unexpected depth. what we think of the new format, the dance numbers should come before the big sketch. gee, i don t know. i like it. now i like it. yeah, me, too. i like it, too. what do you know? look at that tie you re wearing. i only wrote what i knew about, which is life. if you re writing about that, nobody can say, that s not true. it is true. i m living it. on the dick van dyke show, we could believe the actions of the characters because we could relate to them. this wasn t a genie in a bikini on someone s mantel. these were real people. women are more honest and direct? no. they re more courageous? we have these real feelings, husbands with relationships with wives. this was the comedy of living.
where? where? where? where? when you get to your show of shows, that s a very famous writer s room, and you had two women who worked at separate times, the first with lucille callen and the second was selma diamond. it s always great to have the women s viewpoint and who better than woman to say, women will laugh for that. so when i put together the characters for the van dyk show, i said, we need the women s viewpoint. and when i told my agent, he immediately said rosemary. it s a beautiful piece of writing, but if he doesn t get a laugh every ten seconds, he calls the cops and has the audience arrested. rosemary on the dick van dyke show was great for women who might aspire to being in the writer s room, because that was the first glimpse we got that maybe that was possible. it s not like there were plenty of career women on tv. women were mainly housewives in the sitcoms or secretaries, they weren t writers. are you willing to say you ll
laugh for that. so when i put together the characters for the van dyk show, i said, we need the women s viewpoint. and when i told my agent, he immediately said rosemary. it s a beautiful piece of writing, but if he doesn t get a laugh every ten seconds, he calls the cops and has the audience arrested. rosemary on the dick van dyke show was great for women who might aspire to being in the writer s room, because that was the first glimpse we got that maybe that was possible. it s not like there were plenty of career women on tv. women were mainly housewives in the sitcoms or secretaries, they weren t writers. are you willing to say you ll give up your job for us? compared to you, i m a rat. compared to a rat, you re a rat. my mother didn t want me to be funny. how was i going to t married, because how was i going to get married and be funny at the same time. but here was rosemarie and she was blond and pretty and funny and i kind of liked that idea. no, don t bother to
role model for a generation of women. who can turn the world on with her smile. there are few people who the word iconic truly applies to. but mary tyler moore was one of them. moore began her a sescent to stardom as a dancer in the 1950s. but landed her big break as laura petrie on the dick van dyke show. the famous costar taking to twitter as the news broke, saying, there are no words. she was the best. i ve got your number. show creator carl rhiner fondly remembered the moment he discovered her. i grabbed the top of her head, and i said, come with me. and i walked her down the hall to sheldon and i said, i found her. her role on the dick van dyke show made her a household name. but it was her own show, portraying a single 30-something
reporter: mary tyler moore s smile has been turned off before the age of 80. you re going to make it after all her famous hat throw immortal e immortalized in a statue. here it goes! reporter: her first acting was as an elf. pushing appliances. but her career really got hot the the dick van dyke show reporter: in 1961 with her first starring role. i want to show you off. how about it, laurie? will you give me that pleasure? no. reporter: in her own show she played a single tv woman in a newsroom. you ve got spunk. well i hate spunk. reporter: the show had enough spunk to last seven seasons. mary also went after serious roles. do you chase these roles or yes. reporter: she was nominated for an academy award for