I shed a few tears watching the end. I was just five when the show ended, but my parents watched it, and I loved Rob and Laura, and MTM when she had her own show. So many people that I loved are now gone, friends, family and beloved TV characters. Thanks for the laughs!
I was watching an interview with Dick Van Dyke, Carl Reiner, and Norman Leir, and they all agreed that the hardest thing about making it to old age is outliving all your friends and loved ones. 💔 RIP to the ones who have passed (and live in peace to the ones who still live.)
To be honest anyone that actually thinks the world was ever this simple is very naive. This show was on in the 60s, during the 60s, we were still in the middle of the Cold War, people were protesting Vietnam all over, young people were trying to flee the draft, the civil rights movement and protests against police brutality were going on. The Cuban missle crisis happened. Not to mention all the drugs that were common place in the 60s. Don’t fool yourself, the world was never simple. People back then needed shows like this so they could forget about all the shit going on out there. I do wish we still had simple shows like this though, cause there’s still shit going on out there and we all need a distraction from time to time
@owatahfuhlyem Reality is that the black family -- the pillar of the black community in the true sense of the word "community" -- was stronger then, as were families generally. Fast-forward to now and women and girls -- particularly black women and girls -- are degraded and sexually objectified in our popular culture in ways unimaginable in the days of "The Dick Van Dyke" show. Drug dependency among both blacks and whites was nothing then compared to what it is now. Marriage has become disposable, as are the lives of the unborn (huge numbers of black babies are aborted every year). Yes we have made some important strides, but your perspective is seriously skewed.
Great memories watching this with my family. I used to imitate Dick Van Dyke and trip over the ottoman! The shows were so great in those days,The actors are so genuine and worked together like one big TV family! No wonder they accomplished timeless legacies that will never fade! A truly special time!
@@paulspears715 ...think of it...we saw the best TV...AND we saw the best bands live and survived lawn darts,red dye #2 and radiation from sitting too close to TVs
Used to LOVE the DVD Show in the 60s, when I was in junior high school. Seeing both the old shows on YT and "Revisited" on TV brought back a lot of happy memories.
Makes me wish I was around, back then. Everything seemed calmer. Love the fact that Van Dyke mainly went for the slapstick roles. He suits those ones, more. Wasn't used to seeing him play a serious role in 'Diagnosis Murder'. Saying that, he still always ended up laughing, at the end of each episode. It'll be a sad day when he dies. There'll be no-one else like him. He's one of a kind.
+Anonymous Anonymous Dicks Hero was Stan Laurel, one of slapsticks Greatest, laurel and Hardy were two of the greatest ever. Dick couldn't have made a better choice to emulate, He even looked much like Stan at times.
Yeah 142 Bonnie Meadow Lane. Even the address was perfect. I actually drove there to see it. It was Reiners place when he was a comedy writer. I imagined the exterior would be mid-century modern, but it was drab and unappealing. Don’t forget the Brady Bunch house with the orange kitchen. On a sad note, remember recoiling at Ralph Cramden’s cell? I couldn’t watch that show.
@@happytraveler5334 It was a real house? I thought a few years ago that it was one of those fake studio houses since they never showed any angles of it.
I love The Dick Van Dyke Show. He was so cute back in the day. He's still a very handsome man. I watch the re-runs over and over again every night. This is one of my favorite shows....
Timeless. Unlike I Love Lucy, which is very much of its time (1950's), The Dick Van Dyke Show is fresh and undated. Simply wonderful...and a treat to see these old familiar friends again. If only they would do another reunion!! ^^X^^
Totally agree! Laura Petrie was adorable. Perfect wifey material. And Dick Van Dyke was quite dashing back then too lol. They're my favorite TV couple of all-time.
Two extremely talented people who I grew up watching. I just saw an interview with Dick and he seems well. I miss Mary. She was a very strong yet sweet woman. That is what talent looks like. Thank you for sharing. I'm smiling.
Not only do we like nice people like Dick Van Dyke and Andy Griffith, we are actually drawn to the absence of sex, vulgarity, swearing; a long forgotten innocence.
Christine Paige ...but you know, those days were better because we were young. Our kids will remember these days like we remember those. Their “adult show” they remember fondly will be The Office. Sure, to us DVD is better, but to kids today, DVD is like the 1910s were to us. Can’t relate. Don’t forget, The Wild Bunch and Sergio Leone Westerns, when movies officially went Psycho, debuted within a year or two of DVD,
Wow, just found this. Loved the memories. I still watch the reruns when I find them. Been watching them since I was a kid in the 60's and 70's. It was nice seeing them older too. How in the world did Dick stay so limber? I love all his shows he has been in at any age.
