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The Best Episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 5

Genre:Comedy
Network:CBS

Every episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show Season 5!

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...
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  • Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth
    9.0/10(458)
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    #1 - 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

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  • Obnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc.
    8.7/10(297)
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    #2 - 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

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  • Long Night's Journey into Day
    8.4/10(348)
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    #3 - 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

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  • Uhny Uftz
    8.2/10(395)
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    #4 - 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

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  • The Great Petrie Fortune
    8.2/10(310)
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    #5 - 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

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  • The Man from My Uncle
    8.2/10(306)
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    #6 - 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

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  • The Curse of the Petrie People
    7.9/10(253)
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    #7 - The Curse of the Petrie People

    Season 5 Episode 18

    Aired 2/2/1966

    Laura gets a brooch that (in the shape of the United States) tells the history of the Petrie family. Laura later puts the brooch in the garbage! We learn that Rob's mom hates the brooch!

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: Carl Kleinschmitt

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  • The Bottom of Mel Cooley's Heart
    7.9/10(245)
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    #8 - The Bottom of Mel Cooley's Heart

    Season 5 Episode 19

    Aired 2/9/1966

    Mel is in trouble for not telling Alan that there was a change in the script. Rob tries to get Mel to stick up for himself, But Mel gets fired.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: John Whedon

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  • Draw Me a Pear
    7.8/10(276)
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    #9 - Draw Me a Pear

    Season 5 Episode 6

    Aired 10/20/1965

    Laura talks Rob into going to her art class unaware that Valerie falls in love with Rob.

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

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  • A Day in the Life of Alan Brady
    7.8/10(247)
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    #10 - A Day in the Life of Alan Brady

    Season 5 Episode 25

    Aired 4/6/1966

    Jerry & Millie are having their anniversary party, at the Petrie home one problem the party is a part of documentary that focuses on Alan.

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

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  • You're Under Arrest
    7.7/10(251)
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    #11 - You're Under Arrest

    Season 5 Episode 13

    Aired 12/15/1965

    After fighting with Laura, Rob is arrested for hurting an old Lady. Rob has trouble telling police he didn't hurt the Lady (whom he saw in a barroom).

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Gunslinger
    7.7/10(259)
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    #12 - The Gunslinger

    Season 5 Episode 31

    Aired 5/25/1966

    Under anesthesia for a dental procedure, Rob dreams he is a sheriff in the old west.

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

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  • Talk to the Snail
    7.6/10(252)
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    #13 - Talk to the Snail

    Season 5 Episode 24

    Aired 3/23/1966

    Rob fears his job is gone after reading a memo (found in the trash where they are looking for this week's script that Buddy lost) Rob almost writes for Jelly Bean a snail!

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: Garry Marshall

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  • The Ugliest Dog in the World
    7.5/10(264)
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    #14 - The Ugliest Dog in the World

    Season 5 Episode 4

    Aired 10/6/1965

    Rob tries to write a part for a dog who is going to be on The Alan Brady Show. After the dog's part is cut from the show Rob tries to find a home for the dog, But nobody wants the dog.

    Director: Lee Philips

    Writer: N/A

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  • Dear Sally Rogers
    7.5/10(249)
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    #15 - Dear Sally Rogers

    Season 5 Episode 21

    Aired 2/23/1966

    Sally really wants a husband she goes on ""The Stevie Parsons Show"" thinking she has finally found a husband or has she? Stevie asks Rob to help in a stunt where Stevie picks a letter written to Sally, One problem Sally has no idea what will happen! Wait until Sally finds out who Box 7030 is!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Buddy Sorrell, Man and Boy
    7.5/10(269)
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    #16 - Buddy Sorrell, Man and Boy

    Season 5 Episode 22

    Aired 3/2/1966

    Rob & Sally think Buddy is having an affair but he is getting ready for his bar mitzvah.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Last Chapter
    7.5/10(263)
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    #17 - The Last Chapter

    Season 5 Episode 32

    Aired 6/1/1966

    Rob gives Laura his book (it took 5 years to write.) As Laura begins to read the book, we see classic moments from several episodes. The book takes us through how Rob and Laura met as well as how Rob almost missed his wedding! Later Rob talks about waiting for the birth Ritchie. As Laura finishes the book Rob tells her the publisher hated the book, Alan Brady decides to make the book into a TV series!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Carl Reiner

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  • A Farewell to Writing
    7.4/10(258)
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    #18 - A Farewell to Writing

    Season 5 Episode 2

    Aired 9/22/1965

    Rob tries to write a novel, but finds that writing comedy is easier.

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

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  • Remember the Alimony
    7.4/10(254)
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    #19 - Remember the Alimony

    Season 5 Episode 20

    Aired 2/16/1966

    Rob and Laura leave Anchor Texas to go to Mexico only to find that marriage is hard to do. They soon find out that getting a divorce is easier than they thought (it costs $10 in Mexico!)

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: Carl Kleinschmitt

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  • No Rice at My Wedding
    7.3/10(266)
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    #20 - No Rice at My Wedding

    Season 5 Episode 5

    Aired 10/13/1965

    Rob recalls a time when Laura was the prize of a raffle. Rob does everything he can to keep Clark Rice from marrying Laura.

    Director: Lee Philips

    Writer: Garry Marshall

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  • Who Stole My Watch?
    7.3/10(248)
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    #21 - Who Stole My Watch?

    Season 5 Episode 15

    Aired 1/5/1966

    After Rob loses his watch that he got as birthday gift, He thinks everyone he knows took his watch. Laura and Rob plan a party to say they are sorry after they learn a crook stole Rob's watch.

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

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  • Bad Reception in Albany
    7.3/10(248)
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    #22 - Bad Reception in Albany

    Season 5 Episode 23

    Aired 3/9/1966

    Rob and Laura are attending a wedding in Albany, Rob is asked by Alan to watch a fashion show. He promises to tell Alan what he thought of it. Rob has to hurry to the church to usher a wedding.

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: Garry Marshall

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  • Odd But True
    7.2/10(249)
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    #23 - Odd But True

    Season 5 Episode 8

    Aired 11/3/1965

    Ritchie finds out the freckles on Rob's back form the shape of the Liberty Bell. Millie wants to send a pictrue to Odd But True. (a nwespaper column)

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: Garry Marshall

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  • See Rob Write, Write Rob, Write
    7.2/10(245)
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    #24 - See Rob Write, Write Rob, Write

    Season 5 Episode 12

    Aired 12/8/1965

    After going to the Butcher's Shop to get something for dinner, Laura sees pictures (drawn By Charlie Wheelright) Laura wants to write a story to help sell Charlie's pictures. Rob doesn't like the idea because he always finshes her stories.

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

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  • Fifty-Two, Forty-Five or Work
    7.2/10(243)
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    #25 - Fifty-Two, Forty-Five or Work

    Season 5 Episode 14

    Aired 12/29/1965

    The Alan Brady Show is on hiatus Rob is worried about to support Laura (who is pregnant with Ritchie) Rob doesn't anyone to know he needs a job until The Alan Brady Show returns from hiatus.

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth" is the best rated episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" season 5. It scored 9/10 based on 458 votes. Directed by Jerry Paris and written by N/A, it aired on 9/15/1965. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Obnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc.".