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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which she would finagle her way into husband Ricky Ricardo's act at the Tropicana nightclub. The writers wrote half an episode of actual sitcom dialogue and left the rest up to the Vaudevillean song and dance talents of Lucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel. From The Dick Van Dyke Show to the Cosby Show to The Brady Bunch, the "cast puts on a show" episode has become a standard...

Author: By Jeffrey P. Meier, | Title: Having A Ball | 2/16/1988 | See Source »

...varmint has been a folk hero since early slave days, and his sly outwitting of bullies and bosses is history disguised in fur and interpreted by the victims. Jump Again! (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $14.95) demonstrates that a classic offers something fresh to each generation. This time it is Van Dyke Parks' riotous retelling and Barry Moser's elegant watercolors. Beneath the new surface, of course, the hero is instantly familiar, once again outmaneuvering Brer Fox, Weasel and Bear, winning the paw of Miss Molly and proving graphically that when trouble comes, "There's always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Liberating Youthful Spirits | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...have even seen this movie--albeit in a slightly different form--by the same director in 1967, when divorce was a prime subject for light-hearted cinematic fluff, in Yorkin's Divorce: American Style starring Debbie Reynolds, Dick Van Dyke and Jason Robards. Those were the good old days, when a husband and wife would have a fight, get divorced on the spur of the moment, get remarried in a similarly shot-gun manner, then realize that they had just made the biggest mistake of their lives and rectify it by getting back together with their own true love...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: More Than Twice | 1/10/1986 | See Source »

...gives old black-and-white a new life," says Lisa Merians of Viacom Industries, which distributes the Twilight Zone special and owns the rights to such filmed series as The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Honeymooners and The Phil Silvers Show. MGM, which has more than 4,000 films in its library, is paying up to $180,000 a movie for computerized-color versions of such classsics as the 1942 musical Yankee Doodle Dandy, starring James Cagney, and the 1941 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which featured Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner. Hal Roach Studios, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Play It Again, This Time in Color | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

...Theodore S. Van Dyke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: In Search of the Angels | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

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