The famous old series, Diagnosis: Murder, an existing love for the Van Dyke family! Let us find out where are they now!

Updated On March 18, 2024 | Published By: raheen munnie | In Career

Diagnosis: Murder is an American comedy, mystery, and medical crime drama television series that students up and down the country worshipped while eating Pot Noodles each weekday morning.

barry-and-dick-van-dyke — Source: IMDb (Barry and Dick Van Dyke)

The show can be considered a true TV gem. The show has been ruled by the Van Dyke family as the lead role of the show is played by Dick Van Dyke and his second son, Barry Van Dyke.

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Diagnosis: Murder, and enduring love for the Van Dyke family

Barry Van Dyke, an American entertainer, and an actor is well aware that after about sixteen years its long-run came to an end of the show that is still rolling out the repeats somewhere in the world.

He said:

“It’s the show that won’t die. It keeps popping up all over the place. Surely that means a river of cash flooding into his Los Angeles home. I get a stack of cheques. I think ‘oh good, some money from the show. It will be for four dollars and sixty seven cents. It all adds up. But some of them are pretty funny so I hang them on the fridge: there’s one for 18 cents.”

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Barry also seemed to be hearing from the fans of the show.

He added:

“It’s nice the appeal has lasted, that it’s not dated. It’s kind of like comfort food. It’s not offensive, it’s pretty gentle and there was always humour involved.”

Dick Van Dyke as a doctor, Mark Sloan

Dick Van Dyke had played the character of twinkly-eyed, eccentric but remarkably-good-at-crime-solving ED doctor Mark Sloan. Barry Van Dyke had played his luxuriously-haired but sober detective son Steve.

According to Barry Van Dyke:

“Our relationship was pretty much what it was in real life, and it became so comfortable acting with him, it was so easy. It was natural, and simple.”

The character of Dr. Mark Sloan was originally conceived from a show named as Jake and the Fat Man. However, when the studio wanted him to expand it, he was reluctant.

Barry Van Dyke counseled him to take it, and then he too offered a part as the sensible sidekick son.

He said:

“It showed his versatility as a dramatic actor. We had some good dramatic episodes. We got into situations – I got injured in almost every episode and we came close to losing me a few times; my sister got into dire straits, Mark had to relive some things from his past… we worked on some real nice dramatic stuff.”

Main Characters of the Diagnosis: Murder

Let us move on and have a look at the characters of the show. Information about their now and then situations of them is one of the interesting facts to know about. It would be great to find out about what the main cast has been up to since.

Dick Van Dyke (Mark Sloan)

It seems as if there is not much change in the big man himself. Portraiting himself as a great villain in 1990’s Dick Tracy, it might be difficult to imagine anyone else as the calm and loveable Sloan who got given a special ‘medical consultancy job’ with the LAPD.

The very talented actor had also given his appearance in various TV shows which included ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’, ‘Murder 101’ and ‘The Middle’. He had a particularly emotional and powerful episode as a different doctor in Scrubs.

Barry Van Dyke as Steve Sloan

One of the interesting characters in Diagnosis: Murder is now 67 years old. However, he still looks like someone who wouldn’t like to mess with. The show, ‘Diagnosis: Murder’ is the biggest thing that Barry Van Dyke has starred in, but that is no bad thing.

Barry has four children and all of them had appeared on the show throughout its run. The names of his son’s children are Carey, Shane, Wes, and Taryn. Shane had featured on several occasions as Alex Smith in the show.

Short bio on Dick Van Dyke

Dick Van Dyke is a comedian, singer, dancer, and American actor, whose entertainment career has spanned seven decades. He is popular for his role as Rob Petrie on the CBS television sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show, which ran from 1961 to 1966. More Bio…

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