 Fridays (TV series)

Fridays is the name of ABC's weekly late-night live comedy show, which aired on Friday nights from April 11, 1980 to April 23, 1982.The program was ABC's attempt to duplicate the success of NBC's "Saturday Night Live", which, at the time, was in its fifth and final season featuring the original "Not Ready for Primetime" cast, along with several writers (and "SNL" band leader at the time, Paul Shaffer) who had been promoted to feature player status, as well as newcomer Harry Shearer.