The 1978 installment will run at 10 p.m. ET/PT Saturday before the first new episode of SNL in the new year hosted by Rogue One star Felicity Jones, which airs at 11:30 p.m.

The force hasn't been with very many of us since Carrie Fisher's all-too-soon death last year of cardiac arrest at age 60, but NBC and Saturday Night Live tonight are adding a bit of it back.

Their TV debut as the brothers blue came on “SNL” in 1978. The sunglass-wearing, dark-suited Blues Brothers took on a fame of their own with the self-titled 1980 movie, directed by John Landis.

15. 'Blues Brothers: Soul Man' Airdate: Nov. 18, 1978 Belushi and Aykroyd’s iconic sunglasses-wearing duo didn’t initially make the cut for “SNL” when they first pitched the idea to ...

Created by original Saturday Night Live writers Anne Beatts and Rosie Shuster for the Jan. 28, 1978, Season 3 episode, the characters would go on to be featured a whopping 13 times over the next ...

FILE - Comedian Chevy Chase, second from left, joins the cast of NBC's "Saturday Night Live," with Laraine Newman, from right, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray and Jane Curtain, left, on Feb. 16, 1978 in ...