List of The Dick Van Dyke Show writers

The following is a list of writers for The Dick Van Dyke Show sorted from the most episodes written to the least. Writing duos are noted with ampersands. Collaborations are noted by dashes. Contributions are noted in parenthesis.
51-60 Episodes
*Carl Reiner (Series Creator)
#"The Sick Boy and the Sitter"
#"My Blonde-Haired Brunette"
#"Sally and the Lab Technician"
#"Washington vs. the Bunny"
#"Oh How We Met on the Night That We Danced"
#"Harrison B. Harding of Camp Crowder, Mo."
#"Jealousy!"
#"The Unwelcome Houseguest"
#"The Meershatz Pipe"
#"Forty-Four Tickets"
#"Empress Carlotta's Necklace"
#"Where Did I Come From?"
#"Punch Thy Neighbor"
#"Who Owes Who What?"
#"The Talented Neighborhood"
#"The Twizzle"
#"I Am My Brother's Keeper"
#"The Sleeping Brother"
#"The Return of Happy Spangler"
#"Never Name a Duck"
#"The Attempted Marriage"
#"Hustling the Hustler"
#"My Husband is Not a Drunk"
#"What's in a Middle Name?"
#"Like a Sister"
#"A Bird in the Head Hurts"
#"Gesundheit, Darling"
#"A Man's Teeth Are Not His Own"
#"The Cat Burglar"
#"The Foul Weather Girl"
#"Will You Two Be My Wife?"
#"Ray Murdock's X-Ray"
#"It May Look Like a Walnut"
#"My Husband is a Check-Grabber"
#"Don't Trip Over That Mountain"
#"Give Me Your Walls!"
#"The Sam Pomerantz Scandals"
#"I'm No Henry Walden!" (Teleplay)
#"Racy Tracy Rattigan" - with Ronald Alexander
#"Divorce"
#"A Surprise Surprise is a Surprise"
#"Laura's Little Lie" - with Howard Merrill
#"Very Old Shoes, Very Old Rice"
#"Who and Where Was Antonio Stradivarius?"
#"The Life and Love of Joe Coogan"
#"Honeymoons Are for the Lucky"
#"The Plots Thicken" - with Bill Persky & Sam Denoff
#"The Return of Edwin Carp"
#"My Neighbor's Husband's Other Life" - with Bill Persky & Sam Denoff
#"A Vigilante Ripped My Sports Coat"
#"The Man from Emperor" - with Bill Persky & Sam Denoff
#"Stacey Petrie - Part I"
#"Stacey Petrie - Part II" - with Bill Persky & Sam Denoff
#"Never Bathe on Saturday"
#"The Last Chapter" - with Bill Persky & Sam Denoff
21-30 Episodes
*Bill Persky & Sam Denoff
#"That's My Boy??"
#"The Masterpiece"
#"Big Max Calvada"
#"The Sound of the Trumpets of Conscience Falls Deafly on a Brain That Holds Its Ears..."
#"The Alan Brady Show Presents"
#"Happy Birthday and Too Many More"
#"The Pen is Mightier Than the Mouth"
#"My Part-Time Wife"
#"The Plots Thicken" - with Carl Reiner
#"October Eve"
#"My Neighbor's Husband's Other Life" - with Carl Reiner
#"I'd Rather Be Bald Than Have No Head at All"
#"My Mother Can Beat Up My Father"
#"The Ghost of A. Chantz"
#"The Lady and the Babysitter"
#"The Man from Emperor" - with Carl Reiner
#"The Alan Brady Show Goes to Jail"
#"Three Letters from One Wife"
#"The Death of the Party"
#"The Impractical Joke"
#"Stacey Petrie - Part II" - with Carl Reiner
#"The Redcoats Are Coming"
#"The Case of the Pillow"
#"Bupkis"
#"One Hundred Terrible Hours"
#"Coast to Coast Big Mouth"
#"The Ugliest Dog in the World"
#"The Gunslinger"
#"The Last Chapter" - with Carl Reiner
11-20 Episodes
*Garry Marshall & Jerry Belson
#"The Lady and the Tiger and the Lawyer"
#"Dear Mrs. Petrie, Your Husband's in Jail"
#"Teacher's Petrie"
#"Romance, Roses and Rye Bread"
#"4 1/2"
#"Pink Pills and Purple Parents"
#"Stretch Petrie vs. Kid Schenk"
#"Brother, Can You Spare $2500?"
