Carl ReinerFilmography

The Blue Elephant

Synopsis: A little blue elephant with enormous dreams discovers the true power of courage in this uplifting animated film featuring the voices of Carl Reiner, Martin Short, and Miranda Cosgrove. Lovable elephant Khan has been separated from the herd, and now in order to find his family and realize his royal Read More

Ocean's Thirteen

Actors: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia

Synopsis: Cinema icon Al Pacino joins a powerhouse cast headed by of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, and series newcomer Ellen Barkin for this, the third installment of director Steven Soderbergh's popular series of glitzy crime comedies. The only hotelier in Las Read More

Boston Legal: Let Sales Ring

Ocean's Twelve

Actors: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Julia Roberts, Bernie Mac

Synopsis: After pulling off the heist of their lives, Danny Ocean and his pals unexpectedly find themselves back in harness in this sequel to 2001's blockbuster hit Ocean's Eleven. After robbing a cool $160 million from the Bellaggio Hotel Casino and winning back his former wife, Tess (Julia Roberts), from Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Carl Reiner, Rose Marie, Ann Morgan Guilbert

Father of the Pride [Animated TV Series]

Actors: John Goodman, Cheryl Hines, Carl Reiner, Orlando Jones, Julian Holloway

Synopsis: It is not generally known that the CGI-animated NBC sitcom Father of the Pride was the second cartoon program inspired by the spectacular career of Vegas-based illusionists Siegfried and Roy. The first, a four-part miniseries titled Siegfried & Roy: Masters of the Impossible, was seen in Read More

Good Boy!

Actors: Molly Shannon, Liam Aiken, Kevin Nealon, Brittany Moldowan, Hunter Elliott

Synopsis: For his debut feature, John Hoffman wrote and directed this effects-heavy family film based on the story Dogs from Outer Space by Zeke Richardson. Produced by Jim Henson Productions, Good Boy! presents the idea that dogs are actually an intelligent alien species sent to earth thousands of years Read More

The Alan Brady Show

Crew: Teleplay By

Actors: Carl Reiner, Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Gary Owens, Carol Leifer

Synopsis: The first original cartoon special from the TV Land cable channel, The Alan Brady Show spotlights the fictional star of the series-within-the-series on the classic The Dick Van Dyke Show. Producer/director Carl Reiner lends his voice to a new 3D-animated version of his devilish doppelganger, the Read More

Television: The First 50 Years

The Bronx Boys

Synopsis: The uplifting documentary The Bronx Boys chronicles the 2001 reunion of fifteen men, all born in the Bronx and all friends since starting kindergarten together in 1936. The friends are an eclectic mix of professionals, including several prominent and celebrated members of the entertainment Read More

The Sid Caesar Collection

Actors: Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Nanette Fabray

Synopsis: This entertaining "pledge week" effort from PBS not only culls precious film clips from Sid Caesar's classic 1950s TV variety series Your Show of Shows, but also features some long-unseen vignettes from Caesar's first TV effort, The Admiral Broadway Revue, and his later weekly offering, Caesar's Hour Read More

Ally McBeal: Bygones

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Greg Germann, Peter MacNicol, Jane Krakowski, Portia de Rossi, Regina Hall, Josh Hopkins, Hayden Panettiere

The Majestic

Actors: Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, Bob Balaban, Gerry Black, Brent Briscoe, Karl Bury

Synopsis: Director Frank Darabont created this Frank Capra-inspired drama based on a screenplay by his friend and one-time schoolmate Michael Sloane. Jim Carrey stars as Pete Appleton, a screenwriter in the Hollywood of the 1950s. Pete's on top of the world with his first motion picture "Sand Pirates of the Read More

Ocean's Eleven

Actors: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Andy Garcia, Julia Roberts

Synopsis: A rag-tag group of con artists and ex-cons team up for the heist to end all heists in this high-profile remake of the 1960 Rat Pack favorite. As with its predecessor, Ocean's Eleven opens with its titular hero Danny Ocean (George Clooney stepping into the Frank Sinatra role) eager for a new Read More

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle

Actors: Rene Russo, Jason Alexander, Piper Perabo, Randy Quaid, Robert De Niro, June Foray, Keith Scott

Synopsis: The pride of Frostbite Falls and Whatsamatta U's most famous alumni find their way onto the big screen (and the real world) in this comedy inspired by the popular cartoon series. Years after their TV show is cancelled, Rocky the Flying Squirrel (voice of June Foray) and Bullwinkle J. Moose (voice Read More

Slums of Beverly Hills

Actors: Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, Kevin Corrigan, Eli Marienthal

Synopsis: Tamara Jenkins wrote and directed this comedy-drama depicting the experience of growing up poor in the 90210 zip code, told from the point of view of Vivian Abramowitz (Natasha Lyonne), a teen who lives a nomadic existence in the outskirts of Beverly Hills with her single, divorced father, Murray (Alan Arkin Read More

That Old Feeling

Crew: Director

Actors: Bette Midler, Dennis Farina, Paula Marshall, Gail O'Grady, David Rasche

Synopsis: In this Carl Reiner-directed romantic comedy, Bette Midler stars as a movie star named Lilly, who has had a fairly successful career which is now on the downturn. Years after a terrible divorce, she meets up again with her ex-husband Dan (Dennis Farina) at the wedding of their daughter Molly (Paula Marshall Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: The Roast

Synopsis: While organizing a roast for Larry (Garry Shandling), Norman (David Paymer) invites Dana Carvey, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, and Al Franken to take their best shot at the self-absorbed talk-show host. When Artie (Rip Torn) invites Carl Reiner to host instead of Hank (Jeffrey Tambor), the sensitive Read More

