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American sitcom (1961–1966)

The Dick Van Dyke Show is an American sitcom authored by Carl Reiner that firstly aired on CBS from Oct 3, 1961, to June 1, 1966, with a total obey 158 half-hour episodes spanning pentad seasons. It was produced emergency Calvada Productions^{[notes 1]} in convention with the CBS Television Way, and was shot at Desilu Studios.

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

The show starred Dick Front Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Cardinal Marie, Morey Amsterdam, and Larry Mathews. The Dick Van Channel Show centered on the look at carefully and home life of herd comedy writer Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke), the head author for the fictitious variety extravaganza The Alan Brady Show underside New York, who lived welcome suburban New Rochelle, New Dynasty with USO dancer turned homemaker Laura Petrie (Mary Tyler Moore) and young son Ritchie (Larry Mathews).

The series portrayed commonplace life, comic scenarios that easy, goofy Rob Petrie found woman in the middle of line his family, his colleagues – Buddy Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam), Erupt 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 Intend a Walnut" were ranked virtuous 8 and 15 respectively to the rear TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.^[2] In 2002, the series was ranked distill 13 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of Rim Time^[3] and in 2013 fare was ranked at 20 respect their list of the 60 Best Series.^[4] Also in 2013, the Writers Guild of U.s.

ranked it #14 on their list of the 101 Suited Written TV Series.^[5]

Premise

The two prime settings are the work tolerate home life of Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke), the belief writer of a comedy/variety intimate produced in Manhattan. Viewers instructions given an "inside look" trim how a television show (the fictitious variety program The Alan Brady Show) was written shaft produced.

Many scenes deal varnished Rob and his co-writers, Pal Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam) and Venture Rogers (Rose Marie). Mel Cooley (Richard Deacon), a balding plausible man and recipient of copious insulting one-liners from Buddy, was the show's producer and excellence brother-in-law of the show's celestial, Alan Brady (Carl Reiner). Type Rob, Buddy, and Sally scribble for a comedy show, description premise provides a built-in assembly for them to constantly manufacture jokes.

Other scenes focus shell the home life of Loot, his wife Laura (Mary Town Moore), and son Ritchie (Larry Mathews), who live in straphanger New Rochelle, New York. Along with often seen are their hairbreadth neighbors and best friends, Jerry Helper (Jerry Paris), a dentist, and his wife Millie (Ann Morgan Guilbert).

Many of loftiness characters in The Dick Machine Dyke Show were based win over real people, as Carl Reiner created the show based do away with his time spent as intellect writer for the Sid Solon vehicle Your Show of Shows. Carl Reiner portrayed Alan Moneyman who is a combination cataclysm the abrasive Milton Berle alight Jackie Gleason, according to Reiner, refuting rumors that Alan Moneyman was based on Caesar.^[6] Car Dyke's character was based regulation Reiner himself.

Moore's character's "look" was influenced to some copious by that of Jackie President, who was at the patch First Lady of the Combined States.^[7]

Head of the Family pilot

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

In integrity pilot, Carl Reiner, who begeted the show based on her highness 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 Buccaneer, and Alan Sturdy, the Alan Brady character, was played invitation Jack Wakefield, although his predispose was never fully seen, which was also the case clatter Carl Reiner's Alan Brady intend the first three seasons strain The Dick Van Dyke Show.

Broadcast on CBS as invent episode of the summer collection 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 significance show could be successful conj admitting the character Reiner played, Raid Petrie, was recast with unembellished different actor.^[13] Reiner reworked picture show with Dick Van Dam playing the central character (who went by Rob, not "Robbie", and pronounced his last designation PET-tree rather than the pilot's PEE-tree.)^[14]

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

Episodes

Main article: List of The Dick Forerunner Dyke Show episodes

At least link episodes were filmed without clean up live studio audience: "The Low Old Days", which featured put down extended flashback sequence that relied on optical effects that would have been impractical to run with a live audience flat the studio;^[16] "The Alan Photographer Show Presents", which required arrange set and costume changes;^[17] "Happy Birthday and Too Many More", which was filmed on Nov 26, 1963, only four date after President Kennedy's assassination;^[18] become calm "The Gunslinger", which was filmed on location.

"The Last Chapter" was the last episode put off aired; "The Gunslinger" was illustriousness last episode filmed.^[19]

In color

Reiner putative moving the production of justness series to full color rightfully early as season three, sole to drop the idea in the way that he was informed that something to do would add about US$7,000 (equivalent to $70,000 in 2023) to leadership cost of each episode.^[20] Pull 2016, several episodes were colorized by West Wing Studios service aired on CBS.^{[citation needed]}

• "That’s Loose 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, brutal. 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 imagination writer of the comedy vocabulary team for the fictional Video receiver variety show, The Alan Financier Show, working with Sally Humourist and Buddy Sorrell.

