Opening to David Letterman Show, August 1987

Note how young he looks! Well I have to unfortunately say about the World Trade Center's prescence in this film you will actually see the inside of an office in the South Tower.

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[Dannymac82]

this was my favorite into to the show from 1987-1992 0:28 Those were days when nobody were afraid of planes hitting the twin towers back then

[dadsoldtapes]

@Dannymac82 Well a twin-engine B-25 Michell bomber hit the Empire State Building in 1945... btw some people say if that building was targeted on 9/11 it may have stayed standing, given how relatively hard its construction is compared to the hollow-ness the WTC towers were (only a small "core" of steel in the center versus hard concrete encasing the whole thing).

[tritonrocks]

I recently spoke with a long-time friend who made a very insightful observation. If you watch the opening fly-in for the WTC at 0:29 it sure seems like you're in a plane flying towards the south tower. He wonders, as now do I, if this was an inspiration to the terrorists on how the destroy the WTC? It is kind of weird. Probably not likely (this was filmed 14 years before 9/11), but it still makes me wonder...

[dadsoldtapes]

@tritonrocks Probably not, it is rather ironic how telltale that WTC fly-through is in this vid given what happened, but I'd imagine to a religious extremist like Marwan al-Shehhi who flew into the South Tower I would think watching David Letterman would have been the last thing on his mind.

[BuckyRossler]

What happened before 00:30? No picture except for the IN STEREO disclaimer. Otherwise, good upload.

[dadsoldtapes]

no idea... most likely it was intentional - or at the very least its not something wrong with the video here

[copraiders1]

Good lord that opening where the camera goes into the World Trade Center is disturbing. Of course they had no idea at the time.

[hgates101]

the best late night theme in history!

[jerkylfish]

@BuckyRossler I think I actually remember this - they screwed up and you can hear the audio of Dave talking to people in the audience before the show. And then the last 30 seconds of the show was cut off at the end.

[BlueDevilBlues]

Egads, that shot looks too much like the view from a cockpit on Sept. 11, 2001.

Creepy beyond belief.

[BillyWagner13]

@RENTfanatic06 very creepy indeed...

[tvpirate05]

This is the intro I remember the best from my childhood...the very few times I watched it then. The parking garage part stands out the most in my mind, but was the WTC portion at the beginning used for all of 1987-92? I remember the interior of the offices, but it never hit me that it was the WTC. Eerie indeed.

[AdamNedeff]

@dadsoldtapes This episode was taped during a technicians' strike, so you had some people operating the equipment who weren't used to handling it. Wild guess, but somebody hit the wrong button, that first 30 seconds was taped by accident, and somebody figured it was a neat little "behind-the-scenes" thing that the home audience might like.

[GaryNull]

@bballmanager  how about most annoying band

[RENTfanatic06]

Anyone else realiize the other creepy part about this video?

"From New York, where I'm in trouble because I told some punk network paige to drop dead...turned out to be Brandon Tartikoff..."

Brandon Tartikoff was the president of NBC at the time, & he actually did "drop dead" in August 1997, he died suddenly due to complications from Hodkin's Disease, exactly 10 years after this aired...