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A Day in the Life of Alan Brady: Directed by Jerry Paris. With Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews. A film crew takes over the Petrie house during Mille and Jerry's wedding anniversary party for an Alan Brady documentary that aims to show the megalomaniac's "human" side.
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- Comedy, Family
- Jerry Paris
- 1966-04-06
- Talk to The Snail
- My Husband Is The Best One
- When A Bowling Pin Talks, Listen
- The Gunslinger
- Obnoxious, Offensives, Egomaniac, etc.
- Three Letters from One Wife
- The Bottom of Mel Cooley’s Heart
- A Day in The Life of Alan Brady
- Baby Fat
- Coast to Coast Big Mouth
At its core, The Dick Van Dyke Show is a sitcom about comedy writer Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke), his co-writers Buddy Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam) and Sally Rogers (Rose Marie), and their experiences writing for The Alan Brady Show. Some of the best episodes take place in the writers’ office. In the season five episode “Talk to the Snail,” the writers ...
For the first three seasons of the show, Alan’s face remains unseen. Viewers only see the back of his head or hear his voice. This happens in the season three episode “My Husband is the Best One.” Rob is interviewed by Newstime magazine about his work. His wife, Laura (Mary Tyler Moore), has a big mouth and brags about Rob. The article claims that ...
In the season two episode “When a Bowling Pin Talks, Listen,” Rob accidentally stole a comedy sketch from another television program. It was an accident, but it’s still plagiarism. Alan loves the idea for the sketch. So, when he finds out it was stolen, he’s understandably upset with the writers. However, he finally comes up with a solution to stil...
The Dick Van Dyke Show often reflected on pop culture trends of the '60s, including science fiction and in this case, the Western. The season five episode “The Gunslinger” is a parody of the popular cowboy shows and films of the time. Rob is anesthetized in Jerry Helper’s (Jerry Paris) dental chair when he has an elaborate dream that he’s in the Ol...
In the show’s final workplace episode “Obnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc.,” Rob, Buddy, and Sally mistakenly leave crude comments about Alan in a show script. They always take out the comments before sending it to Alan for his review, but they forgot. The writers go on a wild goose chase to find the script before Alan reads it. They end up at hi...
In the season four episode “Three Letters from One Wife,” viewers finally see Alan Brady’s face for the first time. The episode focuses on Alan, who is hosting an intellectual documentary show on comedy. He asks Rob to write the script, and Alan is genuinely worried about his performance. Can he be intellectual and philosophical? To help, Millie He...
Alan Brady is always mean towards Mel Cooley (Richard Deacon), the producer of The Alan Brady Show. They’re also brothers-in-law, but that doesn’t make Alan friendly towards him. Alan repeatedly remarks, “Shut up, Mel!” RELATED: 10 Sitcoms From The '60s Everyone Forgot About In the season five episode “The Bottom of Mel Cooley’s Heart,” Mel gets fi...
The season five episode “A Day in the Life of Alan Brady” is fittingly all about Alan. A film crew is producing a documentary about Alan, which he, of course, loves. Alan decides to take over Millie and Jerry’s anniversary party. He makes the party about himself. He directs everybody, wanting them to show that he’s beloved. He says, “These people a...
In the season four episode “Baby Fat,” Reiner demonstrated he was just as good in front of the camera as he was when he was writing the show. Alan is performing in a Broadway play, and he wants Rob to add more humorous lines in the script. Reiner and Van Dyke have perfect comedic timing while Rob’s the frustrated writer and Alan’s the demanding sta...
The show’s fifth season premiere, “Coast to Coast Big Mouth,” is undeniably Reiner’s best performance. When Laura accidentally reveals on a TV game show that Alan is bald, Rob’s career is in jeopardy. Laura tries to apologize to Alan, leading to an iconic scene between the two. Alan doesn’t have the patience for Laura’s infamous “blubbering” hyster...
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S5.E25 ∙ A Day in the Life of Alan Brady Wed, Apr 6, 1966 A film crew takes over the Petrie house during Mille and Jerry's wedding anniversary party for an Alan Brady documentary that aims to show the megalomaniac's "human" side.
A Day in the Life of Alan Brady. A film crew takes over the Petrie house during Mille and Jerry's wedding anniversary party. S5E25 25 min
A Day in the Life of Alan Brady. Available on Pluto TV, FilmRise, Philo, Peacock, Prime Video, Tubi TV, Plex. S5 E25: The Petries' anniversary party for the Helpers turns into a television documentary for Alan Brady. Comedy Apr 6, 1966 25 min. TV-G.