King of the Hill: The Unbearable Blindness of Laying

The Right to Remain Silent

Actors: Lea Thompson, Robert Loggia, Judge Reinhold, Laura San Giacomo, Patrick Dempsey

Synopsis: In this police actioner, a brand-new lady cop's lack of enthusiasm at getting a job behind a criminal processing desk instead of on the streets proves unfounded. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mad About You: The Alan Brady Show

Synopsis: Carl Reiner won an Emmy award for his portrayal of "TV legend" Alan Brady, a role originally created by Reiner on the old Dick Van Dyke Show. Paul (Paul Reiser) is at his wit's end trying to mollify the famously temperamental Brady so that he can complete a documentary. The key to the solution Read More

Comic Relief VI

Synopsis: Taped live at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium and shown on HBO and Comedy Central in 1994, this video documents the sixth Comic Relief live charity benefit for America's homeless. Hosted by Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, and Billy Crystal, this program features performances from luminaries of Read More

Bullets Over Broadway

Actors: John Cusack, Jack Warden, Chazz Palminteri, Joe Viterelli, Jennifer Tilly, Dianne Wiest

Synopsis: Bullets Over Broadway is a Woody Allen romp that, as the title suggests, combines gangsters with show business at the height of the Roaring Twenties. David Shayne (John Cusack) is a straight-arrow playwright who plans to stand firm against compromising his work, but quickly abandons that stance Read More

Frasier: Selling Out

Synopsis: Frasier's conniving agent, Bebe Frazer (Harriet Sansom Harris, in her first series appearance), arranges a big-bucks deal for her favorite client. All Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) has to do is "subtly" endorse a few commercial products as part of his call-in radio show. Trouble is, Frasier wants Read More

Fatal Instinct

Crew: Director

Actors: Armand Assante, Sherilyn Fenn, Kate Nelligan, Sean Young, Christopher McDonald

Synopsis: Fatal Instinct is an Airplane-style spoof of the late-'80s, early-'90s cycle of erotic crime thrillers. Setting the plot in motion is a kinky murder. Armand Assante plays the cop assigned to the case; he's also the prosecuting attorney; the "Sharon Stone" part is essayed by Sean Young. A dash of Body Heat Read More

Sibling Rivalry

Crew: Director

Actors: Kirstie Alley, Bill Pullman, Carrie Fisher, Jami Gertz, Scott Bakula

Synopsis: Carl Reiner directed this situation comedy about a neglected wife who, in frustration, has her first affair, with humiliating consequences. Kirstie Alley plays Marjorie, the ignored housewife of Harry Turner (Scott Bakula), an obnoxious member of a family of physicians. Marjorie's sister Jeanine (Jami Gertz Read More

The Spirit of '76

Actors: David Cassidy, Olivia D'Abo, Geoff Hoyle, Steve McDonald

Synopsis: Making great fun of the '70s, this lively sci-fi comedy centers on a trio of time travellers who go into the past in hopes of retrieving the Constitution to celebrate America's 300th birthday. Unfortunately, the travelers end up in 1976 not 1776. The trouble is, they don't realize it. ~ Sandra Read More

Bert Rigby, You're a Fool

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Lindsay, Cathryn Bradshaw, Robbie Coltrane, Anne Bancroft, Corbin Bernsen

Synopsis: Tony award-winning British musical comedy star Robert Lindsay makes his first important American film appearance in Bert Rigby, You're a Fool. Lindsay, of course, plays the title character, a coal miner who dreams of becoming a big showbiz star. Only problem is, there's very little demand for Bert Read More

In the Mood

Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Beverly D'Angelo, Talia Balsam, Michael Constantine, Betty Jinnette

Synopsis: This romantic comedy is based on a true story that happened in California in 1944. Sonny Wisecarver (Patrick Dempsey) is 15 year old who has an affair with his older neighbor Judy (Talia Balsam). The two run off and get married, but a stern judge has the union annulled. Sonny is hauled before the Read More

Summer School

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mark Harmon, Kirstie Alley, Robin Thomas, Patrick Laborteaux, Courtney Thorne-Smith

Synopsis: On the eve of his Hawaiian vacation, irresponsible high school teacher Mark Harmon is forced into teaching a summer school class. His students are all malcontents and layabouts with the standard repertoire of teenaged hangups and hostilities (two of the kids, who can't see enough slasher movies to Read More

The Best of Comic Relief

Summer Rental

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: John Candy, Rip Torn, Richard Crenna, Karen Austin, Kerri Green, Aubrey Jene, Joey Lawrence

Synopsis: This routine comedy is about a series of misadventures during a family vacation at the beach and stars John Candy (who died of a heart attack while filming in Mexico in 1994) as John Chester and Karen Austin as his long-suffering wife Sandy. When the family leave for what turns out to be a pretty Read More

All of Me

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Victoria Tennant, Madolyn Smith, Richard Libertini

Synopsis: On her deathbed, mean-spirited millionairess Lily Tomlin has her will amended so that her soul will pass into the body of young, healthy Victoria Tennant. Thanks to a mix-up in transmutation, Tomlin winds up instead trapped in the body of upright (and uptight) attorney Steve Martin. The plot Read More

Faerie Tale Theatre: Pinocchio

Synopsis: Paul Reubens is the troublemaking title character in this installment of Faerie Tale Theatre. Carl Reiner stars as Gepetto, the lonely woodcarver who wishes for a son and creates a wooden marionette named Pinnochio as a substitute. One night a good fairy pays a visit and brings Pinnochio to life Read More

The Man with Two Brains

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner, Paul Benedict, Richard Brestoff

Synopsis: Steve Martin and Carl Reiner concoct one of Martin's best comic vehicles with Martin playing the world's top brain surgeon, Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr -- he ought to know, he said so himself. Hfuhruhurr pioneered the radical new cranial screw-top technique, but he grieves over the untimely death of Read More

