The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 2, Episode 18 - Ray Murdock's X-Ray - Full Episode

[@Jakshere]

I love when Laura gives in and with a sweet smile begins to cha cha. Such a great show.

[@teijaflink2226]

What funny episode with some great physical comedy, I like how everything always ends well in the end.

[@KM-nw7be]

Rob! Go to your room! 🤣

[@MimiMimi-bi8gi]

Rob n Laura danced the cha-cha-cha so beautifully. I like it very much!!!

[@mandolindleyroadshow706]

Mary Tyler Moore was a fantastic dancer. I find it amazing she never did one step on her own show. Also interesting that Rob named Donald O'Connor as a great dancer before naming Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. O'Connor and Van Dyke were both from Danville Illinois.

[@nopepper]

Yes she was. She did dance on her variety show.

[@nopepper]

She did actually dance when the occasion called for it - in at least one episode of the Mary Tyler Moore show - S4E8 Lou's First Date - not the kind of dancing she did here though. She danced with Lou.

[@joksal9108]

O’Connor was as great a dancer as anybody. It’s just that he was never a star like Astaire or Kelly. Always a second banana.

[@poetcomic1]

Did you see the episode where Georgia Engel on a variety show benefit does 'Steam Heat'? That was a real surprise.

[@mandolindleyroadshow706]

@@poetcomic1 Yes, with that whisper-y voice. Excellent!

[@robponton3181]

She is so beautiful! I love her.

[@ms.robbie7536]

They were fantastic dancers! I never forgot this episode as a kid! 😉

[@MHK1961]

I love how Laura orders Rob to not go up on the roof to adjust the antenna 😅

[@shelleynobleart]

That was absolutely adorable.

[@garyfrancis6193]

What.?

[@76marji]

i watched & re-watched the dance clip about 8 times! 🤣

[@AADJazzMusic]

Thank you so much for this!!

[@connienania486]

I like this episode it shows how people act in front of camera.But rob should know better because he is in show business.

[@shuffleaccount1985]

I WAS WRONG, THIS IS A GREAT CHANNEL !

[@theghostofbubba9127]

This mirrors so many things we’ve seen more recently. Some entertainment; some others.

[@michaelparks6120]

Hilarious episode!

[@micahbush5397]

Rob couldn't have explained that the sketches, while based on real events, were exaggerated for a comedic effect, like how the inflating lifeboat started with a small argument about a couple opened letters?

[@StillLivingInMomsBasement]

Ray Murdock is a parody of Mike Wallace, who, early in his career, had a show that did the X-ray thing, with lighting very similar to what we see here.

[@preetakumar6593]

Rob has a terrible habit of acting defensive at the wrong times and not admitting his mistakes.

[@stephenstumbke1721]

Well you really put your foot in it rob 🤣

[@a.b.creator]

Yay! Dancing !

[@billpeterson178]

I saw this episode (rerun of course) about 10 years ago and totally freaked out when I saw Laura use a wireless remote control to turn the TV on and off. This episode was from January 1963 and I had no idea that wireless remotes existed then, the same year I was born.

[@hifijohn]

They were mechanical, pressing the button causes a little hammer to hit a tuning rod which the mic on the tv would pick up.,the sound was ultrasonic.

[@faithfatum4172]

My family didn't call it a *"remote control"* . We called it *"the clicker"* . 😄 I (and my siblings) *really* thought *that* was what it was called. 🙃

[@mrsbluesky8415]

The Petries had a remote control in the 60s. I thought they came out in the 70s when we got one and thought it was just amazing!

[@garyfrancis6193]

I think GE or Westinghouse had one in the late 50’s but they were rare.

[@HansDelbruck53]

@17:38 Laura tells Rob not to go on the roof to adjust the antenna, but there's no antenna wire attached to the TV.

[@keouine]

If Rob hadn’t rolled the TV for dancing the TV set would have remained partially hidden. As with so many continuity or prop errors, creators would not anticipate that viewers would watch reruns much less have the means to view multiple times.

[@HansDelbruck53]

@@keouine I noticed the faux pas the first time the show aired back in the Sixties.

[@connienania486]

I love these episodes.Are all seasons represented?

[@randilevson9547]

I wonder if Ray Murdock was modelled after any real-life television interviewers. Mike Wallace springs to mind.

