"The New Dick Van Dyke Show" Episodes Available Online!

[NOVARick]

If you would like to see this show, there are eight episodes available online to see for free. Just go to the following link and click on "download" for any of the episodes. After you have downloaded the episode, there is some software you may need to download in order to watch. And the other catch is that there are a couple brief commercial interruptions, but at least you can see the show! Right now I'm downloading an episode I remember watching, but thought maybe I had imagined, because it's about Dick's mother accidentally smoking pot, which I believe belonged to his son. It's hard to imagine a plot like that made it on the air in 1971.

http://video.aol.com/video-category/...dyke-show/2777

[mstewart]

Originally Posted by NOVARick

If you would like to see this show, there are eight episodes available online to see for free. Just go to the following link and click on "download" for any of the episodes. After you have downloaded the episode, there is some software you may need to download in order to watch. And the other catch is that there are a couple brief commercial interruptions, but at least you can see the show! Right now I'm downloading an episode I remember watching, but thought maybe I had imagined, because it's about Dick's mother accidentally smoking pot, which I believe belonged to his son. It's hard to imagine a plot like that made it on the air in 1971.

http://video.aol.com/video-category/...dyke-show/2777

Thanks and enjoyed watching a few episodes. The problem with TNDVDS was it was a duplicate of the original. The Arizona episodes cast was very good but the premise wasn't. The show in many was daring in the subject matter that was dealt with. It was the first show that dealt with a late in pregnancy when Jenny, Dick's wife, found out she was expecting when they had a teenage son and a preteen daughter. The show dealt with interracial dating when Dick's son brought home a black girl home for the holidays. That episode was funny and Mabel Albertson, who played Dick's mom, was a riot in it. If the premise was different other than show business the show had the potential of a classic not in the same vein as the original though.

[NOVARick]

Originally Posted by mstewart

Thanks and enjoyed watching a few episodes. The problem with TNDVDS was it was a duplicate of the original. The Arizona episodes cast was very good but the premise wasn't. The show in many was daring in the subject matter that was dealt with. It was the first show that dealt with a late in pregnancy when Jenny, Dick's wife, found out she was expecting when they had a teenage son and a preteen daughter. The show dealt with interracial dating when Dick's son brought home a black girl home for the holidays. That episode was funny and Mabel Albertson, who played Dick's mom, was a riot in it. If the premise was different other than show business the show had the potential of a classic not in the same vein as the original though.

I agree that the premise was very similar to the original show, except in this case, Dick's character was the star of a TV show rather than just working behind the scenes as a writer. And yes, the material was very often quite daring, though it was always handled tastefully. My how TV had changed in the five years since the original series! I liked the approach of these adult topics on TNDVDS. It was so much unlike the Normal Lear sitcoms, which were so in your face. The way they handled touchy subjects actually reminds me of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," which also took on some sensitive topics, but did so in a very gentle, non-Normal Lear-like way.

[Scoobiedoo30]

Thanks for the info

[NOVARick]

Originally Posted by agmfox8@yahoo.com

Thanks for the info

Sure. I just noticed they have added two more episodes, so now there are 10.

[NOVARick]

Yaaaay!!! 4 new episodes have been added. They also took down two episodes that were there before -- "The Hickey" and "Guess Who's Coming to Seder?" -- so I guess you need to keep checking in so you don't miss any episodes.

[NOVARick]

Originally Posted by NOVARick

Yaaaay!!! 4 new episodes have been added. They also took down two episodes that were there before -- "The Hickey" and "Guess Who's Coming to Seder?" -- so I guess you need to keep checking in so you don't miss any episodes.

Correction: They did not take down those two episodes. What happened is that they started a second page (which I didn't notice before) and that's where those episodes are.

[mstewart]

The show was good in its own way. In many ways it was ahead of its time. First show to deal with a late in life pregnancy, interracial dating and pot smoking but it was done in gentle manner without getting in your face. The third season episodes with them moving to Hollywood and overhauling the cast did not work. Anytime the cast gets a major overhaul more than likely the show is on its last legs.

[LittleRickyII]

Originally Posted by NOVARick

If you would like to see this show, there are eight episodes available online to see for free. Just go to the following link and click on "download" for any of the episodes. After you have downloaded the episode, there is some software you may need to download in order to watch. And the other catch is that there are a couple brief commercial interruptions, but at least you can see the show! Right now I'm downloading an episode I remember watching, but thought maybe I had imagined, because it's about Dick's mother accidentally smoking pot, which I believe belonged to his son. It's hard to imagine a plot like that made it on the air in 1971.

http://video.aol.com/video-category/...dyke-show/2777

What's going on????? They've replaced these episodes with episodes of the original Dick Van Dyke Show, which I can already see on DVD!

[upperco]

It seems these episodes are long gone. Did anybody manage to grab them somehow when they were up and/or know which episodes were posted? I'm looking for two Season Three episodes, "The Back Break Kid" and the aforementioned "The Hickey." Any help would be greatly appreciated!