The 2nd kitchen scene when Millie is freaking out is SO brilliantly executed by both Mary and Ann there! It's like if it were an Olympic event it would've gotten a 10! 😄
@@bluecamus5162 Oh how interesting and cool! Watch just when we think that, they did it in only a few sessions 😄. You never know- they were ALL so talented, and played off each other so well! Did you like the scene between Mary and Carl when she goes up to apologize about saying he was bald on television? Loved that one. I also thought the one between Rob and Jerry after their boat was rescued was really well played 😆 ("idk how sheep STAND each other in the rainy season!")
I love that Rob’s meltdown when he cracked was him laughing at the whole situation, not any kind of violence toward Laura or Millie. This is good clean television! 😊
The kitchen seen with Laura, millie, and rob, I've seen this episode 20 plus times, and I still laugh with tears, the entire cast of this show were all exceptional!!! Never get tired of watching!!!
I had a feeling she was Yetta on Nanny, but wasn’t sure with those huge lenses and how she was made up and dressed. She was almost a caricature of an elderly woman.
My God, the genius of these people. Imagine getting a script on Monday and filming 5 days later in front of an audience and coming up with Gold. Every word, every movement, every facial expression is perfection, amazing. The writing, cast, and acting are the best in sitcom history in my opinion ! Thank you for uploading these
Alan's secretary in this episode (Three Letters From One Wife) was played by the beautiful Valerie Yerke. What a beautiful woman she was - and still IS as she's still alive and well. Not only did she play Miss Thomas (Alan's secretary) in this episode, but she also played Cynthia Harding (the teacher) in "Somebody Has To Play Cleopatra," and Diane Moseby in "My Husband Is the Best One." Her scene beginning at 19:21 was my favorite of the episode with the best ever Dick Van Dyke AGAIN doing the best physical comedy of all time looking for a cigarette to go with the match she gave him. He couldn't even get out her character's name. My 2nd favorite scene was Buddy's 'Look out" that immediately preceded it. And the classic Laura/Millie/Rob scene in the kitchen, of course, is tied for 1st especially with Rob's best line, "She DID flood the subway?"
I love that both Laura and Millie wear pants in the kitchen scene. A few years before this they would have had to wear dresses. (But later they were both in skirts.). However, things were changing in the 1960s. Thankfully.
all i can say is this is one high-falutin tv show. between the snappy dialogue, the believable situations and excellent comedic timing there's a wonderful layer of intellectualism in this sitcom that raises it above almost all others. i think the old, 50s "jack benny show" and "seinfeld" are its only equals in american tv. thanks for the video.
I usually feel sorry for Mel since he has to endure so much disrespect, so it was quite cathartic to see him essentially save the day in this episode and even flip the script by telling Alan to shut up for once.
It was local inside the greater New York area in those days. Within some metro areas, you can still get a letter delivered in a day, provided there's a local USPS processing and distribution center.
In downtown St. Louis in the late 50's when I was a boy my father got morning and evening mail deliveries at his office - same day was the norm. One finds antique postcards inviting a small town neighbor to come over and play cards after dinner and it is mailed on the morning of the same day.
Did anyone else notice in the first 5 minutes of the show they give away the plot? "Even if you have to write them (the letters) yourself." When Larua is caught putting a fake age on the marriage certificate, Rob says says "What would Laura be keeping from me?" Sally says, "That's easy her real age." There are many other examples.
Gonna be picky here..but that is a newer kitchen faucet on the set...Laura pulls the handle towards her to get water..I've sold those kinda faucets at Home Depot and have had that style. Watch how she operates it..when she is done the handle is almost straight up..normally the water is coming out now.
Actually, Jerry was the on-the-spot correspondent (Jack Sullivan) reporting on the flood from a rubber raft under Times Square. Listen to the voice, and you'll recognize it. (11:37)
@@randallulrich I'm surprised it wasn't Carl Reiner's voice. He does so many of these such as the fast talk car commercial on tv when Rob is waiting for Citizen Kane to come on and many others.
