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S39E8: Starring Dick Van Dyke | Clip

Rare behind-the-scenes footage from “The Dick Van Dyke Show”

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Larry Mathews, who played Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore’s son Ritchie Petrie in “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” discovered a trove of home movies his father shot while Mathews was on set.

TRANSCRIPT

(slow brooding music) - So my mother passed away earlier this year, 77 years in the same house.

We had to go in and start cleaning things.

There was a couple closets full of my father's home movies.

So I packed them up and I sent them to a friend of mine who was gonna transfer them for me.

And I remember, he called me up and he says, "Oh my God, "do you know what is part of your dad's collection?"

I said, "No."

He says, "There's a movie of behind the scenes rehearsals "of 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' that your father shot."

And when I saw that, I just thought, this is just a special thing that I'm so fortunate to have that now is another part of the history that I'm part of, which I'm so proud of.

(bluesy retro music)