On the first day of the Writers Guild of America strike, memories of the 1988 strike are returning to me in the form of “Hal Gurnee’s Network Time Killers” on Late Night with David Letterman. After suffering several months of reruns, Letterman returned to Late Night in the odd position of being a striking writer himself, but willing to keep the rest of the show’s staff employed and happily occupied with creative time fillers that kept the random nature of the program at top form. Unfortunately the same strike lowered the coffin lid on my favorite show at the time, Moonlighting, as it ended its 4th season with a rendition of “Wooly Bully” to fill in the remaining time (see it on YouTube).