"The Dick Van Dyke Show" Will You Two Be My Wife? (TV Episode 1963) Poster

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"Robby, Bobby, Boo!"
planktonrules4 December 2023
Buddy and Sally find an article Rob has been working on...and Buddy says they should read it, since eventually everybody will get a chance! The article results in a flashback article...to when Rob was in the Army. He's about to marry Laura but he has a problem...he's already engaged to another woman, Dorothy (Barbara Bain). He requests two three-day passes to break it off with Dorothy and then to go on his honeymoon. His commanding officer only gives him one three-day pass. What is Rob to do?!

So is it any good? Yes, though I was surprised at Bain's voice, as she sounded NOTHING like she later did on such shows as "Mission: Impossible" and "Space: 1999". It's obvious she had some speech lessons and learned to lower her voice and speak more slowly. Regardless, it's an interesting episode and well worth seeing.

By the way, Allan Melvin plays one of Rob's buddies in the Army in this one. However, in season one Melvin plays an entirely different friend...one Rob didn't even recognize when they met years later.
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Another scorned woman...with a twist
thwrtr192 July 2019
Funny and well-acted, but with a serious issue, and lesson to be learned. At the end of the flashback, Rob reveals that Dorothy (real name Daphne) in reality sent him a Dear John letter, saying that she was going to marry a friend of his. So insidiously typical of women. Guys in the military, etc., too often have been victims of the "Dear John" bombshell. And sometimes, women don't even bother with writing such a note. Guys returning home thus get hit with the stunning news; it impact is like a Rocky Marciano right to the jaw. Hence, we find out the hard way that in so many cases, we just can't trust the girl(s) we had back home. At the beginning of this episode, Rob---being the nice, considerate guy he was---chose to do the right thing and went to Dorothy in person to carefully break his news. An obvious lesson to be learned here: women are not worthy of consideration in such matters...because they too often don't use it regarding us.
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