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* [[Marathon Running]]: Nick@Nite's ''The Dick Van Dyke Collection''.
* [[Real Life Relative]]: Jerry Van Dyke appears in a few episodes as Rob's brother Stacey.
* [[Uncancelled]]: [[CBS]] officially cancelled the show after its first season, and the cast had even had a farewell party before Procter & Gamble threatened to yank all their popular soap operas (''[[As the World Turns]]'', ''[[The Edge of Night]]'', ''[[Guiding Light]]'', and ''[[Search for Tomorrow]]'') off of the network's daytime schedule if the series wasn't renewed. Amusingly, when Carl Reiner decided to end the show on his own accord after the fifth season, CBS was now begging him to continue on the grounds that it was pretty much the only top ten hit on the network's prime time schedule.
* [[Write What You Know]]:
** The entire basis of the show. Carl Reiner has said that he was a New York comedy writer who lived in New Rochelle with his wife and son, so he decided to write a show about a New York comedy writer living in New Rochelle with his wife and son.
** Reiner carried this over into running the show, insisting that the plots should be based not on old sitcom tropes but on real things that happened to the writers in their family or work lives. Ironically, many of these stories have themselves become stock sitcom plots thanks to their use on this show.
** The Petries even live on the same street as the Reiners did (although Carl DID add a 1 to the house number).
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