Mary Tyler Moore By chance Nails a Good Pool Shot on The Dick Van Dyke Present (1962)

Let’s rewind the video­tape and revis­it a clas­sic second in The Dick Van Dyke Present. Within the 1962 episode referred to as “Hus­tling the Hus­tler,” Mary Tyler Moore (as Lau­ra Petrie) performs pool and sinks three balls in a sin­gle shot. The orig­i­nal plan was to splice in footage of a professional­fes­sion­al pool play­er mak­ing…