It was 65 years ago this fall that The Dick Van Dyke Show premiered on CBS. The half hour sitcom was not an instant hit, struggling in the ratings hammocked between Marshal Dillon and Bachelor Father and was canceled at the end of its first season. Executive producer Sheldon Leonard refused to give up on the
It was 65 years ago on today’s date back in 1961 – October 3 – that The Dick Van Dyke Show premiered on CBS. The half hour sitcom, which also aired on CBC in Canada, was not an instant hit. Itstruggled in the ratings between Marshal Dillon (a half-hour version of Gunsmoke) and Bachelor Father
As the front cover of People magazine recently declared, Dick Van Dyke really has had the time of his life. Celebrate his centennial with three friends of this podcast: former New York Times TV critic Bill Carter, Dick Van Dyke Show expert and “Walnut Times” publisher David Van Deusen and Cinecon president and fellow film
The 70th anniversary of I Love Lucy has been all over the news lately. TCM has marked the occasion with a new “The Plot Thickens” podcast about Lucille Ball. Then there’s that upcoming Aaron Sorking feature “Being the Ricardos.” There’s even a new Lucy-Desi documentary in the works. The renewed focus on “TV’s zany redhead”