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 (13,417 votes)
Episode average: 7.6 -0.9 vs IMDb
Seasons: 5
Streaming (US): Amazon Prime Video · Peacock
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 5 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1961)

7.51 avg 30 episodes 7.3 → 7.2 30 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Sick Boy and the Sitter	7.3	555
2	My Blonde-Haired Brunette	8.1	531
3	Sally and the Lab Technician	7.4	403
4	Washington vs. the Bunny	7.1	387
5	Oh How We Met the Night That We Danced	7.7	443
6	Harrison B. Harding of Camp Crowder, MO	7.4	392
7	Jealousy!	7.6	421
8	To Tell or Not to Tell	7.7	368
9	The Unwelcome Houseguest	7.4	362
10	The Meershatz Pipe	7.2	366
11	Forty-Four Tickets	7.6	348
12	Empress Carlotta's Necklace	7.8	393
13	Sally Is a Girl	7.6	360
14	Buddy, Can You Spare a Job?	7.7	373
15	Where Did I Come From?	8.5	440
16	The Curious Thing About Women	8.9	534
17	Punch Thy Neighbor	7.5	368
18	Who Owes Who What?	7.7	355
19	The Talented Neighborhood	7.4	348
20	A Word a Day	7.2	322
21	The Boarder Incident	6.9	326
22	Father of the Week	7.6	338
23	The Twizzle	6.6	446
24	One Angry Man	8.1	402
25	Where You Been, Fassbinder?	7.3	321
26	I Am My Brother's Keeper	7.5	365
27	The Sleeping Brother	7.6	363
28	The Bad Old Days	6.2	349
29	Sol and the Sponsor	7.6	354
30	The Return of Happy Spangler	7.2	330

Season 2 (1962)

7.63 avg 32 episodes 7.4 → 7.7 30 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Never Name a Duck	7.4	356
2	The Two Faces of Rob	8.3	367
3	The Attempted Marriage	7.8	344
4	Bank Book 6565696	7.5	336
5	Hustling the Hustler	7.5	378
6	My Husband Is Not a Drunk	8.2	412
7	What's in a Middle Name?	7.9	361
8	Like a Sister	7.1	329
9	The Night the Roof Fell In	7.8	329
10	The Secret Life of Buddy and Sally	7.4	326
11	A Bird in the Head Hurts	7.5	325
12	Gesundheit, Darling	7.6	327
13	A Man's Teeth Are Not His Own	7.3	320
14	Somebody Has to Play Cleopatra	7.9	386
15	The Cat Burglar	7.7	330
16	The Foul Weather Girl	7.4	326
17	Will You Two Be My Wife?	7.4	315
18	Ray Murdock's X-Ray	7.9	321
19	I Was a Teenage Head Writer	7.9	329
20	It May Look Like a Walnut	9.2	721
21	My Husband Is a Check-Grabber	7.6	317
22	Don't Trip Over That Mountain	8.3	375
23	Give Me Your Walls	7.4	329
24	The Sam Pomerantz Scandals	7.3	342
25	The Square Triangle	7.4	322
26	I'm No Henry Walden	7.9	345
27	Racy Tracy Rattigan	6.5	327
28	Divorce	7.1	308
29	It's a Shame She Married Me	7.1	312
30	A Surprise Surprise Is a Surprise	8.4	356
31	Jilting the Jilter	6.8	310
32	When a Bowling Pin Talks, Listen	7.7	324

