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The Bob Newhart Show
1972 - 1978 7.5 (58 votes) 6 Seasons
Genres
Comedy
Networks
CBS
Created By
Lorenzo Music

The Bob Newhart Show

THE DOCTOR IS IN!

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Producer: Grant Tinker, Lorenzo Music, Mark Tinker, Michael Zinberg, Gordon Farr, Lynne Farr

Top Cast

Bob Newhart
Bob Newhart

Robert Hartley

Suzanne Pleshette
Suzanne Pleshette

Emily Hartley

Bill Daily
Bill Daily

Howard Borden

Marcia Wallace
Marcia Wallace

Carol Kester

Peter Bonerz
Peter Bonerz

Jerry Robinson

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1972)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Fly the Unfriendly Skies
1972-09-16

Bob invites Emily to join his fear of flying group on a trip to New York City. Much to Bob's surprise he finds that Emily also has a fear of flying and refuses to go. After a conversation with Howard she decides to go only to back out after boarding the plane.

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Episode 2: Tracy Grammar School, I'll Lick You Yet
1972-09-23

It's Vocation Day in Emily's class, and Bob feels left out when he's not invited. At the last minute, he's asked to fill in, but Emily's worst fears are confirmed when Bob fails to excite the kids' interest.

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Episode 3: Tennis, Emily?
1972-09-30

Bob experiences pangs of jealousy when Emily's handsome new tennis instructor comes to see him with an emotional problem, namely, his inability to turn down the women who are all uncontrollably attracted to him.

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Episode 4: Mom, I L-L-Love You
1972-10-07

Bob finds it extremely difficult to tell his mother that he loves her.

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Episode 5: Goodnight Nancy
1972-10-21

Bob's old girlfriend comes to Chicago with her husband and calls on Emily and Bob.

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Episode 6: Come Live with Me
1972-10-28

Carol tries to get Bob to approve her moving in with her new boyfriend Roger, who has just separated from his wife. Bob refuses, telling her she will have to make her own decision.

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Episode 7: Father Knows Worst
1972-11-04

Bob's divorced neighbor, Howard Borden, is convinced that his son, Howie, doesn't really like him. Later, Howard's ex-wife convinces him that Howie thinks he is the greatest guy in the world.

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Episode 8: Don't Go to Bed Mad
1972-11-11

Bob wants to watch football every Monday night. Emily feels this is unfair: their other activities allow the couple only two nights each week to be together, and she thinks they should do something that they both enjoy. This leads to an unresolved, all-night argument that ends only when the two participants become exhausted.

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Episode 9: P-I-L-O-T
1972-11-18

Bob and Emily have been trying for some time to have a child. When they attend a party where the conversation turns to the subject of children, they feel so left out that they decide to adopt a child.

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Episode 10: Anything Happen While I Was Gone?
1972-11-25

As soon as Bob returns to the office from his vacation in Mexico, Jerry announces that he is about to be married to a girl he met nine days ago. Cynthia, a beautiful but domineering oral hygienist, becomes too much for Jerry, and he realizes that he has made a mistake.

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Episode 11: I Want to Be Alone
1972-12-02

Bob decides that for his own mental well-being, he needs some peace and quiet. He moves into a hotel room by himself, leaving a confused Howard Borden thinking that Bob and Emily have split up.

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Episode 12: Bob and Emily and Howard and Carol and Jerry
1972-12-09

Howard "floats" into Bob's office on Cloud Nine after having a tooth pulled. He is so poetic that Carol tells Emily, "I want him." Emily agrees to help Carol get him, and the two have an up-and-down romance.

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Episode 13: I Owe It All to You... But Not That Much
1972-12-16

Jerry decides there is something wrong with him because he never becomes serious about any of the girls he dates. He asks Bob if he can become one of his patients. Bob agrees, but they have to abandon the plan when it begins to interfere with their friendship.

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Episode 14: His Busiest Season
1972-12-23

Christmas becomes a sad memory for Bob's group therapy session, and it's evident that "'tis not the season"" for everyone to be jolly. Bob decides to invite the group over for Christmas Eve.

