The Dick Van Dyke Show
Season 2
32 episodes
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S02E01 Never Name a Duck
Rob brings home two baby ducks left over from the show, and Ritchie becomes attached to them. When one dies and the other becomes ill, Rob must convince him that wild animals are happier when left in the wild.
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S02E02 The Two Faces of Rob
To prove that a wife cannot always recognize her husband on the phone, Rob disguises his voice and calls Laura.
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S02E03 The Attempted Marriage
Rob tells Ritchie the story about how a crippled jeep and a sprained ankle made Rob two hours late for his own wedding.
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S02E04 Bank Book 6565696
Rob discovers Laura's secret bank account. Its mystery preoccupies his thoughts till he finally has to confront her and ask what it's for.
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S02E05 Hustling the Hustler
Rob doesn't know what he's in for when he invites Buddy's charming, pool hustling brother Blackie over for dinner and a friendly game of billiards.
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S02E06 My Husband is Not a Drunk
A hypnotist visits a Petrie dinner party where Rob accidentally picks up a post-hypnotic suggestion.
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S02E07 What's in a Middle Name?
Ritchie finds his birth certificate and wants an explanation for his middle name.
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S02E08 Like a Sister
When handsome Ric Vallone is the guest star on the Alan Brady Show, Rob grows increasingly concerned that Sally is falling madly for the star, who is unaware of this complication.
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S02E09 The Night the Roof Fell In
Rob and Laura have a terrible fight after each has experienced a difficult day. Afterwards, each of them remember the fight very differently.
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S02E10 The Secret Life of Buddy and Sally
Rob is beginning to feel that Buddy and Sally are avoiding him. He starts to suspect that Buddy and Sally may be moonlighting for another comedy show, or worse - having an affair.
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S02E11 A Bird in the Head Hurts
Ritchie claims he is being attacked by a giant woodpecker, but Rob and Laura are convinced it's just a bid for attention.
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S02E12 Gesundheit, Darling
Rob begins to fear that he is allergic to his own family when proximity to Laura and Ritchie makes him start sneezing.
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S02E13 A Man's Teeth Are Not His Own
Rob suffers pangs of guilt after a dental emergency arises while Jerry's out of town, forcing Rob to accept treatment from another dentist whom Rob finds superior.
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S02E14 Somebody Has to Play Cleopatra
While directing the annual variety show sponsored by his talented neighbors, Rob becomes frustrated by spousal jealousies as he tries to pair the perfect "Cleopatra" to "Mark Antony" for the lead roles.
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S02E15 The Cat Burglar
A successive string of neighborhood cat burglaries makes the Petries and the Helpers jumpy, all of whom get victimized despite their hypervigilance over every little sound.
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S02E16 The Foul Weather Girl
Rob sneaks in and plants a big kiss on Laura only to find it isn't Laura at all but an old flame of his from high school who is in New York for an audition.
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S02E17 Will You Two Be My Wife?
Rob recounts the wrath and fury he encountered when he broke his engagement with his hometown sweetheart after he and Laura became engaged.
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S02E18 Ray Murdock's X-Ray
Rob goes on an interview show, where he is tricked into describing Laura as a nut.
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S02E19 I Was a Teenage Head Writer
Facing off with Mel over a rejected script, Rob leaves the show, fuming when Buddy and Sally don't join him.
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S02E20 It May Look Like a Walnut!
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?
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S02E21 My Husband is a Check-Grabber
Rob wonders why Laura is angry with him, and learns she objects to his habit of picking up checks when they go out with their friends, jeopardizing Richie's college future.
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S02E22 Don't Trip Over That Mountain
Laura is convinced that Rob will hurt himself on a ski trip, and when he actually does, Rob tries to hide his injuries rather than admit she was right.
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S02E23 Give Me Your Walls
Rob and Laura hire a painter who seems to want to do anything but paint their walls.
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S02E24 The Sam Pomerantz Scandals
The gang vacations at Rob's army buddy's new resort, but when Rob incapacitates its headlining comic, he gets the gang to help put on a show to make up for it.
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S02E25 The Square Triangle
Rob plans to make himself scarce when he hears French heartthrob Jacques Savon is Alan's guest star, a man whose marriage Rob feels responsible for breaking up. Oddly enough, Laura feels responsible, too.
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S02E26 I'm No Henry Walden
In answer to an invitation, the Petries attend a swank dinner party thrown by wealthy Mrs. Huntington, which later reveals itself to be a fund raiser where Rob's compliant gesture turns into a donation far beyond his means.
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S02E27 Racy Tracy Rattigan
Tracy Rattigan, the show's guest host while Alan Brady's on vacation, is a charming but incorrigible flirt, the extent of which Laura and Rob discover to their discomfort.
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S02E28 Divorce
Suspected infidelity puts Buddy's marriage to Pickles in jeopardy, and Rob, friends to both, finds himself situated between an enraged husband and an hysterical wife.
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S02E29 It's a Shame She Married Me
Laura's old beau re-enters the Petries' lives as Alan Brady's newest sponsor. His appearance coincides with Rob's agitation over personal finances, triggering insecurities.
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S02E30 A Surprise Surprise is a Surprise
Rob drives himself beyond distraction trying to figure out whether Laura is going to throw him a surprise party for his birthday and, if she IS going to throw a surprise party, when and where it's going to happen.
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S02E31 Jilting the Jilter
Sally gets a marriage proposal from an opportunistic comic who wants her to write his material.
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S02E32 When a Bowling Pin Talks, Listen
Rob submits a sketch about a talking bowling pin which Alan Brady loves, but trouble arises when it is revealed that a rival comedian has already used that same material.
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