What a nice surprise to see a classic photo of Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore on the brand new issue of TV Guide! Sometimes, they do make 'em like they used to!

This is a great week. The DVDS Revisited, the Carol Burnett Special: Let's Bump Up the Lights, and Three's Company season two on DVD!

Cool! Thanks for the info about the TV Guide. I'm going out to see if I can find one now! :D

I tried to find it, but of course all I saw were the issues for May 2-8. I shall try again in a few days and hope that they have put out the new issue with DVD and MTM. :)

I got mine in the mail today!!! :D I ran out to the mailbox, and when I saw it, I was like, "It came!!" I probably need help, LOL! The cover was great, and the interview inside was great, too. I'd scan it for everyone, but my scanner's not working.

I just loved this one thing that Mary said in the interview: "We brought romance to comedy, and yes, Rob and Laura had sex!" :lol:

Originally posted by Kristen
I just loved this one thing that Mary said in the interview: "We brought romance to comedy, and yes, Rob and Laura had sex!" :lol:
Kristen,
That's what I love about that aspect of the show. Think of Ward & June Cleaver, Ralph & Alice Kramden, Dr. Alex & Donna Stone, (The Donna Reed Show), or any other couple from that TV era. No sexual energy there at all. They did have kids though (most of them). But, you didn't have to be told Rob & Laura were sexually into one another, and you didn't need Richie as proof. I mean, what woman could be married to a guy as handsome, sweet, and funny as Rob and not be turned on by him? Conversely, what man could have a cute, devoted, and witty wife like Laura and yet be a 'cold fish'?
The chemistry on TDVDS was one of a kind in it's day.

Steve

I agree 100%! You could always tell that something was going on in that bedroom just by the way they looked at each other. During the audio commentary of The Attempted Marriage, Dick basically said straight out that if neither of them had been married, they probably would have drifted into a behind-the-scenes love affair. Now that's chemistry! ;)

Hi,
If anyone has the TV Guide article and a scanner... could you please post it??? i live in Canada and we don't get the same TV guide up here!!! I'd love to read the artiucle though...it sounds pretty interesting! Thanks!
Riley:wave:

I'll scan it once I'm able to find a copy. I'm going out to look today. :)

Mary Tyler Moore's Big Break
by Ileane Rudolph
TV Guide Online - Insider

http://www.tvguide.com/news/insider/040506c.asp

Before The Dick Van Dyke Show made Mary Tyler Moore a sitcom star, she was a pretty young dancer, best known for her legs and voice — viewers never saw her face — on the 1950s crime drama Richard Diamond, Private Detective. On May 11, Moore reprises her career-making role as Laura Petrie in The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited (9 pm/ET on CBS). Here, she reminisces about landing the big gig — for which she beat out 40 other actresses — and her favorite memories from the landmark series.

TV Guide Online: Winning the role of Laura Petrie was a great step up for you.

Mary Tyler Moore: I almost didn't go to the audition. When my agent called, I said, "I'm tired. I've had too many disappointments all week." He said, "You just get in your car and go over there." I walked in, and there was Carl Reiner, on whom I had a tremendous crush from The Sid Caesar Show. We sat down to read this scene — and about a third of the way [in], he put his hand on the top of my head, and he guided me down the hallway into [executive producer] Sheldon Leonard's office, where he sat with Danny Thomas. This time, we did the whole scene. It was clear just from reading body language that they were happy with what I had done.

TVGO: What was your first impression of Dick Van Dyke?

Moore: Well, I also had a crush on him, too, from [his Broadway show] Bye Bye Birdie. I was in love all over the place. Everyone was so selfless and supportive. I had not done any comedy and Dick encouraged me all the way. Carl and Dick helped build me into the world's first funny straight man. It was just the most nourishing ground a flower ever found herself in.

TVGO: You broke a lot of '50s-era rules.

Moore: I had Laura wear pants, because I said, "Women don't wear full-skirted dresses to vacuum in." CBS said, "'You know, we're afraid that housewives are going to be a little annoyed because she looks so good in pants." So they made Carl promise not to let me wear pants in more than one scene. We went along with that for about three episodes, and then finally, I was just wearing the pants. We got the absolution of men everywhere and women kind of breathed a sigh of relief, too, and said, "Hey, that's right. That's what we wear."

TVGO: Rob and Laura also were groundbreaking because...

Moore: We brought romance to TV comedy, and yes, Rob and Laura had sex! Dick and I just felt really comfortable flirting with each other. Not personally, because I was married — to two husbands, actually — during the show.

TVGO: What's a favorite episode of yours?

Moore: "The Blonde-Haired Brunette." I bleach my hair blonde, and I don't get it dyed back in time before a bemused Rob walks in and makes me feel majorly silly. And I got to do my first crying scene in that show.

