From the era when Holmes was the intro game! This appearance probably helped drive sales of the Basic set for Christmas '79.
Originally shared by Zenopus Archives
This is a real treat! Jon Peterson has found an audio recording of Gary's appearance on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow in November 1979. At the time Tomorrow was the late-night talk show that followed the Tonight show (so essentially the forerunner of Letterman). Gary was in his prime (41), and it shows in his voice - it's much less gravelly than what I've heard from the rare '00s recordings available on youtube. AD&D was "complete" - TSR had just published the DMG back in August. D&D was becoming a cultural phenomenon; this is also just a few months after D&D came to national attention when it was (wrongly) thought to be involved in the disappearance of James Dallas Egbert from mid-Aug to mid-Sep.
http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2017/12/gary-gygax-on-tomorrow-with-tom-snyder.html
The audio is better than I expected from a home recording off the TV, and Jon helpfully provides a transcript of the entire show.
If I'd have known about this, I'd have watched it back in the day. Sadly, I just now learned of this earlier today.
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