I'm not the demographic nor right age nor nationality even, but my mother loved old television shows because her mother had watched them with her and she watched them with me. I grew to love old American movies and stars and television and there is a special place in my heart for The Dick Van Dyke Show. I had spent my childhood watching actors and movies that were 60 years or more before my time, so I loved not only Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore but the old vaudevillian types like Morey Amsterdam and Rose Marie, and the 60's stalwarts like Richard Deacon. To me it suggests a time of decency, whatever the political landscape may have been, and of old delicatessens and smoking in the office and so many other things that taken by themselves may mean nothing but in their entirety suggest a way of life far more sophisticated and paradoxically simple and pure than anything we have in my generation today.
The Dick Van Dyke show is about far more however; it's about funny, thoughtful, clear headed meaningful people as most Amerians I think used to be, and about laughing with people instead of at them. People like Buddy Sorel and Sally Rogers and Rob and Laura Petrie are so greatly missed, it's lovely to be able to visit them from time to time.
These people were real artists, and this show is one of the best, most literate, ever. It makes me long for an era I never knew.
The Dick Van Dyke show is about far more however; it's about funny, thoughtful, clear headed meaningful people as most Amerians I think used to be, and about laughing with people instead of at them. People like Buddy Sorel and Sally Rogers and Rob and Laura Petrie are so greatly missed, it's lovely to be able to visit them from time to time.
These people were real artists, and this show is one of the best, most literate, ever. It makes me long for an era I never knew.