The Bob Newhart Show

1972–1978

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Seasons

Season 1

  • E1 Fly the Unfriendly Skies 1972-09-16
  • E2 Tracy Grammar School, I'll Lick You Yet 1972-09-23
  • E3 Tennis, Emily? 1972-09-30
  • E4 Mom, I L-L-Love You 1972-10-07
  • E5 Goodnight Nancy 1972-10-21
  • E6 Come Live with Me 1972-10-28
  • E7 Father Knows Worst 1972-11-04
  • E8 Don't Go to Bed Mad 1972-11-11
  • E9 P-I-L-O-T 1972-11-18
  • E10 Anything Happen While I Was Gone? 1972-11-25
  • E11 I Want to Be Alone 1972-12-02
  • E12 Bob and Emily and Howard and Carol and Jerry 1972-12-09
  • E13 I Owe It All to You... But Not That Much 1972-12-16
  • E14 His Busiest Season 1972-12-23
  • E15 Let's Get Away from It Almost 1973-01-06
  • E16 The Crash of 29 Years Old 1973-01-13
  • E17 The Man with the Golden Wrist 1973-01-20
  • E18 The Two Loves of Dr. Hartley 1973-01-27
  • E19 Not with My Sister You Don't 1973-02-03
  • E20 A Home Is Not Necessarily a House 1973-02-10
  • E21 Emily, I'm Home - Emily? 1973-02-17 路 30m
  • E22 You Can't Win 'Em All 1973-02-24
  • E23 Bum Voyage 1973-03-03
  • E24 Who's Been Sleeping on My Couch? 1973-03-10 路 30m

Season 2

  • E1 Last TV Show 1973-09-15
  • E2 Motel 1973-09-22
  • E3 Backlash 1973-09-29
  • E4 Somebody Down Here Likes Me 1973-10-06
  • E5 Emily in for Carol 1973-10-13
  • E6 Have You Met Miss Dietz? 1973-10-20
  • E7 Old Man Rivers 1973-10-27
  • E8 Mister Emily Hartley 1973-11-03
  • E9 Mutiny on the Hartley 1973-11-10
  • E10 I'm Okay, You're Okay, So What's Wrong? 1973-11-17 路 30m
  • E11 Fit, Fat and Forty One 1973-11-24
  • E12 Blues for Mr. Borden 1973-12-01 路 30m
  • E13 My Wife Belongs to Daddy 1973-12-08
  • E14 T.S. Elliot 1973-12-15
  • E15 I'm Dreaming of a Slight Christmas 1973-12-22
  • E16 Oh, Brother 1974-01-05 路 30m
  • E17 The Modernization of Emily 1974-01-12
  • E18 The Jobless Corps 1974-01-19
  • E19 Clink Shrink 1974-01-26
  • E20 Mind Your Own Business 1974-02-02
  • E21 A Love Story 1974-02-09
  • E22 By the Way... You're Fired 1974-02-16
  • E23 Confessions of an Orthodontist 1974-02-23
  • E24 A Matter of Principal 1974-03-02

