The New Dick Van Dyke Show

The New Dick Van Dyke Show
Van Dyke as Dick Preston and Dick Van Patten as Max Mathias, 1973.
Created by	Carl Reiner
Starring	Dick Van Dyke Hope Lange Fannie Flagg Nancy Dussault David Doyle Dick Van Patten Barry Gordon Henry Darrow Richard Dawson Chita Rivera Barbara Rush
Composer(s)	Jack Elliott Allyn Ferguson
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	72 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	30 minutes per episode
Production company(s)	Cave Creek Enterprises
Distributor	Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	September 18, 1971 – March 18, 1974

The New Dick Van Dyke Show is an American sitcom starring Dick Van Dyke that aired on CBS from 1971 to 1974. It was Van Dyke's first return to series television since The Dick Van Dyke Show.

CBS was so eager to have Dick Van Dyke return to their network that they signed him to a three-year contract. Van Dyke was living in Cave Creek, Arizona, at the time and did not want to move back to Hollywood, so the network agreed to film the show at Southwestern Studio on Stage 1 in nearby Carefree, Arizona.Dick Van Dyke Show creator Carl Reiner wrote and directed numerous episodes, also serving as creative consultant.

Van Dyke starred as Dick Preston, a local television talk show host at KXIV-TV in Phoenix, Arizona (the KXIV call sign actually belonged to a Phoenix radio station that Van Dyke co-owned). Like Van Dyke's previous series, this show divided its time between Dick's job in television and his home life with his wife and child. The show featured Hope Lange as his wife, Jenny; Arizona native Angela Powell as their daughter, Annie; Fannie Flagg as his sister, Mike; David Doyle as his boss, Ted; and Marty Brill and Nancy Dussault as the Prestons' friends, Bernie and Carol Davis. The Prestons also had a son, Lucas (played by Michael Shea seasons 1–2; Wendell Burton season 3), who was away at college and seen occasionally.