The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 4, Episode 5 - The Man from 'Emperor' - Full Episode

When Rob is offered a job as humor consultant at a magazine for man-about-town, he runs into trouble with Laura.
One of television's most celebrated shows, "The Dick Van Dyke Show" follows the misadventures of comedy writer Rob Petrie. Starring the legendary Dick Van Dyke and Emmy Award winner Mary Tyler Moore. Stream every episode of the iconic sitcom, free on FilmRise Television.
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[@connienania486]

I love this one

[@garyfrancis6193]

I wish I could go back to the 60’s but I was a little kid then.

[@peggydeffley2194]

That dress, though!if you had that figure, you could wear it today. Just gorgeous.

[@kathleenthompson6649]

I was thinking the same thing,!

[@connienania486]

To all tthe people who have to comment neggatively on laura behavior, not many women could handle the thought of their husband being around beautiful women every day.If yoh truly love a guy , be honest, you would be jealous!!.It takes a saint to put her guy through that kind of test and there ars not any saints out there.

[@MrMenefrego1]

Gotta love the 1960s, there was optimism in every corner of America, and there was something for everyone!

[@xxwhispersxx2856]

Oh sure, optimism. Like the Cuban missile Crisis, Civil unrest, segregation, censorship, the murder of JFK, and the beginning of Vietnam? Optimism like that?

[@MrMenefrego1]

@@xxwhispersxx2856 This is the 9th contemptible reply you've made to my comments; you must be one miserable person. Do me a favor when you see a comment from me; just ignore it, and we'll both be happier.

[@agalo3631]

Something for every white person 👍🏼

[@MrMenefrego1]

@@agalo3631 Am I the first to tell you; life isn't perfect. Now, go to your safe place and cry for a while; it will be okay. Clueless liberal. (BTW, I'm BLACK!)

[@voyaristika5673]

​​@@agalo3631Every? Wow.

[@dsscam]

17:00 "Sam" (the receptionist who buzzes in) was MTM's 1st role-playing character you never saw but only heard from "Richard Diamond Private Detective". So hilarious that she played the role in her star-making series, as well.

[@soswezz]

Laura on that dress tho!! So beautiful 💓💓💓

[@alabhaois]

Prettier than any of the "slaves"

[@garyfrancis6193]

Agree

[@stephenstumbke1721]

Definitely

[@fredfact5509]

She should have put on a slave outfit @24:37

[@anthonyperdue3557]

A gag that some will miss is that the voice of Sam the receptionist was MTM ; she played Sam the unseen but sexy voiced receptionist on the Richard Diamond Private Eye tv series starring future "Fugitive" David Janssen.

[@poetcomic1]

I thought I recognized it. It sounds like her on the telephone with Rob when he was pretending to be an Italian doctor.

[@bluestrife28]

Yeah! That explains the reaction of the audience too i never caught that ! Cool.

[@519djw6]

There was one "goof" in this episode: "Miss Finland" protested to Rob that Johanson was a Swedish name--but there are a lot of Finns with Swedish surnames--either "Swedo-Finns" or Finnish women who are married to a Swedo-Finns, etc. And Swedish is still an official language in Finland.

[@susannaCdonovan23]

My Great Grandmother's maiden name was Johansen and she was Norwegian. Her first name was Indiana.

[@stephenstumbke1721]

Laura looked beautiful in that dress 😍

[@saran3214]

She did and it is a great dress, but I did not like the little beaded strings. It made the dress look frayed.

[@stephenstumbke1721]

Laura was more beautiful than the other women

[@homegown1234]

If she hadn't been drinking so much her physical appearance wouldn't have been so bad. i recognized that Tanya Tucker was a lovely young woman and when she started to drink, she's become so much older that it is hard to believe someone that young could age so badly. This is true as we see those that have alcohol problems their years it robs their looks is incredible. To compare Mary to Valerie Harper - she died of cancer, but she still had her looks despite dying about the same age that Mary did. That is was so sad. Plus, I forgot Mary had parents that were alcoholics and that is a disease which back in the 50s or 60s was not determined. It is now something which should avoid more if one has parents with that alcohol disease.

[@esmeraldagems9487]

​@homegown1234 it wasn't so much her drinking it was her diabetes that made her age so fast. And her body deteriorate.

[@tadimaggio]

Lee Philipps, who played Drew, was a multi-talented man in real life: a gifted director (he did at least one episode of "M*A*S*H"), he was also the overly inquisitive journalist who got turned into a pile of dust by Ann Blyth in the "Twilight Zone" episode "Queen of the Nile".

[@hifijohn]

Near the end the phone drew is using is an Ericsson Ericofon.

[@evalehde3869]

I never realized most episodes are about one of them being jealous.

