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Director:
Ken Whittingham
Writer:
Carl Reiner (creator)
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Release Date:
11 May 2004 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
A reunion of the surviving cast members from the original 1961-1966 TV series finds Alan Brady wanting Rob and Sally to collaborate on a eulogy for him before he dies. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 1 nomination more
User Comments:
An Okay Reunion more (10 total)

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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:45 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White (archive footage) | Color

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
"The Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961) had Rob and Laura sleeping in twin beds because the censors did not allow couples on television to sleep in the same bed back then. In this special, Rob mentions that he and Laura have a king size bed. more
Movie Connections:
Follows "The Comedy Spot: Head of the Family" (1960) more

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An Okay Reunion, 20 May 2004
7/10
Author: Josef Silvia from Wellfleet, MA

This was probably one of the best reunions of a 60s sitcom in the last ten years or so. Instead of having an hour of reminisces, Carl Reiner decided to write a good 45-minute storyline of the Petries in 2004. Some, in fact, a lot of this story-line works: Alan Brady is not dying, but wants Sally and Rob to write his eulogy so he can have the chance to rewrite it. Laura now has a small dance studio at home, and Sally is finally married to the guy she was always going out with.

Yet, there are some parts of the reunion show that doesn't make sense: Why did Rob stop writing? Didn't he write a book? Also Millie and Stacey's little "date" is strange, but funny. Yet, despite these few flaws, The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited still retains some of that old "magic," mostly because Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Ann Morgan Guilbert, and Carl Reiner stepped right back into the shoes of their old characters. Unfortunately, though, Mary Tyler Moore's performance is a bit stale and rushed, almost as if she forgot how to make a comedy show. Larry Matthews' appearance is quick, strange, and we really don't learn what he's doing forty years later.

And why did Ray Ramano host this? What does he have to do with Dick Van Dyke? His scenes are even stranger than some of the weirdest parts of this reunion.

Finally, the clippings of the old show also make this reunion. When the new footage starts going a bit stale, they add in footage of the "good 'ole days" when these people were younger and funnier. Yet, all in all, this was a pretty good reunion, and I recommend it to every fan of The Dick Van Dyke Show to watch.

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