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Reni Santoni, Carl Reiner, George Gaynes

Synopsis: In this post-modernist exercise, star/writer Steve Martin and director Carl Reiner spoof the film noir yarns of the '40s with Martin playing gumshoe Rigby Reardon, who interacts with a legion of Hollywood greats -- including Humphrey Bogart, Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Edward Arnold, Barbara Stanwyck Read More

Skokie

Actors: Danny Kaye, John Rubinstein

Synopsis: Skokie is the true story of a critical test of Constitutional rights in Illinois. In 1977, a small band of American neo-fascists calling itself the National Socialist Party of America plans to stage a swastika-dominated demonstration and rally. Their intended site is the Chicago suburb of Skokie Read More

The Jerk

Crew: Director

Actors: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams, Mabel King, Richard Ward

Synopsis: Carl Reiner directs Steve Martin (who co-wrote the script with Carl Gottlieb) in this gag-laden comedy about an idiotic white man, raised by a poor family of black sharecroppers, who doesn't realize he's not black. Navin R. Johnson (Steve Martin) is told the horrible truth when he finds himself Read More

The End

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Sally Field, Strother Martin, David Steinberg

Synopsis: At the beginning of The End, Wendell Sonny Lawson (Burt Reynolds) is informed by his doctor that he's dying from "the same thing Ali MacGraw had in Love Story." Lawson's first reaction is to cry uncontrollably, much to the discomfort of his fellow elevator passengers. He heads to a nearby church Read More

The One and Only

Crew: Director

Actors: Henry Winkler, Kim Darby, Gene Saks, William Daniels, Polly Holliday

Synopsis: Brash young Andy Schmidt (Henry Winkler) can't make a go of it as an actor in the early 1950s. Still, he wins the hand of Mary Crawford (Kim Darby), and the two of them try to make ends meet in New York City. Andy is on the verge of starvation when he befriends wrestling-promoter Sidney Seltzer (Gene Saks Read More

Oh, God!

Crew: Director

Actors: George Burns, John Denver, Teri Garr, Donald Pleasence, Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis: Adapted by Larry Gelbart from the novel by Avery Corman, the film stars John Denver as Jerry Landers, the assistant manager of a grocery store who is chosen by God (George Burns) to spread the Word to the rest of the world. Not surprisingly, Jerry is soon labelled a basket case: even his loving Read More

2000 Year Old Man

Synopsis: In 1961, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner cut a comedy record entitled {^The 2000 Year Old Man}. Largely ad-libbed, the routine consisted of an interview, conducted by Reiner, of the world's oldest living man, played by Brooks. Their freewheeling conversation covers such topics as the earliest known Read More

Medical Story

Synopsis: In this pilot film for the NBC TV series Medical Story, idealistic young intern Dr. Steve Drucker (Beau Bridges) clashes with three of his superiors over whether a prominent actress should have a hysterectomy. The woman in question is played by Harriet Karr, who had undergone a similar experience Read More

Ten From Your Show of Shows

Lotsa Luck [TV Series]

Crew: Show Creator

Actors: Dom DeLuise

Where's Poppa?

Crew: Director

Actors: George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman, Trish VanDevere, Barnard Hughes

Synopsis: Director Carl Reiner, most closely associated with the homey values of situation comedies, shocked, surprised, and (in some cases) delighted his admirers with the jet-black comedy Where's Poppa?. George Segal plays Gordon Hocheiser, a New York attorney whose love life is constantly being sabotaged Read More

The Comic

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Michele Lee, Mickey Rooney, Cornel Wilde, Nina Wayne

Synopsis: In The Comic, Dick Van Dyke plays Billy Bright, silent-era film comedian. The opening scene is at his funeral in which his sidekick Cockeye (Mickey Rooney) honors his partner's last request by hitting the preacher in the face with a pie. Van Dyke's voice then narrates the life story of the comic Read More

Generation

Actors: David Janssen, Kim Darby, Carl Reiner, Andrew Prine

Synopsis: Time for Giving is the British title for the American comedy film Generation. This exercise in late-sixties "mod"-ness is based on William Goodhart's Broadway play, which originally starred Henry Fonda. David Janssen takes over Fonda's role as the harried father of rebellious daughter Kim Darby. Read More

A Guide for the Married Man

Actors: Walter Matthau, Robert Morse, Inger Stevens, Sue Ane Langdon, Claire Kelly

Synopsis: Ed Stander (Robert Morse), with the help of an all-star cast, teaches Paul Manning (Walter Matthau) the fine art of philandering in A Guide for the Married Man. Paul, happily married to sexy Ruth (Inger Stevens), has no burning desire to cheat, but Ed makes the prospect sound very attractive. Read More

Enter Laughing

Crew: Book Author, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: José Ferrer, Reni Santoni, Shelley Winters, Elaine May, Jack Gilford

Synopsis: Carl Reiner's semi-autobiographical novel Enter Laughing makes a largely successful transition to the screen. Reni Santoni plays the Reiner character, here named David Kolowitz. A machinist's apprentice in Depression-era New York, David dreams of becoming the new Ronald Colman. Defying the wishes Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Talk to the Snail

Actors: Carl Reiner, Paul Winchell, Henry Gibson, Richard Deacon

Synopsis: Rob (Dick Van Dyke) comes across a crumpled network memo ordering his boss Alan Brady (Carl Reiner) to fire one of his writers. Certain that his job is on the chopping block, Rob reluctantly violates the edicts of his contract by looking for an outside writing assignment. His search leads to a Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: A Day in the Life of Alan Brady

Actors: Carl Reiner, Richard Deacon, Jerry Paris, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Joyce Jameson

Synopsis: It is hardly surprising that Rob's overbearing, egotistical boss Alan Brady (Carl Reiner) has commissioned a filmed documentary about a "typical" day in his life. Nor is it unusual that Alan wants to film a key scene from the documentary in the living room of Rob (Dick Van Dyke) and Laura (Mary Tyler Moore Read More

The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming!

