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That covers the main cast of The Dick Van Dyke Show, but there’s actually one other cast member from the show who’s still with us. Peter Oliphant, who played neighbor Freddie Helper in three episodes of the sitcom, didn’t stick with acting after 1973 (via IMDb), but his small role on one of the most famous sitcoms of all time is still something he’s occasionally asked for in his adult job as a video game designer, as in this episode of the Matt Chat series hosted by Matt Barton.
Unfortunately, Oliphant’s experience on the show doesn’t seem to have been quite as personally fulfilling as Larry Mathews’. “When you’re on the show everyone’s friendly, everyone’s nice, but I don’t think I went out to dinner with Ritchie on the show,” he admitted, seemingly implying he wasn’t too close off-screen his screen friend. “It’s not like I became friends with Dick Van Dyke after that and we hung out,” Oliphant continued.
Oliphant rose to fame as the son of Jerry and Millie Helper (Jerry Paris and Ann Morgan Guilbert) on The Dick Van Dyke Show, but as he shared in the interview above, he’s since made his mark as a character in the early history of video games, after worked on 1990s classics like Stonekeep, as well as Mattel handheld games.
If contemplating your own mortality in terms of the mortality of the cast of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” has got you down, now is the time to watch an episode or two – a surefire way to cheer up just about anyone.