[@karenalbeck4043]

He - and his set - remind me of Tom Snyder with Tomorrow

[@leestamm3187]

I'm an old geezer who saw The DVD Show first run in prime time back then. There was an incisive interview show in the same era as this episode, hosted by a guy named Joe Pyne. Ray Murdock is a similar character, though toned down from Pyne, who could be extremely rough on guests.

[@poetcomic1]

I love this Ray Murdock I wish he could interview Meghan Markle.

[@marysketch4772]

Too funny.

[@bettycogswell9851]

Wouldn't that be a hoot.

[@AlexandraK1]

Meghan Smirkle, more like. ;-9

[@stephenstumbke1721]

she would destroy him

[@lynettewashington6443]

She would x-ray him

[@joksal9108]

My favorite show, but you do see a little weakness here. Reiner et al couldn’t decide if Laura was a ditzy 60’s sitcom wife or a smart, uber-talented person like MTM herself, and they tended to alternate the two Laura personas. Everybody else-Rob, Mel, Sally, Buddy, Jerry and Millie-had a well-defined character.

[@JanaSuzanne]

Agreed, especially the part at the end where she dropped her wedding ring in muffin batter, it seems so unlike her.

[@sunnyscott4876]

She was both.

[@teijaflink2226]

Yeah, while she makes silly mistakes too, losing the wedding ring in a muffin feels more like something Rob would do.

[@a.b.creator]

I'm both. Not everyone has to be defined and can be well rounded in personality 😊

[@keouine]

She wasn’t ditzy except on purple pills. The wackiness Rob described on Ray Murdock isn’t in episodes.

[@Johonavich49]

Wow! Good thing rob was eating those muffins!

[@randilevson9547]

The best thing about this unusually mediocre episode is the spontaneous dance that Rob pulls Laura into, to keep her away from the t.v. set. The dance looked lovely and unrehearsed. They must have spent a lot of time practicing, to make it look so spontaneous.

[@gast1930]

Mediocre? No. Great episode.

[@barryrivadue9228]

Hardly mediocre. Vintage!

[@Mmdmade]

Well. That interview doesn’t hold a candle to toxic antisocial media…….

[@gabrielcasuco7448]

18:51

[@anotheryoutubeaccount9852]

DVD Show invented Howard Stern too?

[@rosscarnes1274]

WHY DID YOU EDIT OUT THE INTERVIEW WITH RAY MURDOCK????

[@rosscarnes1274]

Now it's back in. WTF????

[@kristabrewer6736]

it's not!

[@stephenstumbke1721]

Rob should've gone for a drive, a long drive

[@HansDelbruck53]

Off a short pier if you ask Laura.

[@garyfrancis6193]

Strange looking TV set.

[@DavidLorango]

DVD ruined his legacy by support Kamala

[@dyates6380]

As much as I loved these old shows, I HATED when they'd go so way our of the way to highlight the dancing and singing. I turned it off every time. Like with I Love Lucy when all of a sudden the landlords just happened to be old Vaudeville dancing and performing stars and just happened to have their old costumes and would be at the ready for some BS show or presentation where they suddenly didn't remain simple land lords or housewives, but entertainment stars. LOL. STUPID.

[@HG-ro9lo]

I kind of get wanting to highlight the talent of the actors. The one thing that did irk me a bit was Season 4 of I Love Lucy (the California season). It felt like promoting their Hollywood friends. No way would a Hollywood newbie like Ricky be instant best buds with all the famous actors.

[@jb6712]

And yet again with all the cowardice, manipulation, lies and deceit, episode after episode, year after year.

[@stephenstumbke1721]

What?

[@garyfrancis6193]

Then watch something else but I bet you love to be miserable.

[@vicrattlehead5051]

​@@garyfrancis6193 I've watched a bunch of episodes of this show here and they are always commenting like they woke up on the wrong side of the bed 😂

[@kristabrewer6736]

And yet you keep watching episode after episode, year after year 🙄

[@teijaflink2226]

You know it's a comedy, not serious and everything ended well in the end.

[@golumfrog7840]

I never understood ALL the chairs ottomans in the middle of the living room TO much furniture in the house

[@a.b.creator]

For all the company and dinner parties. More convenient for them to leave the seating than bring more in during the more populated scenes. It's well spaced, it's not too much.

[@capacola262743]

laura is sexiest when she's mad.