Actors: Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin, Brian Keith, Jonathan Winters

Synopsis: Just because The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming was vastly overrated by contemporary critics does not make it any less amusing. The story gets under way when a Soviet submarine accidently gets lodged in a sandbar on the coast of a New England town. In his feature film debut, Alan Arkin Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Bottom of Mel Cooley's Heart

Actors: Carl Reiner, Richard Deacon, Johnny Silver

Synopsis: Although he has grown accustomed to being insulted by his boss (and brother-in-law) Alan Brady (Carl Reiner), Mel Cooley (Richard Deacon) is nevertheless devastated when Alan loudly humiliates him in public. Disgusted by this spectacle, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) advises Mel to go into Alan's office and Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Obnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc.

Actors: Carl Reiner, Richard Deacon, Forrest Lewis

Synopsis: Fed up with their boss Alan Brady's tyrannical behavior, Rob (Dick Van Dyke), Sally (Rose Marie), and Buddy (Morey Amsterdam) capriciously dash off a script for the show festooned with insults directed at Alan. Of course, they've only done this to let off steam, and have no intention of submitting Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Gunslinger

Actors: Carl Reiner, Richard Deacon, Jerry Paris, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Allan Melvin

Synopsis: In keeping with producer Carl Reiner's edict, "Always leave 'em laughing," the final episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show (though not the final one to be shown) is one of the series' funniest outings. Assigned to write a cowboy sketch for his boss Alan Brady, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) dreams up an Read More

Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title

Actors: Morey Amsterdam, Richard Deacon, Tim Herbert

Synopsis: Unfortunately, the comedy in this film is just about as crummy as its title. On the bright side, it does feature a number of veterans from popular TV sitcoms. It is set in a run-down diner where a bumbling short-order cook and a klutzy waitress work. They are so terrible at their jobs that they Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Last Chapter

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Carl Reiner, Richard Deacon, Jerry Paris, Ann Morgan Guilbert

Synopsis: After five long years, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) finally finishes his autobiography. As he prepares to submit the masterpiece to a publisher, the series' cast revels in selected chapters -- thereby cuing lengthy excerpts from such past Dick Van Dyke Show episodes as "Where Did I Come From?," "The Read More

Alice of Wonderland in Paris

Synopsis: Francois, the magical mouse of France, entertains Alice on an adventure to meet the country's storybook characters as The Frowning Prince, Anatole and Madeline. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Never Bathe on Saturday

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ann Morgan Guilbert, Bernard Fox, Bill Idelson, Arthur Malet, Kathleen Freeman

Synopsis: In this classic episode, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) and Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) give their neighbor Millie (Ann Morgan Guilbert) the lowdown about their big weekend in New York, which was supposed to have involved a romantic getaway at a plush hotel and a fabulous night at a Broadway show. Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: 100 Terrible Hours

Actors: Carl Reiner, Fred Clark, Dabbs Greer, Howard Wendell, Harry Stanton

Synopsis: During a magazine interview, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) recalls his first job interview with Alan Brady (Carl Reiner) -- which, quite frankly, he can barely remember at all. It seems that, just before the all-important interview, Rob, then a radio DJ, had participated in a stunt wherein he was obliged to Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Stacey Petrie, Part 1

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Dick Van Dyke's real-life brother Jerry Van Dyke returns as Rob Petrie's kid brother Stacey Petrie. Once again showing up at Rob and Laura's doorstep, Stacey startles the couple with the announcement that he's about to be married. There are only two Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Stacey Petrie, Part 2

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Rob Petrie's younger brother Stacey (played by Dick Van Dyke's real-life brother Jerry Van Dyke) is facing two major crises. First, he hopes to make a go of the dingy coffee house that he's bought to promote his singing career. And second, he must gear up for Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth

Actors: Carl Reiner, Richard Deacon, Dick Curtis

Synopsis: Season five of The Dick Van Dyke Show opens with one of the series' best episodes -- and an Emmy Award-winner to boot. While in the audience of "The Johnny Patrick Show," Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) is coerced to join host Patrick (Dick Curtis) on-stage, even though she's been warned that Johnny Read More

The Art of Love

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer, Angie Dickinson, Ethel Merman

Synopsis: Two bohemians come up with a get-rich-quick scheme that goes awray in this comedy scripted by Carl Reiner. Paul (Dick Van Dyke and Casey (James Garner) are two American expatriates living in Paris; Paul is an artist and Casey a writer. Both have been trying to make a career, but with little Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Baby Fat

Actors: Carl Reiner, Strother Martin, Sandy Kenyon, Richard Erdman

Synopsis: Alan Brady (Carl Reiner) has signed on to star in the first comedy ever written by celebrated playwright Harper Worthington Yates (Strother Martin). During out-of-town tryouts, a nervous Alan decides that the play needs a lot more laughs, so he begs Rob (Dick Van Dyke) to join him for some Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Season 05

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Carl Reiner, Larry Mathews

Synopsis: Although the ratings of The Dick Van Dyke Show had diminished since the series' all-time high during its third season, the show was still among CBS' most popular offerings -- and one of the network's most prestigious efforts, with four Emmy awards and two Golden Globes to its credit. Even so, star Dick Van Dyke Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: October Eve

Actors: Carl Reiner, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Howard Wendell, Genevieve Griffin, Frank Adamo