#"Young Man with a Shoehorn"
#"Girls Will Be Boys"
#"Baby Fat"
#"There's No Sale Like Wholesale"
#"No Rice at My Wedding"
#"Odd But True"
#"Bad Reception in Albany"
#"Talk to the Snail"
#"The Man from My Uncle"
#"Long Night's Journey Into Day"
1-10 Episodes
*Dale McRaven & Carl Kleinschmitt
#"Br-rooom, Br-rooom"
#"Uhny Uftz"
#"Body and Sol"
#"I Do Not Choose to Run"
#"The Making of a Councilman"
#"The Curse of the Petrie People"
#"Remember the Alimony"
#"Obnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc."
#"Love Thy Other Neighbor"
*Howard Merrill
#"The Two Faces of Rob" - with Sheldon Keller
#"I Was a Teenage Head Writer" - with Sheldon Keller
#"It's a Shame She Married Me" - with Sheldon Keller
#"Laura's Little Lie" - with Carl Reiner
#"All About Eavesdropping" - with Sheldon Keller
#"Too Many Stars" - with Sheldon Keller
#"The Brave and the Backache" - with Sheldon Keller
#"My Two Show-Offs and Me" - with Sheldon Keller
*Sheldon Keller
#"The Two Faces of Rob" - with Howard Merrill
#"I Was a Teenage Head Writer" - with Howard Merrill
#"It's a Shame She Married Me" - with Howard Merrill
#"All About Eavesdropping" - with Howard Merrill
#"Too Many Stars" - with Howard Merrill
#"The Brave and the Backache" - with Howard Merrill
#"My Two Show-Offs and Me" - with Howard Merrill
*John Whedon
#"Where You Benn, Fassbinder?"
#"The Night the Roof Fell In"
#"Turtles, Ties and Toreadors"
#"The Third One From the Left"
#"Scratch My Car and Die"
#"Viva Petrie"
#"The Bottom of Mel Cooley's Heart"
*Martin A. Ragaway
#"Somebody Has to Play Cleopatra"
#"When a Bowling Pin Talks, Listen"
#"The Ballad of the Betty Lou"
#"My Husband is the Best One"
#"Boy #1, Boy #2"
*David Adler
#"To Tell or Not to Tell"
#"Sally is a Girl"
#"The Curious Thing About Women"
*Joseph C. Cavella
#"Anthony Stone"
#"A Show of Hands"
#"You're Under Arrest"
*Ernest Chambers
#"A Nice, Friendly Game of Cards"
#"It Wouldn't Hurt Them to Give Us a Raise" - with Jay Burton
#"The Great Petrie Fortune" - with Jay Burton
*Bill Idelson
#"The Square Triangle"
#"Uncle George"
#"How to Spank a Star" - with Nathaniel Curtis
*Art Baer & Ben Joelson
#"Draw Me a Pear"
#"Buddy Sorrell, Man and Boy"
*Joseph Bonaduce
#"Who Stole My Watch?"
#"A Day in the Life of Alan Brady"
*Fred Freeman & Lawrence J. Cohen
#"A Farewell to Writing"
#"See Rob Write - Write, Rob, Write"
*Walter Kempley
#"Buddy, Can You Spare a Job?"
#"Sol and the Sponsor"
*Norm Liebmann & Ed Haas
#"The Boarder Incident"
#"The Bad Old Days"
*Rick Mittleman
#"Go Tell the Birds and the Bees"
#"Fifty-Two, Forty-Five or Work"
*Ronald Axe
#"Dear Sally Rogers"
*Ray Brenner & Jack Guss
#"I'm No Henry Walden!" (Story)
*Nathaniel Curtis
#"How to Spank a Star" - with Bill Idelson
*Lee Erwin
#"The Secret Life of Buddy and Sally"
*Howard Ostroff & Joan Darling
#"Your Home Sweet Home is My Home"
*Arnold & Lois Peyser
#"Father of the Week"
*Jack Raymond
#"A Word a Day"
*Ray Allen Saffian & Harvey Bullock
#"Bank Book 6565696"
*Leo Solomon & Ben Gershman
#"One Angry Man"
*Jack Winter
#"You Ought to Be in Pictures"

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