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Bravo Dick	In a later-season episode, Chester, the town's absent-minded mayor barrels into the Stratford end shouting "Thomas Hill Bridge is out!" Thomas Hill played Jim Dixon, Chester's buffoonish friend.	Dettaglio
Bravo Dick	Exterior scenes of the Stratford Inn were those of the Waybury Inn in Vermont.	Dettaglio
Bravo Dick	Despite the dream revelation in the final episode, books by Dick Loudon and the characters of Larry, Darryl, and Darryl all appeared in various episodes of Coach (1989), also created by Barry Kemp.	Dettaglio
Bravo Dick	Mary Frann (Joanna Loudon) visited several Vermont inns to do research and brought back the Pfaltzgraff dishes that are seen as props in the Stratford Inn.	Dettaglio
Bravo Dick	Darryl (unclear whether it's one or both) doesn't talk because when he was seven years old, he sat on a porcupine and "he ain't talked since."	Dettaglio
Bravo Dick	The role of Larry was written for Tracey Walter. He auditioned, but William Sanderson was eventually cast.	Dettaglio
Bravo Dick	Jane Milmore's debut as a writer.	Dettaglio
Bravo Dick	Bob Newhart often made slight references to The Bob Newhart Show (1972) throughout the run of the show. Most were veiled, mainly poking fun at the quirks of Dr. Robert Hartley. None of these references ever gave any clues to the series finale.	Dettaglio
Bravo Dick	Julia Duffy was pregnant during several episodes of the show and had to hide her condition by wearing baggy clothes and standing behind furniture.	Dettaglio
Bravo Dick	Jerry Van Dyke was the first choice to play George Utley, but his audition for the role was unsuccessful.	Dettaglio
Bravo Dick	Darryl and Darryl were originally named Larry. They altered their given names to avoid confusion both at home and at obedience school.	Dettaglio
Bravo Dick	Larry always wears a quarter in his ear. William Sanderson also used this prop in La ragazza di Nashville (1980).	Dettaglio
Bravo Dick	The opening credits are outtakes of Sul lago dorato (1981). If you look closely, you can see Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn in the car. William Lanteau, who was the recurring role of Chester in the series, was also in On Golden Pond (1981).	Dettaglio
Bravo Dick	During the show's entire eight year run, the name of the town or community where The Vermont Inn was located was never mentioned.	Dettaglio
Bravo Dick	At the end of each episode, the voice of the kitten meowing in the "MTM" logo is that of Bob Newhart.	Dettaglio
Bravo Dick	It was revealed in the final episode that the entire series was a dream of Robert Hartley's (Bob Newhart's character from his previous series The Bob Newhart Show (1972).). NOTE: Newhart has said that this idea was "dreamed up" by his wife at the start of Season 6, when he was upset with CBS for constantly changing the show's time slot and talked about ending the show that season.	Dettaglio
Bravo Dick	The characters Larry, Darryl and Darryl, who often waxed philosophical, probably got their names from the main character of the book "The Razor's Edge", by W. Somerset Maugham, Larry Darrell, who traveled the world looking for the meaning of life.	Dettaglio
Bravo Dick	Over the course of the series, how long the Loudons had been married kept changing. In an early episode in 1982 they'd been married 16 years; in a 1984 show it was said to be 12 years; when the Loudons are going to renew their vows in 1986, it was said to be 15 years.	Dettaglio
Bravo Dick	According to series creator Barry Kemp C.B.S. had reservations about the Kirk Devane character. They felt the a character who habitually lied and was insincere would ultimately turn away the audience. This is what led to Kemp and company to create his girlfriend, and later wife, Cindy to help soften the character. Nonetheless, by the second season Kemp was consistently getting pressure from the network to drop the character which in turn began to negatively affect Kemp and company's relationship with actor Steven Kampmann. With Peter Scolari's character of Michael Harris being introduced in season two, who had great chemistry with the other cast members as well as becoming popular with the audience, is what finally led Kemp to drop Kampmann's Kirk Devane character at the end of season two.	Dettaglio
Bravo Dick	Larry (William Sanderson), Darryl (Tony Papenfuss) and Darryl (John Voldstad) were supposed to be one-time characters, but the studio audience's reaction to their introduction was so spontaneous the producers decided to make them regular characters..	Dettaglio
Bravo Dick	To keep the tabloid press from finding out the real surprise ending, Bob Newhart leaked a "false ending" story for the series, before the final episode was aired. In the "false ending", after being hit on the head by a flying golf ball, Dick Loudon would wake up in Heaven, where he would meet God, to be played by either George Burns or George C. Scott.	Dettaglio
Bravo Dick	Vermont residents complained that the opening scenes are of New Hampshire, not Vermont.	Dettaglio
Bravo Dick	The show was videotaped in the first season, but later episodes were filmed.	Dettaglio
Bravo Dick	It was Bob Newhart's idea to begin using film from season two onward in order to give the show a more realistic look.	Dettaglio

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