"[3] Jane felt that she "had been 'Americanized' by movie and television crime stories" enough to be a detective,[4] so she often tried to help with Dick's investigations, but she usually caused problems by doing so.
In March 1958 it was moved to Fridays from 7:30 to 8 p.m. E. T.[3] Its initial competition included Ozark Jubilee on ABC and The Perry Como Show on NBC.
[10] The trade publication Billboard reported in December 1957, "The program has improved slightly, but indications are that it doesn't really have the all-around appeal to make it with American audiences.
"[13] Gould wrote that Court "displayed an engaging vivacity as the English wife; Patrick O'Neal was a routine American husband.
"[13] He also said the plot of the premiere episode was improbable and noted "the usual cheap jokes at the expense of Britons who speak differently from Americans.
[6] Bill Weber wrote in TV-Radio Life that Dick and the Duchess had "a spritely gaiety and saucy innuendo seldom seen in an American production.
"[14] A review in the trade publication Broadcasting called Dick and the Duchess " an intriguing mixture of British and American whimsey" and said that it "combines the best of situation comedy and whodunit".
Winter and translators worked for five months to create German versions of episodes that could sustain (along with the use of a laugh track) the humor of "most of what was considered funny in the English language".