The Dick Van Dyke Show The Complete Series music dvd

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The Dick Van Dyke Show The Complete Series music dvd Special Features

Each box set contains five DVDs

Audio commentaries by Carl Reiner, Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie and Larry Mathews

Audio commentaries with Ann Morgan Guilbert, Garry Marshall, Don Rickles & more

Head of the Family: Original series plot

Interviews with cast and producers

Mary Tyler Moore appearance on Dick's variety series

Original commercials featuring the cast and network promos

Dr. Mark Sloan meets Rob Petrie in an episode of Diagnosis Murder

A full-length Danny Thomas Show episode with Morey Amsterdam as Buddy Sorrell

Emmy Award Ttelecast clips honoring The Dick Van Dyke Show

The Dick Van Dyke Show cast reunion from Comic Relief (1992)

The full-length CBS Special: The Dick Van Dyke Show Remembered

Dick Van Dyke sings the theme song in an appearance at The Hollywood Bowl

Exclusive and never-before-seen rehearsal photos taken by Roddy McDowall

Rare rehearsal footage

The Dick Van Dyke Show The Complete Series music dvd Editorial Reviews

Before The Dick Van Dyke Show, suburbia was never portrayed on television as a haven of sophistication. We never followed Ozzie Nelson to work. And we never, ever fantasized what Ward and June Cleaver did behind closed doors. But Your Show of Shows veteran Carl Reiner's groundbreaking series broke the staid, sitcom mold. Just consider Mary Tyler Moore's Laura Petrie, the ravishing wife of Dick Van Dyke's comedy writer, Rob Petrie. "I'm just a housewife," she proclaims in the episode "To Tell or Not to Tell," just before breaking into an incendiary bossa nova in the Petrie living room. In "The Return of Happy Spangler," she is jokingly identified as Jackie Kennedy. But the comparison is apt. She's got style (those capri pants scandalized the show's sponsors!), she's got grace, and when Moore came into her own as a gifted comedienne, she took her stock character to dizzy new heights. The Dick Van Dyke Show boasted a peerless ensemble, gold-standard writing, and characters who became icons: Son Ritchie (played by Larry Matthews), man-hungry Sally Rogers (Rose Marie), old school "human joke machine" Buddy Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam), and tyrannical boss Alan Brady (Reiner).

Incredibly, the show was nearly canceled after its first season. Executive producer Sheldon Leonard championed the series, and CBS moved the Petries to follow the top-rated Beverly Hillbillies. The rest is television history. Unlike the high-concept Hillbillies, the more sophisticated Dick Van Dyke Show's appeal was in its more grounded situations and three-dimensional characters, each of whom were given ample opportunities to shine. Rob's deft and daft juggling of his glamorous career and harried home life inspired some of the best episodes, but at the heart of this series' timeless appeal was the palpable chemistry between Rob and Laura, as witness their sudden embrace at the moving conclusion of "The Square Triangle." A pop culture benchmark, The Dick Van Dyke Show is must-own television. --Donald Liebenson

The Dick Van Dyke Show The Complete Series Product Description

Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Morey Amsterdam, Rose Marie. Enter the world of Rob Petrie, the head writer for a comedy-variety TV show assisted by co-writers Buddy and Sally and complemented at home by beautiful wife Laura and son Richie. Includes all 157 episodes on 25 DVDs. 1961-67/b&w/28 hrs., 20 min/NR/fullscreen.

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