The New Dick Van Dyke Show Third Season Credits

[konga5]

This series never went into syndication ??

[pernelldh]

Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution is having television distribution rights. Hoping Warner Home Video would release "The New Dick Van Dyke Show" coming to DVD soon.

[ftsjr]

This wasn't a bad show. But, for some reason, CBS kept changing the night of the week it was scheduled, and it kept losing its audience. If they had left it on Saturday night, it may have had a longer run.

[paktype]

Anytime a show changes formats by having the characters move from anywhere to LA, the show is basically toast. Its a clear sign that the actors and producers have become lazy and just want to shoot the show near where they lived. Laverne & Shirley moved to LA for its last pathetic seasons too.

[HepburnFlicks]

@paktype thats not always true. take The Lucy Show for instance. that showactually received higher ratings when it switched formats by moving lucy to LA. in fact, the new dick van dyke show's ratings also improved as a result of the format change

[fromthesidelines]

Allyn Ferguson, the co-composer of the theme and score (with Jack Elliott, who previously passed away, 10 years ago) just passed away a few years ago...

[wyattphx]

After the network moved production to the west coast for the 3rd season, ratings had actually improved. But Van Dyke was at the end of his 3 yr contract and wanted to go back to living at his ranch outside Cave Creek, AZ (the first 2 seasons had been produced in nearby Carefree, AZ).

[ivegotalongdong]

i don't remember this show, but my parents did watch all in the family and mary tyler moore. was fannie flag the daughter in this show? maybe the 'walk in' eppisode might have kept her straight?

[kymarcin]

This episode's credits list Sorrell Booke, who a few years later would play Boss Hogg on the "Dukes of Hazzard".

[michaelpc64]

The only episode I remeber was where Dick was lost in the desert. Wasn't he a huge alcoholic during this period?

[38ddkelly]

Wasn't this the show that wasn't cancelled due to low ratings, but creativity issues? I think they wanted to do an episode where the son or daughter catches the parents "in the act", and the network said no way.

[Namzso1]

Yes and no. The show had a cushy slot between Mary Tyler Moore Show and All in the Family. Carl Reiner quit after the second season when CBS would not air the "walk in" episode. After Reiner left the show changed formats, and the show failed to gain any audience.

[kbirdusa]

@Namzso1 Reiner didn't leave before the show changed formats. In fact, although he created the show, he was only a creative consultant during the first two years when it was filmed in Arizona. When production moved to LA for the third season. Reiner came on board full-time as producer. Only when CBS wouldn't air the "walk-in" episode later that year did he quit. Look at the closing credits you've posted - Reiner is credited as the producer.

[richardonstage]

I believe this title sequence was created by the same man who created the Mary Tyler Moore and Hawaii Five-O opening titles.

[colong88]

The opening with its multi picture format is rather Mannix inspired.

[defundthewar]

The Abbott & Costello Show of the early 50s had the intro screen split into 4. And maybe even that wasn't the first one. A lot of the things today- including that annoying laugh track- started 'way 'way back when.

[ftsjr]

This was a pretty good show. Unfortunately, CBS kept bouncing it from timeslot to timeslot, and it was unable to develop a steady audience.

[sibphu]

this show had a couple of theme music pieces that i liked. this was back in the day, for sure. funny, i don't feel old, doctor...

[StuntmanJackR]

I absolutely remember this being on. I did not know who Dick Van Dyke was at the time

though. Makes you feel old does it not?

[NostalgiaBob]

I remember this show very well! And the theme song.

[diamonddog13]

That frozen snapshot gag at the end was sort of used later on Police Squad, although in the context of the way 70's detectvie shows ended in a freeze frame.

[ACcountryFan]

i had never seen this show before but had read a lot about it. i don't mind the theme song...it was typical of that era. Bob Newhart's theme song was low-key. Mary Tyler Moore's was soft rock as well. The Odd Couple as well. The '61 to '66 theme song on van Dyke's classic show is better by comparison though but this theme song was on par with a lot of the family-oriented programs on the air at the time.

[steveb802000]

If you listen closely, you'll notice a similarity between this theme song (near the end) and the one from Van Dyke's '61-66 series.

[chevyvictor]

way better than the earlier 60's boring theme song

[nanlisa]

It's been a long time since I've seen this one.

[drummerbraves]

Me too. I know that American Life Channel (I don't have the channel) had the show for a while, but the last time I saw the show, it was on TNT during the early morning hours from around 1995 to 1999.

[mrtelevision]

Where did you record this from?

[kbirdusa]

What happened was that Dick refused to do another season after Carl Reiner walked away. The only reason CBS had renewed the show in previous years was because they had a multi-year deal with Van Dyke and would have had to pay a substantial penalty to cancel it. Ironically, just as CBS actually wanted to renew it, Van Dyke walked away.

As for the opening itself: the hugs between Dick and his wife look so staged and non-spontaneous. And the theme song makes my ears bleed - it is so awful.

[NewsLynne]

Yeah, it sounds like the orchestra forgot to turn the page on their sheet music!

[lstradamus]

Yea, I remember this show in reruns. I used to love watching this show and it seem like it got better towards the end. If it werent for the censors, this could have been Dick Van Dyke's third long running show.

[CaliforniaGuy888]

Set In Tarzana California.......Hmmmm.. Tarzana isn't that fun as depicted in this opener....LOL....Cute beginning though

[fromthesidelines]

Producer Carl Reiner left the series during the third season when CBS censored one of the show's "embarrassing" scenes {Dick's daughter walks in on Mommy and Daddy in their bedroom- while they're in bed}, and the network decided to cancel the series at the end of that season. Too bad- I liked the show. I still remember Elliott & Ferguson's theme to this day....