This is my own supplementary material to the six-part documentary "The Story of Late Night" that will air on CNN. I selected seven talk-show hosts who had guested on Dave. Third up: Johnny Carson. This is the second of two parts: The Late Show years.
Part 3b: The Late Show Years, 1993-2005
13. November 11, 1993. Dave calls Johnny for permission once again to do "Stump the Band." He had asked Johnny the first time five years earlier during the writers' strike on July 15, 1988.
14. May 9, 1994. It's Late Show's first week of shows in Los Angeles. Johnny appears briefly in a taped remote.
15. May 13, 1994: The famous Top Ten segment, as Johnny makes his final appearance on national television.
16 . January 31, 2005: Johnny Carson dies at 79 on January 23, 2005. On his first show back after a week break, Dave devotes the entire hour to him.* With Producer Peter Lassally and, from Johnny's Tonight Show band, musical director Doc Severinsen, saxophonist Tommy Newsom, and drummer Ed Shaunessy.
Tommy would pass away two years later at 78, on April 28, 2007, Ed Shaunessy eight years later at 84, on May 24, 2013.
Ed McMahon would die at 86 on June 23, 2009.
Doc Severinsen is still alive at 93.
*Note: The Tonight Show clip showing Dave's pickup truck being tolled away has been deleted due to copyright caution.