Rare behind-the-scenes footage from "The Dick Van Dyke Show"
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Larry Mathews shares home movies shot from the set of "The Dick Van Dyke Show."
Larry Mathews, who played Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore's son Ritchie Petrie in "The Dick Van Dyke Show," discovered a trove of home movies his father shot while Mathews was on set.
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Rare behind-the-scenes footage from "The Dick Van Dyke Show"
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Larry Mathews, who played Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore's son Ritchie Petrie in "The Dick Van Dyke Show," discovered a trove of home movies his father shot while Mathews was on set.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(slow brooding music) - So my mother passed away earlier this year, 77 years in the same house.
We had to go in and start cleaning things.
There was a couple closets full of my father's home movies.
So I packed them up and I sent them to a friend of mine who was gonna transfer them for me.
And I remember, he called me up and he says, "Oh my God, "do you know what is part of your dad's collection?"
I said, "No."
He says, "There's a movie of behind the scenes rehearsals "of 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' that your father shot."
And when I saw that, I just thought, this is just a special thing that I'm so fortunate to have that now is another part of the history that I'm part of, which I'm so proud of.
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Clip: 12/12/2025 | 1m 7s | On May 31st, 1964, Dick Van Dyke delivered a speech on race relations. (1m 7s)
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