The Dick Van Dyke Show: Season 4
Image (1964)
TV Series  /  Comedy, Family
In Collection
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0*
Seen ItYes
014381156027
IMDB   8.4
810 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR (Not Rated)
Dick Van Dyke Rob Petrie
Mary Tyler Moore Laura Petrie
Rose Marie Sally Rogers
Morey Amsterdam Buddy Sorrell
Larry Mathews Ritchie Petrie
Ann Morgan Guilbert Millie Helper
Richard Deacon Mel Cooley
Frank Adamo Dr. Adamo
Carl Reiner Alan Brady
Jerry Paris Jerry Helper
Abdullah Abbas Observer
Johnny Silver Photographer
Eddie Smith Observer
Jerry Van Dyke Stacey Petrie
Jane Dulo Cousin Margaret
Don Rickles Lyle Delp
Bernard Fox Ogden Darwell
Amzie Strickland May Wiley
Vincent Barbi Convict
Sandy Kenyon Lionel Dann
Director
Peter Baldwin
Jerry Paris
Lee Philips
Alan Rafkin
Producer Carl Reiner
Sheldon Leonard
Ronald Jacobs
Danny Thomas
Writer Carl Reiner
Garry Marshall
Jerry Belson
Martin Ragaway
Cinematography Robert De Grasse
Musician Earle Hagen

Considered to be one of television's classics, "The Dick Van Dyke Show" centers on the personal and professional lives of Rob Petrie, a writer for the fictional "Alan Brady Show". The non-stop laughs revolved around Rob's relationships with with fellow writers Buddy Sorrell and Sally Rogers, and producer Mel Cooley. At home, we also got to chuckle (and sometimes cry) over Rob's antics involving his wife, son, and neighbors.
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    9/23/1964  1.  My Mother Can Beat Up My Father
Laura has a talent for judo when she defends Rob at a bar.
Director:  Jerry Paris  Writer:  Sam Denoff  / Bill Persky 
Guest starring:  Paul Gilbert, Ken Berry, Imelda de Martin, Tom Avera,  Lou Cutell
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    9/30/1964  2.  The Ghost of A. Chantz
Rob, Buddy, Laura, and Sally spend the night in a cabin that is haunted. They later learn that Mel is playing a joke!
Director:  Jerry Paris  Writer:  Sam Denoff  / Bill Persky 
Guest starring:  Maurice Brenner, Milton Parsons,  Richard Deacon
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/7/1964  3.  The Lady and the Babysitter
Roger Ritchie's Babysitter has fallen in love with Laura. Roger has trouble telling Laura that he loves her.
Director:  Jerry Paris  Writer:  Sam Denoff  / Bill Persky 
Guest starring:  Eddie Hodges,  Frank Adamo
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/14/1964  4.  A Vigilante Ripped My Sports Coat
A disagreement over politics almost breaks up a friendship between Rob and Jerry.
Writer:  Carl Reiner 
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/21/1964  5.  The Man from Emperor
Rob is offered a job at a men's magazine but Laura doesn't like the idea.
Director:  Jerry Paris  Writer:  Carl Reiner  / Sam Denoff  / Bill Persky 
Guest starring:  Lee Philips, Nadia Sanders, Gloria Neil, Sally Carter, Tracy Butler,  Mary Tyler Moore
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/28/1964  6.  Romances, Roses, and Rye Bread
Sally thinks she may have found a husband in Bert Monker, She finds out that they are both lonely and may not be right for each other.
Director:  Jerry Paris  Writer:  Garry Marshall  /  Jerry Belson 
Guest starring:  Jeri Lou James,  Frank AdamoSid Melton
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/4/1964  7.  4 1/2
Rob tells Buddy and Sally the story of how he and Laura met Lyle Delp.
Director:  Jerry Paris  Writer:  Garry Marshall  /  Jerry Belson 
Guest starring:  Don Rickles
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/11/1964  8.  The Alan Brady Show Goes to Jail
Rob has to perform at prison, just as he is about to perform Rob is thought to be an inmate of the jail.
Director:  Jerry Paris  Writer:  Sam Denoff  / Bill Persky 
Guest starring:  Don RicklesRobert StraussKen LynchArthur BatanidesAllan MelvinVincent Barbi, Alfred Ward
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/18/1964  9.  Three Letters from One Wife
Millie gets a letter campaign together to make sure Rob still has a job.
