The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
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.
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Episode 1 - Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth
Release Date: 1965-09-15A talk show host gets Laura to tell a TV audience that Alan Brady is bald!
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Episode 2 - A Farewell to Writing
Release Date: 1965-09-22Rob tries to write a novel, but finds that writing comedy is easier.
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Episode 3 - Uhny Uftz
Release Date: 1965-09-29Rob 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"".
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Episode 4 - The Ugliest Dog in the World
Release Date: 1965-10-06Rob 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.
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Episode 5 - No Rice at My Wedding
Release Date: 1965-10-13Rob recalls a time when Laura was the prize of a raffle. Rob does everything he can to keep Clark Rice from marrying Laura.
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Episode 6 - Draw Me a Pear
Release Date: 1965-10-20Laura talks Rob into going to her art class unaware that Valerie falls in love with Rob.
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Episode 7 - The Great Petrie Fortune
Release Date: 1965-10-27After Rob and Laura finish watching a movie Uncle Hezekiah gives Rob and Laura clue as to what the fortune might be.
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Episode 8 - Odd But True
Release Date: 1965-11-03Ritchie 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)
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Episode 9 - Viva Petrie
Release Date: 1965-11-10Maria (the Petrie's maid) tells Manuel Luis Rodriguez to go to the Petrie's because Maria feels that Rob can find him a job, but the only Manuel can do is be a bullfighter.
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Episode 10 - Go Tell the Birds and Bees
Release Date: 1965-11-17Alberta Nelson shines in a small part as Miss Reshovsky, the concerned elementary schoolteacher of note. Rob and Laurie Petrie are also asked to the principal's office to discuss their son.
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Episode 11 - Body and Sol
Release Date: 1965-11-24Rob tells Buddy and Sally of the time he became the middle weight champion of his Army Camp.
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Episode 12 - See Rob Write, Write Rob, Write
Release Date: 1965-12-08After 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.
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Episode 13 - You're Under Arrest
Release Date: 1965-12-15After 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).
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Episode 14 - Fifty-Two, Forty-Five or Work
Release Date: 1965-12-29The 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.
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Episode 15 - Who Stole My Watch?
Release Date: 1966-01-05After 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.
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Episode 16 - I Do Not Choose to Run
Release Date: 1966-01-19Rob gives a speech at council meeting that will land him a nomination for city councilman of New Rochelle.
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Episode 17 - The Making of a Councilman
Release Date: 1966-01-26Rob decides to quit running for his seat on the New Rochelle city council after meeting the opponent running against him because of his experience.
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Episode 18 - The Curse of the Petrie People
Release Date: 1966-02-02Laura 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!
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Episode 19 - The Bottom of Mel Cooley's Heart
Release Date: 1966-02-09Mel 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.
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Episode 20 - Remember the Alimony
Release Date: 1966-02-16Rob 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!)
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Episode 21 - Dear Sally Rogers
Release Date: 1966-02-23Sally 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!
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Episode 22 - Buddy Sorrell, Man and Boy
Release Date: 1966-03-02Rob & Sally think Buddy is having an affair but he is getting ready for his bar mitzvah.
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Episode 23 - Bad Reception in Albany
Release Date: 1966-03-09Rob 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.
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Episode 24 - Talk to the Snail
Release Date: 1966-03-23Rob 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!
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Episode 25 - A Day in the Life of Alan Brady
Release Date: 1966-04-06Jerry & Millie are having their anniversary party, at the Petrie home one problem the party is a part of documentary that focuses on Alan.
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Episode 26 - Obnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc.
Release Date: 1966-04-13The staff sends a script to Alan Brady without deleting the insults directed at the star that they routinely add to blow off steam.
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Episode 27 - The Man from My Uncle
Release Date: 1966-04-20Ritchie'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.
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Episode 28 - You Ought to Be in Pictures
Release Date: 1966-04-27Rob gets a movie role, but he has to kiss a woman. Laura makes sure that nothing else happens.
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Episode 29 - Love Thy Other Neighbor
Release Date: 1966-05-04Laura and Rob spend time with the Staggs and going to the theater,Jerry & Millie feel left out.
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Episode 30 - Long Night's Journey into Day
Release Date: 1966-05-11Rob & 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).
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Episode 31 - The Gunslinger
Release Date: 1966-05-25Under anesthesia for a dental procedure, Rob dreams he is a sheriff in the old west.
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Episode 32 - The Last Chapter
Release Date: 1966-06-01Rob 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!