Viewer Mail/Realm of Mystery Collection on Letterman, 1987-88

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A recurring Biff Henderson segment that lasted for two autumns in 1987 and 1988 as part of - with one exception -- Viewer Mail.
1. October 2, 1987. Viewer Mail, with Hal Gurnee and Brian McAloon, and Realm of Mystery #1, with Bridget Jackson and Mary Connelly.
2. October 9, 1987. Viewer Mail, with Ed Kotkin as Robert Morton, the World's Most Dangerous Band, and Realm of Mystery #2, with Rob Burnett as the giant rat.
3. October 27, 1987. Act 4 Realm of Mystery #3, with Tommy Casabona, Kathleen Ankers, Larry Jacobson, Joe Toplyn, Randy Cohen, Pete Fatovich, and his wife and son Mary Lou and Pete, Jr.
4. September 2, 1988. Viewer Mail, with Bob Costas and Laurie Guthrie, and Realm of Mystery #4, with Sid McGinnis and Paul Shaffer.
5. September 16, 1988. Viewer Mail, with Drummond Erskine as Abe Lincoln, Jan Leighton as Ben Franklin, and Jeff Martin as Thomas Jefferson; Adam Resnick and the World's Most Dangerous Band; and Realm of Mystery #5.
6. October 7, 1988. Viewer Mail, with Larry Jacobson, Gerard Mulligan, and Adam Resnick; Glenn Kubota and Paul Pennolino; and Realm of Mystery #6, with Boyd Hale
7. November 4, 1988. Viewer Mail, with the premiere of the Viewer Mail Theme, featuring its composer Henry Mancini, with a string ensemble and Lenny Pickett on saxophone; the World's Most Dangerous Band; and Realm of Mystery #7, with Al Maher, Jeff Martin, and his "daughter" Caryn Lyn Jones.
Note: The full Viewer Mail Theme collection can be seen here: • Viewer Mail Theme Coll...

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@kennyhobbs7378 4 жыл бұрын

HEY! Thanks for posting this. I wrote the letter canceling the show. I'd given up taping it as I waited six months for him to read it, and didn't have a tape ready when he did, and then missed taping it when it ran in re-run. After he left for CBS I figured I'd never see it again. Another random former Stanton resident sent me the link. I had just turned sixteen the month before and Dave read my letter on the air! AND DID A BIT FOR IT! I am so happy to see it again. THANK YOU!!!

@FranktheDachshund 3 жыл бұрын

Being a simple man, I would sincerely say that would have been a high point in my life. Congratulations!

@wealldieatthehandsoflovedones 3 жыл бұрын

This is cool. I had a radio station put my phone call on air when they answered two people at once and the d.j. didn't say anything and me and the other caller just talked to each other and he was drunk and funny as hell. They replayed it for months.

@joannasunday 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool!!!!

@no_one_of_that_name_here 2 жыл бұрын

Such a cool story that I choose to believe it, even with this being the internet and all that.

@christophermiller3031 2 жыл бұрын

Great story Kenny... Don Giller is really one of the KZfaq heroes.

@ylette 5 жыл бұрын

That thing with "trapped for all eternity in a hellish, never ending comedy piece" was genius.

@zaddy49 Ай бұрын

It's crazy how a show from 35 years ago is refreshing. Man I loved Late Night during this time.

@OlChunkOfCoal 2 жыл бұрын

It's the supporting cast: Hal, Biff, and most importantly Paul, who made the old Letterman show so great. No other late night show can compare because of this.

@unitoolzee 2 жыл бұрын

“Let’s trash this dump!” is one of my top 10 favorite lines ever on Letterman.

@pauliedf3 2 жыл бұрын

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've been looking for the mouse with the pencil gag for YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@MusicOverMyHead 2 жыл бұрын

I miss this show so much! It was never the same after he went to CBS. Thanks again for posting these Don.

@allendracabal0819 3 ай бұрын

It's like bands that get popular and then overproduce their later music. The simpler stuff is better.

@joannasunday 2 жыл бұрын

These are great! Irony indeed. Thanks, Don!

