The Dick Van Dyke Show

(1961)

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The Dick Van Dyke Show centers around the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie. The plots generally revolve around problems at work, where Rob got into various comedic jams with fellow writers Buddy Sorrell, Sally Rogers and producer Mel Cooley.

Seasons

158

Episodes

Ended

Status

October 3, 1961

First Aired

Season Ratings

6.1→8.3

6.4/10(87 votes)

Networks: CBS

Genres: Comedy

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Season 1

30 episodes • 1961Avg: 8.3Golden Era

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	The Sick Boy and the Sitter	Oct 3, 1961	8.0
2	My Blonde-Haired Brunette	Oct 10, 1961	0.0
3	Sally and the Lab Technician	Oct 17, 1961	8.0
4	Washington vs. the Bunny	Oct 24, 1961	0.0
5	Oh, How We Met on the Night That We Danced	Oct 31, 1961	0.0
6	Harrison B. Harding of Camp Crowder, Mo.	Nov 6, 1961	0.0
7	Jealousy!	Nov 7, 1961	8.0
8	To Tell or Not to Tell	Nov 14, 1961	0.0
9	The Unwelcome Houseguest	Nov 21, 1961	0.0
10	The Meershatz Pipe	Nov 28, 1961	7.0
11	Forty-Four Tickets	Dec 5, 1961	0.0
12	Empress Carlotta's Necklace	Dec 12, 1961	9.0
13	Sally Is a Girl	Dec 19, 1961	0.0
14	Buddy, Can You Spare a Job?	Dec 26, 1961	0.0
15	Where Did I Come From?	Jan 3, 1962	9.0
16	The Curious Thing About Women	Jan 10, 1962	0.0
17	Punch Thy Neighbor	Jan 17, 1962	0.0
18	Who Owes Who What?	Jan 24, 1962	0.0
19	The Talented Neighborhood	Jan 31, 1962	0.0
20	A Word a Day	Feb 7, 1962	0.0
21	The Boarder Incident	Feb 14, 1962	0.0
22	Father of the Week	Feb 21, 1962	0.0
23	The Twizzle	Feb 28, 1962	0.0
24	One Angry Man	Mar 7, 1962	8.0
25	Where You Been, Fassbinder?	Mar 14, 1962	9.0
26	I Am My Brother's Keeper	Mar 21, 1962	0.0
27	The Sleeping Brother	Mar 28, 1962	0.0
28	The Bad Old Days	Apr 4, 1962	0.0
29	Sol and the Sponsor	Apr 11, 1962	0.0
30	The Return of Happy Spangler	Apr 18, 1962	0.0

Season 2

32 episodes • 1962Avg: 7.4Golden Era

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Never Name a Duck	Sep 26, 1962	9.0
2	The Two Faces of Rob	Oct 3, 1962	7.0
3	The Attempted Marriage	Oct 10, 1962	0.0
4	Bank Book 6565696	Oct 17, 1962	0.0
5	Hustling the Hustler	Oct 24, 1962	0.0
6	My Husband Is Not a Drunk	Oct 31, 1962	0.0
7	What's in a Middle Name?	Nov 7, 1962	0.0
8	Like a Sister	Nov 14, 1962	0.0
9	The Night the Roof Fell In	Nov 21, 1962	0.0
10	The Secret Life of Buddy and Sally	Nov 28, 1962	0.0
11	A Bird in the Head Hurts	Dec 5, 1962	9.0
12	Gesundheit, Darling	Dec 12, 1962	0.0
13	A Man's Teeth Are Not His Own	Dec 19, 1962	0.0
14	Somebody Has to Play Cleopatra	Dec 26, 1962	8.5
15	The Cat Burglar	Jan 2, 1963	0.0
16	The Foul Weather Girl	Jan 9, 1963	0.0
17	Will You Two Be My Wife?	Jan 16, 1963	0.0
18	Ray Murdock's X-Ray	Jan 23, 1963	0.0
19	I Was a Teenage Head Writer	Jan 30, 1963	0.0
20	It May Look Like a Walnut!	Feb 6, 1963	9.5
21	My Husband Is a Check-Grabber	Feb 13, 1963	0.0
22	Don't Trip Over That Mountain	Feb 20, 1963	0.0
23	Give Me Your Walls!	Feb 27, 1963	0.0
24	The Sam Pomerantz Scandals	Mar 6, 1963	0.0
25	The Square Triangle	Mar 20, 1963	5.0
26	I'm No Henry Walden!	Mar 27, 1963	0.0
27	Racy Tracy Rattigan	Apr 3, 1963	4.0
28	Divorce	Apr 10, 1963	0.0
29	It's a Shame She Married Me	Apr 17, 1963	0.0
30	A Surprise Surprise Is a Surprise	Apr 24, 1963	0.0
31	Jilting the Jilter	May 1, 1963	0.0
32	When a Bowling Pin Talks, Listen	May 8, 1963	0.0

