The Bob Newhart Show (1972)

Name: The Bob Newhart Show
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 8.1

Comedy

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.

IMDb rating: 8.1 (7,622 votes)
Seasons: 6
Streaming (US): Amazon Prime Video
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Seasons

Season 1 (1972)

7.54 avg 24 episodes 8.1 → 7.5 27 min avg

Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Fly the Unfriendly Skies	8.1	335
2	Tracy Grammar School, I'll Lick You Yet	7.9	255
3	Tennis, Emily?	7.6	244
4	Mom, I L-L-Love You	7.6	221
5	Goodnight Nancy	7.7	223
6	Come Live with Me	7.3	206
7	Father Knows Worst	7.0	214
8	Don't Go to Bed Mad	7.5	199
9	P-I-L-O-T	6.9	205
10	Anything Happen While I Was Gone?	7.5	193
11	I Want to Be Alone	7.4	182
12	Bob and Emily and Howard and Carol and Jerry	7.9	194
13	I Owe It All to You... But Not That Much	7.4	182
14	His Busiest Season	7.8	202
15	Let's Get Away from It Almost	7.4	193
16	The Crash of 29 Years Old	7.6	175
17	The Man with the Golden Wrist	7.7	182
18	The Two Loves of Dr. Hartley	7.5	167
19	Not with My Sister You Don't	7.5	174
20	A Home Is Not Necessarily a House	7.3	174
21	Emily, I'm Home - Emily?	7.7	170
22	You Can't Win 'Em All	7.4	157
23	Bum Voyage	7.7	171
24	Who's Been Sleeping on My Couch?	7.5	151

Season 2 (1973)

7.69 avg 24 episodes 7.8 → 7.4 27 min avg

Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Last TV Show	7.8	167
2	Motel	7.7	171
3	Backlash	7.8	160
4	Somebody Down Here Likes Me	7.9	164
5	Emily in for Carol	7.8	158
6	Have You Met Miss Dietz?	7.4	156
7	Old Man Rivers	7.4	146
8	Mister Emily Hartley	8.1	165
9	Mutiny on the Hartley	7.9	143
10	I'm Okay, You're Okay, So What's Wrong?	7.6	151
11	Fit, Fat and Forty One	7.8	146
12	Blues for Mr. Borden	7.2	144
13	My Wife Belongs to Daddy	7.7	145
14	T.S. Elliot	8.2	140
15	I'm Dreaming of a Slight Christmas	7.9	164
16	Oh, Brother	7.2	146
17	The Modernization of Emily	7.8	152
18	The Jobless Corps	7.8	144
19	Clink Shrink	7.8	151
20	Mind Your Own Business	7.6	135
21	A Love Story	7.4	139
22	By the Way... You're Fired	7.6	135
23	Confessions of an Orthodontist	7.7	150
24	A Matter of Principal	7.4	142

Season 3 (1974)

7.57 avg 24 episodes 7.2 → 8.1 27 min avg

Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Big Brother Is Watching	7.2	155
2	The Battle of the Groups	7.6	150
3	The Great Rimpau Medical Arts Co-Op Experiment	7.6	150
4	The Separation Story	7.7	136
5	Sorry, Wrong Mother	7.2	146
6	The Gray Flannel Shrink	7.5	146
7	Dr. Ryan's Express	7.8	143
8	Brutally Yours, Bob Hartley	7.8	136
9	Ship of Shrinks	7.7	132
10	Life Is a Hamburger	7.4	130
11	An American Family	8.1	165
12	We Love You... Good-Bye	7.4	141
13	Jerry Robinson Crusoe	7.4	132
14	Serve for Daylight	7.5	137
15	Home Is Where the Hurt Is	7.0	152
16	Tobin's Back in Town	7.7	135
17	Think Smartly--Vote Hartley	7.3	131
18	The Way We Weren't	7.5	134
19	A Pound of Flesh	7.5	129
20	My Business Is Shrinking	8.0	132
21	The New Look	7.8	132
22	Bob Hits the Ceiling	7.7	133
23	Emily Hits the Ceiling	7.2	131
24	The Ceiling Hits Bob	8.1	141

