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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Bob Newhart
Robert Hartley
Suzanne Pleshette
Emily Hartley
Bill Daily
Howard Borden
Marcia Wallace
Carol Kester
Peter Bonerz
Jerry Robinson
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24 episodes • 1972Avg: 6.9
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fly the Unfriendly Skies | Sep 16, 1972 | 7.5 |
| 2 | Tracy Grammar School, I'll Lick You Yet | Sep 23, 1972 | 7.5 |
| 3 | Tennis, Emily? | Sep 30, 1972 | 8.2 |
| 4 | Mom, I L-L-Love You | Oct 7, 1972 | 7.0 |
| 5 | Goodnight Nancy | Oct 21, 1972 | 7.0 |
| 6 | Come Live with Me | Oct 28, 1972 | 6.5 |
| 7 | Father Knows Worst | Nov 4, 1972 | 6.0 |
| 8 | Don't Go to Bed Mad | Nov 11, 1972 | 7.5 |
| 9 | P-I-L-O-T | Nov 18, 1972 | 5.5 |
| 10 | Anything Happen While I Was Gone? | Nov 25, 1972 | 7.0 |
| 11 | I Want to Be Alone | Dec 2, 1972 | 7.0 |
| 12 | Bob and Emily and Howard and Carol and Jerry | Dec 9, 1972 | 8.0 |
| 13 | I Owe It All to You... But Not That Much | Dec 16, 1972 | 7.0 |
| 14 | His Busiest Season | Dec 23, 1972 | 7.0 |
| 15 | Let's Get Away From it Almost | Jan 6, 1973 | 7.0 |
| 16 | The Crash of 29 Years Old | Jan 13, 1973 | 8.0 |
| 17 | The Man with the Golden Wrist | Jan 20, 1973 | 7.0 |
| 18 | The Two Loves of Dr. Hartley | Jan 27, 1973 | 6.0 |
| 19 | Not With My Sister You Don't | Feb 3, 1973 | 5.0 |
| 20 | A Home is Not Necessarily a House | Feb 10, 1973 | 7.0 |
| 21 | Emily, I'm Home... Emily? | Feb 17, 1973 | 7.0 |
| 22 | You Can't Win 'Em All | Feb 24, 1973 | 7.0 |
| 23 | Bum Voyage | Mar 3, 1973 | 7.0 |
| 24 | Who's Been Sleeping on My Couch? | Mar 10, 1973 | 6.0 |
24 episodes • 1973Avg: 7.2Golden Era
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Last TV Show | Sep 15, 1973 | 8.0 |
| 2 | Motel | Sep 22, 1973 | 7.0 |
| 3 | Backlash | Sep 29, 1973 | 7.0 |
| 4 | Somebody Down Here Likes Me | Oct 6, 1973 | 8.0 |
| 5 | Emily in for Carol | Oct 13, 1973 | 8.0 |
| 6 | Have You Met Miss Dietz? | Oct 20, 1973 | 7.0 |
| 7 | Old Man Rivers | Oct 27, 1973 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Mister Emily Hartley | Nov 3, 1973 | 8.0 |
| 9 | Mutiny on the Hartley | Nov 10, 1973 | 8.0 |
| 10 | I'm Okay, You're Okay, So What's Wrong? | Nov 17, 1973 | 7.0 |
| 11 | Fit, Fat, and Forty-One | Nov 24, 1973 | 7.0 |
| 12 | Blues for Mr. Borden | Dec 1, 1973 | 0.0 |
| 13 | My Wife Belongs to Daddy | Dec 8, 1973 | 8.0 |
| 14 | T. S. Elliot | Dec 15, 1973 | 8.0 |
| 15 | I'm Dreaming of a Slight Christmas | Dec 22, 1973 | 7.0 |
| 16 | Oh, Brother | Jan 5, 1974 | 6.0 |
| 17 | The Modernization of Emily | Jan 12, 1974 | 8.0 |
| 18 | The Jobless Corps | Jan 19, 1974 | 7.0 |
| 19 | Clink Shrink | Jan 26, 1974 | 7.0 |
| 20 | Mind Your Own Business | Feb 2, 1974 | 7.0 |
| 21 | A Love Story | Feb 9, 1974 | 4.0 |
| 22 | By the Way... You're Fired | Feb 16, 1974 | 7.0 |
| 23 | Confessions of An Orthodontist | Feb 23, 1974 | 0.0 |
