Comments on: 6 Little-Known Facts about The Dick Van Dyke Show

By: scott

scott — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:18:00 +0000

the first couple shown in bed together were the flintstones

By: Mike Mendyke

Mike Mendyke — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:13:44 +0000

If you’d like to hear Dick himself singing the lyrics to the theme song, he released them on a new children’s album last month called ‘Put On A Happy Face’.

You can learn more about the group and our new album at http://www.vantastix.com.

By: Jerad

Jerad — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:16:43 +0000

And in yet another version, he cleared the ottoman, but ironically he stumbles on the rug.

After that Rob and Buddie both shake hands and the episode has begun.

(Hopefully I’m not the only one that remembers those nick at nite words to the theme song)

By: John Ford

John Ford — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:20:17 +0000

I seem to remember Dick Van Dick
tripping on the foot rest on some
opening shows and walking around it
at the last minute on other episodes.
The other thing I remember is watching
how well both Mary Tyler Moore and Dick
both could dance. Did Mary Tyler Moore
start her early career as a dancer? She
was always incredibly sexy.
The other episode which I found memorable was a dream sequence involving
a closet full of walnuts.

By: Leah

Leah — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:09:22 +0000

Morey Amsterdam did not write the lyrics to “Rum and Coca-Cola.” He changed some of the lyrics (and meaning)of original song by Lord Invader(Rupert Grant). Amsterdam claimed it was original and had it copyrighted.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:28:47 +0000

Wasn’t there a peripheral character by the name of Seymour S. Seymour?

“What’s the ‘S’ stand for?” “Seymour, of course!”

Or was that on the Mary Tyler Moore Show?

By: Bethany

Bethany — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:05:34 +0000

Well, now that theme song will be stuck in my head for a while…

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:48:29 +0000

You fact-checkers can look into this, but I remember on a Dick Van Dyke marathon on Nick At Nite, there was a blurb about the baby-switching episode having the longest recorded laugh for television. I don’t know if it still stands, but I thought that was pretty cool.

By: Pearl

Pearl — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:34:15 +0000

On an entirely different and significantly less relevant note:: Dick Van Dyke’s alcholism inducing friend’s name was actually Jack Daniel, not Jack Daniels. Right?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:35:48 +0000

From Wikipedia (entry on “The Munsters”):
Herman and Lily Munster are often mistakenly named as the first couple to share the same bed on American television, in the episode “Autumn Croakus” on November 26, 1964. In reality, that distinction goes to Mary Kay and Johnny, in an episode aired on November 18, 1947 on the DuMont network. The first television couple to share a bed when the actors were not married in real life was Samantha and Darrin Stephens of Bewitched, on October 22, 1964.