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!
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.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" is "It May Look Like a Walnut!", rated 9.2/10 from 599 user votes. It was directed by Jerry Paris and written by Carl Reiner. "It May Look Like a Walnut!" aired on 2/6/1963 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "That's My Boy???".
9.2/10 599 votes#1 - It May Look Like a Walnut!
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/6/1963
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
9.0/10 445 votes#3 - Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1965
A talk show host gets Laura to tell a TV audience that Alan Brady is bald!
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: N/A
8.9/10 464 votes#4 - The Ghost of A. Chantz
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/1964
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
Writer: Bill Persky, Sam Denoff
8.8/10 435 votes#5 - The Curious Thing About Women
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/10/1962
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
8.6/10 397 votes#6 - All About Eavesdropping
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1963
Rob and Laura overhear Jerry and Millie complaining about them on the kid’s walkie-talkies, which makes for a cold dinner party.
Director: N/A
Writer: Sheldon Keller
8.6/10 296 votes#7 - The Impractical Joke
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 1/13/1965
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: N/A
8.6/10 338 votes#8 - Never Bathe on Saturday
Season 4 Episode 27 - Aired 3/31/1965
Laura and Rob plan to see a play but she gets locked in a bathroom at their hotel.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Carl Reiner
8.6/10 299 votes#9 - One Hundred Terrible Hours
Season 4 Episode 30 - Aired 5/5/1965
Just before Rob meets Alan Brady for the first time he tries to stay awake for 100 hours while doing a radio show.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.6/10 289 votes#10 - Obnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc.
Season 5 Episode 26 - Aired 4/13/1966
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
Writer: Carl Kleinschmitt
8.5/10 370 votes#11 - Where Did I Come From?
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/3/1962
Rob recalls the hilarious events leading up to Ritchie's birth when Ritchie asks the inevitable question.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.5/10 298 votes#12 - Pink Pills and Purple Parents
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/1964
Laura takes some of Millie's pills only to find that they make her drunk.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Garry Marshall
8.4/10 315 votes#13 - October Eve
Season 3 Episode 28 - Aired 4/8/1964
Laura's past comes back to haunt her in form of painting that is at an art gallery.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Bill Persky, Sam Denoff
8.4/10 336 votes#14 - Long Night's Journey into Day
Season 5 Episode 30 - Aired 5/11/1966
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
8.3/10 296 votes#15 - The Two Faces of Rob
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1962
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
8.3/10 293 votes#16 - Don't Trip Over That Mountain
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/20/1963
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: N/A
Writer: Carl Reiner
8.3/10 284 votes#17 - A Surprise Surprise Is a Surprise
Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 4/24/1963
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
8.3/10 319 votes#18 - The Life and Love of Joe Coogan
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/22/1964
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
8.2/10 347 votes#19 - My Husband Is Not a Drunk
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1962
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
8.2/10 253 votes#20 - Three Letters from One Wife
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1964
Millie gets a letter campaign together to make sure Rob still has a job.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: N/A
8.2/10 383 votes#21 - Uhny Uftz
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1965
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
8.2/10 301 votes#22 - The Great Petrie Fortune
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1965
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: N/A
8.2/10 297 votes#23 - The Man from My Uncle
Season 5 Episode 27 - Aired 4/20/1966
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
8.1/10 422 votes#24 - My Blonde-Haired Brunette
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/1961
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.)
Director: John Rich, Sheldon Leonard
Writer: Carl Reiner
8.0/10 313 votes#25 - One Angry Man
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/7/1962
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
