Laura Petrie's Love Letters - On episode #80 "The Life and Love of Joe Coogan" on the sitcom THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW/CBS/1961-66, Laura Petrie (Mary Tyler Moore), the wife of comedy writer Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke) kept love letters hidden in the basement of their New Rochelle house behind some loose bricks in back of the furnace. The letters were from her high school boyfriend Joe Coogan. Laura later discovered that her handsome high school sweetheart had become a priest.