The Dick Van Dyke Show (Season 2) DVD

Rated: Not Rated
Genre: TV Series
Length: 750 minutes
Director: Various
Year: (1962)

Britt Gillette's The Dick Van Dyke Show (Season 2) DVD Review

In the Fall of 1961, CBS first aired The Dick Van Dyke Show, one of funniest sitcoms in television history. Similar to I Love Lucy, but featuring more docile and less eccentric characters, the show became a mainstay in the top 10 Nielsen ratings for its first four seasons. When the show's ratings slipped in the fifth season, the network cancelled the show. But in the four decades since, The Dick Van Dyke Show has continued to entertain its fans and their children (and their children's children) via syndicated re-runs…

The Dick Van Dyke Show is centered around the life of Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke), a family man living in suburban New York. As the head writer for the fictional "Alan Brady Show," he works with co-writers Buddy Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam) and Sally Rogers (Rose Marie). Rob's work life is always interesting given Buddy's constant wisecracks, Sally's never-ending search for a husband, and the trio's unified harassment of Alan Brady's brother-in-law, Mel Cooley (Richard Deacon). At home, Rob's loving yet overly-nervous wife Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) stays at home with the couple's son Ritchie (Larry Mathews). Surrounded by all these unique characters, Rob is always embroiled in someone's scheme, fantasy, or shenanigan…

The Dick Van Dyke Show (Season 2) DVD features a number of hilarious episodes including the season premiere "Never Name a Duck" in which Rob brings home two baby ducks from work, but tries to conceal them from Laura and Ritchie so that they don't fall in love with them. But inevitably, they find the ducks with Ritchie naming them Stanley and Oliver. When one of the ducks dies, Rob must explain the situation to Ritchie… Other notable episodes from Season 2 include "Hustling the Hustler" in which Rob discovers that Laura is a closet pool shark, and "A Bird in the Head Hurts" in which a nest-building woodpecker tries to use Ritchie's hair for a foundation…

Below is a list of episodes included on The Dick Van Dyke Show (Season 2) DVD:

Episode 31 (Never Name a Duck) Air Date: 09-26-1962
Episode 32 (The Two Faces of Rob) Air Date: 10-03-1962
Episode 33 (The Attempted Marriage) Air Date: 10-10-1962
Episode 34 (Bank Book 6565696) Air Date: 10-17-1962
Episode 35 (Hustling the Hustler) Air Date: 10-24-1962
Episode 36 (My Husband is Not a Drunk) Air Date: 10-31-1962
Episode 37 (What's in a Middle Name?) Air Date: 11-07-1962
Episode 38 (Like a Sister) Air Date: 11-14-1962
Episode 39 (The Night the Roof Fell In) Air Date: 11-21-1962
Episode 40 (The Secret Life of Buddy and Sally) Air Date: 11-28-1962
Episode 41 (A Bird in the Head Hurts) Air Date: 12-05-1962
Episode 42 (Gesundheit, Darling) Air Date: 12-12-1962
Episode 43 (A Man's Teeth Are Not His Own) Air Date: 12-19-1962
Episode 44 (Somebody Has to Play Cleopatra) Air Date: 12-26-1962
Episode 45 (The Cat Burglar) Air Date: 01-02-1963
Episode 46 (The Foul Weather Girl) Air Date: 01-09-1963
Episode 47 (Will You Two Be My Wife?) Air Date: 01-16-1963
Episode 48 (Ray Murdock's X-Ray) Air Date: 01-23-1963
Episode 49 (I Was a Teenage Head Writer) Air Date: 01-30-1963
Episode 50 (It May Look Like a Walnut!) Air Date: 02-06-1963
Episode 51 (My Husband is a Check-Grabber) Air Date: 02-13-1963
Episode 52 (Don't Trip Over That Mountain) Air Date: 02-20-1963
Episode 53 (Give Me Your Walls!) Air Date: 02-27-1963
Episode 54 (The Sam Pomerantz Scandals) Air Date: 03-06-1963
Episode 55 (The Square Triangle) Air Date: 03-20-1963
Episode 56 (I'm No Henry Walden!) Air Date: 03-27-1963
Episode 57 (Racy Tracy Rattigan) Air Date: 04-03-1963
Episode 58 (Divorce) Air Date: 04-10-1963
Episode 59 (It's a Shame She Married Me) Air Date: 04-17-1963
Episode 60 (A Surprise Surprise is a Surprise) Air Date: 04-24-1963
Episode 61 (Jilting the Jilter) Air Date: 05-01-1963
Episode 62 (When a Bowling Pin Talks, Listen) Air Date: 05-08-1963
Episode 63 (All About Eavesdropping) Air Date: 10-23-1963

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Posted on 19 April 2005