Dispatches From the Fortress – Day 366

Judging from my e-mail, a lot of you enjoyed the Johnny Carson video yesterday. Several of you noticed Teri Garr in a United Airlines commercial and John Austin, who was among those who wrote in, noted this show was the same year that Young Frankenstein came out. She may have done the commercial a year or two before.

Stu Shostak, Kabir Bhatia and a few other folks corrected a confusion of mine. Johnny Carson actually moved his Tonight Show from New York to Burbank as of May 1, 1972, not May of '74. Stu says that contrary to what I said, Johnny did take the show back to New York once — for Thanksgiving Week in '72. Kabir says he did it twice — from November 13 to 30 of 1972 and again for May 7-25 of 1973. I don't know why I thought otherwise.