(CBS Primetime, 1971 - 1974) [After the first "Dick Van Dyke Show" became a syndication classic, and the spinoff series "Mary Tyler Moore Show" also became a hit, Dick Van Dyke by then had acted in several big motion picture projects including "Mary Poppins" and "Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang" and had been enjoying a private, semi-retired life in the community of Cave Creek, Arizona -- near Phoenix... But six years after his first series went off the network, he was finally lured back to doing another sitcom on the small screen by the idea of a new series which would be filmed at a studio near his home, and would also be created by veteran writer/producer Carl Reiner who had created the first "Dick Van Dyke Show"; In the new series Van Dyke played "Dick Preston", host of a local talk show; Hope Lange played Van Dyke's wife; after two years during which the series was actually filmed in the studio near Phoenix, the plot changed that he got a job in Los Angeles on a Soap Opera, and filming also moved to Los Angeles; Although never a syndication hit like the first show, this one lasted for three years in primetime, and did a respectable job of comedy during that time; And as truth can sometimes be stranger than fiction, after this series went off the air, and Van Dyke did a few more movie projects he was lured back again at age 68 to play a medical examiner for yet another series, the 1993 series "Diagnosis Murder" -- which again demonstrated what a durable and likeable performer he is...]
Composers: Jack Z. Elliott (BMI) [pseudonym of Irwin Elliott Zucker], and Allyn M. Ferguson (BMI) 1978 Publisher: [unknown] 2001 Publisher: Cave Creek Enterprises, Inc. (BMI) c/o The William Morris Agency of Beverly Hills, CA Copyright Date: Renewal Date: Recordings: