Dick Van Dyke at 100
HI JOE! GOD BLESS, DICK VAN DYKE Dick Van Dyke is heading for his 100th birthday on 13 December 2025. 64 years ago, in 1961, The Dick Van Dyke Show was launched on US television. Dick played comedy writer Rob Petrie and Mary Tyler Moore played his wife Laura. It was a huge success, running to 156 episodes in its five-year life. It was great family TV back in the days when we only had a couple of channels and we were still in awe of American shows featuring cops, cowboys and comedians I thought I'd just blog a little bit about Dick Van Dyke. On screen, he has had various phases in his career from the aforementioned TV show to other small screen series and, of course, films. In 1964, he co-starred with Julie Andrews in the enduringly popular Mary Poppins and became legendary, as Bert the chimney sweep, for the worst Cockney accent of all time. But, whatever we think of his mangled attempt at being a Londoner, because of that role, we haven't forg...