Classic Dave - show opening, 3/1/88 

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.

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)!

Dave has always been so stylish

dave is the king of late night

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

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

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

@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.

I wish he still did crap like this.

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

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

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

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

hahah @ Camera #13

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