@billbillings913 6 жыл бұрын

Randall "Schnibby" Kupsh -- 30 years later, still my all time favorite viewer mail name

@scurtij 4 жыл бұрын

www.legacy.com/obituaries/htrnews/obituary.aspx?n=randy-m-kupsh-schnibby&pid=168302007&fhid=14030

@ghostpasha9076 4 жыл бұрын

hahaha! I had totally forgotten about those "let's trash this dump" skits

@GrantTarredus Жыл бұрын

Thank you for allowing me to relive these very happy memories!

@wealldieatthehandsoflovedones 3 жыл бұрын

Many nights of childhood memorys when I only had 3 channels

@ThymeKeeper 3 жыл бұрын

According to Google, Randy M. "Schnibby" Kupsh passed away on November 29, 2013.

@jacksonjack7838 2 жыл бұрын

17:45 I have never seen these Realm of Mystery's before and they are hilarious, I love this. As Someone born in 90 and watched Dave and Conan growing up, I see that David left a lot of the Super Goofiness with Conan on Late Night when he left for CBS. Or at least thats how it seems to me. I need to catch up on some more 90s and early 2000s Letterman bits tho, I've been watching these 80s clips because I've not seen much of Letterman from the 80s and wanted to finally check it out.

@realemetic1 3 жыл бұрын

The Henry Macini bit is one that made me stand up in my chair and cheer the TV....great memory!!

@CreamedCheesed 5 жыл бұрын

Don, you provide an essential service for classic Late Night fans from the UK like m’self!

@dongiller 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@CreamedCheesed 5 жыл бұрын

No Don, I thank you!

@toweypat 4 жыл бұрын

Paul Shaffer just happens to have a crowbar, because you never know.

@vinson311 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for uploading this Letterman content,

@K64NMN 2 жыл бұрын

THIS is television. Love it.

@toddleopold2009 2 жыл бұрын

45:53 thank you very much for this, including the viewer mail theme by Henry Mancini. I love his work and I love the theme.

@dongiller 2 жыл бұрын

Here are all of the Mancini-composed Viewer Mail themes with special performances - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b6ddmbyUurDXdWg.html

@toddleopold2009 2 жыл бұрын

@@dongiller Thank you!

@wecontrolthevideo 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for another episode from Don Giller’s Realmmmmm Offffffff Videooooooo!!!!! ,,,,

@romansroad2007 6 жыл бұрын

1980s where great. Fun easy times in life... TV shows where great

@jamesmitchell1780 5 жыл бұрын

William E XX-

@stevenpdx 6 жыл бұрын

Great to see Mr. Mancini having so much fun on the show!

@williamshatt8523 4 жыл бұрын

His writers were really good.

@PatTheBatmanFan 4 жыл бұрын

God bless you, Biff Henderson.

@robertdavis4192 5 жыл бұрын

Hello insomnia, meet the Don Giller channel, you two get acquainted while I smoke this sleepy time J.

@Football__Junkie 5 жыл бұрын

robert davis Hah, I stayed up late last night watching Dave for hours call a chick who works across the street and compete with his intern at throwing footballs in a trash can. Beats anything on cable these days

@kanealson5200 6 жыл бұрын

I'm amazed that for such a fan as myself that I've never seen even one of these. Must have always been on a Friday. Good thing I can watch it here years later on 'Don TV'. Excellent comp of a great segment.

@mikephillips8538 5 жыл бұрын

You got that right Im a big fan of Letterman but never got to see any of this, I started to watch in the 90s at like 11 yrs old, so it is great to see all the skits I didn't get to see

@royalsfan 5 жыл бұрын

The song after segment #2: "Bits and Pieces."

@michaelbaute8891 3 жыл бұрын

I miss Biff Henderson.

@kpec3 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting! So freaking funny!🤣🤣🤣

@scottlarson1548 4 жыл бұрын

For the mouse segment they used the famous "Wilhelm Scream!"

@SailorCallie 6 жыл бұрын

Of course, Letterman was referring to Night Music that David Sanborn hosted at the time.

