While we're clarifying anecdotes, Steve Thompson writes with a question I am unable to answer…
I recall seeing a TV movie (or taped stage play. Seems like it was on video as opposed to film), possibly made for PBS, in which Dick Van Dyke appeared as a man who had fought in World War II. As he was heading off to war, he lamented that he might die without ever reading the classic works of literature. At the train station, he purchases a copy of Anna Karenina. On the trip, however, he meets other guys and plays cards. He carries the book all through the war. Afterwards, the next time he finds himself in a train station, he remembers but does not have the copy with him so he purchases a second copy, which doesn't get read either. By the time the story takes place, he has a bookcase full of copies of Anna Karenina, a book he's never even read. I don't think this was a Van Dyke and Company sketch but it might have been. The PBS part is strong in my memory, though. Seems like mid-seventies. Do you have a clue what this might have been?
No, I don't. But I'll bet someone reading this does.