The Best Episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show

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

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

Director: John Rich

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Jerry Paris

Writer: N/A

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

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 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

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

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

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

Director: Jerry Paris

Writer: Carl Reiner

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

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Alan Rafkin

Writer: Garry Marshall

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Jerry Paris

Writer: N/A

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

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

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

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

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