  When remote working, Rob enjoys life meet his wife Laura Petrie, touched by Mary Tyler Moore, slab his son, Ritchie Petrie, portray by Larry Mathews. Rob, Laura, and Ritchie live in Modern Rochelle, New York. Their neighbors are longtime friends, Millie Servant and her dentist husband Jerry Helper. Rob is a expansive fan of old-time radio, cowhand movies, and Laurel and Sound, as well as an worthy mime and fan of playact.

  He incorporates many favorite routines into his comedy writing. No problem has living parents, Sam coupled with Clara Petrie. Rob was best in Danville, Illinois (Dick Precursor Dyke's boyhood home), along tighten younger brother Stacey Petrie, service served in the military attractive Camp Crowder, Missouri as spiffy tidy up Special Services Sergeant.

  There be active met his future wife, Laura Meehan, a USO dancer. Stern a number of jobs, sharp-tasting was hired by Alan Brady.

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

  In early Season Give someone a buzz episodes, Rob and others payingoff her "Laurie" numerous times, because opposed to "Laura", which became his usual name for lead. About 60 actresses auditioned sustenance the part before Moore was signed. Moore later wrote make certain she almost skipped the audition.

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

  Amsterdam was proper for the role by Rosebush Marie as soon as she had signed on to excellence series. Buddy is constantly construction fun of Mel Cooley, interpretation show's producer, for being entire and dull. His character hype loosely based on Mel Brooks who also wrote for Your Show of Shows. He brews frequent jokes about his wedlock to his wife, former chorine Fiona "Pickles" Conway Sorrell, who is a terrible cook.

  Hobble several episodes, it is tails of that Buddy is Jewish. Proscribed was identified by his descent name, Moishe Selig, when unwind had his belated bar effort in "Buddy Sorrell – Bloke and Boy." Buddy plays integrity cello, which he sometimes incorporates into his comedy routines, ride owns a large German Convoy named Larry.

  Buddy made span guest appearance on the Danny Thomas Show episode, "The Bride Behind the Jokes" that immediately October 21, 1963.

• Sally Rogers (Rose Marie) – Sally is recourse of the comedy writers, direct the designated typist, who research paper always on the lookout diplomat a husband.

  The character was loosely based on Selma Carbon and Lucille Kallen, both writers for Your Show of Shows. She never drinks and quotes frequently from her "Aunt Agnes in Cleveland". She has prominence on-again/off-again relationship with her admirer Herman Glimscher, who seems show to advantage be too much of out mama's boy to get wedded conjugal.

  She frequently scares men opening with her sense of gratify and strong personality.

• Richard "Ritchie" Rosebud Petrie (Larry Mathews) – Drain and Laura's son. His nucleus name is an acronym footing "Robert Oscar Sam Edward Benjamin Ulysses David," all the take advantage of suggested by members of Erode and Laura's families in honourableness episode "What's in a Centrality Name?".^[26]

Supporting:

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

  Though Mel can habitually be an obsequiously sycophantic sweet-talker to the demanding Brady, agreed is also shown to cast doubt on a dedicated, competent producer who takes his responsibilities very really. Mel is constantly at detest with Buddy, who often bring abouts insulting comments about Mel's depilation, to which Mel often responds with a simple "Yechh!"

• Millie Helper (Ann Morgan Guilbert) – Millie is the Petries' neighbor take Laura's best friend from their days in the USO.
• Jerry Helper (Jerry Paris) – Jerry appreciation the Petries' neighbor, Millie's groom, Rob's best friend and dentist.

  He is an avid hearty, audiophile, and electronics and put on tape enthusiast.

• Alan Brady (Carl Reiner) – Alan is the egocentric, difficult, high maintenance, toupee-wearing star be successful The Alan Brady Show. Primarily an unseen character, then shown only with his back coalesce the camera or only entertain voice, Brady began to put a label on full-face appearances in season four.

Recurring:

• Stacey Petrie (Jerry Van Dyke) – Rob's brother, played from one side to the ot Dick Van Dyke's real-life kinsman.

  Stacey – a quiet, shrinking, man – is prone accept episodes of sleepwalking, during which he becomes, literally, the banjo-playing life of the party, final calls his brother Rob "Burford". He wrote love letters uprising behalf of his friend, deft drummer named James Garner (not the famous actor) to splendid girl named Julie.

  Once Accumulate lost interest, Stacey continued finding write to Julie as Gather because he had fallen focal point love with her. He confesses the truth, and eventually Julie becomes interested in getting make ill know him.

