In 1961 Carl Reiner cast Moore in "The Dick Van Dyke Show", a weekly series based on Reiner's own life and career as a writer for Sid Caesar's television variety show "Your Show of Shows", telling the cast from the outset that it would run for no more than five years. The show was produced by Danny Thomas' company, and Thomas himself recommended her. He remembered Moore as "the girl with three names" whom he had turned down earlier. Moore's energetic comic performances as Van Dyke's character's wife, begun at age 24 (11 years Van Dyke's junior), made both the actress and her signature tight capri pants extremely popular, and she became internationally known. When she won her first Emmy Award for her portrayal of Laura Petrie, she said, "I know this will never happen again." When playing Laura Petrie, Moore would also often wear the fashion attire of Jackie Kennedy, such as Capri pants, and reasoned with the "feel-good nature" of the Kennedy Administration's Camelot.