That Letterman kid is going places, eventually to CBS.
@cosmokramer1987
Жыл бұрын
This is a great piece of lost media. Thanks so much for posting this!
@luckynedpepper9030
2 жыл бұрын
I remember watching this show as a 16 year old kid. It was like nothing else we'd ever seen. My friends and I loved it.
@hankkingsley9300
Жыл бұрын
Yep. If you were 16 in 80 you had a wonderful time growing up.
@HenryStone-mk2bd
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, me too. Same age. I'd take my mother to the LIRR to go to work and I'd go back and watch the Letterman Show.
@cutiemomma44
Жыл бұрын
Ditto, I was 16 as well. Great show. I loved this show!
@TimEric4d3d3d3
4 жыл бұрын
Edie McClurg has had an amazing career playing the same character for 40 years
@jsb1980
4 жыл бұрын
A precursor to Late Night. Many of the staff would end up working on Late Night and it would also be taped in the same studio as well (NBC Studio 6A in New York). It just didn’t last that long and NBC saw what talent Letterman had and signed him to a holding contract which saw him stay with the network and even guest host for Johnny Carson. Carson’s 1980 contract awarded him control of the 12:30 slot following Tonight, but held by Tom Snyder’s Tomorrow. In comes Late Night, and out goes Snyder (after he declined 1:30 following Late Night) and the rest is history when Late Night premiered on 2/1/82.
@robmclean4352
2 жыл бұрын
WTVG, Channel 13 in Toledo, Ohio, aired the show in its full, 90-minute glory from 10 - 11:30am. Channel 4 in Detroit (where I lived at the time) only aired the last 60 minutes (from 10:30 - 11:30) because they ran a 90-minute movie every weekday at 9am. (On that day, Channel 4 showed "Harry in Your Pocket", a 1973 movie about pickpockets starring James Coburn -- presumably heavily edited, as the film is 103 minutes long!)
@Novaheart1998
Жыл бұрын
This is amazing, never saw this early show as I was in Canada or maybe I was too young and don’t remember it , also it had a short run , but it resembles the late nite show that it became.
@nw1750
5 ай бұрын
?? I grew up just outside of Toronto and saw the program a few times. Locality wasn't the issue.
@Neil-xl8kj
19 күн бұрын
I was in Montreal and we had cable so I watched it on WPTZ Plattsburgh-North Pole-Burlington. I was 14 and between Grades 8 and 9 and home for the summer when it debuted and I was instantly hooked. It only ran for four months and I was gutted that it got cancelled, but that primed me for Late Night with David Letterman a little over a year later, by which time I was allowed to stay up later. But by then we'd purchased our first VCR and then as now (as I close in on 60) I often watched Late Night as breakfast viewing. I was disturbed to hear of cutbacks to Seth Meyers' show and hope it last for years to come because it is terrific. (Not what Letterman, Conan or Fallon did: it's its own unique creation.)
@tonym994
2 жыл бұрын
more measurement trivia: this was the smallest of all Dave's desks. I remember this show ,but was never much of an AM person. when he "took over the night'', that was my time.
@AudioFileZ
Жыл бұрын
Kudos to NBC (really!) for seeing the problem was the time and not the messenger.. Still, I'd much rather watch this over, say, Jerry Springer or Kelly Clarkson.
@deputay
4 жыл бұрын
This is the 2nd episode - thanks so much for posting!
@DougZbikowski
3 жыл бұрын
This was on my hometown network- WTVG Toledo OH :D
@kevinnelson66
3 жыл бұрын
ABC had a similar situation with Dick Cavett in 1968 that NBC had with Dave. Dick didn't work out in the daytime, but ABC saw he had potential, so they put him on their late night schedule where he stayed until 1975.
@RageTVHTX
2 жыл бұрын
Didn’t know that
@HelloooThere
Жыл бұрын
@@RageTVHTX that’s because it didn’t happen
@massapower
Жыл бұрын
Love that 1st Broad 'SALLY" from Long Island !!😁
@XavierKatzone
8 ай бұрын
😜😜❤️
@twlightzone2065
Жыл бұрын
Do you have any more of Letterman's Morning shows? if So ,could you post more episodes?
@hankkingsley2976
3 жыл бұрын
16th Birthday! Had to watch this before I went and got my real DL.
@jmadratz
3 жыл бұрын
Its appears that Letterman continued this same format right throughout Late Night with David Letterman. Why mess with a winning formula, right. Although he should’ve kept Edwin Newman in the mix somehow because he was actually quite entertaining and interesting with his news and subsequent rapport with David.
