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Zachary_2
01-09-2005, 11:41 PM
Does anyone have any information on episodes of Van Dyke and Company?

Bob's TV Treasures
01-12-2005, 01:55 PM
It wasn't on very long. As I recall, this Van Dyke show was a variety show with a lot of doors behind him. Celebrities and guests would appear through those doors. The BEST part of this short-lived show was regular appearances by an up-and-coming ANDY KAUFMAN. I only watched the show weekly to see what ANDY would do next.

snl75
01-12-2005, 05:35 PM
i have an old unused ticket to that show that i bought in a ticket lot off of ebay

Zachary_2
01-12-2005, 10:33 PM
Thanks, what about the episodes though, I'm editor for it at TV Tome and I've managed to complete all the guide except the ep guide, which I can find nothing about.

treky
01-26-2005, 01:30 AM
well, what I remember is, Andy Kaufmann played a character called "Mr. Andy" (it was the character that later became Latka Gravis on "Taxi"-Andy used to call him "Foreign Man") and on the first episode, they pretended to name him as the winner of some contest on the show, then he thought he was a show "regular" and every week he would just walk out on stage while they were doing a sketch, musical number, whatever. Then Dick would walk out and pretend to get really mad at him. It seemed real because Andy Kauffman was an unknown at the time, and you always got the feeling that this was some naive, dumb little foreinger who had somehow "Taken a wrong turn" somewhere in life, and honestly thought he was in show biz.

Also, I remember they would sometimes pretend to inturrupt the show with a news report, and they would start doing something that seemed like a real news report, then after about 5 minutes, it would become a comedy sketch.

pscisme
02-04-2005, 01:40 PM
memory has a way of fogging over, but i remember watching the last episode and i believe the guest star was Tom Smothers.
at the end of the show, while the credits rolled, the announcer apologized to the audience because they were not able to do a segment on the Nielsen Ratings, noting that "because of the Nielsen ratings, we've been cancelled!"

correct me if I'm wrong-like I said, memories can be unreliable...