Late Night with David Letterman Season 7: Episode Guide & Ratings

""Viewer Mail;"" Pat Sajak; Dave goes to NYC fortune tellers; Buster Poindexter sings; NFL player Timmy Smith.

Paul congratulates Dave in the wake of Late Night's 1,000th broadcast. As a present, NBC head (and G.E. crony) Robert C. Wright gave the show a four-slice toaster. Thus Dave breaks out a whole loaf of bread and makes toast for everybody who attends this strike-breaking show. Hal Gurnee calls on two acrobats for a Network Time-Killer.

A visit to a NYC laundromat via satellite; Jackie Mason; Dave's suit fitting continues; Iggy Pop.

Cold open: Dave & Paul send up the Quayle/Bentsen debate; a crowd at Shea Stadium's parking lot watches the show on Diamond Vision; a Super SloMo camera demonstration; Sid's birthday; Tom Hanks with vacation photos; Mike Wallace visits; Eddie Money sings.

""Who Asked For It?"" Candice Bergen calls Dave a ""poodle;"" another plea from Calvert to come home from the Goodwill Tour; Jon Lovitz gets in a plug; Boz Scaggs sings.

The annual (bogus) lighting of the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Plaza; another call from Calvert's Goodwill Tour.

""Elf Night;"" A NYC Christmas tree vendor shocks Dave by charging $75 for trees; Art Donovan talks about drinking beer and promotes the paperback edition of his autobiography Fatso; a look at Paul's new Christmas movie; Geena Davis.