By Zamboni
Tomorrow (Saturday, December 13) is Dick Van Dyke's 100th birthday. The excellent news is that he's here to celebrate it with us. We love him for many reasons, but mostly for The Dick Van Dyke Show, which aired on network television from 1961 to 1966.
It was a creation of brilliant people, mostly Jews, who were looking for a gentile everyman to make Rob Petrie relatable to American viewers in the early 1960s. Van Dyke understood the assignment, and added amazing physical comedy to make Rob Petrie his own. We own the shows on DVD, and we still watch them and laugh as if it's our first time.
"That's My Boy?" was not just a hilarious Dick Van Dyke episode, but a groundbreaking one. There are so many wonderful memories from this show, but maybe this one is the most important. We cats PURR.
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