B000A9QL6I

096009151096

1961

1961-10-03

Won 15 Primetime Emmys, 27 wins & 22 nominations total

Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie

Ronald Jacobs, Sheldon Leonard, Danny Thomas, Carl Reiner, Sam Denoff, Bill Persky

Earle Hagen

Robert De Grasse, Henry Cronjager Jr.

Bud Molin, Beryl Gelfond, Alan Jaggs, Leon Selditz, James Ballas

Ruth Burch

Kenneth A. Reid

Ken Swartz

Harald Johnson, Marge Makau

Thomas Tuttle, Donna McDonough, Eleanor Edwards, Lee Greenway, Irma Kusely

Frank E. Myers, Robert E. Short, Ronald Jacobs, W. Argyle Nelson, Martin Leichter

John C. Chulay, Stanley J. Brooks, Jay Sandrich, Edward M. Hillie

Glenn Ross, Stuart Stevenson, Kenneth A. Reid

Cam McCulloch, Robert Reeve, Dick Le Grand, Dick Maier, Edward L. Sandlin, Reg Browne, John D. Hall, Sid Lubow, Charles David Forrest, Frank Webster

Brian J. McNamara

James Niver, Robert Sousa, Harold Burke, Gil Clasen

Daroff, Dorothy O Hara, Micheal Anthony, Michael Anthony

Rod Stephens

Earle Hagen, Walter Popp, Sam Denoff, Bill Persky

Marjorie Mullen, Rosemary Dorsey

Marjorie Mullen, Sam Denoff, Bill Persky, Carl Reiner, Joel Swanson, Larry Harmon, Gloria Morgan, Sylvia Lewis

Comedy, Family

Calvada Productions

USA

English

TV-G

8.4

10879

The Dick Van Dyke Show is an American television sitcom created by Carl Reiner that initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961 to June 1, 1966, with a total of 158 half-hour episodes spanning five seasons. It was produced by Calvada Productions in association with the CBS Television Network, and was shot at Desilu Studios. Other producers included Bill Persky and Sam Denoff. The music for the show s theme song was written by Earle Hagen.

The show starred Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, and Larry Mathews. The Dick Van Dyke Show centered on the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke), the head writer for the fictional Alan Brady Show, who lived in New Rochelle, New York with his stylish wife Laura Petrie (Mary Tyler Moore) and young son Ritchie (Larry Mathews). The series portrayed daily life, comic scenarios that charming, goofy Rob Petrie found himself in the middle of with his family, his work colleagues – Buddy Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam), Sally Rogers (Rose Marie), Mel Cooley (Richard Deacon) – and his neighbors Millie (Ann Morgan Guilbert) and Jerry Helper (Jerry Paris) and friends.

The series won 15 Emmy Awards. In 1997, the episodes Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth and It May Look Like a Walnut were ranked at 8 and 15 respectively on TV Guide s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. In 2002, the series was ranked at 13 on TV Guide s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time and in 2013 it was ranked at 20 on their list of the 60 Best Series.

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