Classic Dave - show opening, 3/1/88

Tonight is camera night! 13 cameras in the studio instead of the usual 4.

[@JordanTaylorvision]

Dave at the top of his game here. He's been great on CBS, but this was the golden age. The double-breasted suit, the Hal Gurnee jokes, another sardonic "gimmick" show ... just sublime.

[@johnnyballenatl]

This episode should've been called "Invasion of the RCA TK-47s" (which were the cameras NBC used at 30 Rock and in Burbank until about the early '90s)!

[@ruthecker399]

dave is the king of late night

[@hgates101]

Dave has always been so stylish

[@snappycatchy]

I remember this. Also, that's the studio Conan broadcast from before the unpleasantness.

[@RageTVHTX]

@monkeygriper31 No it wasnt... that was a fly through they did for the opening sequence for the show. Back then I had no idea what I was looking at. Hard to believe that brief footage was inside WTC.

[@bluebloodguru]

?? huh Letterman was on NBC originally??!! And I was old enough to know this and didn't!

[@petefaders]

Dave was less boring than Carson, but Conan is the king.

[@jnadle1]

Does anyone have the end credits to this episode, just to prove there were 13 camera people for this?

[@RageTVHTX]

I always liked the part when they fly over the dog in the intro... sometimes he wasn't there, just his empty basket/bed

[@AccordionManiac]

hahah @ Camera #13

[@KellyGreen5555]

@hgates101 Agreed...I think Letterman is not only brilliant, but sexy as well!

[@rikmoilanen4283]

Paul has spent his entire career trying to be cool. Give it up, Paul

[@lynnturman8157]

I wish he still did crap like this.

[@jnadle1]

Does anyone have the end credits to this episode, just to prove there were 13 camera people for this?