TVGO: Your comic crying jags were famous.

Moore: It's amazing that it had my imprimatur on it at all — because I just watched a lot of Your Show of Shows and copied as much as I could from Nanette Fabray. I just out and out stole from her! She knows it, and I've made my apologies.

TVGO: There was one episode you weren't happy about...

Moore: When Laura gets her toe caught in the bathtub faucet in the Plaza Hotel in New York. Carl said he wrote a show for me that I was going to love. I was ready to win an Emmy. It turned out that I was off-camera for 70 percent of the time, so I went home in a huff. I apologized to Carl for being so ridiculous. Later, I found a huge brass spigot, had it mounted and gave it to him.

TVGO: Do you remember how shooting the last Van Dyke episode felt?

Moore: "I can't believe I'm going to have to say goodbye to these people. I can't believe that they're going to be working with other people. And that I won't sit on that couch again. And that Dick's arms won't be around me." It was so tough. Those emotions are still quite rawly present in me today.

TVGO: Making the reunion show must have been emotional.

Moore: It was one of the most special occasions of my working life. It not only involved the remembering of fine work of which we were all very proud, but there was also the emotional commitment that we all felt to each other. Everyone said it was probably the finest five years that we had ever spent working, and that's true for me. I followed that with The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which followed the values that Dick Van Dyke and Carl Reiner taught me to hold very dear. Never let your ego get in the way of somebody else's good idea, and always surround yourself with the best, because the stronger the others around you are, the better you look. Just so many truths about life in general, and they came from Carl.

For more Dick Van Dyke Show memories, read the current issue of TV Guide magazine, on sale now.

The Petrie Dish

TV Guide Online Cover Story

http://www.tvguide.com/tv/coverstory/

The stars of The Dick Van Dyke Show are reuniting, so what better time to fess up about what went on behind the scenes. Below, the iconic celebs share some memories with TV Guide.


THAT'S MY BOY!

The first episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, broadcast in 1961, set the tone for the series, one that mixed laughs with a little Eisenhower-era thoughtfulness.

Writers Sam Denoff and Bill Persky had written a flashback to the day Richie, Rob and Laura's newborn son, came home from the hospital. Or was he theirs? An increasingly agitated Rob was convinced that their baby had been switched at birth with another couple's.

It was a great premise, but, recalls Persky, it "needed an ending." It was Carl Reiner and producer Sheldon Leonard who delivered a controversial plot twist: The other couple, they said, should be African-American.

"When the black couple came on stage, there was dead silence in the audience," Persky remembers. "Then the laughs started and went on for five minutes. First it was shocking, then funny, then liberating."

According to Dick Van Dyke, the network was worried about offending people. "It was during the civil rights era. Carl stuck by his guns. It turned out to be one of the longest laughs we ever, ever had."

MOORE THE MERRIER

Into every star's life a larger star sometimes falls. Mary Tyler Moore's life is no exception. Only a week after the show's network debut, the reigning goddess of TV comedy dropped in — almost literally — on the untested, slightly overwhelmed actress.

"We were filming at Desilu, where [I Love Lucy] had filmed," recalls Moore. "One day during rehearsal, we heard this creaking and giggling from up above on the catwalk."

There stood Lucille Ball, with her famous red hair in curlers wrapped in a scarf. Caught, Ball climbed down the ladder and chatted with each of them. "And as she walked away," Moore says, "she turned around, came back to me and said, 'You're good,' and then walked away again. That was probably the best compliment I've ever had."


The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited airs May 11 at 9 pm/ET on CBS. For more from the cast, pick up this week's issue of TV Guide magazine.

Thank you for posting the articles. They are great! I can't wait to get my copy of TV Guide. :D

I've scanned the pictures from the TV Guide article for anyone who would like to see them. I'm sorry they're crooked, but I'm not too good with the scanner. :lol:

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Originally posted by Carrie
I've scanned the pictures from the TV Guide article for anyone who would like to see them. I'm sorry they're crooked, but I'm not too good with the scanner. :lol:


Well, Carrie, you can do everything else, so I guess this just proves nobody's perfect! :lol:

Speaking of which, I can't open the photos, so I must be doing something wrong!

Lolac :confused:

The links didn't work for me, Carrie. I already know what it looks like, but I know some members on here would really like to see.

Originally posted by Kristen
The links didn't work for me, Carrie. I already know what it looks like, but I know some members on here would really like to see.
Yeah Kristen,
Like me! Don't worry Carrie, I'm sure it's not your fault.
I'm going first thing in the morning to grab two copies!

Steve

Hmm...that's strange. The server must have been down when you all tried. Let me see if they work when I attach them.

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There we go, I think that worked. Let me know if you still can't see them.

Thanks, Carrie
Yes, we can see them. And you did a marvelous job!

Steve

Thanks :)