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

Rob buys Laura a hideous necklace but Laura can't bring herself to tell Rob how she really feels about it. When Rob invites his parents to see the necklace, his mother has a surprising reaction.

Director: John Rich, James Komack

Writer: N/A

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

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

Sally doesn't have a date for her birthday, then an old friend from high school (Leo Fassbinder) calls. Sally invites Leo to her apartment for a quiet evening, but Rob, Laura, Buddy and Mel think Leo is just a made up friend and plan to bring a loud party to Sally's apartment.

Director: John Rich

Writer: Carl Reiner, John Whedon

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.

Director: John Rich

Writer: Carl Reiner

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

Director: John Rich

Writer: Carl Reiner

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

Director: John Rich

Writer: Martin Ragaway

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 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

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

Alan Brady is throwing a party at his penthouse for a few of the network executives and he wants the writing staff to attend. Unfortunately for Rob though Laura thinks Richie is on the verge of being sick and wants to stay home. Rob is certain he'll be okay and wants to get a babysitter but he's having a hard time convincing Laura.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

Laura tries to get Thomas (her cousin) and Sally together, but when Sally arrives Thomas doesn't get to say much, Thomas likes Sally anyway!

Director: John Rich

Writer: Carl Reiner