The Dick Van Dyke Show Episode Rating Graph

Rob recalls the hilarious events leading up to Ritchie's birth when Ritchie asks the inevitable question.

A talk show host gets Laura to tell a TV audience that Alan Brady is bald!

Rob and Laura tell Ritchie the story of their failed attempts to get married.

Rob and Laura must get remarried for legal purposes, but it provokes an argument that could derail their plans.

In this classic, Rob has a dream - inspired by a late-night horror movie on TV - involving walnuts, missing thumbs, and a creature named Kolac.

The Alan Brady Show is looking for talented kids and Rob is asked to get auditions for practically every kid in the neighborhood.

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

Rob tells Buddy that he will play a joke on Buddy. When Rob doesn't do it, Buddy's troubles only gets worse as an IRS agent visits him.

Rob nearly ruins his own surprise birthday party after Laura finds out Rob already knows! Laura stays up all night planning the party. The guests are hiding in the Petrie house!

Rob accidentally intercepts a hypnotic suggestion meant for Buddy, and doesn’t realize that every time he hears a bell ring, he starts acting like a roaring drunk.

Laura takes some of Millie's pills only to find that they make her drunk.

Ritchie gives Rob an idea for a comedy sketch, but Rob doesn’t know he saw it on The Uncle Spunky Show.

Rob recounts the day he became convinced that they brought home the wrong baby from the hospital.

Buddy's wife is out of town, so Rob invites Buddy to stay at his house for the duration. Disaster ensues.

Rob tells Buddy and Sally the story of how he and Laura met Lyle Delp.

Laura has a talent for judo when she defends Rob at a bar.

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.

Rob thinks Rick Vallone isn't right for Sally and tries to make him drunk (Sally hates drunks) and asks Rick to fall in love with Laura. Laura is always to smart for Rob and he realizes love is too hard to break.

Rob faces a dilemma when a rambunctious old army pal must be told he cannot attend a special dinner party that the Petries are throwing to make an impression with an Alan Brady Show sponsor.

The staff sends a script to Alan Brady without deleting the insults directed at the star that they routinely add to blow off steam.

When Rob discovers Laura’s secret bank, he thinks he is getting a new projector for his birthday—but instead he receives a sports shirt, and begins to wonder what that money is really for.

Rob is invited to talk to Richie's class about what he does for a living. However, Richie hates the idea, thinking the other kids will be bored listening to his dad talk about comedy writing.

Laura and Rob plan to see a play but she gets locked in a bathroom at their hotel.

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

Rob tries to hide the fact he is sick as he helps Laura with a party.

Buddy wants to leave the show to become Head Writer of another show. Mel can't release Buddy from his contract, so he helps Rob and Sally write a memo to Alan to encourage him to fire Buddy.

Rob wonders if Laura will go back into show business after someone is ill.

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)

Rob tries to help get a raise for Buddy and Sally but finds that hard to do after talking with Alan Brady's accountant.

Rob and friends play poker with marked cards that Rob was using to teach Ritchie some magic tricks.

Ritchie claims he is being attacked by a giant woodpecker, but Rob and Laura are convinced it’s just a bid for attention.

Rob, Buddy, Laura, and Sally spend the night in a cabin that is haunted. They later learn that Mel is playing a joke!

Rob buys Laura a hideous necklace but Laura can't bring herself to tell Rob how she really feels about it. When Rob invites his parents to see the necklace, his mother has a surprising reaction.

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

Rob has a new car that he loves and won't let anyone touch. When Laura takes Ritchie to school she gets a scratch on the car! When Rob finds out he wants to sue the person who did it.

Rob and Buddy invest in Uncle Lou's shoe store.

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

Rob tells Buddy and Sally of the time he became the middle weight champion of his Army Camp.

Neil Schenk comes looking for a job while Rob returns an old favor.

Rob learns a leason after letting Buddy buy a coat that is to big for Laura.

Rob gets to meet Henry Walden at literary party but feels uncomfortable when he learns that he is the only comedy writer. The Hotels can't get their names right!

Alan Brady is going on Broadaway, he asks Rob to add jokes to the play. Rob later whishes he hadn't agreed to help Alan.

Rob hires a maid who turns out to have broken arm, speaks only Spanish, and is expecting a live-in position.

The staff has to plan a Christmas show.

Maria (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.

Laura is convinced that Rob will hurt himself on a ski trip, and when he actually does, Rob tries to hide his injuries rather than admit she was right.

Rob tries to get the royalites on The Bupkis after signing off on them eariler.

When a writer comes to do a piece on the Alan Brady Show, Rob is worried about how Buddy and Sally will act in front of her.

Rob has a new motorcycle and takes it for a ride and is later arrested.

Rob gives a speech at council meeting that will land him a nomination for city councilman of New Rochelle.

Rob gets a movie role, but he has to kiss a woman. Laura makes sure that nothing else happens.

While clearing out the bedroom closet, Rob finds his old army boots, bringing back memories of how he and Laura first met.

Laura's past comes back to haunt her in form of painting that is at an art gallery.

Rob recalls a time when he left Camp Crowder to spend his honneymoon with Laura.

Rob ends up in jail after contacting an army buddy.

Rob has to perform at prison, just as he is about to perform Rob is thought to be an inmate of the jail.

Laura & Millie drive Rob crazy when their sons are cast in a commercial.

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.

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.

Rob wonders why Laura is angry with him, and learns she objects to his habit of picking up checks when they go out with their friends.

Rob takes pillow salesman to court after buying pillows that smell like chickens.

Rob’s Uncle George comes to visit in search of a wife.

Stacey meets Julie. Julie opens the letter and finds out who really wrote the letter. (Stacey signed the letter James Garner who is a friend of his but not the actor.) Now Laura and Rob must help Stacey get over Julie.

Rob and Laura may have found their dream house soon they find a rock in the center of the house!

Rob starts to feel like he does too much housework when Buddy warns him about the decline of the American male.

Rob thinks he has seen the suspects in a jewelry store robbery, but is afraid to go to the police.

Rob is interviewed by a reporter, but the resulting story gives him a little too much credit for comfort at the office, thanks to Laura’s input.

Alan Brady is on vacation so Rob arranges for Edwin Carp and other stars of the golden era of radio comedy to guest on a tv special.

Rob goes to Buddy’s barber for a dubious treatment to prevent baldness.

Sally finds a secret admirer turns out to be an unwanted suitor in the shape of DelI proprietor, Bert Monker. With middle-age loneliness the only thing they have in common, can she let him down gently?

Rob invites Buddy’s brother Blackie for a friendly game of pool, not realizing that he is a hustler.

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).