Synopsis: Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) is mortified when a portrait of herself, painted many years earlier as a present to Rob (Dick Van Dyke), shows up at a local art gallery. In flashback, she recalls how she posed for the painting fully clothed -- but when the masterpiece was finished, there she was on Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Return of Edwin Carp

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Haydn, Arlene Harris, Bert Gordon, Richard Deacon, Amzie Strickland

Synopsis: Rob (Dick Van Dyke) plans to devote an episode of "The Alan Brady Show" to a showcase of famous old radio comedians. The staff has no trouble lining up such venerable talent as Bert Gordon (the "Mad Russian" of The Eddie Cantor Show fame) and Arlene Harris (whose "Chatterbox" routines were Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Plots Thicken

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: J. Pat O'Malley, Isabel Randolph, Carl Benton Reid, Geraldine Wall

Synopsis: Rob (Dick Van Dyke) and Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) have always been proud of the fact that their respective parents have never been "intrusive" in-laws. All this changes when the elder Petries and the elder Meehans each buy a separate family cemetery plot -- and both Rob's and Laura's folks expect Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Life and Love of Joe Coogan

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jerry Paris, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Michael Forest, Johnny Silver

Synopsis: While playing golf at his country club, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) strikes up an acquaintance with Joe Coogan (Michael Forest). Relaying this news to Laura (Mary Tyler Moore), Rob is surprised by his wife's nervous reaction. It turns out that Joe had once been Laura's boyfriend, and that she still keeps Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Honeymoons Are for the Lucky

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kathleen Freeman, Peter Hobbs, Allan Melvin, Johnny Silver, Frank Adamo

Synopsis: In a flashback to his Army days, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) recalls the problems encountered by Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) and himself when they attempted to go on their honeymoon. No sooner has the couple rented a "cozy" hideaway than the commanding officer of Camp Crowder, anxious to locate a possible Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: My Neighbor's Husband's Other Life

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jerry Paris, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Johnny Silver

Synopsis: Is Jerry Helper (Jerry Paris) -- dentist, neighbor, best friend, loyal husband, and devoted father -- having an affair? That's the conclusion arrived at by Rob (Dick Van Dyke) and Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) when they spot Jerry at a restaurant, sitting at a table with a beautiful blonde who is Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Man From Emperor

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Lee Philips, Tracy Butler, Gloria Neil, Nadia Sanders, Sally Carter

Synopsis: Lee Philips guest stars as Drew Patton, the suave, swinging bachelor publisher of the classy girlie magazine "Emperor." Impressed by Rob's writing talents, Patton offers Rob (Dick Van Dyke) a permanent gig with his magazine. Rob, of course, is delighted at the prospect, which is more than can be Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Three Letters from One Wife

Synopsis: Hitherto seen from the back only, series creator Carl Reiner makes his first full-face (and credited) appearance as Alan Brady, the boss of comedy writer Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke). Hoping to persuade Alan to appear on a cultural TV show, Rob applies a bit of reverse psychology -- and seriously Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Season 04

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Carl Reiner, Larry Mathews

Synopsis: Having reached its peak popularity during its third season on the air, The Dick Van Dyke Show faltered a bit in the ratings during season four, dropping to seventh place in the overall ratings. This, however, had absolutely no effect on the excellent quality of the series' writing, nor the stellar Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: A Vigilante Ripped My Sports Coat

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jerry Paris, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Richard Deacon

Synopsis: It looks like the friendship between Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke) and Jerry Helper (Jerry Paris) has come to an end. In explaining the conflict to Laura (Mary Tyler Moore), Rob explains that he and Jerry nearly came to blows over a "fundamental difference in political ideologies." It certainly Read More

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers, Dick Shawn, Jimmy Durante, Buster Keaton

Synopsis: With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies." The story begins during a massive traffic jam, caused by reckless driver Smiler Grogan (Jimmy Durante), who, before (literally) kicking the bucket, cryptically tells the Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Give Me Your Walls!

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: When Rob (Dick Van Dyke) accidentally marks up the wall with an indelible pen, he and Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) call in an eccentric painter named Vito Giotto (Vito Scotti) to repaint the Petrie living room. Vito immediately ingratiates himself with Rob and Laura by showering them with flowery Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Sam Pomerantz Scandals

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Rob (Dick Van Dyke), Laura (Mary Tyler Moore), Buddy (Morey Amsterdam), Pickles (Joan Shawlee), Sally (Rose Marie), and Mel (Richard Deacon) are invited to spend a weekend at the tourist lodge owned by Rob's old army buddy Sam Pomerantz (Henry Calvin). It so happens that the lodge has a floor Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: I'm No Henry Walden!

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Everett Sloane, Doris Packer, Carl Reiner, Betty Lou Gerson, Howard Wendell

Synopsis: Rob (Dick Van Dyke) feels like a fish out of water when he and Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) are invited to a literary party honoring poet Henry Walden (Everett Sloane). For one thing, he's the only comedy writer in a room full of poets and novelists. For another, it appears that he has been invited by Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: It May Look Like a Walnut!

