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The Dick Van Dyke Show was based on Carl Reiner's life and he even played the lead in a version of the show early on. When it was retooled into the show it's now known as, Johnny Carson was up for the role as Rob Petrie until Van Dyke's success in the Broadway play Bye Bye Birdie gave him the edge.

Actress Rose Marie almost quit the Dick Van Dyke Show in the fourth season when her husband of 20 years passed away. She was heartbroken, but a director talked her into continuing.

In the The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary Richards was supposed to be divorced. The network hated it and so did test audiences as they thought she was still the character of Laura from The Dick Van Dyke Show and it meant she divorced Van Dyke. It was then changed to Mary breaking off an engagement instead.

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The kitten seen in the end credits of various Mary Tyler Moore Production shows was found in an animal shelter in Minneapolis. The production company's initials were MTM so the joke was a play on MGM and its grand lion. The kitten's name was Mimsie. After Mimsie's filming duties were finished, she went home with a crew member and lived to the age of 20.

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There's an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show in which Mary is in jail with a hooker played by Barbara Colby. The character was liked and appeared in a second episode in which she tries her hand at fashion and designs the dress seen above. The show had a spin-off called Phyllis based on Cloris Leachman's character. Colby was brought over to a co-starring role on Phyllis. Colby filmed three episodes before she and a friend were in a parking lot one night in Venice, California. The two were attacked and then shot. Colby died at the scene while the friend lived long enough to describe the attackers, but the men were never found. It's still an unsolved case.

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