{"id":39991,"date":"2016-10-24T05:37:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T09:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=39991"},"modified":"2016-11-15T14:01:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T19:01:42","slug":"october-24-1980-letterman-daytime-show-finale-studio-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=39991","title":{"rendered":"October 24, 1980&#8230;Letterman Daytime Show Finale &#038; Studio Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/October-24-1980...Letterman-Daytime-Show-Finale-Studio-To.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>October 24, 1980&#8230;Letterman Daytime Show Finale &#038; Studio Tour <\/p>\n<p>Classic, Classy Letterman! Last day of his NBC morning show.<br \/>\nAlthough it only ran from June 23, until October 24, 1980, a lot of what would come later, in the late night years started here, including Stupid Pet Tricks.<\/p>\n<p>From NBC Studio 6A, here is the last 15 minutes of the show, but the first 6 are spent touring the studio and meeting producer Barry Sand, announcer Bill Wendell, director Hal Gurnee, and more, and at the end, a full credit roll with names that are still familiar, like John Pinto, Bill Bonner and Jack Young. The cameras are RCA TK44s. <\/p>\n<p>By the way, near the end, watch for the showgirls in the huge peacock head dresses&#8230;.if you remember, those were used at the start of the &#8220;Late Night With David Letterman&#8221; debut show. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_z7YGgn-x-0\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_z7YGgn-x-0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"the Final DAVID LETTERMAN Morning Show 1980 (pt2)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_z7YGgn-x-0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>October 24, 1980. Final Letterman Morning Show excerpts(pt 2 of 2) Live. w.&#8221;(Theme from)Las Vegas Gambit Show&#8221;( to Theme of David Letterman Show)<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/1117261948311353\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 24, 1980&#8230;Letterman Daytime Show Finale &#038; Studio Tour Classic, Classy Letterman! Last day of his NBC morning show. Although it only ran from June 23, until October 24, 1980, a lot of what would come later, in the late night years started here, including Stupid Pet Tricks. From NBC Studio 6A, here is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":39992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[721,683,703,704,725],"class_list":["post-39991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-announcer","tag-cameras","tag-director","tag-producer","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}