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Saturday Night Live aired its fifth season during the 1979–1980 television season on NBC and also the final season with the original cast. This fifth season started on October 13 1979 and ended on May 24 1980. SNL’s fifth season was released on DVD on December 1 2009.John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd left the show at the end of the fourth season leaving a void in the cast that most fans thought would be the beginning of the end of the late-night sketch show.