Dick Van Patten
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Search complete. 25 mentions across 13 episodes found for "Dick Van Patten".
Sep 23, 2026
Molly AllenHOST
I watched a little bit of a Love Boat episode.
Molly AllenHOST
Dick Van Patten was on.
Molly AllenHOST
You know.
Dave SpositoHOST
People like him.
Molly AllenHOST
I watched a little bit of a Love Boat episode.
Molly AllenHOST
Dick Van Patten was on.
Molly AllenHOST
You know.
Dave SpositoHOST
People like him.
Michael SmallGUEST
And the list of celebrities on this, but including Stan Lee, celebrities who were like friends, they're listed as friends of Fabio, including Debbie Allen, Ernest Borgnine, downtown Julie Browne.
Michael SmallGUEST
Rodney Dangerfield, Jose Hebert, however it's pronounced, Lisa Gibbons, then Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas, Joan Rivers, Dick Van Patten, Roger Williams, who I think was trailer for Sailor Wren, right? Or am I mixed up? Anyway.
Michael SmallGUEST
And it was Sally Jessie Raphael and the movie producer Freddie Fields who hosted the party.
Michael SmallGUEST
And anyway, Stan Lee was there.
Larry MeisnerGUEST
It's been around for about 17 years.
Larry MeisnerGUEST
It actually started an actor by the name of Dick Van Patten.
Larry MeisnerGUEST
I don't know how many people will remember.
Larry MeisnerGUEST
Eight is enough.
Larry MeisnerGUEST
I encourage those to watch the reruns.
Larry MeisnerGUEST
It's a great show.
Larry MeisnerGUEST
So, yes, Dick Van Patten, the star of Eight is Enough.
Larry MeisnerGUEST
started National Guide Dog Month.
Dennis LinggHOST
What?
Mary JonesHOST
Because it's Dick Van Patten.
Dennis LinggHOST
Oh.
Dennis LinggHOST
Wow, that would be a different movie.
Mary JonesHOST
would be a very different movie.
Mary JonesHOST
Oh, I want to see that movie, though! That is your diagnosis murder right there, baby.
Dennis LinggHOST
So Dick Van Patten is one of the doctors.
Dennis LinggHOST
My favorite two minutes of any film is the shaggy DA and the scene where Dick Van Patten is gleefully announcing that the dog catcher has arrived and the dog will be taken to the pound and a dog suddenly turns and punches him in the face.
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They're all on skates tonight.
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Dick Van Patten, Adam Rich, Brett Summers, Vivian Blaine, and Dodie Goodman.
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So come on, everybody.
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Skate with the Stars.
Mike KlaussHOST
As I said, Greg and Chico didn't notice this, but I did.
Mike KlaussHOST
We have Melissa Sue Anderson, Vivian Blaine, Todd Bridges, Ruth Buzzi, Michael Cole, Wesley Ure, Antonio Fargus.
Mike KlaussHOST
Victor French, Gwen Guilford, Dodie Goodman, Dan Haggerty, Richard Hatch, Earl Heilman, Jackie Joseph, Diane Kay, Nancy Culp, Tina Louise, Barbara Luna, Peter Lupus, Robert Mandan, Peter Marshall, Philip McKeon, Lee Merriweather, Connie Needham, Richard Paul, George Pappard, Joanne Flug, Dana Plato, Andrew Prine, Johnny Ray, Madeline Rue, Adam Rich, Susan Richardson, Jenny, no, no, no, Brett Summers, Vic Tabak, Dick Van Patten, Cindy Williams, and the aforementioned Joanne Worley.
Mike KlaussHOST
But the one celebrity that was there, and I even pointed out to Greg and Chico where this was in the video, you saw a guy with a paper bag on top of his head roller skating.
Barry GordonGUEST
So now he leaves the kiddie show that he's doing in Arizona and he comes here and he becomes a doctor on a soap opera.
Barry GordonGUEST
And I was the writer and Dick Van Patten was the producer.
Barry GordonGUEST
All the Dick fans.
Barry GordonGUEST
Yes.
Jeremy ScottNARRATOR
Sorry.
Jeremy ScottNARRATOR
Dick Van Patten saying he took the role in Eight is Enough because he wanted to prove this line in this movie wrong was one of the strangest things I'm sure I remember hearing him say in that Nick at Night documentary from the 90s.
Jeremy ScottNARRATOR
The
Tom HanksSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Statue of Liberty is kaput.
Kirk MinihaneHOST
Um, [clears throat] she's on it, uh, later on in the series.
Kirk MinihaneHOST
But it's about, uh, Dick Van Patten plays a, a guy who is like a newspaper writer, has eight kids, um, [clears throat] and sort of his travails or whatever.
Kirk MinihaneHOST
Grant Goodeve I think sings the theme song to Eight Is Enough.
Kirk MinihaneHOST
Am I-- ♪ It is enough to fill our lives with love ♪ [singing] Do I have that right? We're about to find out.
5 MINS LATER
Kirk MinihaneHOST
It's fucking unbelievable.
Kirk MinihaneHOST
So she dies.
Kirk MinihaneHOST
Um, but before she died, [clears throat] she had been cast as Dick Van Patten's wife in the pilot of Eight Is Enough.
Kirk MinihaneHOST
She winds up not being able to do it.
Steve GuttenbergGUEST
It's not in the middle of town, but it's on the side.
Steve GuttenbergGUEST
And if you want to be famous, you know, Jerry Seinfeld, Alec Baldwin, or the Stray Cats, Brian Setzer, Marvin Hamlisch, Timmy Van Patten, Dick Van Patten, you go to this fountain, you take a cup, it's got to be a paper cup, can't be anything solid, nothing.
Steve GuttenbergGUEST
You put it in the...
Steve GuttenbergGUEST
Drink it up.
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