Talk:The Dick Van Dyke Show

The Alan Brady Show

In 2003, TV Land produced a pilot for an actual series based on The Alan Brady Show, the fictional show within The Dick Van Dyke Show.[1][2][3] I wasn't sure where to mention this in the article.--76.106.245.93 (talk) 14:34, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

I added a "popcult" section and put it there. I couldn't use the Vimeo link because of copyright problems. BMK (talk) 23:09, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

(But I did watch the Vimeo clip -- looked pretty bad. BMK (talk) 23:13, 24 June 2015 (UTC))

Thanks! Are you sure you can't link to the Vimeo clip? It was uploaded to Vimeo by the show's producer, so he clearly wouldn't mind.--76.106.245.93 (talk) 12:42, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

It all depends on who owns the copyright. We can't link to copyright violating material. BMK (talk) 21:56, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

née Meehan?

The writers seemed to be confused about Laura's maiden name: I haven't kept track of what exact episodes use which, but it's given as Meeker in Oh, How We Met the Night We Danced. Paul Magnussen (talk) 00:35, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Of course, this is not a reliable source and could not be used in the article, but it says: "Laura's maiden name was changed from Meeker to Meehan following Mary Tyler Moore's divorce from her first husband, Richard Meeker."--Bbb23 (talk) 00:43, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Oh. Thanks, I didn't know that. Paul Magnussen (talk) 00:59, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Color

I just noticed that CBS is going to air some colorized versions - we may want to include that somewhere. (Ched) 2601:547:1203:1414:DD8B:DDC2:739A:85B3 (talk) 02:56, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

Colorization high video quality

• http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/12/dick-van-dyke-coast-to-coast-big-mouth-carl-reiner

true to the show’s actual set, the living-room couch at 148 Bonnie Meadow Rd. in New Rochelle NY, would be same hideous yellow-orange on-screen that it was in real life. So don’t blame the colorization team.

• http://nypost.com/2016/12/08/how-producers-brought-dick-van-dyke-into-living-color/

“I was shocked at how accurate [the episodes’ color] is,” says Reiner, 94. “One of our photographers back in those days took color photos of the sets and some of the actors in costume and we duplicated it — it was eerie, like being there.”

Noted TV historian/archivist Paul Brownstein, who executive-produced the two colorized “Dick Van Dyke Show” episodes (along with Carl Reiner and George Shapiro), says it was often a challenging task.

“There were a total of a half-dozen pictures from the entire series that are in color. The kitchen had blue walls and the dinette set was actually orange-colored,” he says. “We had to find a telephone [color] in Alan Brady’s office, so I went online and looked up Western Electric telephones from that era. There was a beige Bell System phone that was an iconic color for people of that generation, so we used that.

Brownstein says he hopes these two colorized “Dick Van Dyke Show” episodes will open more doors for the series.

“Ideally our goal right now is to colorize the entire series and bring it out as a fresh show,” he says. “I think it could hold its own in prime time.”

Two episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show were broadcast on December 11, 2016 in a colorized version. Aside from the added color, the video quality seemed impressively sharp and perfect. Was this derived from special original sources, or generated by modern computer processing?

IMDB says The Dick Van Dyke Show was filmed in 35 mm (monochrome?). Does any of that film version survive? Are current DVD etc versions derived from film, or what?-71.174.190.122 (talk) 19:48, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Episode description

An editor is edit-warring to include in the "Laura Petrie" character section a description of the episode in which Laura reveals whe was underage when she and Rob got married, and that they got married in the next episode. This description has been removed by tow other editors, myself included. My reason for removing it is that every episode of the program provided character information, but we cannot include all of this information in the brief character descriptions -- if we did, they would soon become bloated. The plot also has no future implications for the character, another reason it should not be included.

Further the "we not really married and have to get re-married" plot is a staple of situation comedies, so it's hardly unique to this program. Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:03, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Lead image

Why is a colorized version of the series logo used in the infobox? The series was made and broadcast in BW and we should have a monochrome series logo, not one presumably from the altered version of the show aired as a gimmick just a few years ago. An original can easily be obtained online from one of the public domain episodes in circulation if not restored from an earlier edit of this article. 2605:8D80:400:DEAE:2930:1704:D489:1A25 (talk) 19:51, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

X-files episode

Season 6 Episode 15 (probably the funniest episode up till then) has Mulder and Scully posing as a very wholesome suburban couple named Rob and Laura Petrie. This might be worth putting into the Popular Culture section???? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.175.171.98 (talk) 03:27, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

"Refuting" v. "Rebuffing"

The claim was been made that Carl Reiner based the character of Alan Brady on Sid Cesar. Reiner says this isn;t the case, so he refutes that claim. (To refute: to prove (a statement or theory) to be wrong or false; disprove.) Reiner is the only person who knows what his intentions were, so he is the ultimate source for knowing who he based the character on, so he proved the claim to be wrong. He did not "rebuff" it (to rebuff: to reject (someone or something) in an abrupt or ungracious manner), he refuted it. Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:34, 28 October 2022 (UTC)