A = Auction - Rob accidentally bids on a painting at an auction.

B = bearded: Carl Reiner appears with a beard as the artist Sergei Carpetna (who did a nude painting of Laura)

C=Calvada Productions-the name of the production company.

D = Dick Van Dyke

E - Edwin Carp (an old radio star that Rob talked into coming out of retirement to appear on a special edition of the Alan Brady Show)

Freddie, the Helpers' son

G - Gangster (Sheldon Leonard guest starred as a gangster named Big Max Calvada)

H = Hair - Alan Brady had very little hair.

I - Indecent (the nude painting of Laura by Serge Carpetna)

J = Jerry Helper

K = Knock out - Rob got a few knock outs time and again.

L - Larry Matthews who played Ritchie Petrie

M = Motorcycle - Rob brings home a motorcycle in one episode.

N = Nice - Laura Petrie was nice.

O-Oh Rob!

what Laura would say sometimes.

P - Pickles, Buddy's wife's name

Q = Quick recover Rob does from tripping during the opening of the show.

R = Rose Marie played Sally Rogers

S = Sol Pomeroy played by Marty Ingels

T=Trip-what Rob does (or almost does) in the opening of some episodes.

U - Uhny Uftz, the season 5 episode about UFOs

V=Vroom Vroom

the name of one episode

W = Wig - Alan Brady wore a wig

X - X-ray (Rob was a guest on a TV program called Ray Murdock's X-Ray)

Y - Yell, Alan Brady is always yelling

Z = Zipped around on the motorcycle, he had in one episode.

A - Alien invasion in "It May Look Like a Walnut"

B = Buddy Sorrell

C - Cat burglar steals the Petries' table in a season 2 episode

D = Dealing the marked cards in the episode A Nice, Friendly Game of Cards.

E-Egotistical

what Alan Brady is

F -Freddie Helper (son of Jerry and Millie and best friend of Ritchie Petrie)

G - Garbage disposal, where Laura drops the family heirloom

H - Horrible (the name of a very ugly dog Rob got from the pound to use in a sketch and then got stuck with when the sketch was cancelled)

I - ice - they had a lot of ice in their drinks

J - Jealous, Laura gets jealous when Rob, has to work late, with a beautiful
movie star.

K - Kenneth (the opera singing kid in "The Talented Neighborhood")

L = Laura

M - marker: In an absentminded moment at home, Rob accidentally draws on one of his walls with a dark marker.

N=NEIBORS

Millie & Jerry Helper were the Petries next door neighbors. (and were based on Carl Rieners next door neighbors)

O - Overbearing, Alan Brady

P - Pickles Sorrell (Buddy's wife)

Q - quivering: In Alan Brady's office, Laura was quivering after revealing on a game show that he wears a toupee

R = Reiner - Carl Reiner was the creator of the show

S - sergeant - Rob achieved the rank of sergeant in the U.S. army, stationed at Camp Crowder where he first met Laura

T = TV Show - Rob Petrie writes for a TV show

U = Uncle (great-Uncle): Rob learned that his recently-deceased great-Uncle Hezekiah had bequeathed an old desk to him.

V = Valerie Blake, a beautiful actress that guest stars on The Alan Brady Show. She was played by Joan Staley.

W - Walnuts

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X - X-Ray (as in Ray Murdoch's X-ray a TV show on which Rob appeared and revealed that Laura was the source for many of the zany wife sketches on The Alan Brady Show)

Y = Youthful - Laura Petrie was very youthful looking

Z = Zonked out, Rob's zonked out in Jerry's dentist chair while having a tooth extraction.

A - Ann Morgan Guilbert (Millie Helper)

B = Buddy

C - Crummy Buttons (Yech!)

D = Dick Van Dyke.

E = Elvia Allman played on a couple of episodes

F = Freddie - Richie's friend

G = Garry Marshall played a bartender in a couple of episodes.

