Did you know that that plot of opening the husband's mail was taken from an old I MARRIED JOAN episode from the 1950s? I Married Joan was NBC's answer to I LOVE LUCY. It ran for 3 years, 1953-56.
You forgot Richard Deacon in the dearly departed before the 2004 reunion. His antagonism with the writers room was always some of the funniest part of the show to me.
Ann Morgan Gilbert was also in the reunion show and a lot of it was sad because they were sitting around talking about those who had passed on including Mel Cooley and Jerry Helper among others.
I just saw an uncut version of the very last episode and it didn't contain the little scene the narrator says was in the episode, where Rob looks into the camera and says, how about calling it the Dick Van Dyke Show? Where did you get that information?
that episode of the mixed up babies that were not really mixed up was a pure, comedy classic; it was so funny that I'm glad the audience back then appreciated it greatly. there are so many good episodes, I'm glad they can be streamed; but the one with the babies is one of my favorites; I can't pick a favorite character because they were so many good ones; like a true tv classic, the series developed the characters very well and there were several of them. Suffice it to say it's one of the very best TV comedy series, and as you pointed out was not afraid to handle controversial topics, an essential element of any advant garde tv series.
I feel the same way, it's hard to pick a favorite. The Dick Van Dyke show was the show that opened the doors for so many others but none actually ever compared or had the genius of that show. I ended up picking one but it was hard. What a great show.
I don't remember too many episodes as I was way too young back then. Mary Tyler Moore always reminded me (or vice versa) of Marlo Thomas. The two beautiful ladies have a lot of talent and skill with strong independent. personalities and the selection of the characters that they played on television.📺 I'm glad that Proctor and Gamble backed up the Dick Van Dyke show. They help to expand television and open up the minds of average American household of that period. Dick Van Dyke is an amazing actor, entertainer and comedian. He has graced us with his talent on the big and small screen, stage and radio. He is a true American treasure, and we are all blessed to have him bring so much happiness for so many years to us. Live long and prosper Richard Wayne Van Dyke, aka Dick Van Dyke born December 13, 1925 and wishing you always continued health, happiness and prosperity.❤🙂👍
The DVD show was not "Taken" off teh air. it was not cancelled. The cast and crew decided it was time to end it while the show was still enjoying great popularity.
It's hard to pick a favorite episode. If I had to pick one it would be when Rob and Jerry go on a fishing trip and Laura and Millie are alone in the house. Later they hear noises and think someone broke in. It's really hilarious. I love that one and so many others. Carl Reiner was a genius and the cast was perfect. Thanks for the memories.
@@FactsVerse There are so many other shows like the Danny Thomas show or Dennis the Menace and Where are they now and what do people today would think of those shows.
I was dying when they were calling out "OKAY? OKAY" to each other. Another great one was one in which Laura accidentally shredded her mother in law's ugly brooch in the garbage disposal. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Loved that program! One of my favorite episodes was when Laura can’t wait to open a box delivered to the house. She even puts it into a closet so she doesn’t have to look at it. However, she finally has to open it and it turns out to be a big rubber raft that blows up and takes over the whole living room. It turns out that Dick had sent it as an idea for a story line to see if a woman’s curiosity would lead to just that. Funny? You bet! Today if I think of that episode, I start laughing. Carol from California
This show was by far my favorite show of the time. The main characters pulled you in as if you were watching them as a real couple. VanDyke and Moore played their parts well. But with all of the stories written mostly about Rob and Laura, it was Buddy and Sally that gave me the most enjoyment from the show. They were quick witted, and always trying to be funny, and they were. The whole cast should get awards for pulling quite the performance! I watch this show even today, because of its humor, charm, and nostalgia.