Season 3

  • E1 Big Brother Is Watching 1974-09-14 Bob is faced with the possibility that his younger sister, Ellen, may move in with Howard, her boyfriend.
  • E2 The Battle of the Groups 1974-09-21 Bob takes two of his therapy groups to a rustic retreat for a marathon session that never progresses further than everyone's complaints about the primitive conditions of their accommodations.
  • E3 The Great Rimpau Medical Arts Co-Op Experiment 1974-09-28 Dr Newman removed a wart from Bob's neck and charged him. Bob tells Jerry he should have done it for free since Bob had helped him with his marriage. Jerry agrees and sets up a plan where all the doctors treat each other for free.
  • E4 The Separation Story 1974-10-05 For the sake of their marriage, as well as Emily's Master's Degree and Bob's heavy work schedule, the Hartleys decide that it would be best if they took up separate residences.
  • E5 Sorry, Wrong Mother 1974-10-12 路 30m As Howard prepares to introduce Howie to Ellen, he tries to remold Ellen into an image the boy will like.
  • E6 The Gray Flannel Shrink 1974-10-19 Bob gives up most of his private practice to become the staff psychologist with a major insurance company. He soon learns that it's possible for a man in the corporate world to do his job too well.
  • E7 Dr. Ryan's Express 1974-10-26 Bob's office routine becomes a wreck when Jerry hires a temporary receptionist. She's a very nice but very vague woman who can't even get Bob's name straight.
  • E8 Brutally Yours, Bob Hartley 1974-11-02 Having preached honesty in relationships to his patients, Bob decides to follow his own advice. Immediately he offends two dinner guests and starts an argument with Emily.
  • E9 Ship of Shrinks 1974-11-09 Bob's first literary venture turns out to be less than triumphant. His embarrassment makes him reluctant to join a convention of psychologists on a flight to Hawaii, especially when he finds out that Howard is the navigator.
  • E10 Life Is a Hamburger 1974-11-16 Carol's announcement that she's going to marry Don Fesler鈥攁n unpublished poet with bad feet鈥攂rings negative reactions from her friends.
  • E11 An American Family 1974-11-23 Emily's plans for a wonderful turkey dinner go downhill when Bob's mother and Emily's father begin insulting one another the night before Thanksgiving.
  • E12 We Love You... Good-Bye 1974-11-30 路 30m Bob forms an all-women consciousness-raising group. He gets kicked out after Emily joins and inadvertently points out some of the unliberated areas in their own marriage.
  • E13 Jerry Robinson Crusoe 1974-12-07 After renewing an acquaintance with the beautiful and free-spirited Courtney Simpson, Jerry decides to give up his dental practice: he wants to follow his dreams of romance and adventure by taking Miss Simpson to Tahiti.
  • E14 Serve for Daylight 1974-12-14 Bob thinks his chances of winning a doctor's tennis tournament are pretty good until he learns that his doubles partner will be Emily.
  • E15 Home Is Where the Hurt Is 1974-12-21 Facing the depressing prospect of returning home to Iowa to spend the holidays with her domineering parents, Carol brings her troubles to Bob's apartment. There she spends Christmas Eve pouring out the disasters of her childhood.
  • E16 Tobin's Back in Town 1975-01-04 Ellen's ex-fiancee, John Tobin鈥攁 tall, handsome egomaniac in suede and leather鈥攁rrives in Chicago to win Ellen back. The situation plays havoc with Howard's basic insecurities.
  • E17 Think Smartly--Vote Hartley 1975-01-11 Before he has a chance to say no, Bob finds himself running for the chairman of the local school board against an incumbent who hasn't attended a board meeting for six months.
  • E18 The Way We Weren't 1975-01-18 Emily is more than a little curious about Bob's reluctance to talk about a girl he used to date. Then Howard inadvertently spills the beans.
  • E19 A Pound of Flesh 1975-01-25 Bob and Jerry have a falling-out when Jerry demands that Bob lend him money for a new motorcycle.
  • E20 My Business Is Shrinking 1975-02-01 With his confidence fading as fast as his list of patients, Bob decides to follow Emily's advice and see a psychiatrist about his problem.
  • E21 The New Look 1975-02-08 Emily redecorates the apartment in antiques. Bob finds her choice of furniture uncomfortable, unappealing, and hazardous to his health.
  • E22 Bob Hits the Ceiling 1975-02-15 Bob breaks a long-standing rule against treating friends when he agrees to counsel Emily's chum, whose marriage to a muscular gym teacher seems to be breaking up.
  • E23 Emily Hits the Ceiling 1975-02-22 Emily agrees to help operate a children's summer camp and tries to persuade Bob to be one of the counselors.
  • E24 The Ceiling Hits Bob 1975-03-08 Bob becomes the "oldest permanent psychologist in Chicago" when the ceiling in his office collapses and he has to set up shop wherever he can find the space.

