TY - BOOK AU - Waldron,Vince TI - The official Dick Van Dyke show book: the definitive history and ultimate viewer's guide to television's most enduring comedy SN - 1557834539 AV - PN 1992.77 W167o 2001 U1 - 791.45 PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - Hyperion KW - Dick Van Dyke show (Television program) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]) and index; Introduction / by Dick Van Dyke -- Prologue : inauguration day -- One man's reality -- Sifting through sand -- Head of the family -- A basket full of scripts -- Fall guy -- Casting calls -- The girl with three names -- Nervous wrecks -- Casting off pearls -- Soft soap -- The best of times -- Moving the furniture -- courtship -- Capri pants -- Wednesday nights -- The bad old days -- On the banks of the Ohio -- Never name a duck -- Stumbling -- Sneezing funny -- Nuts -- Unlikely saviors -- Changing of the guard -- Playing to an empty house -- Picturing Mary naked -- Tempest in a bathtub -- Practice makes perfect -- Curtain calls -- Shenanigans -- The last chapter -- Epilogue -- The Dick Van Dyke Show log N2 - The first and only complete, fully authorized biography of one of TV's most beloved sitcoms, including the first complete viewer's guide to all 158 episodes, as well as special behind-the-scenes trivia and a full chapter concordance. 50 black and white photos ER -