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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. 9.5/10(2 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.

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    Director:Jerry Paris
  2. 9.1/10(551 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.

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    Director:John Rich
    Writer:N/A
  3. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Never Name a Duck

    S2:E1

    Rob brings home two baby ducks left over from the show, and Ritchie becomes attached to them. When one dies and the other becomes ill, Rob must convince him that wild animals are happier when left in the wild.

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    Director:John Rich
  4. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - A Bird in the Head Hurts

    S2:E11

    Ritchie claims he is being attacked by a giant woodpecker, but Rob and Laura are convinced it’s just a bid for attention.

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    Director:John Rich
  5. 9.0/10(500 votes)

    #5 - 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:N/A
  6. 8.9/10(531 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. 8.8/10(487 votes)

    #7 - 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
  9. 8.7/10(436 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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  10. 8.6/10(375 votes)

    #9 - 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
  11. 8.6/10(331 votes)

    #10 - 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.

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  12. 8.5/10(410 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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  13. 8.5/10(2 votes)

    #12 - Somebody Has to Play Cleopatra

    S2:E14

    Rob recalls directing last year’s PTA variety show, when jealousy interfered as he tried to pair the perfect Cleopatra with an amorous Mark Antony.

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    Director:John Rich
  14. 8.5/10(363 votes)

    #13 - 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:N/A
  15. 8.5/10(337 votes)

    #14 - 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:N/A
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  16. 8.4/10(361 votes)

    #15 - 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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  17. 8.4/10(346 votes)

    #16 - 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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  18. 8.4/10(375 votes)

    #17 - 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).

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  19. 8.2/10(370 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.

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    Director:Jerry Paris
  20. 8.2/10(415 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"".

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  21. 8.2/10(335 votes)

    #20 - 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.

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  22. 8.1/10(477 votes)

    #21 - 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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  23. 8.1/10(363 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. 8.1/10(291 votes)

    #23 - 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:N/A
  25. 8.1/10(337 votes)

    #24 - 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.

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    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:N/A
  26. 8.0/10(325 votes)

    #25 - 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:N/A

Best Episodes Summary

"It May Look Like a Walnut!" is the best rated episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show". It scored 9.5/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Jerry Paris and written by Carl Reiner, it aired on 2/6/1963. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "That's My Boy???".