I JUST heard on Good Day Live, that Carl Reiner..or was it Rob?? lol, I think it was Carl- wants to do another Dick Van Dyke Show. The good news? Dick and Mary would play the same roles so it would just be as if they were older!:D Anyone else hear this??

From Army Archerd's column in Variety
Monday, September 23, 2002

News also gleaned from the Norman Lear birthday dinner: Carl Reiner will reunite Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke in a half-hour sitcom --with their characters from the Reiner-created "Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961-66, CBS) to be shown as they are today. Meanwhile, Reiner reprises his role in a cartoon version of "Dick Van Dyke" taping Oct. 3, with Van Dyke, Rose Marie guesting on the pilot.

Originally posted by hume
From Army Archerd's column in Variety
Monday, September 23, 2002...

:eek2: How reliable is this source!?!

Yeah, I'd like to be excited but don't want to get my hopes up about it unless I know it's true.

Army Archard is one of the most respected columnists in Hollywood, but I won't celebrate until and unless an official announcement is made. I would love to see it. I know Dick and Mary have always shyed away from doing something like this, but maybe they had such a good time reuniting on "The Gin Game" that they said, "why not?" However, I can't believe it would be called, "The New Dick Van Dyke Show"!! Dick is still great, but in the years since DVD went on the air Mary has become a legend herself. I think they would have to compromise and maybe call it "The Dick and Mary Show"--Let's keep our fingers crossed.

I seriously doubt this will happen
since it may not have been more than
just small talk at a party. And even
it is a actual plan that's still a long way from getting such a thing together. Gosh, Carl Reiner must be
at least 75 is seems to be semi-retired. Is Mary up to this
heath wise? The thing I find interesting about this is that
Carl and everyone always dismissed
this kind of talk before. If he's even talking about it now, it must
be because Mary and Dick brought it up. They must have liked working together again in The Gin Game. Even if it happened it would seem it wouldn't last beyond one season.
But I would eagerly watch. I only
wish they'd wanted this about twenty
or twenty five years ago.

That would be cool to bring back Dick and Mary in a series of specials in the style of the Lucy and Desi comedy hour.

I'd love to see this, & I'm sure other people would, too but, unfortunatly, I doubt it will ever happen. They must both be in their 60s by now, and audiences probably wouldn't go for them. If it happens, it'll probably be a TV movie, but that's all.

I don't know if it'll happen, but I'm sure of one thing: they should leave well enough alone. I enjoy watching reruns of the show because it takes me back to a time when I was a kid and sitcoms were nice easy fluff where problems were solved in 20 minutes and happily married couples slept in twin beds. I don't want to see DVD and MTM as geriatrics; I just don't. Any time sequels are done years later it ruins the illusion-- think Bradysomething, the MTM/Rhoda reunion movie, the "old" New Dick Van Dyke Show, and "Life With Lucy." Does anyone even remember anything about those efforts? And if you do, odds are it isn't positive. Those were godawful shows, each of them. Johnny Carson had the right idea: go out on top, and leave 'em begging for more, not wishing you'd just go home and stay. DVD and MTM are fantastic comic talents, but not the people they were 35 years ago. I want to keep my illusions intact.

You may have a point. But they will be working together again in "The Gin Game" next year on PBS. Maybe it is best they not reprise Rob and Laura, but I still think they can do other projects together and successfully.

Originally posted by Sitcom Sally
I don't know if it'll happen, but I'm sure of one thing: they should leave well enough alone. I enjoy watching reruns of the show because it takes me back to a time when I was a kid and sitcoms were nice easy fluff where problems were solved in 20 minutes and happily married couples slept in twin beds. I don't want to see DVD and MTM as geriatrics; I just don't. Any time sequels are done years later it ruins the illusion-- think Bradysomething, the MTM/Rhoda reunion movie, the "old" New Dick Van Dyke Show, and "Life With Lucy." Does anyone even remember anything about those efforts? And if you do, odds are it isn't positive. Those were godawful shows, each of them. Johnny Carson had the right idea: go out on top, and leave 'em begging for more, not wishing you'd just go home and stay. DVD and MTM are fantastic comic talents, but not the people they were 35 years ago. I want to keep my illusions intact. I aggree, but only up to a point. "Life with "lucy" was HORRIBLE!! and both "Return to Green Acres" was AWFUL!! as was "Bradysomething". But some of those reunion shows/specials are pretty good. The Mary Richards/Rhoda movie looked good. (I didn't see it, so I can't really tell you). And "The Odd Couple-together again" (I think that's what it was called) was good.

I personally think, because we are nostalga oriented, it will work. These programs today are horrible and it will be good if they stay true to form but in an updated manner. DVD and MTM were the best TV husband and wife of all time. Remember MTM originally was not suppose to have a large part in the original show. Rose Marie was suppose to be the leading lady and Mary ended up at that. That was why Rose and Mary did not exactly get along. Rose admit to her jealousy of Mary.

I think youre right about being "nostalgia oriented". There is a huge stir going on about a new "Dragnet" series coming out in January and all the old-time fans of this show are up in arms over it because they have cast Ed O'Neill ("Al Bundy") as the main character originally played by Jack Webb andthe change in times, since this dealt with reality. But the DVD show was mythical and the original characters would be back in their original roles (though the now dearly departed will be sorely missed!), this should be a show welcomed with open arms! I think we would still have Rob, Laura, Sally and is An Morgan-Guilbert still with us? (I just saw her on an ep of The Nanny, and, since thats a recent show, I was wondering...). And with a grown up Richie? It ought to be great. I would definately watch this!!!!!!!!

yes, I think Ann Morgan-Guilbert is still around, but she's shortened her name to Ann Guilbert.

I certainly hope not to see a new sitcom starring DVD and MTM. Next month he'll be 77 and she'll be 66. (Imagine how much damage he could do to himself tripping over the Ottoman now.)Reiner is now 80. Rose Marie is 79, and Larry Mazzeo (Mathews) is 47. Guilbert is 74 now, and she's long past playing The Nanny's grandma. The rest of the cast members are gone. Maybe they could do a reunion special (as themselves, not in character), but I don't think a new sitcom would fly at all at this point.

right! And besides, I don't think people would accept them on a weekly basis, for those reasons. But, they could do a reunion special or a TV movie, but as the characters, not as themselves like you said.

I would go for a reunion special, but would get tired of watching it over and over again...

This show was big on flashback episodes, so this would be a good way to have all the cast members, dead or alive, participate. The show could open on Rob and Laura setting on their new sofa in their updated 148 Bonny Meadow road home in New Rochelle, watching a tv reunion program of the Alan Brady Show and start flashing back on their lives during "those days"! Then Millie would shuffle over for a visit, Ritchie would bring his wife and kids over and Sally would stop by with her husband, Herman Glimshire...

I could love this!:D