The Mary Tyler Moore Hour feat. Dick Van Dyke (Part 6)

[@douglaspriver2821]

During January 1979, my wife Debby and I were honeymooning in Los Angeles and actually were at the taping of this episode! What a thrill it was to see such talent together performing for possibly the last time. I never would have believed that I would now see this so many years later. My wife has since passed away. Thank you for bringing me back to such a happy moment in my life!

[@CoopyKat]

@douglaspriver2821 Awww sorry about your wife. I'm 10 years late responding to your post.

[@anonymom]

I wish he had sung more over the years. Beautiful voice. 🥰❤️

[@elainefaubert332]

Oh my gosh, Mary’s hair looks so good like that. Very becoming👍🥰 RIP

[@suzannebenz8928]

GReat skit and music! Thank you! Love Dick van Dyke!!!

[@ThisIsAnika57]

Mary and Dick are just freaking cute together. Their relationship and chemistry is just perfect,

[@johnflynn9619]

Dick is an Incredible Talent. He can do anything.

[@baileejo7663]

I'm 20 years old and I think I found the commercials more fascinating than the show but I think that was because it was just so cool to see how the commercials were back then and I now know what my parents saw when watching tv!!

[@vicrespo]

That was so great, thank you.

[@J9harrison]

Awesome watching them

[@Alexaklr]

Thanks so much for posting this. The best parts were Rob & Laura, when Mary meets DVD, the DVD parts, and their dance. While there were good moments in Mary's house, it didn't equal the DVD and MTM shows. They had tons of chemistry together, for sure. I watch DVD and MTM reruns on MeTV nearly every night. Loved Diagnosis Murder, too. This is a keeper. Special nostalgia.

[@bobneyland5772]

They sure were good working together

[@bobneyland5772]

RIP MTM

[@groovygirl23]

Thanks for posting. Loved the networks promos, too.

[@jcastrogiovanni]

I loved this episode. Thankyou for uploading. I also enjoyed hearing the old comercials you left in.

[@bubanner]

I love these 2....and hope they neva die.

[@BelieveInYourself-theoriginal]

She lives on! Still watching in 2019! RIP Mary. 😊

[@acousticguitarfan55]

The best! Pure class! Thanks for posting! :)

[@bubbletwist2370]

Omggosh they are so talentedd and funny i love themm(:

[@fletchersmommy1]

Thanks for posting these. I adore the original show but I liked the commercials best on these. :)

[@LianesLens]

Love Mary's dress!

[@dav1237]

Thanks for posting this - the picture quality is excellent!

[@Ar7wen]

Funny to see Michael Keaton in this when he was so young, and hear he was just in a big movie, Birdman as an aging actor etc. Was nominated for best actor, right? Oh wow, these songs really take me back. What a culture gap, between the 70's and, what is it NOW??? LOL 2015....Nice variety work here, but as someone else mentioned, variety wasn't really popular then. Love Mary and Dick. Sadly she is not in good health from what I hear. I don't remember if I watched this back in the day, but you forget how different things were until you see something like this....a different world. No computers, no 500 something channels filled mostly with commercials reality TV and constant reruns of movies..........Ernest Borgnine, I wonder how many people even know he is was now??? WKRP THAT really takes me back.....

[@sj32yk]

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[@tuxguys]

(3 years ago) I came to this after revisiting their appearance together on Carson in 1979, to promote this episode. I never saw this particular MTM show, although I saw her show which preceded this one... the one which immediately succeeded "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Mary!" (with its epochally-talented cast, including Michael Keaton, Dick Shawn, Swoozie Kurtz, and David Letterman), and I can see why, structurally, this show could not sustain itself... but the Van Dyke stuff, both "real" as well as "imagined", was absolute magic. (Addendum, 3 years later) I must have been really merlot-hazed when I saw this the first time, and wrote the above... This time, this clip made me cringe. Note the CBS promo for it's Monday night line-up, in 1979: "The White Shadow" "M.A.S.H." "WKRP in Cincinnati" "Lou Grant" These promos are more entertaining than the show which contains it (and serves as a reminder of how CBS used to own Monday nights.)

[@merriegraham12]

I luved her😭

[@Lightsngear]

Thanks for posting these...ESPECIALLY w/ the original ads & promos!!! I was 20 when these aired (but didn't see them at the time) and had always been a big "DVD" Show fan. This however, was a little lame. However, you can't beat the fact that Dick & Mary were magic together...both here and before.

