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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!

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...
Genre:Comedy
Network:CBS

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 607 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???".

  • It May Look Like a Walnut!
    9.2/10607 votes
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    #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

  • That's My Boy???
    9.1/10490 votes
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    #2 - That's My Boy???

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1963

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

    Director: John Rich

    Writer: N/A

  • Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth
    9.0/10448 votes
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    #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

  • The Curious Thing About Women
    8.9/10436 votes
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    #4 - 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

  • The Ghost of A. Chantz
    8.9/10471 votes
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    #5 - 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

  • All About Eavesdropping
    8.6/10402 votes
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    #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

  • The Impractical Joke
    8.6/10299 votes
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    #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

  • Never Bathe on Saturday
    8.6/10340 votes
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    #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

  • One Hundred Terrible Hours
    8.6/10298 votes
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    #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

  • Obnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc.
    8.6/10290 votes
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    #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

  • Where Did I Come From?
    8.5/10370 votes
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    #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

  • Pink Pills and Purple Parents
    8.5/10300 votes
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    #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

  • October Eve
    8.4/10318 votes
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    #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

  • Long Night's Journey into Day
    8.4/10341 votes
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    #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

  • The Two Faces of Rob
    8.3/10295 votes
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    #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

  • My Husband Is Not a Drunk
    8.3/10346 votes
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    #16 - 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

  • Don't Trip Over That Mountain
    8.3/10293 votes
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    #17 - 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

  • A Surprise Surprise Is a Surprise
    8.3/10283 votes
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    #18 - 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

  • The Life and Love of Joe Coogan
    8.3/10320 votes
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    #19 - 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

  • Three Letters from One Wife
    8.2/10252 votes
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    #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

  • Uhny Uftz
    8.2/10386 votes
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    #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

  • The Man from My Uncle
    8.2/10300 votes
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    #22 - 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

  • My Blonde-Haired Brunette
    8.1/10428 votes
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    #23 - 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

  • One Angry Man
    8.1/10315 votes
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    #24 - 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

  • The Great Petrie Fortune
    8.1/10301 votes
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    #25 - 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