| 24 | A Matter of Principal | Mar 2, 1974 | 0.0 |
24 episodes • 1974Avg: 6.5Valley of Despair
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big Brother is Watching | Sep 14, 1974 | 7.0 |
| 2 | The Battle of the Groups | Sep 21, 1974 | 7.0 |
| 3 | The Great Rimpau Medical Arts Co-Op Experiment | Sep 28, 1974 | 0.0 |
| 4 | The Separation Story | Oct 5, 1974 | 7.0 |
| 5 | Sorry, Wrong Mother | Oct 12, 1974 | 4.0 |
| 6 | The Gray Flannel Shrink | Oct 19, 1974 | 7.0 |
| 7 | Dr. Ryan's Express | Oct 26, 1974 | 7.0 |
| 8 | Brutally Yours, Bob Hartley | Nov 2, 1974 | 7.0 |
| 9 | Ship of Shrinks | Nov 9, 1974 | 7.0 |
| 10 | Life is a Hamburger | Nov 16, 1974 | 7.0 |
| 11 | An American Family | Nov 23, 1974 | 8.0 |
| 12 | We Love You... Good-Bye | Nov 30, 1974 | 6.0 |
| 13 | Jerry Robinson Crusoe | Dec 7, 1974 | 6.0 |
| 14 | Serve for Daylight | Dec 14, 1974 | 4.0 |
| 15 | Home is Where the Hurt Is | Dec 21, 1974 | 4.0 |
| 16 | Tobin's Back in Town | Jan 4, 1975 | 6.0 |
| 17 | Think Smartly--Vote Hartley | Jan 11, 1975 | 7.0 |
| 18 | The Way We Weren't | Jan 18, 1975 | 6.0 |
| 19 | A Pound of Flesh | Jan 25, 1975 | 7.0 |
| 20 | My Business is Shrinking | Feb 1, 1975 | 7.0 |
| 21 | The New Look | Feb 8, 1975 | 7.0 |
| 22 | Bob Hits the Ceiling | Feb 15, 1975 | 7.0 |
| 23 | Emily Hits the Ceiling | Feb 22, 1975 | 7.0 |
| 24 | The Ceiling Hits Bob | Mar 8, 1975 | 0.0 |
24 episodes • 1975Avg: 6.5Valley of Despair
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Longest Good-Bye | Sep 13, 1975 | 7.0 |
| 2 | Here's Looking at You, Kid | Sep 20, 1975 | 4.0 |
| 3 | Death of a Fruitman | Sep 27, 1975 | 7.0 |
| 4 | Change is Gonna Do Me Good | Oct 4, 1975 | 4.0 |
| 5 | The Heavyweights | Oct 11, 1975 | 4.0 |
| 6 | Carol's Wedding | Oct 18, 1975 | 7.0 |
| 7 | Shrinks Across the Sea | Oct 25, 1975 | 8.0 |
| 8 | What's It All About, Albert? | Nov 1, 1975 | 7.0 |
| 9 | Who is Mr. X? | Nov 8, 1975 | 8.0 |
| 10 | Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time | Nov 15, 1975 | 7.0 |
| 11 | Over the River and Through the Woods | Nov 22, 1975 | 7.0 |
| 12 | Fathers and Sons and Mothers | Nov 29, 1975 | 7.0 |
| 13 | The Article | Dec 6, 1975 | 7.0 |
| 14 | A Matter of Vice-Principal | Dec 13, 1975 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Bob Has to Have His Tonsils Out, So He Spends Christmas Eve in the Hospital | Dec 20, 1975 | 7.0 |
| 16 | No Sale | Jan 3, 1976 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Carol at 6:01 | Jan 10, 1976 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Warden Gordon Borden | Jan 17, 1976 | 6.0 |
| 19 | My Boy Guillermo | Jan 24, 1976 | 6.0 |
| 20 | Duke of Dunk | Jan 31, 1976 | 7.0 |
| 21 | Guaranteed Not to Shrink | Feb 7, 1976 | 0.0 |
| 22 | Birth of a Salesman | Feb 14, 1976 | 0.0 |
| 23 | The Boy Next Door | Feb 21, 1976 | 0.0 |
| 24 | Peeper Two | Feb 28, 1976 | 0.0 |
24 episodes • 1976Avg: 7.2
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Enter Mrs. Peeper | Sep 25, 1976 | 7.0 |
