Some have said over the years that the popularity in the 60's of the Dick Van Dyke show were some similarities between Dick and Laura to JFK and Jackie.  Laura did dress similar to the first lady in many shows and had similar dark hair and style.  Dick Van Dyke was seen as a nice guy with perfect hair, similar to the president
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Even though the show got off to a slow start, when it did catch on, it represented a more progressive and modern view of American society, similar to the young modern president and his family.

Didn't understand the comment about the residuals.  If they lasted five years then Rose Marie would have been paid until 1971 since the show ended in 1966.  I don't think payment for the five years when they were producing the program would be called residuals. A residual is a payment or royalty paid to a performer or writer for a repeat of a play or show.  So to me it reads like she had residuals for five years after the show finished.  So I didn't understand the daughters comment that Rose made no money after 1965. 

Last edited by paterson1 (August 14, 2023 9:52 am)

I did not understand the point about the residuals either because the final season was actually from 1965 to 1966.

One part quoted in the article though was pure "Sally" when one of the creators of the show suggested Dick Van Dyke for the lead role. She asked "what's a Dick Van Dyke."

Also of course Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore were the two actors featured the most but Buddy and Sally retained a prominence throughout the course of the series. Mel, Millie and Jerry got their share of screen time as supporting actors as well and I think this was all well balanced.

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I did not understand the point about the residuals either because the final season was actually from 1965 to 1966.

One part quoted in the article though was pure "Sally" when one of the creators of the show suggested Dick Van Dyke for the lead role. She asked "what's a Dick Van Dyke."

Also of course Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore were the two actors featured the most but Buddy and Sally retained a prominence throughout the course of the series. Mel, Millie and Jerry got their share of screen time as supporting actors as well and I think this was all well balanced.

I don't know the specifics of the contracts for the Dick Van Dyke Show but the typical contract in the 1960s would see the actor paid for the first few times a show was re-run but that's it. Only a few lead actors had a better deal or owned a piece of the show they were in. Rose Marie's daughter probably meant she was only paid for the five years she was on the show or misremembered. 

This is what someone says on Quora about it (so it may or may not be accurate):

Actors get residuals for every episode that is rerun on every channel, cable or network. That can be a windfall for a show like MOM, which is rerun on three local stations and three cable stations seven days a week. The same for LAW & ORDER: SVU, although it isn’t on as many networks, you’ll see some days with half the day consisting of SVU reruns.Back in the 60s, when there a television season ran for 38 episodes, David Janssen, who played Dr. Richard Kimble in THE FUGITIVE, made one of the first deals that an actor could to end up becoming rich from a show. In the 60s, an actor on a show received residuals up until the show was rerun six times. Janssen opted out of a bigger salary—on a show that featured his character roughly 75% of the time—and took any money that would come from the show in reruns. S1 was a huge hit, and so the actor could have asked for a higher salary, being that the show would fail without him. Instead, it ran for four years (as planned), with over one hundred episodes. He made more money from a rerun than any of the other main actors.Another example with be, say, Jon Bernthal, who played the character of Shane on THE WALKING DEAD in the first two seasons. He makes money every time those episodes are replayed, and we know AMC has their marathons. If someone is hired for only a few episodes, they’ll still get paid through the reruns. The amount differs, likely based on their original pay.When I’m on television, I have no speaking roles, so I’m an extra. We don’t see residuals. But I’m also a writer. I get royalties for some stories I wrote as far back as 1994. Many stories I don’t get any royalties on, as the book is out of print or has no foreign editions.I keep track of that, though, as you never know when you may or may not be notified of a new edition. On your bio, you mention being an aspiring actor, so good luck with that. But also read your contracts carefully and make certain everything lines up in possible future payments.

https://www.quora.com/Do-TV-actors-get-residuals/answer/Wayne-Allen-Sallee

Last edited by Hansa (August 14, 2023 12:41 pm)