The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Complete Series

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Season 1, Episode 1: The Sick Boy and the Sitter

Comedy writer Rob Petrie talks his wife Laura into leaving their sick son with a babysitter.

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Season 1, Episode 2: My Blonde-Haired Brunette

Laura dyes her hair blonde when she fears the romance in her marriage is fading.

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Season 1, Episode 3: Sally and the Lab Technician

Laura matches up her pharmacist cousin with Rob's fireball co-writer for a dinner party.

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Season 1, Episode 4: Washington vs. The Bunny

Rob is torn between going to Washington, D.C. on business and attending Ritchie's school play.

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Season 1, Episode 5: Oh How We Met the Night That We Danced

Rob finds his old army boots, bringing back memories of how he and Laura met.

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Season 1, Episode 6: Harrison B. Harding of Camp Crowder, Mo

Rob invites an old Army pal home to dinner but begins to fear he has a jewel thief on his hands.

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Season 1, Episode 7: Jealousy!

Laura begins to worry when Rob has to work nights with a beautiful television star.

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Season 1, Episode 8: To Tell or Not to Tell

Complications ensue when Mel tells Rob that he wants Laura to dance on "The Alan Brady Show."

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Season 1, Episode 9: The Unwelcome Houseguest

Rob reluctantly agrees to take care of Buddy's dog for the weekend.

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Season 1, Episode 10: The Meershatz Pipe

Rob fears he is no longer needed when his co-writers do a show without his help.

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Season 1, Episode 11: Forty-Four Tickets

Rob invites 44 fellow PTA members to his television show, but forgets all about it until air time.

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Season 1, Episode 12: Empress Carlotta's Necklace

Rob buys Laura a hideous necklace but Laura can't bring herself to tell Rob how she really feels.

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Season 1, Episode 13: Sally Is a Girl

Rob and Buddy treat Sally as one of the guys, even in the presence of Sally's date.

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Season 1, Episode 14: Buddy, Can You Spare a Job?

When Buddy has a chance for a head writer job, Rob and Sally help Buddy get released from his

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Season 1, Episode 15: Where Did I Come From?

Rob recalls the hilarious events leading up to Ritchie's birth.

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Season 1, Episode 16: The Curious Thing About Women

Unable to control her curiosity, Laura opens Rob's mail and she instantly regrets it.

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Season 1, Episode 17: Punch Thy Neighbor

Rob's dentist pal strains the friendship when he starts knocking Rob's television show in public.

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Season 1, Episode 18: Who Owes Who What?

Buddy ignores Rob's efforts to collect an old debt.

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Season 1, Episode 19: The Talented Neighborhood

When his show announces a talent contest, Rob finds himself besieged by the parents of neighborhood

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Season 1, Episode 20: A Word a Day

Ritchie's expanding vocabulary starts to branch out in unexpected directions.

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Season 1, Episode 21: The Boarder Incident

While his wife is away, Buddy moves in with the Petries and quickly wears out his welcome.

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Season 1, Episode 22: Father of the Week

Rob finds out that his six-year-old son is embarrassed to admit how his Dad makes a living.

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Season 1, Episode 23: The Twizzle

Sally drags the entire gang to a bowling alley when she discovers a new dance sensation.

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Season 1, Episode 24: One Angry Man

Laura believes Rob, on jury duty, has been unfairly swayed by the beautiful blonde defendant.

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Season 1, Episode 25: Where You Been, Fassbinder?

Romance enters Sally's life in the form of an insurance salesman named Leo Fassbinder.

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Season 1, Episode 26: I Am My Brother's Keeper

Rob's bashful brother arrives in town and proves to be outgoing when he is sleepwalking.

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Season 1, Episode 27: The Sleeping Brother

Rob's talented, sleepwalking brother manages to audition successfully for "The Alan Brady Show."

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Season 1, Episode 28: The Bad Old Days

Buddy laments the decline of the American male and yearns for the good old days.

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Season 1, Episode 29: Sol and the Sponsor

Rob faces a dilemma when an old army pal must be told he cannot attend a special dinner party.

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Season 1, Episode 30: The Return of Happy Spangler

Rob makes the mistake of trying to help the old-time radio comedy writer who gave him his first

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Season 2, Episode 1: Never Name a Duck

Ritchie adopts two baby ducks and Rob must help him understand the consequences.

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Season 2, Episode 2: The Two Faces of Rob

To prove that a wife cannot recognize her husband on the phone, Rob calls Laura for a date.

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Season 2, Episode 3: The Attempted Marriage

Rob recalls his and Laura's attempts to get married when Ritchie brings up the subject.

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Season 2, Episode 4: Bank Book 6565696

Rob is puzzled when he discovers Laura's secret bank account.

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Season 2, Episode 5: Hustling the Hustler

Rob doesn't know what he's in for when he invites Buddy's charming brother over.

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Season 2, Episode 6: My Husband Is Not a Drunk

A hypnotist visits a Petrie dinner party.

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Season 2, Episode 7: What's in a Middle Name?

Rob has some explaining to do when son Ritchie learns that his middle name is Rosebud.

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Season 2, Episode 8: Like a Sister

Rob grows increasingly concerned that Sally is falling for Ric Vallone.

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Season 2, Episode 9: The Night the Roof Fell In

Rob and Laura recount vastly different versions of a marital spat that sends Rob storming out.

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Season 2, Episode 10: The Secret Life of Buddy and Sally

Rob suspects that Buddy and Sally have something going on.

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Season 2, Episode 11: A Bird in the Head Hurts

Ritchie claims he keeps being attacked by a giant woodpecker.

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Season 2, Episode 12: Gesundheit, Darling

Rob begins to worry his sneezing fits are psychosomatic expressions.

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Season 2, Episode 13: A Man's Teeth Are Not His Own

Rob feels that he has betrayed his dentist friend when he lets another dentist work on his teeth.

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Season 2, Episode 14: Somebody Has to Play Cleopatra

While directing the annual variety show, Rob becomes frustrated by spousal jealousies.

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Season 2, Episode 15: The Cat Burglar

After a string of burglaries in the neighborhood, the Petrie home is pillaged.

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Season 2, Episode 16: The Foul-Weather Girl

Laura sees a weather girl as a threat to her marriage.

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Season 2, Episode 17: Will You Two Be My Wife?

Rob recounts the wrath he encountered when he broke his engagement with his hometown sweetheart.

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Season 2, Episode 18: Ray Murdock's X-Ray

Rob is in hot water after giving an interview in which he unwittingly portrays his wife as a nut.

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Season 2, Episode 19: I Was a Teenage Head Writer

Rob leaves the show after Mel rejects his script and is upset when Buddy and Sally don't join him.

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Season 2, Episode 20: It May Look Like a Walnut

Rob and Laura watch a scary movie only to find certain details of that movie later coming true.