@@FactsVerse There are so many….It would be hard to pick just one. Each episode had its charm. But one that stands out, as it deals with Buddy and Sally, was when they both took a side job entertaining at some club, not telling Rob. In the end Rob finds out, and was ok with the whole thing. But I could go on about all the episodes, because they just felt good. The neighbors Jerry and Millie, were always a treat. As I am writing this, there is one other episode that stands out to me, and I won’t go into detail, but the title of that episode was “Give Me Your Walls” very entertaining all the way through.
There were so many good episodes....the 'evesdroppers', when Rob & Laura can hear Jerry & Milly talking about them. Also, the broach episode; and, Robs old friend, who wants to get Rob's watch engraved. I also liked the episodes that featured Jerry van Dyke & his banjo...
@@FactsVerse FV, That's difficult for me, as at one time or another, in various circumstances, I have known or worked with all the cast. HMMM! But never ON the Dick Van Dyke Show. That's odd???
@@barronridge5613 Yeah, I didn't like it much back in the day, but I love it now. I just happened to be watching once a couple of years ago it and laughing hysterically. I didn't remember it being this great before.
where are you getting all these stories from the book? I've seen this show many, many many times and don't remember any of these stuff you are talking about...WHAT??? Are you dreaming about the last episode? none of that ever happened!!!
I like the episodes with Alan Brady the most. Favorite episodes: Three Letters from One Wife (Season 4, Episode 9) . . . Obnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc. (Season 5, Episode 26) . . . Coast to Coast Big Mouth (Season 5, Episode 1).
I love Rob the most. He was the dad I wished I could have. Ritchie also obviously adored him. As soon as Rob walked through the door Ritchie was always all over him, touching his hands and wanting his attention. It was a sweet relationship.
Always hard to pick a favorite episode when there are so many good ones. For this series the main character RP is easy to pick as my favorite. Not that the other characters were very good, but RP was the center of the show. I'm glad you mentioned the baby episode because that's one of my very favorites. A silly concern by RP that was well played comically blown up by the other couple's race, very funny and warm heartening, too.
My favorite character was Rob Petrie. There was a couple very good episodes. I'm still slowly watching the series. I don't want it to end. I wish I could watch the revisit.
First of all, the word "almost" should be in this title or else it's so misleading. Also, if supposedly there is a final moment in the finale episode in which Laura asks Rob what the title of the book will be and after several answers he breaks the fourth wall, looks at the camara and says, "The Dick Van Dyke Show," then winks at the camera, I've never seen it. I have seen every episode of this #1 sitcom of all time about 100x each but never that scene. If it exists, that's the video you should show. If not, it doesn't exist and never happened.
It is too bad you did not show it, but to me one of the best laughs in comedy was in the episode, "That's My Boy." As you said, Rob thought he brought home the wrong baby, so the couple who he thought had his baby shows up at Rob's home.. When Rob answered the door and saw the couple was black, the expression on Rob's face was priceless. The black man was played by Greg Morris. When Rob asked him why did not just tell Rob over the telephone, Greg responded with, "What? And miss that expression on your face." By the way, when I read a history of the show many years ago, it said that when the show started they were going to last five seasons. The reason is that after that shows start to get stale, and they did not want this to happen with this show. According to the the book the next to last show was, "The Gunslinger." It is still one of my favorite episodes. Guess you could say it DID go out with a bang! Oh, Dick Van Dyke was the only actor in the show to get residuals. They were not heard of back then.
@FactsVerse Hello! I'd like to see something about "That Girl," starring Marlo Thomas. I am also interested in the theme songs that would introduce the shows. It seems theme songs aren't done anymore. The song would give an idea of what the show was about. Perhaps about who wrote them and so on.
Imagine going from highly sensitive and rarely addressed to overly sensitive and highly addressed topic on just about every show. Sounds like not much has changed since a “comedic approach could be misunderstood or misinterpreted” and some people “threatening to quit” if things don’t go their way. Try making a joke about the race of a child or people and a majority of the audience would go berserk and make it seem as though you are hating on bi-racial or black peoples.