Director:  Jerry Paris  Writer:  Sam Denoff  / Bill Persky 
Guest starring:  Valerie Yerke,  Jerry Paris
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/25/1964  10.  Pink Pills and Purple Parents
Laura takes some of Millie's pills only to find that they make her drunk.
Director:  Alan Rafkin  Writer:  Garry Marshall  /  Jerry Belson 
Guest starring:  Tom Tully, Isabel Randolph
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    12/2/1964  11.  It Wouldn't Hurt Them to Give Us a Raise
Rob tries to help get a raise for Buddy and Sally but finds that hard to do after talking with Alan Brady's accountant.
Director:  Peter Baldwin  Writer:  Ernest Chambers  / Jay Burton 
Guest starring:  Roger C. Carmel
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    12/9/1964  12.  The Death of the Party
Rob tries to hide the fact he is sick as he helps Laura with a party.
Director:  Alan Rafkin  Writer:  Sam Denoff  / Bill Persky 
Guest starring:  Willard WatermanJane Dulo, Patty Regan, Pitt Herbert,  Frank Adamo
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    12/16/1964  13.  My Two Show-Offs and Me
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.
Director:  Jerry Paris  Writer:  Sheldon Keller  / Howard Merrill 
Guest starring:  Doris Singleton,  Richard Deacon
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    12/30/1964  14.  Stretch Petrie vs. Kid Schenk
Neil Schenk comes looking for a job while Rob returns an old favor.
Director:  Jerry Paris  Writer:  Garry Marshall  /  Jerry Belson 
Guest starring:  Jack Carter,  Peter Hobbs, Albert Carrier, Lynn Borden, Judy Taylor, Sally Carter
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    1/6/1965  15.  Brother, Can You Spare $2500?
Rob,Buddy, & Sally have just spent 11 hours finishing a script, on his way home Rob thinks he has the script in his hand but all he brings home is a newspaper! Rob remembers later that he left the script at Grand Centeral Station!
Director:  Jerry Paris  Writer:  Garry Marshall  /  Jerry Belson 
Guest starring:  Gene Baylos,  Herbie Faye, Jimmy Cross,  Tiny Brauer, Sheila Rogers,  Larry J. Blake, Brian Nash
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    1/13/1965  16.  The Impractical Joke
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.
Director:  Jerry Paris  Writer:  Sam Denoff  / Bill Persky 
Guest starring:  Lennie Weinrib, Alvy Moore,  Johnny Silver
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    1/20/1965  17.  Stacey Petrie (1)
Sally is asked to help Stacey learn how to date a lady.
Director:  Jerry Paris  Writer:  Carl Reiner 
Guest starring:  Jerry Van Dyke, Howard Wendell
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    1/27/1965  18.  Stacey Petrie (2)
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.
Director:  Jerry Paris  Writer:  Carl Reiner  / Sam Denoff  / Bill Persky 
Guest starring:  Jerry Van Dyke, Jane Wald,  Herbie FayeKendrick HuxhamCarl Reiner
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    2/3/1965  19.  Boy #1, Boy #2
Laura & Millie drive Rob crazy when their sons are cast in a commercial.
Director:  Jerry Paris  Writer:  Martin Ragaway 
Guest starring:  Peter Oliphant
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    2/10/1965  20.  The Redcoats Are Coming
Rob offers to hide The Redcoats at his home.
Director:  Jerry Paris  Writer:  Sam Denoff  / Bill Persky 
Guest starring:  Chad Stuart, Jeremy Clyde, William Beckley, Trudi Ames, Ellie Sommers, Mollie Howerton, Wendy Wilson, Shelley Cochran, Linda Cochran
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    2/17/1965  21.  The Case of the Pillow
Rob takes pillow salesman to court after buying pillows that smell like chickens.
Director:  Howard Morris  Writer:  Sam Denoff  / Bill Persky 
Guest starring:  Ed Begley, Alvy Moore,  Amzie StricklandJoel FluellenJohnny Silver
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    2/24/1965  22.  Young Man With a Shoehorn
Rob and Buddy invest in Uncle Lou's shoe store.
