
Considered to be one of television's classics, "The Dick Van Dyke Show" centers on the personal and professional lives Rob Petrie, a writer on the fictional Alan Brady Show. He's happily married to former dancer Laura, and they have a young son, Ritchie. The plots generally revolve around problems at work -- where Rob got into various comedic jams with fellow writers Buddy Sorrell, Sally Rogers and producer Mel Cooley -- or at home.

Buddy convinces Rob that he and all other American husbands are being dominated by women.

Rob feels very much the hero when he hires a maid for his overworked wife, Laura.

Rob gets involved with the police when he thinks he has witnessed two crooks making their getaway.

A dinner party for Rob's television sponsor and his wife is enlivened by the arrival of one of Rob's Army buddies.