The Dick Van Dyke Show is an American television sitcom starring Dick Van Dyke as Rob Petrie, Mary Tyler Moore as Laura Petrie, Morey Amsterdam as Buddy Sorrell, Rose Marie as Sally Rogers, and Richard Deacon as Mel Cooley.
 The series ran for five seasons on CBS, lasting 158 half-hour episodes, all filmed in black-and-white.  Creator/writer Carl Reiner had told the cast from the beginning that if the show made it through five seasons, that would be its maximum run.
 All five seasons have been released on DVD by Image Entertainment.
 Dick Van Dyke as Robert "Rob" Simpson Petrie
 Rose Marie as Sally Rogers
 Morey Amsterdam as Maurice "Buddy" Sorrell
 Larry Mathews as Richard "Ritchie" Rosebud Petrie
 Mary Tyler Moore as Laura Petrie
 Richard Deacon as Melvin "Mel" Cooley
 Ann Morgan Guilbert as Mildred "Millie" Helper
 Jerry Paris as Dr. Gerald "Jerry" Helper
 Carl Reiner as Alan Brady (seasons 4-5)
 
 On neighbor Millie Helper (Ann Morgan Guilbert)'s advice, Laura dyes her hair blonde when she believes the romance in her marriage to Rob seems to be fading. Once Laura does the deed, she's sorry she did it for more than one reason and tries to hide her new bleached state before Rob comes home. Benny Rubin appears as the druggist.
 Rob recalls the hilarious events leading up to Richie's birth when Richie asks the inevitable question, "Where did I come from?". Herbie Faye appears as Willie the coffee man. Tiny Brauer appears as a cabbie. Jerry Hausner appears as Charlie, the driver of the laundry truck who takes Laura and Rob to the hospital.
 Rob enjoys a scary sci-fi movie on TV while Laura cowers under the bed covers so as to not hear it. When the show ends, Rob further tortures Laura by telling the tale of Kolak, a visitor from the planet Twilo who resembles Danny Thomas and deploys walnuts to steal Earthlings' thumbs and imaginations. Rob awakes in the morning to a living room strewn with walnuts and Laura preparing scrambled walnuts for Rob's breakfast. Everyone at the office is acting as if Kolak really existed. Is Rob dreaming or is Laura having her revenge?
 Rob tells Mel about the time he thought he brought home the wrong baby from the hospital. The hospital staff kept mistaking Laura's room (208) with that of a Mrs. Peters (203) who also had a baby boy that same day. Rob begins to believe that the Peters' baby and theirs were mixed up. Not wanting to concern Laura, Rob tried to find evidence of the mix-up and talks to the Peters on the phone. Only after meeting the Peters does Rob become certain that they had the correct baby all along. Amzie Strickland appears as the nurse. Greg Morris appears as Mr. Peters.
 Laura once commissioned artist Sergei Carpetna for a fully clothed portrait of herself. Sergei, taking artistic license, rendered her nude. Laura threw paint on it, thinking she ruined it. But now the painting is standing in an art gallery for all to see. She tells Rob about it and he reassures Laura that he's not upset, but he really is. Laura remembers that she paid for the painting. Rob comes up with a way for Sergei to sell the painting and make Rob and Laura happy.
 Note: The title and plot of this episode are an allusion to the controversial 1911 oil painting September Morn.
 The Alan Brady Show crew come to prison to put on a show for Lyle Delp (Don Rickles) and his fellow inmates. Rob and Laura unwisely choose to wear prison uniforms for the show. Rob gets mistaken for a real prisoner and is thrown in the slammer. Rob has to figure a way to convince the disbelieving guard (Allan Melvin) that he is who he says he is. Ken Lynch appears as Warden Walter Jackson. Robert Strauss and Arthur Batanides appear as two trouble making inmates. (Part 2 of 2)
 Rob gets Alan Brady to host a television documentary about comedy that Rob wrote, even though Alan is against it. Laura believes that if Alan gets enough positive fan mail, he'll consider it a success. Millie writes fourteen letters to Alan praising the program, but everything goes awry when the program is pre-empted and is not shown. Laura and Millie have to figure out what to do, hopefully to keep Rob from standing in the unemployment line after Alan reads the letters. Turns out Mel saves the day.
 Rob discovers he received no credit for a song, called Bupkis, that he co-wrote years ago. He wrote the lyrics to the song written by a colleague named Buzzy Potter back when the two were in the army. Buzzy came by a couple months ago and asked about peddling their old songs. Rob verbally gave him outright ownership of them. When Rob goes to confront Buzzy, he runs into another old army pal named 'Sticks' Mandalay (Greg Morris). Turns out that Sticks actually wrote the music to the song, with Buzzy contributing nothing accept his name on the music sheet. Tim Herbert appears as another Songwriter.