Season 3

32 episodes • 1963Avg: 6.1Valley of Despair

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	That's My Boy???	Sep 25, 1963	9.0
2	The Masterpiece	Oct 2, 1963	7.0
3	Laura's Little Lie	Oct 9, 1963	4.0
4	Very Old Shoes, Very Old Rice	Oct 16, 1963	5.0
5	All About Eavesdropping	Oct 23, 1963	8.0
6	Too Many Stars	Oct 30, 1963	7.0
7	Who and Where Was Antonio Stradivarius?	Nov 6, 1963	7.0
8	Uncle George	Nov 13, 1963	4.0
9	Big Max Calvada	Nov 20, 1963	5.0
10	The Ballad of the Betty Lou	Nov 27, 1963	5.0
11	Turtles, Ties, and Toreadors	Dec 4, 1963	4.0
12	The Sound of Trumpets of Conscience Falls Deafly on a Brain That Holds Its Ears	Dec 11, 1963	2.7
13	The Alan Brady Show Presents	Dec 18, 1963	6.5
14	The Third One from the Left	Jan 1, 1964	8.0
15	My Husband is the Best One	Jan 8, 1964	8.0
16	The Lady and the Tiger and the Lawyer	Jan 15, 1964	7.0
17	The Life and Love of Joe Coogan	Jan 22, 1964	7.0
18	A Nice, Friendly Game of Cards	Jan 29, 1964	6.0
19	Happy Birthday and Too Many More	Feb 5, 1964	7.0
20	The Brave and the Backache	Feb 12, 1964	5.0
21	The Pen is Mightier Than the Mouth	Feb 19, 1964	6.0
22	My Part-Time Wife	Feb 26, 1964	5.0
23	Honeymoons Are for the Lucky	Mar 4, 1964	7.5
24	How to Spank a Star	Mar 11, 1964	7.0
25	The Plots Thicken	Mar 18, 1964	7.5
26	Scratch My Car and Die	Mar 25, 1964	6.0
27	The Return of Edwin Carp	Apr 1, 1964	4.0
28	October Eve	Apr 8, 1964	8.0
29	Dear Mrs. Petrie, Your Husband is in Jail	Apr 15, 1964	5.0
30	My Neighbor's Husband's Other Life	Apr 22, 1964	4.0
31	I'd Rather Be Bald Than Have No Head at All	Apr 29, 1964	9.0
32	Teacher's Petrie	May 13, 1964	4.0

