“THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW – NOW IN LIVING COLOR!,” A
NEW ONE-HOUR SPECIAL FEATURING TWO NEWLY COLORIZED EPISODES, TO BE
BROADCAST FRIDAY, DEC. 14 ON CBS
The Featured Episodes, “Where Did I Come From” and “Never Bathe on Saturday,”
Were Chosen by Creator Carl Reiner to Showcase his Favorite Episodes
Featuring Dick Van Dyke
THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW – NOW IN LIVING COLOR!, a new one-hour special
with two newly colorized back-to-back classic episodes of the beloved
1960s series, will be broadcast Friday, Dec. 14
(9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Series creator
and co-star Carl Reiner personally selected the two episodes to showcase
his favorite episodes featuring Dick Van Dyke.
“After seeing only two seconds of 92-year-old Dick dancing in the new
‘Mary Poppins’ movie, I picked shows that featured Dick’s physical
comedy,” said Reiner. “He was, is and will always be the greatest
entertainer I have ever seen.”
The special features the season one episode “Where Did I Come From,”
written by Carl Reiner, and the season four episode “Never Bathe on
Saturday,” also written by Reiner. The main titles and end credits of
the two episodes are seamlessly combined into one set – at the beginning
and end of the hour – with no interruption between the episodes.
The Emmy Award-winning series starred Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler
Moore as television comedy writer Rob and his wife, Laura Petrie; Larry
Matthews as their son, Ritchie; Morey Amsterdam and Rose Marie as Buddy
Sorrell and Sally Rogers, co-writers on the fictional “The Alan Brady
Show”; Carl Reiner as Alan Brady; Richard Deacon as Mel Cooley; Jerry
Paris as Dr. Jerry Helper; and Ann Morgan Guilbert as Millie
Krumbermacher Helper.
In “Where Did I Come From,” 6-year-old Ritchie asks his parents the
inevitable “where did I come from?” question, and they recall the days
before his birth. The episode was first presented on Jan. 3, 1961 during
the series’ first season.
In “Never Bathe on Saturday,” the Petries’ romantic second honeymoon
becomes a disaster when Laura’s toe gets caught in a bath spout. The
episode was first presented on March 31, 1965, during season four.
“The Dick Van Dyke Show” originally aired on CBS from Oct. 3, 1961,
through June 1, 1966, finishing in the Nielsen top 10 in three of its
five seasons, peaking at #3 during the 1963-1964 season. The show
received 15 Primetime Emmy Awards, including three Emmys for Dick Van
Dyke, five for Carl Reiner and two for Mary Tyler Moore.
Carl Reiner is an executive producer, with George Shapiro and Paul
Brownstein. “The Dick Van Dyke Show” is distributed by Paul Brownstein
Productions.
RATING: To Be Announced
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