The Bob Newhart Show (1972)
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.
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Episode 1 - The Longest Good-Bye
Release Date: 1975-09-13Bob'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.
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Episode 2 - Here's Looking at You, Kid
Release Date: 1975-09-20Howard 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.
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Episode 3 - Death of a Fruitman
Release Date: 1975-09-27Bob'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.
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Episode 4 - Change is Gonna Do Me Good
Release Date: 1975-10-04Emily accuses Bob of being stuck in a middle-aged rut and challenges him to switch family responsibilities.
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Episode 5 - The Heavyweights
Release Date: 1975-10-11Bob and Emily invite Carol to share her ""heavy"" experiences with the ""overweight workshop.""
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Episode 6 - Carol's Wedding
Release Date: 1975-10-18A blind-date-initiated, 12-hour romance culminates in Carol Kester's civil marriage to a handsome travel agent.
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Episode 7 - Shrinks Across the Sea
Release Date: 1975-10-25Bob and Emily suffer international complications when they host a French psychologist in their home as part of a medical exchange program.
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Episode 8 - What's It All About, Albert?
Release Date: 1975-11-01Bob 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.
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Episode 9 - Who is Mr. X?
Release Date: 1975-11-08Bob 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.
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Episode 10 - Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
Release Date: 1975-11-15Bob moves up in the world from the seventh to the tenth floor when he joins the firm of a swinging psychiatrist.
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Episode 11 - Over the River and Through the Woods
Release Date: 1975-11-22It'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.
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Episode 12 - Fathers and Sons and Mothers
Release Date: 1975-11-29Bob suffers family problems when his mother becomes a houseguest and an elderly patient involves him in a parent-child vendetta.
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Episode 13 - The Article
Release Date: 1975-12-06When 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.
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Episode 14 - A Matter of Vice-Principal
Release Date: 1975-12-13Emily must contend with irate teachers, hamsters, and an escaped snake when she's unexpectedly upped to the position of school vice principal.
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Episode 15 - Bob Has to Have His Tonsils Out, So He Spends Christmas Eve in the Hospital
Release Date: 1975-12-20Christmas Eve finds Bob in the hospital with tonsillitis and an impending operation. Meanwhile, his friends are all suffering from an attack of Christmas-itis.
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Episode 16 - No Sale
Release Date: 1976-01-03Bob becomes his patient's partner in a get-rich-quick real-estate venture.
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Episode 17 - Carol at 6:01
Release Date: 1976-01-10Bob 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.
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Episode 18 - Warden Gordon Borden
Release Date: 1976-01-17Howard'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.
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Episode 19 - My Boy Guillermo
Release Date: 1976-01-24Jerry Robinson's depression turns to instant joy when a globe-trotting ex-flame suddenly re-enters his life and proposes.
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Episode 20 - Duke of Dunk
Release Date: 1976-01-31A professional basketball team hires Bob to give a psychological assist to its superstar.
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Episode 21 - Guaranteed Not to Shrink
Release Date: 1976-02-07Bob develops a unique psychological problem when his receptionist, Carol, decides to resume her college career and become a psychologist.
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Episode 22 - Birth of a Salesman
Release Date: 1976-02-14The Hartleys are bombarded with legal hassles when Bob is sued by a shy patient and Emily decides to fight a parking ticket.
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Episode 23 - The Boy Next Door
Release Date: 1976-02-21The Hartleys entertain Howard Borden's young son and hire a beauty queen as his babysitter.
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Episode 24 - Peeper Two
Release Date: 1976-02-28Cliff Murdock, Bob's old laugh-a-minute college buddy, affectionately known as The Peeper, pays a return visit.