The Bob Newhart Show (1972)

The Bob Newhart Show (1972 - 1975)

TVG Seasons 1 - 3 Classics, Comedy

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In this hilarious sitcom from the '70s, Bob Newhart stars as Dr. Robert Hartley, a successful Chicago psychologist specializing in group therapy sessions. Bob's patience is often tested by his patients-including a paranoid grouch with a persecution complex, a hen-pecked husband, and an emotional eater-all trying to "find themselves."

Starring
Bob Newhart
,
Peter Bonerz
,
Suzanne Pleshette
,
Bill Daily
,
Marcia Wallace
,
Jack Riley

Seasons:

1 2 3

Summary

Episode 1

The Bob Newhart Show: Fly the Unfriendly Skies (1972)
26 min
Bob's delight at having Emily accompany his "Fear of Flying" workshop to New York City turns to distress when he learns she's absolutely terrified to fly.
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Episode 2

The Bob Newhart Show: Tracy Grammar School, I'll Lick You Yet (1972)
26 min
Emily's worst fears are confirmed when she invites Bob to talk to her class on vocation day and then he insists on returning to try it again.
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Episode 3

The Bob Newhart Show: Tennis, Emily? (1972)
26 min
Bob tries to help Emily's handsome tennis instructor with a problem: his inability to turn down all the women who are attracted to him.
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Episode 4

The Bob Newhart Show: Mom, I L-L-Love You (1972)
26 min
Realizing Bob has never told his mother he loves her, Emily invites Bob's mother to dinner in hopes of rectifying the situation.
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Episode 5

The Bob Newhart Show: Goodnight, Nancy (1972)
26 min
Bob runs the gauntlet of emotions when his old college girlfriend, Nancy, and her husband come for a visit.
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Episode 6

The Bob Newhart Show: Come Live With Me (1972)
26 min
Bob inadvertently talks Carol's new and recently separated boyfriend into breaking up with Carol and going back to his wife.
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Episode 7

The Bob Newhart Show: Father Knows Worst (1972)
26 min
When Howard brings his son, Howie, along to lunch with Bob and Jerry he becomes convinced that his son doesn't like him.
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Episode 8

The Bob Newhart Show: Don't Go to Bed Mad (1972)
26 min
Bob and Emily argue over the fact that Bob would spend what little time they have together watching Monday night football.
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Episode 9

The Bob Newhart Show: P-I-L-O-T (1972)
26 min
After overhearing an expectant mother happily chatting about her baby's upcoming birth, Bob and Emily decide to adopt a baby.
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Episode 10

The Bob Newhart Show: Anything Happen While I Was Gone? (1972)
26 min
Jerry plans to get married to a woman he just met, but instead of showing up at his stag party he makes a nervous phone call to Bob.
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Episode 11

The Bob Newhart Show: I Want To Be Alone (1972)
26 min
Bob checks into a hotel to get away from it all, leading his friends to think that he and Emily have split up.
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Episode 12

The Bob Newhart Show: Bob and Emily and Howard and Carol and Jerry (1972)
26 min
Carol finds herself attracted to Howard when he shows up after getting a tooth pulled, high on pain drugs the dentist gave him.
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Episode 13

The Bob Newhart Show: I Owe It All to You... but Not That Much (1972)
26 min
Against his better judgment, Bob sees Jerry as a patient to help him figure out why he's never serious about the girls he dates.
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Episode 14

The Bob Newhart Show: His Busiest Season (1972)
26 min
Knowing that many people get depressed during the holiday season Bob decides to have a "group" party at his house.
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Episode 15

The Bob Newhart Show: Let's Get Away From It Almost (1973)
26 min
When Bob and Emily attempt to get away from it all they end up vacationing at a strangely deserted ski lodge.
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Episode 16

The Bob Newhart Show: The Crash of 29 Years Old (1973)
26 min
Distraught over turning 29, Carol quits her job as Bob's secretary only to turn back up at one of his group therapy sessions.
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Episode 17

The Bob Newhart Show: The Man With the Golden Wrist (1973)
26 min
Bob hurts Emily's feelings when he won't wear an expensive watch she bought for him and refuses to attend his own surprise birthday party.
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Episode 18

The Bob Newhart Show: The Two Loves of Dr. Hartley (1973)
26 min
After helping one of his patients get over her emotional dependency on food, Bob is shocked to find she's now emotionally fixated on him.
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Episode 19

The Bob Newhart Show: Not With My Sister You Don't (1973)
26 min
Howard becomes the overprotective big brother after Emily arranges a blind date between his visiting young sister and Jerry.
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Episode 20

The Bob Newhart Show: A Home Is Not Necessarily a House (1973)
26 min
Bob realizes he fears home ownership when he and Emily try to decide if they should give up their apartment and buy a house.
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Episode 21

The Bob Newhart Show: Emily, I'm Home... Emily? (1973)
26 min
Bob agrees to let Emily take a full-time job with the Board of Education, but after a few nights home alone begins to regret his decision.
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Episode 22

The Bob Newhart Show: You Can't Win 'Em All! (1973)
26 min
After a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs thanks Bob on television for saving his career a catcher shows up asking for the same help.
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Episode 23

The Bob Newhart Show: Bum Voyage (1973)
26 min
When Emily proposes a two-month European cruise vacation Bob resists, afraid that his patients will be just fine without him.
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Episode 24

The Bob Newhart Show: Who's Been Sleeping On My Couch? (1973)
26 min
When Jerry's girlfriend dumps him, Bob invites him to spend a couple of days at his apartment - another kindness he soon regrets.
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Summary

Bob Newhart returns as successful Chicago psychologist Dr. Robert Hartley in the second season of this hilarious sitcom from the '70s. A firm believer in group therapy, the good doctor continues to try to help his regular, if somewhat dysfunctional, patients sort out their oftentimes weird and wacky problems.

