The Dick Van Dyke Show

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Carl Reiner

Dick Van Dyke – Rob Petrie

Mary Tyler Moore – Laura Petrie

Rose Marie – Sally Rogers

Morey Amsterdam – Maurice “Buddy” Sorrell

Larry Mathews – Ritchie Petrie

Richard Deacon – Melvin Cooley

Jerry Paris – Jerry Helper

Ann Morgan Guilbert – Millie Helper

Carl Reiner – Alan Brady

United States

5

158

October 3, 1961 – September 7, 1966

Music - Earl Hagen

Lyrics – Morey Amsterdam

Don Rickles | Jerry Van Dyke | Jamie Farr | Danny Thomas | Chad & Jeremy

DVD Exclusive Awards

2003 - Won DVDX Award Best Overall DVD, TV Program (Including All Extra Features) - Paul Brownstein (Season One)

2003 - Nominated DVDX Award Best Audio Commentary (New for DVD) - Dick Van Dyke & Carl Reiner for "Where Did I Come From?"/"The Sleeping Brother" (Season One)

Directors Guild of America, USA

1965 - Nominated DGA Award Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television - Jerry Paris for episode "The Life and Love of Joe Coogan"

Emmy Awards

1966 – Won Emmy Outstanding Comedy Series - Carl Reiner (Producer)

1966 – Won Emmy Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series - Dick Van Dyke

1966 – Won Emmy Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series - Mary Tyler Moore

1966 – Won Emmy Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy – Bill Persky & Sam Denoff for episode "Coast To Coast Big Mouth"

1966 – Nominated Emmy Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy - Jerry Paris

1966 – Nominated Emmy Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Comedy - Morey Amsterdam

1966 – Nominated Emmy Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Comedy - Rose Marie

1966 – Nominated Emmy Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy - Bill Persky & Sam Denoff for episode "The Ugliest Dog In The World"

1965 - Won Emmy Outstanding Individual Achievements in Entertainment - Actors and Performers - Dick Van Dyke

1965 - Won Emmy Outstanding Program Achievements in Entertainment - Carl Reiner

1965 -Nominated Emmy Outstanding Individual Achievements in Entertainment – Writers - Carl Reiner for episode "Never Bathe On Sunday"

1964 - Won Emmy Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Series (Lead) - Dick Van Dyke

1964 - Won Emmy Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Series (Lead) - Mary Tyler Moore

1964 - Won Emmy Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy - Jerry Paris

1964 - Won Emmy Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Comedy

1964 - Won Emmy Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy or Variety - Carl Reiner | Sam Denoff | Bill Persky for various episodes

1964 - Nominated Emmy Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actress - Rose Marie

1963 - Won Emmy Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy - John Rich

1963 - Won Emmy Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Humor

1963 - Won Emmy Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy - Carl Reiner

1963 - Nominated Emmy Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Series (Lead) - Dick Van Dyke

1963 - Nominated Emmy Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Series (Lead) - Mary Tyler Moore

1963 - Nominated Emmy Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actress - Rose Marie

1962 - Won Emmy Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy - Carl Reiner

1962 - Nominated Emmy Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy - John Rich

Golden Globes, USA

1965 - Won Golden Globe Best TV Star – Female - Mary Tyler Moore

1964 - Won Golden Globe Best TV Show

Logie Awards

1966 - Won Logie Best Overseas Show

TV Land Awards

2006 - Nominated TV Land Award Favorite Dream Sequence for episode "It May Look Like a Walnut"

2006 - Nominated TV Land Award Greatest TV Dance Craze - The Twizzle

2005 - Won TV Land Award Best Dream Sequence for episode "It May Look Like a Walnut," in which under the influence of science fiction, Rob fears that a walnut will steal his imagination and his thumbs

Nominated TV Land Award Theme Song You Just Cannot Get out of Your Head

2003 - Won Legend Award
2003 - Won TV Land Award Dreamiest TV Dream Sequence - For episode "It May Look Like a Walnut"

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This highly successful series is often considered one of television’s classic comedies, primarily because of its first-class scripting and excellent casting. Most of the principals were show-business veterans and several went on to star in series of their own. The setting, appropriately enough, was behind the scenes on a mythical TV comedy show. Rob Petrie was the head comedy writer for “The Alan Brady Show”, a popular New York-based comedy-variety series whose neurotic star was seldom seen here. Working with Rob were two other writers, Sally and Buddy, both of whom were close friends of Rob and his wife Laura. Their nemesis at the office and the butt of much humor was balding Melvin Cooley, the pompous producer of “The Alan Brady Show” and brother-in-law of its star. Episodes generally revolved around the problems of the writers and the home life of the Petries in New Rochelle. Early episodes often included flashbacks to Rob and Laura’s courtship, while Rob was still in the army, the early days of their marriage and the development of Rob’s career. Frequently seen were their next-door neighbors, Jerry and Millie Helper. Writer-director Carl Reiner played the occasional role of Alan Brady, who was heard but never seen until the show had been on for several seasons.

The Dick Van Dyke Show took several seasons to develop into a major hit and was still very popular in 1966, when it finally left the air because Van Dyke and other cast members wanted to try new material. Van Dyke was never able to repeat the spectacular success of this series, but his co-star Mary Tyler Moore went on to greater fame on her own. Mary Tyler Moore Show in the 1970s.

CBS cancelled the show after one season and then renewed it. When the show finally did go off the air, it was because the cast and producers wanted to quit while they were still proud of it. In addition, Carl Reiner said at the very beginning that the show would not run for more than five years.

The show's pilot was created by Carl Reiner and was highly autobiographical. CBS executives decided that the main character was too Jewish, too intellectual and too New York and cast Dick Van Dyke instead of Reiner.

The first episode filmed without a live audience was "The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Bad Old Days (#1.28)" (1962) which aired on 4 April 1962. It used speeded-up filmed inserts during Rob's dream of a 1920s lifestyle, which made shooting in front of an audience impractical.

A small controversy occurred because of Mary Tyler Moore wearing Capri pants on the show. Up until the show's premiere most housewives were seen in dresses, but Moore's explanation was that most of the housewives she knew wore pants. Because of Moore, Capri pants became a huge fashion craze in the early 1960s.

Dick Van Dyke initially objected to having Mary Tyler Moore on the series, because he felt that she was too young to convincingly play his wife. He changed his mind once their remarkable onscreen chemistry became apparent.

A grief-stricken Rose Marie wanted to leave the show when her husband, Bobby Guy, died. Director John Rich talked her out of quitting and she stayed until the end.

When CBS canceled the show after one season, Sheldon Leonard traveled to Procter & Gamble's main headquarters in Cincinnati to make a personal plea for sponsorship, hoping it would sway CBS toward renewal. Procter & Gamble agreed to sponsor half a season. Eventually, Lorillard Tobacco Company, makers of Kent Cigarettes, agreed to pick up the other half, and the show was picked up by CBS for a second season. Ironically, when the show went off the air on its own five years later, CBS was doing the pleading for the show to continue.

The show's production company was called Calvada Productions. The name came from the names of all of the key persons involved in production: Carl Reiner, Sheldon Leonard, Dick Van Dyke and Danny Thomas. In one program, co-producer, Leonard played a character called "Big Max Calvada".

The running gag about Alan Brady's toupee was based on Max Liebman, the producer of "Your Show of Shows" (1950), who also wore a toupee.

Richie's middle name "Rosebud" is an acronym for Robert, Oscar, Sam, Edward, Benjamin and Ulysses David.

Rob’s middle name was ‘Simpson