Season 4

  • E1 The Longest Good Bye 1975-09-13 Bob's old school friend Murdock is in town for a day to sell a complex giveaway item to a Chicago cereal company. Bob invites him to stay overnight at his home. The brief encounter stretches out to a week when Murdock can't make his business connections. He gradually takes over Bob's car, clothing, and most of his home life.
  • E2 Here's Looking at You, Kid 1975-09-20 Howard insists on joining Bob and Emily's anniversary dinner at a fashionable Chicago restaurant in order to enlist their aid in popping the question to Ellen. But he chokes up in the clutch, and Bob is forced to do the proposing for him.
  • E3 Death of a Fruitman 1975-09-27 Bob's patients observe tradition by planning a surprise party to honor the fourth year of the group's therapy sessions. When an unseen member, a Mr. Gianelli, threatens to turn the party into a disaster, Bob kicks him out of the group. His decision meets with instant group approval until Mr. Gianelli dies under a ton of zucchini.
  • E4 Change is Gonna Do Me Good 1975-10-04 Emily accuses Bob of being stuck in a middle-aged rut and challenges him to switch family responsibilities.
  • E5 The Heavyweights 1975-10-11 Bob and Emily invite Carol to share her "heavy" experiences with the "overweight workshop."
  • E6 Carol's Wedding 1975-10-18 A blind-date-initiated, 12-hour romance culminates in Carol Kester's civil marriage to a handsome travel agent.
  • E7 Shrinks Across the Sea 1975-10-25 Bob and Emily suffer international complications when they host a French psychologist in their home as part of a medical exchange program.
  • E8 What's It All About, Albert? 1975-11-01 路 30m Bob is depressed by his seeming lack of success as a psychologist. He seeks help from his old college professor, who manages to heighten his despair by informing him that psychology is all nonsense.
  • E9 Who is Mr. X? 1975-11-08 路 30m Bob accepts a seemingly innocent invitation to appear as the guest on a TV discussion program. He winds up in the jaws of a dilemma when the show host turns out to have the disposition of a shark.
  • E10 Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 1975-11-15 路 30m Bob moves up in the world from the seventh to the tenth floor when he joins the firm of a swinging psychiatrist.
  • E11 Over the River and Through the Woods 1975-11-22 It's a stag Thanksgiving for Bob when Emily flies off to join a family reunion, leaving Bob to share the holiday with his male buddies.
  • E12 Fathers and Sons and Mothers 1975-11-29 路 30m Bob suffers family problems when his mother becomes a houseguest and an elderly patient involves him in a parent-child vendetta.
  • E13 The Article 1975-12-06 When she's given an assignment to see what makes a bunch of doctors tick, inquiring news reporter Ellen Hartley gives Bob and his medical cohorts the tell-it-like-it-is treatment.
  • E14 A Matter of Vice-Principal 1975-12-13 Emily must contend with irate teachers, hamsters, and an escaped snake when she's unexpectedly upped to the position of school vice principal.
  • E15 Bob Has to Have His Tonsils Out, So He Spends Christmas Eve in the Hospital 1975-12-20 路 30m Christmas Eve finds Bob in the hospital with tonsillitis and an impending operation. Meanwhile, his friends are all suffering from an attack of Christmas-itis.
  • E16 No Sale 1976-01-03 Bob becomes his patient's partner in a get-rich-quick real-estate venture.
  • E17 Carol at 6:01 1976-01-10 Bob contends with a patient's delusion that her bingo game is fixed, staggers through a series of wild poker parties, and watches in wonder as his secretary slowly smothers under an attack of love.
  • E18 Warden Gordon Borden 1976-01-17 Howard's game-warden brother comes to Chicago to witness the mating of two whooping cranes鈥攁nd stays to make a play for Howard's girlfriend.
  • E19 My Boy Guillermo 1976-01-24 Jerry Robinson's depression turns to instant joy when a globe-trotting ex-flame suddenly re-enters his life and proposes.
  • E20 Duke of Dunk 1976-01-31 A professional basketball team hires Bob to give a psychological assist to its superstar.
  • E21 Guaranteed Not to Shrink 1976-02-07 Bob develops a unique psychological problem when his receptionist, Carol, decides to resume her college career and become a psychologist.
  • E22 Birth of a Salesman 1976-02-14 The Hartleys are bombarded with legal hassles when Bob is sued by a shy patient and Emily decides to fight a parking ticket.
  • E23 The Boy Next Door 1976-02-21 The Hartleys entertain Howard Borden's young son and hire a beauty queen as his babysitter.
  • E24 Peeper Two 1976-02-28 Cliff Murdock, Bob's old laugh-a-minute college buddy, affectionately known as The Peeper, pays a return visit.

