Pickles - The nickname of the wife of New York comedy writer Maurice "Buddy" Sorrell on the sitcom THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW/CBS/1961-66. Actresses Barbara Perry and Joan Shawlee appeared in the recurring role of Buddy's shrill, blond-haired wife Pickles, a former showgirl with a bubble brain and a voracious appetite. Her maiden name was Fiona Conway.