Here's a link to someone's ranking of the 25 best episodes of my favorite TV program, The Dick Van Dyke Show. I agree with a lot of it but not all…so here's my list, going from my 25th favorite to my favorite. I'm sure your list is different from mine, which is okay except that mine is right…
- The Sam Pomerantz Scandals
- Bupkis
- Brother, Can You Spare $2500?
- I Was A Teenage Head Writer
- My Mother Can Beat Up My Father
- All About Eavesdropping
- It Wouldn't Hurt Them To Give Us A Raise
- See Rob Write, Write Rob Write
- Buddy Sorrell, Man And Boy
- The Masterpiece
- The Gunslinger
- My Husband Is Not A Drunk
- The Great Petrie Fortune
- Three Letters From One Wife
- October Eve
- The Attempted Marriage
- One Hundred Terrible Hours
- Buddy, Can You Spare A Job?
- Obnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc.
- Talk To The Snail
- The Bottom of Mel Cooley's Heart
- The Impractical Joke
- It May Look Like A Walnut
- That's My Boy??
- Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth
You will notice that my list contains no episodes that are essentially about jealousy endangering the Petrie marriage, no episodes with auditions in the Petrie living room, no episodes with Jerry Van Dyke or Marty Ingels, no episodes about Sally's desperation to be married and most episodes that include Alan Brady telling Mel to shut up. And unlike a lot of people, I don't think The Twizzle is the worst episode ever. If I extended this list to cover every episode, The Twizzle would be about ten from the bottom.