List of The Dick Van Dyke Show writers

This is a list of writers for The Dick Van Dyke Show sorted by the amount of episodes written. Collaborations are marked with dashes. (-) Contributions and episode numbers are noted in parenthesis.

55 episodes

 * Carl Reiner
 * "The Sick Boy and the Sitter" (S01E01)
 * "My Blonde-Haired Brunette" (S01E02)
 * "Sally and the Lab Technician" (S01E03)
 * "Washington vs. the Bunny" (S01E04)
 * "Oh How We Met on the Night That We Danced" (S01E05)
 * "Harrison B. Harding of Camp Crowder, Mo." (S01E06)
 * "Jealousy!" (S01E07)
 * "The Unwelcome Houseguest" (S01E09)
 * "The Meershatz Pipe" (S01E10)
 * "Forty-Four Tickets" (S01E11)
 * "Empress Carlotta's Necklace" (S01E12)
 * "Where Did I Come From?" (S01E15)
 * "Punch Thy Neighbor" (S01E17)
 * "Who Owes Who What?" (S01E18)
 * "The Talented Neighborhood" (S01E19)
 * "The Twizzle" (S01E23)
 * "I Am My Brother's Keeper" (S01E26)
 * "The Sleeping Brother" (S01E27)
 * "The Return of Happy Spangler" (S01E30)
 * "Never Name a Duck" (S02E01)
 * "The Attempted Marriage" (S02E03)
 * "Hustling the Hustler" (S02E05)
 * "My Husband is Not a Drunk" (S02E06)
 * "What's in a Middle Name?" (S02E07)
 * "Like a Sister" (S02E08)
 * "A Bird in the Head Hurts" (S02E11)
 * "Gesundheit, Darling" (S02E12)
 * "A Man's Teeth Are Not His Own" (S02E13)
 * "The Cat Burglar" (S02E15)
 * "The Foul Weather Girl" (S02E16)
 * "Will You Two Be My Wife?" (S02E17)
 * "Ray Murdock's X-Ray" (S02E18)
 * "It May Look Like a Walnut" (S02E20)
 * "My Husband is a Check-Grabber" (S02E21)
 * "Don't Trip Over That Mountain" (S02E22)
 * "Give Me Your Walls!" (S02E23)
 * "The Sam Pomerantz Scandals" (S02E24)
 * "I'm No Henry Walden!" (S02E26) (Teleplay)
 * "Racy Tracy Rattigan" (S02E27) - with Ronald Alexander
 * "Divorce" (S02E28)
 * "A Surprise Surprise is a Surprise" (S02E30)
 * "Laura's Little Lie" (S03E03) - with Howard Merrill
 * "Very Old Shoes, Very Old Rice" (S03E04)
 * "Who and Where Was Antonio Stradivarius?" (S03E07)
 * "The Life and Love of Joe Coogan" (S03E17)
 * "Honeymoons Are for the Lucky" (S03E23)
 * "The Plots Thicken" (S03E25) - with Bill Persky & Sam Denoff
 * "The Return of Edwin Carp" (S03E27)
 * "My Neighbor's Husband's Other Life" (S03E30) - with Bill Persky & Sam Denoff
 * "A Vigilante Ripped My Sports Coat" (S04E04)
 * "The Man from Emperor" (S04E05) - with Bill Persky & Sam Denoff
 * "Stacey Petrie: Part I" (S04E17)
 * "Stacey Petrie: Part II" (S04E18) - with Bill Persky & Sam Denoff
 * "Never Bathe on Saturday" (S04E27)
 * "The Last Chapter" (S05E32) - with Bill Persky & Sam Denoff

