Entertainment Weekly says CBS is quickly scheduling the following for tomorrow night…
The Dick Van Dyke Show — Now in Living Color! A Special Tribute to Carl Reiner will air Friday, July 3, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Reiner served as creator, writer, and costar on the beloved sitcom, which aired for five seasons, from 1961 to 1966. A CBS news release confirms that Reiner personally supervised the colorization of the episodes.
In "Coast to Coast Big Mouth," Laura Petrie (Mary Tyler Moore) blurts out a secret on a nationally televised quiz show, revealing that comedian Alan Brady (Reiner) wears a toupee. As for "October Eve," it centers on a painting of Laura that returns to haunt her when, despite her having posed fully clothed, the artist, Sergei Carpetna (Reiner), takes the liberty of "undraping" her. (In addition to being a favorite of Reiner's, "October Eve" was the only episode in which he portrayed someone other than Alan Brady.)
We who know The Dick Van Dyke Show backwards, forwards and inside-out know that last sentence is fake news. In the episode, "I'm No Henry Walden," he portrayed someone other than Alan Brady. He played the budding English anti-existentialist Yale Sampson…
By the way: The lady chatting with "Yale Sampson" is Betty Lou Gerson who, a few years before this show, had supplied the voice of the evil Cruella DeVil in Mr. Disney's 101 Dalmatians.