3/10
Bad then, terrible now
9 October 2023
I remember as a kid tuning in hoping to relive the excellence of the earlier Dick van Dyke show, only to get this.

Hope Lang was not MTM, which she repeatedly demonstrated with her wan performances and her insufferable camera glances. The supporting players were uninteresting and there was none of the dynamism the old DVD show managed to bring to both home and office. MTM advanced, DVD struggled.

I don't know whether the "making love" scene was true, but it does sum up the era - with inhibitions gone, any absurd thing became relevant. It may be that DVD as a comic performer needed the supporting cast he had, not the ones here that he ended up with.

Not a good show.
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