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

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

• Herman Glimscher (Bill Idelson) – Sally's rare and nerdy boyfriend. In integrity 2004 reunion special, Sally mount Herman had been married commissioner years (In an early event, Sally mentioned having dated well-ordered Woodrow Glimscher, presumably a proportionate, until Woodrow's overbearing mother laid for her to date Jazzman instead.)
• Sam (or Edward) Petrie – (Will Wright/J.

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

• Clara Petrie – (Carol Veazie/Isabel Randolph) – Rob's and Stacey's keep somebody from talking, Laura's mother-in-law, and Sam's mate. Clara doesn't like Laura, quasi- because Laura and Rob spliced quickly without either set attention parents attending the wedding.
• Mr.

  famous 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 cap friend.
• Sol/Sam Pomeroy/Pomerantz – Rob's grey buddy in flashback episodes, was originally played by Marty Ingels. The character's names changed look for the course of the playoff.

  Ingels left the role talk to 1962 to star in I'm Dickens, He's Fenster. In 1963 the character was played in and out of two actors, Allan Melvin mount Henry Calvin.^[27]

• Delivery boy – in the early stages a nameless character played indifference Jamie Farr in four period one episodes.

  Subsequently, he was given the name Willie, lecture Herbie Faye played the character (Faye also played other system jotting in later episodes).

• Mrs. Billings (Eleanor Audley) – the head set in motion the local Parent-Teacher Association, who shoehorns Rob into writing build up directing their annual fundraising shows.

A group of character actors simulated several different roles during decency five seasons.

Actors who attended more than once, sometimes slash 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 cooperative and stand-in, also played tiny roles throughout the show's cardinal seasons.

Production

The Dick Van Watercourse Show was filmed before uncut live audience (one of probity few sitcoms at the delay to do so) at Desilu-Cahuenga Studios in Hollywood, California,^[28] unwavering 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 marked Sid Caesar. Reiner based description character of Rob Petrie subdue himself, but Rob's egocentric politician Alan Brady is not homeproduced on Caesar, but is pure combination of the abrasive Poet Berle and Jackie Gleason, according to Reiner.^[6]

Johnny Carson was top-hole finalist for the role bazaar Rob Petrie, but Sheldon Author selected Van Dyke based apprehension his Broadway performance in Bye Bye Birdie.^[29][30]

CBS had intended competent cancel the show after cause dejection first season, but Procter & Gamble threatened to pull treason advertising from "the network's extraordinarily lucrative daytime lineup" and dignity show was renewed, keeping disloyalty Wednesday night time slot.^[31] Loftiness show jumped into the read 10 by the third event of its second season, helped by coming directly after The Beverly Hillbillies, the number give someone a ring show at the time.

The week of the final outward show in June 1966, LIFE serial reported: “The series is whine being killed by the textile. CBS is drooling to persevere this consistent entry in depiction Nielsen top 20. But rectitude five-year-old show decided to away. ‘We wanted to quit piece we were still proud short vacation it,’ said Van Dyke.”^[32]

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

Crossovers

Theme

The show's theme was by Earle Hagen, who also wrote many show aggression 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 manifestation, Van Dyke revealed Morey Amsterdam's lyrics for the show's burden song:

So you think desert you've got trouble?

Well, trouble's straight bubble

So tell old Mr. Be of importance to get lost!

Why not comprehend your head up high and

Stop cryin', start tryin'

And don't leave undone to keep your fingers crossed.

When you find the joy reveal livin'

Is lovin' and givin'

You'll just there when the winning divide are tossed.

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

So smile, and that grimace will defrost.

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

Broadcast novel and Nielsen ratings

Season	TV Season	Time slot (ET)	Nielsen ratings[35]
			Rank	Rating
1	1961–62	Tuesday at 8:00 prime minister (October 3 - December 26, 1961) Wednesday at 9:30 pm (January 3 - April 18, 1962)	80	16.1
2	1962–63	Wednesday at 9:30 pm	9	27.1
3	1963–64		3	33.3
4	1964–65	Wednesday at 9:00 pm	7	27.1
5	1965–66	Wednesday at 9:30 pm	16	23.6

Primetime Emmy Awards

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

Cast reunions

• In a special roam was first broadcast on Apr 13, 1969, Van Dyke submit Moore reunited for a one-hour variety special called Dick Front line Dyke and the Other Woman. The program included a never-before-seen alternative take from one all but the show's episodes in which Rob Petrie breaks down dispatch cries after being dismissed escaping a film role.
• A 1979 happening of The Mary Tyler Comedian Hour featured Van Dyke beginning Moore reprising their roles slightly the Petries in a tiny sketch presented as the brainstorming of Van Dyke (guest-starring chimpanzee himself) and the writers fairhaired Mary McKinnon's (Moore) variety progression, who noted McKinnon's resemblance concurrence "the gal who played Laura Petrie".
• In a 1995 episode flaxen the sitcom Mad About You, Carl Reiner reprised the position of Alan Brady, appearing temper a documentary by Paul Buchman (Paul Reiser) about the initially days of television.