| 2 | Caged Fury | Oct 2, 1976 | 8.0 |
| 3 | Some of My Best Friends Are... | Oct 9, 1976 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Still Crazy After All These Years | Oct 16, 1976 | 0.0 |
| 5 | The Great Rent Strike | Oct 23, 1976 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Et, Tu, Carol? | Oct 30, 1976 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Send This Boy to Camp | Nov 6, 1976 | 0.0 |
| 8 | A Crime Most Foul | Nov 13, 1976 | 0.0 |
| 9 | The Slammer | Nov 20, 1976 | 8.0 |
| 10 | Jerry's Retirement | Nov 27, 1976 | 7.0 |
| 11 | Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson | Dec 4, 1976 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Breaking Up is Hard to Do | Dec 11, 1976 | 7.0 |
| 13 | Making Up is the Thing to Do | Dec 25, 1976 | 8.0 |
| 14 | Love is the Blindest | Jan 8, 1977 | 7.0 |
| 15 | The Ironwood Experience | Jan 15, 1977 | 8.0 |
| 16 | Of Mice and Men | Jan 22, 1977 | 4.0 |
| 17 | Halls of Hartley | Jan 29, 1977 | 7.0 |
| 18 | The Heartbreak Kidd | Feb 5, 1977 | 7.0 |
| 19 | Death Be My Destiny | Feb 12, 1977 | 8.0 |
| 20 | Taxation Without Celebration | Feb 19, 1977 | 0.0 |
| 21 | Desperate Sessions | Feb 26, 1977 | 0.0 |
| 22 | The Mentor | Mar 5, 1977 | 7.0 |
| 23 | Shrinking Violence | Mar 12, 1977 | 7.0 |
| 24 | You're Having My Hartley | Mar 19, 1977 | 8.0 |
22 episodes • 1977Avg: 7.5
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bob's Change of Life | Sep 24, 1977 | 8.0 |
| 2 | Ex-Con Job | Oct 1, 1977 | 7.0 |
| 3 | A Jackie Story | Oct 8, 1977 | 7.0 |
| 4 | Who Was That Masked Man? | Oct 15, 1977 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Carlin's New Suit | Oct 22, 1977 | 0.0 |
| 6 | A Day in the Life | Oct 29, 1977 | 8.0 |
| 7 | My Son the Comedian | Nov 12, 1977 | 0.0 |
| 8 | You're Fired, Mr. Chips | Nov 19, 1977 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Shallow Throat | Nov 26, 1977 | 0.0 |
| 10 | A Girl in Her Twenties | Dec 3, 1977 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Grand Delusion | Dec 17, 1977 | 0.0 |
| 12 | 'Twas the Pie Before Christmas | Dec 24, 1977 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Freudian Ship | Jan 7, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Grizzly Emily | Jan 14, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Son of an Ex-Con Job | Jan 21, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 16 | Group on a Hot Tin Roof | Jan 28, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Emily Carlin, Emily Carlin | Feb 4, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Easy for You to Say | Feb 11, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 19 | It Didn't Happen One Night | Feb 18, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 20 | Carol Ankles for Indie-Prod | Mar 4, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 21 | Crisis in Education | Mar 11, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 22 | Happy Trails to You | Apr 1, 1978 | 0.0 |