Season 4

32 episodes • 1964Avg: 6.1Valley of Despair

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	My Mother Can Beat Up My Father	Sep 23, 1964	7.0
2	The Ghost of A. Chantz	Sep 30, 1964	7.0
3	The Lady and the Babysitter	Oct 7, 1964	5.0
4	A Vigilante Ripped My Sports Coat	Oct 14, 1964	5.0
5	The Man from Emperor	Oct 21, 1964	4.0
6	Romance, Roses and Rye Bread	Oct 28, 1964	7.0
7	4½	Nov 4, 1964	5.0
8	The Alan Brady Show Goes to Jail	Nov 11, 1964	0.0
9	Three Letters from One Wife	Nov 18, 1964	0.0
10	Pink Pills and Purple Parents	Nov 25, 1964	0.0
11	It Wouldn't Hurt Them to Give Us a Raise	Dec 2, 1964	0.0
12	The Death of the Party	Dec 9, 1964	0.0
13	My Two Show-Offs and Me	Dec 16, 1964	5.0
14	Stretch Petrie vs. Kid Schenk	Dec 30, 1964	0.0
15	Brother, Can You Spare $2500?	Jan 6, 1965	0.0
16	The Impractical Joke	Jan 13, 1965	0.0
17	Stacey Petrie: Part I	Jan 20, 1965	0.0
18	Stacey Petrie: Part II	Jan 27, 1965	0.0
19	Boy #1, Boy #2	Feb 3, 1965	0.0
20	The Redcoats Are Coming	Feb 10, 1965	0.0
21	The Case of the Pillow	Feb 17, 1965	0.0
22	Young Man With a Shoehorn	Feb 24, 1965	0.0
23	Girls Will Be Boys	Mar 3, 1965	0.0
24	Bupkis	Mar 10, 1965	0.0
25	Your Home Sweet Home Is My Home	Mar 17, 1965	0.0
26	Anthony Stone	Mar 24, 1965	0.0
27	Never Bathe on Saturday	Mar 31, 1965	10.0
28	Show of Hands	Apr 14, 1965	0.0
29	Baby Fat	Apr 21, 1965	0.0
30	One Hundred Terrible Hours	May 5, 1965	0.0
31	Br-rooom, Br-rooom	May 12, 1965	0.0
32	There's No Sale Like Wholesale	May 26, 1965	0.0

Season 5

32 episodes • 1965Avg: 6.3Valley of Despair

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth	Sep 15, 1965	10.0
2	A Farewell to Writing	Sep 22, 1965	0.0
3	Uhny Uftz	Sep 29, 1965	0.0
4	The Ugliest Dog in the World	Oct 6, 1965	0.0
5	No Rice at My Wedding	Oct 13, 1965	2.0
6	Draw Me a Pear	Oct 20, 1965	0.0
7	The Great Petrie Fortune	Oct 27, 1965	0.0
8	Odd But True	Nov 3, 1965	0.0
9	Viva Petrie	Nov 10, 1965	0.0
10	Go Tell the Birds and Bees	Nov 17, 1965	0.0
11	Body and Sol	Nov 24, 1965	2.0
12	See Rob Write, Write Rob, Write	Dec 8, 1965	0.0
13	You're Under Arrest	Dec 15, 1965	9.0
14	Fifty-Two, Forty-Five or Work	Dec 29, 1965	0.0
15	Who Stole My Watch?	Jan 5, 1966	0.0
16	I Do Not Choose to Run	Jan 19, 1966	7.0
17	The Making of a Councilman	Jan 26, 1966	0.0
18	The Curse of the Petrie People	Feb 2, 1966	8.0
19	The Bottom of Mel Cooley's Heart	Feb 9, 1966	10.0
20	Remember the Alimony	Feb 16, 1966	8.0
21	Dear Sally Rogers	Feb 23, 1966	4.0
22	Buddy Sorrell, Man and Boy	Mar 2, 1966	2.7
23	Bad Reception in Albany	Mar 9, 1966	7.0
24	Talk to the Snail	Mar 23, 1966	0.0
25	A Day in the Life of Alan Brady	Apr 6, 1966	0.0
26	Obnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc.	Apr 13, 1966	0.0
27	The Man from My Uncle	Apr 20, 1966	0.0
28	You Ought to Be in Pictures	Apr 27, 1966	0.0
29	Love Thy Other Neighbor	May 4, 1966	0.0
30	Long Night's Journey into Day	May 11, 1966	0.0
31	The Gunslinger	May 25, 1966	0.0
32	The Last Chapter	Jun 1, 1966	0.0

Top Cast

Dick Van Dyke

Rob Petrie

Mary Tyler Moore

Laura Petrie

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