@russellpavlov1343
4 жыл бұрын
The David Letterman Show Jun 24 1980 WTVG 13. This is before David Letterman's Late Night/Late Show fame.
@ChristopherSobieniak
4 жыл бұрын
I believe WTVG was also one of the few stations in the area that kept the show on the air. David Letterman made some joke about it on his final show.
@ronnieparker4311
4 ай бұрын
I love to time travel back and watch these classic tv shows and also the commercials to ! With Carson and letterman gone ! Tv just hasn’t been the same ! Conan O’Brien was the last great one ! ⚡️Space ace ron⚡️
@MrMatteNWk
Жыл бұрын
Even though Bob Stewart quit as executive producer right before the start of the show, a lot of his staff is still on the show per the long credits (Bruce Burmester, Francine Bergman, Edythe Chan, Ed Flesh, David Stewart)
@allendracabal0819
4 ай бұрын
That's some deep cut trivia. Thanks. I wonder what the story was behind the resignation.
@andyrose5616
3 ай бұрын
Bob was a game show producer, and his style didn’t really gel with the content of the show.
@Blackinterceptor999
3 жыл бұрын
The commercials are hilarious now! VAGISIL-"What a Douche!"
@jareddicarlo7816
4 жыл бұрын
I love Edie McClurg’s voice
@garyapple
Жыл бұрын
This is the 2nd episode of the show. I'm looking for the historic FIRST episode. KZitem has the audio only of it. Does anyone know where I can view the first episode?
@scotts.3336
3 ай бұрын
Letterman has it on his KZitem channel.
@Shellinois
3 жыл бұрын
I love Dave, and I am grateful for these uploads of his short-lived morning show, but my God, it was a mess of a program. So glad NBC kept him on and found a new vehicle for his unique brand of humor. Daytime network television in 1980 was certainly NOT the place for David Letterman. Oh, and that sedate audience. I get that this was only the second show, but Dave was not UNfamiliar in 1980. That audience clearly had no idea what they were in for.
@hankkingsley2976
3 жыл бұрын
You would not have had the PowerHouse that was NBC late-night with Letterman if not for this by the penultimate show you could see all the elements coming together and the Hiatus just made it perfect: you couldn't see it then but looking back 40 years you can see it now
@hankkingsley9300
2 жыл бұрын
@@hankkingsley2976 I have found that when you take a break from something you come back to do it again you're better than you were before you took the break...cuz without it you just keep fighting with the same stragedy. This isn't vacation length...6 months or more. Unfortunately that's usually not possible in the world of work unless you get fired
@tonym994
2 жыл бұрын
that Esther Satterfield is something else. I'm not exactly into that sort of soft R&B, but she's great to hear and to look at.
@destinycaptain247
Жыл бұрын
I was 9 when this first aired. Barely remember it.
@theseanlegacy1795
3 жыл бұрын
Letterman was the first to have a fish tank in the background of his set! The highly unsuccessful Chevy Chase show stole that from here but with a fucking massive aquarium thing with fish that kept dying.
@siggylloyd3566
3 жыл бұрын
Too right! That fish tank on Chase's show looked monstrous, but perfectly suited the "run-it-into-the-ground" feel that whole show had.
@peterlundskow4061
8 ай бұрын
Wow, this is weird, I watched this show on this Toledo station the first day it was on.
@ebbhead20
8 ай бұрын
That kooky woman at 1 h 20 minutes is the same character as in one of the Cheech and Chong movies. Shes the one that does a magic trick at the nightclub. 😊
@allendracabal0819
4 ай бұрын
It's Edie McClurg. She also famously played the secretary to the school principal in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
@kleverich
2 жыл бұрын
Largely the same as the early years of the Late Show, though having the news updates with Edwin Newman right in the middle of the show was really odd. I suspect a newsman of his experience found it a bit unsettling to have a live audience and to participate in banter with a comedy host. Who on earth thought a show like this would play well in the morning?
@KiddBloo86
2 жыл бұрын
Fred Silverman
@hankkingsley9300
Жыл бұрын
It played with me in the summer of 1980 I watched every episode except for the day I had to go get my driver's license
@XavierKatzone
8 ай бұрын
Ooo - I wonder where slinky Sally Bastoff is today? 😘❤️
@moccalou
Жыл бұрын
Wow, had no idea he was on a morning show! His monologue is worse than the Oscars! lol
@Stuie299
2 жыл бұрын
10:34 was not expecting that at all.
@davedaves431
4 ай бұрын
Interesting to see Letterman at this stage but the ads are really something. "Gentle" laxatives designed for women with "special softening agent". Plus the rather threatening tone of some of the detergent salesman. I'm from the UK so it seems doubly fascinating to me.