[@randilevson9547]

I wonder if Hugh Hefner ever planned a lawsuit over this episode. Esquire Magazine, and then later, Playboy. Emperor Magazine. The Emperor's Palace and the Playboy Mansion. Hugh, and Drew.

[@garyfrancis6193]

I don’t exactly remember this one. I had it confused with the one with Robert Vaughn.

[@bookerjones8123]

That's so weird; this is the first time in years I've watched it and when the Emperor guy was coming into the office I was expecting it to be Robert Vaughn

[@amierichan7231]

I think I read some that the eyes/ cover model of the magazine is MTM.

[@FigaroHey]

The Odd Couple had the same plot: Oscar got offered a job for a pseudo-Playboy magazine as a sports writer.

[@dsscam]

The Odd Couple stole it from the greatest sitcom of all time

[@angel4everable]

On that episode, "One for the Bunnie", Oscar worked at the real PLAYBOY, and Hugh Hefner made a cameo appearance.

[@capacola262743]

@@angel4everable and he wouldn't let unger call him "Heff".

[@angel4everable]

@@capacola262743 Felix: "Can I call you Heff?" Hugh: "Mr. Heffner".

[@elizabethflynr7561]

Drew’s a regular guy alright. Sheesh!

[@garyranieri3856]

Too bad they portrayed 'Laura 2' as jiggly, giggly & empty headed. The other girls were seen as being a little smarter especially stenographer 'Florence'

[@IanSmith-z9h]

@5:54 min. Does he, "Drew Patton", i.e. Lee Philips, chew on his fingernails, on set, while being filmed? That must be a hard habit to break, especially at that age. Be that as it may, the real fun starts @9:36 min.

[@danielasuncion9991]

Hugh Hefner. I think that Carl Reiner was thinking: What if Rob and Hugh were old college buddies?

[@janicetehie3839]

This certainly was based on Hugh Hefner and PLAYBOY magazine. Given today's standards, it makes us cringe but in those days, nobody thought anything of it.

[@JesusismyRock773]

All of those so called magazines are disgusting and degrading to women.

[@xxwhispersxx2856]

That's because stuff like that didn't make it as far and wide as it does today with social media.

[@adiconstantin4598]

​@JesusismyRock773 - indeed, and to men too, not to mention what they do to children

[@jb6712]

One of four episodes I couldn't stand, but not because of the actors. Just hit too close to home.

[@dsscam]

?

[@garyfrancis6193]

What are the other ones?

[@carmelaszymanski8232]

YEAH. OK. Then Men Should Marry THEIR MAMA'S. And save the Rest Of. Us Women From WASTING OUR TIME.. GET A DOG. 👍👍👍👍👍

[@garyfrancis6193]

Ha HaHa Ha Ha. And in the next war you March out to fight.

[@wishbearxx]

not a fan of this episode but goddd Laura is so gorgeous

[@sarahc3295]

One of my Laura hating episodes- she is soo insecure about Rob's faithfulness and hen pecking

[@bettycogswell9851]

She's insecure in a lot of them. I don't like it either.

[@dsscam]

She's was so insecure that she ran down to the Emperor's office to play his secretary, Sam

[@preetakumar6593]

There are a lot of episodes where Rob is worse.

[@sarahc3295]

@Mary Burnett I know and I have them on my "Rob hating episodes" list

[@esmeraldagems9487]

Because Rob is kind of spineless and weak around beautiful women 😂

[@billyfoster3223]

Ok, allrighty, then, well, excuse me!!!😗😗😗🤔🤔🤔

[@sateeshmaharaj9730]

Politics, Religion and People children.

[@Mark-hc8ek]

This episode I always thought showed the prudish side to postmodern liberalism.

[@DanielLiebert-i1p]

My family were solid 'liberals' back then. We were way to the right Donald Trump. Hefner's mansion was a playground of drugging and raping beautiful girls and there were a lot of OD and suicides there. It was one ugly place.

[@aprils376]

This was the worst episode of this show

[@kristabrewer6736]

oh noooooooooo it isn't.

[@barryrivadue9228]

Why?

[@DanielLiebert-i1p]

Worst was The Twizzle and the episode Van Dyke thoroughly hated most was the one where he dreamed he was an old fashioned father and was cruel to Laura and Richie.

[@connienania486]

To all tthe people who have to comment neggatively on laura behavior, not many women could handle the thought of their husband being around beautiful women every day.If yoh truly love a guy , be honest, you would be jealous!!.It takes a saint to put her guy through that kind of test and there ars not any saints out there.

[@heidikickhouse-]

Everybody gets that her feelings are human and normal. Laura goes straight to I'm Your Boss mode, trying to control Rob directly or manipulate him. She emasculates him in front of his old friend and potential employer. Of COURSE he can't go out to have a fun dinner/work meeting! He has to help her hang drapes that same night. Silly Rob. I bet M.T.M. hated Laura too.