Buddy Sorrell
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Oct 15, 2026
MichelleHOST
It's only been, yeah, nine years.
MichelleHOST
Now, rounding out the cast, we have Buddy Sorrell and Sally Rogers, who are their two writing partners.
MichelleHOST
It's Dick Vant, it's Rob Petrie, the character, his writing partners.
MichelleHOST
And Maury Amsterdam and Rose Marie played those parts.
David Van DeusenGUEST
He goes, "Well, I'm a writer in New York City and I travel from the suburbs, and well, I could, I could write about that." He ultimately did that, but what he also did was before they ever filmed a single episode, he wrote 13 episodes of the show during the summer break when he was vacationing on Fire Island, and that was sort of unheard of.
David Van DeusenGUEST
Why would you write 13 episodes never having sold one? But he did, but in doing so, he sort of locked down the characterizations of what Rob Petrie was like, and what Laura Petrie was like, and Buddy, and Sally.
David Van DeusenGUEST
And, and it sort of became the Bible, if you will, because he so firmly grounded the descriptions of those characters that as other writers came along, the foundation was there for them to build on and know how to write for, for the characters.
David Van DeusenGUEST
But what I was gonna tell you was in Carl's original character descriptions, most people don't know that there was consideration for a second Petrie child, a baby to be introduced in that first season, and how, I guess, how that introduction of the baby character would have impacted storylines and impact with the older brother of Ritchie, and all those, all those sorts of things.
Jeff DwoskinHOST
You know? [laughs] Was there any other notables up for any of the characters?
David Van DeusenGUEST
Um, I would say the, the character, the descriptions of the characters were a little different.
David Van DeusenGUEST
Like Sally, i- interestingly, in a Dick Van Dyke Show episode, Sally and Buddy talk about getting credit on some things, and they say Sally Rogers, R-O-G-E-R-S, right? In Carl's original description, she was Sally Roger, no S, and Buddy Sorrell with two Ls.
David Van DeusenGUEST
Well, Buddy Sorrell didn't have two Ls, and his wife, uh, initially wasn't Pickles.
Bill BriouxHOST
Uh, or, you know, Captain Kangaroo.
Bill BriouxHOST
But, um, I think the first thing that grabbed me was Buddy and Mel.
Bill BriouxHOST
I think as a child, it, that was the fascination, was Buddy was just telling funny jokes, right?
David Van DeusenGUEST
Yeah.
Bill BriouxHOST
And, uh-
David Van DeusenGUEST
Yeah, and, and, and the, and the, uh, repartee between Buddy and Mel, right? The-
Bill BriouxHOST
Yeah
David Van DeusenGUEST
... the-
Jason DeCanioHOST
She also appeared in Wilder's final film, Buddy Buddy, in 1981.
Jason DeCanioHOST
She had a recurring role on TV in The Dick Van Dyke Show as Fiona Pickles Sorrell, wife of writer Maurice Buddy Sorrell.
Jason DeCanioHOST
That's Maury Amsterdam.
Jason DeCanioHOST
She played the lead in The Adventures of Aggie from 1956 to 1957, which only ran for one season.