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post #151 of 159
6/30/06 at 5:32pm

Re: "The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 3" -- A Personal Review

I couldn't check the dates on the DVDs because my parents are borrowing sets 2-5. They've already seen season one and returned it.

I wasn't sure if they'd watch a second time but they do watch the Andy Griffith's multiple times so I have bought those for them.

DVD is from my hometown so it was a thrill as a kid when I'd hear him say something about Danville.
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post #152 of 159
7/3/06 at 2:47pm
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Re: "The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 3" -- A Personal Review

DICK VAN DYKE SHOW BLOOPER REEL...................

The following link includes approx. 5 minutes of Dick Van Dyke Show bloopers and outtakes from Season #1 of the series.

Almost all of these outtakes (save one) also reside on a 24-minute VHS videotape (of the unauthorized variety I might add) produced in 1993 by "American Video, Inc." entitled "The Cutting Room Floor; Volume 1". (I was lucky enough to secure a copy of that tape in 1998.)

Take note of one particular curious short clip in here...it's from a scene that did not air at all and features Marty Ingels and some unknown actress whom I don't recognize.

If anyone recognizes that "mystery scene", or the "rats and mice" girl in the clip, please speak up; because I don't recognize that scene from any Van Dyke program. Somebody at another forum said the girl we see in the clip is Yvonne Craig. (Beats me though.) ~shrugs~

What a perfect extra bonus inclusion a reel like this would have made on one of the five Image Entertainment sets of the Van Dyke series. But, alas, Carl Reiner would not permit such an inclusion of outtake/blooper material.

There is one instance of foul language heard here (that's the one item not on the VHS tape of these outtakes btw), with Mel Cooley offering up a neat little expletive.

Some funny stuff here, which serves as an additional reminder at just how much fun this group of actors was obviously having when they got together to film this soon-to-be-classic TV sitcom every week. (And this is just the first season too.) ........


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE5YO...k%20van%20dyke
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post #153 of 159
7/3/06 at 3:25pm

Re: "The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 3" -- A Personal Review

David, that clip is not from TDVDS. It is from the premiere episode of I'm Dickens, He's Fenster, and that is indeed Yvonne Craig. Somewhere over the years, that must have been edited into that blooper reel.

And thanks for posting that! That was terrific to see!
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post #154 of 159
7/3/06 at 3:40pm
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David, that clip is not from TDVDS. It is from the premiere episode of I'm Dickens, He's Fenster, and that is indeed Yvonne Craig.

Thanks for that, John.

I had my doubts that it was a DvDS scene....but it does have Marty Ingels in it (who appeared in two first-year DvDS eps.).

It would have helped me if I had ever seen that "Fenster" show before in my lifetime; which I have not.

Anyway, thanks for clearing up the mystery. (Only took 38 minutes to clear up, too. Not bad. HTFers come through again.)

I have now noted that Ted Rich served as editor on the "Dickens/Fenster" series. Wonder if he's related to Van Dyke director John Rich? Perhaps they shared outtakes at some point.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0055679/fullcredits

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In the longer 24-minute "Cutting Room Floor" tape of DvDS bloopers, there's a nifty add-on scene from the Season-Five ep. "Long Night's Journey Into Day", with a different epilogue filmed than what we find in the final cut of the show. In the outtake version, Millie asks Rob to sing the 'Marine's Hymn' to help her fall asleep....and then Rob & Laura march out of the bedroom like soldiers as Rob gives a spirited and animated rendition of the requested song.

Another portion of the tape shows Rose Marie dancing on the set with director John Rich. (They were dancing "The Jitterbug", and they both can cut a pretty mean rug too, I'll tell ya.)
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post #155 of 159
1/19/08 at 2:37pm

Re: "The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 3" -- A Personal Review

Ever since I was lucky enough to get S.1 for only $20.00 I made it my goal to do so for the rest of the seasons, though I've had to wait a long time to do so. I just recently purchased S.2 and can't express how entertaining the episodes were from this season! It seemed that every one of them was a jewel and I thought it was funny the other night on the PBS special "Pioneers of Television: Sitcoms" whenever they would show a clip from TDVDS it was always from Season 2 episode.

I also really liked the Easter Eggs of pretty much Kent Cigarette ads...even more so cause now we have proof that Rob Petrie was a warlock as we see him zap up a carton of cigs and a lit one LOL

Anway, Mr. Von Pein, thank you so much for guiding me to the DVDS with your awesome reviews! I would've never bought them otherwise.

Now I just gotta get S.4 and I'll have the whole series
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post #156 of 159
1/19/08 at 5:23pm

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Are there any extras on the complete Dick Van Dyke Show DVD Box set as opposed to the Individual season Sets?
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post #157 of 159
1/19/08 at 6:04pm

Re: "The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 3" -- A Personal Review

No.
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post #158 of 159
1/20/08 at 6:16am
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Anyway, Mr. Von Pein, thank you so much for guiding me to the DVDS with your awesome reviews! I would've never bought them otherwise.
Thank you, David.


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Now I just gotta get S.4 and I'll have the whole series.

And S.4 is another darn good season too, including these classic entries: "The Case Of The Pillow", "Never Bathe On Saturday", "The Ghost Of A. Chantz", "4-And-A-Half", "Pink Pills And Purple Parents", and "The Impractical Joke."

[Click on the image below, which by the way is a picture that was drawn by Dick Van Dyke himself, to find out what a complete loon I am when it comes to TDvDS. ]

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post #159 of 159
1/20/08 at 9:01am

Re: "The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 3" -- A Personal Review

Hopefully some of you caught the recent PBS Pioneers of TV specials. One was on sitcoms and had quite a bit of DVD content plus two other faves: the Andy Griffith Show and the Honeymooners.

If not, check for reruns.
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