For a moment, imagine a world in which “The Dick Van Dyke Show” only existed for one season. How would popular culture be different? Well, first of all, the version of “Mary Poppins” that babysat ...
“The Dick Van Dyke Show” comes back “in living color” this week, thanks to CBS. A one-hour special, featuring two freshly colorized episodes of the classic “The Dick Van Dyke Show” from the 1960′s ...
The Dick Van Dyke Show debuted at an odd moment in television history. It premieres after the tidy domestic comedies of the 1950s have cemented their rules, but before the cultural shifts of the late ...
Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. “The Dick Van Dyke Show” premiered in October 1961, a few weeks before my fourth ...
Carl Reiner, the ingenious and versatile writer, actor and director who broke through as a “second banana” to Sid Caesar and rose to comedy’s front ranks as creator of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and ...
The Dick Van Dyke Show, on set in 1965, from left: Morey Amsterdam, Rose Marie, Dick Van Dyke and Carl Reiner. Courtesy Everett Collection “The Dick Van Dyke Show” premiered in October 1961, a few ...