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Season 4 – The Bob Newhart Show

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Not to be confused with Newhart's eponymous 1961 variety show, "The Bob Newhart Show" finds the comic playing Bob Hartley, a Chicago psychologist living with wife Emily in a highrise. Bob is forced to deal with crazy patients, his wife and their friends.
The Bob Newhart Show — Season 4

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Bob Newhart

Dr. Robert "Bob" Hartley

Suzanne Pleshette

Emily Hartley

Marcia Wallace

Carol Kester

Bill Daily

Howard Borden

Peter Bonerz

Dr. Jerome "Jerry" Robinson

Florida Friebus

Mrs. Lillian Bakerman

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Sep 13, 1975 The Longest Goodbye Bob's old 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, but the brief encounter stretches out to a week when Murdock can't make his business connections. Details Episode 2 Aired Sep 20, 1975 Here's Looking at You, Kid 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. Details Episode 3 Aired Sep 27, 1975 Death of a Fruitman When an unseen member, a Mr. Gianelli, threatens to turn the group's annual surprise party into a disaster, Bob kicks him out of the group, and his decision meets with instant approval until Mr. Gianelli dies under a ton of zucchini. Details Episode 4 Aired Oct 4, 1975 Change Is Gonna Do Me Good Emily accuses Bob of being stuck in a middle-aged rut and challenges him to switch family responsibilities. Details Episode 5 Aired Oct 11, 1975 The Heavyweights Bob and Emily invite Carol to share her "heavy" experiences with the overweight workshop. Details Episode 6 Aired Oct 18, 1975 Carol's Wedding A blind-date-initiated, 12-hour romance culminates in Carol Kester's civil marriage to a handsome travel agent (Will Mackenzie). Details Episode 7 Aired Oct 25, 1975 Shrinks Across the Sea Bob and Emily suffer international complications when they host a French psychologist in their home as part of a medical exchange program. Details Episode 8 Aired Nov 1, 1975 What's It All About, Albert? Bob is depressed by his seeming lack of success as a psychologist. He seeks help from his old college professor (Keenan Wynn), who manages to heighten his despair by informing him that psychology is all nonsense. Details Episode 9 Aired Nov 8, 1975 Who Is Mr. X? 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. Details Episode 10 Aired Nov 15, 1975 Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time Bob moves up in the world from the seventh to the 10th floor when he joins the firm of a swinging psychiatrist. Details Episode 11 Aired Nov 22, 1975 Over the River and Through the Woods It's a stag Thanksgiving for Bob when Emily flies off to join a family reunion. Details Episode 12 Aired Nov 29, 1975 Father & Sons & Mothers Bob suffers family problems when his mother becomes a houseguest and an elderly patient involves him in a parent-child vendetta. Details Episode 13 Aired Dec 6, 1975 The Article 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. Meanwhile, Carol is on vacation and Gail is filling in for her. Details Episode 14 Aired Dec 13, 1975 A Matter of Vice Principal Emily must contend with irate teachers, hamsters and an escaped snake when she becomes vice principal; Carol's fill-in breaks her leg. Details Episode 15 Aired Dec 20, 1975 Bob Has to Have His Tonsils Out, So He Spends Christmas Eve in the Hospital 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. Details Episode 16 Aired Jan 3, 1976 No Sale Bob becomes his patient's partner in a get-rich-quick real estate venture. Details Episode 17 Aired Jan 10, 1976 Carol at 6:01 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. Details Episode 18 Aired Jan 17, 1976 Warden Gordon Borden Howard's game-warden brother (William Redfield) comes to Chicago to witness the mating of two whooping cranes and stays to make a play for Howard's girlfriend. Details Episode 19 Aired Jan 24, 1976 My Boy Guillermo Jerry's depression turns to instant joy when a globe-trotting ex-flame (Gail Strickland) suddenly re-enters his life and proposes. Details Episode 20 Aired Jan 31, 1976 Duke of Dunk A professional basketball team hires Bob to give a psychological assist to its superstar. Details Episode 21 Aired Feb 7, 1976 Guaranteed Not to Shrink Bob develops a unique psychological problem when Carol decides to resume her college career and become a psychologist. Details Episode 22 Aired Feb 14, 1976 Birth of a Salesman The Hartleys are bombarded with legal hassles when Bob is sued by a shy patient and Emily decides to fight a parking ticket. Details Episode 23 Aired Feb 21, 1976 The Boy Next Door When the Hartleys entertain Howard's son, they hire a beauty queen (Brooke Adams) as a baby sitter. Details Episode 24 Aired Feb 28, 1976 Peeper Two Cliff Murdock (Tom Poston), Bob's old laugh-a-minute college buddy, affectionately known as "The Peeper," pays a return visit. An uncharacteristically somber Cliff announces that his wife has left him. Details

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Season Info

Director
John C. Chulay, Eddie Ryder, Peter Bonerz, Michael Zinberg, Bob Claver, John Erman, James Burrows
Screenwriter
Gordon Farr, Sy Rosen, Douglas Arango, Bruce Kane, Arnold Kane, Phil Davis, Lynne Farr, Phil Doran, Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses
Network
CBS
Rating
TV-G
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date
Sep 13, 1975