van dyke, first, a clip of carl rooider who created this show. the dick van dyke show 50 plus years ago now. carl was on this program just last year talking about the relationship the on-screen magic between dick van dyke and mary tyler moore. it starts by talking about a conversation he was having with one of the other stars of the show, rose marie. take a look. >> look magazine had a picture of mary on the cover, she said to me, why do you always have mary, you push mary, i said -- and this is what i said to her, i said, in the room i said, look, rosemary, the picture of mary on the cover was not my -- i didn't ask anybody to do anything. look magazine has a constituency and they -- they love to see mary's legs. i used worse words than that. and if you can't buy that and the show is about the family. and if you can't buy that, don't come back to this second year. but that's what the show's about. you were misinformed. and she bought it. and we -- the second year was heaven. to this day, we call each other on the phone, we're best friends. >> that's amaz

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look, we've surpassed -- we're not doing "the dick van dyke show." version of "the dick van dyke show." >> seth: yeah, yeah. >> it's like -- we are what the '50s was in today's times. like people are so advanced in their kind of openness and sensory overload and seeing everything. we just live in that cagey time, where this feels like a network 9:00 -- 8:00 show. >> seth: yeah, it really does. you have two girls. how old are your girls, now? >> i do, i have frankie, who is going to be 3 and olive, who's going to be 5. >> seth: and you took them to disney? >> i know! i birthed two kids! [ cheers and applause ] it's so awesome. >> seth: disneyland or disney world. >> this was disney world. >> seth: okay, so this is -- and this by the way, they're dressed up, they look so cute -- >> frankie, every day since we've gone there wants to go to disney world. and i've tried to talk to her rationally, i'm like so we have to go to delta at laguardia and get back on the plane and go to orlando. like it's gonna be hard to get to disney world, now. >> seth: every da

coincidence, maybe it was the luck of the gods, what have you, there are actually good shows, the dick van dyke show, that was a good season for that. there were some others, good medical shows, this may not seem like a big deal now, but they are putting prime time movies and before you could see movies is going to theaters and seeing ancient movies and show you some of the best movies that we were able to get license for and present. it was a declaration, though that you can do better and even the -- yeah, you know, we probably can do better and they did. over the 60's they did. >> what was the impact of the cable? >> cable introduced a new way of regarding television. now, remember i mentioned the fcc has rules for over the air broadcasters. now cable started as simply a way of bringing over the air stations to regions that for usually for geographical challenges couldn't receive the signal and so they piped in via cable these stations, but then they started adding a original to cable channels and those weren't subject to the same rules as in abc, cbs, nbc, basically over the air individual s

dick van dyke for example this may not seem like a big deal now but they were primetime movies and theyonly see movies to go to the theater or seeing of t.v. spots. this is a special location prime contractor shape some of the best movies that were able to get licensed and present. it was a declaration no that you can do better and even the industry says you know, we can do better. and they did. in the 60s they did. >> so what was the impact of cable? >> cable introduced a new way of regarding television. now remember i mentioned the fcc had rules for broadcasters over the air. now cable started simply as a way of bringing over the air stations to regions that usually for geographic calendars could not receive the signal.and so they piped in via cable. but, then they started adding original to cable channels. in those foreign subject to the same rules as in abc, cbs, nbc. ethically over the air individual stations. and so that a little bit more flexibility, they can be a little bit more explicit, they could be, they could either have no commercials because they were charging a fee or th

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men who were working downtown, took the train to new rochelle just like rod petrie, played by dick van dyke, the fictional husband of laura petrie played by mary tyler moore, who i did want to mention today. but if you of those white-collar workers, especially the more creative types in media, started moving larger working-class brownstone brooklyn. they were gentrifying, to use a word that only became popular many decades later. brooklyn heights, cobble hill, park slope. perhaps you can chase those a a little bit on your map. these were all lovely 19th century brownstone neighborhoods that had gone into disrepair. over the next decad decades ther of white-collar workers increased, as did the number and variety of white-collar jobs in new york. government was expanding and sewer colleges and universities. and along with them, jobs for lawyers, administrators and professors. by the 2000s, technology was opening up new occupations for the educated and creative young, including occupations people had never heard of before. that you operators at the domino sugar refinery may be gone, but the ne

. >> rose marie on "the dick van dyke show" was great for women who might aspire to being in the writer'sthe first glimpse we got that maybe that was possible. >> it's not like there were plenty of career women on tv. women were mainly housewives in the sit-coms or they were secretaries and teachers. they weren't writers. >> you mean you'd be willing to say you'll give up your job for us? >> compared to you, i'm a rat. >> compared to a rat, you're a rat. >> my mother didn't want me to be funny. how was i going to get married and be funny at the same time. but here was rose marie and she was blond and pretty and funny and i kind of liked that idea. >> no, don't bother to send this, mom, i don't think i'm going to mexico after all. hang on, mom, will you? newsroom? >> hello, mary? >> "the mary tyler moore show" changed everything. they brought a lot of women into the business. >> here you go, ready? action! >> they wanted to make a truthful story about a single woman in her 30s. and i think that jim brooks and allen burns realized that if we want to have the right details, we need to ask wo

imagine, you have spinal tap, princess bride, all in the family, dick van dyke, whej harry met sally,d men. when you're growing up in this household and you're rob reiner, the son and dad carl didn't say, son, i want you to follow my footsteps, this is a home where mel brooks comes over every night for dinner, still. so through osmosis, they're hysterical, and also they do not hold back when it comes to president trump. >> let's watch. >> did you grow up laughing in this house? >> the funniest people in the world came into this house. people asked a million times what it was like growing up in a household where there's mel brooks and norman lear, the funniest people in the world. as a kid you're growing up, you don't know -- that's your reality. >> i was trying to think of when he was very, very young, 4, 5 and 6 years old, when mel and i would be kidding around in the living room, he would sit on the steps and listen and laugh. we didn't understand how this kid knew what he was thinking about. as a matter of fact, when he was 12 years old, 13, 15, threw in a joke we still use. >> i w

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