Dick Van Dyke Show, The

Dick Van Dyke Show, The

▪ American television program
      American television situation comedy that ran from 1961 to 1966 on the Columbia Broadcasting System (now CBS Corporation). Considered a pioneer in the genre, the show received 15 Emmy Awards during its five seasons.

      The Dick Van Dyke Show chronicles the professional and personal life of Rob Petrie (played by Dick Van Dyke), a young comedy writer for the fictitious Alan Brady Show, a television variety program whose seldom-seen star was played by the series' creator, Carl Reiner. Rob's principal colleagues were a pair of fellow writers, wise-cracking Buddy Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam) and Sally Rogers (Rose Marie), who was always on the lookout for a husband, and the show's pompous producer, Mel Cooley (Richard Deacon). Both Rob's work family and his nuclear family—wife Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) and son Ritchie (Larry Matthews)—provided reliable vehicles for comedy. The Petries resided in New Rochelle, N.Y., and their neighbours, the Helpers, regularly figured into the show.

      As in earlier situation comedies, the series often relied on physical, slapstick comedy, but it also advanced the genre by portraying its characters in relatively real, complex terms and taking up subjects such as sex, child rearing, and an awareness of contemporaneous cultural currents that were hitherto unexplored by sitcoms. The show was also one of the first sitcoms to have a formally planned ending.

      Prior to landing his starring role in the series, Van Dyke had won acclaim for his work in the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie, and he went on to find motion picture success in Mary Poppins (1964) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). Moore followed her role in The Dick Van Dyke Show with her own star-vehicle sitcom, the Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–77).

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