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The Best Episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show

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The Best Episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show

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...

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  1. Background image for Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth

    S5:E1

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

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    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Bottom of Mel Cooley's Heart
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - The Bottom of Mel Cooley's Heart

    S5:E19

    Mel is in trouble for not telling Alan that there was a change in the script. Rob tries to get Mel to stick up for himself, But Mel gets fired.

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    Director:Unknown
  3. Background image for It May Look Like a Walnut!
    9.1/10(677 votes)

    #3 - 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.

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    Director:Jerry Paris
  4. Background image for That's My Boy???
    9.1/10(565 votes)

    #4 - That's My Boy???

    S3:E1

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

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    Director:John Rich
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for You're Under Arrest
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - You're Under Arrest

    S5:E13

    After fighting with Laura, Rob is arrested for hurting an old Lady. Rob has trouble telling police he didn't hurt the Lady (whom he saw in a barroom).

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    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for The Curious Thing About Women
    8.8/10(498 votes)

    #6 - 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.

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    Director:John Rich
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  8. Background image for The Ghost of A. Chantz
    8.8/10(542 votes)

    #7 - 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!

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  9. Background image for All About Eavesdropping
    8.6/10(445 votes)

    #8 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
  10. Background image for The Impractical Joke
    8.5/10(371 votes)

    #9 - 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.

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    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Never Bathe on Saturday
    8.5/10(385 votes)

    #10 - Never Bathe on Saturday

    S4:E27

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

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    Director:Jerry Paris
  12. Background image for Where Did I Come From?
    8.4/10(418 votes)

    #11 - Where Did I Come From?

    S1:E15

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Pink Pills and Purple Parents
    8.4/10(355 votes)

    #12 - Pink Pills and Purple Parents

    S4:E10

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

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  14. Background image for One Hundred Terrible Hours
    8.4/10(346 votes)

    #13 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for The Two Faces of Rob
    8.3/10(340 votes)

    #14 - 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.

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    Director:John Rich
  16. Background image for Don't Trip Over That Mountain
    8.3/10(348 votes)

    #15 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
  17. Background image for A Surprise Surprise Is a Surprise
    8.3/10(336 votes)

    #16 - 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!

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    Director:Jerry Paris
  18. Background image for October Eve
    8.3/10(370 votes)

    #17 - October Eve

    S3:E28

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

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  19. Background image for My Husband Is Not a Drunk
    8.2/10(386 votes)

    #18 - 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.

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    Director:Alan Rafkin
  20. Background image for The Life and Love of Joe Coogan
    8.2/10(378 votes)

    #19 - 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.

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    Director:Jerry Paris
  21. Background image for My Blonde-Haired Brunette
    8.1/10(487 votes)

    #20 - 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.)

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  22. Background image for Three Letters from One Wife
    8.1/10(298 votes)

    #21 - Three Letters from One Wife

    S4:E9

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

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    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for One Angry Man
    8.0/10(371 votes)

    #22 - 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?

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    Director:John Rich
  24. Background image for The Masterpiece
    8.0/10(336 votes)

    #23 - The Masterpiece

    S3:E2

    Rob unwittingly bids on a painting at an auction, and when he gets it home, he uncovers another painting underneath that looks like a Grant Wood.

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    Director:John Rich
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Who and Where Was Antonio Stradivarius?
    8.0/10(348 votes)

    #24 - Who and Where Was Antonio Stradivarius?

    S3:E7

    While working on a joke, Rob should be going to Alan's house to talk about the joke. After hitting himself on the head with a violin (a real one) Rob goes to a party. The party is in Red Hook, New Jersey!

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    Director:Jerry Paris
  26. Background image for My Mother Can Beat Up My Father
    8.0/10(382 votes)

    #25 - My Mother Can Beat Up My Father

    S4:E1

    Laura has a talent for judo when she defends Rob at a bar.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth" is the best rated episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Jerry Paris and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/15/1965. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Bottom of Mel Cooley's Heart".