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 (13,339 votes)
Seasons: 5
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Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Aug 19, 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	548
2	My Blonde-Haired Brunette	8.1	526
3	Sally and the Lab Technician	7.4	395
4	Washington vs. the Bunny	7.1	383
5	Oh How We Met the Night That We Danced	7.7	438
6	Harrison B. Harding of Camp Crowder, MO	7.4	388
7	Jealousy!	7.6	419
8	To Tell or Not to Tell	7.7	367
9	The Unwelcome Houseguest	7.4	361
10	The Meershatz Pipe	7.2	365
11	Forty-Four Tickets	7.6	343
12	Empress Carlotta's Necklace	7.8	389
13	Sally Is a Girl	7.6	358
14	Buddy, Can You Spare a Job?	7.7	369
15	Where Did I Come From?	8.5	439
16	The Curious Thing About Women	8.9	531
17	Punch Thy Neighbor	7.5	366
18	Who Owes Who What?	7.7	353
19	The Talented Neighborhood	7.4	344
20	A Word a Day	7.2	320
21	The Boarder Incident	6.9	325
22	Father of the Week	7.6	336
23	The Twizzle	6.6	438
24	One Angry Man	8.1	399
25	Where You Been, Fassbinder?	7.3	319
26	I Am My Brother's Keeper	7.5	360
27	The Sleeping Brother	7.6	360
28	The Bad Old Days	6.2	347
29	Sol and the Sponsor	7.6	351
30	The Return of Happy Spangler	7.2	328

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	354
2	The Two Faces of Rob	8.3	366
3	The Attempted Marriage	7.8	344
4	Bank Book 6565696	7.5	335
5	Hustling the Hustler	7.5	377
6	My Husband Is Not a Drunk	8.2	409
7	What's in a Middle Name?	7.9	360
8	Like a Sister	7.1	327
9	The Night the Roof Fell In	7.8	327
10	The Secret Life of Buddy and Sally	7.3	323
11	A Bird in the Head Hurts	7.5	323
12	Gesundheit, Darling	7.6	325
13	A Man's Teeth Are Not His Own	7.3	317
14	Somebody Has to Play Cleopatra	7.9	384
15	The Cat Burglar	7.7	328
16	The Foul Weather Girl	7.3	323
17	Will You Two Be My Wife?	7.4	313
18	Ray Murdock's X-Ray	7.9	319
19	I Was a Teenage Head Writer	7.9	327
20	It May Look Like a Walnut	9.2	717
21	My Husband Is a Check-Grabber	7.6	315
22	Don't Trip Over That Mountain	8.3	372
23	Give Me Your Walls	7.4	326
24	The Sam Pomerantz Scandals	7.3	339
25	The Square Triangle	7.4	317
26	I'm No Henry Walden	7.9	340
27	Racy Tracy Rattigan	6.5	323
28	Divorce	7.1	306
29	It's a Shame She Married Me	7.1	311
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	578
2	The Masterpiece	8.1	363
3	Laura's Little Lie	7.7	338
4	Very Old Shoes, Very Old Rice	7.7	331
5	All About Eavesdropping	8.7	462
6	Too Many Stars	7.6	348
7	Who and Where Was Antonio Stradivarius?	8.0	370
8	Uncle George	6.6	322
9	Big Max Calvada	7.6	362
10	The Ballad of the Betty Lou	7.6	311
11	Turtles, Ties, and Toreadors	7.0	322
12	The Sound of the Trumpets of Conscience Falls Deafly on a Brain That Holds Its Ears...	7.6	310
13	The Alan Brady Show Presents	7.8	387
14	The Third One from the Left	7.6	308
15	My Husband Is the Best One	7.9	326
16	The Lady and the Tiger and the Lawyer	7.1	345
17	The Life and Love of Joe Coogan	8.3	393
18	A Nice, Friendly Game of Cards	7.9	332
19	Happy Birthday and Too Many More	6.7	306
20	The Brave and the Backache	7.4	304
21	The Pen Is Mightier Than the Mouth	7.5	309
22	My Part-Time Wife	7.8	325
23	Honeymoons Are for the Lucky	7.7	300
24	How to Spank a Star	7.7	332
25	The Plots Thicken	7.6	308
26	Scratch My Car and Die	7.9	327
27	The Return of Edwin Carp	7.6	342
28	October Eve	8.4	391
29	Dear Mrs. Petrie, Your Husband Is in Jail	7.7	324
30	My Neighbor's Husband's Other Life	7.5	310
31	I'd Rather Be Bald Than Have No Head at All	7.7	320
32	Teacher's Petrie	7.7	318

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	400
2	The Ghost of A. Chantz	8.9	549
3	The Lady and the Baby Sitter	7.6	331
4	A Vigilante Ripped My Sports Coat	7.4	314
5	The Man from 'Emperor'	7.3	338
6	Romance, Roses and Rye Bread	6.8	311
7	4½	7.7	360
8	The Alan Brady Show Goes to Jail	7.2	350
9	Three Letters from One Wife	8.2	317
10	Pink Pills and Purple Parents	8.5	370
11	It Wouldn't Hurt Them to Give Us a Raise	7.7	313
12	The Death of the Party	7.8	332
13	My Two Showoffs and Me	7.4	302
14	Stretch Petrie vs. Kid Schenk	6.9	306
15	Brother, Can You Spare $2500?	7.4	302
16	The Impractical Joke	8.5	390
17	Stacey Petrie: Part I	7.2	320
18	Stacey Petrie: Part II	7.2	321
19	Boy #1, Boy #2	6.8	304
20	The Redcoats Are Coming	8.0	400
21	The Case of the Pillow	7.8	332
22	Young Man with a Shoehorn	7.6	320
23	Girls Will Be Boys	7.3	308
24	Bupkis	7.5	324
25	Your Home Sweet Home Is My Home	7.9	320
26	Anthony Stone	7.1	306
27	Never Bathe on Saturday	8.6	390
28	Show of Hands	7.8	327
29	Baby Fat	7.5	313
30	One Hundred Terrible Hours	8.5	360
31	Br-rooom, Br-rooom	8.0	368
32	There's No Sale Like Wholesale	7.5	306

Season 5 (1965)

7.59 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	535
2	A Farewell to Writing	7.5	325
3	Uhny Uftz	8.3	446
4	The Ugliest Dog in the World	7.6	324
5	No Rice at My Wedding	7.3	329
6	Draw Me a Pear	7.9	344
7	The Great Petrie Fortune	8.3	371
8	Odd But True	7.3	305
9	Viva Petrie	6.4	314
10	Go Tell the Birds and the Bees	7.1	299
11	Body and Sol	6.8	315
12	See Rob Write, Write Rob Write	7.3	314
13	You're Under Arrest	7.8	311
14	Fifty-Two, Forty-Five or Work	7.3	306
15	Who Stole My Watch	7.4	311
16	I Do Not Choose to Run	6.9	311
17	The Making of a Councilman	7.0	311
18	The Curse of the Petrie People	8.0	320
19	The Bottom of Mel Cooley's Heart	8.0	304
20	Remember the Alimony	7.4	313
21	Dear Sally Rogers	7.5	304
22	Buddy Sorrell: Man and Boy	7.5	328
23	Bad Reception in Albany	7.4	310
24	Talk to the Snail	7.6	315
25	A Day in the Life of Alan Brady	7.8	300
26	Obnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc.	8.7	370
27	The Man from My Uncle	8.3	373
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	409
31	The Gunslinger	7.7	333
32	The Last Chapter	7.5	325