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The Dick Van Dyke Show invades Twilight Zone territory in this unforgettable episode. Unable to sleep one night, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) turns on the TV and watches a sci-fi movie about "Kolac," evil emissary from the planet Twilo, who uses cosmic walnuts to turn human beings into three-eyed Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: My Husband Is a Check-Grabber

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Driving home after a night out, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) can't understand why Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) is so angry that she refuses to speak to him. Recounting the events of the evening, Rob can only remember that he and Laura ran into Buddy (Morey Amsterdam), Pickles (Joan Shawlee), Sally (Rose Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Don't Trip Over That Mountain

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Just before Rob (Dick Van Dyke) is to embark on a skiing trip, Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) has a "Caesar's wife" moment, dreaming that Rob will break every bone in his body if he attempts to ski the big mountains. Despite Laura's premonitions, Rob goes on the trip anyway -- and returns the next day Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Racy Tracy Rattigan

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Dawson, Richard Deacon

Synopsis: A pre-Family Feud Richard Dawson appears as "Racy Tracy" Rattigan, the English music hall comic engaged to replace Alan Brady during his summer vacation. No sooner has "Racy Tracy" arrived at the offices of Alan's writers Rob (Dick Van Dyke), Buddy (Morey Amsterdam), and Sally (Rose Marie) than he Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Laura's Little Lie

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Charles Aidman

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) can't understand why Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) is so reluctant to sign some simple insurance forms. When Laura fails to show at a meeting arranged with an insurance agent, Rob refuses to buy her explanation that she went out to see the Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Very Old Shoes, Very Old Rice

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Deacon, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Russell Collins, Madge Blake, Burt Mustin

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) has confessed to Rob (Dick Van Dyke) that she was only 17 years old when they were married. Though technically speaking, the Petries are still legally man and wife, the rules about "age of consent" vary from state to state, so their Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Who and Where Was Antonio Stradivarius?

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Deacon, Sallie Janes, Amzie Strickland, Harold Peary, Betty Lou Gerson

Synopsis: Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) simply can't understand why Rob (Dick Van Dyke) has not yet shown up at a get-together at the Petrie home with her Aunt Mildred (Amzie Strickland) and Uncle Edward (Harold Peary). What Laura doesn't know is that, earlier in the day, Rob had incurred an accidental head Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Divorce

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Joan Shawlee, Charles Cantor, Marian Collier, Arthur Batanides

Synopsis: Rob (Dick Van Dyke) is stuck in the middle as usual when Buddy (Morey Amsterdam) announces that he intends to divorce his wife Pickles (Joan Shawlee). The grounds? Buddy has found a bunch of checks written by his wife and addressed to a "Mr. Floyd B. Bariscale," and now he's convinced that Pickles Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: A Surprise Surprise Is a Surprise

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Deacon

Synopsis: Rob (Dick Van Dyke) tumbles to the fact that Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) is planning a surprise party for him. Rather than fess up, Laura sweetly insists that no such party is in the offing. As the day of the big event approaches and Laura continues protesting that she isn't planning anything, Rob Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Season 03

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Carl Reiner, Larry Mathews

Synopsis: Matriculating from noble failure to major success during its second season on the air, The Dick Van Dyke Show sailed into its third season without a ripple on the water. Though it is surely unnecessary by now, it is hereby noted that the series' main cast still consisted of Dick Van Dyke as Rob Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Ray Murdock's X-Ray

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Rob (Dick Van Dyke) agrees to be interviewed by TV host Ray Murdock (Gene Lyons), a Mike Wallace type with a penchant for getting people to say things they shouldn't. Sure enough, after a few minutes of Murdock's intensive grilling, Rob admits that he gets most of the ideas for his "wacky" TV Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Cat Burglar

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The marvelous pantomime talents of Dick Van Dyke are given full rein in this episode, as Rob (Van Dyke) takes any number of precautions to keep his house from being robbed by the clever cat burglar who has descended upon his neighborhood. Despite these strenuous efforts, Rob awakens one morning to Read More

The Thrill of It All!

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Doris Day, James Garner, Arlene Francis, Edward Andrews, ZaSu Pitts, Reginald Owen

Synopsis: This amusing romantic comedy concerns Dr. Gerald Boyer (James Garner), a successful gynecologist with a wife and two children. Wife Beverly (Doris Day) focuses on maintaining the household and watching the kids. One of Gerald's patients, Mrs. Fraleigh (Arlene Francis), overhears Beverly talking up Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Will You Two Be My Wife?

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: A fascinating chapter in Rob's autobiography leads to another classic flashback sequence to the time that Rob (Dick Van Dyke) and Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) had just become engaged. Given a three-day pass by the Army for marital leave, Rob is faced with a choice: Should he tie the knot and begin the Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Foul Weather Girl

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Tiptoeing into the house, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) plants a kiss on the back of Laura's neck -- only it isn't Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) he kissed, but instead his former classmate Janie Layton (Joan O'Brien), who has come to pay a visit to the Petries. Laura is at first amused by Rob's confusion, but Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Twizzle

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Deacon, Jerry Lanning, Jack Albertson, Tony Stag, Freddie Blassie

Synopsis: Sally (Rose Marie) discovers a talented young dancer named Randy Twizzle (Jerry Lanning) at her local bowling alley, and informs Rob (Dick Van Dyke) and Buddy (Morey Amsterdam) of her new find. After performing his own special dance -- the "Twizzle," of course -- for Mel Cooley (Richard Deacon) Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Talented Neighborhood

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Deacon, Doris Singleton, Kenny Lynch, Michael Davis, Jack Davis

Synopsis: When word leaks out that Rob (Dick Van Dyke) has been assigned to audition talented children for "The Alan Brady Show," everyone in the neighborhood wants to get into the act. Before long, the Petrie living room has become a way station for dozens of stage parents and would-be child stars -- one Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Sleeping Brother

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jerry Van Dyke, Richard Deacon, Jerry Paris

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Dick Van Dyke's real-life brother Jerry Van Dyke guest stars as Stacey Petrie, younger brother of Rob Petrie. Bowled over by Stacey's remarkable talents as a banjo-strumming, joke-spewing entertainer, several observers recommend that he be allowed to audition Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: I Am My Brother's Keeper

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jerry Van Dyke, Richard Deacon

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Dick Van Dyke's real-life brother Jerry Van Dyke guest stars as Stacey Petrie, younger brother of Rob Petrie. On a two-week furlough from the Army, Stacey stays with Rob and Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) -- and much to Laura's surprise, it doesn't look as Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Where Did I Come From?

