Collection context
Summary
- Abstract:
- Production files for The Dick Van Dyke Show, an American sitcom that aired in the early 1960s.
- Extent:
- 4 Linear Feet (4 cartons)
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], The Dick Van Dyke Show production files, PA Mss 269. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection contains episode production files from five seasons of The Dick Van Dyke Show. Production files may contain scripts, synopsis, list of credits, music cue sheets, and sometimes rerun payment schedules and publicity photos, and other materials. Not all items may be included for every episode.
- Biographical / historical:
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The Dick Van Dyke Show was an American sitcom that centered on the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke), the head writer for the fictitious variety show The Alan Brady Show in New York, who lived in suburban New Rochelle, New York with USO dancer turned housewife Laura Petrie (Mary Tyler Moore) and their young son Ritchie (Larry Mathews).
The series portrayed daily life and comedic scenarios that Rob Petrie found himself in the middle of with his family, his colleagues, his neighbors, and his friends.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift, November 2024.
- Arrangement:
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The collection is arranged by television season into five series:
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- Season 4
- Season 5
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the collection and physical objects belong to the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and are retained by the creator and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns.
All requests to reproduce, quote from, or otherwise reuse collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB at special@library.ucsb.edu. Consent is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or their assigns for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], The Dick Van Dyke Show production files, PA Mss 269. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Location of this collection:
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UC Santa Barbara LibrarySanta Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
- Contact:
- (805) 893-3062