 Rob and Laura explain to Millie why they cut their romantic getaway so short. Laura got her toe stuck in a hotel bathtub faucet and Rob couldn't get through the locked bathroom door to free her. Rob has to contend with a wisecracking hotel staff, including a surly maid (Kathleen Freeman), a detective (Bernard Fox), a waiter (Johnny Silver) and a bellboy (Bill Idelson, outside of his usual role as Herman Glimscher.) It finally takes a gunshot to the bathroom door lock and an Engineer (Arthur Malet) to extricate Laura from her predicament.
 Alan Brady asks Rob to doctor the play of noted playwright Harper Worthington Yates (Strother Martin) that Alan is supposed to perform on Broadway. Alan doesn't want Yates or anyone else to know. Rob is tired of writing in the shadows and wants credit for his help. Rob and Alan discuss it with Harper, who winds up hiring another writer to help. Sandy Kenyon appears as Lionel Dann, the director of the play. Richard Erdman appears as Buck Brown, clothing designer of the play.
 Laura and Millie attend the filming of the nationally broadcast "Pay as You Go!" game show, whose host, Johnny Patrick, is renowned for getting his guests flustered. Laura accidentally reveals that Alan Brady is bald---on live television. When Rob finds out, he and Laura just hope that by a miracle Alan doesn't find out. Later, sure that Alan knows what she said, Laura goes to apologize and hopes to protect Rob's job.
 Rob and Laura attend the reading of the will left by Rob's elderly Uncle Hezekiah. Rob and Laura are shown a short film of Hezekiah informing Rob that he's left him his old roll-top desk. Hezekiah then sings him a chorus of "Me and My Shadow," which is supposed to be a clue to a "treasure" Hezekiah claims is hidden in the desk. Rob finds some old coins in the desk. He has Mr. Harlow (Forrest Lewis), a coin expert, look at them, but there's no treasure there. After a little more searching, Rob finds what his Uncle wanted him to have. Dan Tobin appears as Leland Ferguson, the lawyer. Elvia Allman, Herb Vigran, Amzie Strickland, Howard Wendell, and Tiny Brauer appear as people who attended the reading of the will.
 When he speaks out against the development of a new shopping center, Rob is asked to run for city councilman by his friend Doug (George Tyne) and businessman Mr. Howard (Philip Ober). Flattered, Rob considers it but soon finds his life under their complete management. Both he and Laura also discover that everyone in New Rochelle wants something from their local politicians, whether it be big, small or crazy. Rob has reasons he wants to run and also reasons not to. Arte Johnson appears as Bill Schermerhorn, campaign manager. Howard Wendell appears as John Gerber. Peter Brocco appears as Lionel, a citizen.  (This plot is similar to episode 197 of The Andy Griffith Show, and episode 72 of The Partridge Family show).
 While running for New Rochelle city councilman, Rob realizes his opponent Lincoln Goodheart (Wally Cox) is much more knowledgeable about local issues than he is. Rob's strengths: a winning smile and physical height. Does the public want a well-informed leader or a charming figurehead? Lorna Thayer appears as Samantha Meriweather, a reporter.  (This storyline was also used in episode 197 of The Andy Griffith Show, and later in episode 72 of The Partridge Family Show).
 Rob encourages Mel Cooley to stand up to Alan Brady after the TV star yells at the producer for a tiny mistake, but Mel is promptly fired. Rob, Sally and Buddy try to figure out how else they can support Mel in this battle without jeopardizing their own jobs. They convince Alan that Mel's annoying traits are actually his positives.
 While Rob is under anesthesia, he dreams of being in a western setting with his family and friends, going up against "Big Bad Brady". Rob hears from Killer Cooley that Big Bad Brady is coming to town and wants to see a show. He vows to kill anyone associated with it if he doesn't like it, but if the show doesn't go on, he'll just kill Rob instead. Rob can't convince the cowboys of the town to perform, so he must decide whether to face Big Bad Brady or go on the run. As Sheriff Rob resolves to make a stand, wife Laura thinks she has the answer to save him. But, when that doesn't work, Rob has to shoot it out with Brady. Allan Melvin appears as a gun salesman.
 In the series finale, Rob, after five years of struggle, finally finishes his first book called "Untitled: A Series of Terribly Important Events in the Fairly Unimportant Life of Robert S. Petrie"  As Laura starts reading, she is excited to learn that the book is the story of their life from marriage proposal to a point shortly after Richie's birth. She begins to reminisce about the situations written. Regardless of Laura's reaction, Rob wonders about the reaction of the publisher to whom he sent the manuscript. The publisher hates it, but Alan decides to buy the rights to the manuscript and turn it into a TV series with him as the star.