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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

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    The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 2 Episode 20 - It May Look Like a Walnut!
    9.2/10(722 votes)

    #1 - It May Look Like a Walnut!

    S2:E20

    In this classic, Rob has a dream - inspired by a late-night horror movie on TV - involving walnuts, missing thumbs, and a creature named Kolac.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Carl Reiner

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  2. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 3 Episode 1 - That's My Boy???
    9.1/10(583 votes)

    #2 - That's My Boy???

    S3:E1

    Rob recounts the day he became convinced that they brought home the wrong baby from the hospital.

    Director:John Rich
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 5 Episode 1 - Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth
    9.0/10(538 votes)

    #3 - Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth

    S5:E1

    A talk show host gets Laura to tell a TV audience that Alan Brady is bald!

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 1 Episode 16 - The Curious Thing About Women
    8.9/10(533 votes)

    #4 - The Curious Thing About Women

    S1:E16

    Rob uses Laura's habit of opening his mail as the basis for a sketch on The Alan Brady Show.

    Director:John Rich
    Writer:Carl Reiner

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  5. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 4 Episode 2 - The Ghost of A. Chantz
    8.9/10(552 votes)

    #5 - The Ghost of A. Chantz

    S4:E2

    Rob, Buddy, Laura, and Sally spend the night in a cabin that is haunted. They later learn that Mel is playing a joke!

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writers:Sam Denoff, Bill Persky

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  6. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 3 Episode 5 - All About Eavesdropping
    8.7/10(465 votes)

    #6 - All About Eavesdropping

    S3:E5

    Rob and Laura overhear Jerry and Millie complaining about them on the kid’s walkie-talkies, which makes for a cold dinner party.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Sheldon Keller

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  7. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 5 Episode 26 - Obnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc.
    8.7/10(370 votes)

    #7 - Obnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc.

    S5:E26

    The staff sends a script to Alan Brady without deleting the insults directed at the star that they routinely add to blow off steam.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writers:Carl Kleinschmitt, Dale McRaven

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  8. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 4 Episode 27 - Never Bathe on Saturday
    8.6/10(392 votes)

    #8 - Never Bathe on Saturday

    S4:E27

    Laura and Rob plan to see a play but she gets locked in a bathroom at their hotel.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Carl Reiner

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  9. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 1 Episode 15 - Where Did I Come From?
    8.5/10(441 votes)

    #9 - Where Did I Come From?

    S1:E15

    Rob recalls the hilarious events leading up to Ritchie's birth when Ritchie asks the inevitable question.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 4 Episode 10 - Pink Pills and Purple Parents
    8.5/10(372 votes)

    #10 - Pink Pills and Purple Parents

    S4:E10

    Laura takes some of Millie's pills only to find that they make her drunk.

    Director:Alan Rafkin
    Writer:Garry Marshall

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  11. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 4 Episode 16 - The Impractical Joke
    8.5/10(392 votes)

    #11 - The Impractical Joke

    S4:E16

    Rob tells Buddy that he will play a joke on Buddy. When Rob doesn't do it, Buddy's troubles only gets worse as an IRS agent visits him.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 4 Episode 30 - One Hundred Terrible Hours
    8.5/10(361 votes)

    #12 - One Hundred Terrible Hours

    S4:E30

    Just before Rob meets Alan Brady for the first time he tries to stay awake for 100 hours while doing a radio show.

    Director:Theodore J. Flicker
    Writers:Sam Denoff, Bill Persky

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  13. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 5 Episode 30 - Long Night's Journey into Day
    8.5/10(410 votes)

    #13 - Long Night's Journey into Day

    S5:E30

    Rob & Jerry go fishing leaving Laura (who has a cold) home alone with a mynah bird. Millie comes back to keep Laura company, Millie couldn't find Laura (She was taking a shower).

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Garry Marshall

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  14. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 2 Episode 30 - A Surprise Surprise Is a Surprise
    8.4/10(356 votes)

    #14 - A Surprise Surprise Is a Surprise

    S2:E30

    Rob nearly ruins his own surprise birthday party after Laura finds out Rob already knows! Laura stays up all night planning the party. The guests are hiding in the Petrie house!

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Carl Reiner

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  15. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 3 Episode 28 - October Eve
    8.4/10(398 votes)

    #15 - October Eve

    S3:E28

    Laura's past comes back to haunt her in form of painting that is at an art gallery.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writers:Sam Denoff, Bill Persky

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  16. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 2 Episode 2 - The Two Faces of Rob
    8.3/10(367 votes)

    #16 - The Two Faces of Rob

    S2:E2

    Rob tries to prove he can use a fake accent to fool Laura into flirting with a stranger, then is dismayed to think that he really has.