Season 5

  • E1 Enter Mrs. Peeper 1976-09-25 Bob receives a telegram saying that his old college chum, The Peeper, is coming to Chicago and bringing a surprise. The surprise turns out to be a brand-new bride.
  • E2 Caged Fury 1976-10-02 The Hartleys miss their friend's gala Fourth of July Bicentennial party celebration when they become trapped in a storage locker.
  • E3 Some of My Best Friends Are... 1976-10-09 Bob's therapy group has an unexpected visitor when a friendly homosexual joins in the sessions.
  • E4 Still Crazy After All These Years 1976-10-16 The Hartleys take a vacation. In their absence, Howard undergoes a crash psychological program that changes his entire personality.
  • E5 The Great Rent Strike 1976-10-23 The Hartley apartment becomes a hot and cold battleground when the good doctor declares psychological warfare on his landlord.
  • E6 Et, Tu, Carol? 1976-10-30 Both Bob's receptionist and a Buddha figure with a clock in its navel give the psychologist a hard time.
  • E7 Send This Boy to Camp 1976-11-06 Bob and his friends host an orphan contingent for a wildly improbable camping-out experience.
  • E8 A Crime Most Foul 1976-11-13 Bob turns amateur detective when he believes that his expensive tape recorder has been stolen.
  • E9 The Slammer 1976-11-20 Bob and his friend The Peeper take a trip down Memory Lane and wind up in the slammer.
  • E10 Jerry's Retirement 1976-11-27 Bob defends the work ethic when Jerry comes into a pile of money and promptly retires from the dental profession.
  • E11 Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson 1976-12-04 Jerry, retired orthodontist and orphan, takes off on a world tour to search for his long-lost parents.
  • E12 Breaking Up is Hard to Do 1976-12-11 Bob undergoes a shock when his mother announces that she has separated from his father after 47 years of marriage.
  • E13 Making Up is the Thing to Do 1976-12-25 Bob takes on the role of Christmas peacemaker when he attempts to reconcile his parents.
  • E14 Love is the Blindest 1977-01-08 Bob watches in amazement as one of his patients supports a blossoming romance with a tissue of lies.
  • E15 The Ironwood Experience 1977-01-15 Bob's invitation to lecture at a prestigious sex seminar results in distress when the audience shows up nude.
  • E16 Of Mice and Men 1977-01-22 Bob runs into marital problems when he brings his therapy group home for a wild role-playing encounter.
  • E17 Halls of Hartley 1977-01-29 Bob succumbs to the pressures of living in a big city and desperately seeks employment of a small rural college.
  • E18 The Heartbreak Kidd 1977-02-05 Bob thinks that Veronica Kidd, a student trainee, has fallen in love with him.
  • E19 Death Be My Destiny 1977-02-12 Bob strikes out against a friend's fear of falling, but succumbs to the same phobia himself when he is subjected to a harrowing elevator experience.
  • E20 Taxation Without Celebration 1977-02-19 Bob's memory is taxed to the limit when he forgets that April 15 is the Federal income tax deadline鈥攁nd also the date of the Hartleys' seventh wedding anniversary.
  • E21 Desperate Sessions 1977-02-26 Bob is held hostage in his office by a friendly bank robber.
  • E22 The Mentor 1977-03-05 A despondent friend accepts Bob's suggestion and turns the psychologist's reception area into a mini-Polynesian village.
  • E23 Shrinking Violence 1977-03-12 Bob offers sound psychological advice to his wife and his therapy group on how to handle anger. Then he proceeds to blow up himself.
  • E24 You're Having My Hartley 1977-03-19 Hot baby news is the order of the day when Carol, Bob's receptionist, announces that she's expecting a baby. Then, Emily drops her bombshell鈥攁nd Bob nearly comes unglued at the prospect of becoming a father.

