Saturday Night recounts the true, although dramatized, story of the October 11, 1975 premiere of the now-renowned live comedy sketch show, Saturday Night Live, created by Lorne Michaels (who is played by Gabriel LaBelle in the movie).

The last month or so has been big for surprise additions to Netflix’s streaming roster. A few weeks ago, the streaming service added a bunch of big Warner Bros. releases to the lineup without announcing them in the monthly newsletters.

On 11 October 1975, in Midtown Manhattan, a group of people are preparing to put on a show. The content may be silly, but the stakes are higher than the famous 66-storey building they’re in.

Go behind the scenes of the first-ever SNL episode with Saturday Night on Netflix. This fast-paced movie recreates the chaos, humor, and tension that shaped the iconic show’s debut.

It ain’t live, but Saturday Night (now streaming on Netflix, in addition to VOD services like Amazon Prime Video) is a live wire, a sort-of real-time tick-tock dramatization of the countdown to the first-ever episode of Saturday Night in 1975 (trivia: it wasn’t officially named Saturday Night Live until a year later).