The show was on when I was 10-15 years old. I loved everything about Laura Petrie. I wanted to marry her, or someone just like her. A beauty, yes, but someone with family values and a wonderful sense of humor. I did find my Laura Petrie about 5 years after the show ended. A woman that was so much like Laura that it was unbelievable. Fortunately, she didn’t have MTM’s medical problems. We just celebrated our fiftieth wedding anniversary
@@FactsVerse I've several that I prefer. The episodes where the friends/main characters argue or have conflict with each other are always very humorous. My least favorite episodes always have to do with how Rob and Laura met and his time in the service and when Laura was pregnant with Richie. Some of the episodes and Rob's character could really be annoying rather than entertaining.
MTM didn't pick out the capri pants that she wore. You think an unknown actress in an untested tv show is going to tell the powers that be what her wardrobe was going to be? Clearly this was the work of the producers who figured that showing her in this outfit might attract a bigger male audience to get a better look at her. I only saw this show in reruns and I was always amazed at how lame it was. Also, it was originally supposed to star Carl Reiner who wrote it and actually starred in a pilot. The producers felt it wouldn't work because he looked and sounded "too Jewish".
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My favorite was about Laura opening Rob's mail. Rob sent an inflatable raft and Laura tried to hide it.
Did you know that that plot of opening the husband's mail was taken from an old I MARRIED JOAN episode from the 1950s? I Married Joan was NBC's answer to I LOVE LUCY. It ran for 3 years, 1953-56.
The one where Rob got hypnotized instead of Buddy and whenever a bell rang he became drunk. He was hilarious!!!! I laugh every time I see it!!!!
You forgot Richard Deacon in the dearly departed before the 2004 reunion. His antagonism with the writers room was always some of the funniest part of the show to me.
The final episode is nothing like its described here! Where did this come from?
"Rob Petrie" was my favorite--hands down. My favorite episode was when "Rob" didn't remember an ex-army buddy (Allan Melvin), but pretended he did.
Lucille ball wore pants on I love lucy
My favorite is "Coast to Coast Bigmouth," where Laura accidentally announces on the air that Alan Brady wears a toupee.
Also one of my favs! That was a great episode, really funny!!
Dick wanted to move on. That was the reason. Nothing took it off.
Did wanted to do the show forever. He didn't want to move on. Carl Reiner decided to end it after five years to avoid repetition, etc.
Ann Morgan Gilbert was also in the reunion show and a lot of it was sad because they were sitting around talking about those who had passed on including Mel Cooley and Jerry Helper among others.
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Lots of favorites! Uhny Utz was one. Thanks!
Mary Tyler Moore what a lovely lady, one of the most beautiful lady I've ever seen.
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I just saw an uncut version of the very last episode and it didn't contain the little scene the narrator says was in the episode, where Rob looks into the camera and says, how about calling it the Dick Van Dyke Show? Where did you get that information?
that episode of the mixed up babies that were not really mixed up was a pure, comedy classic; it was so funny that I'm glad the audience back then appreciated it greatly. there are so many good episodes, I'm glad they can be streamed; but the one with the babies is one of my favorites; I can't pick a favorite character because they were so many good ones; like a true tv classic, the series developed the characters very well and there were several of them. Suffice it to say it's one of the very best TV comedy series, and as you pointed out was not afraid to handle controversial topics, an essential element of any advant garde tv series.
I feel the same way, it's hard to pick a favorite. The Dick Van Dyke show was the show that opened the doors for so many others but none actually ever compared or had the genius of that show. I ended up picking one but it was hard. What a great show.
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There was one episode where the couple had to go somewhere and had dyed their hands black by mistake.
@@PatsySegars yes! that was a great episode! the show definitely was not afraid to deal with race relations! so awesome!
I'm glad the show was saved. I have seen a few episodes, but hope to view the whole series in due time.
