The Dick Van Dyke Show

Series

1961

TVPG

Sitcom

A comedy writer who works for a television variety show juggles family and a career in suburban New York.

Cast & Crew

Dick Van Dyke Rob Petrie

Mary Tyler Moore Laura Petrie

Rose Marie Sally Rogers

Morey Amsterdam Maurice "Buddy" Sorrell

Larry Mathews Ritchie Petrie

Richard Deacon Mel Cooley

Jerry Paris Jerry Helper

Ann Morgan Guilbert Millie Helper

Carl Reiner Alan Brady

Carl Reiner Creator

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Where to Stream

1961–1966 Series 5 Seasons158 Episodes

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Upcoming TV Airings

The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.

Wednesday, December 24

10:00 PM

4 1/2

Season 4 • Episode 7

Rob and pregnant Laura are trapped with a robber (Don Rickles).

Wednesday, December 24

10:30 PM

The Alan Brady Show Goes to Jail

Season 4 • Episode 8

The Alan Brady writers entertain at a prison and Rob gets locked up with the inmates.

Thursday, December 25

1:00 PM

The Alan Brady Show Presents

Season 3 • Episode 13

The entire "Alan Brady" staff presents a Christmas show instead of the script.

Thursday, December 25

10:00 PM

Pink Pills and Purple Parents

Season 4 • Episode 10

Laura takes two pink pills and suffers disastrous side effects.

Thursday, December 25

10:30 PM

It Wouldn't Hurt Them to Give Us a Raise

Season 4 • Episode 11

The writers demand a raise and get entangled in the world of corporate finance.

Friday, December 26

1:00 PM

A Word a Day

Season 1 • Episode 20

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

Friday, December 26

10:00 PM

Brother, Can You Spare $2,500?

Season 4 • Episode 15

Rob receives a ransom demand of $2,500 for his lost television script.

Friday, December 26

10:30 PM

The Death of the Party

Season 4 • Episode 12

Rob tries to attend Laura's family reunion without anyone finding out that he is sick.

Sunday, December 28

11:00 PM

I Am My Brother's Keeper

Season 1 • Episode 26

Rob's shy brother (Jerry Van Dyke) has confidence while sleepwalking.

Sunday, December 28

11:30 PM

The Sleeping Brother

Season 1 • Episode 27

Rob's brother (Jerry Van Dyke) auditions for the show while awake.

Monday, December 29

1:00 PM

The Boarder Incident

Season 1 • Episode 21

While his wife is away, Buddy accepts Rob's invitation to move in as a house guest.

Monday, December 29

10:00 PM

Stacey Petrie, Part I

Season 4 • Episode 17

Rob's younger brother involves Sally Rogers in a romantic Waterloo.

Monday, December 29

10:30 PM

Stacey Petrie, Part II

Season 4 • Episode 18

Stacey (Jerry Van Dyke) saves both his coffeehouse and his romance.

Tuesday, December 30

1:00 PM

Father of the Week

Season 1 • Episode 22

Rob's paternal pride suffers a cruel shock when he finds out his 6-year-old son is ashamed of him.

Tuesday, December 30

10:00 PM

Boy No. 1, Boy No. 2

Season 4 • Episode 19

Laura and Millie become stage mothers when their sons are cast in a TV commercial.

Tuesday, December 30

10:30 PM

The Redcoats Are Coming

Season 4 • Episode 20

The Petries entertain a British duo (Chad & Jeremy).

Wednesday, December 31

1:00 PM

The Twizzle

Season 1 • Episode 23

Sally drags the entire production staff to a bowling alley, where she unveils a new dance and song.

Wednesday, December 31

10:00 PM

The Case of the Pillow

Season 4 • Episode 21

Rob Petrie becomes a trial lawyer to prosecute a shifty salesman.

Wednesday, December 31

10:30 PM

Young Man With a Shoehorn

Season 4 • Episode 22

Rob learns that a shoe clerk's lot is not always a happy one.

Thursday, January 1

1:00 PM

One Angry Man

Season 1 • Episode 24

While serving jury duty, Rob finds himself siding with the female defendant.

Thursday, January 1

10:00 PM

Girls Will Be Boys

Season 4 • Episode 23

The Petries face a problem when Ritchie is beaten up by a girl.

