The tenth season of Saturday Night Live, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between October 6, 1984, and April 13, 1985.

This season also featured a new opening sequence produced by Charlex (who also created The Cars' "You Might Think" video earlier in 1984), depicting the SNL cast as giants in and around New York City landmarks.

[4][5] He hired Billy Crystal (who hosted twice in season 9 and was originally set to appear in SNL's first episode),[6] Christopher Guest (a frequent contributor to The National Lampoon Radio Hour in the early 1970s), Rich Hall (best known for his work on "Not Necessarily the News" and the early 1980s ABC sketch show "Fridays"), Harry Shearer (who was a cast member on SNL in season 5), Martin Short (from "SCTV") and New Zealander Pamela Stephenson (from "Not The Nine O'Clock News").

Another idea was to institute a permanent rotation of hosts (Billy Crystal,[11] David Letterman and Joe Piscopo) for "a hip The Ed Sullivan Show".

[1] Repertory players bold denotes Weekend Update anchor Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, Rich Hall, Rob Riley, and Martin Short joined the writing staff.

Robin Duke, Adam Green, Tim Kazurinsky, Michael McCartney, Eddie Murphy, Pamela Norris, and Joe Piscopo left the staff.