    Director:John Rich
    Writer:Sheldon Keller

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  17. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 2 Episode 22 - Don't Trip Over That Mountain
    8.3/10(375 votes)

    #17 - Don't Trip Over That Mountain

    S2:E22

    Laura is convinced that Rob will hurt himself on a ski trip, and when he actually does, Rob tries to hide his injuries rather than admit she was right.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Carl Reiner

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  18. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 3 Episode 17 - The Life and Love of Joe Coogan
    8.3/10(394 votes)

    #18 - The Life and Love of Joe Coogan

    S3:E17

    Rob meets Laura's old flame Joe Coogan at the country club, Rob tells Laura he met Joe and Laura thinks he looked in her shoebox where her pomes are kept. (The pomes are kept in the basement) What Laura doesn't know is the Sonnets give a clue as to what Joe does for a living. Laura & Millie play Golf with Father Joe Coogan. Laura invites Joe to dinner along with Buddy & Sally only to get a big shock.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Carl Reiner

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  19. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 5 Episode 3 - Uhny Uftz
    8.3/10(450 votes)

    #19 - Uhny Uftz

    S5:E3

    Rob and Buddy are working late, and keep thinking they hear a metallic voice saying ""Uhny Uftz""! The explore a supposedly abandoned office somewhere in the building, and find a somewhat 'mad' inventor (complete with a taciturn and vaguely menacing assistant) who has constructed a toy flying saucer. It works quite well, except that, instead of saying ""Merry Christmas"" as the inventor intended, the saucer only says ""Uhny Uftz"".

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Carl Kleinschmitt

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  20. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 5 Episode 7 - The Great Petrie Fortune
    8.3/10(372 votes)

    #20 - The Great Petrie Fortune

    S5:E7

    After Rob and Laura finish watching a movie Uncle Hezekiah gives Rob and Laura clue as to what the fortune might be.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 5 Episode 27 - The Man from My Uncle
    8.3/10(375 votes)

    #21 - The Man from My Uncle

    S5:E27

    Ritchie's bedroom is used as a stakeout point (it has the best view) Harry Bond is looking for the nephew of Wendell Gerard, Rob loves the gadgets the agent brings to solve the case.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Garry Marshall

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  22. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 2 Episode 6 - My Husband Is Not a Drunk
    8.2/10(411 votes)

    #22 - My Husband Is Not a Drunk

    S2:E6

    Rob accidentally intercepts a hypnotic suggestion meant for Buddy, and doesn’t realize that every time he hears a bell ring, he starts acting like a roaring drunk.

    Director:Alan Rafkin
    Writer:Carl Reiner

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  23. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 4 Episode 9 - Three Letters from One Wife
    8.2/10(319 votes)

    #23 - Three Letters from One Wife

    S4:E9

    Millie gets a letter campaign together to make sure Rob still has a job.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writers:Sam Denoff, Bill Persky

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  24. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 1 Episode 2 - My Blonde-Haired Brunette
    8.1/10(529 votes)

    #24 - My Blonde-Haired Brunette

    S1:E2

    Rob has only one day off from work and Laura is upset that Rob won't eat with her or do anything but sleep until 11am. Laura tells him he got about 7 seconds worth of sleep! (She set the clock ahead two hours!) Laura worries she is getting old (because of gray hair Rob found). In the office Rob tells Buddy and Sally the problem, but Rob has no idea what he and Laura fought over (She was crying to hard) Rob thinks over what may have made Laura cry. Rob calls her to say ""I Love You."" Laura tells Rob not to come home for an hour. (Millie ran out the hair color she use it all last week.)

    Directors:John Rich, Sheldon Leonard
    Writer:Carl Reiner

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  25. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 1 Episode 24 - One Angry Man
    8.1/10(402 votes)

    #25 - One Angry Man

    S1:E24

    Rob gets called for jury duty. Unbeknownst to Rob, Laura attends the trial. The defendant is an exotic dancer. Is she really innocent as only Rob believes? Is Rob going to be in a lot of trouble when he gets home?

    Director:John Rich
    Writer:Ben Gershman

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Best Episodes Summary

"It May Look Like a Walnut!" is the best rated episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show". It scored 9.2/10 based on 722 votes. Directed by Jerry Paris and written by Carl Reiner, it aired on 2/6/1963. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "That's My Boy???".