G = Garry Marshall played a bartender in a couple of episodes.
He played a bartender in one episode and a boxing referee in another.

H - Happy Spangler (the man who gave Rob Petrie his first big break as a comedy writer and to whom he returned the favour by getting him a job on the Alan Brady Show writing staff. A move he soon regretted)

I = Ice - they had a lot of ice in their drinks

^ (I forgot about the boxing referee Garry Marshall played)

J = Jerry Van Dyke aka Stacey Petrie

K - Knowledge - When running for Councilman, Rob realizes that his
opponent is much more knowledgeable about issues than he is.

L - Letters (in one episode Rob complained about Laura always opening his letters and then wrote a sketch about ir for the Alan Brady Show)

L = Laura Petrie

M - Mildred "Millie" Krumbermacher Helper (Played by Ann Morgan Guilbert)

N = New Rochelle, NY - where the Petrie's lived

O - One hundred - Rob stayed awake for One hundred straight hours for
a radio event.

Peters; the name of the family who Rob thought had their baby by mistake

Q = Quiet - Rob wants Laura to keep quiet about their musical house guests in The Redcoats are Coming episode.

R - Rosebud (Ritchie Petrie's unique middle name)

S - Simpson, Rob's middle name!

T - Twizzle - Rob and Laura do the Twizzle, the latest dance craze.

U = Ugly dog that Rob brought home.

V - Visit (Rob's sleepwalking younger brother Stacey came for a visit in a memorable two part episode)

T - Twizzle - Rob and Laura do the Twizzle, the latest dance craze.
which was one of the series worst episodes!

W = Weepy - Laura could be weepy

X-"RAY MURDOCHS X-RAY"-an interview show that Rob was on once.

Y = Young Man With A Shoehorn, an episode from the fourth season.

Z - Zoo (where the woodpecker that attacked Ritchie ended up)

A - Anthony - Sally find out boyfriend, Anthony Stone is married.

B-Maurice "Buddy" Sorrel (how many here knew that's his real name?)

C = Carl Reiner - creator of the Dick Van Dyke Show

D - Ducks - Richie makes pets of two ducks.

E = Eleanor Audley who played Mrs. Billings in a few episodes

F = Fiona "Pickles" Sorrell - Buddy's seldom seen wife

G=Gary Marshall-the head writer

H = humor: Rob, Buddy, and Sally write humorous sketches for The Alan Brady Show

I - Indoors (the Game Warden told Rob and Laura to keep Ritchie indoors after he was attacked by a woodpecker)

J = Jerry - Rob's best friend

K - Ken Berry appeared in a few episodes

L - Lied - Laura lied about her age on her marriage certificate.

M = Mary Tyler Moore played Laura

N - Necklace; Rob buys Laura an enormous necklace

O - Owes - Rob thinks Buddy owes him money.

P = Pomeroy, Sol Pomeroy was played by Marty Ingels on the show

Q - Quiet (Buddy and Sally kept quiet about their weekend job as entertainers at a Catskills resort)

R - Racy Rattigan, becomes interested in Laura.

S - Sally Rogers

T="THAT'S MY BOY?"-the name of a classic episode

U - Uncle - Rob's Uncle George becomes interested in Sally.

V-Very-the show is Very good

W - Word - Richie says a bad word.

X = Xray - Robert Murdoch's x-ray.

X = Xray - Robert Murdoch's x-ray.
RAY Murdoch not Robert

Y = Your Home Sweet Home is My Home, an episode from the 4th season

Z - Zoo (where the woodpecker that attacked Ritchie eventually ended up)

A - Albany - Rob and Laura, go to Laura's cousin's wedding, in Albany.

B - Bananas; Richie says he likes Laura's bananas better than Rob's

C - Cleopatra, Rob has to cast someone to play Cleopatra in a fund raising show.

D - Drunk - Under a hypnotic spell, Rob acts drunk whenever he hears a
bell.