Director:  Jerry Paris  Writer:  Garry Marshall  /  Jerry Belson 
Guest starring:  Lou Jacobi, Milton Frome,  Amzie StricklandJane Dulo, LaRue Farlow,  Irving Bacon
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    3/3/1965  23.  Girls Will Be Boys
Ritchie comes to his parents for advice on how to get Priscilla Darewell to stop hitting him. Soon Rob and Laura find out that Pricilla loves Ritchie!
Director:  Jerry Paris  Writer:  Garry Marshall  /  Jerry Belson 
Guest starring:  Bernard Fox, Doris Singleton, Tracy Stratford
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    3/10/1965  24.  Bupkis
Rob tries to get the royalites on The Bupkis after signing off on them eariler.
Director:  Lee Philips  Writer:  Sam Denoff  / Bill Persky 
Guest starring:  Greg Morris, Robert Ball, Patty Regan, Tim Herbert, Charles Dugdale,  Carl Reiner
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    3/17/1965  25.  Your Home Sweet Home is My Home
Rob and Laura may have found their dream house soon they find a rock in the center of the house!
Director:  Lee Philips  Writer:  Howard Ostroff  / Joan Darling 
Guest starring:  Stanley Adams, Eddie Ryder
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    3/24/1965  26.  Anthony Stone
Rob and Buddy find out that Sally's date is married.
Director:  Jerry Paris  Writer:  Joseph C. Cavella 
Guest starring:  Richard Angarola,  Frank Adamo, Bob Hoffman
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    3/31/1965  27.  Never Bathe on Saturday
Laura and Rob plan to see a play but she gets locked in a bathroom at their hotel.
Director:  Jerry Paris  Writer:  Carl Reiner 
Guest starring:  Bernard Fox, Bill Idelson,  Kathleen FreemanArthur MaletJohnny Silver
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    4/14/1965  28.  Show of Hands
Rob & Laura go to banquet to get an award for Alan Brady, but before they go Laura & Rob put their hands in a pot of black ink (Laura was dying a costume Ritchie needs for a play.)
Director:  Theodore J Flicker  Writer:  Joseph C. Cavella 
Guest starring:  Joel Fluellen, Henry Scott, Herkie Styles
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    4/21/1965  29.  Baby Fat
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.
Director:  Jerry Paris  Writer:  Garry Marshall  /  Jerry Belson 
Guest starring:  Richard ErdmanSandy KenyonStrother Martin
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    5/5/1965  30.  One Hundred Terrible Hours
Just before Rob meets Alan Brady for the first time he tries to stay awake for 100 hours while doing a radio show.
Director:  Theodore J Flicker  Writer:  Sam Denoff  / Bill Persky 
Guest starring:  Fred ClarkDabbs Greer, Howard Wendell, Harry Stanton,  Johnny SilverFrank Adamo
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    5/12/1965  31.  Br-rooom, Br-rooom
Rob has a new motorcycle and takes it for a ride and is later arrested.
Director:  Jerry Paris  Writer:  Carl Kleinschmitt  /  Dale McRaven 
Guest starring:  Sandy Kenyon, Jimmy Murphy, Robert Random,  Carl Reindel, Linda Marshall,  Johnny Silver
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    5/26/1965  32.  There's No Sale Like Wholesale
Rob learns a leason after letting Buddy buy a coat that is to big for Laura.
Director:  Jerry Paris  Writer:  Garry Marshall  /  Jerry Belson 
Guest starring:  Lou KrugmanJane DuloPeter Brocco, A.G. Vitanza
Edition Details
Series The Dick Van Dyke Show
Distributor Image
Release Date 4/27/2004
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Mono [English]
Layers Single Side, Single Layer
No. of Discs/Tapes 5

Features
Disc 01 Audio Commentaries Featuring Carl Reiner & Dick Van Dyke and Garry Marshall for Selected Episodes Clip from TV Land's The Alan Brady Show The Full-Length CBS Special The Dick Van Dyke Show Remembered Dr. Mark Sloan Meets Rob Petrie in an Episode of Diagnosis Murder Dick Van Dyke Sings the Theme Song in an Appearance at The Hollywood Bowl Bonus for the Bonuses! DVD Exclusive Awards Telecast Clip: The Dick Van Dyke Show: Season One wins Best Overall DVD, TV Program Exclusive and Never Before Seen Rehearsal Photos Taken by Roddy McDowall Interviews with Cast and Producers Emmy Award Telecast Clips Featuring the Cast Original Network Promotional Spots Photo Galleries for Selected Episodes