The 4th Anniversary/Airplane Special on Letterman, February 1, 1986
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- A November 28, 2016, Facebook dialogue with Rick Scheckman and Merrill Markoe:
Rick: Merrill happened to be in the offices and walked into a November [1985] meeting looking for ideas about a fourth anniversary special. She suggested we do the show on a 747 jet flying to Miami with friends and family as passengers. Flash forward to late January [1986]. Mission accomplished.
Merrill: I have no memory of that. I had no idea that was my idea.
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Part 1. The anniversary show is taped in a TWA Boeing 747 enroute from New York City to Miami on Thursday, January 23, 1986. It airs in SNL's time-slot on Saturday, February 1.
Update: The segment that begins at 45:15 can be seen in full in this addendum:
• Addendum to 4th Annive...
After landing, Paul and the band immediately board a charter plane back to NYC so that they can serve as the house band for that evening's first Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremonies.
Part 2. In Miami for the weekend.
After the staff and crew settle into the Mayfair House hotel in Coconut Grove, they attend a party on the hotel's rooftop. Included here are, first, interviews with Dave, Producer Barry Sand, and Dave again for local NBC affiliate WSBN-TV. Then some stills from the rooftop party with Rob Burnett; Robert Morton and Merrill Markoe; Steve O'Donnell (in the back); the LN Heart ice display with Eric Anthony and Laurie Diamond walking by; and Barry Sand.
Some footage of the party later airs on February 6's Late Night.
Part 3. Late Night returns to New York City
January 27, 1986. The first show back from Miami, Dave and Paul discuss the trip, Dave's first mention of the Mayfair House hotel room chairs, and his cover profile in Newsweek.
January 29, 1986. More on the trip to Miami and the Mayfair House hotel.
January 30, 1986. One last plug for the anniversary show before its broadcast two days later.
The 4th Anniversary show airs February 1.
February 3, 1986. First show after the anniversary broadcast: Dave displays the Mayfair House hotel chair, then mentions Barbara Gaines' Miami bar tab.
February 4, 1986. Remote, Part 1: Dave gives a tour of his Mayfair House hotel room with his bodyguard Ronnie Roberts.
February 5, 1986. Dave shows Connie Chung video of the designs on the 747's fuselage and then invites her to wear his flight jacket. Also, Remote, Part 2: Dave and Ronnie on the Mayfair House roof.
February 6, 1986. Footage of the staff and crew's arrival in Miami and the party on the Mayfair House hotel roof. Includes a brief shot of Paul and the band getting into a van that that will take them to the chartered plane back to NYC for that evening's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremonies.
Coda. September 21, 1986. Emmy Award win for the 4th Anniversary Special.
Thanks, Don for all you do. You're the best! This is IMHO the best anniversary special and I so appreciate you posting this w/all the extras for free on youtube.
I was a member of the TWA flight attendant crew on this flight! It was a lot of fun and I look at this trip as the highlight of my TWA career. Unfortunately, it wasn't too long after that the TWA flight attendants went on strike during the takeover by Carl Icahn and that was the end of my TWA career. Very sad.
Not great that you lost your jobs but great that you were there during the trip. Any particular memory stand out?
Thanks Don. ✈
Thanks Don! I’ve been wanting to see this for years! You’re hard work and dedication for all of us Late Night fans is so very appreciated! 🙏
Just when I think, "Well, I'm not sure Donz can top this one...," you go and do it. Excellent, Mr. Giller!
It was great to not only see Dave’s 4th Anniversary Show, but also other excerpts that I originally saw on Armed Forces TV in Seoul Korea in 1986. I remember the bit about the chairs!
Thanks, Don!
I remember watching this when it aired. It was taped only a few days before the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
You know you're too big of a Late Night fan when the anthem gives you goosebumps. Haunting.
Great show, as they all were back then, but what struck me here is the interview with Dave post-flight. He's really sincere and insightful, explaining some of the behind the scenes work that goes into making the show what it was.
I really love this episode. Kinda unique. Watching from Manila on feb 6, 2023
What a memorable show this was. Besides the one I attended (6th Anniversary) this one was my favorite. Great to see all the accompanying clips and segments along with the show. Thanks, Don!
@45:28 dave teasing hal for not drinking
Nobody would do something like this today. They couldn't even think of it.
Joseph Magil Um, Conan O’Brien did his show on a ferry one time; Jimmy Kimmel, on a Metro (formerly RTD if you’ve in L.A.) Bus.
Cannot imagine the insurance for this today
Thank you, Don. The total package. Amazing. Thanks.
I remember watching this as a rerun on Comedy Central as a kid. Loved all these Late Nite specials. Thanks for uploading!
You may be confusing Comedy Central with E!, which aired all but one of the anniversary shows on two July 4 marathons in the mid-‘90s.