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I don't remember too many episodes as I was way too young back then. Mary Tyler Moore always reminded me (or vice versa) of Marlo Thomas. The two beautiful ladies have a lot of talent and skill with strong independent.
personalities and the selection of the characters that they played on television.📺
I'm glad that Proctor and Gamble backed up the Dick Van Dyke show. They help to expand television and open up the minds of average American household of that period. Dick Van Dyke is an amazing actor, entertainer and comedian. He has graced us with his talent on the big and small screen, stage and radio. He is a true American treasure, and we are all blessed to have him bring so much happiness for so many years to us. Live long and prosper Richard Wayne Van Dyke, aka Dick Van Dyke born December 13, 1925 and wishing you always continued health, happiness and prosperity.❤🙂👍
Because they both had the same hairstyle
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@@barronridge5613 Hahahaha, Didn't think about that you're probably right.🤣👍🙂
@@ccastaneda669 styled after Jackie Kennedy.
@@barronridge5613 I don't see that but you're probably right. I have to go back and look at a picture of Jacqueline Kennedy.
The DVD show was not "Taken" off teh air. it was not cancelled. The cast and crew decided it was time to end it while the show was still enjoying great popularity.
That is the explanation I had heard, too.
It's hard to pick a favorite episode. If I had to pick one it would be when Rob and Jerry go on a fishing trip and Laura and Millie are alone in the house. Later they hear noises and think someone broke in. It's really hilarious. I love that one and so many others. Carl Reiner was a genius and the cast was perfect. Thanks for the memories.
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@@FactsVerse There are so many other shows like the Danny Thomas show or Dennis the Menace and Where are they now and what do people today would think of those shows.
I was dying when they were calling out "OKAY? OKAY" to each other. Another great one was one in which Laura accidentally shredded her mother in law's ugly brooch in the garbage disposal. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
My favorite was the one where Dick did the Stan Laurel impersonation.
The Sam Pomerantz Scandals.
Loved that program! One of my favorite episodes was when Laura can’t wait to open a box delivered to the house. She even puts it into a closet so she doesn’t have to look at it. However, she finally has to open it and it turns out to be a big rubber raft that blows up and takes over the whole living room. It turns out that Dick had sent it as an idea for a story line to see if a woman’s curiosity would lead to just that. Funny? You bet! Today if I think of that episode, I start laughing. Carol from California
Dick van dike was in marry poppins playing Bert and the banker
Not to mention he had a small role in Mary Poppins Returns.
@@cha5 I know he was in that movie I seen it and marry poppins returns didn't grew on me like the first one did
@@cha5 and chitty chitty bang bang
Bert the Chimney sweep.
Actually I think he may have had multiple roles.
This show was by far my favorite show of the time. The main characters pulled you in as if you were watching them as a real couple. VanDyke and Moore played their parts well. But with all of the stories written mostly about Rob and Laura, it was Buddy and Sally that gave me the most enjoyment from the show. They were quick witted, and always trying to be funny, and they were.
The whole cast should get awards for pulling quite the performance! I watch this show even today, because of its humor, charm, and nostalgia.
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@@FactsVerse There are so many….It would be hard to pick just one. Each episode had its charm. But one that stands out, as it deals with Buddy and Sally, was when they both took a side job entertaining at some club, not telling Rob. In the end Rob finds out, and was ok with the whole thing. But I could go on about all the episodes, because they just felt good. The neighbors Jerry and Millie, were always a treat. As I am writing this, there is one other episode that stands out to me, and I won’t go into detail, but the title of that episode was “Give Me Your Walls” very entertaining all the way through.
There were so many good episodes....the 'evesdroppers', when Rob & Laura can hear Jerry & Milly talking about them. Also, the broach episode; and, Robs old friend, who wants to get Rob's watch engraved. I also liked the episodes that featured Jerry van Dyke & his banjo...
Favorite episodes are:
"Rob it's time."
Walnuts, Walnuts, Walnuts
and Laura's got a Secret...Alan' s got a Toupee.
Hair, Hair! You didn't seem to have any problem telling the nation!!!
