The Bob Newhart Show is an American situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired 142 original episodes on CBS from September 16, 1972, to April 1, 1978. Comedian Bob Newhart portrays a psychologist having to deal with his patients and fellow office workers. The show was filmed before a live audience.
Writer: Jay Tarses
Air date: 1975-09-13
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1975-09-20
Overview: 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.
Writer: Jay Tarses
Air date: 1975-09-27
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1975-10-04
Overview: Emily accuses Bob of being stuck in a middle-aged rut and challenges him to switch family responsibilities.
Writer: Jay Tarses
Air date: 1975-10-11
Overview: Bob and Emily invite Carol to share her ""heavy"" experiences with the ""overweight workshop.""
Air date: 1975-10-18
Overview: A blind-date-initiated, 12-hour romance culminates in Carol Kester's civil marriage to a handsome travel agent.
Air date: 1975-10-25
Overview: Bob and Emily suffer international complications when they host a French psychologist in their home as part of a medical exchange program.
Air date: 1975-11-01
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1975-11-08
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Jay Tarses
Air date: 1975-11-15
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Bob moves up in the world from the seventh to the tenth floor when he joins the firm of a swinging psychiatrist.
Air date: 1975-11-22
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1975-11-29
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Bob suffers family problems when his mother becomes a houseguest and an elderly patient involves him in a parent-child vendetta.
Writer: Erik Tarloff
Air date: 1975-12-06
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1975-12-13
Overview: Emily must contend with irate teachers, hamsters, and an escaped snake when she's unexpectedly upped to the position of school vice principal.
Writer: Jay Tarses
Air date: 1975-12-20
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Michael Zinberg
Air date: 1976-01-03
Overview: Bob becomes his patient's partner in a get-rich-quick real-estate venture.
Air date: 1976-01-10
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1976-01-17
Overview: Howard's game-warden brother comes to Chicago to witness the mating of two whooping cranes—and stays to make a play for Howard's girlfriend.
Air date: 1976-01-24
Overview: Jerry Robinson's depression turns to instant joy when a globe-trotting ex-flame suddenly re-enters his life and proposes.
Air date: 1976-01-31
Overview: A professional basketball team hires Bob to give a psychological assist to its superstar.
Air date: 1976-02-07
Overview: Bob develops a unique psychological problem when his receptionist, Carol, decides to resume her college career and become a psychologist.
Air date: 1976-02-14
Overview: The Hartleys are bombarded with legal hassles when Bob is sued by a shy patient and Emily decides to fight a parking ticket.
Writer: Hugh Wilson
Air date: 1976-02-21
Overview: The Hartleys entertain Howard Borden's young son and hire a beauty queen as his babysitter.
Writer: Jay Tarses
Air date: 1976-02-28
Overview: Cliff Murdock, Bob's old laugh-a-minute college buddy, affectionately known as The Peeper, pays a return visit.