Episode 1

The Bob Newhart Show: Last TV Show (1973)
26 min
Bob reluctantly lets his therapy group talk him into holding one of their sessions on a television show, but then the whole group gets stage fright leaving Bob to do all the talking.
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Episode 2

The Bob Newhart Show: Motel (1973)
26 min
When Bob and Jerry travel to Peoria in order to see a football game blacked out in Chicago, Bob is distraught to find himself alone in their motel room with an overly amorous woman.
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Episode 3

The Bob Newhart Show: Backlash (1973)
26 min
Bob and Emily's plans to fly to Mexico for a romantic weekend get throw out of whack when one of Bob's patients slaps him too enthusiastically on the back.
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Episode 4

The Bob Newhart Show: Somebody Down Here Likes Me (1973)
26 min
Bob is filled with guilt after his reverend becomes a new patient and then shortly afterwards tells his parishioners he's leaving the ministry.
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Episode 5

The Bob Newhart Show: Emily In for Carol (1973)
26 min
When Carol, Bob's receptionist, goes on vacation everyone is delighted when Emily decides to fill in for her-everyone but Bob, that is.
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Episode 6

The Bob Newhart Show: Have You Met Miss Dietz (1973)
26 min
Emily inadvertently creates a small feud between Jerry and Howard when she sets up her recently divorced friend, Marilyn Dietz, on dates with both men.
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Episode 7

The Bob Newhart Show: Old Man Rivers (1973)
26 min
Despite a thirty-year difference, Carol falls in love with the doctor who removes a tattoo of a monarch butterfly from her backside.
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Episode 8

The Bob Newhart Show: Mister Emily Hartley (1973)
26 min
A test reveals that Emily's IQ is higher than Bob's, leaving him to suffer an inferiority attack as he reluctantly accompanies her to a pretentious high-IQ dinner and dance.
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Episode 9

The Bob Newhart Show: Mutiny On the Hartley (1973)
26 min
Due to the rising cost of living, Bob decides to raise his rates five dollars a session, which causes the members of his therapy group to try to "go it alone."
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Episode 10

The Bob Newhart Show: I'm Okay, You're Okay, So What's Wrong? (1973)
26 min
Depressed about the boredom that has crept into their marriage, Emily makes an appointment for her and Bob to see a marriage counselor.
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Episode 11

The Bob Newhart Show: Fit, Fat and Forty-One (1973)
26 min
When Bob's doctor puts him on a strict diet, Bob also joins a weight-reducing class that turns out to be made up mostly of overweight women.
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Episode 12

The Bob Newhart Show: Blues for Mr. Borden (1973)
26 min
Single swinger Howard Borden starts singing the blues after he finds out that his ex-wife's steady boyfriend has moved in with her and Howard's young son.
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Episode 13

The Bob Newhart Show: My Wife Belongs to Daddy (1973)
26 min
Bob struggles to impress Emily's flamboyant, larger-than-life father when her parents make a surprise visit.
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Episode 14

The Bob Newhart Show: T.S. Elliot (1973)
26 min
Elliot Carlin, one of Bob's most neurotic patients, asks Carol out on a date, and when she says yes, he begins to plan out the rest of their lives.
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Episode 15

The Bob Newhart Show: I'm Dreaming of a Slight Christmas (1973)
26 min
When one of Bob's patients calls on Christmas Eve, Bob agrees to meet him in the office, only to be trapped there by a blizzard and a power failure.
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Episode 16

The Bob Newhart Show: Oh, Brother (1974)
26 min
Jerry's brother shows up in Chicago after finishing dental school, opens his own practice right down the hall from Jerry, and then starts stealing his patients.
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Episode 17

The Bob Newhart Show: The Modernization of Emily (1974)
26 min
Feeling that middle age is creeping up on her, Emily attempts to put a little youthful zing back into her life by going out and buying a new, hip wardrobe.
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Episode 18

The Bob Newhart Show: The Jobless Corps (1974)
26 min
After losing his job at the airline and then driving Emily crazy by trying to help her around the house, Howard finally joins Bob's Out-of-Work Workshop.
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Episode 19

The Bob Newhart Show: Clink Shrink (1974)
26 min
When Bob offers free counseling to a convicted armed robber out on parole, he suspects the gift he is given by his new patient may be a little "hot."
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Episode 20

The Bob Newhart Show: Mind Your Own Business (1974)
26 min
Bob takes Jerry's advice and hires himself a savvy business manager to handle his money, but soon finds himself struggling to get by on a rather meager allowance.
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Episode 21

The Bob Newhart Show: A Love Story (1974)
25 min
At any other time Bob would be thrilled that Howard has fallen head over heals in love with his sister-except that at this time Ellen is due to marry someone else.
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Episode 22

The Bob Newhart Show: By the Way...You're Fired! (1974)
26 min
When Carol's new romance continually interferes with her receptionist duties, all the doctors on the floor hold a meeting to decide if she stays or is fired.
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Episode 23

The Bob Newhart Show: Confessions of an Orthodontist (1974)
26 min
When Bob fills in for a fellow psychologist, he's surprised to find that his first patient is Jerry-and even more surprised to discover Jerry's problem: he's in love with Emily.
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Episode 24

The Bob Newhart Show: A Matter of Principal (1974)
26 min
It's a matter of principal vs. principle when Emily refuses to agree with Principal Brimskill's decision to skip one of her students ahead two grades.
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