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Walnuts, Walnuts, Walnuts is my least favorite episode.
@@FactsVerse FV, That's difficult for me, as at one time or another, in various circumstances, I have known or worked with all the cast. HMMM! But never ON the Dick Van Dyke Show. That's odd???
@@barronridge5613 Yeah, I didn't like it much back in the day, but I love it now. I just happened to be watching once a couple of years ago it and laughing hysterically. I didn't remember it being this great before.
where are you getting all these stories from the book? I've seen this show many, many many times and don't remember any of these stuff you are talking about...WHAT??? Are you dreaming about the last episode? none of that ever happened!!!
Totally agree-I have these shows memorized I’ve seen them so often. This is nothing like the last episode!!!!
No it didn't.
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Yeah there are so many errors in this narration, I could plotz.
I like the episodes with Alan Brady the most. Favorite episodes: Three Letters from One Wife (Season 4, Episode 9) . . . Obnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc. (Season 5, Episode 26) . . . Coast to Coast Big Mouth (Season 5, Episode 1).
There wasn't a scene that took the DVD show off the air.
Richard Deacon as Mel Cooley was PERFECT. Whenever I saw Richard Deacon in anything, I knew it was going to be good.
Mel Cooley as he took shots not only from Buddy but also Allan Brady.
He was also great as Fred Rutherford in a few episodes of Leave It To Beaver.
My favorite episode was the on with the walnuts.
"It may look like a
Walnut" a parody of The Twilight Zone
My favorite characters were Sally and Rob, then Buddy. I loved them all though. My favorite episode is "The Bottom of Mel Cooley's Heart."
I love Rob the most. He was the dad I wished I could have. Ritchie also obviously adored him. As soon as Rob walked through the door Ritchie was always all over him, touching his hands and wanting his attention. It was a sweet relationship.
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I really don’t think I could pick a favorite!
Why do you say the scene took the show off the air? Not to my knowledge it didn't.
Did you know that Richard Deacon (Mel Cooley) was one of the earliest actors to come out & he was always not afraid to admit it later on in life
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MTM WAS THE BEST CHARACTER IN THE SHOW.
Always hard to pick a favorite episode when there are so many good ones. For this series the main character RP is easy to pick as my favorite. Not that the other characters were very good, but RP was the center of the show. I'm glad you mentioned the baby episode because that's one of my very favorites. A silly concern by RP that was well played comically blown up by the other couple's race, very funny and warm heartening, too.
My favorite character was Rob Petrie. There was a couple very good episodes. I'm still slowly watching the series. I don't want it to end. I wish I could watch the revisit.
The baby swap episode was hysterical.
First of all, the word "almost" should be in this title or else it's so misleading. Also, if supposedly there is a final moment in the finale episode in which Laura asks Rob what the title of the book will be and after several answers he breaks the fourth wall, looks at the camara and says, "The Dick Van Dyke Show," then winks at the camera, I've never seen it. I have seen every episode of this #1 sitcom of all time about 100x each but never that scene. If it exists, that's the video you should show. If not, it doesn't exist and never happened.
it ended for he didn't want to do anymore
It is too bad you did not show it, but to me one of the best laughs in comedy was in the episode, "That's My Boy." As you said, Rob thought he brought home the wrong baby, so the couple who he thought had his baby shows up at Rob's home.. When Rob answered the door and saw the couple was black, the expression on Rob's face was priceless. The black man was played by Greg Morris. When Rob asked him why did not just tell Rob over the telephone, Greg responded with, "What? And miss that expression on your face." By the way, when I read a history of the show many years ago, it said that when the show started they were going to last five seasons. The reason is that after that shows start to get stale, and they did not want this to happen with this show. According to the the book the next to last show was, "The Gunslinger." It is still one of my favorite episodes. Guess you could say it DID go out with a bang! Oh, Dick Van Dyke was the only actor in the show to get residuals. They were not heard of back then.
