titled "Who Shot C.R.?", cast member Charles Rocket was "shot" in the last sketch of the episode, after a running gag in which other members of the cast shared their grievances about Rocket with one another. Onstage for the goodnights, Dallas star and that week's host Charlene Tilton asked Rocket (still in character and sitting in a wheelchair) his thoughts on being shot. "Oh man, it's the first time I've been shot in my life", he replied. "I'd like to know who the fuck did it." The cast, along with some of the audience, reacted with laughter and applause, but inside the control room, there was no laughter. Then-NBC censor Bill Clotworthy buried his head in his hands and director Dave Wilson, knowing that the show was finished for good, simply threw his script papers in the air and said "Well, that's the end of live television". and walked out of the room. According to talent coordinator Neil Levy, Doumanian herself was so livid by the incident that she was ready to jump up to the monitors and tear the video cables in half with her teeth. Rocket later unsuccessfully tried to justify his actions that the episode's musical guest Prince blurted out the word during a performance of his song "Party Up", but he ended up saying it so incoherently that the censors could not spot it. As a semi-joke, on the following week's episode hosted by Bill Murray, Murray snubbed Rocket for his behavior the previous week and told him to "watch his mouth and clean it up". After Bill Murray hosted the following episode, the next episode scheduled for March 14, 1981, which would have been hosted by Robert Guillaume and had Ian Dury and the Blockheads as the musical guest was canceled. Subsequent reruns of the episode partially edit the good nights segment to remove the announcement for next week's episode. The cast and writers were also unaware that Brandon Tartikoff, the head of programming for NBC, invited Dick Ebersol, the original developer of SNL, to watch the show in secrecy in the control booth and was totally in despair over how the quality of the show sank. Ebersol steps in By 1981 SNL had been overtaken in the ratings by ABC's derivative Fridays. These factors gave the impression that NBC might cancel the show. SNL was given one more chance when Ebersol was hired to