29 episodes

 * Bill Persky & Sam Denoff
 * "That's My Boy??" (S03E01)
 * "The Masterpiece" (S03E02)
 * "Big Max Calvada" (S03E09)
 * "The Sound of the Trumpets of Conscience Falls Deafly on a Brain That Holds Its Ears..." (S03E12)
 * "The Alan Brady Show Presents" (S03E13)
 * "Happy Birthday and Too Many More" (S03E19)
 * "The Pen is Mightier Than the Mouth" (S03E21)
 * "My Part-Time Wife" (S03E22)
 * "The Plots Thicken" (S03E25) - with Carl Reiner
 * "October Eve" (S03E28)
 * "My Neighbor's Husband's Other Life" (S03E30) - with Carl Reiner
 * "I'd Rather Be Bald Than Have No Head at All" (S03E31)
 * "My Mother Can Beat Up My Father" (S04E01)
 * "The Ghost of A. Chantz" (S04E02)
 * "The Lady and the Babysitter" (S04E03)
 * "The Man from Emperor" (S04E05) - with Carl Reiner
 * "The Alan Brady Show Goes to Jail" (S04E08)
 * "Three Letters from One Wife" (S04E09)
 * "The Death of the Party" (S04E12)
 * "The Impractical Joke" (S04E16)
 * "Stacey Petrie: Part II" (S04E18) - with Carl Reiner
 * "The Redcoats Are Coming" (S04E20)
 * "The Case of the Pillow" (S04E21)
 * "Bupkis" (S04E24)
 * "One Hundred Terrible Hours" (S04E30)
 * "Coast to Coast Big Mouth" (S05E01)
 * "The Ugliest Dog in the World" (S05E04)
 * "The Gunslinger" (S05E31)
 * "The Last Chapter" (S05E32) - with Carl Reiner

18 episodes

 * Garry Marshall & Jerry Belson
 * "The Lady and the Tiger and the Lawyer" (S03E16)
 * "Dear Mrs. Petrie, Your Husband's in Jail" (S03E29)
 * "Teacher's Petrie" (S03E32)
 * "Romance, Roses and Rye Bread" (S04E06)
 * "4 1/2" (S04E07)
 * "Pink Pills and Purple Parents" (S04E10)
 * "Stretch Petrie vs. Kid Schenk" (S04E14)
 * "Brother, Can You Spare $2500?" (S04E15)
 * "Young Man with a Shoehorn" (S04E22)
 * "Girls Will Be Boys" (S04E23)
 * "Baby Fat" (S04E29)
 * "There's No Sale Like Wholesale" (S04E32)
 * "No Rice at My Wedding" (S05E05)
 * "Odd But True" (S05E08)
 * "Bad Reception in Albany" (S05E23)
 * "Talk to the Snail" (S05E24)
 * "The Man from My Uncle" (S05E27)
 * "Long Night's Journey Into Day" (S05E30)

9 episodes

 * Dale McRaven & Carl Kleinschmitt
 * "Br-rooom, Br-rooom" (S04E31)
 * "Uhny Uftz" (S05E03)
 * "Body and Sol" (S05E11)
 * "I Do Not Choose to Run" (S05E16)
 * "The Making of a Councilman" (S05E17)
 * "The Curse of the Petrie People" (S05E18)
 * "Remember the Alimony" (S05E20)
 * "Obnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc." (S05E26)
 * "Love Thy Other Neighbor" (S05E29)

8 episodes

 * Howard Merrill
 * "The Two Faces of Rob" (S02E02) - with Sheldon Keller
 * "I Was a Teenage Head Writer" (S02E19) - with Sheldon Keller
 * "It's a Shame She Married Me" (S02E29) - with Sheldon Keller
 * "Laura's Little Lie" (S03E03) - with Carl Reiner
 * "All About Eavesdropping" (S03E05) - with Sheldon Keller
 * "Too Many Stars" (S03E06) - with Sheldon Keller
 * "The Brave and the Backache" (S03E20) - with Sheldon Keller
 * "My Two Show-Offs and Me" (S04E13) - with Sheldon Keller

7 episodes

 * John Whedon
 * "Where You Been, Fassbinder?" (S01E25)
 * "The Night the Roof Fell In" (S02E09)
 * "Turtles, Ties and Toreadors" (S03E11)
 * "The Third One From the Left" (S03E14)
 * "Scratch My Car and Die" (S03E26)
 * "Viva Petrie" (S05E09)
 * "The Bottom of Mel Cooley's Heart" (S05E19)