If you saw the full version of this scene, you would get even more laughs out of it. I could tell their motives for singing their own names from the expressions on their faces and the tones of their voices.
1:00-1:38. Buddy sung his name because he was trying to be funny. Sally sung hers because she began to think that the idea of singing "Alan Brady" over and over was stupid. Laura sung hers because she was getting nervous, which you could tell in her voice. Melvin sung his in defiance of Rob, because there was a clip before this where Rob mentioned that Mel was Alan Brady's brother-in-law and that Mel was loyal. Rob said his own name because he decided to give up.
The one who played the neighbor whose husband was a dentist played that very old lady in THE NANNY SHOW REMEMBER.ALWAYS DRESSED FANCY CLASSES WITH A CIGIE IN.HER HAND.
This is one of the best shows EVER !! Soooo glad I had this to watch growing up as opposed to the filth on TV now ... so sad for the kids and the world
Though we loved to see all those "revisited" type specials, many of them were dry and dull. THIS one was LIVELY and had CHEMISTRY and was a PLEASURE TO WATCH!
R.I.P. Moritz (Morey) Amsterdam Dec. 14, 1908- Oct. 28, 1996 Richard Deacon May 14, 1921- Aug. 8, 1984 William (Jerry) Gerald Grossman (Paris) Jul.25, 1925- Mar. 31, 1986
Although Mary herself always said she was never a comedienne , one has to admit her role as Laura was wonderful The chemistry between her and Dick was magical. I doubt highly another woman in the role could have been as good. She learned how to make people laugh on that show with her crying, stammering,delivery etc . Even though not as great as Rose Marie, Morey, or Dick she still managed her share of laughs. Was she overrated? Maybe, but her successful portrayals as Laura Petrie and Mary RIchards will live on forever in the annals of television history.
+brian whalen Some were criticizing her for her plastic surgery. Of course she is not going to look as she did in the early 60's as Laura Petrie. I think she looks pretty here for her age.
Yeah she was 68 when this was filmed. People need to lay off. She was 24 when the Dick Van Dyke show began. Name one 68 year old who look the same as they were 24. She wasn't even supposed to make it to 68 as she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was only 30. She fought it for 50 years and tried her best to live a full life. Rest in peace MTM
@@realniggashit3 no. Diagnosed at 30 means you'll probably live to old age, even at that time. It's when you're diagnosed at 12, like most type 1's, where you really have to watch your b/s and as you get older. Even then most will live to around early 70's, and that's with old technology. New tech with cell phone checking apps and even better pumps and tech coming out, I wouldn't be surprised if even early onset type 1's live to normal old age, early 80's.
They can run the Dick Van Dyke show in prime time on CBS today. All the old eps and a couple of new ones with the gang today mixed in. People would watch.
There are actually several different channels that show that, Me-TV, Antenna TV, TVLand, and Hallmark. And they show Green Acres, Patty Duke, The Outer Limits, and Mister Ed, on MYTV weekday mornings, (The Outer Limits on weekends mornings).
This show at one time was all the rave, popular as it was, it still holds up today. Our television heritage it will save, and soon you actors shall be off to the grave!
@CaliforniaCowboy2009 That's right, and it was Desi Arnaz who created that 3-camera system, which so many people do not know. Instead, they think he was a no-talent, who rode off his talented wife's coattails. Back to the Dick Van Dyke Show.. I am so-oooo glad they did this! It was worth the 38 year wait :)
Too bad we never saw that gorgeous living room in color. DVD was always in black and white that I ever saw. And it ended in 1966. Seems we should have seen it in color.
+Brooke Hanley It was a creative choice by Carl Reiner and Dick Van Dyke to specifically NOT make the last season in color. 1965 was when nearly all other shows made the switch to color including "The Andy Griffith Show", which was also produced by Sheldon Leonard and Danny Thomas. They knew the show was ending (it was not canceled, they chose to end it), and felt that it would be better to have all of the episodes match in reruns. In some ways it would have been interesting to have watched the Monday night lineup in early 1966...every show in color...except one. I hope they DO colorize some of the episodes though like they have "I Love Lucy", even if it is just a few specific ones.
They wanted to do colour and considered it for a while BUT in the end decided it was too expensive. And I don't think it really matters or detracts from the show, the acting and comedic quality is so good. It's classic. And it will stand the test of time.
