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for about 6 or 7 attendees, all semi-seniors like myself.

The film's central conceit is that there are only 90 minutes before the first episode launches, and so the film counts down to the 11:30pm show's start. There's a bunch of truncation but the movie tries to put viewers backstage on that night where nobody knew if the first SNL would even air. "Saturday Night" constantly reminds us Johnny Carson's 10/3/74 rerun was already queued up on tape (just in case), and "Uncle Milty" Milton Berle was always available as a last moment guest host if George Carlin dropped out.

The film ends with SNL's first skit, and the movie's closing credits are similar to the old SNL opening ones, which is a clever way out.