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Episode 15: Let's Get Away From it Almost
1973-01-06

Bob and Emily travel to a ski lodge that's nearly deserted except for the annoying couple with whom they share a bathroom. After sitting through a disastrous dinner, the Hartleys decide to leave only to find themselves caught in the spotlight of the abominable floor show they're trying to escape.

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Episode 16: The Crash of 29 Years Old
1973-01-13

Feeling unfulfilled as a woman, and having just passed her 29th birthday, Carol quits her job as Bob's receptionist. After having been gone for a while, Carol suddenly shows up at one of Bob's group-therapy sessions and creates a situation in which Bob finds himself more of a patient than a doctor.

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Episode 17: The Man with the Golden Wrist
1973-01-20

Bob refuses to wear the beautiful gold watch Emily gave him for his 40th birthday after he learns just how expensive it was.

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Episode 18: The Two Loves of Dr. Hartley
1973-01-27

When one of his patients falls in love with him, Bob has problems at the office and at home.

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Episode 19: Not With My Sister You Don't
1973-02-03

Howard Borden's 22-year old sister Debbie arrives to spend the week with him. Emily arranges a blind date for her with Jerry Robinson and Howard suddenly turns into an overprotective big brother.

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Episode 20: A Home is Not Necessarily a House
1973-02-10

Bob and Emily try to decide if they should give up their apartment and buy a house.

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Episode 21: Emily, I'm Home... Emily?
1973-02-17

Bob is upset when Emily takes a full-time job with the Board of Education. Emily explains that working full-time makes her feel wonderful, while quitting would make her miserable. Bob decides to leave well enough alone.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: You Can't Win 'Em All
1973-02-24

When a star pitcher for the Chicago Cubs credits Bob with saving his career, the endorsement brings Bob a new patient, Moose Washburn, a second-string player whose career is beyond a mere psychologist's help.

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Episode 23: Bum Voyage
1973-03-03

Afraid that his practice, as well as his patients, will fall apart if he leaves, Bob keeps resisting Emily's plans for a two-month European cruise.

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Episode 24: Who's Been Sleeping on My Couch?
1973-03-10

Recovering from another broken romance, Jerry Robinson accepts Bob's invitation to spend a couple of days at his apartment. Bob soon comes to regret his kindness.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1973)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Last TV Show
1973-09-15

Bob's therapy group insists that he accept an invitation for the group to conduct one of its weekly sessions on television.

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Episode 2: Motel
1973-09-22

A trip to Peoria turns into one long embarrassment for Bob when Jerry introduces him to a pretty girl named Janine. Janine doesn't seem to care that Bob is a married man.

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Episode 3: Backlash
1973-09-29

One of Bob's more masculine patients enthusiastically slaps him on the back—and, unfortunately for Bob, it throws his back out. Even more unfortunately, Bob and Emily were supposed to be going to Mexico for a vacation.

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Episode 4: Somebody Down Here Likes Me
1973-10-06

Rev. Dan Bradford seeks professional advice from Bob then makes a startling announcement in his Sunday sermon.

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Episode 5: Emily in for Carol
1973-10-13

With Carol on vacation, Emily is elected to fill in as the receptionist. Everyone loves the idea—except Bob.

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Episode 6: Have You Met Miss Dietz?
1973-10-20

Marilyn Dietz, a very attractive divorcee, creates a feud between Jerry and Howard when she starts dating both of them.

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Episode 7: Old Man Rivers
1973-10-27

A rather embarrassing operation leads to romance between Carol and her doctor. Everyone questions the relationship due to the new couple's age disparity.

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Episode 8: Mister Emily Hartley
1973-11-03

Bob suffers an inferiority attack when a test reveals that Emily's IQ is higher than his.

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Episode 9: Mutiny on the Hartley
1973-11-10

Bob decides to meet the rising cost of living by raising his rates. But the members of his therapy group revolt when he picks the most inappropriate moment to tell them.

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Episode 10: I'm Okay, You're Okay, So What's Wrong?
1973-11-17

Bob turns out to be an uncooperative patient when Emily makes an appointment for them to see a marriage counselor.

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Episode 11: Fit, Fat, and Forty-One
1973-11-24

Determined to lose eight pounds from around his middle, Bob goes on a strict diet. With Jerry's help, he joins a weight-reducing class that seems to be populated mostly by women.

