The BEST episodes directed by Hal Gurnee
#9 - Show #0002
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 2
Dave's worst moment on last night's debut: his fake tooth fell out (the video is repeated several times in slow motion); a four-year-old geography expert and cheese lover names states on a U.S. map.
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Late Night With David Letterman - Season 6 - Episode 111
Connie Chung narrates ""Dave Letterman's Old Fashioned Christmas,"" with Teri Garr, Ted Nugent, Bobby Rahal and Dave's ""family.""
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Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 1
Tom Brokaw shows up to take back some NBC "intellectual property;" Dave shows off the renovated Ed Sullivan Theater and chats with Bill Murray.
#14 - Show #0338
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 2 - Episode 119
#15 - Show #0087
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 87
#18 - Show #0001
Late Night With David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 1
The show opens with a haunting intro by NYC-based character actor Calvert Deforest; the NBC Peacock girls introduce Dave; throughout the night, a welding demonstration is held backstage; Dave gives a tour of the backstage area; Bill Murray dances to Olivia Newton-John's hit "Physical"; “Shame of the City”; Dave and Don "Mr. Wizard" Herbert experiment with air compression; Steve Fessler recites lines from the movie "Bowery at Midnight”; Dave gives an office tour to a man named Stanley and a cameraman.
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Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 33
#20 - Show #0016
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 16
#21 - Show #0035
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 35
#22 - Show #0037
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 37
#23 - Show #0007
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 7
#24 - Show #0018
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 18
#25 - Show #0039
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 39
#26 - Show #0041
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 41
#27 - Show #0032
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 32
#28 - Show #0015
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 15
#29 - Show #0034
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 34
#30 - Show #0006
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 6
Dave continues pestering locals with the new hands-free car phone: WINS radio, a car wash, Dial-a-Mattress and Jackson Hole Restaurant, where he orders pancakes.
#31 - Show #0036
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 36
#32 - Show #0017
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 17
David Sanborn sits in with the band; Dave does part of the show from his "house" in Connecticut.
#33 - Show #0038
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 38
#34 - Show #0020
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 20
#35 - Show #0043
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 43
#36 - Show #0040
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 40
#37 - Show #0019
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 19
#38 - Show #0042
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 42
#39 - Show #0008
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 8
#40 - Show #0044
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 44
#41 - Show #0021
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 21
#42 - Show #0045
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 45
#43 - Show #0046
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 46
#44 - Show #0003
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 3
A very pregnant Demi Moore is given the honor of throwing the first pencil through the backdrop windows of the Late Show.
#45 - Show #0009
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 9
Dave takes a cab to help out at Yankee Stadium and later makes fun of Tony Randall; Lenny Kravitz performs "Are You Gonna Go My Way."
#46 - Show #0022
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 22
#47 - Show #0047
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 47
#48 - Show #0048
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 48
#49 - Show #0023
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 23
Ed Sullivan's ghost introduces juggler "Andy Head;" Paul & the CBSO play Jerry Lewis out with the coda from Count Basie's "April In Paris" (a Lewis signature tune); Dave gives Jerry his take on "Beavis and Butt-head," then Jerry runs around the set and gooses a cameraman; budding sports reporter Sparky Mortimer makes his first appearance; Rod Stewart performs.
#50 - Show #0049
Late Show with David Letterman - Season 1 - Episode 49
Natalie Merchant - "Because the Night"