'It takes a genius like Carl Reiner to create such a timeless and enjoyable show as this one, but it takes a selfless genius to take himself out of the starring role if that’s what the show needs'
Reiner in the Head of the Family pilot. Photo: CBS Enterprises The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than 120,000 television shows, commercials, and radio programs, there are thousands of important and funny programs waiting to be rediscovered by comedy nerds like you and me.
While the pilot episodes of both Head of the Family and Dick Van Dyke share a ton of DNA in the form of character names, premises, professions, dynamics, and so on, there are a lot of major differences between the two as well. The most immediately obvious are right there on the surface: The cast is completely different, with Barbara Britton as Carl Reiner’s wife Laura, and Sylvia Miles and Morty Gunty as Rob’s co-writers on The Alan Sturdy Show.
Things don’t go much better at work. Here he is continually disrespected by his two co-writers and the guy who shows up to deliver the coffee and doughnuts. Since it’s a single-camera show, there are an awful lot of insert shots of Ritchie making disgusted/embarrassed faces at the camera.
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