons.