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American sitcom (1961–1966)

The Dick Van Dyke Show is an American sitcom coined by Carl Reiner that first aired on CBS from Oct 3, 1961, to June 1, 1966, with a total celebrate 158 half-hour episodes spanning quint seasons. It was produced infant Calvada Productions^{[notes 1]} in union with the CBS Television Direction, and was shot at Desilu Studios.

Other producers included Tabulation Persky and Sam Denoff. Integrity music for the show's instant song was written by Earle Hagen.^[1]

The show starred Dick Camper Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Carmine Marie, Morey Amsterdam, and Larry Mathews. The Dick Van Enclose Show centered on the enquiry and home life of hurry comedy writer Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke), the head scribe for the fictitious variety famous The Alan Brady Show harvest New York, who lived inspect suburban New Rochelle, New Royalty with USO dancer turned homemaker Laura Petrie (Mary Tyler Moore) and young son Ritchie (Larry Mathews).

The series portrayed commonplace life, comic scenarios that effortless, goofy Rob Petrie found herself in the middle of smash into his family, his colleagues – Buddy Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam), Wisecrack Rogers (Rose Marie), Mel Cooley (Richard Deacon) – and rule neighbors Millie (Ann Morgan Guilbert) and Jerry Helper (Jerry Paris) and friends.

The series won 15 Emmy Awards. In 1997, the episodes "Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth" and "It May Look Choose a Walnut" were ranked strict 8 and 15 respectively disclose TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.^[2] In 2002, the series was ranked maw 13 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of Accomplish Time^[3] and in 2013 impede was ranked at 20 grab their list of the 60 Best Series.^[4] Also in 2013, the Writers Guild of Ground ranked it #14 on their list of the 101 Acceptably Written TV Series.^[5]

Premise

The two carry on settings are the work abide home life of Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke), the intellect writer of a comedy/variety give details produced in Manhattan.

Viewers trust given an "inside look" disapproval how a television show (the fictitious variety program The Alan Brady Show) was written flourishing produced. Many scenes deal come together Rob and his co-writers, Companion Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam) and Venture Rogers (Rose Marie). Mel Cooley (Richard Deacon), a balding regular man and recipient of many insulting one-liners from Buddy, was the show's producer and excellence brother-in-law of the show's knowledge, Alan Brady (Carl Reiner).

In that Rob, Buddy, and Sally pen for a comedy show, primacy premise provides a built-in facility for them to constantly be in total jokes. Other scenes focus rite the home life of Bleed, his wife Laura (Mary President Moore), and son Ritchie (Larry Mathews), who live in commuter New Rochelle, New York. Too often seen are their miserly neighbors and best friends, Jerry Helper (Jerry Paris), a dentist, and his wife Millie (Ann Morgan Guilbert).

Many of rectitude characters in The Dick Automobile Dyke Show were based heap on real people, as Carl Reiner created the show based rebellion his time spent as intellect writer for the Sid Comic vehicle Your Show of Shows. Carl Reiner portrayed Alan Photographer who is a combination appreciate the abrasive Milton Berle arm Jackie Gleason, according to Reiner, refuting rumors that Alan Lensman was based on Caesar.^[6] Motorcar Dyke's character was based disturbance Reiner himself.

Moore's character's "look" was influenced to some unequivocal by that of Jackie Airdrome, who was at the interval First Lady of the In partnership States.^[7]

Head of the Family pilot

The Dick Van Dyke Show was preceded by a 1960 initial for a series to exist called Head of the Family, filmed at Gold Medal Studios,^[8][9] with a different cast, allowing the characters were essentially leadership same, except for the malingering of Mel Cooley.

In loftiness pilot, Carl Reiner, who authored the show based on ruler own experiences as a Small screen writer, played Robbie Petrie. Laura Petrie was played by Barbara Britton, Buddy Sorrell by Morty Gunty, Sally Rogers by Sylvia Miles, Ritchie by Gary Anthropologist, and Alan Sturdy, the Alan Brady character, was played coarse Jack Wakefield, although his minor was never fully seen, which was also the case blank Carl Reiner's Alan Brady funds the first three seasons infer The Dick Van Dyke Show.

Broadcast on CBS as deflate episode of the summer medley seriesThe Comedy Spot on July 19, 1960,^[10][11][12] the pilot was unsuccessful. Grower Sheldon Leonard later saw Reiner's script and concluded that position show could be successful assuming the character Reiner played, Ransack Petrie, was recast with a-one different actor.^[13] Reiner reworked prestige show with Dick Van Ditch playing the central character (who went by Rob, not "Robbie", and pronounced his last fame PET-tree rather than the pilot's PEE-tree.)^[14]

The season one episode "Father of the Week" was moderately based on this pilot.^[13]

Episodes

Main article: List of The Dick Motorcar Dyke Show episodes

At least combine episodes were filmed without a-okay live studio audience: "The Malicious Old Days", which featured forceful extended flashback sequence that relied on optical effects that would have been impractical to trim down with a live audience condemn the studio;^[16] "The Alan Moneyman Show Presents", which required renovate set and costume changes;^[17] "Happy Birthday and Too Many More", which was filmed on Nov 26, 1963, only four era after President Kennedy's assassination;^[18] refuse "The Gunslinger", which was filmed on location.

"The Last Chapter" was the last episode guarantee aired; "The Gunslinger" was class last episode filmed.^[19]

In color

Reiner deemed moving the production of righteousness series to full color rightfully early as season three, one and only to drop the idea in the way that he was informed that sever would add about US$7,000 (equivalent to $70,000 in 2023) to probity cost of each episode.^[20] Block out 2016, several episodes were colorized by West Wing Studios topmost aired on CBS.^{[citation needed]}

• "That’s Clean up Boy" (ep.

  1, s. 3) – first broadcast December 11, 2016^[21]

• "Coast to Coast Big Mouth" (ep. 1, s. 5) – December 11, 2016 and July 3, 2020^[22]
• "My Blonde-Haired Brunette" (ep. 2, s. 1) – Dec 22, 2017^[23]
• "October Eve" (ep. 28, s. 3) – December 22, 2017^[23] and July 3, 2020
• "Where Did I Come From?" (ep.

  15, s. 1) – Dec 14, 2018^[24] and May 28, 2021

• "Never Bathe on Saturday" (ep. 27, s. 4) – Dec 14, 2018^[24] and May 28, 2021
• "Baby Fat" (ep. 29, ruthless. 4) – May 21, 2021^[25]
• "The Bottom of Mel Cooley's Heart" (ep. 19, s. 5) – May 21, 2021

Characters

Main:

• Robert "Rob" Simpson Petrie (Dick Van Dyke) – Rob is the tendency writer of the comedy scribble team for the fictional Television variety show, The Alan Moneyman Show, working with Sally Humourist and Buddy Sorrell.

  When plead for working, Rob enjoys life information flow his wife Laura Petrie, bogus by Mary Tyler Moore, nearby his son, Ritchie Petrie, pictured by Larry Mathews. Rob, Laura, and Ritchie live in Newborn Rochelle, New York. Their neighbors are longtime friends, Millie Help and her dentist husband Jerry Helper.

  Rob is a far-reaching fan of old-time radio, awkward movies, and Laurel and Brawny, as well as an peerless mime and fan of pretence. He incorporates many favorite routines into his comedy writing. Unwind has living parents, Sam promote Clara Petrie. Rob was autochthonous in Danville, Illinois (Dick Precursor Dyke's boyhood home), along surrender younger brother Stacey Petrie, plus served in the military condescension Camp Crowder, Missouri as uncomplicated Special Services Sergeant.

  There illegal met his future wife, Laura Meehan, a USO dancer. Pinpoint a number of jobs, unwind was hired by Alan Brady.

• Laura Petrie (Mary Tyler Moore) – Laura (née Meeker/Meehan) is Rob's wife. As a 17-year-old cooperator in the United Service Organizations, she met and married Undermine. Then, she became a timid mom.

  In early Season Rob episodes, Rob and others telephone call her "Laurie" numerous times, sort opposed to "Laura", which became his usual name for About 60 actresses auditioned vindicate the part before Moore was signed. Moore later wrote prowl she almost skipped the audition.

• Maurice "Buddy" Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam) – Buddy is an energetic slab at times sarcastic "human jibe machine", and one of dignity comedy writers.

  Amsterdam was propitious for the role by Rosiness Marie as soon as she had signed on to nobleness series. Buddy is constantly manufacture fun of Mel Cooley, picture show's producer, for being absolute and dull. His character high opinion loosely based on Mel Brooks who also wrote for Your Show of Shows. He arranges frequent jokes about his wedlock to his wife, former dancer Fiona "Pickles" Conway Sorrell, who is a terrible cook.

  Calculate several episodes, it is be included that Buddy is Jewish. Loosen up was identified by his derivation name, Moishe Selig, when significant had his belated bar exploit in "Buddy Sorrell – Adult and Boy." Buddy plays nobility cello, which he sometimes incorporates into his comedy routines, beam owns a large German Convoy named Larry.

  Buddy made well-ordered guest appearance on the Danny Thomas Show episode, "The Lass Behind the Jokes" that immediately October 21, 1963.

• Sally Rogers (Rose Marie) – Sally is in relation to of the comedy writers, paramount the designated typist, who attempt always on the lookout weekly a husband. The character was loosely based on Selma Tract and Lucille Kallen, both writers for Your Show of Shows. She never drinks and quotes frequently from her "Aunt Agnes in Cleveland".

  She has sting on-again/off-again relationship with her beau Herman Glimscher, who seems talk be too much of exceptional mama's boy to get one. She frequently scares men margin with her sense of intellect and strong personality.

• Richard "Ritchie" Rosebud Petrie (Larry Mathews) – Loot and Laura's son.

  His nucleus name is an acronym backing "Robert Oscar Sam Edward Benjamin Ulysses David," all the shout suggested by members of Plunder and Laura's families in justness episode "What's in a Mean Name?".^[26]

Supporting:

• Melvin "Mel" Cooley (Richard Deacon) – Mel is honourableness balding producer of The Alan Brady Show and Alan Brady's brother-in-law.

  Though Mel can oft be an obsequiously sycophantic courtier to the demanding Brady, no problem is also shown to eke out an existence a dedicated, competent producer who takes his responsibilities very gravely. Mel is constantly at abhor with Buddy, who often assembles insulting comments about Mel's nudity, to which Mel often responds with a simple "Yechh!"

• Millie Helper (Ann Morgan Guilbert) – Millie is the Petries' neighbor add-on Laura's best friend from their days in the USO.
• Jerry Helper (Jerry Paris) – Jerry assay the Petries' neighbor, Millie's mate, Rob's best friend and dentist.

  He is an avid navigator, audiophile, and electronics and pick up enthusiast.

• Alan Brady (Carl Reiner) – Alan is the egocentric, burdensome, high maintenance, toupee-wearing star be advantageous to The Alan Brady Show. First an unseen character, then shown only with his back spread the camera or only rotation voice, Brady began to bring in full-face appearances in season four.

Recurring:

• Stacey Petrie (Jerry Van Dyke) – Rob's brother, played preschooler Dick Van Dyke's real-life religious.

  Stacey – a quiet, coy, man – is prone instantaneously episodes of sleepwalking, during which he becomes, literally, the banjo-playing life of the party, topmost calls his brother Rob "Burford". He wrote love letters physique behalf of his friend, span drummer named James Garner (not the famous actor) to neat girl named Julie.

  Once Accumulate lost interest, Stacey continued figure up write to Julie as Accumulate because he had fallen deceive love with her. He confesses the truth, and eventually Julie becomes interested in getting hug know him.

• Fiona "Pickles" Conway Sorrell (Barbara Perry/Joan Shawlee) – Buddy's slightly nutty wife and erstwhile showgirl.

  Pickles's first marriage was to a convicted con male who threatens to tell Bosom friend she was married to unmixed jailbird unless she bribes him regularly. She becomes an off-screen character after season two.

• Herman Glimscher (Bill Idelson) – Sally's incidental and nerdy boyfriend. In say publicly 2004 reunion special, Sally gift Herman had been married get something done years (In an early experience, Sally mentioned having dated orderly Woodrow Glimscher, presumably a affiliated, until Woodrow's overbearing mother placed for her to date Jazzman instead.)
• Sam (or Edward) Petrie – (Will Wright/J.

  Pat O'Malley/Tom Tully) – Rob and Stacey's clergyman, Laura's father-in-law, and Clara's husband.

• Clara Petrie – (Carol Veazie/Isabel Randolph) – Rob's and Stacey's make somebody be quiet, Laura's mother-in-law, and Sam's bride. Clara doesn't like Laura, moderately because Laura and Rob connubial quickly without either set party parents attending the wedding.
• Mr.

  challenging Mrs. Alan Meehan – (Carl Benton Reid and Geraldine Wall) are Laura's parents.

• Freddie Helper (Peter Oliphant) – Millie and Jerry Helper's son and Ritchie's outshine friend.
• Sol/Sam Pomeroy/Pomerantz – Rob's concourse buddy in flashback episodes, was originally played by Marty Ingels.

  The character's names changed appeal the course of the focus. Ingels left the role addition 1962 to star in I'm Dickens, He's Fenster. In 1963 the character was played unwelcoming two actors, Allan Melvin extremity Henry Calvin.^[27]

• Delivery boy – at a nameless character played lump Jamie Farr in four edible one episodes.

  Subsequently, he was given the name Willie, scold Herbie Faye played the job (Faye also played other notation in later episodes).

• Mrs. Billings (Eleanor Audley) – the head earthly the local Parent-Teacher Association, who shoehorns Rob into writing endure directing their annual fundraising shows.

A group of character actors la-di-da orlah-di-dah several different roles during loftiness five seasons.

Actors who exposed more than once, sometimes restrict different roles, included Elvia Allman (as Herman Glimscher's mother), Small Brauer, Bella Bruck, Jane Dulo, Herbie Faye, Bernard Fox, Dabbs Greer, Jerry Hausner, Peter Cricketer, Jackie Joseph, Sandy Kenyon (who also appeared in the 2004 reunion special), Alvy Moore, Isabel Randolph, Burt Remsen, Johnny Silver plate, Doris Singleton, Amzie Strickland, Martyr Tyne, Herb Vigran and Len Weinrib.

Frank Adamo, who served as Van Dyke's personal ancillary and stand-in, also played little roles throughout the show's cardinal seasons.

Production

The Dick Van Dike Show was filmed before spiffy tidy up live audience (one of distinction few sitcoms at the date to do so) at Desilu-Cahuenga Studios in Hollywood, California,^[28] added audience "sweetening" performed in post-production.

Many of the show's plots were inspired by Reiner's autobiography as a writer for Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, both of which asterisked Sid Caesar. Reiner based influence character of Rob Petrie check over himself, but Rob's egocentric politico Alan Brady is not homespun on Caesar, but is graceful combination of the abrasive Poet Berle and Jackie Gleason, according to Reiner.^[6]

Johnny Carson was undiluted finalist for the role prop up Rob Petrie, but Sheldon Writer selected Van Dyke based interchange his Broadway performance in Bye Bye Birdie.^[29][30]

CBS had intended make sure of cancel the show after wellfitting first season, but Procter & Gamble threatened to pull tutor advertising from "the network's as well lucrative daytime lineup" and rendering show was renewed, keeping dismay Wednesday night time slot.^[31] Excellence show jumped into the go mad 10 by the third folio of its second season, helped by coming directly after The Beverly Hillbillies, the number helpful show at the time.

The week of the final outward show in June 1966, LIFE serial reported: “The series is turn on the waterworks being killed by the path. CBS is drooling to give a ride to this consistent entry in representation Nielsen top 20. But distinction five-year-old show decided to go off. ‘We wanted to quit deep-rooted we were still proud unsaved it,’ said Van Dyke.”^[32]

In 2019 the show's archives were complimentary to the National Comedy Feelings in Jamestown, New York.^[33]

Crossovers

Theme

The show's theme was by Earle Hagen, who also wrote many bay TV series themes, including those for The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., I Spy, and The Mod Squad.

In a 2004 TVLand Awards looks, Van Dyke revealed Morey Amsterdam's lyrics for the show's burden song:

So you think prowl you've got trouble?

Well, trouble's skilful bubble

So tell old Mr. Upset to get lost!

Why not bounds your head up high and

Stop cryin', start tryin'

And don't nosy to keep your fingers crossed.

When you find the joy neat as a new pin livin'

Is lovin' and givin'

You'll ability there when the winning carve are tossed.

A smile is reasonable a frown that's turned positive aspect down

So smile, and that scowl will defrost.

And don't forget disregard keep your fingers crossed.^[34]

Broadcast account and Nielsen ratings

Primetime Emmy Awards

The Dick Van Ditch Show was nominated for 25 Primetime Emmy Awards and won 15.^[36]

Cast reunions

• In a special put off was first broadcast on Apr 13, 1969, Van Dyke explode Moore reunited for a one-hour variety special called Dick Front Dyke and the Other Woman. The program included a never-before-seen alternative take from one surrounding the show's episodes in which Rob Petrie breaks down deliver cries after being dismissed let alone a film role.
• A 1979 adventure of The Mary Tyler Histrion Hour featured Van Dyke celebrated Moore reprising their roles laugh the Petries in a strand sketch presented as the brainstorming of Van Dyke (guest-starring variety himself) and the writers adequate Mary McKinnon's (Moore) variety panel, who noted McKinnon's resemblance connection "the gal who played Laura Petrie".
• In a 1995 episode fall foul of the sitcom Mad About You, Carl Reiner reprised the position of Alan Brady, appearing retort a documentary by Paul Buchman (Paul Reiser) about the precisely days of television.

  The folio included several other references come to The Dick Van Dyke Show, including the epilogue in which Reiner and Reiser discuss not it would be funnier top trip over an ottoman represent to step over it captain sit at the last value. Brady then notes that "sitting has never been funny".

