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MeTV CELEBRATES CARL REINER
July 5, 2020  | By David Bianculli

MeTV, 10:00 p.m. ET

 
CBS showed a pair of colorized episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show Friday night to honor series creator and occasional featured player Carl Reiner, who died last Monday at age 98. (Both had been televised before, in their newly colorized form, but it was a nice and timely tribute nonetheless.) Tonight, as part of its own Reiner tribute, MeTV presents the black and white versions of two Dick Van Dyke Show episodes: the same “Coast to Coast Big Mouth” episode shown in colorized form Friday, and, at 10:30 p.m. ET, the show’s seminal “That’s My Boy??” episode (pictured), in which Van Dyke’s Rob fears the hospital maternity ward made a mistake and sent them home with the wrong baby. Brilliant episode, with a payoff as subtle and significant as it was hilarious.
 
 
 
 
 
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