The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)

Comedy · Family

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.

IMDb rating: 8.5 (13,229 votes)
Seasons: 5
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Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Seasons

Season 1 (1961)

7.51 avg 30 episodes 7.3 → 7.2 30 min avg

Rollercoaster
Mid-peak

Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Sick Boy and the Sitter	7.3	541
2	My Blonde-Haired Brunette	8.1	527
3	Sally and the Lab Technician	7.4	392
4	Washington vs. the Bunny	7.1	380
5	Oh How We Met the Night That We Danced	7.7	435
6	Harrison B. Harding of Camp Crowder, MO	7.4	384
7	Jealousy!	7.6	413
8	To Tell or Not to Tell	7.7	362
9	The Unwelcome Houseguest	7.4	357
10	The Meershatz Pipe	7.2	361
11	Forty-Four Tickets	7.6	340
12	Empress Carlotta's Necklace	7.8	386
13	Sally Is a Girl	7.6	354
14	Buddy, Can You Spare a Job?	7.7	365
15	Where Did I Come From?	8.5	441
16	The Curious Thing About Women	8.9	536
17	Punch Thy Neighbor	7.5	362
18	Who Owes Who What?	7.7	352
19	The Talented Neighborhood	7.4	343
20	A Word a Day	7.2	318
21	The Boarder Incident	6.9	323
22	Father of the Week	7.6	334
23	The Twizzle	6.6	436
24	One Angry Man	8.1	401
25	Where You Been, Fassbinder?	7.3	318
26	I Am My Brother's Keeper	7.5	359
27	The Sleeping Brother	7.6	358
28	The Bad Old Days	6.2	345
29	Sol and the Sponsor	7.6	363
30	The Return of Happy Spangler	7.2	326

Season 2 (1962)

7.63 avg 32 episodes 7.4 → 7.7 30 min avg

Rebound
Rollercoaster
Mid-peak

Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Never Name a Duck	7.4	349
2	The Two Faces of Rob	8.3	366
3	The Attempted Marriage	7.8	340
4	Bank Book 6565696	7.5	331
5	Hustling the Hustler	7.5	369
6	My Husband Is Not a Drunk	8.3	407
7	What's in a Middle Name?	7.9	356
8	Like a Sister	7.1	321
9	The Night the Roof Fell In	7.8	323
10	The Secret Life of Buddy and Sally	7.4	321
11	A Bird in the Head Hurts	7.5	321
12	Gesundheit, Darling	7.6	323
13	A Man's Teeth Are Not His Own	7.3	315
14	Somebody Has to Play Cleopatra	7.9	390
15	The Cat Burglar	7.7	326
16	The Foul Weather Girl	7.4	319
17	Will You Two Be My Wife?	7.4	311
18	Ray Murdock's X-Ray	7.9	324
19	I Was a Teenage Head Writer	7.9	323
20	It May Look Like a Walnut	9.2	718
21	My Husband Is a Check-Grabber	7.6	312
22	Don't Trip Over That Mountain	8.3	368
23	Give Me Your Walls	7.4	324
24	The Sam Pomerantz Scandals	7.3	336
25	The Square Triangle	7.4	317
26	I'm No Henry Walden	7.9	336
27	Racy Tracy Rattigan	6.5	321
28	Divorce	7.1	303
29	It's a Shame She Married Me	7.1	307
30	A Surprise Surprise Is a Surprise	8.4	352
31	Jilting the Jilter	6.8	308
32	When a Bowling Pin Talks, Listen	7.7	319

Season 3 (1963)

