To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, NBC is holding a weekly vote to choose the best sketch from every decade the show has been on the air.

Keep scrolling to see vintage photos of "SNL" in its earliest days — and what some would call its best days. "Saturday Night Live" premiered on October 11, 1975.

The film depicts the final hours ahead of Saturday Night Live ’s 1975 premiere on NBC, casting the original improv group as a messy bunch with talent, vision, and very little self-restraint.

"Saturday Night Live" remains one of the most iconic institutions in TV history. For decades, it has been the goal of many a comedian to grace the halls of Studio 8H and scream "Live from New York ...

In the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s, Becker said, that proximity to queerness set up "SNL"’s largely hetero writer’s rooms to be at least more broadly comfortable with gay people, and more ...

"Saturday Night Live" premiered on October 11, 1975. Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Michael O'Donoghue, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, and Garrett Morris. NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images The ...

In 1975, the year "Saturday Night Live" premiered, nearly 70% of Americans said they believed that homosexuality was always wrong. That figure would only rise over the next decade, a National ...