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Rich, Richard Deacon, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Herbie Faye, Jerry Hausner

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The Dick Van Dyke Show: Who Owes Who What?

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jerry Paris

Synopsis: Sensitive Rob (Dick Van Dyke) is put out that Buddy (Morey Amsterdam) owes him 25 dollars -- a debt accrued six months ago. Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) insists that, for his own piece of mind, Rob should tell Buddy to pay up, but he hasn't got the heart. Finally, Rob decides to write a sketch for Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Punch Thy Neighbor

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jerry Paris, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Peter Leeds, Jerry Hausner, Peter Oliphant

Synopsis: The Petries' prankish neighbor Jerry Helper (Jerry Paris) takes great delight in telling anyone who will listen that Rob's most recent script for "The Alan Brady Show" is, in his humble opinion, terrible. The angrier Rob (Dick Van Dyke) gets and the more Millie Helper (Ann Morgan Guilbert) tells Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Return of Happy Spangler

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jay C. Flippen, Richard Deacon, Frank Adamo

Synopsis: While out shopping, Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) meets an affable middle-aged fellow who is working behind the haberdashery counter. It turns out that this charming salesman is Happy Spangler (Jay C. Flippen), the former radio writer who gave Laura's husband Rob (Dick Van Dyke) his first job. Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: A Bird in the Head Hurts

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: When a terrified Ritchie (Larry Mathews) rushes into the house claiming that he has been attacked by a giant woodpecker, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) finds the story rather absurd. Amateur child psychologist that he is, Rob assumes that Ritchie is making up tales to cover up a genuine problem in his life. Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Like a Sister

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Vic Damone, Richard Deacon

Synopsis: Singer Vic Damone guests in this episode as Rick Vallone, an upcoming musical guest on "The Alan Brady Show." Assigned to handle the details of Rick's appearance is writer Sally Rogers (Rose Marie), the team's resident bachelor gal. It doesn't take long for Sally to fall in love with the handsome Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: A Man's Teeth Are Not His Own

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: While Rob's neighbor and best friend, dentist Jerry Helper (Jerry Paris), is out of town at a convention, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) breaks a tooth. Loyalty dictates that Rob should wait until Jerry returns to treat the tooth, but unbearable pain dictates that he seek out another dentist immediately. As Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Gesundheit, Darling

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: For the last several days, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) has been seized with violent attacks of sneezing. Armed with information gleaned from the Sunday supplements, next-door neighbor Jerry (Jerry Paris) suggests that Rob's sneezing fits are psychosomatic, tied in with suppressed feelings of hostility Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: What's in a Middle Name?

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Carl Benton Reid, Geraldine Wall, J. Pat O'Malley, Isabel Randolph, Cyril Delevanti

Synopsis: A confused Ritchie (Larry Mathews) stops Rob (Dick Van Dyke) and Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) cold during breakfast one morning with a big question: Why is Ritchie's middle name "Rosebud"? In answer, Rob and Laura flash back to a family gathering at the Petrie home a few months before Ritchie's birth Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Attempted Marriage

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sandy Kenyon, Dabbs Greer, Ray Kellogg

Synopsis: Coming across an old wedding gift, Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) notices that the inscription suggests that Rob (Dick Van Dyke) had somehow been trying to weasel out of the marriage. Explaining the situation to son Ritchie (Larry Mathews), Laura flashes back to the days preceding the wedding, beginning Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Never Name a Duck

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Deacon, Jerry Hausner, Jane Dulo, Geraldine Wall, Frank Adamo

Synopsis: In the first episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show's second season (and the first with the famous "falling over the furniture" opening), Rob (Dick Van Dyke) brings home two live ducklings, left over from a sketch on "The Alan Brady Show." Son Ritchie (Larry Mathews) instantly falls in love with the Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Hustling the Hustler

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Phil Leeds

Synopsis: Ubiquitous character actor Phil Leeds guests in this episode as Blackie Sorrell, the ne'er-do-well brother of Buddy Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam). Though Buddy has tried to keep it a secret, it seems that the black sheep of the Sorrell clan is a hustling pool shark. Unaware of Blackie's reputation Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: My Husband Is Not a Drunk

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Charles Aidman, Richard Deacon, Roy Roberts

Synopsis: In one of the series' funniest episodes, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) invites hypnotist Glen Jameson (Charles Aidman) to a party at his house. Jameson's specialty is using post-hypnotic suggestions to get his subjects to behave in a silly or surprising manner, and in this vein, he puts Buddy Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Sick Boy and the Sitter

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Deacon, Barbara Eiler, Mary Lee Dearing, Michael Keith, Stacy Keach Sr.

Synopsis: In this very first episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, little Richie Petrie (Larry Mathews) is a bit feverish, and his mom Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) doesn't want to leave him with a babysitter. But Laura's hubby Rob (Dick Van Dyke) insists that Laura accompany him to a party at the penthouse of Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Blonde-Haired Brunette

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ann Morgan Guilbert, Benny Rubin

Synopsis: An exhausted Rob (Dick Van Dyke) pays but scant attention to Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) on his day off, convincing Laura that Rob has grown tired of her. Next-door neighbor Millie (Ann Morgan Guilbert) suggests a sure-fire method to win back Rob's affections. All Laura has to do is dye her hair Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show [TV Series]

Crew: Producer, Show Creator

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews

Synopsis: It is now part of TV folklore that the classic sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show was originally conceived as a starring vehicle for the series' creator, Carl Reiner. In the pilot episode "Head of the Family," filmed in New York in 1959, Reiner played TV comedy writer Rob Petrie (then pronounced Read More

