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This is a list of writers for w: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)