 * Sheldon Keller
 * "The Two Faces of Rob" (S02E02) - with Howard Merrill
 * "I Was a Teenage Head Writer" (S02E19) - with Howard Merrill
 * "It's a Shame She Married Me" (S02E29) - with Howard Merrill
 * "All About Eavesdropping" (S03E05) - with Howard Merrill
 * "Too Many Stars" (S03E06) - with Howard Merrill
 * "The Brave and the Backache" (S03E20) - with Howard Merrill
 * "My Two Show-Offs and Me" (S04E13) - with Howard Merrill

5 episodes

 * Martin A. Ragaway
 * "Somebody Has to Play Cleopatra" (S02E14)
 * "When a Bowling Pin Talks, Listen" (S02E32)
 * "The Ballad of the Betty Lou" (S03E10)
 * "My Husband is the Best One" (S03E15)
 * "Boy #1, Boy #2" (S04E19)

3 episodes

 * Frank Tarloff (as David Adler)
 * "To Tell or Not to Tell" (S01E08)
 * "Sally is a Girl" (S01E13)
 * "The Curious Thing About Women" (S01E16)


 * Bill Idelson
 * "The Square Triangle" (S02E25)
 * "Uncle George" (S03E08)
 * "How to Spank a Star" (S03E24) - with Nathaniel Curtis


 * Ernest Chambers
 * "A Nice, Friendly Game of Cards" (S03E18)
 * "It Wouldn't Hurt Them to Give Us a Raise" (S04E11) - with Jay Burton
 * "The Great Petrie Fortune" (S05E07) - with Jay Burton


 * Joseph C. Cavella
 * "Anthony Stone" (S04E26)
 * "A Show of Hands" (S04E28)
 * "You're Under Arrest" (S05E13)

2 episodes

 * Walter Kempley
 * "Buddy, Can You Spare a Job?" (S01E14)
 * "Sol and the Sponsor" (S01E29)


 * Norm Liebmann & Ed Haas
 * "Father of the Week" (S01E21)
 * "The Bad Old Days" (S01E28)


 * Ronald Alexander
 * "Racy Tracy Rattigan" (S02E27) - with Carl Reiner
 * "Jilting the Jilter" (S02E31)


 * Jay Burton
 * "It Wouldn't Hurt Them to Give Us a Raise" (S04E11) - with Ernest Chambers
 * "The Great Petrie Fortune" (S05E07) - with Ernest Chambers


 * Fred Freeman & Lawrence J. Cohen
 * "A Farewell to Writing" (S05E02)
 * "See Rob Write - Write, Rob, Write" (S05E12)


 * Art Baer & Ben Joelson
 * "Draw Me a Pear" (S05E06)
 * "Buddy Sorrell, Man and Boy" (S05E22)


 * Rick Mittleman
 * "Go Tell the Birds and the Bees" (S05E10)
 * "Fifty-Two, Forty-Five or Work" (S05E14)


 * Joseph Bonaduce
 * "Who Stole My Watch?" (S05E15)
 * "A Day in the Life of Alan Brady" (S05E25)

1 episode

 * Jack Raymond - "A Word a Day" (S01E20)
 * Arnold & Lois Peyser - "Father of the Week" (S01E22)
 * Leo Solomon & Ben Gershman - "One Angry Man" (S01E24)
 * Ray Allen Sarafian & Harvey Bullock - "Bank Book 6565696" (S02E04)
 * Lee Erwin - "The Secret Life of Buddy and Sally" (S02E10)
 * Ray Brenner & Jack Guss - "I'm No Henry Walden!" (S02E26) (Story)
 * Nathaniel Curtis - "How to Spank a Star" (S03E24) - with Bill Idelson
 * Howard Ostroff & Joan Darling - "Your Home Sweet Home is My Home" (S04E25)
 * Ronald Axe - "Dear Sally Rogers" (S05E21)
 * Jack Winter - "You Ought to Be in Pictures" (S05E28)