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	581
2	The Masterpiece	8.1	364
3	Laura's Little Lie	7.7	340
4	Very Old Shoes, Very Old Rice	7.7	335
5	All About Eavesdropping	8.7	464
6	Too Many Stars	7.6	350
7	Who and Where Was Antonio Stradivarius?	8.0	371
8	Uncle George	6.6	323
9	Big Max Calvada	7.6	369
10	The Ballad of the Betty Lou	7.6	312
11	Turtles, Ties, and Toreadors	7.0	324
12	The Sound of the Trumpets of Conscience Falls Deafly on a Brain That Holds Its Ears...	7.6	311
13	The Alan Brady Show Presents	7.7	388
14	The Third One from the Left	7.6	310
15	My Husband Is the Best One	7.8	330
16	The Lady and the Tiger and the Lawyer	7.1	346
17	The Life and Love of Joe Coogan	8.3	394
18	A Nice, Friendly Game of Cards	7.9	334
19	Happy Birthday and Too Many More	6.7	309
20	The Brave and the Backache	7.4	306
21	The Pen Is Mightier Than the Mouth	7.5	311
22	My Part-Time Wife	7.8	327
23	Honeymoons Are for the Lucky	7.7	301
24	How to Spank a Star	7.7	334
25	The Plots Thicken	7.6	309
26	Scratch My Car and Die	7.9	329
27	The Return of Edwin Carp	7.6	346
28	October Eve	8.4	396
29	Dear Mrs. Petrie, Your Husband Is in Jail	7.7	329
30	My Neighbor's Husband's Other Life	7.5	312
31	I'd Rather Be Bald Than Have No Head at All	7.7	323
32	Teacher's Petrie	7.7	321

Season 4 (1964)

7.69 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	404
2	The Ghost of A. Chantz	8.9	550
3	The Lady and the Baby Sitter	7.6	336
4	A Vigilante Ripped My Sports Coat	7.5	317
5	The Man from 'Emperor'	7.4	343
6	Romance, Roses and Rye Bread	6.8	316
7	4½	7.7	363
8	The Alan Brady Show Goes to Jail	7.2	353
9	Three Letters from One Wife	8.2	319
10	Pink Pills and Purple Parents	8.5	372
11	It Wouldn't Hurt Them to Give Us a Raise	7.8	314
12	The Death of the Party	7.8	334
13	My Two Showoffs and Me	7.4	303
14	Stretch Petrie vs. Kid Schenk	6.9	306
15	Brother, Can You Spare $2500?	7.4	302
16	The Impractical Joke	8.5	392
17	Stacey Petrie: Part I	7.2	321
18	Stacey Petrie: Part II	7.3	323
19	Boy #1, Boy #2	6.9	304
20	The Redcoats Are Coming	8.0	403
21	The Case of the Pillow	7.8	333
22	Young Man with a Shoehorn	7.6	321
23	Girls Will Be Boys	7.3	309
24	Bupkis	7.5	325
25	Your Home Sweet Home Is My Home	7.9	321
26	Anthony Stone	7.1	307
27	Never Bathe on Saturday	8.6	391
28	Show of Hands	7.8	328
29	Baby Fat	7.5	314
30	One Hundred Terrible Hours	8.5	361
31	Br-rooom, Br-rooom	8.0	369
32	There's No Sale Like Wholesale	7.5	307

Season 5 (1965)

7.61 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	538
2	A Farewell to Writing	7.5	327
3	Uhny Uftz	8.3	450
4	The Ugliest Dog in the World	7.6	325
5	No Rice at My Wedding	7.4	331
6	Draw Me a Pear	7.9	345
7	The Great Petrie Fortune	8.3	372
8	Odd But True	7.3	306
9	Viva Petrie	6.4	315
10	Go Tell the Birds and the Bees	7.1	300
11	Body and Sol	6.9	317
12	See Rob Write, Write Rob Write	7.4	316
13	You're Under Arrest	7.8	313
14	Fifty-Two, Forty-Five or Work	7.3	307
15	Who Stole My Watch	7.4	312
16	I Do Not Choose to Run	7.0	312
17	The Making of a Councilman	7.0	312
18	The Curse of the Petrie People	8.0	321
19	The Bottom of Mel Cooley's Heart	8.0	304
20	Remember the Alimony	7.4	313
21	Dear Sally Rogers	7.5	305
22	Buddy Sorrell: Man and Boy	7.5	330
23	Bad Reception in Albany	7.4	311
24	Talk to the Snail	7.7	315
25	A Day in the Life of Alan Brady	7.9	300
26	Obnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc.	8.7	370
27	The Man from My Uncle	8.3	375
28	You Ought to Be in Pictures	6.7	311
29	Love Thy Other Neighbor	7.2	308
30	Long Night's Journey Into Day	8.5	410
31	The Gunslinger	7.7	334
32	The Last Chapter	7.5	327