@finnibertlunchiken7792 6 жыл бұрын

Don, just read the New York Times interview/article about you. Excellent job and good read. Glad you're getting recognition consistently through the years for your work! Youve been able to make your obsessive-compulsiveness into an asset for many who loved the show and also those who worked on it. I wonder if Dave ever visits the channel. I think he has or likely will eventually. 47:54 I think the show Dave is referring to that sounds a little like Henry Mancini's viewer mail theme here is 'A Different World'. I actually thought it sounded alot more like this toy commercial from the 70's. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pMWYpa2q1LHRdJ8.html

@dongiller 6 жыл бұрын

It's either this or growing a mohawk. :)

@AaronHarder 5 жыл бұрын

I believe Henry Mancini's Viewer Mail theme takes it's main motif from the early 20th century folk song "L'il Liza Jane"

@AaronHarder 5 жыл бұрын

A mohawk would be fine, but please stick with the KZfaq channel Don. You are a national treasure.

@redshiftexperiment 4 жыл бұрын

@@dongiller really awesome work. And at least your not sorting flintstone vitamins!!!

@namelessjedi2242 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, someone also mentioned that song in the comments section for the toy commercial linked above! It really does sound similar.

@guyjohnson259 2 ай бұрын

“The little man”😂😂😂

@Qolus 6 жыл бұрын

What the. Is that Joe Walsh at 6:15? And why the HELL do I know what Joe Walsh looks like?!?

@mikephillips8538 5 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha

@glennmarshall4693 6 жыл бұрын

looks like Lenny Pickett with that orchestra doing the viewer mail theme, viewer mail is my favorite thing that Dave did.

@dongiller 6 жыл бұрын

As identified in the description beneath the video.

@pauliedf3 2 жыл бұрын

I remember the bunny and conquistador! I remember after the top 10, the Thrill Cam veered into the exit hallway where the 2 were waiting and blasted the fire extinguisher.

@pardonmedoug886 2 жыл бұрын

Great way to end a very entertaining collection.

@KungEMuller 4 жыл бұрын

This is pretty hilarious and really interesting, but I do want to ask you one question. What's the moment that played during the 5:36-5:42 timeframe and would you be able to put it up in its entirety so that we can fully understand what's going on?

@muckrak3r 2 жыл бұрын

That's just nuts

@KungEMuller 2 жыл бұрын

@@muckrak3r You're right. Sorry about that.

@squinkque 2 жыл бұрын

You got some balls writing comments like this.

@KungEMuller 2 жыл бұрын

@@squinkque I get the puns, thanks.

@sandramcclure2598 3 жыл бұрын

that was cool

@luisclaudiofugolin6250 2 жыл бұрын

23:39 RIP Gugu Liberato, brazilian tv show host who almost got killed doing this thing back then.

@combeechan 5 жыл бұрын

39:12 what is that falling?

@johntellone3562 5 жыл бұрын

Classic Dave

@TH-ph7gg Жыл бұрын

the eighties was something

@user-sk9bx7wp2n 3 ай бұрын

It's a stone cold gas, and a groovy trip

@jakejerald 3 жыл бұрын

This is filled with Kir Royale 😂😂😂

@kpec3 Жыл бұрын

Irony indeed...

@rogertrujillo7423 3 жыл бұрын

Bridget Jackson was so cute!

@rayschultz387 3 жыл бұрын

88 wasn't just the year ....

@ghmus7 Жыл бұрын

Henri Mancini!!! ???!!!

@robcas123 4 жыл бұрын

at 41:48 its beautiful at the lake baby

@crispywan 3 жыл бұрын

I say " irony is always on the menu" all the time

@drjitters 2 жыл бұрын

Anarchy 10:45

@tedkier3264 6 жыл бұрын

thank you don for showing'Realm of Mystery' rehashed ad nauseum til it became our realm of misery.

@bbmcrae 5 жыл бұрын

Booooo

@Mr._Sandman 2 жыл бұрын

First appearance: Legendary. Subsequent appearances:... meh.

@clancykobane9102 5 ай бұрын

"viewer mail theme" 🤦‍♀🤦‍♀🤦‍♀

@dongiller 5 ай бұрын

There’s a compilation of all of those who performed it.

@clancykobane9102 5 ай бұрын

thank you. i liked the bell choir@@dongiller