@@dongiller Ah Don I think you’re right on. Honestly it’s been so long since E! had something worth watching I forgot they existed :)
any fool can record 30 years of television, with the non-broadcast clips in these comps you remind us all who is for real and who is simply playing games.
Don, you have many many amazing videos appear; I will say that this is 1 of your finest!
Shooting this was a disaster. Most of the footage from the B roll cameras on board the aircraft was destroyed after landing in Miami and they ended up with a lot less footage to use when editing it together.
How do you know this?
interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/hal-gurnee?clip=106307#interview-clips
Excellent. Thank you so much.
I loved how much the passengers didn't care for Dave LOL.
Every passenger in that plane was a Late Night staffer.
@@dongiller Ahh. Makes sense.
That was excellent, Don. Special thanks for the bonus material. It really added an extra dimension to the show. 👍
always does.
Outstanding labor of love Don! Wow I hadn't seen Connie Chung in a long time - she was really really pretty in that clip near the end. Why Maury Povitch??!! It looked like she went in for the cheek-kiss at the end of the segment and Dave didn't notice. And the Late Night Anthem! It sort of encapsulates all the endearing elements of the show - think about starting every post with it, like My Country 'Tis of Thee in homeroom! :)
"How ya doin', Grant?"
"Fine, Tom"
Ten years later...
"It's A Late Night World of Love" - Truly an anthem of a generation.
I always wanted to put my hamster the show! She would get in her ball, then follow my hand to a tower of disposable cups and knock them down
In your Earth years, I guess I was born around the time of Socrates. Ha ha ha ha ha!
9:11 - That bit with 3 year old deity Hal is so much weirder than anything they would do in the later CBS years.
Nice timestamp for a show on a plane too :o)
@@FlockOfHawks Too soon!
We can tell some Lincoln assassination jokes, though.
@@yohei72 best cure for trauma is mockery though :o) but i get your point 👍
@@FlockOfHawks No no, I was joking too. PAY ATTENTION.
@@yohei72 i'm too poor to pay anytink ☺
I'm commenting before I watch this, but I will always remember "Captain Billy."
So, why doesn't Dave wear a letterman jacket?
Did Letterman do an anniversary special every year?
Every year but not 1991 and 1993.
I hope that they gave the woman with the balancing dog a room at the hotel in payment for all the footage the used of her on the show
My apologies if I've asked this before, Don, but I've always wondered if any of the Today Show footage that they were shooting outside while Dave was using the megaphone (one of my all time favorite bits from his show) was ever broadcast by the Today Show. Any idea?
There’s a YT video that split-screens both versions - ruclips.net/video/EaDTmSvgmeU/видео.html
@@dongiller Thanks again, Don! You're awesome.
I finally finished this collection. Regarding the part where the chair was sent to the studio...it sounds like he said the name of the hotel once, and then they muted it the other times he said it. Any idea why? Could they only mention it a certain number of times?
Also, I always forget how great a guest Connie Chung was. Always easy on the eyes and on the heart.
Several theories but no real answer. Maybe for just one show after a previous one. Or inconsistent policy. Who knows.
It’s great to see the one recording in history where it’s acceptable to clap on an airplane
As always, thanks for the posts.
Now, two questions....the clip at 24:30 with the guy who forgets the three pointers...who is that guy, and when did that show air? I've seen him on so many of the anniversary shows, but I don't recall the actual episode.
Here’s his full segment. I uploaded it in June 2016. ruclips.net/video/FLLCkDW0D6U/видео.html
@@dongiller Somehow I missed that one. I'll be watching it soon. Thanks as always, Don.
What was being muted on the Feb 3rd clip? Was he saying motel instead of hotel?
"Mayfair" was occasionally muted.
27:55 lol that’s funny that look
Back when late night TV was actually funny. Today's late night shows are a joke and not worth watching.
You forget how great the show was before he broke up with Merrill Markoe. It was all her.
Is there a full version of the "bootleg" show available online? That looked fascinating.
Uploaded last June - ruclips.net/video/bOsmOBg98uA/видео.html
@@dongiller Are you a regular human, or are you an angel?
What’s the music leading out of the segment at 54:00?
“Soul Finger” by the Bar-Kays.
Don Giller Thank you very much!
@ 44:35 ...well have you? The only other interesting thing about New Rochelle is that Mariano Rivera lives there.
Taking the audience to the commissary, did they have to sign litigation wavers? Of course this was before GE.
@ 52:28 No amount of camera shading can fix this.
Beware of producers with dark glasses and a mustache.
Could you post this Chris Elliott in The Long Hot Summer sketch?
I posted it last November: ruclips.net/video/abH6X_8ltEM/видео.html
LOL Entertainment Tonight opener. Mannnnnn.
spuzzlightyeartoo And that was Al Owens subbing for Robb Weller (who would later be replaced by John Tesh) with Mary Hart.