Never got to see the revisited show sad can only find parts 1,2,and 5. Does any one know where parts 3&4 can be seen?
I bought the whole series on DVD at Walmart years ago.
It's getting harder and harder to find DVDs anymore.
@@barronridge5613 thank you I will have to look to see if I can find it
I saw the show in the 60's so I don't remember too much....the inflatable raft and the walnuts, that's all.
That's My Boy!
Dick Van Dyke show was one of best 1960s sitcoms . So many sitcom copied plotlines from this show.
I liked an episode when Rob accidently dyed his hands black just before he had to attend a Racial Equality dinner.
as kids we did not notice anything we just laughed............... shadow
What controversial scene?
Back then women wore pants. Nowadays men wear dresses and skirts.
And bigots still cry and whine about stuff that's none of their decision or business
I wish morey was alive when the reunion
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Morey died in the 1980's. 1956 was BEFORE the DVD show aired.
Google says he died on October 28, 1996.
@@JennyBurkeAirSupplyAirhead U R right. He was in his 80's. I knew FV had the wrong year.
Ohhhh Rob!
No scene took Dick Van Dyke show off the air it just ran it's course like any other show.
He thought he had the wrong baby! So when the couple came to the door, he looked stunned & when they entered they turned out to be Black.
With those legs, any episode wearing pants was a ripoff!!!!
My favorite was Buddy
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@FactsVerse Hello!
I'd like to see something about "That Girl," starring Marlo Thomas. I am also interested in the theme songs that would introduce the shows. It seems theme songs aren't done anymore. The song would give an idea of what the show was about. Perhaps about who wrote them and so on.
Imagine going from highly sensitive and rarely addressed to overly sensitive and highly addressed topic on just about every show. Sounds like not much has changed since a “comedic approach could be misunderstood or misinterpreted” and some people “threatening to quit” if things don’t go their way. Try making a joke about the race of a child or people and a majority of the audience would go berserk and make it seem as though you are hating on bi-racial or black peoples.
Somehow DVD made it work, although he copied many of Danny Thomas' ideas.😅
Carl Reiner did not copy anyone's work.
NO SCENE never is a scene.
This narrator doesn't know a lot about "The Dick Van Dyke Show." An the title of this video is just a straight up lie.
Capri pants.
The show was on when I was 10-15 years old. I loved everything about Laura Petrie. I wanted to marry her, or someone just like her. A beauty, yes, but someone with family values and a wonderful sense of humor.
I did find my Laura Petrie about 5 years after the show ended. A woman that was so much like Laura that it was unbelievable. Fortunately, she didn’t have MTM’s medical problems.
We just celebrated our fiftieth wedding anniversary
I watched it regularly and enjoyed it, but at times it sure was sexist. But of course, that was its era.
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@@FactsVerse I've several that I prefer. The episodes where the friends/main characters argue or have conflict with each other are always very humorous. My least favorite episodes always have to do with how Rob and Laura met and his time in the service and when Laura was pregnant with Richie. Some of the episodes and Rob's character could really be annoying rather than entertaining.
5:05
My uncle dated Richard Deacon.
Interesting!
Number 1
I've heard that. You do know what a "number 1" is, don't you?
At least you're not a number 2. 😂
MTM didn't pick out the capri pants that she wore. You think an unknown actress in an untested tv show is going to tell the powers that be what her wardrobe was going to be? Clearly this was the work of the producers who figured that showing her in this outfit might attract a bigger male audience to get a better look at her. I only saw this show in reruns and I was always amazed at how lame it was. Also, it was originally supposed to star Carl Reiner who wrote it and actually starred in a pilot. The producers felt it wouldn't work because he looked and sounded "too Jewish".
Lucy was wearing the Capri pants 10 years before Mary Tyler Moore.
I saw Carl Reiner's pilot version and....CBS was right
@@farrellmcnulty909 So you agree that the American public couldn't tolerate a Jewish looking and sounded man in a prime time sitcom?