TV Land's Alan Brady Week: Dick Van Dyke Show, Alan Brady Show special, & Inside TVL

[Pavan]

The Alan Brady Show animated special is airing Aug. 17 at 10 pm, mark those calendars!!

"Alan Brady Week"
* Monday, August 11th – Sunday, August 17th 9-10 p.m. every night (Sunday 9 to 12 a.m.)
"The Alan Brady Show" is a TV Land original animated special about the present-day state of the fictional television show where Rob Petrie and friends worked on The Dick Van Dyke Show. To celebrate its premiere on Sunday, August 17 at 10 p.m., TV Land is airing a week of the best Alan Brady episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show in prime time, as well as an encore presentation of Inside TV Land: The Dick Van Dyke Show (Sunday 10:30 p.m. to 12 a.m.). Below find the entire week’s line-up including episodes and descriptions:

Monday, August 11
9:00PM #29 The Sleeping Brother
Rob's talented, sleep-walking brother manages to audition successfully for "The Alan Brady Show" even while wide awake. Carl Reiner makes his first appearance as Alan Brady in this episode.
9:30PM #62 When A Bowling Pin Talks, Listen
Rob finds himself in hot water after inadvertently lifting a comedy idea from another
show.

Tuesday, August 12
9:00PM #76 The Alan Brady Show Presents
9:30PM #77 My Husband Is The Best One
Rob gets into trouble at work after Laura interferes in an interview he is giving on Alan
Brady.

Wednesday, August 13
9:00PM #104 Three Letters From One Wife
Rob convinces Alan Brady to do a cultural documentary program and risks his job when Alan threatens Rob to fire him if the show is not a success. Millie comes up with a sure fire plan to save Rob from a possible disaster and writes 14 letters from 14 different people to Alan praising the show and the talented writer Rob. Unfortunately, the program airs but pre-empts Alan's segment with a flooded subway story. Millie frantically shows up at the Petrie's home and tells Laura that she already mailed the 14 letters.
9:30PM #122 100 Terrible Hours
Rob recalls his job interview with Alan Brady near the end of an ardous keep-awake marathon.

Thursday, August 14
9:00PM #124 Baby Fat
Rob helps Alan Brady by re-writing a play starring the comic.
9:30PM #146 The Bottom Of Mel Cooley’s Heart – 9:30pm
When Mel Cooley takes Rob's advice and stands up to Alan Brady, he is promptly fired.

Friday, August 15
9:00PM #151 Talk to The Snail
Believing that comedian Alan Brady plans to cut down his writing staff, Rob applies for a job with a ventriloquist.
9:30PM #153 Obnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc.
Rob and his writers are in big trouble for adding insults to an Alan Brady script.

Saturday, August 16
9:00PM #157 The Last Chapter
Rob's autobiography conjures up scenes from the past and leads Alan Brady to buy the book for a television series.
9:30PM #158 The Gunslinger
The Petries and their friends are transported to the Wild West when Rob dreams he is a frontier sheriff.

Sunday, August 17
9:00PM #128 Coast To Coast Big Mouth
Laura blurts out a top secret on a national television quiz show -- that comedian Alan Brady wears a toupee.
9:30PM #152 A Day In the Life Of Alan Brady
This episode is classic "Alan Brady". The Petries' plan to throw an anniversary party at their house for the Helpers. Alan insists that Rob change the date of the party so that he and a film crew can come over and shoot his documentary. The solution: Helpers' Anniversary party stars their "good friend" Alan Brady.
10:00PM TV LAND ORIGINAL SPECIAL: "The Alan Brady Show"
An animated special with Carl Reiner voicing his role as Alan Brady, as he did on the Dick Van Dyke Show.
10:30PM to 12:00AM #3 Inside TV Land: The Dick Van Dyke Show (rerun)

*** PLEASE NOTE: BEWITCHED WILL AIR AT 8 AND 8:30PM ALL 7 DAYS BEFORE THE MARATHON STARTS AT 9 PM FOR THIS WEEK ONLY, PRE-EMPTING FANTASY ISLAND (M-F) AND BRADY BUNCH/HAPPY DAYS (SAT-SUN)***

[Lolac]

Wow, Pavanbadal!!! Thanks for that info! I printed it up so I can tape all of it while I'm away on vacation that week. What fun! And some of my favorite episodes, too!!