Gidget Goes Hawaiian

Actors: James Darren, Michael Callan, Deborah Walley, Carl Reiner, Peggy Cass

Synopsis: This second film in the "Gidget" series stars Deborah Walley as Francie Lawrence, better known as Gidget. After being disappointed in love by surfin' dude Moondoggie (James Darren), Gidge joins her parents (Carl Reiner, Jeff Donnell) on a Hawaiian vacation. Complications ensue when Moondoggie Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Meershatz Pipe

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Deacon, Jon Silo

Synopsis: Sensing that Rob (Dick Van Dyke) is worn out, Buddy (Morey Amsterdam) and Sally (Rose Marie) suggest that he go home early and take a good, long rest. Rob agrees -- only to regret his acquiescence when he discovers that, in his absence, Buddy and Sally have attended a party at the home of their Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Sally and the Lab Technician

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Eddie Firestone, Jamie Farr

Synopsis: Figuring that she's luckier than Sally (Rose Marie) because she is married with a son, Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) decides to play matchmaker by fixing Sally up with her cousin. Rob (Dick Van Dyke) warns Laura that this is a mistake, since Sally has a nervous habit of wisecracking incessantly Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Unwelcome Houseguest

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The weekend is approaching, and the Petrie family plan to relax with a trip to the country. All this changes when Rob (Dick Van Dyke) is talked into caring for Larry, the huge, unkempt German Shepherd owned by fellow writer Buddy (Morey Amsterdam). It doesn't take long for Larry to make a total Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Jealousy!

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Joan Staley, Richard Deacon, Jerry Paris, Ann Morgan Guilbert

Synopsis: As usual, the Petries' neighbor Jerry Helper (Jerry Paris) is ribbing Laura (Mary Tyler Moore). This time, jokester Jerry is planting suggestions that it isn't all "strictly business" between Rob (Dick Van Dyke) and actress Valerie Blake (Joan O'Brien), who is guesting on "The Alan Brady Show." Of Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Empress Carlotta's Necklace

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Deacon, Gavin MacLeod, Will Wright, Carol Veazie

Synopsis: Long before he was cast as Murray Slaughter in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Gavin MacLeod popped up in this Dick Van Dyke Show episode as Maxwell Cooley, the cousin of "Alan Brady Show" producer Mel Cooley (Richard Deacon). Maxwell happens to be in the jewelry business, and he manages to sell Rob (Dick Van Dyke Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Forty-Four Tickets

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Eleanor Audley, Paul Bryar, Opal Euard, Joe Devlin, Frank Adamo

Synopsis: Another hectic week at "The Alan Brady Show" is over, and head writer Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke) looks forward to a relaxing weekend. Only one problem: Rob has completely forgotten that he promised to secure 44 tickets to the next "Alan Brady Show" telecast for the New Rochelle PTA. A mad scramble Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Harrison B. Harding of Camp Crowder, Mo.

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Allan Melvin, June Dayton, Peter Leeds

Synopsis: The Petries are surprised when Harrison B. Harding (Allan Melvin), who says he's an old friend of Rob's, drops in for a visit. No one is more surprised than Rob, who has no recollection of Harding whatsoever. A subsequent series of curious events, capped by the disappearance of Rob's watch Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Oh How We Met the Night That We Danced

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Marty Ingels, Glen Turnbull, Jennifer Gillespie, Nancy James, Pat Tribble

Synopsis: Rob (Dick Van Dyke) and Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) recall how they first met, back when he was an Army sergeant and she was a USO dancer. It is hardly love at first sight, with Laura convinced that Rob is an egotistical jerk. But Rob has determined that Laura is the woman who will one day be his Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Washington vs. the Bunny

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jesse White, Richard Deacon, Jamie Farr

Synopsis: On the night that his son Richie (Larry Mathews) is to make his acting debut as a singing bunny in a school play, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) is forced to go out of town to audition a singer for his boss Alan Brady. Richie and his mom Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) are heartbroken about this commitment, but Rob Read More

Take a Good Look [TV Series]

Actors: Ernie Kovacs

Synopsis: Take a Good Look was a game show hosted by Ernie Kovacs in which panelists had to identify the various contestants from clues and clips of recordings and other various sources. Featured contestants were Edie Adams and Cesar Romero. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Gazebo

Actors: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner, John McGiver, Mabel Albertson

Synopsis: Any murder mystery featuring a pigeon named Herman can be trusted to offer more mirth than mayhem and that is the case with this upbeat film by director George Marshall. Glenn Ford stars as Elliott Nash, a television playwright married to Nell (Debbie Reynolds), a successful Broadway thespian. Read More

Happy Anniversary

Actors: David Niven, Mitzi Gaynor, Carl Reiner, Loring Smith, Monique Van Vooren

Synopsis: In this comedy, a married couple is deeply embarrassed when their daughter reveals her father's indiscretions on a national TV show for children. It is doubly embarrassing when it is revealed that none of the allegations are true. It seems the child overheard a slightly inebriated conversation Read More

Playhouse 90: Topaze

Actors: Ernie Kovacs, Carl Reiner, Richard Haydn, Sheree North, Roxanne Arlen

Synopsis: That zany video genius Ernie Kovacs plays it (sort of) straight in this Playhouse 90 adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's satirical stage play Topaze. A man constitutionally incapable of being dishonest, Monsieur Topaze (Kovacs) loses his teaching position at a small provincial French private school when Read More

Caesar's Hour: Season 03

Actors: Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Shirl Conway, Pat Carroll, Janet Blair

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Actors: Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Nanette Fabray, Sandra Deel, Ellen Parker

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Actors: Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Nanette Fabray, Virginia Curtis, Ellen Parker

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Actors: John Daly, H.V. Kaltenborn, Sid Caesar, Ben Grauer, Martha Raye

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