The Dick Van Dyke Show
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.
Genre: Comedy
Actor: Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Richard Deacon, Larry Mathews
Creator: Carl Reiner
Type: tv
Season: 1
Episode: 1
Duration: 30m
Release: 1961
Rating: 7.5
Season 1 - The Dick Van Dyke Show
1961-10-10
"Rob has only one day off from work and Laura is upset that Rob won't eat with her or do anything but sleep until 11am. Laura tells him he got about 7 seconds worth of sleep! (She set the clock ahead two hours!) Laura worries she is getting old (because of gray hair Rob found). In the office Rob tells Buddy and Sally the problem, but Rob has no idea what he and Laura fought over (She was crying to hard)\n\nRob thinks over what may have made Laura cry. Rob calls her to say \"\"I Love You.\"\" Laura tells Rob not to come home for an hour. (Millie ran out the hair color she use it all last week.)"
31 Oct 1961
"While clearing out the bedroom closet, Rob finds his old army boots, bringing back memories of how he and Laura first met."
06 Nov 1961
"Harrison B. Harding stops by the office and claims he's an old Army buddy of Rob from Camp Crowder. Rob pretends to recognize Harrison, but he doesn't really recognize him (Harrison says he..."
07 Nov 1961
"Jerry plants seeds of mistrust in Laura's mind when he learns that Valerie Blake, the beautiful movie star, will be guesting on The Alan Brady Show. Laura doesn't listen to him until Rob ..."
26 Dec 1961
"Buddy has a chance for a head writer job. Rob and Sally help Buddy get released from his contract to \"The Alan Brady Show\". The plan backfires, so Rob and Sally have to find an ingenious way to get Buddy re-hired."
17 Jan 1962
"Neighbor and friend Jerry Helper teases too much! Rob gets increasingly upset as Jerry jokes around the whole neighborhood that \"The Alan Brady Show\" was \"rotten\" this past week. Rob ..."
24 Jan 1962
"Rob remembers $25 he lent Buddy. Laura doesn't think he will collect. Rob is too embarrassed to remind Buddy and tries many ways to drop hints to Buddy. Buddy remembers something that Rob overlooked."
07 Mar 1962
"Rob gets called for jury duty; unbeknownst to him, Laura attends the trial. The defendant is an exotic dancer. Is she really innocent as only Rob believes? Will Rob be in major trouble when he gets home?"
21 Mar 1962
"Rob's brother Stacey has a two week furlough and sends Rob a telegram that he's coming for a visit. Rob (whom Stacey calls \"Burford\") isn't thrilled. He explains to Laura that his shy brother has a problem."
11 Apr 1962
"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."
1962-04-18
"Laura meets Happy Spangler who guesses who she is married to. Rob got his first job from Happy. Rob offers Happy a job to help Buddy and Sally write the show but doesn't feel he can do it. The gang quickly gets tired of Happy. Rob has to let him go because Happy can't come up with a joke."
Season 2 - The Dick Van Dyke Show
31 Oct 1962
"A hypnotist visits a Petrie dinner party where Rob accidentally picks up a post-hypnotic suggestion."
14 Nov 1962
"When handsome Ric Vallone is the guest star on the Alan Brady Show, Rob grows increasingly concerned that Sally is falling madly for the star, who is unaware of this complication."
21 Nov 1962
"Having each had a rough day, Laura and Rob argue, but only their goldfish can report the truth as Laura and Rob later tell colorful, self-aggrandizing versions to others of what happened."
28 Nov 1962
"Rob suspects that Buddy and Sally may be moonlighting for another comedy show (or worse - having an affair)."
12 Dec 1962
"The Petries start quarreling after neighbor Jerry suggests Rob's recent sneezing fits are psychosomatic expressions of repressed rage at Laura. Worse yet, could Rob have become allergic to Laura?"
19 Dec 1962
"Rob suffers pangs of guilt after a dental emergency arises while Jerry's out of town, forcing Rob to accept treatment from another dentist whom Rob finds superior."
23 Jan 1963
"Rob thinks he can be a guest on an infamously incendiary talk show without getting burned. Boy, was HE ever wrong. Now if he can just keep Laura from seeing the show, he might just save his marriage."
20 Mar 1963
"Rob plans to make himself scarce when he hears French heartthrob Jacques Savon is Alan's guest star, a man whose marriage Rob feels responsible for breaking up. Oddly enough, Laura feels responsible, too."
03 Apr 1963
"Tracy Rattigan, the show's guest host while Alan Brady's on vacation, is a charming but incorrigible flirt, the extent of which Laura and Rob discover to their discomfort."
1963-04-24
"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!"
Season 3 - The Dick Van Dyke Show
1963-09-25
"Rob tells Mel about the day Ritchie came home Laura says Ritchie looked different in the crib. Rob begins to think he took the wrong baby home. Actually they took the right baby home but the wrong stuff like the cards (which were meant for the Peters baby (who left the hospital the same day as the Petries)\n\nJerry & Rob take the footprints of their baby. The Peters come to get their stuff such as the flowers & dried figs."
1964-04-08
"Laura's past comes back to haunt her in form of painting that is at an art gallery."
Season 4 - The Dick Van Dyke Show
Season 5 - The Dick Van Dyke Show
1965-09-15
"A talk show host gets Laura to tell a TV audience that Alan Brady is bald!"
1965-09-22
"Rob tries to write a novel, but finds that writing comedy is easier."
29 Sep 1965
"While suffering from exhaustion at the office, Rob sees a flying saucer. Try as he might, nobody believes him."
06 Oct 1965
"Rob brings the ugliest dog anyone's ever seen to the studio for a dog sketch. No one stops to consider what becomes of the poor pooch once he's no longer needed."
13 Oct 1965
"A news article prompts Rob and Laura to recall the extremely handsome Cpl. Clark Rice, who won Laura in an Army raffle and almost derailed Rob and Laura's relationship."
03 Nov 1965
"When Freddie Helper connects the freckles on Rob's back with his marker, an interesting picture appears, one that others feel Rob should make publicly known."
10 Nov 1965
"The Petries wonder if they're being duped when former maid Maria sends her matador boyfriend to work for them. His personality doesn't seem that of the bullfighter he claims to be."
24 Nov 1965
"Rob recalls for Buddy and Sally his Army boxing days when peer pressure at the base put him in the ring with current-day middleweight champ Boom Boom Bailey."
08 Dec 1965
"Rob and Laura clash over which of them is the better writer of a children's story."
19 Jan 1966
"New Rochelle politicians approach Rob to be their next city councilman. Flattered, Rob considers it but soon finds his life under their complete management."
16 Feb 1966
"Back when Rob and Laura were newlyweds, they fled to Mexico where mistaken circumstances got them served divorce papers."
23 Feb 1966
"For a laugh, Sally advertises for a husband on national television. Among the numerous humorous responses, one serious reply stands out."
02 Mar 1966
"Buddy's nervous behavior, testiness and evasive lying lead Rob and Sal to think he's seeing a psychiatrist - or worse, cheating on Pickle's."
23 Mar 1966
"When Rob, Sally and Buddy have to dig through building trash containers for a lost script, Rob finds a network memo to Alan Brady saying he must fire one writer. Rather than be split up, they seek a new gig together."
11 May 1966
"For the Petrie-Helper fishing trip, a cold sidelines Laura. Home alone, every little bump in the night raises fearful eyebrows. Millie's return to keep her company makes things worse."
01 Jun 1966
"After five years of struggle, Rob finally finishes his first book. As Laura reads it, she discovers its about their life from marriage proposal to a point shortly after Ritchie's birth."
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