Season 6

  • E1 Bob's Change of Life 1977-09-24 Bob's well-ordered life turns topsy-turvy when he and Emily move to a new Chicago residence.
  • E2 Ex-Con Job 1977-10-01 Bob's attempt at treating convicts who are about to be released has him climbing the walls.
  • E3 A Jackie Story 1977-10-08 Jerry is terrified of losing his new dream girl.
  • E4 Who Was That Masked Man? 1977-10-15 Bob is puzzled when his henpecked patient, Mr. Petersen, asserts himself with far-reaching consequences.
  • E5 Carlin's New Suit 1977-10-22 Bob deals with the amusing problems of an improbable paternity suit and a phone paging service that never pages him.
  • E6 A Day in the Life 1977-10-29 Bob's impulsive decision to leave town for a week is received with disastrous emotions by his patients, who seemingly can't make it without him.
  • E7 My Son the Comedian 1977-11-12 It's no laughing matter for Howard when his 12-year-old son Howie announces he's leaving home to become a comedian.
  • E8 You're Fired, Mr. Chips 1977-11-19 Bob interviews a variety of psychologists to take over his patients while he's out of town. It's soon apparent that they are very much in need of help themselves. When Bob's former teacher, Professor Dreebe, offers his services, it seems the perfect answer.
  • E9 Shallow Throat 1977-11-26 At first, Bob is thrilled when a nontalkative patient named Mr. Twillmer finally opens up after being told that anything he might say will be held in the strictest confidence. His joy is short-lived when Twillmer confesses to grand larceny.
  • E10 A Girl in Her Twenties 1977-12-03 Emily's protective instincts are aroused when 70-year-old Grace DuBois, an odd but friendly recluse, is threatened with being sent to a rest home for elderly people who can't cope with reality.
  • E11 Grand Delusion 1977-12-17 Bob and Emily celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary with a dream flight into the fantasy of being married to different partners.
  • E12 'Twas the Pie Before Christmas 1977-12-24 Bob finds himself with unhappy and hostile patients who refuse to attend his Christmas party when they are mistakenly informed of a rate increase at the height of the Yuletide season. One patient is moved to hire a pie-throwing service.
  • E13 Freudian Ship 1978-01-07 The Hartleys embark on a seagoing vacation to put work behind them. But Bob can't resist playing psychologist when he undertakes to counsel a married couple.
  • E14 Grizzly Emily 1978-01-14 Emily Hartley discovers a new low in male chauvinism when Bob's father arranges a fishing trip to his cabin and assigns her woman's work while the men brave the great out-of-doors.
  • E15 Son of an Ex-Con Job 1978-01-21 Bob counsels a quintet of jovial ex-convicts to help them find honest employment.
  • E16 Group on a Hot Tin Roof 1978-01-28 Bob advises a patient named Mr. Plager to realize his human potential by writing a play based on his own experiences. But when Plager writes, directs, and produces an actual World War I drama whose characters bear a startling resemblance to the rest of Bob's patients, the warfare really begins.
  • E17 Emily Carlin, Emily Carlin 1978-02-04 Bob's paranoid, perennial patient, Mr. Carlin, involves Emily in his scheme to impress his former schoolmates鈥攅specially a girl who never gave him the time of day.
  • E18 Easy for You to Say 1978-02-11 Paul Billingham鈥攌nown to his radio fans as Ralph Alfalfa, the Happy Farmer鈥攃omes to Bob because of his stuttering problem. On radio, he practiced several unseen rhythmic devices to mask his problem, but a new television opportunity threatens to expose his problem with disastrous results.
  • E19 It Didn't Happen One Night 1978-02-18 Bob's friends close ranks to "protect" Emily Hartley when a handsome old flame pays her a very warm visit.
  • E20 Carol Ankles for Indie-Prod 1978-03-04 On the eve of being announced "Secretary of the Year," Carol informs Bob that she's leaving his employ.
  • E21 Crisis in Education 1978-03-11 At the school where Emily works, low reading scores prompt indignant outbursts and threats from angry parents. Principal Phil Bannister flees their wrath by going on an extended fishing trip鈥攂ut not before he tells Emily to handle the crisis.
  • E22 Happy Trails to You 1978-04-01 Bob gives up his psychological practice in Chicago to become a professor at a small college in Oregon.
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