From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Jim Ellwanger  writes:   
      
   >In article ,   
   > nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:   
      
   >> 	Courtesy the Trowbridges, and I should have posted yesterday   
   >> but I wasn't thinking like it was a Monday.  THey don't have a full   
   >> list anyway, but do get into the rerun week.   
      
   >Guess a week of reruns of early episodes was too much to hope for in   
   >this day and age.  (Way back in 1993, the last couple of weeks of "Late   
   >Night with David Letterman" consisted of reruns of the first couple of   
   >weeks, from 1982.)   
      
   	Reruns of ancient episodes would be great fun to see again, but   
   no, particularly not with the changes in format of the show they wouldn't   
   get to appear.   
      
   	As I recall, though, the subtext to showing Letterman's Very First   
   Shows for the two weeks between the debut of Late Show, the start of The   
   Chevy Chase Sacrificial Lamb, and the start of Late Night With Conan   
   O'Brien was to make the point that Letterman didn't start out firing on   
   all cylinders and wasn't immediately recognizable as the entertainment   
   force he'd turn out to be.  So it served as a way of preemptively   
   answering critics before anyone could know that Chevy Chase would be a   
   much bigger, easier target.   
      
   	NBC had good reasons to point out how Letterman grew into his   
   role as Letterman decamped to CBS.  Pointing out how Conan did too would   
   be ... not quite so advisable when he's just moving to earlier on NBC.   
      
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