The Best of The Dick Van Dyke Show

Expertly Blending Workplace Satire With Domestic Comedy: Forty Episodes Of One Of History's Most Enduring Sitcoms
Note: As of this date, the other review is for a previously released Best of Dick Van Dyke collection with considerably fewer episodes. It has been combined with this 40 episode set due to a programming error.

I'm not a great fan of people who just drop an episode list and consider it a review. But it is particularly frustrating when a DVD company releases a compilation of TV episodes without any indication of what is included in a set. "The Dick Van Dyke" show has been released in about a million different variations. So if you've ever bought a season or even another "best of" compilation, you probably have many of these episodes. This would be suited to a newbie to the show looking for a bargain priced introduction. However, this is a show that merits a complete collection if you have the resources. I'm not going to review the show. Suffice it to say that, in my estimation, "The Dick Van Dyke Show" was well ahead of its time and still holds up well. A terrific...

Four classic episodes from the second season of "The Dick Van Dyke Show"
This DVD offers a quartet of episodes from the second season of the classic television situation comedy "The Dick Van Dyke Show." If there is a common denominator to them, it would be that they all focusing on the domestic bliss of the Petries in New Rochelle rather than on writing for "The Alan Brady Show." Usually by this point in a collection of "best" episodes things start to get thin, but that is hardly the case here. Also of interest, see if you can figure out which episode was written by the grandfather of the guy who created "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Taken collectively, these classic episodes will explain why it might have been "The Beverly Hillbillies" that was finishing #1 in the Nielsens, but this was the sitcom that was picking up the Emmys for Best Comedy during that period:

Episode 53, "Give Me Your Walls!" (Written by Carl Reiner, February 27, 1963) has Laura hiring a flamboyant artist Vito Giotto (Vito Scotti) to paint the living room walls after Rob...



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