E = Emmys - The Dick Van Dyke show won a lot of Emmys

F = Freddie Helper

G-Ann Morgan Guilbert played Millie Helper

H - Harrison Harding, claims to be Rob's old Army buddy.

I=FBI-a man from the F.B.I. came to the Petries once.

J - Job - After Buddy took a new job, that failed, Rob and Sally try to
help him get his old job back.

K--I'm currently re-reading a very good booK about the show called "THE OFFICIAL DICK VAN DYKE SHOW BOOK".

K--I'm currently re-reading a very good booK about the show called "THE OFFICIAL DICK VAN DYKE SHOW BOOK".
Did you learn any interesting behind the scene facts? :)


L - Lied - Laura lied about her age on her marriage license.

M - Mel Cooley

Did you learn any interesting behind the scene facts? :)


L - Lied - Laura lied about her age on her marriage license.
not so far

N - Name - Ritchie's middle Name is Rosebud.

O - One - Rob was on jury duty and was the only One that, thought the
defendant was innocent.

P = Pickles Sorrell

Q - Quarrel The Petries and the Helpers quarrel about crabgrass.

R - Robbed; the Petries' home is robbed in "The Cat Burglar"

S - Surprise - Laura gives Rob a surprise party.

T = Toe stuck in the bathtub faucet

U - Uncle - Sally, caught the eye of Rob's Uncle George.

V= Visit - Rob gets a visit from his brother Stacey Petrie played by his real life brother Jerry Van Dyke.

W - Writer - Rob, was the Head Writer of the Alan Brady Show.

X - X-rated (in one episode Ritchie started using x-rated language which he learned from the son of a minister who had recently moved into the nieghborhood)

Y - Yearns - Laura yearns to put the romance back in her marriage to Rob.

Z = Zero amount of hair Rob has in the dream when he thinks he's going bald.

W - Woodpecker - Ritchie complains of being pecked in the head by a giant woodpecker.

I think we got out of place....

A = Alan Brady

Sorry!

B - Blonde - Laura dyes her hair Blonde, in order to put some pizazz into her marriage.

C = Carl Reiner who played Alan Brady

D - Disguised - Rob disguised his voice over the phone, to Laura, to prove
a theory.

E - Eavesdropping; the Petries eavesdrop on the Helpers in one episode

F - Father - Rob is named "Father of the Week", at Ritchie's school.

G - Gesundheit Darling (the episode in which Rob thinks he's developed an allergy to Laura)

H - Happy - Rob's old mentor, Happy Spangler.

I - Ice - there was plenty of ice in all their drinks

J - Jealous - Laura was Jealous, when Rob worked late with a beautiful
movie star.

K - Krumbermacher (Millie Helper's maiden name)

L= Laura

M - Meershatz Pipe - Buddy receives a Meershatz pipe, from Allan Brady,
and Rob becomes envious.

N = New Rochelle

O=Ottoman

Rob trips over the ottoman in one version of the opening

P - Plots - Rob and Laura are caught in the middle of a feud between their parents, about cemetery plots.

R - Rosebud - Ritchie's middle name is Rosebud!

S - Stacey Petrie

Toupee - Alan’s pride and joy

U=UNNY-UTZ

the title of an episode

R - Rosebud - Ritchie's middle name is Rosebud!
Robert Oscar Sam ("a good name to do business with")Eugene (I forget) Ulysses David

V - Visit - On her birthday, Sally gets a Visit from a old high school friend.

W - Wig - Alan Brady wore a wig (or toupee) on the show

X = EXotic dancer was the defendant in a trial where Rob was on the jury in the One Angry Man episode.

Y - Yearly - Rob is forced to again direct the Yearly PTA variety show.

Z = TwiZZle, Sally finds a fellow named Randy Twizzle who invented a new dance called the TwiZZle

A = Alan Brady

B - Bank - Rob finds a Bank book in one of Laura's gloves.

C = Clara (Rob's mother)

D = Dog, Buddy had a dog named Larry.