Season 4 (1975)

7.27 avg 24 episodes 7.7 → 7.4 30 min avg

Rollercoaster
Mid-peak

Season 4 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Longest Good Bye	7.7	131
2	Here's Looking at You, Kid	6.8	128
3	Death of a Fruitman	7.8	142
4	Change Is Gonna Do Me Good	7.3	118
5	The Heavyweights	7.2	129
6	Carol's Wedding	7.2	126
7	Shrinks Across the Sea	7.1	126
8	What's It All About, Albert?	7.4	125
9	Who Is Mr. X?	7.9	154
10	Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time	6.5	133
11	Over the River and Through the Woods	8.8	274
12	Fathers and Sons and Mothers	7.3	128
13	The Article	7.2	129
14	A Matter of Vice-Principal	7.0	118
15	Bob Has to Have His Tonsils Out, So He Spends Christmas Eve in the Hospital	8.0	149
16	No Sale	7.0	114
17	Carol at 6:01	6.8	120
18	Warden Gordon Borden	7.2	122
19	My Boy Guillermo	6.7	117
20	Duke of Dunk	6.8	119
21	Guaranteed Not to Shrink	6.9	117
22	Birth of a Salesman	7.3	117
23	The Boy Next Door	7.2	118
24	Peeper Two	7.4	115

Season 5 (1976)

7.37 avg 24 episodes 7.4 → 7.6 30 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 5 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Enter Mrs. Peeper	7.4	113
2	Caged Fury	8.1	132
3	Some of My Best Friends Are...	7.2	129
4	Still Crazy After All These Years	7.6	117
5	The Great Rent Strike	7.7	108
6	Et Tu, Carol?	7.0	109
7	Send This Boy to Camp	7.0	106
8	A Crime Most Foul	7.6	118
9	The Slammer	7.5	114
10	Jerry's Retirement	6.7	119
11	Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson	7.0	108
12	Breaking Up Is Hard to Do	7.1	103
13	Making Up Is the Thing to Do	7.5	115
14	Love Is the Blindest	7.3	108
15	The Ironwood Experience	7.4	105
16	Of Mice and Men	7.3	107
17	Halls of Hartley	7.0	107
18	The Heartbreak Kidd	7.5	116
19	Death Be My Destiny	8.2	138
20	Taxation Without Celebration	7.3	112
21	Desperate Sessions	7.9	126
22	The Mentor	6.9	110
23	Shrinking Violence	7.1	113
24	You're Having My Hartley	7.6	125

Season 6 (1977)

7.31 avg 22 episodes 7.0 → 8.3 30 min avg

Big finale
Rebound
Rollercoaster

Season 6 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Bob's Change of Life	7.0	118
2	Ex-Con Job	7.0	122
3	A Jackie Story	7.7	107
4	Who Was That Masked Man?	7.8	115
5	Carlin's New Suit	7.5	116
6	A Day in the Life	8.1	122
7	My Son the Comedian	6.6	112
8	You're Fired, Mr. Chips	7.3	110
9	Shallow Throat	7.5	108
10	A Girl in Her Twenties	7.5	124
11	Grand Delusion	7.2	116
12	'Twas the Pie Before Christmas	8.2	123
13	Freudian Ship	7.8	125
14	Grizzly Emily	7.0	110
15	Son of an Ex-Con Job	6.8	113
16	Group on a Hot Tin Roof	7.7	119
17	Emily Carlin, Emily Carlin	7.3	116
18	Easy for You to Say	6.6	117
19	It Didn't Happen One Night	6.5	126
20	Carol Ankles for Indie-Prod	7.2	110
21	Crisis in Education	6.3	113
22	Happy Trails to You	8.3	143