Dick Van Dyke Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show: How a Black-and-White Sitcom Became the Gold Standard for Television Comedy
The Brilliant Origins of a Television Masterpiece The story of how The Dick Van Dyke Show came to exist is almost as entertaining as the show itself. In the late 1950s, comedian and writer Carl Reiner was performing on The Steve Allen Show when he began jotting down humorous anecdotes about his time as a head writer for Your Show…