The Mary Tyler Moore Hour on YouTube with guest star Dick Van Dyke

[mstewart]

Here is an episode of Mary Tyler Moore's variety hour in 1979 with Dick Van Dyke as a guest. It was an entertaining show but it came on when variety shows were going out of style. I think the show would had a nice run if it came on during the heyday of variety shows.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAnnBNr9_Mw

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3uVJ7w-j5o

Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kauTJIKsrIE

Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pJmpeYzSNk

Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjF7FKiEYSM

Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG5CADRcvp0

Good to see Mary and Dick sing and dance together as they did on The Dick Van Dyke Show. They were the Fred Aistaire and Ginger Rogers of sitcoms.

[catlover79]

Thanks for sharing!!

[ClassicTVGal]

Thanks!
Aw--COOL! They have the commercials! *giggles*

BTW, there is also TMTMS Reunion from 2002 on youtube, as well.

[TMC]

http://www.avclub.com/article/love-i...r-moore-249580

Still, Moore pulled out all the stops here. Dick Van Dyke doesn’t just guest star; he also reprises his Dick Van Dyke Show character Rob Petrie opposite Moore’s Laura for a pair of non-canonical sketches. The first is a surprisingly dark, restrained piece about the death of Alan Brady, Rob’s longtime boss, that ends on a bum note with an, “Oh no, our son is gay!” capper. The next flashes forward decades into the future to allow Van Dyke to do an old-man routine that’s hokey even by variety-show standards. But even though Moore and Van Dyke do not do their finest work on The Mary Tyler Moore Hour, it’s obvious that these two consummate pros take palpable joy from being in each other’s presence. The smiles of variety show performers often look plastered on and forced, but Moore and her guests genuinely seem to be enjoying themselves, and that makes a huge difference.