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.
The best episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" season 4 is "My Mother Can Beat Up My Father", rated 8/10 from 322 user votes. It was directed by Jerry Paris and written by Bill Persky, Sam Denoff. "My Mother Can Beat Up My Father" aired on 9/23/1964 and is rated 0.9 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Ghost of A. Chantz".
Laura has a talent for judo when she defends Rob at a bar.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Bill Persky, Sam Denoff
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
Roger Ritchie's Babysitter has fallen in love with Laura. Roger has trouble telling Laura that he loves her.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Bill Persky, Sam Denoff
A disagreement over politics almost breaks up a friendship between Rob and Jerry.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Carl Reiner
Rob is offered a job at a men's magazine but Laura doesn't like the idea.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Carl Reiner, Bill Persky, Sam Denoff
Sally finds a secret admirer turns out to be an unwanted suitor in the shape of DelI proprietor, Bert Monker. With middle-age loneliness the only thing they have in common, can she let him down gently?
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Garry Marshall, Jerry Belson
Rob tells Buddy and Sally the story of how he and Laura met Lyle Delp.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Garry Marshall, Jerry Belson
Rob has to perform at prison, just as he is about to perform Rob is thought to be an inmate of the jail.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: N/A
Millie gets a letter campaign together to make sure Rob still has a job.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: N/A
Laura takes some of Millie's pills only to find that they make her drunk.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Garry Marshall
Rob tries to help get a raise for Buddy and Sally but finds that hard to do after talking with Alan Brady's accountant.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
Rob tries to hide the fact he is sick as he helps Laura with a party.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
When a writer comes to do a piece on the Alan Brady Show, Rob is worried about how Buddy and Sally will act in front of her.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Sheldon Keller, Howard Merrill
Neil Schenk comes looking for a job while Rob returns an old favor.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Garry Marshall
Rob loses a script, and a hobo holds it for ransom.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Garry Marshall
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
Sally is asked to help Stacey learn how to date a lady.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Carl Reiner
Stacey meets Julie. Julie opens the letter and finds out who really wrote the letter. (Stacey signed the letter James Garner who is a friend of his but not the actor.) Now Laura and Rob must help Stacey get over Julie.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Carl Reiner
Laura & Millie drive Rob crazy when their sons are cast in a commercial.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Martin Ragaway
Rob offers to hide The Redcoats at his home.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: N/A
Rob takes pillow salesman to court after buying pillows that smell like chickens.
Director: Howard Morris
Writer: N/A
Rob and Buddy invest in Uncle Lou's shoe store.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Garry Marshall
Ritchie comes to his parents for advice on how to get Priscilla Darewell to stop hitting him. Soon Rob and Laura find out that Pricilla loves Ritchie!
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Garry Marshall
Rob tries to get the royalites on The Bupkis after signing off on them eariler.
Director: Lee Philips
Writer: N/A
Rob and Laura may have found their dream house soon they find a rock in the center of the house!
Director: Lee Philips
Writer: N/A