Producer-writer CarlReiner has surrounded Van Dyke with just about the funniest and most capable group of comics assembled for a half-hour series. Van Dyke essays a chiefgagwriter (for a TV comic we’ll ostensibly never see), and his gag aides areMorey Amsterdam and Rose Marie. One scene, involving all three with Richard Deacon, who plays a “frustrated producer” on the series, was so loaded with wit and rapid-fire exchanges, it paled a following domestic scene between Van Dyke and his wife (Mary Tyler Moore).

Though funny — and Miss Tyler is most capable and fetching — the couple’s hassle as to whether they should or should not go to a party seemed to stretch interminably. Moppet Larry Mathews is good as the only child in the Van Dyke kitchen — precocious, but not overly cute with his lines. He’ll wear well. And so should this series, not just for this season, but for more seasons to come. —Hank Grant

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