Dick and Barry Van Dyke had success together in the 90s with Diagnosis Murder, which outlasted Dick's classic 60s sitcom by three seasons. But their first time acting together (Barry announced on The New Dick Van Dyke Show) did not go well. Description in my directory sounds fascinating with lively arguments about Broadway theater, Frasier and Niles Crane would approve of this show. Maura Tierney was Barry's secretary on The Van Dyke Show several years before she went on to NewsRadio and ER. This was one of the earliest cases of a sitcom getting destroyed by the lousy reality show genre, was on against Unsolved Mysteries which finished #17 overall in the 1988-1989 season. Also on against The Van Dyke Show was veteran sitcom Growing Pains, which finished tied for #13. The Van Dyke Show should have aired on CBS Mondays instead of Coming of Age, which was pulled after just three episodes. Only six episodes aired for TVDS. CBS could have at least burned off the unaired four episodes, which included the only two parter of the series, on a slow night.

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