[@arttrombley7385]

Mary is still beautiful at 47, My Barbara didn't loose it until 60. Some women age so gracefully.

[@StefenTower]

MTM is 42 in this video.

[@jedijones]

@@StefenTower They gave her such poor hair and makeup in the '70s. Made her look older.

[@NYNC88]

I'd like to watch that Monday night line up that was advertised.

[@Ar7wen]

Saturnay Night FEVER groan, oh no, it's DiSCO!

[@davidfritz1331]

Man... when you gotta use a cattle prod to make the canned laughter laugh...

[@bobneyland5772]

RIP MTM

[@mstewart61]

Mary looked hot in this. I love her hair in this. If variety shows was still popular it would had a good run. When MTM did this back in 1978-79 seasons variety shows were out of style. This is too bad because Mary is a great entertainer.

[@crackingtheshell7959]

What is MTM's accent? There's something really elegant about it..

[@cacatr4495]

*trained, from the golden age of television: I believe they called that the Continental accent, an elegant sound brought to the East Coast early in the twentieth century and prior.

[@futureindirector21]

@dav1237 yeah cuz ya said it now i noticed it and thats all i noticed!!!....GRRrrr

[@Honey059]

They don't make great shows like these anymore. When I watch a great jem like this, I can't help but think, What the hell happened to television. I mean there are still a few good shows out there today, but alot of it is just a pure Bull crap and a waste of time. And a lot of shows can also really insult your intelligence

[@jedijones]

What in the world is this concept? The Dick Van Dyke Show exists, but Mary is playing a different Mary here than Mary Tyler Moore, who doesn't know Dick Van Dyke? This is insanity. Keep it simple, folks.

[@fromthesidelines]

In the fictional context of "THE MARY TYLER MOORE HOUR", she's "Mary McKinnon", star of a CBS variety show (that's obviously on its last legs). And *she* only got as far as audtioning for Rose Marie's role on Dick's sitcom in 1960 {or so she says}. 😉

[@liverneck2001]

this was as successful as mclean stevenson's variety show.....

[@tommyvermiglio1649]

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[@DDumbrille]

These are the kinds of musical routines that killed musicals for 20-30 years.

[@burleq]

I remember watching this when it aired and I thought it was a total misfire, the turkey of the year and a huge misuse of talent. I thought it tried way too hard and failed miserably. I was right!

[@TheMidnightBell07]

Hey, I mean no harm but the 70's didn't like the 70's lol. I mean the corny, bubble, goody-two-shoes, squaresville image. They wanted the raw gritty not made for tv side. The rawness of funk mixed with hunger of metal. They liked the crime drams and the ethnic shows. Stuff needed to be free in the wildest sort of way. I never really saw what other people saw until I looked back now and it's a trip. People liked Three's Company because Chrissy's boobs bounced and Jack's junk slightly escaped his shorts. (I won't tell you either episode lol) It was known for it's fantastic dramas and those car crashes and let's not forget the height of the Blaxportation movement. Those were movies where Black people ran things and the stereotypes were on high but the other people they had in the movies looked like they were having just as much fun. It looked like it was really wild fun and exciting which leads me to the variety shows. Flip Wilson, Sonny and Cher, and then it needed to end yes you heard me. I know the Osmond's, Brady's, and so on and so but they were it for variety and when I mean it I don't mean the Brady's nor the Osmond's lol. Hee Haw The Carol Bernette Show and Laurence Welk weren't just variety but special so no I don't mean them. They were more of the bridging but the others played the same old tune that fell on the closed ears of the new ethnic America. Show with Hispanics, Jewish, Blacks, and Asians were moving in and taking over the networks. You still had Whites but they were Greek like Telly, Italian, like Robert Blake, Polish, German, Rich, Poor etc. It was a time to be mixed and free but Mary and McClain weren't on the same wave. Blaxportation died when it became less about showcasing ethnicity and more focused on Blacks being in stuff. People want to see all types of people doing their thing and unfortunately Mary and the other shows didn't really showcase that feeling.

[@DDumbrille]

I'm a fan of Mary and Dick, but this was truly painful. So cheesy-square, almost worse than the ultra saccharine Lawrence Welk. Moore was a better dancer and singer than this, but probably had to tone it down so she didn't outshine Van Dyck...

[@liverneck2001]

A second rate carol burnett show

[@fromthesidelines]

More like a female version of "THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM".

[@cacatr4495]

Mary was never trying to be Carol.

[@fromthesidelines]

She wasn't that great playing a fictional version of herself, either. 😏