The Dick Van Dyke Show is turning 50! And to celebrate that milestone, TV Land will air a week-long marathon next week starting Monday, Oct. 3, the night of the premiere in 1961. The marathon will air Mon-Fri from 6-9pm with five classic episodes each night. That is a 3-hour block, so that should mean six episodes, but TV Land is off-the-clock, thus we only get five episodes. Then during the weekend of Oct. 8-9, TV Land will present 16 episodes per day from 12pm-9pm (off-the-clock, once again) to celebrate 50 years of magic. And if that's not all Rob Petrie for you, TV Land will also add the series to its regular schedule starting Monday, Oct. 10!

The new schedule with The Dick Van Dyke Show will start Oct. 10 and the classic '60s sitcom will air three-hours a day: weekdays 10-11am, 1pm-2pm and 7-8pm.

http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2011/09/tv-land-celebrates-50th-anniversary-of.html

...the series, as it's now seen on TV LAND, is NOT the same as it was presented on "Nick At Nite" {and TV LAND}, years ago....for one thing, more time has been "squeezed out" out of the beginning and end of certain scenes [to allow more commercials] by having early "fade-outs"- and, of course, end credits have been eliminated in favor of those quickly flashed at the bottom of the screen, during the last scene of each episode. Your best bet in seeing these episodes uncut- and uninterrupted every five minutes or so- is to see them on DVD...or, if you're lucky, TV LAND's website.

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