Actually he was as the voice of Jack Sullivan, on a rubber raft, beneath the times square 😂😂 and quite possibly as the announcer about the New York ballet and the Bronx Zoo, just with a slight voice change. 😄
During the show Mary Tyler Moore found out she has type 1 Diabetes. Dick was having a hard time carrying his own show and started drinking to handle the pressure. The kitchen in Rob and Laura's house was blue and the living room was avocado greens and gold. Colors I love to this day.
@@leestamm3187 LOL....one of my favorites. It was followed by a second episode featuring Rickles. He was all over TV back in the 60s. Finally got his own sitcom in the 70s
The fictional program "Project Greatness" sounds like a very interesting idea. I wonder if anything like that was ever produced locally in New York, that Carl Reiner might have drawn upon, for this episode of the DVD show.
I remember growing up in the 60s, it was mandatory for girls to wear dresses or skirts to school, never pants of any type. It wasn't until my sophomore year in high school that girls were allowed to wear pants on fridays only..
I was a teen in the 1960s and maybe a bit older than you as when I left high school it was then I noticed girls started to wear pants to school. I was so surprised.
I dunno but I love women from that era like those bit part actresses such as Allen’s Secretary. They were beautiful and feminine. What happened to them? I guess they were all oppressed.
Feminism told them that being male was the measure of humanity and so to be equal to men they had to dress and act like men - especially the worst qualities of men. Femininity was preached as disgusting, bad and to be rejected in favor of ersatz masculinity.
Alan's secretary in this episode (Three Letters From One Wife) was played by the beautiful Valerie Yerke. What a beautiful woman she was - and still IS as she's still alive and well. Not only did she play Miss Thomas (Alan's secretary) in this episode, but she also played Cynthia Harding (the teacher) in "Somebody Has To Play Cleopatra," and Diane Moseby in "My Husband Is the Best One." Her scene beginning at 19:21 was my favorite of the episode with the best ever Dick Van Dyke AGAIN doing the best physical comedy of all time looking for a cigarette to go with the match she gave him. He couldn't even get out her character's name. My 2nd favorite scene was Buddy's 'Look out" that immediately preceded it. And the classic Laura/Millie/Rob scene in the kitchen, of course, is tied for 1st especially with Rob's best line, "She DID flood the subway?"
@@kristabrewer6736 I don't think he ever "um, produced!?". He directed many episodes though. I just asked a simple question. No need to make me feel small with your sarcasm.
I love this show, but this episode doesn't really make much sense. Why would Millie mail the letters before the show was on? Anyone who watched the show wouldn't write a fan letter until afterwards, and mail the next day. By the postmarks, you'd be able to see the letters were written & mailed before the show was on.
I wish that women still wore dresses more often than not. The one bad thing about this show is that MTM influenced more women to wear pants. But, in the office where I work most of the women wear dresses often. Women are so pretty in dresses. Especially if they wear cowboy boots with the dresses. 😉
The Alan Brady character is a disguised reference to Sid Caesar ("Your Show of Shows"), who could be a tyrant to work for. Carl Reiner was one of Sid's staff writers (along with other notables such as Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Woody Allen, among others).
God, I really found Millie to be annoying in this episode, and I don't normally think she is. Maybe because her breakdown sounded like the stereotypical, shrill voiced breakdowns assumed of women.
The whole kitchen scene , priceless .
Rob : its not going to make me happy is it.!?!?
It didn't make him happy, but he used to keep us very happy and entertained! Those were the clean comedy days...!
@@5thsgamingreplays518 Love the way he delivered that line 😆😆
Ann Morgan Guilbert was such an underrated comedic actress.
I loved her as Yetta in The Nanny.
The 2nd kitchen scene when Millie is freaking out is SO brilliantly executed by both Mary and Ann there! It's like if it were an Olympic event it would've gotten a 10! 😄
It's one of my favorite scenes from the entire series. I wonder how long they rehearsed to get that scene to come out that good.
@@bluecamus5162 Oh how interesting and cool! Watch just when we think that, they did it in only a few sessions 😄. You never know- they were ALL so talented, and played off each other so well! Did you like the scene between Mary and Carl when she goes up to apologize about saying he was bald on television? Loved that one. I also thought the one between Rob and Jerry after their boat was rescued was really well played 😆 ("idk how sheep STAND each other in the rainy season!")