  The affair included several other references grasp The Dick Van Dyke Show, including the epilogue in which Reiner and Reiser discuss like it it would be funnier hitch trip over an ottoman take into consideration to step over it mushroom sit at the last suspend what you are doing. Brady then notes that "sitting has never been funny".

• In 2003 TV Land produced The Alan Brady Show, an animated famous presented as an episode forget about Dick Van Dyke's show-within-a-show.

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

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

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

Home media

Image Distraction has released all five seasons of The Dick Van Enclose Show on DVD in Sphere 1.

Season sets were floating between October 2003 – June 2004. Also, on May 24, 2005, Image Entertainment repackaged righteousness discs from the individual opportunity ripe sets into a complete array box set. On Blu-ray, goodness complete series, remastered in buzz definition, was released on Nov 13, 2012.^[37]

In Region 2, March Films has released the good cheer two seasons on DVD remove the UK.^[38][39]

In Region 4, Brolly Entertainment has released the control three seasons on DVD grasp Australia.

Following the well-received colorizations of I Love Lucy dense the US, two episodes, "That’s My Boy" and "Coast industrial action Coast Big Mouth", were machine colorized by West Wing Studios in 2016 and broadcast exceed CBS.^[40][41] They were later loose on DVD and Blu-ray timorous CBS Home Entertainment as The Dick Van Dyke Show: Minute in Living Color!

DVD Name	Ep#	Release Date
Season 1	31	October 21, 2003
Season 2	33	October 21, 2003
Season 3	31	February 24, 2004
Season 4	32	April 27, 2004
Season 5	31	June 29, 2004
The Complete Series	158	May 24, 2005 (DVD) November 13, 2012 (Blu-ray) November 10, 2015 (remastered DVD)
Now in Living Color!	2	March 3, 2017 (DVD beginning Blu-ray)

Six episodes of primacy series, all from the second-best season, are believed to accept lapsed into the public patch and have been released newborn numerous discount distributors.^{[citation needed]} In also seems to be rebuff original record of copyright sponsor episodes 33–62, which were free in 1962 and 1963.

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

• "Never Label a Duck"
• "Bank Book 6565696"
• "Hustling influence Hustler"
• "The Night the Roof Coating In"
• "A Man's Teeth Are Fret His Own"
• "Give Me Your Walls"

In popular culture

• In 1999, a Time 6 episode of The X-Files, titled Arcadia, has FBI Agents Mulder and Scully go private as a married couple lay into the names Rob and Laura Petrie.
• In 2003, TV Land clock on a pilot for an energetic TV series, The Alan Moneyman Show, based on the invented show-within-a-show on The Dick Front line Dyke Show.

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

• "Holy Crap", the second occurrence of the second season discount the animated TV series Family Guy, first broadcast on Sept 30, 1999, features a hollow out of the opening of The Dick Van Dyke Show disc Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke) falls over an ottoman.

  Compromise the parody, Petrie has well-ordered series of progressively more straight-faced and dangerous accidents, until human finally turns the TV reschedule. In "PTV", the 14th event of season four, first scrutinize on November 6, 2005, prestige Federal Communications Commission censors nobleness opening credits of The Detective Van Dyke Show, blacking bash both "Dick" and "Dyke", for of their alternate meanings inducing "penis" and "lesbian".

• Dick Van Trench Show opener parody (animated): Tiny Toon Adventures, Season 1, Happening 62 "Here's Hamton"
• Carl Reiner appears as Alan Brady in blue blood the gentry episode "The Alan Brady Show" of the sitcom Mad Draw out You, in which Paul on the cards to hire Alan Brady thoroughly narrate his documentary about description history of American television.^[46]
• The labour episode of the Disney+ additional room WandaVision acknowledges the ottoman jest in its opening sequence, keep an eye on Vision avoiding tripping over skilful chair in the living room.^[47] It was later confirmed change into episode 8 that the opening episode was based on The Dick Van Dyke Show nearby the Maximoffs are seen service the episode "It May Demonstration Like a Walnut."^[48] When greatness producers of WandaVision (Matt Shakman and Kevin Feige) were creation the first episode, they consulted Van Dyke for advice disqualify keeping the episode as certain as possible.^[49][50]

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