7.71 avg 32 episodes 9.1 → 7.7 30 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	That's My Boy??	9.1	598
2	The Masterpiece	8.1	355
3	Laura's Little Lie	7.7	330
4	Very Old Shoes, Very Old Rice	7.7	326
5	All About Eavesdropping	8.7	469
6	Too Many Stars	7.6	341
7	Who and Where Was Antonio Stradivarius?	8.0	366
8	Uncle George	6.5	317
9	Big Max Calvada	7.6	358
10	The Ballad of the Betty Lou	7.6	308
11	Turtles, Ties, and Toreadors	7.0	316
12	The Sound of the Trumpets of Conscience Falls Deafly on a Brain That Holds Its Ears...	7.6	307
13	The Alan Brady Show Presents	7.8	384
14	The Third One from the Left	7.6	306
15	My Husband Is the Best One	7.9	322
16	The Lady and the Tiger and the Lawyer	7.1	337
17	The Life and Love of Joe Coogan	8.3	399
18	A Nice, Friendly Game of Cards	7.9	327
19	Happy Birthday and Too Many More	6.7	302
20	The Brave and the Backache	7.4	301
21	The Pen Is Mightier Than the Mouth	7.5	306
22	My Part-Time Wife	7.8	320
23	Honeymoons Are for the Lucky	7.7	322
24	How to Spank a Star	7.7	328
25	The Plots Thicken	7.6	304
26	Scratch My Car and Die	7.9	325
27	The Return of Edwin Carp	7.6	338
28	October Eve	8.4	389
29	Dear Mrs. Petrie, Your Husband Is in Jail	7.7	321
30	My Neighbor's Husband's Other Life	7.5	305
31	I'd Rather Be Bald Than Have No Head at All	7.7	317
32	Teacher's Petrie	7.7	315

Season 4 (1964)

7.68 avg 32 episodes 8.0 → 7.5 30 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 4 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	My Mother Can Beat Up My Father	8.0	401
2	The Ghost of A. Chantz	8.9	574
3	The Lady and the Baby Sitter	7.6	328
4	A Vigilante Ripped My Sports Coat	7.5	308
5	The Man from 'Emperor'	7.3	335
6	Romance, Roses and Rye Bread	6.8	309
7	4½	7.7	359
8	The Alan Brady Show Goes to Jail	7.2	347
9	Three Letters from One Wife	8.2	315
10	Pink Pills and Purple Parents	8.5	376
11	It Wouldn't Hurt Them to Give Us a Raise	7.7	311
12	The Death of the Party	7.8	330
13	My Two Showoffs and Me	7.4	300
14	Stretch Petrie vs. Kid Schenk	6.9	304
15	Brother, Can You Spare $2500?	7.4	299
16	The Impractical Joke	8.5	391
17	Stacey Petrie: Part I	7.2	316
18	Stacey Petrie: Part II	7.3	316
19	Boy #1, Boy #2	6.9	300
20	The Redcoats Are Coming	8.0	396
21	The Case of the Pillow	7.8	328
22	Young Man with a Shoehorn	7.6	316
23	Girls Will Be Boys	7.3	304
24	Bupkis	7.5	320
25	Your Home Sweet Home Is My Home	7.9	317
26	Anthony Stone	7.1	302
27	Never Bathe on Saturday	8.6	410
28	Show of Hands	7.8	322
29	Baby Fat	7.5	307
30	One Hundred Terrible Hours	8.5	372
31	Br-rooom, Br-rooom	8.0	363
32	There's No Sale Like Wholesale	7.5	304

Season 5 (1965)

7.60 avg 32 episodes 9.0 → 7.5 30 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 5 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Coast to Coast Big Mouth	9.0	540
2	A Farewell to Writing	7.5	320
3	Uhny Uftz	8.3	443
4	The Ugliest Dog in the World	7.6	321
5	No Rice at My Wedding	7.3	323
6	Draw Me a Pear	7.9	336
7	The Great Petrie Fortune	8.2	364
8	Odd But True	7.3	301
9	Viva Petrie	6.4	309
10	Go Tell the Birds and the Bees	7.1	294
11	Body and Sol	6.9	310
12	See Rob Write, Write Rob Write	7.3	308
13	You're Under Arrest	7.7	306
14	Fifty-Two, Forty-Five or Work	7.3	302
15	Who Stole My Watch	7.4	306
16	I Do Not Choose to Run	7.0	308
17	The Making of a Councilman	7.0	306
18	The Curse of the Petrie People	8.0	316
19	The Bottom of Mel Cooley's Heart	8.0	316
20	Remember the Alimony	7.4	307
21	Dear Sally Rogers	7.5	301
22	Buddy Sorrell: Man and Boy	7.5	320
23	Bad Reception in Albany	7.4	307
24	Talk to the Snail	7.7	310
25	A Day in the Life of Alan Brady	7.9	298
26	Obnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc.	8.7	365
27	The Man from My Uncle	8.3	369
28	You Ought to Be in Pictures	6.7	307
29	Love Thy Other Neighbor	7.1	303
30	Long Night's Journey Into Day	8.5	404
31	The Gunslinger	7.7	326
32	The Last Chapter	7.5	322