Talk:List of The Dick Van Dyke Show episodes

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I would like to indicate the opening to each episode. There are at least four unique openings that I know of:

• "The drum opening" - The first 12 or so episodes had a drum sequence that flashed pictures of cast members.
• "Tripping over the ottoman" - Rob tripping over the ottoman
• "Missing the ottoman" - Rob looks like he is going to trip, but sidesteps it at the last moment
• "Tripping on the carpet" - Rob misses the ottoman, but nearly falls when he trips on the carpet

Are there more openings? Anyone suggest better titles for the episode openings?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.104.160.214 (talk) 16:17, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

I think that sounds great! Susan Gleason 03:26, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Longest span of laughter? Don't think so.

"This episode [That's My Boy??] registered the longest, uninterrupted span of laughter from a live studio audience." Really? What's your source for that? I just watched the episode, and I seriously doubt that was the longest laugh from a studio audience -- or, indeed, even close to it. This is one of thousands of unsupported, and in this case almost certainly wrong, statements on Wikipedia -- the biggest problem with the concept of an anyone-can-edit site. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bus114 (talk • contribs) 23:27, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

While it isn't the longest laugh in history, it is one of the longest. The laughter had to be cut down to fit the time span of the episode. Mallory Steen (talk) 21:20, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Public Domain Episodes

The episode numbers in the Public Domain Episodes section do not match up with the episode numbers in the listing of all the episodes. Those are listed in numeric order while the public domain episodes are 3 digit numbers. Jtyroler (talk) 08:58, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Pilot episode

The pilot episode, apparently originally called "Head of the Household", starred Carl Reiner: http://www.hulu.com/watch/14762/the-dick-van-dyke-show-pilot-head-of-the-family --Filll (talk | wpc) 20:40, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Please add more info about the original Pilot.-71.174.190.122 (talk) 19:39, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

The entire pilot is included as S1 E7 on Netflix. Other episodes are shuffled a bit. David Spector (talk) 22:24, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Colorization high video quality

• http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/12/dick-van-dyke-coast-to-coast-big-mouth-carl-reiner

true to the show’s actual set, the living-room couch at 148 Bonnie Meadow Rd. in New Rochelle NY, would be same hideous yellow-orange on-screen that it was in real life. So don’t blame the colorization team.

• http://nypost.com/2016/12/08/how-producers-brought-dick-van-dyke-into-living-color/

“I was shocked at how accurate [the episodes’ color] is,” says Reiner, 94. “One of our photographers back in those days took color photos of the sets and some of the actors in costume and we duplicated it — it was eerie, like being there.”

Noted TV historian/archivist Paul Brownstein, who executive-produced the two colorized “Dick Van Dyke Show” episodes (along with Carl Reiner and George Shapiro), says it was often a challenging task.

“There were a total of a half-dozen pictures from the entire series that are in color. The kitchen had blue walls and the dinette set was actually orange-colored,” he says. “We had to find a telephone [color] in Alan Brady’s office, so I went online and looked up Western Electric telephones from that era. There was a beige Bell System phone that was an iconic color for people of that generation, so we used that.

Brownstein says he hopes these two colorized “Dick Van Dyke Show” episodes will open more doors for the series.

“Ideally our goal right now is to colorize the entire series and bring it out as a fresh show,” he says. “I think it could hold its own in prime time.”

Two episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show were broadcast on December 11, 2016 in a colorized version. Aside from the added color, the video quality seemed impressively sharp and perfect. Was this derived from special original sources, or generated by modern computer processing?

IMDB says The Dick Van Dyke Show was filmed in 35 mm (monochrome?). Does any of that film version survive? Are current DVD etc versions derived from film, or what?-71.174.190.122 (talk) 19:44, 13 December 2016 (UTC)