Millie was genius
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@@systemsproceed248 Sure- starts at 12:27
I love that Rob’s meltdown when he cracked was him laughing at the whole situation, not any kind of violence toward Laura or Millie. This is good clean television! 😊
Dick was already laughing at the start of the scene. He knew it was gonna be hilarious...
This ENTIRE cast...so..EXCEPTIONAL!!!!
You said it! And most of them basically legendary!
😂the scene in the kitchen when Rob is having his breakdown was funny as hell!!!😂🇨🇦👍
These are just priceless to watch fifty years after they aired, or I should say closer to sixty. THANK YOU for uploading these.
The kitchen seen with Laura, millie, and rob, I've seen this episode 20 plus times, and I still laugh with tears, the entire cast of this show were all exceptional!!! Never get tired of watching!!!
Mee too!😂😅🤣
Oh Rob, I was only trying to help!
YOU flooded the subway????
That kitchen scene was my favorite scene of all the episodes. Absolutely priceless and so funny. The acting in this episode was SUPERB!!
I never used to pay that much attention to Mel, now (prolly because I’m about his age now) but on this current binge, what a great character actor ❤️
He had a nice moment in Alan's office with Rob; they gave him a little more than the usual formula.
This episode is classic. Robert saying "don't touch me" is comedy gold. This show is great!! I love it so much!
One of the best written episodes. Makes you think and laugh. Great job by Millie.
Fun to see a Millie featured episode. So great that she had good work until the end. Loved Yetta on The Nanny, loved Birdy on Getting On
I had a feeling she was Yetta on Nanny, but wasn’t sure with those huge lenses and how she was made up and dressed. She was almost a caricature of an elderly woman.
She’s dead
@@michaelscarlata1509 Loved her on GRUMPIER OLD MEN with Jack Lemon and Walter Matthau.
She was Yetta on The Nanny? Really?
My God, the genius of these people. Imagine getting a script on Monday and filming 5 days later in front of an audience and coming up with Gold. Every word, every movement, every facial expression is perfection, amazing. The writing, cast, and acting are the best in sitcom history in my opinion ! Thank you for uploading these
This episode has got to be one of my favorites!
Millie, Laura, and especially Rob gave virtuoso performances in the kitchen scene.
Lucy and Ethel, Laura and Millie, Mary and Rhonda... the heart of those sitcoms.
Was 10 when show came on 16 when it ended best 6 years of my childhood 🥰🥰
I was 10 when it went off.loved the summer re runs.
Alan's secretary in this episode (Three Letters From One Wife) was played by the beautiful Valerie Yerke. What a beautiful woman she was - and still IS as she's still alive and well. Not only did she play Miss Thomas (Alan's secretary) in this episode, but she also played Cynthia Harding (the teacher) in "Somebody Has To Play Cleopatra," and Diane Moseby in "My Husband Is the Best One." Her scene beginning at 19:21 was my favorite of the episode with the best ever Dick Van Dyke AGAIN doing the best physical comedy of all time looking for a cigarette to go with the match she gave him. He couldn't even get out her character's name. My 2nd favorite scene was Buddy's 'Look out" that immediately preceded it. And the classic Laura/Millie/Rob scene in the kitchen, of course, is tied for 1st especially with Rob's best line, "She DID flood the subway?"
Are you a relative of hers?
I love that both Laura and Millie wear pants in the kitchen scene. A few years before this they would have had to wear dresses. (But later they were both in skirts.). However, things were changing in the 1960s. Thankfully.
18:35 Don’t touch me. 😄 The way he said that is hilarious!
Loved this show.
24:38 "Anybody is welcome yo have their own opinion about anything. Millie, get out of my house" 😹😹😹😹😹 my favorite
all i can say is this is one high-falutin tv show. between the snappy dialogue, the believable situations and excellent comedic timing there's a wonderful layer of intellectualism in this sitcom that raises it above almost all others. i think the old, 50s "jack benny show" and "seinfeld" are its only equals in american tv. thanks for the video.
My favorite show as a kid, still Love it today, a brilliant cast❤
Thanks for the upload.💜
We have all done things that we regret, so 😢we knie the feeling
Slice his own bologna. So funny 😂😂😂
Lol poor Mel, he puts up with so much
I usually feel sorry for Mel since he has to endure so much disrespect, so it was quite cathartic to see him essentially save the day in this episode and even flip the script by telling Alan to shut up for once.
Wow! Letters delivered in less than 24 hours! Those were the days!
It was local inside the greater New York area in those days. Within some metro areas, you can still get a letter delivered in a day, provided there's a local USPS processing and distribution center.
In downtown St. Louis in the late 50's when I was a boy my father got morning and evening mail deliveries at his office - same day was the norm. One finds antique postcards inviting a small town neighbor to come over and play cards after dinner
and it is mailed on the morning of the same day.
Mel: Do you want a drink, Alan?
Alan: No, a glass of dust. LOL!
i was just a young lad when this show was new on TV, but even then I knew MTM was a babe!
Me first.
Reiner's first full-face appearance as Brady.
Did anyone else notice in the first 5 minutes of the show they give away the plot? "Even if you have to write them (the letters) yourself." When Larua is caught putting a fake age on the marriage certificate, Rob says says "What would Laura be keeping from me?" Sally says, "That's easy her real age." There are many other examples.
Gonna be picky here..but that is a newer kitchen faucet on the set...Laura pulls the handle towards her to get water..I've sold those kinda faucets at Home Depot and have had that style. Watch how she operates it..when she is done the handle is almost straight up..normally the water is coming out now.
Jerry wasn't in the episode, he was busy being the cast's favorite director.
Actually, Jerry was the on-the-spot correspondent (Jack Sullivan) reporting on the flood from a rubber raft under Times Square. Listen to the voice, and you'll recognize it. (11:37)
@@randallulrich I'm surprised it wasn't Carl Reiner's voice. He does so many of these such as the fast talk car commercial on tv when Rob is waiting for Citizen Kane to come on and many others.
He wasn't missed!
Actually he was as the voice of Jack Sullivan, on a rubber raft, beneath the times square 😂😂 and quite possibly as the announcer about the New York ballet and the Bronx Zoo, just with a slight voice change. 😄
I love this show. Millie got a nice rearend
During the show Mary Tyler Moore found out she has type 1 Diabetes. Dick was having a hard time carrying his own show and started drinking to handle the pressure. The kitchen in Rob and Laura's house was blue and the living room was avocado greens and gold. Colors I love to this day.
MTM was not diagnosed with Diabetes until 1970, four years after the DVD Show ended.
That's Dick Van Dyke Show producer Carl Reiner playing Allen Brady.
This made me laugh.
The shut up Mel poor Mel Alan always blames Mel 😢but funny 😅
18:08 honestly, this is how I feel most of the time nowadays ☺
Knowing that Knowing that Buddy Sorrell was based on Mel Brooks explains so very much.
Hey there, Lyle. I encounter you most often on classical music channels. Think I'll watch the "4 and a Half" episode next. 😄
@@leestamm3187 LOL....one of my favorites. It was followed by a second episode featuring Rickles. He was all over TV back in the 60s. Finally got his own sitcom in the 70s
@0:28 min. et sequitur.
Correct me if I'm wrong. Could THIS be #AlanBrady's / #CarlReiner's longest appearance ever on the #DickVanDykeShow?
I have never seen reference to the source of the title of this episode, A Letter to 3 Wives.
Carl Reiner was really tall! I didn't know
I thought he and Dick Van Dyke looked the same height there, both tall. I noticed that.
Carl Reiner: 6' 2" Richard Deacon: 6' 2" Dick Van Dyke: 6' 1"
The fictional program "Project Greatness" sounds like a very interesting idea. I wonder if anything like that was ever produced locally in New York, that Carl Reiner might have drawn upon, for this episode of the DVD show.
I think Millie and Mel should get co-starring credits.
I remember growing up in the 60s, it was mandatory for girls to wear dresses or skirts to school, never pants of any type. It wasn't until my sophomore year in high school that girls were allowed to wear pants on fridays only..
I was a teen in the 1960s and maybe a bit older than you as when I left high school it was then I noticed girls started to wear pants to school. I was so surprised.
all the best ones have Allan in them
I agree. They're my favorite episodes.