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Episode 12: Blues for Mr. Borden
1973-12-01

Howard's son, Howie is visiting. Howard tells Bob he and his ex-wife, Lois, are getting along really well lately, and he thinks she wants to get together again, but Howard's upset to find out she's getting married, and wants Howard's approval.

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Episode 13: My Wife Belongs to Daddy
1973-12-08

Emily's parents pay a surprise visit that makes Bob terribly uncomfortable. Emily's father is gregarious, well-traveled, a war hero, an outdoors man—in short, everything that Bob isn't.

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Episode 14: T. S. Elliot
1973-12-15

Bob's patient Elliot Carlin parades all his phobias and insecurities as he prepares to ask Carol Kester for a date. He then finds it even harder to accept her answer—which is ""yes.""

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Episode 15: I'm Dreaming of a Slight Christmas
1973-12-22

Christmas Eve is almost spoiled when Bob is trapped in the office because of a power failure.

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Episode 16: Oh, Brother
1974-01-05

Jerry Robinson's brother shows up in Chicago after finishing dental school. He takes over Jerry's life, his apartment, and his dental practice.

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Episode 17: The Modernization of Emily
1974-01-12

Emily decides to update her image with a kicky new wardrobe that she says is youthful and Bob says is childish.

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Episode 18: The Jobless Corps
1974-01-19

Depressed after losing his job with the airline, Howard accepts Bob's offer to join his ""out of workshop,"" a special therapy group for the unemployed. (Bob extends the invitation at Emily's insistence when Howard's attempts to help her around the apartment begin driving her up the wall.)

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Episode 19: Clink Shrink
1974-01-26

Hoping to make a contribution to society, Bob offers his psychological counseling services free to a parolee out on an armed-robbery conviction. But Bob seems to be more influenced by his patient's manner than the patient is by Bob's therapy.

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Episode 20: Mind Your Own Business
1974-02-02

At Jerry's urging, Bob hires a business manager to handle his money. He ends up living on a meager allowance that affords him only such luxuries as peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch.

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Episode 21: A Love Story
1974-02-09

Howard falls head over heels in love with Bob's sister Ellen. Under most circumstances, Bob would find this perfectly acceptable—except that Ellen is getting married to someone else.

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Episode 22: By the Way... You're Fired
1974-02-16

When Carol's new love interest interferes with her work, Jerry Robinson doesn't seemed too concerned. But when it disrupts his love life, he decides to fire her.

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Episode 23: Confessions of An Orthodontist
1974-02-23

While filling in for a fellow psychologist, Bob is surprised to find that his first patient is Jerry Robinson, who is reluctant to reveal his problem. A little prodding produces the startling admission that Jerry is in love with Emily.

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Episode 24: A Matter of Principal
1974-03-02

It's a matter of principal versus principle when Emily refuses to skip one of her students ahead two grades at the elementary school where she teaches.

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Season 3 (1974)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: 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.

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Episode 2: 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.

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Episode 3: 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.

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Episode 4: 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.

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Episode 5: Sorry, Wrong Mother
1974-10-12

As Howard prepares to introduce Howie to Ellen, he tries to remold Ellen into an image the boy will like.

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Episode 6: 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.

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Episode 7: 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.

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Episode 8: 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.

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Episode 9: 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.

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Episode 10: Life is a Hamburger
1974-11-16

Carol's announcement that she's going to marry Don Fesler—an unpublished poet with bad feet—brings negative reactions from her friends.

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Episode 11: 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.

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Episode 12: We Love You... Good-Bye
1974-11-30

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.

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Episode 13: 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.

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Episode 14: 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.

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Episode 15: 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.

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Episode 16: Tobin's Back in Town
1975-01-04

Ellen's ex-fiancee, John Tobin—a tall, handsome egomaniac in suede and leather—arrives in Chicago to win Ellen back. The situation plays havoc with Howard's basic insecurities.

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Episode 17: 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.

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Episode 18: 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.

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Episode 19: 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.

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Episode 20: 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.

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Episode 21: 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.

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Episode 22: 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.

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Episode 23: 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.

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Episode 24: 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.

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Season 4 (1975)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: 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.

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Episode 2: 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.

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Episode 3: 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.

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Episode 4: 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.

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Episode 5: The Heavyweights
1975-10-11

Bob and Emily invite Carol to share her ""heavy"" experiences with the ""overweight workshop.""