@good03boy
4 жыл бұрын
Wheel Of Fortune was going to be canceled to make room for The David Letterman Show. But, TDLS was reduced from 90 minutes to 60 minutes. So WOF stayed on the air. 😀👍
@lambertman
3 жыл бұрын
In clarity, Wheel was about to be cancelled to make room for Texas, but was saved by the shortening of David to 60 minutes.
@sublationmedia
4 жыл бұрын
Ferris Bueller!
@hankkingsley9300
2 жыл бұрын
My 16th birthday. I know I missed this one cuz I had more important things to do like a trip to Hinesville GA for a drivers license. Or did I...think so cuz the learner's permit was only good for 365
@leonardstokes6036
2 жыл бұрын
2:35 to 3:00 that is some cool music.
@lindaarnold8321
2 жыл бұрын
Made me think of Hill Street Blues
@hankkingsley9300
Жыл бұрын
Jesus that New York accent wasn't so bad from the switchboard operator but it was a New York accent in 2022 I call across the country for tech support and other things and nobody sounds like that
@allendracabal0819
4 ай бұрын
You are probably talking to people in India.
@MitchellHang
4 жыл бұрын
Second episode from June 24, 1980.
@hankkingsley9300
Жыл бұрын
Never seen this one because I was on the road to get my driver's license that day...takes me back. This show was awesome but nobody got it in this time slot
@jmadratz
3 жыл бұрын
Its appears that Letterman continued this same format right throughout Late Night with David Letterman. Why mess with a winning formula.
@hankkingsley2976
3 жыл бұрын
The beginning of brilliance that faded on CBS.
@tomservo56954
4 жыл бұрын
Where is WTVG, where they can run ads for something to grow healthy soybeans?
@imacjason
4 жыл бұрын
Toledo, Ohio. toledo market stations were in range of the vast amount of farmland to the south and west of Toledo. when in rural counties around here, you could always tell what direction toledo was by looking at everyones antennas.
@KiddBloo86
4 жыл бұрын
Holy Toledo, [Ohio].
@KiddBloo86
4 жыл бұрын
What took over the remaining 30 minutes when this was reduced to an hour?
@eckesg2
3 жыл бұрын
Wheel of Fortune, which was almost axed alongside High Rollers and Hollywood Squares, moved into that timeslot
@KiddBloo86
3 жыл бұрын
Vegas Squares?
@eckesg2
3 жыл бұрын
@@KiddBloo86 No Vegas Squares was syndicated
@joefagan6244
3 жыл бұрын
Replaces Card Sharks Hollywood Squares.
@unknown-kh7dg
8 ай бұрын
No, actually NBC moved "Card Sharks" to the 12PM Noon time slot where it remained for the rest of its run. NBC cancelled "The New High Rollers", "Chain Reaction", and "The Hollywood Squares" to make room for "The David Letterman Show".
@brianlacroix822
2 жыл бұрын
wow this episode is cringey af and very inspiring too: it shows anyone starting off in their career that you gotta start somewhere and if you just keep plugging away and show character you can eventually elevate your career to interviews with harmonie corine n shit lol
@greggsheaffer2521
4 жыл бұрын
They are now the ABC affiliate
@quickies9561
6 ай бұрын
Just think of what smoking a pack day could do to your TEETH lol never mind lungs those not important
@wiedep
3 жыл бұрын
TS should have known the end was near when "The Pinheads" OK'd anything with Erik Estrada. LNw/DL was better for Biff and "Vito" Samaha, not having to wake up at 3AM.
@siggylloyd3566
2 жыл бұрын
Will Shriner > Bob Sarlotte
@hankkingsley2976
3 жыл бұрын
What is up with that rug on his head
@richardwitt3121
4 жыл бұрын
That comedian during the second half hour is so corny!
@jamesbowers5946
3 жыл бұрын
It seems like they really had to be creative to book guests in the early days. That said, Bob Sarlotte continued to appear on Dave’s shows until close to the end
@andyrose5616
3 ай бұрын
Bob was also the uncredited announcer at the beginning of the show. When they revamped the show and got rid of most of the supporting cast, he was replaced by NBC staff announcer Bill Wendell.
@baronvonnembles
Жыл бұрын
I loved the show but it was one of the worst ideas ever. To put young smart-ass Letterman on in the morning was just absurd. I would bet that the primary audience at 10am in 1980 were women 40 and over and retired people. Not exactly Letterman's target demographic.
@jasonbeard4713
6 күн бұрын
Great game shows were cancelled for this crap.
@TM-zj1xt
3 ай бұрын
This is unwatchable. Unfunny unclever derivative. Jesus. How did Dave survive this?
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