The Dick Van Dyke Show: How to Spank a Star (1964)
Season 3, Episode 24
8/10
A prima donna actress single-handedly ruins the show.
11 December 2023
The guest on "The Alan Brady Show" this week is a very temperamental and obnoxious actress. Paula (Lola Albright) has already gotten Mel laid off for the week and now the fill-in producer, Rob, is having his hands full with this 'lady'. Her demands are unreasonable and she behaves like a person who simply has never been told no. How is Rob going to handle her and how does Ritchie, somehow, give him the inspiration for how to deal with her?

While not a very funny episode, it's a good one and probably has a lot of truth to it. I am pretty sure the three show producers had had their fill with actresses like this...and it seemed like their way and the writer's way of handling it. Well worth seeing.

By the way, I do appreciate Ms. Albright playing such a horrid person. It took some guts.
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