1995: 'Late, Late Show with Tom Snyder' Debuts on CBS
On this day in 1995, CBS introduced the post-Late Show talk show, Late, Late Show with Tom Snyder.
Produced by David Letterman's Worldwide Pants Inc., the series starred Tom Snyder, who previously helmed the post-Tonight Show program, Tomorrow, on NBC, until the show was cancelled in 1982 to make room for Late Night with David Letterman.
Snyder's Late, Late Show featured intimate interviews with a mix of celebrities and newsmakers without a studio audience. His first guests? Actress Candice Bergen, and Robert and Kathleen Gingrich. the parents of then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who'd been involved in a controversial interview with Connie Chung just days before.
In 1999, Snyder left the show, and was replaced by Craig Kilborn. Current host Craig Ferguson took over in 2005.