The kitchen faucet is different.
Dayum...Laura had a great set of headlights.
I dunno but I love women from that era like those bit part actresses such as Allen’s Secretary. They were beautiful and feminine. What happened to them? I guess they were all oppressed.
Feminism told them that being male was the measure of humanity and so to be equal to men they had to dress and act like men - especially the worst qualities of men. Femininity was preached as disgusting, bad and to be rejected in favor of ersatz masculinity.
Some of us are still feminine ❤
Where’s all the 300lbers with purple hair and hairy pits ?
@@benjonesthe3rd200 Do you miss them?
Alan's secretary in this episode (Three Letters From One Wife) was played by the beautiful Valerie Yerke. What a beautiful woman she was - and still IS as she's still alive and well. Not only did she play Miss Thomas (Alan's secretary) in this episode, but she also played Cynthia Harding (the teacher) in "Somebody Has To Play Cleopatra," and Diane Moseby in "My Husband Is the Best One." Her scene beginning at 19:21 was my favorite of the episode with the best ever Dick Van Dyke AGAIN doing the best physical comedy of all time looking for a cigarette to go with the match she gave him. He couldn't even get out her character's name. My 2nd favorite scene was Buddy's 'Look out" that immediately preceded it. And the classic Laura/Millie/Rob scene in the kitchen, of course, is tied for 1st especially with Rob's best line, "She DID flood the subway?"
I used to despise Alan Brady as a kid watching these in reruns (didn't quite understand satire yet)
8:50 mmm, percolated coffee. How could people drink that swill?
Is Alan's secretary named 'Millie' also? (I couldn't quite hear what Rob said. )
Alan Brady really jerks Rob around in this episode. Appearing on 'Project Greatness.' Will he, won't he?
Where was Jerry?
Um, Producing?!
and believe me, he was't missed!
@@kristabrewer6736 I don't think he ever "um, produced!?". He directed many episodes though. I just asked a simple question. No need to make me feel small with your sarcasm.
On a rubber raft beneath Times Square.
I love this show, but this episode doesn't really make much sense. Why would Millie mail the letters before the show was on? Anyone who watched the show wouldn't write a fan letter until afterwards, and mail the next day. By the postmarks, you'd be able to see the letters were written & mailed before the show was on.
There has been some continuity issues before too.
I worked for a couple of famous DC lawyers who treat people liike this, only worst
Worse is the comparative. Worst is the superlative.
I wish that women still wore dresses more often than not. The one bad thing about this show is that MTM influenced more women to wear pants. But, in the office where I work most of the women wear dresses often. Women are so pretty in dresses. Especially if they wear cowboy boots with the dresses. 😉
Cowboy boots with a dress oh yuk
@@earnold1896it depends on the dress 👗
@@HopefulStars-pt6hi okie dokie
Alan is so abusive...it's not funny
@ Beth R Another Don Rickles type. Can't stand either one!
@@garyfrancis6193 *for Buddy? 🙂
I never like when Alan Brady appears; I just don't like the character. Everyone else...beyond wonderful! Especially enjoyed Millie in this one.
The Alan Brady character is a disguised reference to Sid Caesar ("Your Show of Shows"), who could be a tyrant to work for. Carl Reiner was one of Sid's staff writers (along with other notables such as Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Woody Allen, among others).
It’s not at all funny. Buddy’s relentless wisecracks are also not humorous.
"Project Greatness" sounds like a Donald Trump idea.
Make Allen Great Again.
@@rd8370 MAGA 2024
What's wrong with that?!
Project Runway is more Trump-ish. No substance.
How 'bout one_letter from three_wives..
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Bye..
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God, I really found Millie to be annoying in this episode, and I don't normally think she is. Maybe because her breakdown sounded like the stereotypical, shrill voiced breakdowns assumed of women.
You're nuts. She was gold in this episode.
Sounds pretty accurate to me except nowadays she would be more demanding, entitled, irritating, and just downright unbearable.
' You want a drink Alan? No, a glass of dust ' ..Ha!, ha!, ha!
Really violent language- “ Rob is going to kill me.”