Lolac

[Pavan]

TV Land announced the Dick Van Dyke Show "Alan Brady" marathon information (Aug 11-16: 9p-10p; 17th: 9p-12a) at the TCA Tour yesterday:


CARL REINER REPRISES CLASSIC TV ROLE IN TV LAND’S FIRST ORIGINAL ANIMATED SPECIAL THE ALAN BRADY SHOW

TV Land Features Week-Long Salute to Alan Brady
with Classic Episodes from The Dick Van Dyke Show

Hollywood, CA, July 8, 2003 – One of classic television’s most caustic TV hosts, Alan Brady, returns for the first ever animated original special for TV Land entitled The Alan Brady Show. 12-time Emmy-Award winner Carl Reiner reprises his character – in voice-over -- from The Dick Van Dyke Show in the half-hour comedy special which will telecast on Sunday, Aug. 17 (10-10:30 PM, ET/PT) and will be featured in a prime time line-up that kicks off with two back-to-back episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show (9-10:00 PM, ET/PT) and also features an encore presentation of TV Land’s original documentary Inside TV Land: The Dick Van Dyke Show (10:30-12 AM, ET/PT).

During the week leading up to the Sunday night special telecast, TV Land will pay homage to this classic TV character with airings of episodes from The Dick Van Dyke Show featuring Alan Brady storylines. Episodes will air each night beginning Monday, Aug. 11 to Saturday, Aug. 16 from 9:00-10 PM (ET/PT).

The contemporary setting of The Alan Brady Show is forty years after its debut and it’s clear that time has failed to mellow Brady, who remains as caustic and brash as ever. The show’s staff is deep in the throws of developing Brady’s Golden 50th Anniversary special. When the staff pitches a classic, in depth retrospective, Brady counters with “Who Wants to Marry Alan Brady?” This marks the first time a fictional character has embraced reality television’s programming rage.

The Alan Brady Show originally appeared as a comedy-variety show within The Dick Van Dyke Show in which Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke) served as head comedy writer and Alan Brady (Carl Reiner) appeared as the egocentric host of the show. Gary Owens and comedienne Carol Leifer are among the guest-star voices featured in the special and Dick Van Dyke and Rose Marie make special cameo appearances. Reiner, who wrote the special, also serves as executive producer along with George Shapiro and Howard West, of Shapiro/West Productions. The Alan Brady Show is TV Land’s first original animated special in the network’s seven-year history. The special was developed internally for TV Land by Sal Maniaci, Vice President of Development and Production for TV Land and Nick at Nite. Animation for the half-hour special was produced by NICK Digital Studios in New York.

[Kristen]

This looks really interesting. I can't wait! I'm glad to see Alan Brady hasn't changed!

Kristen

[Pavan]

Missed "The Alan Brady Show Special?" TV Land has scheduled some last minute re-airings:

Monday, Aug. 18, 2003 10:00AM
Wednesday, Aug 20, 2003 7:00PM
Saturday, Aug 23, 2003 3:00AM (late Friday Aug. 22)
Saturday, Aug 23, 2003 11:00PM

[Pavan]

Re-airs again Oct. 5:

One of classic television's most caustic TV hosts, Alan Brady, makes a return appearance when TV Land presents a special encore presentation of its original animated special The Alan Brady Show. Emmy-Award winner Carl Reiner reprises his character -- in voice-over -- from The Dick Van Dyke Show in the half-hour comedy special which will telecast on Sunday, Oct. 5 (10:30-11:00 PM, ET/PT). To kick off the night, TV Land will present an encore presentation of TV Land's original documentary Inside TV Land: The Dick Van Dyke Show (9:00-10:30 PM, ET/PT).
The contemporary setting of The Alan Brady Show is fifty years after its debut and it's clear that time has failed to mellow Brady, who remains as caustic and brash as ever. The show's staff is deep in the throws of developing Brady's Golden 50th Anniversary special. When the staff pitches a classic, in depth retrospective, Brady counters with "Who Wants to Marry Alan Brady?" This marks the first time a fictional character has embraced reality television's programming rage.

The Alan Brady Show originally appeared as a comedy-variety show within The Dick Van Dyke Show in which Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke) served as head comedy writer and Alan Brady (Carl Reiner) appeared as the egocentric host of the show. Gary Owens and comedienne Carol Leifer are among the guest-star voices featured in the special and Dick Van Dyke and Rose Marie make special cameo appearances. Reiner, who wrote the special, also serves as executive producer along with George Shapiro and Howard West, of Shapiro/West Productions. The Alan Brady Show is TV Land's first original animated special in the network's seven-year history. The special was developed internally for TV Land by Sal Maniaci, Vice President of Development and Production for TV Land and Nick at Nite. Animation for the half-hour special was produced by NICK Digital Studios in New York.

TV Land launched on April 29, 1996. The network's broad mix of sitcoms, dramas, westerns and classic commercials -- which TV Land refers to as Retromercials® -- have made TV Land the highest-rated cable channel launched in the last five years on both a household and A25-54 demo basis.