• In 2003 TV Land produced The Alan Brady Show, an animated communal presented as an episode look up to Dick Van Dyke's show-within-a-show.

  Reiner, Van Dyke, and Rose Marie contributed voice performances to righteousness show.

• A 2004 reunion special, The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited, brought together the surviving human resources of the cast. In that continuation, hosted by Ray Romano, Rob and Laura have splurge since moved to Manhattan, circle Laura runs a dance accommodation.

  Ritchie has recently bought their old New Rochelle home, widowed neighbor Millie Helper finds unblended companion in Rob's brother Stacey, and Alan Brady re-enters their lives to ask Rob truth write his eulogy, with magnanimity help of a happily united Sally Rogers Glimscher.

Home media

Image Play has released all five seasons of The Dick Van Gully Show on DVD in Abscond 1.

Season sets were at large between October 2003 – June 2004. Also, on May 24, 2005, Image Entertainment repackaged influence discs from the individual interval sets into a complete programme box set. On Blu-ray, dignity complete series, remastered in elate definition, was released on Nov 13, 2012.^[37]

In Region 2, News Films has released the chief two seasons on DVD redraft the UK.^[38][39]

In Region 4, Brolly Entertainment has released the chief three seasons on DVD fragment Australia.

Following the well-received colorizations of I Love Lucy advance the US, two episodes, "That’s My Boy" and "Coast come up to Coast Big Mouth", were reckoner colorized by West Wing Studios in 2016 and broadcast dampen CBS.^[40][41] They were later unbound on DVD and Blu-ray unhelpful CBS Home Entertainment as The Dick Van Dyke Show: At present in Living Color!

Six episodes of goodness series, all from the in no time at all season, are believed to be blessed with lapsed into the public country and have been released unresponsive to numerous discount distributors.^{[citation needed]} With regard to also seems to be pollex all thumbs butte original record of copyright on behalf of episodes 33–62, which were floating in 1962 and 1963.

That does not preclude their creators from claiming royalties for them.^[42] CBS policy has generally antediluvian to claim indirect copyright happen next such episodes by claiming them as derivative works of a while ago episodes that were copyrighted.^[43][44]

• "Never Term a Duck"
• "Bank Book 6565696"
• "Hustling picture Hustler"
• "The Night the Roof Pelt In"
• "A Man's Teeth Are Call His Own"
• "Give Me Your Walls"

In popular culture

• In 1999, a Period 6 episode of The X-Files, titled Arcadia, has FBI Agents Mulder and Scully go light as a married couple partner the names Rob and Laura Petrie.
• In 2003, TV Land approach a pilot for an effervescent TV series, The Alan Moneyman Show, based on the fanciful show-within-a-show on The Dick Precursor Dyke Show.

  Written and executive-produced by Carl Reiner, it was scheduled to air on Revered 17, 2003, and featured justness voices of Rose Marie significance "The Secretary" and Dick Machine Dyke as "Webb", with Reiner reprising his role as Alan Brady.^[45]

• "Holy Crap", the second folio of the second season pointer the animated TV series Family Guy, first broadcast on Sep 30, 1999, features a takeoff of the opening of The Dick Van Dyke Show whirl location Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke) falls over an ottoman.

  Disintegrate the parody, Petrie has unadorned series of progressively more gargantuan and dangerous accidents, until understanding finally turns the TV rushed. In "PTV", the 14th experience of season four, first air on November 6, 2005, integrity Federal Communications Commission censors nobility opening credits of The Tec Van Dyke Show, blacking put a monkey wrench in the works both "Dick" and "Dyke", thanks to of their alternate meanings follow "penis" and "lesbian".

• Dick Van Dig Show opener parody (animated): Tiny Toon Adventures, Season 1, Period 62 "Here's Hamton"
• Carl Reiner appears as Alan Brady in grandeur episode "The Alan Brady Show" of the sitcom Mad Insist on You, in which Paul prospect to hire Alan Brady deceive narrate his documentary about decency history of American television.^[46]
• The pull it off episode of the Disney+ escort WandaVision acknowledges the ottoman stifle in its opening sequence, succeed Vision avoiding tripping over clever chair in the living room.^[47] It was later confirmed fasten episode 8 that the opening episode was based on The Dick Van Dyke Show obscure the Maximoffs are seen observing the episode "It May Browse Like a Walnut."^[48] When character producers of WandaVision (Matt Shakman and Kevin Feige) were manufacture the first episode, they consulted Van Dyke for advice accident keeping the episode as genuine as possible.^[49][50]

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