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The Best Episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show

Every episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show!

Best episode
S2E20 It May Look Like a Walnut!
9.2729 votes
Worst episode
S1E28 The Bad Old Days
6.2350 votes
Top season
Season 3
7.7avg
Binge time
2d 18h
158 episodes
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Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 2 Episode 20 - It May Look Like a Walnut!
    9.2/10(729 votes)

    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(589 votes)

    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(544 votes)

    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 4 Episode 2 - The Ghost of A. Chantz
    8.9/10(558 votes)

    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:Bill Persky, Sam Denoff

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  5. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 1 Episode 16 - The Curious Thing About Women
    8.9/10(537 votes)

    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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  6. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 3 Episode 5 - All About Eavesdropping
    8.7/10(468 votes)

    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(371 votes)

    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(399 votes)

    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(443 votes)

    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 5 Episode 30 - Long Night's Journey into Day
    8.5/10(413 votes)

    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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  11. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 4 Episode 16 - The Impractical Joke
    8.5/10(394 votes)

    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 10 - Pink Pills and Purple Parents
    8.5/10(376 votes)

    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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  13. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 4 Episode 30 - One Hundred Terrible Hours
    8.5/10(363 votes)

    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:Bill Persky, Sam Denoff

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  14. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 3 Episode 28 - October Eve
    8.4/10(400 votes)

    S3:E28

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

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writers:Bill Persky, Sam Denoff

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  15. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 2 Episode 30 - A Surprise Surprise Is a Surprise
    8.4/10(357 votes)

    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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  16. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 5 Episode 3 - Uhny Uftz
    8.3/10(456 votes)

    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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  17. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 3 Episode 17 - The Life and Love of Joe Coogan
    8.3/10(398 votes)

    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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  18. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 2 Episode 22 - Don't Trip Over That Mountain
    8.3/10(376 votes)

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

    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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  20. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 5 Episode 7 - The Great Petrie Fortune
    8.3/10(374 votes)

    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 2 Episode 2 - The Two Faces of Rob
    8.3/10(369 votes)

    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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  22. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 2 Episode 6 - My Husband Is Not a Drunk
    8.2/10(413 votes)

    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(322 votes)

    S4:E9

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

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writers:Bill Persky, Sam Denoff

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  24. The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 1 Episode 2 - My Blonde-Haired Brunette
    8.1/10(534 votes)

    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(405 votes)

    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 from 729 votes. Directed by Jerry Paris and written by Carl Reiner, it aired on February 6, 1963. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "That's My Boy???".

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