E - Every - Rob, under a hypnotic spell, Every time a bell rings, Rob acts drunk.

F = Fake Hair - Alan Brady had fake hair

George = Uncle George played by Denver Pyle

H - Hair - Laura dyes her Hair blonde.

I - Ice - there was plenty of ice in the all the drinks

J - Jersey - After temporary amnesia, from being hit on the head, Rob,
winds up at a party, in New Jersey.

K = Kelly, Patsy Kelly played a juror on the episode, One Angry Man

L - Life and Love of Joe Coogan

M - Mary Tyler Moore played Laura

N = Ned Glass was a guest star on the show.

O - Out - While his wife is Out of town, Buddy stays with the Petries.

P = Pickles

Quickly - Rob always seemed to move quickly on his feet

R = Richard Dawson played Tracy Rattigan on an episode

S - Saucer - Rob thinks he saw a flying Saucer.

T = Tom Tully who played Sam Petrie in a few episodes

U - Ulysses - was part of Richie's middle name ("Robert Oscar Sam Edward Benjamin Ulysses David,") aka ROSEBUD

V = Vain = Alan Brady

W = Where Did I Come From? (An episode from the first season)

Y - Yearly - Rob does his Yearly comedy skit for the PTA.

Z = Zips, Rob zips around on the motorcycle he bought

A - Army - Rob's old Army buddy comes to visit.

B - Brady (Alan)

C = Cooley, Mel Cooley

D - Duty - Rob gets called to serve jury Duty.

E - Episode titles were shown on every episode starting with "It May Look Like a Walnut"

F = Falls - Dick had a lot of falls

G = Greg Morris played "Sticks" Mandalay on an episode

H - Harrison B. Harding

I = Irate, Alan Brady would get irate with Mel.

J = Jerry Van Dyke

K = Keeping a secret about Laura's Bank Book.

L = Long Night's Journey into Day

M = Motorcycle that Rob had on an episode.

N = Never Name A Duck

O = Officer Bain played by Peter Leeds on a couple of episodes

P = Petrie family

Q = Quacking ducks Rob brought home

R = Rob

S= Sally

T = The Meershatz Pipe

U = Upside Down Man on Odd But True

V = Valerie Blake a character on the show

W = Wendell Henderson (a character who was in one episode)

Skip X.

Y = Rob Petrie: What is long and yellow and seldom rings?

Buddy Sorrell: An unlisted banana.

Z = Sam PomerantZ played by Henry Calvin

A = Anchor (When Rob was still in the army he and Laura were stationed in this small Texas border town)

B = Buddy Sorrell

Creator of the show, Carl Reiner

Dick Van Dyke, the star of the show

E = Empress Carlotta's Necklace, an episode from the 1st season

F = Forty-Four Tickets

G = Greg Morris who played on a couple of episodes

H = Head Of The Family

I Do Not Choose to Run

Jury Duty

K = Kid Schenk (an old friend of Rob's)

L = Laura Petrie

M = Mel Cooley

N = Never Name a Duck

O = Odd But True - an episode from season 5

P = Punch Thy Neighbor

Q = Quandary is what the writers sometimes were in while trying to write good scripts.

R = Rodgers, Sally

S = Sally Rogers

Tiny Brauer (an actor who was in several episodes)

U = Uncle George

Van Dyke

W-woman

Mary Tyler Moore was a woman

X- X-ray

Y - Young Man with a Shoehorn

Twizzle

Z - Zesty - Laura was kind of zesty

A - Attempted Marriage

B - Buddy Sorrel

C - Carlotta's Necklace

D - Dick Van Dyke!

E = Eleanor Audley as Mrs. Billings

F = Forty-Four Tickets

G = Guilbert, Ann Morgan as Millie

H = Harrison B. Harding

I = I Do Not Choose to Run, an episode from season 5

J = Jerry Helper

K= Kenneth Kendall who was played by Jack Davis, he sang opera in the episode called "The Talented Neighborhood". . . . . . .