Thursday, January 1

10:30 PM

Bupkis

Season 4 • Episode 24

Rob learns that a song he helped write is about to become a hit.

Friday, January 2

1:00 PM

Where You Been, Fassbinder?

Season 1 • Episode 25

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

Friday, January 2

10:00 PM

Your Home Sweet Home Is My Home

Season 4 • Episode 25

Rob recalls the time he and his best friend tried to buy the same house.

Friday, January 2

10:30 PM

Anthony Stone

Season 4 • Episode 26

Nobody really knows what Sally's new boyfriend does for a living.

Sunday, January 4

11:00 PM

The Bad Old Days

Season 1 • Episode 28

Buddy convinces Rob that he and all other American husbands are being dominated by women.

Sunday, January 4

11:30 PM

Sol and the Sponsor

Season 1 • Episode 29

A dinner for Rob's sponsor and his wife is enlivened by the arrival of one of Rob's Army buddies.

Monday, January 5

1:00 PM

The Bad Old Days

Season 1 • Episode 28

Buddy convinces Rob that he and all other American husbands are being dominated by women.

Monday, January 5

10:00 PM

A Show of Hands

Season 4 • Episode 28

Just before they are due at a formal banquet, Rob and Laura mistakenly dye their hands black.

Monday, January 5

10:30 PM

Baby Fat

Season 4 • Episode 29

Rob helps his boss, Alan Brady, by rewriting a play starring the comic.

Tuesday, January 6

1:00 PM

I Am My Brother's Keeper

Season 1 • Episode 26

Rob's shy brother (Jerry Van Dyke) has confidence while sleepwalking.

Tuesday, January 6

10:00 PM

100 Terrible Hours

Season 4 • Episode 30

Rob stays awake for 100 hours just before his job interview with Alan Brady.

Tuesday, January 6

10:30 PM

Br-Room, Br-Room

Season 4 • Episode 31

Rob buys a motorcycle and is arrested as a joy-riding delinquent.

Wednesday, January 7

1:00 PM

The Sleeping Brother

Season 1 • Episode 27

Rob's brother (Jerry Van Dyke) auditions for the show while awake.

Wednesday, January 7

10:00 PM

There's No Sale Like Wholesale

Season 4 • Episode 32

Buddy offers to help Laura get a fur coat for the wholesale price.

Wednesday, January 7

10:30 PM

Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth

Season 5 • Episode 1

Laura blurts out an embarrassing secret on a national television quiz show.

Thursday, January 8

1:00 PM

Sol and the Sponsor

Season 1 • Episode 29

A dinner for Rob's sponsor and his wife is enlivened by the arrival of one of Rob's Army buddies.

Thursday, January 8

10:00 PM

A Farewell to Writing

Season 5 • Episode 2

Rob sets out to write a book during his vacation but has trouble getting started.

Thursday, January 8

10:30 PM

No Rice at My Wedding

Season 5 • Episode 5

Rob and Laura recall their courtship days when Rob almost lost Laura to another man.

Friday, January 9

1:00 PM

The Return of Happy Spangler

Season 1 • Episode 30

Rob tries to help an old radio comedy writer make a comeback.

Friday, January 9

10:00 PM

The Ugliest Dog in the World

Season 5 • Episode 4

Rob and Laura try to find a home for an ugly mutt from the dog pound.

Friday, January 9

10:30 PM

The Great Petrie Fortune

Season 5 • Episode 7

Rob's dreams of inheriting a fortune seem dashed when he gets an old desk.

Matt Roush says...

One of the all-time great TV comedies gets another turn in the spotlight, when the nostalgia channel airs a 100-episode marathon of the multiple Emmy-winning series that made Dick Van Dyke — who turns 100 on Saturday — a household name. “What’s a Dick Van Dyke?” his costar Rose Marie famously quipped when joining the show, created by Carl Reiner, who based the series on his own experiences as a TV comedy writer with a family life in the New Rochelle suburbs. Van Dyke’s chemistry with Mary Tyler Moore, 11 years his junior, was so electric that people assumed they were actually married. The series, which aired from 1961 to 1966, still holds up remarkably well. It can also be streamed on Prime Video, Peacock, and for free on platforms including Tubi, Pluto TV, and The Roku Channel. (A documentary film, Dick Van Dyke: 100th Celebration, is airing in selected movie theaters Saturday and Sunday.)