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The Dick Van Dyke Show - The Sick Boy and the Sitter
episode 1.1
USA 1961
produced by Carl Reiner, Sheldon Leonard (executive) for Calvada Productions/CBS
directed by Sheldon Leonard
starring Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews, Richard Deacon, Barbara Eiler, Eleanor Audley, Mary Lee Dearring, Michael Keith, Stacy Keach sr, Fred Sherman, Abdullah Abbas, Jack Berle, George DeNormand, Fred Rapport, Tony Regan
written and created by Carl Reiner, music by Earle Hagen
TV-series The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show (1960s)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Screenwriter Rob (Dick Van Dyke) really wants to go to a private party
thrown by his boss, just not for his own entertainment but also for
networking purposes, but his wife Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) opposes this
because their son Richie (Larry Mathews) might have a temperature.
Now of course, it would be no problem at all to have the neighbour girl
Janie (Mary Lee Dearring) babysit, but it's Laura's intuition that
something bad will happen. To make a long story short, after much to and
fro, Rob gets his will, and while Laura wants to leave the party early,
Rob can't resist to entertain all the guests with a little show put up by
him and his two co-writers Sally (Rose Marie) and Buddy (Morey Amsterdam).
Of course, when Rob and Laura finally do return home, the doctor's (Stacy
Keach sr) is already there for an emergency - babysitter Janie has banged
her head on the refrigerator door ... From today's point of
view, this first episode of the then hugely popular The Dick Van
Dyke Show feels endearingly antiquated, both in its family values
still stuck firmly in the 1950s, but also in the party scene that's
clearly rooted in variety, then pretty much a TV staple. So one can't say
this has aged well - but it's a perfect time capsule for that. And one
can't deny the undeniable talent of Van Dyke and all the cast, and his
chemistry with Mary Tyler Moore is really the glue of this episode, and
their quid-pro-quo gives the somewhat feeble story the necessary meat.
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