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Episode 6: 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.

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Episode 7: 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.

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Episode 8: What's It All About, Albert?
1975-11-01

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.

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Episode 9: Who is Mr. X?
1975-11-08

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.

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Episode 10: Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
1975-11-15

Bob 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
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.

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Episode 12: Fathers and Sons and Mothers
1975-11-29

Bob 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
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.

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Episode 14: 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.

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Episode 15: Bob Has to Have His Tonsils Out, So He Spends Christmas Eve in the Hospital
1975-12-20

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.

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Episode 16: No Sale
1976-01-03

Bob becomes his patient's partner in a get-rich-quick real-estate venture.

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Episode 17: 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.

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Episode 18: Warden Gordon Borden
1976-01-17

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.

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Episode 19: 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.

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Episode 20: Duke of Dunk
1976-01-31

A professional basketball team hires Bob to give a psychological assist to its superstar.

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Episode 21: 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.

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Episode 22: 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.

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Episode 23: The Boy Next Door
1976-02-21

The Hartleys entertain Howard Borden's young son and hire a beauty queen as his babysitter.

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Episode 24: Peeper Two
1976-02-28

Cliff Murdock, Bob's old laugh-a-minute college buddy, affectionately known as The Peeper, pays a return visit.

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Season 5 (1976)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: 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.

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Episode 2: 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.

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Episode 3: 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.

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Episode 4: 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.

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Episode 5: 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.

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Episode 6: 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.

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Episode 7: Send This Boy to Camp
1976-11-06

Bob and his friends host an orphan contingent for a wildly improbable camping-out experience.

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Episode 8: A Crime Most Foul
1976-11-13

Bob turns amateur detective when he believes that his expensive tape recorder has been stolen.

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Episode 9: The Slammer
1976-11-20

Bob and his friend ""The Peeper"" take a trip down Memory Lane and wind up in the slammer.

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Episode 10: 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.

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Episode 11: 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.

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Episode 12: 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.

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Episode 13: 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.

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Episode 14: 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.

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Episode 15: 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.

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Episode 16: 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.

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Episode 17: 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.

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Episode 18: The Heartbreak Kidd
1977-02-05

Bob thinks that Veronica Kidd, a student trainee, has fallen in love with him.

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Episode 19: 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.

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Episode 20: 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—and also the date of the Hartleys' seventh wedding anniversary.

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Episode 21: Desperate Sessions
1977-02-26

Bob is held hostage in his office by a friendly bank robber.

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Episode 22: The Mentor
1977-03-05

A despondent friend accepts Bob's suggestion and turns the psychologist's reception area into a mini-Polynesian village.

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Episode 23: 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.

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Episode 24: 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—and Bob nearly comes unglued at the prospect of becoming a father.

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Season 6 (1977)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: 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.

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Episode 2: Ex-Con Job
1977-10-01

Bob's attempt at treating convicts who are about to be released has him climbing the walls.

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Episode 3: A Jackie Story
1977-10-08

Jerry is terrified of losing his new dream girl.

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Episode 4: Who Was That Masked Man?
1977-10-15

Bob is puzzled when his henpecked patient, Mr. Petersen, asserts himself with far-reaching consequences.

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Episode 5: 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.

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Episode 6: 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.

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Episode 7: 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.

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Episode 8: 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.

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Episode 9: 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.

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Episode 10: 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.

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Episode 11: 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.

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Episode 12: '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.

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Episode 13: 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.

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Episode 14: 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.

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Episode 15: Son of an Ex-Con Job
1978-01-21

Bob counsels a quintet of jovial ex-convicts to help them find honest employment.

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Episode 16: 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.

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Episode 17: Emily Carlin, Emily Carlin
1978-02-04

Bob's paranoid, perennial patient, Mr. Carlin, involves Emily in his scheme to impress his former schoolmates—especially a girl who never gave him the time of day.

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Episode 18: Easy for You to Say
1978-02-11

Paul Billingham—known to his radio fans as Ralph Alfalfa, the Happy Farmer—comes 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.

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Episode 19: 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.

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Episode 20: 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.

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Episode 21: 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—but not before he tells Emily to handle the crisis.

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Episode 22: 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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